US denies involvement in alleged drone attack on Kremlin

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oi-Madhuri Adnal

The White House on Wednesday denied any involvement in an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin. The development comes after Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Washington of guiding Ukraine to launch the assault.

“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,” Peskov said, according to comments reported by Reuters.

Russia accuses US of being behind Kremlin drone attack

Earlier, Ukraine said that it has ‘nothing to do’ with an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin that Russian authorities say targeted President Vladimir Putin.

Russia said that it had shot down two drones in the Russian capital. The Kremlin decried the alleged attack attempt as a ‘terrorist act’ and said Russian military and security forces ‘disabled’ the drones before they could strike. It did not elaborate.

The Kremlin claimed the attack was planned to disrupt Victory Day, which Russia celebrates in Red Square on May 9 to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Peskov said the parade would go on as scheduled.

Putin wasn’t in the Kremlin at the time and was at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti.