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Joe Biden’s White House and Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin lobbed new charges Thursday over who was behind a mysterious drone attack on the Russian seat of government Wednesday that officials in Moscow claim was an assassination attempt.
Russian officials are now blaming Washington for an apparent strike by two drones on the Kremlin this week, saying Ukrainian officials wouldn’t have launched such an audacious attack in the heart of Moscow unless the Biden administration had approved. Mr. Putin reportedly was not in the Kremlin at the time of the attack.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby dismissed the Russian claim as “ludicrous,” while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on a surprise visit Thursday to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to press for war crimes charges against invading Russian forces, said he was “not interested” in the Kremlin’s opinion.
“One thing I can tell you for certain is that the U.S. did not have any involvement with this incident, contrary to [the Kremlin’s] lies, and that’s just what they are — lies,” Mr. Kirby told reporters in Washington.
But Dmitry Peskov, Mr. Putin’s chief spokesman, claimed the Biden administration not only condoned the drone attack but was the driving force behind it. Mr. Peskov provided no evidence to support his assertion.
