Russia-Ukraine war news: Kremlin drone ‘attack’ on Putin did not include United States, White House declares

Russia’s claims that the United States lags a drone attack on the Kremlin are incorrect, White House nationwide security spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday.

“I can assure you that there was no involvement by the United States in this. Whatever it was did not involve us,” Kirby informed MSNBC in an interview. “We had nothing to do with this.”

The United States does not motivate or allow Ukraine to strike outdoors its borders, he included.

Kirby said it was still uncertain just what happed at the Kremlin.

“We still don’t really know what happened” and Washington is still evaluating the circumstance, Kirby said.

Russia previously on Thursday implicated the United States of lagging an attack at Moscow’s Kremlin focused on killing Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian spokesperson Dmitry Peskov “is just lying there,” Kirby said.

Donald Trump said he would have the ability to end the war in Ukraine in a single day if re-elected president.

In an interview with Nigel Farage on GB News, the previous White House local said he “got along great” with Russian president Vladimir Putin and criticised Joe Biden’s handling of the war in Ukraine.

He said: “If I were president, I [would] end that war in one day. It’ll take 24 hours. I will get that ended. It would be easy.

“That deal would be easy. A lot of it has to do with the money. That war has to be stopped. It is a disaster.”

Talks on a prospective contribution of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine are advancing, Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday throughout a see by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to The Hague, however no choice has actually been made.

Answering a concern at an interview together with Zelenskiy and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, Rutte said “On the F-16’s: no taboos.”

“We are working closely with our partners Belgium, others, UK, Denmark, on getting that debate somehow to a conclusion. We are not there yet,” he said.

Earlier today in Helsinki, Finland, Zelenskiy renewed his ask for the West to provide Kyiv with modern-day fighter jets and included he was “sure we will soon have aircraft”.

Rutte has formerly said the Netherlands would think about any type of military assistance for Ukraine as long as it would not set off open dispute in between NATO and Russia.

He said on Thursday said that conversations on F-16s would “take time” as did previous conversations on contributing Leopard 2 tanks and armoured howitzers.

“But at this moment the panzer-howitzers are in Ukraine, (and) the Leo 2s are being delivered to Ukraine,” he kept in mind. “So we will work on this diligently, on the F-16s, and clearly there is support in parliament for this government to work on that.”

As Ukrainian artists Jenya Polosina and Anna Ivanenko enjoyed rockets come down on their nation, the 2 chose to utilize their imagination to press back versus Russia‘s invasion. Working in the early days of the war from bunkers or sometimes without electricity and water in Kyiv, they and other artists started drawing.

Some of their war posters are now on display in New Hampshire. In the exhibit entitled “Our Fire is Stronger Than Your Bombs,” posters from Ivanenko show children studying in a bomb shelter and Ukrainians fleeing the country soon after the war started. Polosina’s illustrations commemorate a female gymnast and a young mathematician who were killed in rocket strikes.

“We understood that it’s a good pill, a good medicine for not panicking, for keeping yourself together. So, we started drawing,” Ivanenko informed The Associated Press from the studio in Kyiv she shows Polosina. They are amongst 8 artists who contributed 20 posters to the exhibition at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester that opened Monday. The posters were revealed formerly at Dartmouth College and still can be viewed as part of a digital exhibition.

Foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation collected in India on Thursday to talk about local security matters, consisting of including Iran and Belarus to a union of countries viewed as a counterweight to Western impact in Eurasia.

The SCO is a political and security union of nations covering much of Eurasia, consisting of China, India and Russia. Formed in 2001 by Russia, China and ex-Soviet states in Central Asia, the body has actually been broadened to consist of India and Pakistan.

The growth of the group to consist of Iran and Belarus was among the primary products on the program of the one-day conference to be kept in the Indian seaside resort state of Goa on Friday, an Indian foreign ministry authorities said.

The foreign ministers, consisting of Russia‘s Sergei Lavrov and China’s Qin Gang, will prepare the ground for an SCO top in India in July that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese equivalent Xi Jinping are anticipated to go to face to face.

Iran and Belarus are anticipated to be inducted into the SCO at the New Delhi top, an Indian foreign ministry authorities said. Kuwait, Myanmar, the United Arab Emirates and Maldives are most likely to be approved the status of discussion partners ahead of complete subscription, the Indian foreign ministry authorities included.

Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was likewise on hand for Friday’s foreign ministers’ event, the very first senior Pakistani leader to go to India in 9 years amidst longstanding stress in between the big, nuclear-armed South Asian competitors.

However, there are no prepare for Bhutto-Zardari to satisfy Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar individually and his go to was not anticipated to result in a development in stretched Indian-Pakistani relations.

“During my visit, which is focused exclusively on the SCO, I look forward to constructive discussions with my counterparts from friendly countries,” Bhutto-Zardari tweeted prior to getting here in Goa.

Relations in between India and Pakistan have actually been laden for years and they have actually combated 3 wars, 2 of them over the Muslim-bulk Himalayan area of Kashmir, which they both claim completely however guideline in part.

India, which holds the chair of both the G20 significant economies and the SCO this year, is treading a diplomatic tightrope as it deals with Western criticism of its growing trade with Russia, which got into Ukraine in 2015, amidst its border stress with China.

Jaishankar said he had a “detailed discussion” with Qin on Indian-Chinese relations. “Focus remains on resolving outstanding issues and ensuring peace and tranquillity in the border areas,” he tweeted, without elaborating.

Indian-Chinese relations have actually degraded because mid-2020, when Chinese and Indian soldiers clashed along their long, disputed Himalayan frontier and 24 individuals were killed. The circumstance has actually because relaxed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will satisfy King Willem-Alexander throughout his see to The Netherlands, Dutch media outlet ANP said, pointing out sources.

During his go to, president Zelensky already satisfied Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo.

The United States dismissed Russia’s accusation on Thursday that Washington lagged what it said was a drone attack on the Kremlin, stating Moscow’s assertion was a lie.

“Obviously it’s a ludicrous claim,” White House nationwide security spokesperson John Kirby said hours after Russia blamed the United States for what it called an attack focused on eliminating president Vladimir Putin.

“The United States has nothing to do with it. We don’t even know exactly what happened here, but I can assure you the United States had no role in it whatsoever,” Mr Kirby said on CNN.

Mr Kirby said the United States does not motivate or allow Ukraine to strike outdoors its borders, and does not back attacks on specific leaders. Ukraine has actually rejected releasing any drones on the Kremlin.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday he was persuaded that Russian president Putin would deal with a worldwide war criminal offenses court when Ukraine wins the war that has actually been raving for over a year.

In a speech entitled “No Peace without Justice for Ukraine“ given in The Hague, the city that hosts the International Criminal Court, Zelensky said that Putin “deserves to be sentenced for these criminal actions right here in the capital of the international law.”

“And I’m sure we will see that happen when we win. And we will win,” he said. The ICC has actually provided an arrest warrant for Putin for supposed war criminal offenses in Ukraine, connecting to the kidnapping of kids.

The ICC cannot prosecute the criminal offense of war aggressiveness itself. Zelensky’s speech was an appeal for a full-fledged tribunal to prosecute that overarching criminal offense, a heart-felt plea for an unique tribunal for aggressiveness.

“If we want true justice, we should not look for excuses and should not refer to the shortcomings of the current international law but make bold decisions that will correct that shortcomings that unfortunately exist in international law.”

Zelensky’s speech came a day after he rejected that Ukrainian forces was accountable for what the Kremlin called an effort to assassinate Putin in a drone attack on Moscow.

The Kremlin guaranteed retaliation for what it called a “terrorist” act.