
Jan 2 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday that Ukrainian reports of a Russian missile strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv were untrue, adding that the damage there was likely caused by the detonation of Ukrainian ammunition.
"Information about a supposed strike on the city of Kharkiv on Jan. 2 by the Russian armed forces are not true," the ministry wrote on Telegram.
The ministry said the reports sought to distract world attention from a New Year's Eve strike on a hotel in a Russian-held part of Kherson region. The area's Russia-installed governor told TASS news agency on Friday that the death toll in that incident had risen to 28.