"Not talking": Lavrov said that Moscow will respond with concrete actions to the UAV's attempt to attack the Kremlin

This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference in Panaji, India, following a meeting of the SCO Ministerial Council.

"This, clearly, was a hostile act. It is quite clear that without the knowledge of the owners, the Kiev terrorists could not have committed it. We will not respond by talking about whether it is a casus belli ("reason for war." - RT) or not. And we will respond with concrete actions," Lavrov said.

He also does not believe that the statements of Kiev and Washington about their non-involvement in the attempted attack can be trusted. In this regard, the Russian Foreign Minister recalled the words of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that the United States will not dictate to Ukraine the methods by which they should defend their sovereignty.

"Well, probably, that says it all," the minister stressed.

Lavrov also noted that almost all of his interlocutors on the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization condemned the terrorist attack on the Kremlin. In particular, Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari did this, expressing hope for the speedy establishment of the truth and the identification of those responsible.

"Zelensky and his team are doing everything both in the media space and in their practical steps so that any self-respecting country does not want to communicate with them. This is true, and we understand that the realization of this is maturing," the Russian Foreign Minister added.

• Lavrov: Russia will respond to the UAV attack on the Kremlin not with talks, but with concrete actions

Earlier, the presidents of Venezuela and Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro and Daniel Ortega, Bahraini Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel condemned the attempted drone attack on the Kremlin.

On the evening of April 4, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Channel One that any sane person understands that Ukraine made this attempt on orders from overseas.

"I think that any sane person in any country will understand that we are talking about the fact that the United States continues its escalatory course and uses its wards in Kiev, its puppets there to organize and carry out more and more provocative and increasingly dangerous provocative actions," TASS quoted him as saying.

At the same time, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted to Washington's statement that the United States does not have data on who was behind the drone attack attempt on the Kremlin.

"With the Novichok, things were faster - the White House always had data. Has the pot stopped cooking?" she wrote on her Telegram channel.

As stated in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry on May 4, Moscow reserves the right to take retaliatory measures to blatant attempts at terrorist acts. "Russia will respond in accordance with the assessments of the threat that Kiev has created for the leadership of our country," Smolenskaya Square stressed.

"This is all dictated to Kiev from Washington"

On the night of May 3, an attempt was made to strike at the Kremlin residence of the President of Russia with unmanned aerial vehicles. Vladimir Putin was not in the Kremlin at that moment.

As emphasized in the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, as a result of timely actions taken by the military and special services with the use of radar systems, the devices were disabled, no one was injured during the incident.

These actions in the Kremlin were regarded as a terrorist act and an attempt on the president's life, held on the eve of Victory Day and the parade on May 9, at which the presence of foreign guests is planned.

Also on the russian.rt.com "We regard these actions as a terrorist act": the Kremlin called the drone attack an assassination attempt on the president

Moscow is of the opinion that the United States is involved in an attempt to attack the Kremlin with drones, said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. According to Peskov, the attempts of Kiev and Washington to "disown" these events are ridiculous.

"We are well aware that decisions on such actions, on such terrorist attacks are made not in Kiev, but in Washington. And Kiev is already doing what it is told to do," the presidential spokesman said.

The Kremlin spokesman also answered in the affirmative to the question of whether Moscow believes that Washington is behind the attack attempt: "Absolutely. Such decisions, the definition of goals, the definition of means - all this is dictated to Kiev from Washington. And we are well aware of this."