Russia has said the United States is "definitely" behind the assassination attempt on President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin yesterday.
Footage shows the moment a drone hit the top of the government building and set it on fire, however, the warmonger President was not in the building at the time.
Moscow claimed two Ukrainian drones attempted to attack the Kremlin after the US chose the targets and asked Ukraine to implement the plans.
The allegation was made by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a briefing to reporters and he promised retaliation for what it termed a "terrorist" act.
However the Institute for the Study of War, a US think tank, said "Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilisation”.
It continued: "It is extremely unlikely that two drones could have penetrated multiple layers of air defence and detonated or been shot down just over the heart of the Kremlin in a way that provided spectacular imagery caught nicely on camera”.
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has strongly denied the claims, saying: "We don't attack Putin or Moscow, we fight on our own terrority."
The Kremlin said Kyiv and Washington trying to disown the incident was "absolutely ridiculous."
It added that the drones were disabled before they could strike and there were no reports of damage or victims following the so-called attack.
There was no independent verification of the purported attack, which Russian authorities said occurred overnight but presented no evidence to support it.
Questions also arose as to why it took the Kremlin hours to report the incident and why videos of it also surfaced later in the day.
A video on social media appears to show the moment a drone exploded in a flash of fire above the roof of the Senate Palace in the Kremlin, near a flagpole flying the Russian tricolour, with debris falling on the roof.
Phillips O'Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews, said, "It certainly wasn't an attempt to assassinate Putin, because he doesn't sleep on the roof and he probably never sleeps in the Kremlin."
The Kremlin claimed the attack was planned to disrupt Victory Day, which Russia celebrates in Red Square on May 9 to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Peskov said the parade would go on as scheduled.
Ukraine presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said the claims could provide a pretext for Russia "to justify massive strikes on Ukrainian cities, on the civilian population, on infrastructure facilities."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the US was "unable to confirm the authenticity" of Russia's claim.
Asked whether the US believed Putin was a lawful target of any potential Ukrainian strike, Jean-Pierre said that since the start of the conflict, the US was "not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its border."
