In a high-stakes act of strategic desperation, Britain’s client state, Ukraine, launched a mass drone attack last night on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence near Valdai, following on or possibly even overlapping with acting President Zelensky’s meeting with President Trump in Mar a Lago Monday night. To understand the enormity of the action, consider what would happen if some nation launched a drone attack on Camp David. Zelensky immediately issued a disclaimer, denying responsibility for the attack, and launched a campaign demanding that the United States and Europe take action against Russia, because it claimed they would hit Ukraine in response.
Responsibility for such rashness lies with Great Britain and its European and U.S. co-thinkers who cannot tolerate a lasting settlement to the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Their entire strategy now is pivoted around driving Europe into war against Russia; should the U.S. and Russia work out terms to end NATO’s Ukraine war against Russia, the entire British political-military-economy strategy would collapse. This latest desperado action may backfire, however, given President Trump’s angry response, holding Ukraine responsible.
This morning, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a statement on the attack and Russia’s response. “On the night of December 28-29, the Kiev regime launched a terrorist attack using 91 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) against the state residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Novgorod region,” he reported. “All of the UAVs were destroyed by the air defense systems of the Russian Armed Forces,” with no casualties or damage from drone debris reported.
Lavrov emphasized that “this action was carried out during intensive negotiations between Russia and the United States on settling the Ukrainian conflict…. Such reckless actions will not go unanswered,” he stated, reporting that the targets for retaliatory strikes and their timing has already been determined, without giving any details.
“Despite this attack, we have no intention of withdrawing from the negotiation process with the United States,” he said, but given that “the criminal Kiev regime has resorted to a policy of state terrorism, Russia’s negotiating position will be revised.” He did not elaborate how.
Zelensky spent the day denying that his military services would ever do such a thing, and demanding that “President Trump, his team, and the Europeans should intervene and do the necessary work with those people [i.e. Russia] who just yesterday said that they truly want to end the war.”
Zelensky then got on the phone with at least three NATO members’ heads of State in Europe, to get them to agree to do said “necessary work” against Russia. He reported on his X account on his conversations with Finland’s Stubb, Germany’s Merz ("Thank you, Friedrich, for your advice and for the constant coordination"), and the President of Latvia, Rinkēvičs. Zelensky’s line: “Ukraine does not take steps that could weaken diplomacy. Russia always takes such steps…. It is important for the world not to remain silent right now and for the Russians not to derail the movement toward peace.”
