By Vinay Shukla:
MOSCOW, Dec 30 (PTI)
RUSSIA on Monday claimed that
91 long-range Ukrainian drones
attempted to attack President
Vladimir Putin’s country residence in Novgorod region, north
of Moscow.
In a televised statement,
Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov said
that the drone
attack in the intervening night of
Sunday and Monday failed to
cause any damage as the drones
were downed.
He, however, warned that
Russia reserves the right to
respond at an
appropriate time.
Lavrov described
the Ukrainian
attacks as an
attempt to derail peace talks by
Kyiv and its allies. He added that
Moscow will change its stance on
peace talks with Ukraine, but
peace negotiations will continue with the team of United States
President Donald Trump.
“Put in told Trump about the
attack on the presidential residence in a phone call the two
leaders had on Monday.
President Trump was shocked,”
the Kremlin foreign policy aide
Yury Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russian TV channels.