Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said "

“Zelensky and his team are doing everything so that, both in the media space and in their practical actions, any self-respecting country refrains from talking and communicating with them.. This is a fact,” Lavrov said at a press conference in India, where he arrived on May 5 for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

He called the incident a "

“It was, of course, a hostile act. It is absolutely clear that without the knowledge of the " And we will respond not by talking about whether it is casus belli or not, but by concrete actions. We made our position clear. I believe that more incidents and provocations should not be expected,” the Russian minister threatened.

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On the afternoon of May 3, the Kremlin announced an attempt to attack the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin with drones on the night of May 3. According to the speaker of the Russian autocrat Dmitry Peskov, no one was injured as a result of the “terrorist action” and the “assassination attempt”.. According to him, Vladimir Putin was not in the Kremlin at the time of the drone attack.. Russians blamed Ukraine for the incident.

Speaker of the President of Ukraine Serhiy Nikiforov said that there is no information in Ukraine about the so-called night attacks on the Kremlin and suggested that Russia is simply escalating the situation.

Subsequently, Russia decided to blame the United States for the alleged incident..

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War, in turn, note that Russia itself probably staged a drone attack on the Kremlin, trying to bring the war to the Russian domestic audience and create conditions for wider mobilization of society.. In particular, it is extremely unlikely that two drones could penetrate several layers of air defense and be shot down directly over the Kremlin itself..