ah, we choose to look for common ground. ah ah, ukrainian drones target the kremlin and what moscow called an attempted assassination of vladimir putin. russian president was not inside his residence during the drone strike, which was repelled by a electronic defensive and federal remains unchanged. according to the spokesmen under care of denies responsibility for the attack, the crumbling thirst reserve, it seems the right to retaliate any time. and as if these bit with

watching on the international, almost been another busy news day with one story dominates in the headlines. my name is peter scott and welcome to the program. and we start with breaking news here on archie. the company says that the ukraine launched, joan strikes on the residence of president bruton in moscow. in the early hours of wednesday, russian officials say to drones were down by electronic defenses inside the crumb in walls, with no casualties or damage on the ground, where the ukraine officials say they know nothing about the attack and have denied any responsibility. is what else moscow had to say to unmanned aerial vehicles where ain't and the kremlin as a result of timely actions taken by the military and special services with the use of electronic counter measures, the aircraft were disabled. the deputy was not inside his residence during the attack, which the kremlin has called its harris died on an attempted assassination of the russian presidents, but his spokesman says the potential remains unchanged,

his ortiz eager is done of with more right now, of course, we have reaction pouring in, but to just briefly take you through as to what happened at around half past 2 in the night. there was an explosion over the russian kremlin in moscow. and well, it is, it, of course, one of the most well defended and protected compounds in the world. and so the late in the day we've learned from the official criminal press service who have said that there were 2 unmanned aerial vehicles headed towards the well, the hearts of most co, really and one was shot down on its way. and the other one was shot down just above the infrastructure of the criminal. you can see it in the video, an unmanned aerial vehicle quite large. unlikely to be a commercial item. it flies past the red walls of the kremlin and then explodes right next to the russian flag over one of the domes, new criminal has already revealed that well, nobody got injured that there were no casualties again, though injured and there was no damage dealt to the criminal infrastructure which,

i mean it indicates that the drone did not reach the intended target because it was again what looks like it was shot mid there. and even the, the be massive clock on the spot sca tao. if it hit that, that would have been well, a massive p victory to ukraine. this video is, is, well, it is difficult to watch too, for anybody who's patriotic here in russia. but again, there was no damage and no casualties billed by. this explosion, of course, kremlin has immediately blamed ukraine for organizing this attack. they have cited the intelligence information that they have, that it was key who was behind and who was who masterminded this attack. and they called it in this and an assassination attempt at the russian president who was present at the time in the kremlin. but father was in his residence in noble

ukraine, in turn has stepped forward. and the advice that's to the ukranian president and the his soon press secretary, they have said that, well they have nothing to do with it. and battle with it was likely a sleeper cell in russia. have a listen. we have no information regarding the so called night attacks on the kremlin, but as president laskey has repeatedly stated, ukraine directs all available forces to liberate its own territories, not to attack foreign was 1st of all ukraine wages and exclusively defends it war and does not attack targets on the territory of the russian federation. what for this doesn't solve any military issue. the emergence of unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles at energy facilities or in gremlins territory can only indicate that grill activities of local resistant forces in a word. something is happening in russian federation, but definitely without ukraine's drones over the kremlin. while this, by the claim that he makes that ukraine is waging a defensive war, that it has no interest in attacking the crumbling. this is simply not true. lately,

ukrainian channels have been spreading a fake video of a drone flying over the red square claiming it was their f. p. v drone 1st person view drone. ah, that video was fake. in fact, it was taken out of a video on youtube published years ago. and that turned out to be simply force and indeed there have been calls of from are some very powerful people in ukraine and promises of riches and money effectively. there was a bounty offered to anybody who manages to fly and well to to detonate a drone over the crumbling well around victory day. have a lesson again. oh boy with norma green's good. the letter, do you think ukrainians will fly to moscow? ah javert rebuttal, wu, your key, the key. i think that it is a necessary moment. a little of that is that the night of may is a very good moment because i read that putin is planning a parade on red square. and there will be a lot of vehicles will show that is they will be as that say,

