By Issy Ronald, Lauren Kent and Jonny Hallam
(NCS) — Ukraine emphatically denied a Russian allegation Monday that a Ukrainian drone attack targeted one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences.
President Donald Trump stated Putin advised him of the alleged attack in a cellphone name early Monday. Trump indicated that he took Putin at his phrase earlier than permitting, in response to a reporter’s query concerning the Ukrainian denial, that the attack might not have occurred.
As a outcome of the alleged attack within the Novgorod area, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who first publicly aired the allegation, stated “Russia’s negotiating position will be revised” within the ongoing peace talks searching for to finish Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov stated no injury or casualties resulted from the incident however that the Russian navy has chosen targets for “retaliatory strikes.”
He seemed to be referring to the closely fortified Valdai presidential residence, which is located on the shores of Lake Valdai in Novgorod Oblast in northwestern Russia. Lavrov didn’t claim that Putin was in Novgorod on the time.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky instantly rejected the claimed drone attack as “a complete fabrication” from Russia.
Zelensky identified that the claim got here a day after he met with Trump for nearly three hours in Florida.
Although the talks didn’t yield a serious breakthrough, the 2 leaders agreed within the newest model of the peace plan that the US would assure Ukrainian safety for 15 years, with an choice to increase these ensures, Zelensky stated earlier Monday.
“Russia is at it again, using dangerous statements to undermine all achievements of our shared diplomatic efforts with President Trump’s team. We keep working together to bring peace closer,” Zelensky posted on X.
“Although the Russians are spreading fakes to justify their strikes on Ukraine and the further prolongation of this war, the world’s key intelligence services must have the real information,” Zelensky added in another X post, following conversations with European leaders in a while Monday.
Lavrov additionally stated Russian air defenses shot down 91 drones. He additionally stated Russia doesn’t intend to withdraw from negotiations on ending the conflict in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha echoed Zelensky’s feedback and urged the world to “condemn the provocative Russian statements aimed at derailing the constructive peace process.”
In a publish on X, Sybiha stated Ukraine strikes solely professional navy targets within the Russian territory. The “fabricated” Russian claims relating to an alleged attack on Putin’s residence had been solely made as a “pretext and false justification for Russia’s further attacks against Ukraine,” he wrote.
Putin knowledgeable Trump concerning the alleged drone attack in a name between the 2 leaders on Monday, and he advised the US president that Russia is reviewing its place on peace negotiations in consequence, in line with Russian state radio, citing a name with Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov.
Ushakov claimed that Trump was “shocked” and “outraged” by the report he obtained from Putin, Russian state radio reported.
Asked concerning the alleged Ukrainian attack forward of a gathering with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump advised reporters Monday, “I don’t like it. It’s not good.”
Trump stated that when Putin advised him concerning the alleged attack, “I was very angry about it.”
“It’s one thing to be offensive because they were offensive. It’s another thing to attack his house. It’s not the right time to do any of that,” Trump stated.
In response to a reporter’s query, Trump added: “You’re saying maybe the attack didn’t take place. It’s possible, too, I guess. But President Putin told me this morning it did.”
Asked if US intelligence businesses had proof of such an attack, Trump stated: “We’ll find out.”
This is a creating story and can be up to date.
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NCS’s Darya Tarasova, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Alayna Treene and Aditi Sangal contributed to this report.