MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday referred reporters to the Defense Ministry statement about the strike at Kramatorsk with a Tochka-U missile and said Russian forces don’t use these missiles.
"We need to go by the statement of the [Russian] Defense Ministry, first of all, which ruled out that our armed forces utilized that missile," he said. "Our armed forces don’t use this type of missiles, and also no missions took place or were planned for today in Kramatorsk."
He said he was confident that "this is the statement we need to go by."
Russia’s Defense Ministry earlier rejected Kiev’s statement of a missile strike allegedly performed by Russian troops on the Kramatorsk railway station on April 8.
"All the claims by representatives of the Kiev nationalist regime that Russia allegedly carried out a ‘missile attack’ on April 8 against the railway terminal in Kramatorsk are a provocation and have absolutely nothing to do with reality," the ministry stated.
"The Russian armed forces had no fire tasks and planned none in the town of Kramatorsk on April 8."
The Tochka-U tactical missile whose fragments were found and the relevant footage was posted by eye-witnesses, is used only by the Ukrainian army, the ministry said.