(Reuters) -&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;is&nbsp;encouraging&nbsp;Kyiv by publicly ignoring the drone attack that struck several districts of Moscow on Tuesday,&nbsp;Russia's envoy to the United States said on Wednesday, after President Vladimir Putin blamed&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;for the strikes.
The White House said it did not support&nbsp;attacks&nbsp;inside of&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;and that it was still gathering information on the incident, which Putin called an attempt to scare and provoke Moscow.
"What are these attempts to hide behind the phrase that they are 'gathering information'?" Anatoly Antonov, the ambassador, said in remarks published on the Telegram messaging channel.
"This is an encouragement for Ukrainian terrorists."
Putin on Tuesday cast the assault, which brought the 15-month war in&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;to the heart of&nbsp;Russia, as a terrorist act.&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;also&nbsp;accuses&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;of terrorism for&nbsp;its&nbsp;bombing of Ukrainian civilians, allegations Moscow denies.
A Ukrainian presidential aide denied Kyiv was directly involved in the drone attack on Moscow, but said&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;was enjoying watching events and forecast more to come.
The attack on Moscow, which injured two, came after&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;launched three air assaults within a day on Kyiv and 17 in May so far, killing two this month, sowing destruction and fear.
Russia&nbsp;has long accused what it calls the "collective West" of staging a proxy war against Moscow by supporting&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;with military and financial aid.
Russia&nbsp;launched a full-scale invasion of&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;in February 2022, devastating cities, forcing millions of people to flee their homes and costing thousands of lives.
Moscow calls the war a "special military operation" to "denazify"&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;and protect&nbsp;Russian speakers. Kyiv and&nbsp;its&nbsp;allies say it is an unprovoked land grab.
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(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Stephen Coates)

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