Zelensky Denies Ukraine Carried Out the Drone Assault on the Kremlin

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine denied on Wednesday that his nation was answerable for an early morning drone assault on the Kremlin, saying that Russia was blaming Ukraine as a result of it had misplaced different technique of mustering home help for its invasion of his nation.

“Russia has no victories to report,” Mr. Zelensky mentioned throughout a go to to Helsinki, the Finnish capital, the place he met with the leaders of 5 Nordic nations. Talking via an interpreter, he mentioned that Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, had resorted to claims that Ukraine tried to assassinate him as a result of he had failed on the battlefield and misplaced the respect of the world.

“Due to that, he has to do some surprising strikes like shock drone assaults,” Mr. Zelensky mentioned in response to a query about Russia’s declare that it had destroyed two Ukrainian drones that had been aimed toward Mr. Putin’s residence on the sprawling Kremlin fortress in central Moscow.

Mr. Zelensky flatly denied that his nation had carried out any such assault, saying Ukraine was targeted on the combat by itself soil. “We’re defending our villages and cities,” he mentioned.

Mr. Zelensky added that Ukraine didn’t have the weapons to spare on such an assault and that it could be as much as an eventual worldwide tribunal to determine the Russian chief’s destiny.

“We didn’t assault Putin,” he mentioned. “We depart it to the tribunal.”

Mr. Zelensky was in Finland to satisfy with Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö, and the leaders of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden to debate matters together with the struggle in Ukraine and the nation’s bid to affix NATO. For many of the first 12 months of the struggle set off by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Mr. Zelensky remained in Ukraine, however has made a handful of worldwide journeys since visiting the USA and Poland in December.

Throughout a information convention with the Nordic leaders, Mr. Zelensky congratulated Finland for becoming a member of NATO, a course of it accomplished final month, and wished Sweden a speedy completion to its bid to turning into NATO’s thirty second member nation.

“Ukraine can and have to be the thirty third member,” he mentioned. “We perceive that at a time of aggression, it’s inconceivable to satisfy Ukraine’s accession to the alliance, however there isn’t a impediment to it.”