White House national security spokesman John Kirby rejected accusations from a top Russian official who claimed on Thursday that the United States was behind a reported drone attack targeting the Kremlin residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the allegation in a briefing to reporters, claiming without providing any evidence that Ukraine had acted on U.S. orders with the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin citadel Wednesday night.
“We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv, but in Washington. And Kyiv does what it is told to do. We know that often even the goals themselves are not determined by Kyiv, but they are determined in Washington and then taken to Kyiv so that Kyiv implements them,” Peskov said….