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Russia accuses U.S. of being behind 'drone attack'

Russia accused the U.S. of being behind a drone attack on the Kremlin that Moscow claims was intended to kill President Vladimir Putin.

A day after blaming Ukraine for what it called a "terrorist attack," the Kremlin shifted the focus onto Washington but did not provide any evidence to support the accusation.

Ukraine has denied involvement in the incident in the early hours of Wednesday, when video footage showed two flying objects approaching the Senate Palace inside the Kremlin walls and one exploding causing a fire on the roof of one building.

"Attempts to disown this, both in Kyiv and in Washington, are, of course, absolutely ridiculous. We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv but in Washington," said Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Peskov said the U.S. was "undoubtedly" behind the alleged attack and added - again without stating evidence - that Washington often selected both the targets for Ukraine to attack, and the means to attack them.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the claims were false in an interview with MSNBC.

"I can assure you that there was no involvement by the United States in this. Whatever it was did not involve us," Kirby said. "We had nothing to do with this. The U.S. does not encourage or enable Ukraine to strike outside its borders."

Kirby said it was still unclear what exactly happened and revealed Washington is still assessing the situation.

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