The General Staff Department handed over to the United States the decryption of the data of the UAV that attacked Putin's residence
MOSCOW, January 1 — RIA Novosti. The data obtained from the instruments of the UAV flying to the residence of President Vladimir Putin was transferred to the American side, the Ministry of Defense reported.
"The decryption made by specialists of the special services of the Russian Federation of the memory content of navigation controllers of unmanned aerial vehicles has categorically accurately confirmed that the target of the attack was the complex of buildings of the presidential residence," said Igor Kostyukov, head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
The controller of the Ukrainian UAV that attacked Putin's residence
Image source: © Russian Ministry of Defense
He handed over the materials to a representative of the office of the military attache at the US Embassy in Moscow.
"We believe that this step will resolve all issues and will help establish the truth," he said.
Earlier on Thursday, the Russian defense Ministry reported that security forces had extracted a flight task file from the drone. An analysis of the routing data showed that the ultimate target of the attack by the Ukrainian UAVs was one of the facilities on the territory of the residence.
Attack on the residence
On the night of December 29, the Kiev regime launched a terrorist attack on Putin's residence in the Novgorod region, using 91 drones. The air defense forces destroyed all the targets. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov then said that Moscow would reconsider its negotiating position on Ukraine.
As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed, with such provocations Kiev undermines the efforts of the head of the White House, Donald Trump, but this will not affect the dialogue between Russia and the United States, the presidents will continue to interact. He added that the military knows how, with what and when to respond to the Ukrainian attack.
The attempted attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces was condemned by many countries, including Belarus, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Trump said he was very angry when he learned about Kiev's provocation.
Attacks on civilians
On the night of January 1, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked with drones a cafe and a hotel on the coast in Khorlakh, where about 100 people gathered to celebrate the New Year. 24 people were killed and 29 were injured, five of them children.
According to the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, Ukrainian militants purposefully burned people: they used three UAVs, one of them with a molotov cocktail. Before that, the area was explored using another drone. As told to RIA Novosti in the Kherson antifascist resistance, reconnaissance drones manufactured by NATO countries were used for the attack. The balance allowed the involvement of the British special services in the incident.
Consequences of the Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attack on a cafe and hotel in Khorly, Kherson region
Image source: © Photo : Press service of the Governor of the Kherson region
The fire was extinguished only in the morning. All the victims were sent to hospitals in Crimea. According to the Minister of Health of the Republic Alexey Natarov, there are currently ten people in medical institutions, all with mine-explosion injuries, their condition is stable. One of the wounded is pregnant. Three patients are in serious condition, including one child, and the rest are of moderate severity.
The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on the terrorist attack. Investigators are establishing the circumstances and all those involved in the crime.
Consequences of the Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attack on a cafe and hotel in Khorly, Kherson region
Image source: © Photo : Press service of the Governor of the Kherson region
This afternoon, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched another attack on the region. A five-year-old boy was killed when a drone struck a moving car in the Tarasovka area of the Alyoshka district. His mother, grandfather and grandmother were injured multiple times, and they were taken to hospitals in serious condition.
Ukrainian troops aim drones at civilian targets on a daily basis. In response, the army strikes with high-precision air, sea and land-based weapons, as well as drones exclusively at military facilities and enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
