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RussiaThe Defense Department on Wednesday released video footage of what it said was a downed drone during a briefing intended to show Ukraine attempted to attack a presidential residence this week and a challenge kyiv denies such attack took place.
kyiv claims that Moscow has produced no evidence to support its allegations and that Russia fabricated the alleged attack to block progress in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Officials from several Western countries have cast doubt on the Russian version of events. and wondered if there had been an attack.
Video footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry shows a senior officer, Major General Alexander Romanenkov, detailing how Moscow says it believes Ukraine attacked one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences in the Novgorod region.
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Romanenkov said 91 drones were launched from Ukraine’s Sumy and Chernihiv regions in a “carefully planned” attack that he said was thwarted by Russian air defenses, caused no damage and injured no one.
The video released by the ministry included footage of a Russian serviceman standing next to fragments of a device he said was a downed Ukrainian Chaklun-V drone, carrying a 6 kg explosive device that had not detonated.
The ministry did not explain how it knew what the target of the device was.
Speaking to Reuters, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said the images were “laughable” and that kyiv was “absolutely convinced that no such attack took place.”
Reuters could not confirm the location or date of images showing fragments of a destroyed aircraft. The model of the destroyed device could not immediately be verified.
Other footage showed a man, identified as Igor Bolshakov, from a village in the Novgorod region, claiming to have heard air defense rockets in action.
