Russia Blames U.S. For Drone Attack On Kremlin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed the US was the mastermind behind the drone strike, in which two drones were shot down early Wednesday morning by Russian forces.

Russia has alleged without evidence that the attack was an assassination attempt on Putin, who was unharmed by the attack, saying it “regards these actions as a planned terrorist attack and an attempt on the president.”

Peskov called “attempts to disown” the attack by the Ukrainian and U.S. governments “absolutely ridiculous,” as quoted by Sky News, adding, “We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv but in Washington.”

U.S. officials said Wednesday they did not have advance knowledge of the attack, and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken cast doubt on Russia’s allegations, saying he would “take anything coming out of the Kremlin with a very large shaker of salt.”

Ukraine has denied involvement in the attack, with Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the head of the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeting, “Ukraine wages an exclusively defensive war and does not attack targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.”

The U.S. State Department has not yet responded to a request for comment.