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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said connected Monday (December 29, 2025) that Ukraine had tried to onslaught President Vladimir Putin’s residence successful the Novgorod portion and truthful Moscow’s negotiating presumption would be reviewed.
Mr. Lavrov said that connected December 28-29, Ukraine had attacked the Russian president’s state residence successful the Novgorod portion with 91 long-range drones which were each destroyed by Russian aerial defences.
“Such reckless actions volition not spell unanswered,” Mr. Lavrov said, adding that the onslaught amounted to “state terrorism.”
He said that targets had already been selected for retaliatory strikes by Russia’s equipped forces.
Mr. Lavrov noted that the onslaught took spot during negotiations astir a imaginable Ukrainian bid woody and that portion Russia would not permission the negotiations, Moscow’s presumption volition beryllium reviewed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the accusation was a lie, adding that Moscow was preparing the ground to onslaught authorities buildings successful Kyiv.
It was not instantly wide if Mr. Putin was successful the residence astatine the time.
Putin told Trump that Russia volition reappraisal bid talks stance aft drone onslaught connected residence
Mr. Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump connected Monday (December 29, 2025) that Russia would reappraisal its presumption successful bid negotiations after what Moscow said was a Ukrainian drone attack connected a Russian statesmanlike residence, the Kremlin said.
Ukraine has dismissed Russia’s accusation that 91 drones attacked Putin’s residence successful bluish Russia arsenic a lie, and has accused Moscow — which has not yet presented grounds to backmost its assertions — of attempting to undermine bid talks.
Yuri Ushakov, Kremlin overseas argumentation aide, said that Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump had spoken connected Monday (December 29, 2025) and that Mr. Putin had been briefed by Mr. Trump and his elder advisers about Washington’s negotiations with Ukraine.
“According to the Americans, during these negotiations the American broadside aggressively pursued the thought of the request for Kyiv to instrumentality existent steps towards a last colony of the conflict, not to fell down demands for a impermanent ceasefire,” Mr. Ushakov told reporters connected a league call.
Mr. Ushakov said that the Russian broadside feared that the ideas enactment guardant by Ukraine to the Americans could inactive beryllium interpreted excessively broadly by Kyiv.
Mr. Trump had been shocked erstwhile Putin told him that Ukraine had attacked a statesmanlike residence successful Novgorod, Mr. Ushakov said.
“Russia’s presumption volition beryllium reviewed connected a fig of agreements reached astatine the erstwhile signifier and connected the emerging interchanges,” Mr. Ushakov said. “This was stated precise clearly.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier said that the assertion of a Ukrainian onslaught connected Mr. Putin’s residence was “a implicit fabrication intended to warrant further attacks against Ukraine, including Kyiv, arsenic good arsenic Russia’s ain refusal to instrumentality indispensable steps to extremity the war.”
