As indicated by the media, US national security officials said on December 31 that Ukraine did not target Putin or one of his residences in recent attacks.
That conclusion is supported by a Central Intelligence Agency assessment that there was no attempted attack on Putin, a U.S. official with knowledge of the intelligence said.
Thus, the United States cast doubt on Moscow’s claims that Ukraine allegedly tried to eliminate Putin, the WSJ emphasized.
The media noted that the disclosure of these findings occurred against the background of US President Donald Trump’s repost of an NYP article that the statement about the “attack” on Putin shows that the Russian Federation is an obstacle to peace.
Context
The alleged attack by Kyiv on a residence in the Novgorod region (officially called “Long Beards”, but better known as “Valdai” – after the name of the city of the same name, 20 km from which it is located) was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov. According to him, “attack” committed on the night of December 29. Edition “GORDON” analyzed this version of the Kremlin and came to the conclusion that it seems like an attempt to justify a lie Putin to Trump.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga indicated that Russia did not provide no convincing evidence their accusations regarding the alleged “attack on Putin’s residence,” since no such attack took place.
On December 29, Trump told reporters that he was “very angry” when Putin told him about the alleged Ukrainian drone attack. He added that American intelligence agencies will find out whether there is evidence of an attack. “Are you saying that perhaps there was no attack? That’s also possible, I think. But President Putin told me this morning that it happened,” Trump said.
On December 30, the head of the Ukrainian state, Vladimir Zelensky, noted that the statement by the Russian authorities about an alleged “Ukrainian attack” on Putin’s residence could appear after a successful conversation about the war in Ukraine by the presidents of the United States and Ukraine.