very legitimate military target. and i think the whole community making drones, we should really make a holiday for them. good doesn't work. so indeed, it is very telling of the timing here, because russia celebrates the 1st of may as the one for union, de russia has a big, massive festival on the 9th of may upcoming. and while this attack did not happen on the date, it is certainly falls within the so called may holidays, which is something that of that it's called in russia. it falls within this frame within this window. and certainly it is, it is quite symbolic. now this is the 1st time that said that the russia has accused ukraine of carrying out such attacks. what other examples of the well, absolutely accused and has paid 0 attention to ukraine will be me. and he denying having anything to do with it. so, ukraine's denials, they don't really play any role here in terms of how moscow might respond to this. now of course, the biggest attacks that have happened to probably one of the biggest happened the

almost exactly a month ago that was the assassination of a russian walker. responded blood, linda thought as to who was it was his, he was, it was his knife in saint petersburg, a bunch of his followers and his fans. they came to listen to him publicly making a public speak speech making a public address in one of the cafes in saint pete said there was an i e. d was carried into the place into the venue and detonated shortly afterwards. last year in august that he had to get a russian journalist and political activist. she was murdered, as well as fascinated. i have to say because it was a car bombing. an explosive device was put under the hood of her vehicle and well, she was killed as a result. also, of course, what it all started was the explosion on the crime in bridge which rendered a pos of the bridge useless. and it has basically was rendered an operable to

a degree. so russia blame ukraine for that as well. again, the ukranian special services, they denied any allegations, but again, most school retaliated heavily on the big crime in bridge was the point of no return. and that was when russia's now miss all started to target, ukraine's critical military and energy infrastructure in a bid to well to stop the flow of fuel and then bid to paralyze the logistics from the ukranian army on the front. but i mean, there's in that whole area of smaller attacks in cross, not in the regions of russia that a neighboring the was own in ukraine. they had, there have been attacks against the railroad system of russia, attacks against fuel storage facilities in crimea, in stapo. so all sorts of things, if we were to talk about some of the more remote attacks because this one what happened here in most with some of the one of those. and i mean, of course, the,

the chances that this drone crossed more than 600 kilometers all the way from the frontline to the russian kremlin, it is, i'd say, quite minuscule. but we'll have to see what experts have to say about this. but the ukraine, the cranium, ukrainian, the u. a v. 's. they have tried to attack brushes, long range ation in serrato for instance. also they have tried to attack kaloogian. i mean, we have to show a map really for a foreign view to understand as to where that is. but it is also hundreds of kilometers away from the russian border with ukraine, from the russian border with the then that's kind of guns, republics. and indeed, lately the ukrainians, they have indeed stepped up these attacks that i because what if there's one thing that i can agree with the advisor to the ukraine in president these attacks face of 0 mil, military purpose, which shows how desperate they are full payoff for good pictures, how, how eager they are to how much they are in need of painting

a picture of victory. and basically just hyping up the counter offensive that have been teasing for quite a while. earlier we discussed the issue with military experts alexander pon of it says that the drones that carried out the attack appeared to be very similar to those manufactured by ukraine's defense industry. this law massage, it is possible that these drones were assembled in nearby territories including the moscow region. but on the other hand, the video shows that it was a fairly large device with the wing span of about 2.5 to 3 meters. it is possible that they were the very kamikaze attack drones that the ukrainian defense industry, the main manufacture of the military industrial complex of ukraine, announced at the end of last year. it is quite possible that these drones could cross most of the territory of the russian federation due to the fact that to day it is difficult for almost all air defense systems to detect drones. they fly at

very low altitudes and can move along preset coordinates without emitting any radiation. they're made as inconspicuous as possible to avoid interception and radar. therefore, there may be different possibilities. the drones could have been delivered in some way to a nearby territory. this is the easiest option for maximum effect of use as well as assembly. but the question is, how were the explosives that were placed in the drones deliver? there could be a similar scheme to the one used in crimea attack where explosives were delivered through other states. and it is quite possible that the components for these drones were brought on to the territory of the russian federation in other ways of em all in this. let's cross live now to aditya rodge, coal defense and security journalist. the t v 9 network is jonah's life. from india, thank you very much for your time this evening i did just was festival. get your reaction to this incident that happened in the, in the early hours of,

