“It’s very important that they understand in Washington that we know this, and that they understand how dangerous such direct involvement in the conflict is.” Peskov said on Thursday, after asserting that the United States was telling Ukraine where to strike. Putin claimed, also without providing evidence, that “Western intelligence agencies” were helping Ukraine commit “terrorist acts” inside Russia. Peskov insisted on Thursday that Ukraine’s denial of involvement in Wednesday’s incident at the Kremlin, and the American denial that it had advance knowledge of it, were “absolutely laughable.” Last month, Mr. Kirby said on MSNBC that the United States had not determined who was behind Wednesday’s incident, and that “we still don’t really know what happened.”īut Mr. And American officials admonished Ukraine over the killing in August of Daria Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian ultranationalist, which American intelligence agencies believed was authorized by parts of the Ukrainian government.

Leaked secret Pentagon documents show that while the American military is indeed providing battlefield targeting data to Ukraine, American officials have worked to dissuade Ukraine from potentially provocative strikes on Moscow.

“I can assure you that there was no involvement by the United States in this.” Kirby said, referring to Ukrainian officials. “We’ve been clear with them publicly and we’ve been clear privately that we do not encourage, nor do we enable, them to strike outside Ukraine,” Mr. Kirby, a White House spokesman, brought up the Kremlin’s accusation and said that “Peskov is just lying there, pure and simple.” On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday morning, John F. “We know well that the decisions about such actions and such terrorist acts are made not in Kyiv, but in Washington,” Mr. Video footage verified by The New York Times showed two explosions over the Kremlin early Wednesday, an incident that Russia described as a Ukrainian drone attack on Mr. Putin, repeatedly told reporters in a daily conference call that the United States was behind the episode at the Kremlin. Peskov, the spokesman for President Vladimir V. The Kremlin’s spokesman alleged, without providing evidence, that the United States “dictated” Ukrainian strikes inside Russia - a charge a top U.S. Russia blamed the United States on Thursday for the apparent drone attack on the Kremlin, doubling down on accusing Washington of “direct involvement” in the war in Ukraine. Police officers in front of the Kremlin on the Red Square in Moscow on Wednesday.

The Pool of Fire by John Christopher