Russia hands over evidence of Ukrainian attack on Putin's residence

A senior Russian military commander on Thursday handed over to a U.S. military attaché a portion of a Ukrainian drone that he said contained data proving that the Ukrainian military attacked the Russian presidential residence this week.

Moscow on Monday accused Kiev of trying to attack President Vladimir Putin's residence in the northern Russian region of Novgorod with 91 long-range attack drones. It said Russia would reconsider its negotiating position in the ongoing talks with the U.S. on ending the war in Ukraine.

A video posted on the Russian Defense Ministry's Telegram channel showed Admiral Igor Kostyukov, head of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff's main directorate, handing over what he described as the drone's control mechanism found among the collapsed debris to a U.S. attaché.

"The decryption of the contents of the memory of the drone's navigation controller, which was carried out by specialists of the Russian special services, confirms without a doubt that the target of the attack was the complex of buildings of the Russian president's residence in the Novgorod region," Kostyukov said.

(reuters, ed.)