Russia 'did not strike Kyiv' in latest barrage

Russia's Defence Ministry on Thursday denied striking any objects in Kyiv the previous day and said only energy facilities related to the "military command and control system of Ukraine" had been targeted.

On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN Security Council that over 60 Russian rockets struck energy facilities and civilian objects plunging much of the country into darkness.

Defence Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said Russian Armed Forces had "launched a massive air, sea and land-based high-precision long-range weapons attack against the military command and control system of Ukraine and related energy facilities."

"I would like to emphasize that not a single strike was made on targets within the city of Kyiv," Konashenkov said in a daily video briefing.

"All the destruction announced by the Kyiv regime in the city was the result of the fall of missiles of foreign and Ukrainian air defense systems located in residential areas of the Ukrainian capital," he added.