Russian claim that US was behind alleged drone attack on Kremlin is “ludicrous,” Pentagon spokesperson says

From CNN’s Allie Malloy and Anna Chernova

A Pentagon spokesperson denied US involvement in the purported drone attack on the Kremlin and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson of lying. 

“I would just tell you Mr. (Dmitry) Peskov’s lying. I mean, it’s obviously a ludicrous claim. The United States had nothing to do with this. We don’t even know what happened here,” said John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications. “But I can assure you the United States had no role in it whatsoever.”

The White House still has no indication who was behind the drone attack and said the White House does not “endorse, we do not encourage, we do not support attacks on individual leaders,” Kirby added. 

Russia has accused Washington of being behind what it says was a drone attack on the Kremlin and an assassination attempt against Putin, the latest in a series of extraordinary allegations over Wednesday’s incident.

“We are well aware that decisions on such actions and such terrorist attacks are not made in Kyiv, but in Washington. And Kyiv is already executing what it is told to do,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, without providing any evidence.

Fuente: CNN, EEUU.