defense system when one of them was shot down at low altitude on tuesday morning. the official said the u.s.-made system will be repaired soon, and an investigation is now underway into how the patriot was targeted. elsewhere, ukraine says small advances have been made around bakhmut. these night images appear to show an armored push in the fields outside. but russian state television is in the city, touring devastated front lines under constant fire with wagner mercenaries who say they re confident they will prevail. we will take bakhmut eventually, this wagner commander tells the russian tv crew following him around. but at what cost? we don t know, he admits. another says their shelling is
television, where russia fights its information war. [ speaking non-english ] the lead story, the u.s. patriot missile battery. russia insists it destroyed in kyiv. u.s. officials tell cnn the system remains operational, but this is too rare a victory for the pro-kremlin media to play down. the much-promoted patriot was destroyed by the presenter gloats. our hypersonic missiles were so fast they cut through ukraine s air defenses like a knife through butter, she adds. as for the six hypersonic missiles, ukraine says it shot down a fantasy number, the presenter says, and more than we actually fired. a senior ukrainian official now tells cnn only minor damage was caused to the patriot air
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a girl can dream, john berman, a girl can dream. an inspiration to us all who like swim wear. in ukraine this morning a claim that a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut, that city has seen heavy fighting between ukrainian and russian forces for months now. the head of the pro-russian wagner paramilitary group claims a body was found with u.s. identification documents. cnn cannot identify the authenticity of those documents. also overnight ukrainian air defense says it repelled a major aerial assault by russia. ukrainian officials say waves of russian drones and cruise missiles, sophisticated cruise missiles targeted kyiv but ukraine s air defenses they say many western made took out the russian weapons. cnn s nic robertson joins us now from eastern ukraine. nic, the russians are also claiming that they took out the u.s.-provided a u.s.-provided patriot missile battery which would be no small thing. reporter: and the ukrainians