Russia accuses US of orchestrating Kremlin drone attack meant to assassinate Putin
MOSCOW – Russia accused the United States on Thursday of being behind what it says was a drone attack on Moscow’s Kremlin citadel intended to kill President Vladimir Putin.“I can assure you that there was no involvement by the United States in this. Whatever it was did not involve us,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told MSNBC in an interview. “We had nothing to do with this.
“Attempts to disown this, both in Kyiv and in Washington, are, of course, absolutely ridiculous. We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv but in Washington,” said Mr Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “This is also often dictated from across the ocean. We know this well and are aware of this... In Washington they must clearly understand that we know this.”“We still don’t really know what happened” and Washington is still assessing the situation, he said.Russia has said with increasing frequency that it sees the US as a direct participant in the Ukraine war, intent on inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Moscow.
Mr Putin was not in the Kremlin at the time, and security analysts have poured scorn on the idea that the incident was a serious assassination attempt.
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