At first glance, everything looked like in a science fiction movie.. Two drones in the Moscow night sky head straight for the Kremlin, aiming to hit the historic Senate Palace, the official residence of Vladimir Putin.

Suddenly, when one of them flies past the Russian flag flying over the building, the apparatus explodes, showering the roof of the palace with fragments in flames.. The video first surfaced on Russian social media on Wednesday morning.. The Kremlin was slow to react, eventually releasing a statement calling it a " But at the same time, Russian officials did not provide any evidence, writes CNN.

The Kremlin stressed that Putin was not injured, and Russia " President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky did not keep himself waiting with a rebuttal: “We are not attacking Putin or Moscow; we are fighting on our own territory"

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A former senior U.S. diplomat called it revealing: after several preliminary cryptic attacks on Russian territory, Ukrainian officials scathingly objected that they knew nothing about it..

“It was defining,” a former diplomat told CNN.

If the audacious drone attack itself was surreal, then the speculations about how it happened and what will happen next turned out to be even more fantastic.. A few months ago, the Russian authorities began installing air defense systems on Ministry of Defense and administrative buildings throughout Moscow.. The Kremlin is among the government complexes with the highest security level in the world. The border between Russia and Ukraine is also under careful protection..

“If these were drones from Ukraine, how did they manage to avoid detection Did the defense of Moscow not work? An even more embarrassing question for the Kremlin: How did the drones get so close to the Kremlin "

Russian state media largely adheres to the language set out in the Kremlin's statements about the attack, as well as broadcasting daytime photos of the Kremlin showing that everything is " CNN admits Russian propagandists are having a hard time finding the right "

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Could Russia have attacked the Kremlin on its own In 1999, a few months before Putin was first elected president, a wave of apartment bombings swept across Russia, killing more than 300 people.. At the time, Prime Minister Putin used this to justify starting the Second Chechen War.. His tough approach helped him win the presidential election.. But suspicions still remain as to who is really behind the explosions.. No one has died as a result of the current drone attacks.. And the Kremlin's vaunted defense looked weak. While the incident still gives the Kremlin an opportunity to rally Russians in support of Putin against those who might harm him.

Ukrainian officials said the attacks could be used by Russia to carry out even more brutal attacks against Ukraine, including "

Throughout history, Russia, and before it the Soviet Union, has used false flag operations, committing acts of aggression and blaming their enemies for it.. But for more than a year now, the Putin regime has been accusing Ukraine, NATO and the US of being responsible for the Russian invasion..

“Does he really need some new reason to try to kill Zelensky? "

But that hasn't stopped former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev from saying it's time to "

“There are no other options, except for the physical elimination of Zelensky and his clique. He is not even needed to sign an act of unconditional surrender.. Hitler, as you know, didn’t sign it either,” Medvedev said..

However, CNN notes that the Russian official apparently forgot to point out that Russia tried - and failed - to assassinate the Ukrainian president in the early stages of the February 2022 invasion..

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There remains one more version: what if the Russians who oppose the Putin regime staged a blow to the Kremlin? Such a drone attack would be an unprecedented propaganda feat.. Former Russian politician Ilya Ponomarev told Matthew Chance on CNN that it was indeed "

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warns that any statements from Moscow should be taken with 'great caution'. Given that the Kremlin has strangled the Russian media, Russian citizens are no doubt trying to make sense of these attacks..

The timing is probably the only thing that makes sense in this incident.. On May 9, Russia will celebrate Victory Day over Nazi Germany in World War II.

This year, with drones apparently attacking the Kremlin, it may be harder to feel like a winner than usual..