Kyiv reacted to the Kremlin accusing Ukraine of trying to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin with the help of two drones early Wednesday morning.

The press secretary of the President of Ukraine, Serhiy Nikiforov, said that Ukraine does not attack foreign territories, reports the independent publication Meduza.

“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,” said Nikiforov.

Two drones attempted to attack the Kremlin on the night of Tuesday into Wednesday, Russian authorities said, blaming the “Kyiv regime” for this.

A senior official of Ukraine’s president said on Wednesday that Kyiv had nothing to do with any drone strikes on the Kremlin and that such actions would do nothing for Kyiv on the battlefield and would only provoke Russia into more radical action, Reuters noted.

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

In a video that appeared on Russian social networks, a plume of smoke can be seen over the Kremlin, and Russian authorities claim that the Ukrainian armed forces tried to kill President Vladimir Putin with a drone strike, Reuters reports. Later, footage appeared showing what appeared to be a drone that exploded directly over the Kremlin.

Russia has blamed Ukraine for numerous cross-border attacks since the start of the war, including attacks in December on an airbase on Russian territory that hosts strategic bombers equipped to carry nuclear weapons. In February, a drone crashed in Kolomna, about 110 km from the center of Moscow.

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