False Flag Operation: Russia State Media Claims Drone Attack On Kremlin An Assassination Attempt On Putin

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The Washington Post reports, Kremlin says Ukraine sent two drones to attack Vladimir Putin:

Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of staging a drone attack intended to kill President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, an incendiary allegation that could create justification for Russia to escalate its war in Ukraine.

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Exactly. Ukraine has been a quagmire for Russia’s poorly trained military forces, and Wagner Group mercenaries. More than 20,000 Russian soldiers killed in five months in Ukraine, US says:

More than 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and more than 80,000 injured in just five months of fighting in Ukraine, an acceleration in already heavy losses for Moscow, US intelligence officials estimate.

Most of the troops were killed in brutal trench warfare for the small eastern city of Bakhmut, which Russia has repeatedly claimed it was on the brink of capturing, White House national security council spokesperson John Kirby said when he revealed the new estimate on Monday.

“Russia’s attempt at an offensive in the Donbas, largely through Bakhmut, has failed … Russia has been unable to seize any really strategically significant territory,” Kirby said.

And this is before the long-awaited Ukrainian spring counteroffensive has even begun. An assassination attempt on a head of state could be used as justification by the Kremlin for further atrocities against civilians or to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukrainian forces to avoid a humiliating defeat in Ukraine when the counteroffensive begins. This would raise the stakes for NATO, Europe, and the United Nations in dealing with the rogue terrorist state of Russia. The use of tactical nuclear weapons would be firing the starting gun to World War III.

The Post continues:

Russia said it thwarted the attack and that Putin was not in the building at the time.

Salon adds Stunning video shows alleged assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin (excerpt):

Though the “assassination attempt” could not be confirmed independently, Moscow residents reportedly heard two explosions go off behind Kremlin walls around 2 a.m. local time, according to The Daily Beast. Residents shared footage of a smoke cloud in the sky above the Kremlin to a local Telegram channel, uploaded to Twitter alongside another video of an explosion above the citadel by Eastern European media organization Nexta.

This does not say much for Russian air defense systems, if we are to believe this.

There appears to be spotters on the roof of the Kremlin. The drone strikes only the base of the flagpole on the top of the building, leaving the flagpole still standing. This looks like a “Reichstag fire” operation by Putin, who has been using the Nazi playbook since the start of his war against Ukraine.

U.S. Navy intelligence officer and intelligence and foreign policy analyst Malcolm Nance calls bullshit on this Kremlin propaganda.

The allegation of an “assassination attempt,” which could not be independently confirmed, was made in a statement shared by the Kremlin press service with Russian state news agencies on Wednesday afternoon.

In the overnight hours early Wednesday, “the Kyiv regime attempted a drone strike on the Kremlin residence of the President of the Russian Federation,” the statement said. “Two drones were aimed at the Kremlin.”

“We regard these actions as a planned terrorist act and an attempt on the life of the president of the Russian Federation, carried out on the eve of Victory Day, the May 9 parade,” the Kremlin said, referring to the annual commemoration of the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany in World War II.

“Russia reserves the right to respond to an attempted strike on the Kremlin where and when it sees fit,” the statement said.

Ukraine quickly denied any involvement. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s press secretary said Kyiv “has no information about the so-called nighttime attacks on the Kremlin.”

“As President Zelensky has repeatedly stated, Ukraine directs all available forces and means to liberate its own territories, and not to attack others,” the press secretary, Serhiy Nykyforov, told BBC’s Ukrainian service. “What happened in Moscow is obviously an aggravation of the situation ahead of May 9, an expected maneuver from our opponents.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a Washington Post Live event that the United States cannot confirm the reports of an attack, adding that any such accounts from Russia should be taken with “a very large shaker of salt.”

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky, said Russia’s accusations were “predictable” and likely signaled that Moscow is “preparing a large-scale terrorist attack.”

“That’s why it first detains a large, allegedly subversive, group in Crimea, then it demonstrates ‘drones over the Kremlin.’ First of all, Ukraine wages an exclusively defensive war and does not attack targets on the territory of the Russian Federation,” Podolyak tweeted. “What for? This does not solve any military issue. But it gives grounds to justify its attacks on civilians.”

