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The Kremlin as well as Russian state media are alleging a huge, potentially conflict-altering incident which will surely escalate the war in Ukraine \u2013 an\u00a0attempted attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin himself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A high-ranking Russian military commander on Sunday described that last week, as Putin traveled to the Kursk region for the first time since is liberation after 6+ months of Ukrainian occupation,\u00a0Ukraine tried to attack Putin\u2019s helicopter mid-flight<\/strong>,\u00a0sending a wave of drones to swarm the flight path of the chopper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The presidential helicopter was\u00a0caught in the \u201cepicenter\u201d\u00a0of a massive Ukrainian drone attack<\/strong>, commander of an air defense division in Kursk,\u00a0Yury Dashkin, told Russian media. The headline is the top featured story of English-language\u00a0RT<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, something which suggests the allegations are largely aimed at grabbing the attention of the West.<\/p>\n