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The Kremlin claims it was Ukrainian anti-missile fire, not Russian missiles, that struck a children's hospital in Kyiv yesterday.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not provide any evidence for the assertion.
"I insist, we do not conduct strikes on civilian targets," he said.
Various false Russian narratives deflecting blame have emerged that are contrary to all available evidence since it launched a huge wave of attacks on five Ukrainian cities, the Institute for the Study of War says.
It said Russian military bloggers published misleading posts falsely claiming a Ukrainian air defence missile hit the hospital, but the trajectory and the visible turbojet engine under its hull match a Russian Kh-101 missile.
The missile in the video does not appear to be damaged by air defence interceptors, it said.
The Ukrainian security service reported the serial numbers of the missile components matched those of other Russian Kh-101s.
Regardless, even if Russian claims were true, it would not absolve them of responsibility as the aggressor state under the Geneva Convention, to which it is a signatory, the ISW said.
