St Petersburg, Dec 29 (.) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that that Moscow may have to reconsider its position regarding the peace plan, following Ukrainian military’s attempted attack at the Russian presidential estate in Novgorod on Monday.
Lavrov said that Kyiv fired a barrage of 91 long-range kamikaze drones overnight at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state residence in the Novgorod Region, adding that all enemy ordinances were neutralised by Moscow’s air defence systems.
“All the unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defence systems of Russia’s Armed Forces,” Lavrov confirmed.
The attack came amid “intensive negotiations between Russia and the US,” Lavrov remarked, and stated that Kyiv’s “reckless actions” will not go unanswered.
“We do not intend to withdraw from the negotiation process with the US. However, given the complete degeneration of the criminal Kyiv regime, which has shifted to a policy of state terrorism, Russia’s negotiating position will be revised,” Lavrov stated, though did not provide any additional details regarding the potential shifts in Kremlin’s stance.
The development comes just a day after US President Donald Trump met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at his residence, Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, where the two leaders conducted bilateral talks, with Trump reportedly extending Kyiv 15 years of security guarantees, as per Zelensky. However, it is unclear what these guarantees would entail, given that Trump has ruled out any boots on the ground.
After their meeting concluded, both Trump and Zelensky joined a telephone conversation with European leaders, discussing the security situation. Before meeting Zelensky, Trump said he held a good and very productive phone call with Putin, noting it was friendly and businesslike.
After Monday’s drone barrage, as per Russian claims, Trump was reportedly “shocked and left outraged by Kyiv’s belligerence”, said Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.
“Putin drew his counterpart’s attention to the fact that, practically immediately after what the American side considers a successful negotiating round at Mar-a-Lago, the Kyiv regime launched a terrorist attack, using large-scale long-range drones, on the Russian presidential residence in the Novgorod region.
“We have clearly stated that such reckless terrorist actions will naturally not go unanswered,” Ushakov stated.
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