Staged or not? The drone attack on the Kremlin poses many mysteries. © IMAGO/Kremlin Red Square CCTV
New findings after the drone attack: The US assumes a special operation by Ukraine. Was the attack not a staging by the Kremlin after all?
Moscow - Searching for clues in Moscow: After the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, the guesswork about the author continues. The U.S. intelligence services are now supposed to suspect Ukrainian special forces behind the attack. This is reported by the New York Times, citing unnamed sources in the US government. As a result, the previous depictions get deep cracks. Because many military observers have so far assumed that the Kremlin is being staged.
The incident had caused a lot of fuss in recent weeks. At the beginning of May, the Kremlin declared that it had successfully repelled an attack with two drones. Moscow accused Kiev of attempting to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, who was in the Kremlin at the time. While a Kremlin spokesman blamed the United States, security advisers and Russian ministers threatened the West with retaliatory measures. Kiev and Washington, however, denied any involvement in the incident.
Drone attack on the Kremlin: US suspects Ukraine behind the attack on Putin
Nevertheless, US intelligence cannot rule out the possibility that the operation could have been carried out by Ukrainian units or partisans. Intercepted messages are intended to substantiate this assessment. In the intercepted messages, Ukrainian politicians, among others, are said to say that they believed in an attack by their country. However, according to the New York Times report, the United States does not have any concrete evidence as to which government officials, units or agents could be involved in the attack. It is also unclear whether President Volodymyr Zelensky could have known about an operation. Therefore, for the time being, there is only a "low degree of certainty," it said.
The report cannot be independently verified. So far, there has been a lot of speculation in the case. Several international military experts have so far always spoken of a staging by Russia. It was considered unlikely that drones would be able to fly unnoticed towards the Kremlin for so long. With the staging of the incident, according to the unanimous tenor, Putin wanted to justify further acts of war.
Sabotage in the Ukraine war makes it difficult for Russia to attack
However, Ukraine had recently repeatedly attracted attention with high-profile actions in the Ukraine war. Just a few days ago, two anti-Russian partisan groups succeeded in attacking military installations on Russian soil. Before that, there had also been repeated sabotage actions on roads, railways and bridges to stop Russian supplies in the war of aggression on Ukraine. The targeted pinpricks behind the front line are considered part of a large-scale counteroffensive. (jkf/
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