A senior Russian military official on Thursday handed what he claimed was part of a Ukrainian drone to a US military attache, saying it contained data showing that the Ukrainian military had targeted a Russian presidential residence earlier this week
A senior Russian military official on Thursday handed what he claimed was part of a Ukrainian drone to a US military attache, saying it contained data showing that the Ukrainian military had targeted a Russian presidential residence earlier this week.
Moscow had accused Kyiv on Monday of attempting to strike a residence of President Vladimir Putin in the northern Novgorod region using 91 long-range attack drones.
Russia said the incident would prompt a review of its negotiating stance in ongoing talks with the US on ending the war in Ukraine.
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Ukraine and Western officials have disputed Russia’s account of the alleged strike.
A video posted on the Russian Defence Ministry’s Telegram channel showed Admiral Igor Kostyukov, head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces, handing over what he described as the drone’s control mechanism, recovered from downed fragments.
“The decryption of the content of the memory of the navigation controller of the drones carried out by specialists of Russia’s special services confirms without question that the target of the attack was the complex of buildings of the Russian president’s