Ukraine has said there is no “plausible evidence” it launched a drone attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s homes, accusing Russia of making false claims to manipulate the peace process.<\/p>\n
“Almost a day passed and Russia still hasn’t provided any plausible evidence to its accusations of Ukraine’s alleged ‘attack on Putin’s residence.’ And they won’t. Because there’s none. No such attack happened,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
The Kremlin said attempts by Ukraine and Western media to deny the incident were “insane”, and that Russia should not have to provide evidence for the alleged attack as all the drones were shot down.<\/p>\n
It said the alleged attack would toughen Russia’s position on a possible peace deeal.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russia’s claim “a complete fabrication” designed to undermine the peace process.<\/p>\n
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted Ukraine’s denial of the attack – and said that the Western media were playing along with Kyiv.<\/p>\n
He said the attack was aimed at collapsing the negotiations.<\/p>\n
Mr Peskov refused to say where Vladimir Putin was at the time of the attack, saying that in light of recent events such details should not be in the public domain.<\/p>\n
When asked if Russia had physical evidence of the drone attack, he said air defences shot the drones down but that the question of wreckage was for the defence ministry.<\/p>\n
Last night, US President Donald Trump said Mr Putiin had told him that Ukraine tried to attack his residence in northern Russia.<\/p>\n
“I don’t like it. It’s not good,” Mr Trump told reporters when asked if he was worried the allegation could affect his efforts to broker peace.<\/p>\n
“I learned about it from President Putin today. I was very angry about it.<\/p>\n
“It’s a delicate period of time. This is not the right time. It’s one thing to be offensive, because they’re offensive. It’s another thing to attack his house. It’s not the right time to do any of that,” he said.<\/p>\n
When asked if there was any evidence of such an attack, Trump said: “We’ll find out.”<\/p>\n
It comes as European leaders prepare to meet to discuss the situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the talks would convene at 10am Irish time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine has said there is no “plausible evidence” it launched a drone attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-217983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}