Responding to claims that Ukraine had attempted to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin by drone, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov brushed them off on Thursday as “yellow fabrications.”
“No, we are not familiar with these reports,” Peskov told reporters. “There are many such ‘yellow fabrications’ these days. There’s no reason to pay them any mind.”
On Wednesday, the German tabloid Bild published a story titled ‘17 kilos of explosives were supposed to kill Putin’, claiming that the Ukrainian drone that crashed near Moscow on Sunday had targeted the Russian president himself, and that the Russian authorities were trying to cover it up.
Bild quoted Ukrainian activist Yuri Romanenko, who claimed the Ukrainian intelligence sent the drone to target Putin during his visit to the Rudnevo industrial park outside Moscow. The drone allegedly passed through the Russian air defenses undetected and crashed “not far” from the target location. The German outlet described…