Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Kremlin Says Putin Survived Overnight Assassination Attempt
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kremlin-says-putin-survived-overnight-114602738.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKa_lCYIIyDIeAUKIq73H3ZIOH0rNVde_rtIcTPjcdN0QOfqxDewP6Ou478AN2JcNZRWNQeTKbmBPFS4kRzOyHy ^ | 05/03/23 | Allison Quinn

Posted on 05/03/2023 8:25:42 AM PDT by Enlightened1

The Russian presidential administration said Wednesday that the Kremlin was attacked by drones overnight in an attempt on President Vladimir Putin’s life.

Moscow residents had reported hearing two explosions behind Kremlin walls shortly after 2 a.m. local time, after which the lights went out. Footage shared by residents in a local Telegram channel captured the incident, as smoke was seen filling the sky above the Kremlin. Videos also appeared to show part of the Kremlin on fire.

Now, authorities say it was a brazen attack by Ukraine using two drones, both of which they say have been destroyed.

No injuries were reported, according to the TASS news agency. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was not at the presidential residence at the time.

The Kremlin, describing the incident as a “planned terrorist attack” and “assassination attempt on the president of Russia,” is now threatening to take “retaliatory measures.”

A spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied that the country was behind any attack on the Kremlin and accused Moscow of deliberately “escalating the situation ahead of May 9,” when Russia routinely flaunts its military prowess to mark Victory Day.

“Separately, the phrasing by the terrorist state is surprising. A terrorist attack is houses destroyed in Dnipro and Uman, or a rocket attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk, and many other tragedies,” Zelensky’s spokesman Serhii Nykyforov said.

The Kremlin’s official version of events left many unanswered questions. Witnesses said the two separate explosions occurred more than 10 minutes apart—meaning federal protection units guarding the Kremlin either did not react to the first blast or are exceptionally bad at their jobs.

A Moscow resident interviewed by the independent outlet Verstka said he heard the first blast at about 2:30 a.m. The second one, he said, happened several minutes later...

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: admissionoffailure; attack; drone; insidejob; kgboperation; killthatmonster; kremlin; lousyairforce; noairdefense; propaganda; putin; russia; russiandisinfo; theatre; ukraine
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

1 posted on 05/03/2023 8:25:42 AM PDT by Enlightened1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

Putin says now it’s time to take out Zelensky. Game on.


2 posted on 05/03/2023 8:28:14 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

Yeh...like he was in that building...


3 posted on 05/03/2023 8:28:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

If I recall, Putin tried to take out Zelensky first.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.


4 posted on 05/03/2023 8:30:12 AM PDT by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

so Russia is admitting that its air defenses are so lousy that Ukrainian drones can now freely penetrate right up to Moscow and the Kremlin?

if Russia can’t even control their own airspace, then this war is soon OVER!!!


5 posted on 05/03/2023 8:30:22 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

What? Again?


6 posted on 05/03/2023 8:31:23 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: canuck_conservative

This could be a false flag on the part of Moscow to justify an attack on the Ukrainian capital or an internal power struggle in the Kremlin. Their press lies as much as does the Western press.


7 posted on 05/03/2023 8:34:58 AM PDT by Wallace T.
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

I think I read that back in December....Putin mostly stays in a bunker about a thousand miles east of Moscow.


8 posted on 05/03/2023 8:35:58 AM PDT by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: canuck_conservative
For many, this signaled the end of the USSR:

A stupid teenage boy trick that actually worked.
9 posted on 05/03/2023 8:36:44 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

Assasination attempt using retail fireworks that set a flag on fire.Must have been an enemy on a shoestring budget.


10 posted on 05/03/2023 8:36:51 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pepsionice

https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/330666-official-residences-russia-president-vladimir-putin


11 posted on 05/03/2023 8:39:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: canuck_conservative

If Zelensky were smart he would say: “Hey I would love to claim responsibility for trying to kill that SOB, but we had no drones in the area.”

“Our intel suggests it was a Russian drone launched from within Russia, I guess old Vlad is not very poplar with his own troops.”


12 posted on 05/03/2023 8:39:43 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

Russian false flag operation.
As Reagan correctly called them, an evil empire .

Russia is just lazy. They could build a great nation with hard work and by valuing their people .
But instead they choose the war and invade mode to steal things from other countries.


13 posted on 05/03/2023 8:40:08 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

More likely it was us that did it.


14 posted on 05/03/2023 8:41:05 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: usurper

NOPE I believe is was a US drone!!!


15 posted on 05/03/2023 8:41:20 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

Hah, that is why this kind of reporting is so stupid.


16 posted on 05/03/2023 8:43:14 AM PDT by dforest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: dforest

Since the drone is recoverable...it will have a signature...let’s wait and see...


17 posted on 05/03/2023 8:50:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Sivana

Without question, Matthias Rust is the individual who ended the Soviet Union.

Since 1943 the Soviets bragged of Moscow’s impenetrable air defense system. In an era of cruise missiles (per stealth), that young man demonstrated that the emperor indeed had no clothes.


18 posted on 05/03/2023 8:53:02 AM PDT by steve in DC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

It will probably come back as a big ole flurry of supersonic missiles aimed at Kiev.


19 posted on 05/03/2023 8:53:03 AM PDT by dforest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Sivana

Somewhat like the ones in NYC and the Pentagon. Those worked really well to our horror.


20 posted on 05/03/2023 8:55:42 AM PDT by dforest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson