Incident may remain a mystery for some time, but despite Zelenskiy’s denials it mirrors Kyiv’s tactics
Even Margarita Simonyan, the head of the broadcaster RT, no stranger to demanding that Russia bomb the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in his palace,. If it was “a cunning plan by Moscow,” she said, “the situation would look very different by now”.
Instead civilian drone flights have been banned by dozens of Russian regions and GPS is being jammed in Moscow. On ride-hailing apps,– a response that suggests panic and a tightening of electronic security, rather than a planned escalation. Consider the more plausible alternative. Ukraine, and partisan groups aligned to it, have been building up their capabilities throughout the war. Drone attacks insideIn February, a Ukrainian drone attempted to strike a gas facility, Russia said, with pictures of a downed UJ-22 drone to prove the point. The make is important – a light fixed-wing drone, of the type that can be seen flying towards the Kremlin in the second attack.
One video of the Kremlin incident shows a fixed-wing drone coming in from the left before it is blown up. The explosion is small, suggesting it was not armed. Two people are climbing the dome and do not appear to be affected by the detonation. So in no sense can it be thought of as an assassination attempt aimed at Putin.
Samuel Bendett, a drone specialist at the US Center for Naval Analyses, suggested the drone was either a
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