The Kremlin has always been the tsar’s residence until Peter the Great’s reign: He had aspirations to found an entire city for himself, hence St.Petersburg was born. Grand Prince Ivan III invited a number of skilled architects from Italy to do the job. The existing fortress walls and towers were built from 1485 to 1495. From 1366 to 1368 Dmitry Donskoy replaced the wooden walls with white limestone. The “grad of Moscow” itself was founded in 1156 by Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy and was made out of oak. The first settlements on the territory belong to the Bronze Age (2nd century BC). Get ready to soak up everything you wanted to know about this magnificent complex. Washington denies this, saying it is arming Kyiv to defend itself and retake land illegally taken by Moscow.There are about 20 kremlins in Russia, but when people hear the word “kremlin” they automatically think about Moscow’s seat of power. Russia has increasingly accused the United States of being a direct participant in the war, intent on inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Moscow. Separately, Russia’s foreign ministry said the alleged drone attack “must not go unanswered” and that it showed Kyiv had no desire to end the 15-month old war at the negotiating table. Peskov said an urgent investigation was under way and that any response would be carefully considered and balanced. We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv but in Washington,” Peskov told reporters. “Attempts to disown this (attack on the Kremlin), both in Kyiv and in Washington, are, of course, absolutely ridiculous. Moscow has blamed Ukraine for those attacks too.

Kyiv has also denied involvement in the incident, which followed a string of blasts over the past week targeting freight trains and oil depots in western Russia and Russian-controlled Crimea. He added it was still unclear what had happened at the Kremlin.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Peskov was “just lying” and said the United States neither encouraged nor enabled Ukraine to strike outside its borders. orders with the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin citadel in the early hours of Wednesday. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, without providing evidence, said Ukraine had acted on U.S. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in The Hague after visiting the International Court of Justice (ICC), said that Putin must be brought to justice over the war and said Kyiv would work to create a new tribunal for this purpose.

Russia said on Thursday that the United States was behind what it says was a drone attack on the Kremlin that aimed to kill President Vladimir Putin, while Moscow’s forces fired more combat drones at Ukrainian cities including the capital Kyiv.

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