U.S. Nationwide Safety Council spokesman John Kirby on Thursday strenuously denied Russian allegations that Washington performed a task in explosions on the Kremlin the day earlier than.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated earlier Thursday that the US and Ukraine’s denials of involvement — in what Moscow alleged was a drone assault on the Kremlin concentrating on the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin — had been “completely ridiculous.” Choices “about such terrorist assaults are made not in Kyiv, however in Washington, and Kyiv does what it’s informed,” Peskov stated.
“One factor I can inform you for sure is that the US was not concerned on this incident in any means, opposite to Mr. Peskov’s lies,” Kirby informed reporters Thursday. “We’re nonetheless this. We haven’t come to any conclusions,” he stated, including that Russia had proven it didn’t want “pretexts” for attacking Ukraine.
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Karen DeYoung and David L. Stern contributed to this report.
