One day after her biggest complaint Moscow What Ukraine organized two drone attacks on the Kremlin yesterday to kill him Vladimir Putinit’s the turn United States become a target for the Russian government. At yesterday’s regular briefing, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, without providing evidence, that Washington was behind the unprecedented incident. A White House spokesman called the statement “a joke.”

“Attempts to deny this attack (against the Kremlin) by both Kyiv and Washington are, of course, absolutely ridiculous. We know perfectly well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv, but in Washington,” the Russian official said. He added that the Russian authorities are conducting an urgent investigation to fully clarify the case.

Responding to Peskov’s statements, White House national security spokesman John Kirby called them “jokes” and “lies,” adding that the US has never encouraged or assisted Ukraine in carrying out any attacks outside its borders. “I can assure you that the United States has nothing to do with this incident,” Kirby said, adding that his administration still doesn’t know exactly what happened at the Kremlin early Wednesday morning and that American agencies are working hard to clarify the situation. y the actual circumstances of the incident. Former Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky categorically denied any involvement of his country in the incident.

The fact remains that the attack on the Kremlin, while causing no injury or significant damage, has sparked a wave of anger in Moscow, as evidenced by statements by politicians, analysts and social media users calling for exemplary punishment of Kiev. . The tension is exacerbated by the fact that the attack took place on the eve of May 9, the anniversary of the victory of anti-fascists in the Great Patriotic War, which will be celebrated with a traditional parade in the Russian capital. However, parades will not be held in at least 21 cities “for security reasons,” according to the Nestka website. The most characteristic example of a deceased spirit was the statement of the former President of the Russian Federation, and now Deputy Chairman of the National Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev.

“There are no other options than the physical destruction of Zelensky and his cabal,” the Russian official tweeted, adding: “He doesn’t even need us to sign an unconditional surrender agreement. Even Hitler, as you know, did not sign the surrender of the Germans. He also called the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, “an impudent old-timer,” referring to Borrell’s call for Russia not to use the attack on the Kremlin as an excuse to escalate the war.

“Dmitry Medvedev stands out with his outrageous statements, verbal escalation, which we deplore,” French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna commented yesterday.

Zelensky of the Netherlands is demanding that the Russian president be prosecuted by an international court, and Medvedev is calling for his “physical destruction.”

Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in The Hague yesterday, where he met with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and visited the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March for kidnapping children from the occupied territories of Ukraine. In his statements, the Ukrainian president asked for the formation of a special court to try the Russian leadership for the attack on his country, since the ICC has no jurisdiction in this matter.

Bombing record

At the same time, the shelling of both opposing camps continued in anticipation of the expected Ukrainian counterattack. Russia has carried out a record 24 kamikaze drone strikes on Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, but the Ukrainians said they shot down 18 of them. At the same time, a drone attack set fire to an oil refinery near the Russian Black Sea city of Novorossiysk, and another drone hit an oil refinery in Rostov, which is close to the border with Ukraine.

Drone Scenario Bacchanalia

Since US agencies have not yet answered questions related to the attack on the Kremlin, the field remains open to the incubation of all possible scenarios. One of them, presented to CNN, claims that the attack was the work of “one of the Russian rebel organizations” opposed to the war and Putin. This version was supported, without providing supporting information, by the former deputy of the Russian Duma Ilya Ponomerev. This is a person with a strange way. After working for oligarch Mikhail Khadarkovsky at Yukos, Ponomerev headed the IT department of the Russian KK for five years. and was an MP from 2007 to 2016. He was the only one who voted against the annexation of Crimea, and then referred to Ukraine, where he received citizenship and enlisted in the reserve of the Ukrainian army. He openly advocates sabotage on Russian soil and has published the book Should Putin Die?