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 "locationNote": "lat/lon are the dossier's own approximate coordinates (see locationPrecision) and are empty when the incident location is unknown. referencePoint {lat, lon, level, name} is a display reference only: a fixed point in the named city (GeoNames), region (its administrative seat), sea or country (Natural Earth label point), derived at build time. It is not a geolocation, not an estimate of the incident location and may change when the dossier's place becomes more precise: reference point; incident location unknown.",
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  "note": "Citable weekly snapshot (CSV + JSON) archived on Zenodo; this DOI always resolves to the latest version."
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  "title": "Kremlin drone incident reported; Ukraine denies involvement",
  "place": "Moscow",
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  "summary": "Russia alleged a drone attack at the Kremlin on 3 May 2023. Ukraine denied involvement. The operator remains unestablished.",
  "impact": "The Moscow Times described apparent roof burn marks in later photographs; the damage extent is unverified here.",
  "evidence": "Two newsrooms report the incident, sharing Russian allegations and Ukrainian denials. Semafor could not verify the circulating videos or their recording day.",
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  "attribution": "Russia accused Ukraine; Ukraine denied involvement. No assassination attempt or false-flag explanation is established here.",
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    "quote": "didn’t attack Putin",
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   "note": "Only published archive records with an editorial entity mapping; unassigned records excluded. Not all real-world incidents or a common cause. No same-day matching."
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   "note": "Official aggregate claims, not independently verified kills. Parts are included only when explicitly sourced and sum to the reported total. Catalogue countermeasures are not incident evidence.",
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  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/kremlin-drone-incident-2023-05-03/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Kremlin drone incident reported; Ukraine denies involvement”, dossier kremlin-drone-incident-2023-05-03, revision 1, updated 2026-10-17. https://droneincidents.com/incident/kremlin-drone-incident-2023-05-03/",
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    "note": "Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line."
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