<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Russia says it downed two drones that were targeting the Kremlin in Moscow last night and accused Ukraine of attempting to kill President Vladimir Putin.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Kremlin said the drones were disabled by special services using electronic radar assets.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Putin was not in the Kremlin at the time, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state news agency, adding there was no material damage to buildings.</div><div><br></div><div>Ukraine says it is making no comment.</div><div><br></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fcvGHIRDHlo" width="640" height="360" class="note-video-clip"></iframe><br></div><div>Unverified footage on Russian social media showed smoke over central Moscow in the early hours of Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>In a statement, the Kremlin said: "Last night, the Kyiv regime attempted to carry out a strike on the Kremlin residence of the President of the Russian Federation with unmanned aerial vehicles."</div><div><br></div><div>It said it regarded this "as a planned terrorist act and an assassination attempt on the president", and Russia "reserves the right to take retaliatory measures wherever and whenever is deemed necessary".</div><div><br></div><div>Mr Putin had not been hurt and his schedule would continue as normal, the statement said. Fragments of the drones had fallen on the Kremlin site but no-one had been hurt, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Kremlin also noted the incident had come shortly before Russia's 9 May Victory Day parade, which foreign dignitaries were expected to attend.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ukrainian presidential office told the BBC it was not commenting at this time. According to BBC reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>