Ukraine Denies Involvement in Kremlin Drone Attack

Ukraine on Wednesday rejected Russian claims that it carried out a drone attack on the Kremlin overnight.

Russia claimed it foiled a Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin early Wednesday, calling it an unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin and promising retaliation for what it termed a “terrorist” act.

Ukraine presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak denied any involvement.

“Ukraine has nothing to do with drone attacks on the Kremlin,” he said.

The claims would provide a pretext for Russia “to justify massive strikes on Ukrainian cities, on the civilian population, on infrastructure facilities” in coming days, he added.

The alleged attack immediately prompted calls in Russia from pro-Kremlin personalities to carry out assassinations on senior leadership in Ukraine.

The Kremlin said no-one was hurt and Putin was safe.

Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Victory Day parade would take place next Tuesday as scheduled.

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[wandenreiche]

Why do i feel like something more than this war awaits us soon and im not talking nukes

[jmpmp_]

How did a drone go from Ukraine and make it ALL the way to Moscow without getting intercepted

[scottr]

It's clearly internal, look at the size of the drone, it has very short range The 2 stroke motors drink fuel, again scientifically that Drone came from so close it was inside of Russian ariel defenses Try not to look at this emotionally. Also if it was foreign they would have put the drone on TV straight away but they didn't so don't fall for one being trucked up after the fact!

[texajp]

Yea and the ghost of Kiev was real too

[anndeecosita]

That so convinced me they were not involved 😂

[izzywizzy]

Yeah Russia did it just like the pipeline?! Liars. FJB

[kornkobbler]

Fake attack all the way. It didn't even knock over the flag pole 🙄

[evanmccrea]

Better give them another 100 billion dollars to launder.

[RichSmithson]

How dumb of Zalenski to even try this. Now they all have targets on their back.

[you_beg_my_pardon]

Issue with this is that we are supplying them with weapons that are capable of this and I'm pretty sure that they are doing things they aren't supposed to with them.. #DefundUkraine
They're committing war crimes. If we keep supplying them all that says is that we support these war crimes

[TenmaStupidity]

Yeah I'm not sure how trustworthy anything the Ukrainian Government says stated that Russia blew up Nordstream but we found out it was a "Pro-Ukrainian Group" meaning probably the US Government. They said the Ghost of Kiev was real and then we found out it was a character from Ace Combat 7 Video Game and who else remembers the Guy with a double barreled shot gun and buck shot shooting down a

[paulcoffman]

Does not matter if Ukraine did it or not. Once Ukraine did not ask for terms of peace, it all on Ukraine.

[MrTweetyhack]

"They tried to kill me. This means WAR!"

[Isheepzu]

Ukraine should have said "if we had tried to kill Putin we would not have missed"

[nenitoloco]

When you take a sip of your own salive before answering a question😂

[enriquealvarez]

He is laying his expression it's about a man who is lying and and reading something from a board.

[comment]

It seems like too much of a high profile, obvious target. I’m wondering if it’s a psy op. Time will tell.

[brookskimball]

Ukraine still furious about Russian mistreatment of Brittany Griner

[CasualMisinformationSpreader]

Occam's razor is that Ukraine did it. I love how legacy media is now fine with conspiracy theories.

[LivingWithGout]

Crazy how the purported weaker Ukraine has so much common sense.