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Russia’s Defence Ministry released video footage connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) of what it said was a downed drone astatine a briefing intended to show Ukraine tried this week to onslaught a presidential residence and situation Kyiv’s denials that specified an onslaught took place.
Kyiv says Moscow has produced nary grounds to enactment its allegations and that Russia invented the alleged onslaught to artifact advancement astatine talks connected ending the warfare successful Ukraine. Officials successful respective Western countries have formed uncertainty connected Russia’s mentation of events and questioned whether determination was immoderate attack.
Video footage released by Russia’s Defence Ministry showed a elder officer, Major-General Alexander Romanenkov, mounting retired details of how Moscow says it believes Ukraine attacked 1 of President Vladimir Putin’s residences successful the Novgorod region.
Maj. Gen. Romanenkov said 91 drones had been launched from Ukraine’s Sumy and Chernihiv regions successful a “thoroughly planned” onslaught that helium said was thwarted by Russian aerial defences, caused no harm and injured nary one.
The video released by the Ministry included footage of a Russian serviceman standing adjacent to fragments of a instrumentality which helium said was a downed Ukrainian Chaklun-V drone carrying a six-kilogram explosive instrumentality which had not detonated.
The Ministry did not explicate however it knew what the device’s people was.
Reuters could not corroborate the determination and the day of the footage showing fragments of a destroyed device. The exemplary of the destroyed instrumentality could not be instantly verified.
Other footage featured a man, identified as Igor Bolshakov from a colony successful the Novgorod region, saying helium had heard aerial defence rockets successful action.
Ukraine did not instantly respond to a Reuters petition for remark connected the Russian Defence Ministry’s footage.
