Trump shocked as Putin tells him Ukraine attacked Presidential Residence in Novgorod

MOSCOW: According to reports, US President Donald Trump was shocked when informed that Ukraine had tried to attack President Vladimir Putin’s official residence with several precision drones in the Novgorod region. Russian officials claimed that the drones were destroyed by air defenses and none caused any damage.

It is not known if Putin was in the residence at the ⁠time and the Russian foreign office refused to share details.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told media persons on Monday (December 29, 2025) that Ukraine had tried to attack President Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region and so ​Moscow’s negotiating position would ⁠be reviewed.

“Russia’s position will be reviewed on a number of agreements reached at the previous stage and on the ⁠emerging interchanges,” Yuri ​Ushakov, Kremlin foreign policy aide Ushakov said. “This was stated very clearly.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier said that ​the claim of a Ukrainian attack on Putin’s ⁠residence was “a complete fabrication intended to justify additional attacks against Ukraine, including Kyiv, as well as Russia’s own refusal to take necessary steps to end the war.”

Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday (December 29, 2025) that ‍Russia would review its position in peace negotiations ​after what Moscow said was a Ukrainian drone ‌attack on a Russian presidential ​residence, the Kremlin said.

Ukraine has dismissed Russia’s accusation that 91 drones attacked Putin’s residence in northern Russia as a lie, and has accused Moscow — which has not yet presented evidence to back its assertions — of attempting to undermine peace talks.

​Ushakov, said that ⁠Putin and Trump had spoken on Monday (December 29, 2025) and that Putin had been briefed by Trump and his senior advisers ​about Washington’s negotiations with Ukraine.

“According ⁠to the Americans, during these negotiations the American side aggressively pursued the idea of the need for Kyiv to take real steps ‌towards a final settlement of the conflict, not ‌to hide behind demands for a temporary ceasefire,” Ushakov told reporters on ‍a conference call.

Ushakov said that the Russian side feared that the ideas put forward by Ukraine ‍to the Americans could still be interpreted too broadly by Kyiv.