terrorist attacks are not made in kyiv but in washington. kyiv is executing what it is told to do. such attempts to disown kyiv and in washington are absolutely ridiculous. to be clear, ukraine has vehemently denied any involvement in the attack but moscow insists ukrainians were trying to assassinate putin. overnight we saw russia unleash a wave of its own drones on kyiv and other ukrainian cities. they had handwritten messages on them reading for the kremlin and from moscow. matthew, such an escalation. the biden administration has been adamant it is not helping or encouraging ukraine to carry out attacks inside of moscow. these baseless claims without evidence from the kremlin in the last 24 hours are striking. yeah, well, striking perhaps, yes, but also typical of the kremlin to say that the attacks against the are not necessarily orchestrated by ukraine, but someone else is pulling the strings. of course, it s the united states and it s the sort of broader west
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