US considers Ukraine-orchestrated attack on Kremlin

It is still debated who carried out the failed drone attack on the Kremlin on May 3.

Speaking to the New York Times, US officials said US intelligence did not clearly know who carried out the attack, but that it was assessed as one of the covert operations of a unit affiliated with the Ukrainian military or intelligence in Russia.

The officials, who claimed that US intelligence agencies initially thought Russia carried out the drone strike with the aim of deception, later claimed this view changed when Russian officials were caught off guard by the attack and blamed Ukraine among themselves. during wiretapping. against the Moscow administration.

Claiming that Ukrainian troops have the ability to carry out attacks inside and outside Russia to a limited extent by their own personnel or by those they employ from abroad, the officials said US intelligence Daria Dugina, the daughter of political expert Russian Aleksandr Dugin, and Russian blogger Maksim Fomin, known for his anti-Ukrainian videos in Donbass, claimed he blamed Ukraine for the murder of .

While the authorities claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was not aware of this event in advance, they claimed that Zelenskiy kept the parameters of his covert operations broad and left the decision of these operations largely up to security forces. (AA)