Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Ukraine had tried to attack Vladimir Putin's residence in northern Russia and so Moscow's negotiating position would be reviewed, but Ukraine said it was a lie.
Russia said Ukraine attacked the presidential residence in the Novgorod region overnight with 91 long-range drones, which were all destroyed by Russian air defences. No one was injured and there was no damage, Lavrov said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the accusation was a lie, adding that Moscow was preparing the ground to strike government buildings in Kyiv. He said the Russian claim was an attempt to undermine peace talks.
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Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 85 pts · 269d
I don’t think anyone would care if they did
MisterOwl@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 269d
3 cheers for Ukraine if they're sending bombs at pooty poot. Fuck Russia.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 14 pts · 269d
Hell, even just his $1,400,000,000 house would be a great target. Hit him in the retirement, old white dudes in suits hate that.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 269d
It's just a (not so thinly veiled) attempt to change their position at the bargaining table. If Ukraine can hit specific points and minimize civilian casualties (something that Russia doesn't seem to care about), they should.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 269d
Trump might throw a hissy fit
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 268d
Maybe that'll trigger a massive stroke that'd do the whole world a favor.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 6 pts · 269d
I would celebrate that, actually.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 5 pts · 268d
That's not true. It would be a nice end of the year thing.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 269d
And? You wanted war? Well here you go fuck boy, don't be crying all over the place complaining after just attacking them on Saturday.
Pooosssssssssssyyyyy
nogooduser@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 269d
There have been stories of assassination attempts on Zelenskyy since the start. There’s no way he would have survived had the three day target been met.
NimdaQA@lemmy.ml · -19 pts · 269d
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 269d
Lukashenko claimed it would only take 3-4 days to take over Ukraine.
https://youtu.be/V1FbxvnsUeI
NimdaQA@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 269d
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 268d
And that's evidence of nothing but that military planning always includes contingency.
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
Sure, he's not an official, but he a good friend of Putin and surely he got that information from somewhere. And I don't think most people care if Putin was actually the one to claim it would take 3 days. It's not that important in the grand scheme of things.
But I appreciate that you try to be factual. It's more than you can say about the Russian Government who lied and called the invasion of Ukraine a "special military operation" and as far as I know they still won't admit that it's an invasion.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 268d
That would involve actually presenting some facts, rather than a tendentious inference.
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 269d
Referring to that as a dismissal is some .ml level mental gymnastics.
NimdaQA@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 269d
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 269d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FbxvnsUeI
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-eu-barroso-ukraine-kyiv-sanctions-nato/26561609.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/xzkbvq/3_days_to_kyiv/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
I'm sure the foot soldiers went by the book because having your head stuck up your ass doesn't make a great winning strategy, something they soon discovered after trying to march directly into Kiev failed dramatically. That documentation does nothing to prove anything except that training does as training trains. The folly that killed Prigozhin for the benefit of the yes men in the army is alive and well in Russia.
NimdaQA@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 269d
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 269d
Yet, you make them look like the better reference in comparison.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 269d
"you're lying, but thanks for the idea" - Kyiv
CareHare@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 269d
Playing the victim while punching the other guy in the groin. Fucking russian losers.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 26 pts · 269d
Now do it for real, they already said you've done it anyway.
Lexam@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 269d
Why would they not attack his residence?
perestroika@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 269d
It doesn't burn as well as oil refineries, has only symbolic value and is likely 10 x better protected than an average strategic industrial site.
However, sending one or two drones irregularly - with no hope of arrival, just to keep the air defense launchers stationed there - that would make sense.
northernlights@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 269d
That might be quite the hit for his image though. "Dude can't even protect his own house why is he in charge again?"
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 269d
So what if they did attack Putin's house? They are at war, after all
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 269d
Putin trump and Netanyahu need to die and make the world a better place
Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 269d
Add all our "leader" which are professional politicians to the lot.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 269d
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c157w754kqnt
Putin is targeting civilians.
Only fair that Ukraine targets Putin.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 269d
Kyiv should make it clear that they want Putin in charge because he fucks up the Russian war effort so consistently.
Triumph@fedia.io · 6 pts · 269d
"Yeah, there was an attack, but it goes to another high school, you wouldn't know it."
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 269d
And...as always, trump simps for Putin. Amazing.
mtpender@piefed.social · 5 pts · 269d
Cry some more, Putler.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 268d
You know how to know Russia is lying‽
Sepia@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 268d
‘Putin Told Me’ – Trump’s Trust Test as Russia Revives Familiar Playbook -- (Web archive link)
As an addition: In related news, Putin Orders New Offensives against Ukraine After Trump Said Russia Wants Peace
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 268d
"Trump's Trust Test."
Anyone who trusts Trump is a fool. So it's more a fool test than a trust test.
Rothe@piefed.social · 2 pts · 269d
I hope they did. It obviously made the spineless coward scared. A shame they didn't manage to kill him though.
perestroika@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 269d
In year 2025, a foreign minister looking slightly like a horse makes a claim without video evidence.
I will first believe that a two-humped camel has been sighted in the forests of occupied Donbas. At least the video showed a camel and a forest, even if I don't know if it was Donbas. :)