Assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin: Russian President Vladimir Putin was moved to a bunker at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo near Moscow, hours after Russia accused Ukraine of attacking the Kremlin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told news agency RIA Novosti. Has gone.
According to Peskov, Putin was at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow at the time. He was not in the Kremlin at that time.
There was no independent investigation into the apparent attack on the Kremlin, which Russian officials said was sudden but offered no evidence to support it. Additionally, questions were raised as to why videos of the incident surfaced so late in the day and why it took so long for the Kremlin to report it.
A video posted overnight from the Kremlin on a local Moscow news Telegram channel showed smoke rising above buildings.
The text accompanying the footage claimed that at around 2:30 am, residents of a nearby apartment building heard a bang and saw smoke. The Kremlin claims that Russian security forces intercepted the drone before it could strike.
What we know so far:
- The Kremlin claimed it shot down two Ukrainian drones and accused Kiev of trying to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports AP news agency. “Two unmanned vehicles were targeted towards the Kremlin…the devices were disabled,” the Kremlin said in a statement. ,
- The Kremlin said that President Vladimir Putin is safe and continues to work without making any changes to his schedule.
- The alleged attempted attack was called a “terrorist act” by the Kremlin, which claimed Russian security forces had disabled the drone before it could strike, according to the AP.
- It said there were no casualties, in a statement carried by Russian state-run news agencies.
- The Kremlin said that President Putin is safe and he is doing business as usual.
- According to Tass, the statement said the Kremlin regarded the development as a deliberate attempt on Putin’s life ahead of Russia’s Victory Day on May 9.
- However, Ukraine said it had “nothing to do” with the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, which Moscow portrayed as an attempt by Ukraine to kill Putin.
- “Ukraine has nothing to do with the drone attacks on the Kremlin,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, Ukrainian presidential spokesman. “First and foremost, attacking the Kremlin serves no military purpose,” he told AFP.
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