Last night it was thwarted an attack on the Kremlin. The news comes from RIA Novosti and is immediately confirmed by Moscow which announces retaliation.
“The foiled attack last night with two drones was a Ukrainian terrorist attack to the life of President Vladimir Putin, who was unharmed,” says the press service quoted by the agency, adding that “Moscow will take retaliatory measures against Kiev".
The attack on the Kremlin
“Last night, the Kiev regime attempted to hit the residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Kremlin with unmanned aerial vehicles,” a statement from the presidential service communicates. According to the report, the drones have been deactivated.
“Two unmanned aerial vehicles were aimed at the Kremlin. As a result of prompt actions taken by military and special services using radar systems, the devices were put out of action. As a result of their fall and the scattering of fragments on the territory of the Kremlin, there were no casualties and no material damage“Moscow continued.
The mayor of the capital, Serghey Sobyanin, ordered the ban on drone overflights over Moscow after the two drones were shot down. The spokesman of the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, then specified that Putin was not in the Kremlin at the moment of the attack.
A video circulating on social media shows white smoke rising from beyond the Kremlin walls after the impact, but at the moment there is no independent confirmation of what happened.
Furthermore, according to the Russian special services (FSB), one was thwarted series of terrorist attacks in Crimea, planned by the Ukrainian military intelligence directorate: "Among the targets were the assassinations of some leadership leaders of the peninsula, unilaterally annexed by Moscow in 2014, and infrastructure." This was reported by the Russian state news agencies, announcing that seven Ukrainian special agents have been arrested. The FSB said the attacks were planned against Crimean political leader Sergey Aksyonov, Prime Minister Vladimir Konstantinov and Yalta Mayor Yanina Pavlenko.
Kremlin “We will answer”
“Russia reserves the right to answer to an attempted attack on the Kremlin where and when it sees fit". This is the Kremlin's statement reported by the Tass news agency.
The same position was expressed by Adalbi Shkhagoshev, deputy chairman of the United Russia parliamentary group and member of the Russian State Duma committee on security. “Ukraine and the sabotage groups who planned this terrorist act seriously miscalculated. This is no longer a red line, this is a stop sign for them,” Shkhagoshev told a news conference, noting that Moscow's response will be tough.
Ukraine: "We have nothing to do with it"
"Naturally Ukraine has nothing to do with the attacks with drones in the Kremlin,” Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said in a message to reporters.
Via Twitter, Podolyak said that: “The appearance of unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles at energy plants or on the territory of the Kremlin can only indicate the activities of guerrilla forces of local resistance”. “The Putin clan's loss of control of power over the country is obvious,” he added, “but on the other hand, Russia has repeatedly spoken of its total control over the air. In a word, something is happening in Russia, but definitely without Ukrainian drones over the Kremlin…”.
“Ukraine is engaged in purely defensive warfare and does not attack targets on the territory of the Russian Federation. This does not solve any military problems,” Podolyak said, according to which “Regarding the drones over the Kremlin. Everything is predictable… Russia is clearly preparing a large-scale terrorist act. That is why he first arrests a large group of alleged saboteurs in the Crimea. And then he shows 'drones over the Kremlin' ”.
“It has emerged that the drone over the Kremlin was launched by Russian partisans of the Moscow region,” wrote Ukrainian presidential adviser Anton Gerashchenko on Twitter.
