The Institute for the Study of War, an organization of analysts based in the United States, on Thursday accused the Russian government of staging an attack on the Kremlin building itself, in Moscow, on Tuesday as an act of propaganda.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW, for its acronym in English), quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE, says that “it was an attempt to bring the issue of war to the attention of the Russian people and create conditions for wider social mobilization”.
The group of North American analysts of the ISW points out that the Russian authorities have recently introduced new internal air defense measures, including in the vicinity of Moscow and that it is therefore “extremely unlikely” that the unmanned aerial vehicles (‘drones’) succeeded in to break through various “layers of defence”.
Images captured by satellites dating back to last January show Russian authorities installed Pantsir surface-to-air missile defense systems near Moscow to bolster defense circles around the country’s capital.
For the ISW, an attack “undetected” by the defense systems against such an important target as the Kremlin would be a “great embarrassment to Russia”.
The Kremlin accused Ukraine of carrying out the drone strike, which it called an act of terrorism.
For the ISW’s US investigators, if the drone strike had not been organized internally and had been unexpected, “it would be very likely that the official Russian response would have been much more disorganized” and not “as coherent”.
The rapid and cohesive presentation of an official Russian account of the attack suggests that Russia staged the incident very close to May 9 (the day marking Nazi Germany’s capitulation, in 1945), to end the war before the people. to propose.” situation as a factor endangering the survival of the country”the ISW believes.
The Washington-based body also notes that “some Russian nationalist bloggers took advantage of the ‘drone strike’ to call for greater Russian involvement in the war against Ukraine”.
for ISW, “The Kremlin may be planning further false flag operations and increasing disinformation before launching a counter-offensive to boost domestic support for the war.”.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday defended that “caution should be exercised” with information or statements from the Kremlin, but did not want to speculate on the subject without knowing who is really responsible for the facts.
Source: DN
