NNA - Russia on Thursday denied targeting the Ukrainian capital, instead accusing "foreign and Ukrainian" air defense missiles of causing damage in Kyiv, where critical energy infrastructure was hit a day earlier.

"Not a single strike was made on targets within the city of Kyiv," the Russian Defense Ministry said. 

Any damage was "the result of the fall of missiles from foreign and Ukrainian air defense systems located in residential areas of the Ukrainian capital," the ministry said in a statement. -- AFP

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