of the kremlin. well, peter, it's an extraordinary situation. at the same time, it's a very dangerous situation. of escalation, that has happened in india, all the news reporters have been, you know, on the tv screens and getting details from kremlin and other sources because it's also a time in india. india is all stink. the shanghai corp meeting there, of course the key players would be meeting and this would be happening on after this alleged terrorist attack that crim lindsey's as happened to assassinate routine. it is of interest situation. it's an escalation, one below to wait and watch how officially the kremlin gives details off. what does attack was and how this happened because there are multiple curies that are doing rounds on social media. and in the diplomatic circles, that whether this is an escalation, either by ukraine, because ukraine has denied any kind of

a drone attack on kremlin. and apart from that, we have had no response as yet officially from u. s. or u. k. is there some kind of list and conspiracy into it? because we have had this a playbook play in the past as well. but definitely, this is a progression coming in right ahead off. the victory is integrations in russia. and if this is something that is being called as a parent attack by russia, we should wait and watch and see some kind of an escalation and retaliated to move by kremlin within the next few hours. because what im certainly is not going to take it lightly at the same time, india has maintain the peace should be maintained. they should be seen via dogs, should moorhead prime minister movie. also suggesting that this is not an arrow for what with these escalations, with more than 4 under diesel does more already on not only beaten voice. how does escalation turns out? indeed, we will this quite a lot on pox a d. c, thanks very much. feel your comprehensive response for festival russia has said

that it reserves the right to spawned and when it sees fit. and if you were to speculate how do you think it would respond? in the past, we have seen a launch waves of missiles to targets in ukraine. do you expect to see something similar this time? well, that hadn't been really precise targeted attacks. well, i'm not suggesting assassinations. i'm not saying that they elected leadership in ukraine has not been targeted yet, and they might be targeted. but certainly what, we'll, what we will, bigness now in retaliation will be something that we haven't seen before. so this is something that concerns put in. this comes ahead of the victory day, and this is a symbolic video which is playing out on the screens off news channels won't by dr . now, is certainly raising eyebrows. and this also shows russia in a very big chill because, you know, the questions are being raised about their defense system in russia. why it could

not detect these drones or you a, these. and if at all this has happened and they're small, call all the ones that don't attack to please then why wasn't the security or the intelligence you know, able to, you know, have this tax and, you know, you know, witnessed some kind of intelligence so that these are task would be taught it, but at this moment of we'll see that we'll think we'll be responding and we'll be responding hard up. what happens? this is a time for leaders not escalate, but be it just countries that are close to russia including india and china, to maintain some kind of a piece and diplomacy play. it's game, all stalks of beasts of restoring some order because of this escalation. it seems that the water is far from ending. it certainly does seem that way. unfortunately. i know you touch on this in your 1st or do you believe there is something

significant about the timing of this incidence? obviously, it's about 6 days before the may, 9th celebrations in russia, which are very significant. but it also comes amid reports wide reports of a much anticipated ukrainian counter offensive in russia. can we meet anything in the time of this? well, certainly the timing is very crucial and important. as you said about the celebration, both on may 4th and may, 9th, me like these are significantly important because of the victory day, you know, against nazi germany, and how significant that has played out all the years. that is, you know, robust celebrations that happened in russia, but even the russian civilian them, the citizens will be both for russia and ukraine. so as to see what i see if countries, because that is driving the narrative really from u. s. u k. and you're up against russia, lady clinton to russia, and this,

but at the same time, among those will leaders will sit silent and watch a play in you, in a talk on the chrome or more of a thin bully from president putin life. i think this was a message i hitting the dorm. there is a fire that goes up what has to end war, but has to be escalate or what have to, as the publication and as a methods be allowed to put in. but the initial statements that are coming in from russia golly. and going to retaliate militarily strong responders grip of perhaps your security concerns. but it's not going to be on the negotiation people. after that, we'll see some kind of negotiation or a beautiful piece for come, for diplomacy to play. address is not going to happen. it seems that the propagation that we didn't watch how the us and you can react to it is

