Russian officials alleged Ukraine launched two drone attacks at the official residence of President Putin overnight, but the attack was disabled by Russian security services.
However, Ukraine officials have denied the allegations, saying that Kyiv had nothing to do with the alleged drone attacks on the Kremlin.
The Kremlin said it โregards these actions as a planned terrorist attack and an attempt on the president,โ and it reserved the right to retaliate. It said that โtimely actions taken by the military and special servicesโ had disabled the drones.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson to Putin stated that the president was not around at the time of the attack.
Antony Blinken U.S. Secretary of State reacted to the alleged drone attacks saying information coming from the Kremlin could not be trusted.
โI would take anything coming out of the Kremlin with a very large shaker of salt,โ he said.
Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, explained that the double allegations of a drone attack on the Kremlin and the arrest of alleged Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea could signal an incoming large-scale โterrorist attackโ on Ukraine by the Russians.
โOf course, Ukraine has nothing to do with drone attacks on the Kremlin. We do not attack the Kremlin because, first of all, it does not resolve any military tasks,โ Mr Podolyak said.
โIn my opinion, it is absolutely obvious that both โreports about an attack on the Kremlinโ and simultaneously the supposed detention of Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea โฆ clearly indicates the preparation of a large-scale terrorist provocation by Russia in the coming days,โ Mr Podolyak said
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is currently at the Hague, where he is set to visit the International Criminal Court (ICC ). It is to be remembered that the ICC, in March, issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir, Putin, on war crime charge.