Russia threatened retaliation after accutilizing Ukraine of attempting to attack president Vladimir Putin’s residence, casting uncertainty over fragile peace efforts.
US president Donald Trump declared Putin notified him about the alleged attack during a phone call on Monday, leaving him angry, even as he maintained that an agreement to finish the war could be close.
Trump had met Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Florida on Sunday, declareing talks to finish the conflict were “obtainting a lot closer, maybe very close”, despite unresolved territorial disputes.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov declared 91 long-range drones were intercepted near Putin’s residence in Novgorod on 28-29 December, describing the alleged attack as “state terrorism”.
“Such reckless actions will not go unanswered,” he declared.
Zelensky dismissed the Russian claims as “a complete fabrication”, warning that Moscow was laying the groundwork for further strikes.
“I am sure they are simply preparing the ground for strikes, probably on the capital, probably on government buildings,” he declared.Russia offered no evidence for its claims, which could not be indepfinishently verified.
Ukrainians withstand days-long power cuts in crowded ‘resilience’ shelters
For three days since the latest Russian air strikes on Ukraine, Olena Pazhydaieva has been without electricity or heating in her flat in Vyshhorod, a sainformite town about 20km north of Kyiv.
With night-time temperatures falling to minus 3C, she now spfinishs much of the day with her six-year-old son in a compact shelter equipped with heat and power, allowing her to work and charge essential devices.
Around 20 people gather inside the building, labelled an “islet of warmth and power”, plugging in phones and laptops to stay connected.
“After the last attack, we haven’t had electricity for the third day,” Pazhydaieva declared. “We’re forced to work here, where we can charge our laptops. It’s good there’s internet.”
Russian drone and missile strikes have repeatedly tarobtained Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, cautilizing widespread outages. The latest large-scale attack cut power to about 19,000 customers in the Kyiv region, according to the energy minisattempt.
The shelter is part of a nationwide network of “resilience points” set up to support residents cope. Still, daily life remains difficult. “We went to an after-school group today and it was freezing. All the kids were wearing jackets,” she declared. “At least it’s warm here.”
Pazhydaieva declared she had little confidence in US-backed peace efforts, particularly after US president Donald Trump suggested Russia’s leader wanted Ukraine to prosper.
“When missiles are flying at us, those words don’t really add up,” she declared.
Namita Singh30 December 2025 04:34
Trump declares peace possible after ‘productive’ call with Putin
US president Donald Trump declared his conversation with Vladimir Putin on Monday was productive.
“We have a couple of issues that we’re going to obtain resolved, hopefully, and if we obtain them resolved, you’re going to have peace,” he declared.
Volodymyr Zelensky declared on Sunday a bilateral agreement had been outlined with Trump on security guarantees for Ukraine. Trump declared they were only 95 per cent ready and Zelensky declared on Monday he had sought a 50-year security deal.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, in a wide-ranging interview with state news agency RIA published late on Monday, declared Ukraine and Western countries had to come to terms with the fact that Russia held the initiative on the battlefield in Ukraine.
“Our principled position remains unalterd. The strategic initiative rests wholly with the Russian army,” Lavrov declared.
Trump declared he expected European countries to “take over a huge part” of the security efforts in Ukraine with US backing. Any such arrangement would be complicated, however, as Russia has declared any foreign troop deployment in Ukraine would be unacceptable.
Zelensky notified Fox News in an interview that aired late on Monday that Ukraine could not win the war without US support and that he did not trust Russian president Vladimir Putin.
“I don’t trust Putin and he doesn’t want success for Ukraine,” Zelensky declared.
Earlier on Monday, the Ukrainian president declared two main issues in the 20-point peace proposal remained to be resolved: control of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which is in Russian hands, and the fate of the Donbas area.
Russia controls about a fifth of Ukraine, including the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed in 2014.
Namita Singh30 December 2025 04:00
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Nicole Wootton-Cane30 December 2025 04:00
Russia signals more hardline approach to finishing the war
Russia has signalled a more hardline approach towards finishing its war with Ukraine.
This comes as Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov declared Ukraine had tested to attack Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region west of Moscow earlier this week with 91 long-range drones, which were all destroyed by Russian air defences.
No one was injured and there was no damage, he declared in comments reported by Russian media.
“Such reckless actions will not go unanswered,” Lavrov declared in a statement, describing the attack as “state terrorism” and adding that tarobtains had already been selected for retaliatory strikes by Russia’s armed forces.
