Moscow has accused the US of masterminding an alleged assassination attempt against President Putin by ordering Wednesday’s drone strike on the Kremlin.
"Decisions on such attacks are not made in Kyiv, but in Washington," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press conference on Thursday. Kyiv only does what it is told to do. Washington should understand clearly that we know this,” he added.
The White House on Wednesday denied any involvement in the attack. "We had nothing to do with this," said John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, on MSNBC.
"Peskov is just lying there, pure and simple," he added.
Ukraine has also denied playing any role in the attack on the Kremlin and has suggested it was a ‘false flag’ operation, staged as a pretext for launching more attacks on Ukraine.
President Zelensky said on Wednesday evening: "We fight on our territory; we are defending our villages and cities."
The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said the attack was "likely staged" by Russia in an attempt to "bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilization."
It added: "The Kremlin’s immediate, coherent, and coordinated response to the incident suggests that the attack was internally prepared in such a way that its intended political effects outweigh its embarrassment."
Peskov said Putin was working in his office in the Kremlin as normal on Thursday, but added that security measures in Moscow would be beefed up following the attack, which the Kremlin said occurred on the night of May 2/3.
"Of course, everything will be strengthened. Everything has already been strengthened in preparation for the Victory Day parade" on May 9, he said.
Russia also reported a series of drone attacks on oil facilities and train derailments, for which it blamed Ukraine. "The terrorist and sabotage activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are gaining unprecedented momentum," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
It added that Russia "reserves the right to take retaliatory measures."
Russia launched a “comprehensive air attack” against Kyiv overnight on May 3/4, the third such strike against Ukraine’s capital in four days. Air raid sirens sounded at around 2:20 a.m. followed shortly afterwards by a huge explosion as air defenses intercepted a kamikaze drone.
The blast was large enough to set off car alarms in the city center, Kyiv Post correspondents report. The all clear was not given until 6 a.m. No casualties have been reported at this time.
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Nuts
More Russian lies more and more they excel at being the thugs they are. If the US wanted him done with it be done. Their treachery knows no limit their lies become truth to the zombies who believe what they are told. Wake-up and get rid of him you nation is clown car heading for disaster.
ofcourse it were us the Americans, we fucked up with EST and MST, oh we fucked up so badly, and the bomb was just scraped of heads of matches because our economy is falling back because of venuzuelan oilboycott
and we have only secret base
where is that secret base? I forgot
@Sten Lea, Can you refrain from the foul language? It only exposes your low intellect room temperature IQ.
@Jack Griffin, Is this the intelligent comment you can give? had expected more of you, but brain dead as you are, we'll have to make do with that
i mis the point of the foul language from someone like you who talks as he is on the leash of agent orange from moskva, trump, and keeps spreading the big lie over and over again
all your filth here as comments in a newspaper of a country in war, which has other things on its mind
you are a disgrace
Lies all lies
There are just as many insane people in the Kremlin as are currently in our White House.
@Jack Griffin, look who's talking: mad man himself, always on the bandwagon of the leninburg cosybear and funnybear from scumbag evgenia
@Susan "Sue" Storm-Richards, Do you have any idea what single trait separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom? It's called self-awareness. You are wholly and completely lacking all self-awareness what so ever. You are a low class jerk and nothing more. Just a worthless speck.
@Jack Griffin, what a foul and stupid remarks of you again
that long-playing record of yours about those elections has turned completely gray by now, your bullshit about USA politics is of the very lowest standards: Moscow level
and your swearing is of the lowest order: Moscow level
@Susan "Sue" Storm-Richards, Hey Susan, you know who I pity most? Your parents. I am without doubt they tried real hard to mold you into a decent human being. Know what? I don't waste a nanosecond reading your disgusting replies. I simply respond in kind with a principled, intellectually honest post.
@Jack Griffin, i could live rentfree in that empty brainless skull of yours, but it stinks of rotten everything of the big lie
@Jack Griffin, can we get an Amen to that!!
i wonder for how much money dimitri peskov sold his soul to the devil called putin
Footage show remote detonation rather than intercept as the hi res video shows. More than likely a continuation of the lies the USSR spun continuously.
Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilization,” the ISW on Thursday.
The ISW points out that Russia has recently increased domestic air defences around Moscow and that it is “extremely unlikely that two drones could have penetrated multiple layers of air defense and detonated or been shot down just over the heart of the Kremlin”.
The shooting down also “provided spectacular imagery” which was “caught nicely on camera”, ISW said
I don't like ww1 generals they are lazy and weak
Maybe I have job for gold pouch prostitute
What the hell is the West waiting for?
Ukraine needs F-16 fighter jets, attack helicopters, and precision long range missiles. Air superiority is the key to victory. Don't give Ukraine enough weaponry “not to lose”, give Ukraine enough weaponry “to win”.
What the hell is the West waiting for? In an extraordinarily powerful - and emotional - rallying cry, BORIS JOHNSON implores Britain’s allies to give Ukraine all the weapons it needs to win NOW
“Come with me into the ochre mud of the churchyard in Bucha, past the bullet-riddled church of St Andrew. Stand over the graves of some of the 416 inhabitants of this town – 9 of them children – who were shot by the Russians in an attempt to terrify the rest. Look at the photos of their corpses, their hands tied behind their backs, left in the street to rot or to be eaten by dogs. Stand with me by the blackened remains of an apartment block in Borodyanka, the twisted plumbing and smashed children's toys. Look at what just one of Putin's 500kg airborne bombs can do to an eight-story building. Try to meet the pleading eyes of the people who pulled 162 corpses from the rubble, and who searched for the 28 whose remains were never found. Look at those brave Ukrainians and answer me this question: just what the hell are we waiting for?”
-Boris Johnson
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11667727/BORIS-JOHNSON-sooner-help-Ukraine-victory-sooner-suffering-over.html
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If the U.S. was the mastermind of an assassination attempt on Putin, he'd be dead. And Russia would be celebrating today.
Slava Ukraini!
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