MOSCOW

Russia said on Thursday it carried out a special technical examination of Ukraine's alleged drone attack on President Vladimir Putin's residence in the Novgorod region and plans to present the results to the US.

The Defense Ministry said in a statement it got the information about the target of the attack from a memory device of one of the drones engaged in the attack.

"During the special technical examination of the navigation system block of one of the Ukrainian drones, which was hit on the night of Dec. 29, 2025, in the airspace of the Novgorod region, Russian special services managed to retrieve a flight assignment file uploaded into its memory," the ministry said.

The decoding of the routing data showed that "the ultimate target of the Ukrainian drone attack on Dec. 29, 2025 was one of the objects of the Russian president's residence in the Novgorod region," the statement added.

"These materials will be sent to the American side through established channels."

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that Kyiv carried out the attack using 91 UAVs on Putin’s state residence in Novgorod on the night of Dec. 29. According to him, all drones were destroyed, and there were no reported casualties or damage from the wreckage.

Ukraine has denied launching the attack and accused Moscow of disrupting peace talks led by the US aimed at ending the nearly four-year war.

Commenting on the incident, US President Donald Trump had said he did not like the news and that it was not good.