{"id":1937151,"date":"2023-05-24T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-officials-believe-ukrainians-likely-responsible-for-kremlin-drone-attack\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:18:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:18:36","slug":"u-s-officials-believe-ukrainians-likely-responsible-for-kremlin-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-officials-believe-ukrainians-likely-responsible-for-kremlin-drone-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. officials suspect Ukrainians behind Kremlin drone attack."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-officials-believe-ukrainians-likely-responsible-for-kremlin-drone-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1937151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Ukraine Likely Behind Drone Attack on Kremlin, U.S. Officials Say<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American officials said that Ukraine was likely behind the May 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-sending-drones-to-assassinate-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drone attack<\/a> on the Kremlin that the Russians called an attempt to assassinate President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/putin-authorized-wall-street-journal-reporter-arrest-spying-charges-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. intelligence officials believe that the drone attack on the Kremlin was carried out by Ukraine as part of a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nobel-peace-prize-the-most-controversial-winners\/\" title=\"Nobel Peace Prize: The Most Controversial Winners\">covert military<\/a> or intelligence operations on Russian soil. The attack caused little to no damage, and Putin was not at the Kremlin at the time of the strike. Video footage showed two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-flying-russian-deterrence-missions-from-uss-harry-s-truman\/\" title=\"U.S. Navy Flying Russian Deterrence Missions From USS Harry S. Truman\">drones crashing<\/a> near the Kremlin earlier this month. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Embarrassment for the Kremlin<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After initially wondering if Russia conducted the drone attack as a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation, the U.S. intercepted Russian communications indicating the country was surprised by the attack. Military analyst Dara Massicot said, \u201cWatching how the Kremlin has responded suggests to me this was an embarrassment and surprise for them, and not a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-officials-believe-ukrainians-likely-responsible-for-kremlin-drone-attack\/\" title=\"U.S. officials suspect Ukrainians behind Kremlin drone attack.\">deliberate false flag<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Ukrainian Officials Deny Involvement<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. intelligence also intercepted Ukrainian officials saying their country was responsible for the attack, but they appeared to have no knowledge of who within the Ukrainian government planned it. Officials had \u201clow\u201d confidence that the Ukrainian government authorized the drone attack, and some officials said they did not believe President Volodymyr Zelensky was aware of the covert operation. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Denial from the U.S.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Russia initially blamed Ukraine for the attack and then singled out the U.S., accusing Ukraine\u2019s most powerful ally of giving Kyiv the go-ahead to conduct the operation. The U.S. quickly denied any claims that it was in any way behind an attack on Russia\u2019s capital. National Security spokesman John Kirby told CNN, \u201cI can assure you the United States had no role in it whatsoever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Alarming Invasions into Russian Territory<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Ukraine was behind the drone attack as U.S. intelligence officials believe, it would mark at least the third attack on Russian soil that the U.S. believes Ukraine is behind. The bold invasions into Russian territory have alarmed the Biden administration, which has handed over armored vehicles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-hostile-regimes-testing-joe-biden-during-his-first-months-in-office\/\" title=\"4 Hostile Regimes Testing Joe Biden During His First Months In Office\">long-range missiles<\/a>, and billions of dollars to help Ukraine fight the Russians. The president is also preparing to approve the shipment of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from other allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1682517572037000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0eoxTLnzKr3rl49f2LXGnU\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Tim Pearce contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>administration increasingly concerned. Ukraine is suspected of being responsible for the May 3 drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russia claims was an attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin. U.S. intelligence officials believe this is part of a larger pattern of covert Ukrainian military or intelligence operations on Russian territory, causing concern for the Biden administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1937152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4002,11948,4885,3638,4230,7238,5721],"class_list":["post-1937151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-attack","tag-drone","tag-kremlin","tag-officials","tag-suspect","tag-u-s","tag-ukrainians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}