Moscow State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Wednesday that he will demand the use of weapons “capable of destroying the regime in Kyiv” after a drone attack on the Kremlin, which Moscow attributes to Ukraine, TASS reports.

“The terrorist act against the president is an attack on Russia,” he said on his Telegram channel, referring to what the Kremlin says was the attack between Tuesday night and Wednesday aimed at killing Vladimir Putin.

“The Nazi regime in Kyiv should be recognized as a terrorist organization. Zelenskyi, giving orders to commit acts of terrorism, is equated with other international terrorists. The regime in Kyiv today is no less dangerous than Al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, ISIS,” Volodin wrote.

“His criminal methods are obvious to the entire world community: nuclear blackmail, assassinations of political and public figures, sabotage and detonation of civilian objects. Now there is an attempt on the life of the president of our country,” the head of the lower house of the parliament in Moscow emphasized.

Accusing that the “terrorist regime in Kyiv” poses a threat to “the security of Russia, Europe and the whole world”, Volodin said that Western politicians who supply weapons to Ukraine “became not only sponsors, but also direct accomplices in the activities of” terrorists”.

“There can be no negotiations with Zelenskyi’s regime. We will demand the use of weapons capable of stopping and destroying the terrorist regime in Kyiv,” Vyacheslav Volodin threatened.

Ukraine denies involvement in the attack on the Kremlin

Several Ukrainian officials responded to Moscow’s accusations on Wednesday afternoon, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s press secretary, Serhii Nikiforov, said Ukraine does not attack other countries’ territories.

“We have no information about the so-called night attacks on the Kremlin. But, as President Zelenskyy has repeatedly stated, Ukraine directs all available forces and means to liberate its own territories, not to attack foreign ones,” Nikiforov said.

He also reacted to the statements of the Russian President’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, who qualified the drone attack on the Kremlin as a “terrorist act.”

“A terrorist act is an attack on houses in Dnipro and Uman or a rocket attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk and many other tragedies. And what happened in Moscow is obviously a preparation for May 9. An expected blow from our rivals,” he said.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a presidential adviser, told Reuters that accusations that Kyiv was behind the attack and Russia’s arrest of alleged Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea could indicate that Moscow is preparing for a large-scale “terrorist” attack against Ukraine in the coming days.

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