Moscow organized the attack on the Kremlin, according to analysts

The government of Russia organized the drone attack on the kremlin of last Tuesday and of the one who accuses Ukraine “in an attempt to bring the war to the Russian national audience and set the conditions for broader social mobilization” in the country.

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So says the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington-based nonpartisan think tank, after conducting a study of the circumstances surrounding the incident.

According to him “think tank” American, the Russian authorities recently took steps to increase internal air defense, including within Moscow and therefore it is extremely unlikely that two drones would have broken through “multiple layers of air defense and exploded or were shot down right over the kremlinprovided spectacular images captured by various cameras.

Geolocated images from January 2023 show that Russian authorities have been placing missile defense systems pantsir air-ground near Moscow to create defensive circles around the city.

The ISW believes that an attack that could not be detected by these air defense assets and managed to hit such a high-profile target as the Kremlin Senate Palace “would be a great embarrassment for Russia.”

He kremlin immediately accused Ukraine of carrying out a terrorist attack, and official Russian responses quickly coalesced around this accusation.

If the drone attack had not been internally organized and unexpected, “it is very likely that the official Russian response initially would have been much more disorganized” and not as consistent and unequivocal in qualifying the attack, adds the ISW.

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“The rapid and consistent presentation of an official Russian narrative about the attack suggests that Russia staged this incident very close to the victory dayon May 9, to frame the war as existential for its national audience.added US analysts.

And they stressed that some of the Russian nationalist bloggers took advantage of the drone attack on the Kremlin to call for a Russian escalation in the war despite the fact that Moscow it currently lacks the military capacity to do so.

For him ISW“he kremlin it may be planning to carry out other false flag operations and increase disinformation before the start of a Ukrainian counter-offensive to increase domestic support for the war.”

The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenreferred this Wednesday to the incident and to Moscow’s claims about Ukrainian responsibility for the drone attack.

In a meeting organized by The Washington Post newspaper, blinken He said about it that you have totake with caution” any information or statement coming out of the klemlinalthough he did not want to comment or speculate on this matter without really knowing how the events occurred.

Source: Elcomercio

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