SNAPSHOT-Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Kremlin says US behind drone attack

Russia said on Thursday that the United States was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin aiming to kill President Vladimir Putin, and air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv as drones attacked in the fourth assault on the capital in as many days. FIGHTING * Drones attacked Kyiv on Thursday evening, subjecting residents to spasms of gunfire and explosions.

Russia said on Thursday that the United States was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin aiming to kill President Vladimir Putin, and air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv as drones attacked in the fourth assault on the capital in as many days.

FIGHTING * Drones attacked Kyiv on Thursday evening, subjecting residents to spasms of gunfire and explosions. Officials said at least one drone was downed.

* The United States dismissed as lies Russia's allegation that it was behind the Kremlin incident. * Russia fired two dozen combat drones at Ukraine earlier on Thursday, striking a university campus in the Black Sea city of Odesa and attacking Kyiv.

DIPLOMACY/POLITICS * Putin must be brought to justice for his war in Ukraine, Zelenskiy said in The Hague, calling for the creation of a war crimes tribunal separate to the International Criminal Court.

* The Kremlin said it was aware Pope Francis was thinking about ways to end the conflict in Ukraine. * Russia has complained to Finland about vandalism at a Russian consulate on the Aland islands in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden, the Finnish foreign ministry said.

* Technical personnel from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, and the United Nations will meet on Friday to discuss a deal that allows the exports of Ukrainian grains on the Black Sea, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said. ECONOMY

* Ukraine said it had seized assets worth more than $280 million belonging to an exiled billionaire it accuses of aiding Russia. * Car sales in Russia leapt by 170.4% year-on-year in April, analytical agency Autostat said, with the country's bruised car market staging a partial recovery from the soaring prices and reduced deliveries of the same month last year.

* A Russian-U.S. joint venture has said it has abandoned plans to build large-capacity gas turbines in Russia under licence from General Electric Co QUOTES

* "I don't believe they got to the Kremlin ... Our Putin is super. Nothing ever threatens him" - Moscow resident Zifa. * "We all want to see a different Vladimir here in The Hague, the one who deserves to be sanctioned for his criminal actions here, in the capital of international law" - Zelenskiy

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