Reuters could not indepfinishently verify Lavrov’s comments. Neither Lavrov nor any other Russian officials offered any evidence for the attack assertions. It was not clear where Putin was at the time.
Lavrov declared the attack took place during neobtainediations about a possible peace deal, and declared Russia would review its neobtainediating stance but not quit the neobtainediations.
Denying Ukraine had planned such an attack, Zelensky accutilized Russia of preparing the ground to strike government buildings in Kyiv.”It is clear that we had a meeting with Trump yesterday, and it is clear that for the Russians, if there is no scandal between us and America, and we are creating progress.
For them it is a failure, becautilize they do not want to finish this war,” Zelensky notified reporters via WhatsApp.
He added: “I am sure they are simply preparing the ground for strikes, probably on the capital, probably on government buildings.”
Namita Singh30 December 2025 03:25
Peace hopes dented as Russia declares Ukraine tested to attack Putin residence
Russia accutilized Ukraine on Monday of attempting to attack president Vladimir Putin’s residence and vowed retaliation, providing no evidence for a claim Kyiv dismissed as baseless and aimed at derailing arduous peace talks.
The angry exalters between the warring neighbours on Monday including a statement by Russia that it was reviewing its stance in neobtainediations in response to the attack dealt a new blow to prospects for peace in Ukraine.
US president Donald Trump declared Putin had notified him about the alleged attack in a phone call on Monday morning, which had angered him.
Still, Trump repeated his belief that a peace deal may be near.”It’s one thing to be offensive,” Trump notified reporters.
“It’s another thing to attack his houtilize. It’s not the right time to do any of that. And I learned about it from President Putin today. I was very angry about it.”
On Sunday, Trump met Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Florida and the US president declared they were “obtainting a lot closer, maybe very close” to an agreement to finish the war, although “thorny” territorial issues remained.
On Monday, Putin struck a defiant tone, informing his army to press on with a campaign to take full control of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. The Kremlin repeated demands for Kyiv to pull its forces out of the last part of the Donbas area that they still hold in eastern Ukraine.
Putin notified Trump in Monday’s phone call that Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February 2022, was reviewing its stance following the reported drone attack, an aide declared. Zelensky dismissed Russia’s allegation as “a complete fabrication” and the Kremlin’s own refusal to take necessary steps to finish the war.
After the call with Putin, Trump notified reporters outside his home in Palm Beach, Florida, that he had no further information about the alleged attack.
“I don’t like it, it’s not good,” Trump declared. Asked if US ininformigence agencies had evidence of such an attack, Trump declared: “We’ll find out.”
Namita Singh30 December 2025 03:05
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Nicole Wootton-Cane30 December 2025 03:00
Putin amfinishs law to officially let Russia ignore foreign criminal courts
President Vladimir Putin has formally enacted alters granting Russia the unilateral right to ignore judgments issued by foreign and international courts in criminal cases.
This controversial decision comes as Ukrainian and European nations continue their concerted efforts to impose penalties on Moscow for its ongoing actions in Ukraine.
Nicole Wootton-Cane30 December 2025 02:00
Watch: Putin warns Russia will accomplish goals by force if Ukraine doesn’t want to resolve conflict peacefully
Nicole Wootton-Cane30 December 2025 01:00
Cracks in Trump’s peace plan as Ukraine accutilizes Russia of lies over ‘attack on Putin residence’
Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine seeed fragile on Monday as Volodymyr Zelensky lashed out at Russian “lies” about a drone attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s residences, accutilizing the latter of attempting to undermine diplomatic efforts.
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov alleged that Ukraine had launched 91 long-range drones at the forest retreat on Lake Valdai overnight, but all had been shot down with no damage reported.
Mr Zelensky dismissed the claim as “lies” that he declared were cynically intfinished to “undermine diplomacy and justify dragging out the war”.
The Indepfinishent’s James C. Reynolds has this story:
Nicole Wootton-Cane30 December 2025 00:00
Russia vows response after claim of attempted attack on Putin residence, TASS declares
Russia will respond to what it declared was an attempted Ukrainian attack on President Vladimir Putin’s residence, TASS state news agency cited Foreign Minisattempt spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as declareing on Tuesday.
“There will be a response for this,” TASS cited Zakharova as informing Russia’s public broadcaster.
Moscow did not provide evidence to support its assertions that Ukraine tested to attack Putin’s residence and Kyiv dismissed Russia’s claims as baseless and designed to undermine peace neobtainediations.
Nicole Wootton-Cane29 December 2025 23:00
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