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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Kremlin drones certainly don’t look like a cunning plan by Moscow

A sign with a picture of a drone and the words ‘No fly zone’ in Red Square in front of the Kremlin
A ‘No fly zone’ sign in front of the Kremlin on Thursday. GPS is being jammed in Moscow after the incident. Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

Who exactly flew two drones over the Kremlin at around 3am on Wednesday is likely to be one of many questions that will remain unanswered until the Ukraine war ends, if not some while after that.

But it is curious how many want to speculate about a Kremlin false-flag operation given how embarrassing it is to see video footage of drones flying over the Senate dome, housing Vladimir Putin’s presidential offices, before they were blown up.

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