said in their 2024 report.<\/a><\/p>\nPantsir-S1 systems are designed to combat short-range cruise missiles and drones.<\/p>\n
Other “unidentified” military technologies have also been seen on the property via satellite.<\/p>\n
They noted such coverage was “meaningless at scale” because it allowed Ukrainian drones to “bypass Russian air defence coverage and strike from uncovered directions”.<\/p>\n
It was these systems that Mr Lavrov claimed destroyed the missiles allegedly fired by Ukraine at the residence.<\/p>\n
He did not state whether Mr Putin was in Novgorod at the time.<\/p>\n
Peter Dickinson is the editor of the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert and the publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines.<\/p>\n
“There was no suggestion that there was any major damage, but the idea was that Ukraine had \u2026 essentially tried to kill Putin,” he told ABC News Radio.<\/p>\n
“This is the narrative. There is no evidence at all for this. They’ve provided none.<\/p>\n
“But broadly speaking it doesn’t make any sense [because] he is known to concentrate air defences around his residences.<\/p>\n
“So they are probably the most heavily protected spaces in Russia.<\/p>\n
“You’re not going to get many drones through.<\/p>\n
“And even if you did, these are big, sprawling estates, so the chances of hitting one person there, and knowing where he is, are almost zero.”<\/p>\n
Attacking Putin’s would-be home ‘strategically and politically stupid’<\/p>\n
The idea of Ukraine targeting Mr Putin’s properties, according to defence analyst Malcolm Davis from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, was “technically” possible.<\/p>\n
“They’ve got the means to do so,” Dr Davis said.<\/p>\n
“But it would be strategically and politically stupid to do so because in doing so they would scupper any good will they’ve built up with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
“[Attacking his home] would play into Putin’s hands.<\/p>\n
“Putin would then be able to use that attack to justify escalation towards Ukraine in terms of attacking government buildings.<\/p>\n
“And indeed that’s exactly Putin is now suggesting will happen.”<\/p>\n
Mr Putin informed US President Donald Trump of the alleged attack in a call on Monday local time, according to Russian state media.<\/p>\n
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Russian President Vladimir Putin.l (Reuters: Kremlin.ru)<\/p>\n
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov claimed Mr Trump was “shocked” and “outraged” by the news.<\/p>\n
Dr Davis suggested going public with the accusations was likely “Russia trying to sabotage the peace process”.<\/p>\n
“When you look at what Russia’s response has been to the peace process, it’s been to continue attacks on Ukraine,” he said.<\/p>\n
“As the negotiations were occurring at Mar-a-Lago between Zelenskyy and Trump, Russia was attacking Kyiv over a 10-hour period with missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n
“So it does indicate to everyone that Putin is not interested in peace.”<\/p>\n
The sprawling and secretive properties of Vladimir Putin<\/p>\n
Putin’s other residence, the suburban property of Novo-Ogaryovo west of Moscow, was allegedly also targeted by drones in May.<\/p>\n
According to the ISW, independent Russian outlets claimed Ukrainian drone strikes had “predominantly targeted areas near [Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo residence] and other elite neighbourhoods” in Moscow.<\/p>\n
Satellite images of the secluded property in 2021 showed a private helicopter landing pad, greenhouse, and church.<\/p>\n
A 6-metre-high wall runs the perimeter of Mr Putin’s residence.<\/p>\n
The property became the source of some conspiracy in November, when a report by independent outlet RadioFreeEurope\/RadioLiberty’s Russian investigation team suggested Mr Putin was hiding his location.<\/p>\n
Their investigation claimed three “nearly identical” offices had been built \u2014 one in Novo-Ogaryovo, one in Valdai, and one in Sochi, on the Black Sea coast.<\/p>\n
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The Novo-Ogaryovo state residence is used as a frequent background for meetings and public statements. (Sputnik: Gavriil Grigorov via Reuters)<\/p>\n
Slight differences in the placement of the door handles, the panelling on the walls and the colour of the desks pointed to Mr Putin not being at his Novo-Ogaryovo home, despite claiming to be.<\/p>\n
The Sochi property was allegedly Bocharov Ruchei, the presidential summer residence.<\/p>\n
Russian independent investigative outlet Proekt reported that property’s main building was demolished in early 2024.<\/p>\n
Fears of a drone attack, they alleged, had largely kept Mr Putin away from the property since March of last year.<\/p>\n
Trump ‘very angry’ about alleged attack<\/p>\n
Asked about the alleged attack, Mr Trump told media it was “not good”.<\/p>\n
“I was very angry about it,” he said, adding he would “find out” whether there was any evidence to support the attack.<\/p>\n
In Europe, Dr Davis said, most believed the attack was a “false flag” by Russia.<\/p>\n
“I think virtually everyone in Europe is on Ukraine’s side in this regard,” he said.<\/p>\n
“They do not accept Putin’s claim that these attacks actually happened.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Russian strikes on Ukraine have been steadily increasing in the last several months.<\/p>\n
Mr Dickinson, who spoke to the ABC from Kyiv, said attacks were “almost nightly”.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of drones swarm Ukraine nightly. Soon there could be thousands<\/a><\/p>\nUkraine is struggling to defend against growing Russian drone and missile attacks.<\/p>\n
“[Big attacks] usually involve hundreds of drones, perhaps as many as 500 drones,” he said.<\/p>\n
“And it’s worth underlining here, we’re not talking about little handheld gadgets.<\/p>\n
“We’re talking about massive, three or four-metre wide, jet-propelled \u2026 flying bombs, essentially. Flying torpedoes.<\/p>\n
“If you live in a high-rise building, then you’ve really got to think: ‘Do I go down to the basement [or the] metro station for the night or not?’<\/p>\n
“It’s extremely dangerous. It’s scary and it’s very, very disruptive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ukrainian drone strike on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s home would be “technically” possible but strategically “stupid”, experts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2490,204993,43,45052,44,41,39,42,40,2446,2011,55740],"class_list":["post-380861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-drone-strike","tag-headlines","tag-invasion","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}