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Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of a failed attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack on the Kremlin citadel in Moscow and said it reserved the right to retaliate.

A senior aide to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Mykhailo Podolyak, said Kyiv had nothing to do with the reported incident, which he said could be used by the Kremlin to justify a new attack on Ukraine.

It said fragments of the drones were scattered in the Kremlin grounds but there were no injuries or damage."The Russian side reserves the right to take retaliatory measures where and when it sees fit," the Kremlin added. An administrative building in Ukraine's southern Dnipropetrovsk region was also hit by a drone and set on fire. Ukraine said it had shot down 21 of 26 Iranian-made drones in an overnight volley, shielding targets in the capital Kyiv where air raid sirens blared for hours through the night.

After a lull of nearly two months, Russia began a new wave of long range attacks with missiles last Friday, including one that killed 23 civilians while they slept in an apartment building in the city of Uman hundreds of miles from the front. "The fire has been classified as the highest rank of difficulty," said Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of the Krasnodar region, adding that there were no casualties. People should remain calm, there was no need to evacuate the surrounding village and 188 firefighters were battling the blaze with foam.In Ukraine, the governor of the central Kirovohrad region said three Russian drones had tried to hit an oil facility in the region's main city Kropyvnytskyi.

The Nordic countries have been among the strongest supporters of Ukraine since the invasion, with Finland and Sweden both applying to join NATO in response to a war Moscow claimed was aimed in part at blocking the alliance's expansion.

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