Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he talks to the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on Wednesday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he talks to the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on Wednesday.
Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
Russian authorities accuse Ukraine of trying to carry out drone strikes on the Kremlin overnight to assassinate President Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian government denies any involvement, accusing Moscow of using the incident as a pretext to escalate the war in Ukraine.
The The Kremlin press service said On Wednesday, Russian air defenses shot down two drones that were trying to attack Putin’s mansion inside the Kremlin’s walls.
“We consider these actions to be a planned act of terrorism and a plot against the life of the president,” the Kremlin said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was not in the building at the time of the attack. told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
The Kremlin said no one was harmed and there was no material damage due to the falling debris of the destroyed drone.
The clip share on social network cannot be independently verifiedallegedly showed a drone exploding as it approached the roof of the Kremlin.
The President of Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for an overnight attack in Moscow.
“We have no information about the so-called evening attacks on the Kremlin,” Facts of Ukraine newspaper Serhiy Nikiforov, spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Wednesday.
An adviser to the president of Ukraine, Mykhailo Podolyak, also denied involvement, and Suggestions on Twitter that “local resistance forces” were conducting “guerrilla operations” on Russian territory. He accused the Kremlin of using the incident as an excuse to justify a large-scale attack on civilians in Ukraine.
The Russian government has warned of retaliation for the alleged conspiracy.
“The Russian side reserves the right to take retaliatory measures wherever and whenever it sees fit,” the Kremlin said.
This is an evolving story. Check back for updates.
