Russia yesterday insisted on one of the accusations in its repertoire against Ukraine: that the actions of the Kyiv Government are directed by its Western "guardians". This time, the United States. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Washington was behind Wednesday's drone strike on the Kremlin, which Moscow said was aimed at killing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Peskov asserted that it is the US that orders what should be done. "These decisions, the definition of the goals and the means used, everything is dictated in Kyiv from Washington. In Washington, they must clearly understand that we know this," Peskov assured.
From the US, the White House reacted by saying that these accusations are false. "There is no involvement of the United States in this. We have nothing to do with it," said John Kirby, spokesman for National Security, on MSNBC. Peskov "simply lies", he added.
On Wednesday, Russia accused Ukraine of using two drones to attack the medieval Kremlin fortress in central Moscow with the aim of killing Putin. The Kremlin described the attack as a "planned terrorist act", an "assassination attempt", and stressed its right to respond "when and how it deems necessary".
The Government of Ukraine already denied the words of. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said from Helsinki: "We are not Putin, or Moscow, we are fighting on our territory." Peskov rejected the position of the opponents, and said that it is "ridiculous" that they deny it.
The former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, years ago a potential liberal converted now into the toughest hawk in Moscow, extended the accusations to the European Union. It was his reaction to the words of Josep Borrell, high representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, who yesterday made an "appeal to Russia not to use this alleged attack as an excuse to continue the escalation of the war" .
"The escalation of the conflict is exactly where the terrorist attack committed by the authorities in Kyiv, guided by the US and approved by the leaders of the EU, will lead," Medvedev wrote on Twitter.
Russia did not specify how it will respond to what it considers an attempt to kill its president. But for now, attacks against Ukraine were registered again yesterday. There were also Ukrainian attacks against Russian territory. All attacks were again carried out by unmanned aircraft.
According to Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat, it launched 24 Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones against Ukraine, of which 18 were shot down. The fire was heavy over Kyiv in the third attack in the first four days of May with drones and missiles that the Ukrainian capital suffers, said the head of its military administration, Serhí Popko. All devices were neutralized, he said. Air raid alarms also sounded in other cities, such as Odessa, on the Black Sea.
For its part, the drones of the Ukrainian forces hit targets at fuel infrastructures in the Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast, regions of southern Russia.
