The drone that attacked the Kremlin on the night of May 3 “was nothing special,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said May 8 during a private meeting with Russian media editors. On this subject writing Andrey Kolesnikov, Kommersant journalist and member of the Kremlin pool.
According to him, Putin said the drone was homemade, made of wire and “modern materials”, and also stuffed with around 400g of TNT. The president also noted that similar drones have flown to Russia’s Khmeimim air base in Syria, the publication said.
“He didn’t seem to attach to what had happened the importance that the rest of the world attached to it,” Kolesnikov writes.
At the same time, the journalist calls the security measures during the Victory Parade in Red Square on May 9 unprecedented. Three projection levels were organized from the metro or the landing stage to the stands. According to Kolesnikov, an IQOS smoking device and mouthpiece were confiscated from one of his colleagues, and a packet of Tic Tac dragees from another. At the same time, phones were allowed in, notes a Kommersant correspondent.
On May 3, the press service of the President of Russia announced the attack of two drones on the Kremlin. One of the drones exploded above the dome of the Senate Palace, where Putin’s office is located. The Kremlin called the incident a planned terrorist act and an attack on the president. Putin himself was then in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow. After the incident, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal investigation into the attack (Article 205 of the Criminal Code).
Read the Latest Ukraine War News on The Eastern Herald.
