Russia blames the U.S. for the apparent drone attack against the Kremlin.

Russia blamed the United States on Thursday for the obvious drone assault on the Kremlin, doubling down on accusing Washington of “direct involvement” within the warfare in Ukraine.

Dmitri S. Peskov, the spokesman for President Vladimir V. Putin, repeatedly instructed reporters in a each day convention name that the United States was behind the episode on the Kremlin. Video footage verified by The New York Times confirmed two explosions over the Kremlin early Wednesday, an incident that Russia described as a Ukrainian drone assault on Mr. Putin’s Kremlin residence. Ukraine has denied involvement.

Mr. Peskov claimed on Thursday that the United States bore accountability for the assault as a result of it supplied focusing on info to Ukraine.

“We know well that the decisions about such actions and such terrorist acts are made not in Kyiv, but in Washington,” Mr. Peskov stated. “Kyiv then does what it’s told.”

In truth, leaked secret Pentagon paperwork present that whereas the American army is certainly offering battlefield focusing on information to Ukraine, American officers have labored to dissuade Ukraine from doubtlessly provocative strikes on Moscow. And American officers admonished Ukraine over the killing in August of Daria Dugina, the daughter of a outstanding Russian ultranationalist, which American intelligence businesses believed was licensed by elements of the Ukrainian authorities.

But Mr. Peskov insisted on Thursday that Ukraine’s denial of involvement in Wednesday’s incident on the Kremlin, and the American denial that it had advance data of it, have been “absolutely laughable.” He characterised the United States as being straight concerned within the warfare — a declare that the Kremlin has made beforehand.

The Russian authorities’s emphasis on American involvement displays each the efforts by its propaganda equipment to clarify Russia’s battlefield struggles, and Mr. Putin’s warnings that the combating in Ukraine may escalate right into a wider warfare.

“We know this well,” Mr. Peskov stated, after asserting that the United States was “dictating” to Ukraine which targets to strike. “It’s very important that they understand in Washington that we know this, and that they understand how dangerous such direct involvement in the conflict is.”