‘LUDICROUS’

Kremlin Wildly Blames U.S. for Embarrassing Drone ‘Attack’

“There's a word that comes to mind that I’m obviously—not appropriate to use on national TV,” a White House official said when asked for his reaction.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday accused the U.S. of being responsible for the alleged drone attack that briefly set the roof of the Kremlin on fire. Moscow has already blamed Ukraine for the strike and dubiously painted the incident as an assassination attempt on Putin. “Such attempts to disown this both in Kyiv and in Washington are, of course, absolutely ridiculous,” Peskov told reporters Thursday. “We know very well that decisions on such actions and such terrorist attacks are made not in Kyiv, but in Washington. And Kyiv is already doing what it is told to do.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier denied being behind the attack, but drones painted with Russian phrases including “for Moscow” and “for the Kremlin” rained down on Ukraine overnight in apparent revenge strikes all the same. On Thursday, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby denounced Peskov’s “ludicrous claim” on CNN, having told MSNBC shortly before, “We had nothing to do with it. Peskov is just lying there, pure and simple.”