former russian president Dmitry Medvedevcurrent president of the Security Council of Russia, asked on his social networks “eliminate” Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskiyand his “clique”, following the Kremlin’s unsubstantiated accusations that kyiv tried to kill vladimir putin.
After today’s terrorist attack, no options left but to physically eliminate Zelensky and his clique,” Medvedev said, according to the agency TASS.
Zelensky denied that Ukraine was behind the overnight drone incident against the Kremlin, which Moscow says was an attempt on the life of President Putin but caused no casualties.
“We are not attacking Putin or Moscow, we are fighting on our own territory,” Zelensky said.
For his part, USA affirmed this Wednesday that he takes with extreme caution statements by Russia, which claimed to have shot down Ukrainian drones that were allegedly targeting the Kremlin in Moscow.
“I saw the information. I can’t validate itWe don’t know,” said the head of US diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, at an event in Washington. “I would take anything coming out of the Kremlin very carefully,” she added.
Russia declared on Wednesday that it had shot down two drones that were targeting the residence of putin in the Kremlin, in what he called a Ukrainian “terrorist” assassination attempt. Moscow assured that Putin was not injured and that there were no casualties.
kyiv said it had “nothing to do with it” with the alleged attack and suggested it was a “mounting” from Moscow.
“Such reports staged by Russia should be regarded solely as an attempt to prepare a fund of information for a large scale terrorist attack against Ukraine”, said Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podolyak.
After the attack, the president of the Duma or Lower House of Russia, Viacheslav Volodindemanded the use of weapons capable of “stop and destroy” the kyiv leadership, considering that the alleged assassination attempt on Putin “It’s an attack on Russia.”
The leader of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironovconsidered in a statement that the alleged Ukrainian attack on the Kremlin is a “casus belli” for “a real war and the elimination of the terrorist elite of Ukraine”.
(With information from Reuters)
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