Ukraine has denied involvement in the drone attack on Russia’s capital Moscow and responded with derision.

“Of course, we are not directly involved,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the presidential office in Kyiv, said on Tuesday on the breakfast radio show of Russian journalist Aleksandr Plyushchev, who is critical of the Kremlin.

He scoffed that Russian drones may have returned to their senders.

“You know that we are approaching the era of artificial intelligence,” he said. “Possibly not all drones are ready to attack Ukraine, and they want to return to their creators and so ask: ‘Why are you sending us against the children of Ukraine? On Kyiv?’ and so on,” Mr Podolyak said.

At the same time, the Ukrainian government adviser predicted that the number of attacks on Russian territory would probably continue to increase.

“All the people who believe that they can destroy another sovereign state with absolute impunity have not yet understood after 15 months that they cannot repeat 2014,” he said.

He referred to the year that Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.

Earlier, Russia blamed Ukraine for the attacks on Moscow and called it an “act of terrorism.”

“This morning, the Kyiv regime carried out an act of terrorism with unmanned aerial vehicles on objects in the city of Moscow,’’ the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday.

(dpa/NAN)