Russia accuses Ukraine of targeting the Kremlin with drones and trying to assassinate Putin

Russia accuses Ukraine of it attempt to assassinate the Russian presidentVladimir Putin, supposedly in a drone attack on the Kremlin last night. Moscow has threatened retaliation while Kiev stood out of what happened and has warned that Moscow is preparing a “massive terrorist attack”.

As stated by the Kremlin in a statement, “two drones were on their way to the Kremlin” and “due to timely actions by the military and special services using radio-electronic warfare systems, the devices were disabled.”

However, the drones and their fragments fell into the Kremlin compound, causing no casualties or property damage, he added.

The Kremlin considers “these actions to be a planned terrorist attack and an attempt on the life of the President of the Russian Federation, carried out on the eve of Victory Day and the military parade on May 9, which is scheduled to be attended by foreign guests.” he said.

For his part, the chief adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mikhailo Podoliak, has stated that the war in Ukraine is an “exclusively defensive” war, which also means that no targets on Russian territory should be attacked. Podolak has claimed in a Twitter post that attacking Russia “does not solve any military problem” and instead gives Russian authorities an excuse “to justify their attacks on civilians”. Instead, adviser to the president Volodimir Zelensky suspects that drone strikes may be the work of local “resistance groups”..

In this context, Ukrainian authorities today activated anti-aircraft alerts in Kiev and virtually all eastern regions of the country, reports the Ukrinform portal, citing data from the country’s alert system.