“The US National Security Agency has concluded that Ukraine did not attempt to attack the residence of Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, denying Moscow’s claims of an alleged assassination attempt.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: The Wall Street Journal with reference to American high-ranking officials
Details: This conclusion is confirmed by the assessment of the US Central Intelligence Agency, which also did not reveal any signs of preparations for an attack on Putin. The CIA refused to make official comments, but an American official familiar with the intelligence confirmed this information to reporters.
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Verbatim from the WSJ: “Ukraine tried to strike a military target that Kyiv had previously attacked. It is located in the same region as Putin’s country residence, but not near it, the American official said.”
Details: US President Donald Trump has also publicly expressed doubt about Russian claims of drone strikes. In the social network Truth Social he shared a link to the editorial New York Post with the headline: “Putin’s false statements about the “attack” show that it is Russia that stands in the way of peace.”
Literally from the NYP: “Just think, Putin, who has been waging a brutal war for almost four years, believes that any violence in his vicinity deserves special indignation.
On Christmas Day alone, Russia launched 131 drones over Kyiv and other cities, killing seven civilians. The Kremlin is purposefully hitting residential buildings and power plants. Russians kidnap children. They torture and execute prisoners. Moscow has repeatedly tried to kill Zelenskyi. Any attack on Putin is more than justified.
But the truth is that there was most likely no drone strike at all. Peskov admitted that the Russians could not provide any evidence and urged the press to “take the Kremlin at its word”.
Details: On Monday, December 29, during a telephone conversation, Putin complained to Trump that Ukrainian drones allegedly attacked his Uzhyn residence in the village of Dovgi Borody in the Novgorod region.
Later, during a conversation with reporters, Trump admitted that the attack might not have happened.
“You say there was no attack – that’s possible, but President Putin told me this morning that there was,” Trump said.
Prehistory:
- Two days after Putin’s statement about the alleged attack of Ukrainian drones on his residence, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a fake map of the movement of Ukrainian drones. In the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine named the factswhich indicate the unreliability of the Russian Federation’s claims.
- Previously, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Serhii Lavrov statedthat Ukraine allegedly struck Putin’s residence on the night of December 29, as a result of which “the negotiating position will be revised.”
- Note that Ukraine officially denied this information.
- “Another lie of the Russian Federation. It is clear that yesterday we had a meeting with Trump and it is clear that for the Russians, if we do not have a scandal with America, and we have progress, then for them it is a failure. They do not want to end this war. They are able to end it only because of pressure on them,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on this statement.