The founder of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that using nuclear weapons in response to a drone attack on the Kremlin is out of the question. words of businessman opens its press office.
“As a radical person, I can say that, of course, it is out of question to use nuclear weapons in response to unmanned aerial vehicles. First of all, it is necessary to find out who is responsible for the fight against drones,” he says.
According to Prigogine, you first need to figure out how such an event could happen “in principle”. After that, the founder of PMC continued that it was worth “making every effort” for Russia to “become the leading force in the development of UAV technologies and respond with exactly the same drones.”
“And that’s it, we’re like clowns threatening to ‘bully’ a child drone,” said Wagner, head of PMC.
The day before, the Kremlin press service reported that on the night of May 3, two drones tried to attack the residence of the President of Russia. This incident was evaluated as “a planned act of terrorism and an attempt on the president”. It was emphasized that “the Russian side reserves the right to take retaliatory measures whenever and wherever it sees fit.”
It is known that drones damaged two copper plates in the dome of the Senate Palace. There was no further damage or loss of life.
At that time, Russian President Vladimir Putin was at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. The work schedule has not changed due to the incident. According to the press secretary Dmitry Peskov, the politician took the situation calmly.
“You know that in difficult, extreme situations, the President has always remained calm, sober, and clear in his judgments and orders. So there is nothing new in this regard,” he said.
Peskov said Washington was “definitely” behind the drone strike. “Such decisions – the definition of goals, their meaning – everything is dictated to Kiev from Washington. We are well aware of that,” he said.
Putin’s spokesman added that security systems will be strengthened after the incident.
“And so everything has already been strengthened and in the context of preparations for the parade for Victory Day. In general, the residence of the president is naturally protected. It is a matter of how and in what way our experts will be analyzed in depth, they will do their job.”
Immediately after the media reports, the Ukrainian authorities announced that they did not know the details of what happened and did not get involved in the attack. Press Secretary of the President of Ukraine, Serhiy Nikiforov, said that the country’s authorities “had no knowledge of the so-called night attacks on the Kremlin.”
“As the President has repeatedly stated, [Украины Владимир] “Ukraine is directing all available forces and means not to the attack of others, but to the liberation of its own territory,” said Nikiforov, Zelensky.
After that, Zelensky assured that Ukraine would not attack Moscow or the Russian president: “We are fighting on our own land, we are protecting our cities and villages.”
The White House noted that the United States did not encourage the Ukrainian authorities to attack the territory of the Russian Federation.
“Since the beginning of this conflict, the United States has never encouraged, enabled, or allowed Ukraine to attack beyond its borders. “We were very clear about that,” Karine Jean-Pierre, spokeswoman for the American leader’s administration, said on May 3.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken previously said he had “sees reports” of the attack but could not confirm them because he “doesn’t know the facts”. As for the protection of Ukrainian territory after Washington accused Kiev of orchestrating an attack on the Kremlin, “it leaves that to Kiev’s discretion.”
“Such attempts to deny this, both in Kiev and in Washington, are of course absurd,” said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian presidency.
On May 4, he stressed that Washington “must clearly understand” that Moscow “knows well” who is behind such events.
The White House denied any involvement in the incident. White House Representative John Kirby on MSNBC aforementioned That the American authorities do not yet know what happened and therefore do not assess the situation.
“I saw it in the morning [4 мая] Dmitry Peskov’s comments, explanations that we are somehow involved in this, that Washington is involved. I can assure you that there was no US intervention. Whatever it was, the US wasn’t involved,” says Kirby.
The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case under Art. 205 (“Terrorist act”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “In connection with the attempt of the Kiev regime to attack the Kremlin residence of the President of Russia with drones.” In Moscow, and then in many other regions, authorities banned the use of drones without the consent of law enforcement and subject leadership.