A barrage of Russian missiles damaged a U.S.-made Patriot air defense system near Kyiv early Tuesday morning, weeks after the $1 billion system shot a Russian hypersonic missile out of the sky.

U.S. officials told CNN the extent of the damage is still under assessment and will determine whether Ukrainians can repair the system on the spot.

Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday that Ukraine had successfully intercepted all six hypersonic missiles fired by the Russian military. The attack signaled an air alert, which Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense called “one of the most intense attacks on the capital city since the invasion.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday in a post on Telegram that a precision strike by a hypersonic Kinzhal missile had destroyed a Patriot air defense system in Kyiv, contradicting the Ukrainian government’s report.

In a daily briefing on Tuesday reported by RT, Russian ministry officials confirmed the attack, stating that Russia had used long-range precision weapons to strike military targets, including “Ukrainian troops positions and places of storage of munitions, weapons and military hardware delivered from Western nations.”

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu denied Ukraine’s claims to Russian state media, saying, “The Russian Federation has not launched as many ‘Kinzhals’ as they allegedly shoot down every time when making their statements.”

He added Ukraine’s number of intercept attempts was “three times more than [the missiles] we are launching.”

“And they get the kind of missile wrong all the time,” Shoigu claimed. “That’s why they don’t hit them.”

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Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat declined to comment on the claim from Russia.

A senior Ukrainian military source told The Telegraph that officials “were happy to let Russia believe it succeeded in striking the air defense system.”

“Maybe it was hit by something,” Justin Crump, CEO of the intelligence consultancy Sibylline, said. “But it’s not going to end the air defense of Kyiv.”

“We’ll probably won’t ever know the full detail, but what we definitely didn’t see was lots of Kinzhal landing,” he added.

Ukraine currently has two Patriot air defense systems — one donated by the U.S. and one jointly donated by Germany and the Netherlands. The Patriot, an acronym for Phased Array Tracking Radar for Intercept on Target, was designed in the 1970s. The system has been regarded as one of America’s most advanced surface-to-air missile defense systems and costs approximately $1 billion per installation.

Earlier this month, a U.S.-made Patriot air defense system allegedly shot down a Russian hypersonic missile in Ukraine, marking perhaps the first time a hypersonic missile has been shot down in combat.

Ukraine Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk claimed Ukraine used the newly-acquired weapon from the U.S. to shoot down a Russian hypersonic missile called Kinzhal, or “Dagger” in Russian.

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) clearly struggled to deliver his own line of questioning during Tuesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing.

Fetterman, who just returned to the Senate after a lengthy hospitalization for clinical depression and anxiety, has also been dealing with the lasting impact of a near-fatal stroke during his Senate campaign that left him with auditory processing issues.

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“Is it staggering — isn’t it staggering responsibility — that the head of a bank could literally, could literally crash our economy. It’s astonishing,” Fetterman began. “That’s like if you have — I mean like — and they also realize that — that now they have — it’s in — they guaranteed a guaranteed way to be saved by … [unintelligible] … how?”

Fetterman continued to struggle as he appeared to call for stricter regulations on banks as a general rule, adding, “Isn’t it appropriate that the — those kinds of — this kind of control should be stricter … to prevent this kind of thing from going? Or should we go on and just keep bailing and sailing whoever banks regardless of how … their … their conduct is?”

He then appeared to go off the track, saying that he would give the former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank an “example” — and going on to talk about the fact that Republicans want to attach work requirements to SNAP benefits.

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After suggesting that it was wrong to call for work requirements for hungry families, Fetterman pivoted and asked, “Shouldn’t you have a working requirement after we sail your bank — billions of your bank?”

In order to assist the Pennsylvania senator as he continues to recover from the stroke, he has been given a tablet so that he can use closed captioning to read the responses to his questions during committee hearings. When the full Senate is in session, according to a report from TIME Magazine, “the Sergeant at Arms (SAA) has installed a permanent live caption display monitor at Fetterman’s desk in the Senate chamber.”

Instead of using Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Senate will use professional broadcast captioners to provide Fetterman’s captions — a move designed to ensure greater accuracy.