{"id":211101,"date":"2026-01-01T05:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211101\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:13:10","slug":"russia-releases-video-footage-to-challenge-kyiv-over-alleged-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211101\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia releases video footage to challenge Kyiv over alleged attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KYIV,<\/p>\n

\nUkrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi.
\nPhoto: Ruslan Kaniuka \/ NurPhoto via AFP\n<\/p>\n

Russia’s defence ministry has released video footage of what it says was a downed drone at a briefing intended to show Ukraine tried this week to attack a presidential residence and challenge Kyiv’s denials that such an attack took place.<\/p>\n

Kyiv says Moscow has produced no evidence to support its allegations and that Russia invented the alleged attack to block progress at talks on ending the war in Ukraine<\/a>. Officials in several Western countries have cast doubt on Russia’s version of events and questioned whether there was any attack.<\/p>\n

Video footage released by Russia’s defence ministry on Wednesday (local time) showed a senior officer, Major-General Alexander Romanenkov, setting out details of how Moscow says it believes Ukraine attacked one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences in the Novgorod region.<\/p>\n

Romanenkov said 91 drones had been launched from Ukraine’s Sumy and Chernihiv regions in a “thoroughly planned” attack that he said was thwarted by Russian air defences, caused no damage and injured no one.<\/p>\n

The video released by the ministry included footage of a Russian serviceman standing next to fragments of a device which he said was a downed Ukrainian Chaklun-V drone carrying a 6kg explosive device which had not detonated.<\/p>\n

The ministry did not explain how it knew what the device’s target was.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Reuters, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said the footage was “laughable” and that Kyiv was “absolutely confident that no such attack took place”.<\/p>\n

Reuters could not confirm the location and the date of the footage showing fragments of a destroyed device. The model of the destroyed device could not be immediately verified.<\/p>\n

Other footage featured a man, identified as Igor Bolshakov from a village in the Novgorod region, saying he had heard air defence rockets in action.<\/p>\n

– Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi. Photo: Ruslan Kaniuka \/ NurPhoto via AFP Russia’s defence ministry has released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-211101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}