The Kremlin denied on Monday that Russian forces had struck a cathedral in the Ukrainian city of Odesa and said, without providing evidence, that a rocket launched by Ukraine had hit it.

Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy on Sunday said a Russian missile had slammed into Odesa's Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral, or Transfiguration Cathedral.

Russia's Defense Ministry has said the cathedral was probably struck by a Ukrainian air defense missile.