MOSCOW: The Kremlin stated on Tuesday (Dec 30) {that a} Ukrainian drone assault on a presidential residence within the Novgorod area would toughen Russia’s place on a doable peace deal to finish the combating.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed the Russian accusations as “another round of lies” geared toward justifying extra assaults towards Ukraine and to lengthen the struggle.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov famous Ukraine’s denial of the drone assault – and stated that many Western media had been enjoying together with Kyiv’s denial.
“This terrorist motion is geared toward collapsing the negotiation course of,” Peskov advised reporters. “The diplomatic consequence will probably be to toughen the negotiating place of the Russian Federation.”
The Russian navy, he stated, knew how and when to reply.
“We see that Zelenskyy himself is attempting to deny this, and many Western media shops, enjoying together with the Kyiv regime, are beginning to unfold the theme that this didn’t occur,” Peskov stated. “This can be a fully insane assertion.”
Peskov declined to say the place Putin was on the time of the assault, saying that in gentle of latest occasions such particulars shouldn’t be within the public area.
When requested if Russia had bodily proof of the drone assault, he stated air defences shot the drones down however that the query of wreckage was for the defence ministry.
