Moscow: Russia said that United States (US) was behind what it says was drone attack on Kremlin that aimed to kill President Vladimir Putin, while Moscow’s forces fired more combat drones at Ukrainian cities including capital Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaking in The Hague after visiting International Court of Justice said that Putin must be brought to justice over war and said Kyiv would work to create new tribunal for this purpose. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov without providing evidence said Ukraine had acted on US orders with alleged drone attack on Kremlin citadel in early hours of Wednesday. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Peskov was “Just lying” and said United States neither encouraged nor enabled Ukraine to strike outside its borders. He added it was still unclear what had happened at Kremlin. Kyiv has also denied involvement in incident, which followed string of blasts over past week targeting freight trains and oil depots in western Russia and Russian-controlled Crimea. Moscow has blamed Ukraine for those attacks too. “Attempts to disown this (attack on Kremlin), both in Kyiv and in Washington, are, of course, absolutely ridiculous. We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv but in Washington,” Peskov told reporters.

Published in The Daily National Courier, May, 05 2023

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