The Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin was unharmed and that he was not in the Kremlin at the moment of the attack with two drones on the Russian presidential residence in the capital Moscow late Tuesday evening.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was at his residence on the outskirts of Moscow in Nova Ugariova, unharmed and his agenda had not changed. The Russian presidency considered the attack an attempt to assassinate Putin.
The Kremlin said the attack took place after midnight and the target was one of the Kremlin buildings in the area overlooking Red Square and completely closed in preparation for the military parade on the occasion of Victory Day on the ninth of this month, and it appears that federal protection services were able to monitor and shoot down the marches.
Russia's emergency service also said another drone had crashed in the city of Kolomna, on the outskirts of Moscow, about 110 kilometers from the Kremlin. She said she worked to dismantle her explosive charge.
No party has yet determined where the drones came from, especially since Russia explicitly accused Kiev of responsibility for the attack, but given the nature and size of the explosion, various analyses suggested that the drones were launched from inside Moscow from close range, which is difficult for radars to detect.
The hypothesis of launching from outside the borders remains possible, but small, according to analysts, as if these planes are considered to have taken off from the nearest geographical point in Ukraine and are located in northern Sumy, they must be able to fly a distance of about 600 kilometers without detection, which is illogical, according to observers.