Ukraine denied any involvement in an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv, writes CNBC.

A senior Ukrainian presidential official, Mykhailo Podolyak, said Ukraine had nothing to do with the drone strike, stating on Twitter that “Ukraine wages an exclusively defensive war and does not attack targets on the territory of the Russian Federation”. Rather, he said the allegations suggest Russia was planning a large-scale “terrorist” attack against Ukraine in the coming days.

Serhii Nikiforov, Ukrainian President’s spokesman, also told the Ukrainian Pravda news outlet that Kyiv was not involved in the incident.

“We have no information about the so-called night attacks on the Kremlin, but as President [Volodymyr] Zelensky has repeatedly stated, Ukraine directs all available forces and means to liberate its own territories, not to attack foreign ones”, - he told the news outlet in comments translated by NBC News.

Nikiforov said Russia’s description of the incident as a “terrorist” attack was interesting given Russia’s repeated attacks against Ukrainian territory over the course of the war.