In a high-stakes act of strategic desperation, Britain’s client-state Ukraine launched a mass drone attack last night (Dec. 28-29) on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence near Valdai, following on or possibly even overlapping with acting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago Monday night, Dec. 29. To understand the enormity of the action, consider what would happen if some nation launched a drone attack on Camp David. Zelenskyy 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 Russia would hit Ukraine in response.
Responsibility for such rashness lies with Great Britain and its European and U.S. co-thinkers that cannot tolerate a lasting settlement to the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Their entire strategy is now 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, Dec. 29, 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) on the state residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Novgorod Region,” he reported. “All 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: “Notably, the attack was carried out during the intensive talks to settle the Ukrainian conflict between Russia and the U.S. … Such reckless actions will not go unanswered,” he asserted, reporting that the targets for retaliatory strikes and their timing have already been determined, without giving any details.
“Despite this attack, we have no intention to withdraw from the negotiations with the U.S.,” he declared, adding, “However, given the utmost degeneration of the criminal Kiev regime, which has shifted to a policy of state terrorism, Russia’s negotiating position will be reviewed.” He did not elaborate how.
Zelenskyy spent the day denying that his military services would ever do such a thing, and demanding, “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.”
Zelenskyy 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 Alexander Stubb; [Germany’s Friedrich Merz](https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/prezident-obgovoriv-iz-kanclerom-nimechchini-rezultati-zustr-102241—"Thank you, Friedrich, for your advice and for the constant coordination"; and the President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs. Zelenskyy’s line was: “Ukraine does not take steps that can undermine diplomacy. To the contrary, Russia always takes such steps. … It is critical that the world doesn’t stay silent now. We cannot allow Russia to undermine the work on achieving a lasting peace.”
