Russia’s military on Thursday denied carrying out attacks on Kyiv on Wednesday and said the destruction in Kyiv was caused by “Ukrainian and foreign” anti-aircraft missiles, AFP reported, according to News.ro.

“There was no attack on Kyiv. All the damage in the city reported by the Kyiv regime is the result of the fall of foreign and Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles installed in residential areas of the Ukrainian capital,” said Igor Konashenkov, the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Konashenkov, however, admits that the Russian army carried out “massive attacks” on “the Ukrainian military command system and related energy infrastructure” on Wednesday.

“The purpose of the airstrikes has been achieved, all the stated goals have been achieved,” Konashenkov said.

He assures that these bombings made it possible to damage “the railway movement of the reserves of the Ukrainian army, foreign weapons, military equipment and ammunition.”

Ukraine – and especially Kyiv – was left without electricity and water supplies on Thursday, a day after another massive Russian airstrikes specifically targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as winter approaches.

The situation in Kyiv remains difficult: more than two-thirds of residents do not have electricity, and most do not even have water

More than two-thirds of the Ukrainian capital was still without power on Thursday morning and many residents were without running water, a day after Russian missile strikes caused Kyiv’s worst power outage in nine months of war, Reuters reported.

The capital has been one of the main targets of the latest wave of attacks on energy facilities, which have led to blackouts in many regions and the need for emergency blackouts in others to conserve power and allow repairs to be carried out as winter approaches.

In the pre-war capital with a population of 2.8 million people, where it is already snowing and the icy streets have dropped below zero degrees Celsius.

Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that electricians and repairmen are doing everything possible to restore electricity supply “as soon as possible”, but the restoration will largely depend on the overall energy “balance” of the national grid.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of President Zelenskyi’s Administration, reported that electricity supply has been restored in Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia regions.