Assignment 3 Writing

Name: Ichya Ulumudin

Number: 048661603

Lecturer: Dr, Hanna Sundari, M.Pd.

Russia accuses US of „encouraging terrorists‟ after Moscow strike

President Putin casts the attack as a Ukrainian attempt to intimidate Moscow residents and says the
capital‟s air defences will be „beefed up‟.

The United States is encouraging Ukraine to launch cross-border “terrorist” attacks, a Russian official
alleged, after Moscow was hit by a series of drone strikes.

The White House, meanwhile, said on Tuesday it did not support attacks inside Russia, and that it is still
gathering information on the incident.

“What are these attempts to hide behind the phrase they are „gathering information‟?” Anatoly Antonov,
Russia‟s ambassador to the US, said in remarks published on the Telegram messaging channel.

“This is an encouragement for Ukrainian terrorists.”

Russia has long accused what it calls the “collective West” of staging a proxy war against Moscow by
supporting Ukraine with military and financial aid.

President Vladimir Putin also cast the assault, which brought the 15-month war in Ukraine to the heart of
Russia, as a “terrorist act”. Ukraine, on the other hand, has accused Russia of “terrorism” for its bombing
of Ukrainian civilians, allegations Moscow denies.

A Ukrainian presidential aide denied Kyiv was directly involved in the drone attack on Moscow, but said
Ukraine was enjoying watching events and forecast more to come.

Drones target Moscow in rare attack on Russian capital

„Not designed to do this‟

The drone attack on Moscow exposed glaring breaches in its air defences and underlined the capital‟s
vulnerability, analysts said.

Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, noted part of the
reason why drones could make it all the way to Moscow undetected was because Russian air defences are
mostly focused on fending off more sophisticated weapons.

“They are oriented on missiles, ballistic missiles, regional missiles, aircraft, bombers, but not short-range
drones, you know, which might be flying very low over the ground,” Cancian said. “The Russian air
defence was just not designed to do this.”

The Russian military will likely move some of its air assets away from the front line to help protect
Moscow, Cancian said, a move that would weaken Russian troops in the face of a Ukrainian
counteroffensive.
“That‟s good for the Ukrainians in the sense that they‟re pulling these systems away from other areas
where they could be used maybe from front-line units,” he said.

The attack, which lightly damaged three apartment buildings and wounded two people, angered Russia‟s
hardliners who scathingly criticised the military brass for failing to protect the capital – more than 500km
(310 miles) from the front line in Ukraine.

Putin cast the attack on Moscow as a Ukrainian attempt to intimidate its residents. He said Moscow‟s air
defences worked as expected, but admitted protecting a huge city is a daunting task. “It‟s clear what needs
to be done to beef up air defences – and we will do it,” the Russian leader said.

Military watchers said the drones used in the attack were relatively crude and cheap, but could have a
range of up to 1,000km (620 miles). They predicted more could follow.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/31/russia-accuses-us-of-encouraging-terrorists-after-
moscow-strike

Schematic Structure:

1. Main event : 1st and 2nd paragraph

2. Elaboration: 3rd to 16th paragraph
3. Resource of information: 17th to 19th paragraph