Putin appears to play down incident despite calls to declare state of war and ‘mobilise the whole of society’
Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates
Russia does not plan to declare martial law following Tuesday’s large-scale drone strike on Moscow, the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, has said.
The Kremlin’s comments came after several leading Russian officials and pro-war figures urged the president, Vladimir Putin, to respond to the drone attacks by declaring a state of total war.
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