St Petersburg/Kyiv, Dec 29 (.) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday said that Ukraine fired a barrage of 91 long-range kamikaze drones overnight at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state residence in the Novgorod Region. He said that Moscow may have to reconsider its position regarding the peace plan following Kyiv’s drone attack.
“All the unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defence systems of Russia’s Armed Forces,” Lavrov said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the Kremlin’s claims as “another lie”.
Zelensky has accused Russia of trying to sabotage the ongoing peace negotiations by its allegedly fabricated claims of an attempted military attack by Kyiv on the Russian presidential estate in St Petersburg, claiming that Moscow was preparing to bomb government buildings by using this claim as a pretext for justifying its aggression.
Zelensky said he was “expecting” some kind of scandal to unfold following the conclusion of his two-hour meeting on Sunday with US President Donald Trump in Florida, where he said that some tangible “progress” had been made towards ending the three-year-long war.
“They do not want to finish this war,” the Ukrainian leader said, accusing Moscow of planning attacks on government complexes in Kyiv, alleging that a Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital was now increasingly probable, similar to a September bombing of the cabinet ministers’ building in central Kyiv.
Monday’s drone 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.
Earlier Zelensky said that Washington, as part of the 20-point peace proposal had offered Kyiv “strong” security guarantees for 15 years, though the question of the eastern Donbas region – currently under Russian control – was left unresolved after concluding talks with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
Zelensky, speaking to European press, added, “We would really like the guarantees to be longer. I told him (Trump) that we would like to consider guarantees for 30, 40, or even 50 years, and that would be a historic decision by President Trump. The president said he would think about it.”
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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