MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday Russia will never discuss trading the Ukrainian territory it holds for areas in Russia's western Kursk region held by Kyiv.

Residents woke to a series of powerful explosions that shook the capital as local officials said air defences were engaging the largest ballistic missile salvo to target Kyiv in weeks.

Russia has rejected trading the Ukrainian territory it occupies for areas in its own western Kursk region held by Kyiv forces, hours after launching a barrage of drones and missiles on the Ukrainian capital that killed one person.

Russia's early morning missile attack on Kyiv killed at least one civilian and sparked several fires throughout the city, Ukrainian officials said. "Russia carried out a missile strike on Kyiv and the Kyiv region,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has reaffirmed Russia's claim to Ukrainian territories. He said it was a fact that a significant part of Ukraine wanted to become Russia and had already become Russia.