WASHINGTON. May 5 (Interfax) - White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said that he is not aware of any possible ongoing non-public contacts between the United States and Russia following the drone incident in Moscow.
"I'm not aware of any private conversations between us and Russian officials over this alleged drone attack," Kirby said at a press briefing.
Kirby reiterated Washington's earlier statement that the U.S. has nothing to do with that incident.
"I don't know that we need to privately convey that," he said, adding that the U.S. will try to gather more information about what happened.
Kirby said earlier on Thursday that the U.S. did not have any involvement in the drone attack on the Kremlin and that Washington is not encouraging Ukraine to act in such a way outside its territory.
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, for his part said, that "the decision on such actions and terror attacks is made precisely in Washington rather than in Kiev", and that it is Washington that stood behind the drone attack.
The Kremlin press service said the day before that in the early hours of May 3, "the Kiev regime attempted a strike on the Kremlin residence of the Russian president by unmanned aerial vehicles ". The Kremlin described the incident as "a premeditated terror attack and an attempt on the life of the president of the Russian Fed ration", saying that Russia reserves the right "to retaliate wherever and whenever it deems necessary".