A day after a drone strike on Moscow, Kremlin officers jumped on the refusal of Ukrainian allies to denounce the assault as proof that Russia’s actual warfare was with the West.

The Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, mentioned Russia “would have preferred to hear at least some words of condemnation” from Western capitals.

“We will calmly and deliberately think how to deal with this,” he mentioned.

While none of Ukraine’s allies went as far as to endorse the drone assault, Britain’s international secretary mentioned on Tuesday that Kyiv had “the right to project force beyond its borders.”

The U.S. response was extra circumspect, but it surely stopped in need of criticizing the primary army strike to hit civilian areas within the Russian capital for the reason that begin of the warfare. Ukraine officers have mentioned they weren’t “directly involved” within the drone strike.

From the outset of the battle, Russia has portrayed the invasion of Ukraine as a defensive warfare provoked by the West, and on Wednesday it seized on the assault.

Dmitri A. Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s nationwide safety council and a former president, said Britain “de facto is leading an undeclared war against Russia” by offering Ukraine with army support and known as it “our eternal enemy.”

Known for the reason that warfare started for staking out excessive positions, Mr. Medvedev argued that now any British official “can be considered as a legitimate military target.”

The Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, known as the U.S. refusal to sentence the assault “an encouragement for Ukrainian terrorists,” his embassy mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.

Russia has repeatedly hit civilian areas of Ukraine over the course of the warfare, although it has denied concentrating on nonmilitary websites. And in current weeks it has turned up the barrage of missiles and assault drones aimed toward Kyiv, the capital. Thousands of Ukrainian civilians, together with kids, have been killed in Russian airstrikes and artillery bombardments, U.N. officers say.

Though the drone strike on Tuesday was uncommon, it was not the primary one on Russian soil for the reason that warfare started. Drones have hit army air bases deep inside Russia, in addition to an oil facility close to an airfield within the province of Kursk. And this month, drones exploded over the Kremlin.

The incursions continued on Wednesday, when, the Russian authorities mentioned, Ukrainian drones attacked two oil refineries within the area of Krasnodar. They additionally mentioned that 4 folks had been injured by shelling within the border area of Belgorod.

Russia has lengthy accused the West of waging a proxy warfare in opposition to it. Those claims grew louder this month when a gaggle of Ukraine-based Russian paramilitary members staged a multiday raid in Russia’s Belgorod border area — apparently with U.S. armored automobiles.

A New York Times evaluation discovered that not less than three of what gave the impression to be American-made MRAPs had been a part of the assault. A frontrunner of one of many teams claimed the weapons had not been offered by the Ukrainian army.

Russian officers have said that NATO’s resolution to ship weapons, which have change into more and more advance because the warfare has worn on, raises the danger of a direct confrontation and a possible nuclear warfare.

On Tuesday, President Vladimir V. Putin additionally made an oblique reference to this risk, calling the drone strike on Moscow an try “to create a response reaction from Russia.” He accused unspecified forces of making an attempt to sabotage a Ukrainian nuclear plant occupied by Russia or to make use of “a type of a dirty bomb related to the nuclear industry.”

Although Western governments initially centered their army assist for Ukraine on bolstering its defenses, over time, the need to hasten an finish the warfare has led to rising deliveries of offensive weapons to Kyiv.

Tensions between Moscow and Western capitals have worsened for the reason that invasion, as have the financial sanctions imposed on Russia as penalty.

At a safety convention on Wednesday in Slovakia, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, mentioned that Western allies should give Ukraine “tangible and credible” safety ensures in its battle in opposition to Russia.

“If we want a credible, durable peace, if we want to hold our own against Russia, if we want to be credible with the Ukrainians, we must give Ukraine the means to prevent any new aggression and to include Ukraine in any new security architecture,” he mentioned in a speech.

Mr. Macron was criticized early within the warfare over his insistence on not antagonizing Russia, however his strategy towards Mr. Putin has hardened. He additionally expressed remorse that France and different Western European international locations had did not heed warnings from international locations on the European Union’s jap edge about Russian belligerence.

On Wednesday, Germany mentioned it had ordered 4 of the 5 Russian Consulates within the nation to shut after Moscow restricted the variety of German diplomatic employees allowed in Russia, the most recent in an escalating tit-for-tat diplomatic dispute between the 2 international locations.

The Russian Foreign Ministry was advised to start out shutting down its consulates in Germany instantly and to complete by the top of the 12 months, mentioned Christofer Burger, a spokesman for Germany’s Foreign Ministry.

One Russian Consulate and the Russian Embassy in Berlin shall be allowed to stay open.

In Sweden, the U.S. secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken met with European officers on Wednesday to debate commerce and expertise points, cracking down on exports that might support Russia.

On Thursday, Mr. Blinken is scheduled to fulfill with NATO international ministers to debate the alliance summit deliberate for July, in addition to the warfare in Ukraine and the prospects for Swedish membership within the alliance.

Christopher F. Schuetze, Michael Crowley and Aurelien Breeden contributed reporting.