Russia on Wednesday blamed Ukraine for the drone attack on the Kremlin.
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Following Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin residence, Moscow is left with no choice but to physically eliminate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “and his clique,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, told TASS. According to the news agency, his Telegram channel.
“After today’s terrorist attack, there is no alternative left but the physical elimination of Zelensky and his clique,” Medvedev said on his Telegram channel.
According to Medvedev, Zelensky “does not even need to sign a document of unconditional surrender.”
Medvedev wrote, “Hitler, as is known, did not even sign it. There will always be some alternative.”
Earlier, Russia alleged that there was an attempt by Ukraine to assassinate President Putin, saying it was a “terrorist attack”, while claiming that a drone was shot down at Putin’s residence. Was.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was not injured in overnight drone attacks on the Kremlin and Russia considers the drone attacks an attempt on the president’s life, the presidential press service announced on Wednesday, Russia Today reported.
According to Putin’s staff, Ukraine carried out two drone strikes overnight intended to hit his apartment in the Kremlin.
The head of state was not in the Kremlin at the time of the “Ukrainian UAV attack” on Tuesday night, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
He also said that President Putin is currently working from his residence near Moscow and his schedule is unchanged.
The press service said that the drone was destroyed using electronic warfare measures and there were no casualties or damage.
According to a report in Russia Today, the message said, “As a result of this terrorist act, the President of the Russian Federation was not injured. His work schedule has not changed, it continues as usual.”
Russia Today reported that the Kremlin also noted that the Russian side reserves the right to retaliate, as it deems appropriate.
Peskov said the incident would not interfere with the Victory Day parade on Red Square on May 9.
The Kremlin had earlier reported that two UAVs had targeted the Kremlin, but according to Russia Today, both were shot down before they could do any damage.
According to the Kremlin, both UAVs targeting the Kremlin were shot down before they could take off.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied that his country was responsible for what Russia says was an assassination attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin, following an apparent drone strike on the Kremlin.
“We do not attack Putin or Moscow,” Zelensky said during a press conference in Helsinki.
According to the CNN report, the President of Ukraine said that Ukraine does not have enough weapons for such incidents.
“We fight on our territory, we are defending our villages and cities. We don’t have enough weapons.”[s] For this. so we don’t use it anywhere [else],” Zelensky explained. “For us that’s a deficit, we can’t spend [waste] This.”
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