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Unverified footage on social media appears to show an object flying over the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 3, 2021.
  • Pro-Putin hardliners called for Russia to assassinate Ukraine's president. 
  • It followed Russia's claim Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Kremlin. 
  • Ukraine denied it was behind the attack, which some analysts said was likely a "false flag." 

Hardline allies of Russian president Vladimir Putin have called for revenge attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the wake of what Russia claims was a Ukrainian drone strike on the Kremlin.

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and currently the hawkish deputy head of the Security Council, called for the military to "physically eliminate" Zelenskyy "and his clique" in a message posted on Telegram.