Earlier Wednesday, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB, said it has dismantled a Ukrainian military intelligence network that was preparing “assassination attempts on the leaders in Crimea,” the peninsula Russia invaded and illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The FSB claimed it detained seven men — Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian nationals — and confiscated explosive devices.

“Secondly, we are watching with interest the growing number of mishaps and incidents that are taking place in different parts of Russia,” Podolyak added. “The emergence of unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles at energy facilities or on Kremlin’s territory can only indicate the guerrilla activities of local resistance forces.”

“In a word, something is happening … but definitely without Ukraine’s drones over the Kremlin,” Podolyak wrote.

In an interview with The Washington Post on Wednesday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov did not respond directly to Kremlin accusations that Ukraine had launched an assassination attempt against Putin.

“Every day and every night, Russia is officially terrorizing the Ukrainian civil population,” he said, adding that Ukraine’s air defenses downed 17 of 18 Iranian-made drones launched at Ukraine overnight on Tuesday. “If some officials from the Kremlin are trying to accuse somebody, they can accuse themselves.”

Some high-ranking Russian officials have called on the country’s military to retaliate promptly and harshly. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, posted a fiery statement on his Telegram channel, saying that “a terrorist act against the President is an attack on Russia.”

“Politicians in Western countries who are pumping weapons to the Zelensky regime must realize that they have become not only sponsors but also direct accomplices of terrorist activities,” he said. “There can be no negotiations with the Zelensky regime.”

“We will demand the use of weapons capable of stopping and destroying the Kiev terrorist regime,” Volodin added, without specifying the type of weapons. [Nukes.]

Russian officials have not provided official video or other evidence to support the allegation.

Unverified clips appeared on Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels around 2 a.m. Moscow time showing a flash of light and a smoke plume rising over the Kremlin’s walls, supposedly showing the aftermath of air defense systems intercepting the drones.

The Senate Palace, located inside the Kremlin, a fortified complex in the heart of Moscow, is the Russian president’s official state residence, but Putin mainly uses it for receptions and public functions. He prefers to work daily from other presidential residences across western Russia. [In a bunker?]

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Putin was working from his residence in Novo-Ogarevo, an estate just a few miles west of Moscow.

Putin also spends a lot of time at his residence on Lake Valdai, a palatial forest hideaway located between Moscow and St. Petersburg, where he reportedly travels using a secret railroad built in recent years for him and his entourage. In the summer, the Russian leader resides in Bocharov Ruchei, an estate on the Black Sea.

Russia has been imposing additional safety measures in preparation for the annual May 9 World War II victory commemorations, when states of the former Soviet Union celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany. Officials have cited security concerns related to the war for limiting the public events.

A few minutes before the Kremlin issued a statement about the alleged drone strike, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that starting May 3, the city is banning all drone flights, with the exception of unmanned aerial vehicles used by government services.

Events to mourn fallen soldiers have been canceled in several regions of the country, mostly in western Russia along the border of Ukraine.

Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region, which reports shelling, suspicious fires and drone attacks on a near-daily basis, announced in early April that he decided to cancel the annual victory parade.

“There will be no parade in order not to provoke the enemy with a large accumulation of equipment and military personnel in the center of Belgorod,” Gladkov said during a recent live broadcast on the social network VKontakte.

In Bryansk, another border region of Russia, two freight trains derailed in the span of 48 hours this week after unknown saboteurs planted explosives on the tracks, according to official statements.

On Wednesday, officials in Krasnodar Krai in western Russia reported that a fire broke out at an oil depot, with local Telegram channels reporting that a drone allegedly hit a storage tank.

See, Russian official blames Ukrainian drones as huge fire engulfs Crimean oil depot:

A massive fire erupted at an oil depot in Crimea after it was hit by two of Ukraine’s drones, a Russia-appointed official there reported Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks on the annexed peninsula as Russia braces for an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, a port city in Crimea, said the oil depot was attacked by “two enemy drones,” and four oil tanks burned down. A third drone was shot down from the sky over Crimea, and one more was deactivated through radio-electronic means, according to Crimea’s Moscow-appointed governor, Sergei Aksyonov.

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world considered illegal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview this week that his country will seeking to reclaim the peninsula in the upcoming counteroffensive.

With Victory Day coming up next week on May 9, tensions will be running high. Seems likely to produce more incidents.





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