unfortunately going to be out militarily. and there will be certainly respond is just if i'd like to just if i could just ask you a little bit about the does it look like they were launched from inside of russia, from the border and ukraine. oh, disbelief. because i cannot believe that these drones wash into tree without being detected. they seem like a loss came off about, but i was 5 or 10 kilometers range. but of course, but as i said, it's a message. and it's a message or what have to draw once before it. how did it take place? it is, of course, that is something that the russians will have to investigate further. but i see it isn't something that are drawn, that as long from ukraine or silly question, the air defense mechanisms of russia. and you want me know, i don't know him and others are very much dead in russia because a mild, a controlled attack out of the city of that. but if you indeed,

well have to wait and fall out of this incidents. i did hear roger cold, t v. net teams with us today. thanks peter. of carrying out such attacks. according to russian authorities, projects begun. well for 2 consecutive days, a series of explosions are area bordering with ukraine. no casualties have been report ocean border areas including crimea. ukrainian jones also sucks of a store full of the cities governor. on monday, the head of crimea reported that forces shop on the crimean peninsula. on april the 29th of loveland, sitarski was killed in a bombing at the st. petersburg cafe in carrying a statuette with a bomb planted inside and presents an explosive device in that statue. the blast kill petoskey, and intelligence and associates of jailed crim criminal critic. alec seen of only through august 2022 and the russian journalist was killed in a car bomb explosion as well. the car was owned by the famous russian philosopher, al target's book here, denied responsibility for all of those attacks attack several villages in the

russian. brian's region firing. it's called the instant the terrorist attack, noting that the attackers were aware that there were children correspondent rodriguez. d f, who is currently in the against republic, with various russian exit well with the head of state for how russian decision making works at these height on this attack on the kremlin. again though, 42 by, by nazi germany. again, there are holding for a very tough perhaps. my feeling is and, you know, colleagues that we've spoken to it than, than some would expect. again, russia has a vote, enters in here. for example, the s b use headquarters. the here are still still untouched. the parliament, the key of the beam, untouched brush has avoided striking the cook theoretically, but will it? well, we feel that it be another wave of, of cruise missiles tribes against military targets. no,

do you anticipate that this will have an impacts? what things on the front, la, upon hundreds of thousands of competed soldiers, troops ah, kilometers. we're talking about an immense amount of 5 pieces of various various aerial assets of the new secret that despite the morling its air forces received. i was looking here about the old soviet helicopters, mig 29 jets for before the storm that is about to descend with you. you know, we've spoken and we've heard from various officials, for example. it said that he believes that you had in counterfeits of his already begun. in fact, begun on me. we're seeing the most intense activity from enemy while we are in control of our front insight. unfortunately, the situation on the perimeter out of politeness. good enough. the enemy has also become more active beyond the situation in various areas, trains, drones and surround phase in the near future in a matter of days perhaps on both sides a huge amount of ammunition. ah,

though the works are all here, get air defense of the expectation is that now that the weather has warmed stride up, but these are conduct could use of now of indeed and, and do you believe this is this john attack on the co with this anticipated counter offensive. government has demonstrated that he's p r desperate. he's across the board and said look, we can strike into russia. never mind that, that it straightens, leaving military targets. i've touched cause a urine could be dozens and dozens of civilians injuring ha 100. is there the countryside? we've also seen the, the terror of, for example, the murder, too prominent journalist and rush itself. what in the car point, petersburg, we were there in kept sun where all to get it in activists that the former ukrainian parliamentary found us. but again, after every incident that they, the e flop on says, look, we're, we're taking action. we've done this, we've done,

we've 3, can, there's a huge risk of, of escalation, look what have you, and navigated by american gps systems. would they now be a legitimate target to a to avoid and to prevent further is now much more room for escalation than the was $24.00. now, on a torn infinity planning to travel, the counter offensive is about to begin and he hopes to gain.