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2025-12-30 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin Tells Trump in Phonecall that Ukraine Just Tried to Drone His Residence - Ukraine Denies It

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Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-12-30 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1791 views ] Top

1 Response to Kiev’s attack on Putin’s residence will not be diplomatic – Moscow

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-12-30 06:21|| 2025-12-30 06:21|| Front Page Top

2 Cry me a river, Vlad.

Posted by Frank G 2025-12-30 06:30|| 2025-12-30 06:30|| Front Page Top

3 If Trump says now is not the right time to whack Putin - that implies Trump thinks that there is a right time to do so.

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-12-30 07:06|| 2025-12-30 07:06|| Front Page Top

4 Perfectly good reason why you wouldn't want to "whack" Putin:

Too many Stalinists waiting in the wings.

Posted by badanov 2025-12-30 08:13|| 2025-12-30 08:13|| Front Page Top

5 Vlad, you been shooting at Zelinsky for a couple of years now.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-12-30 08:34|| 2025-12-30 08:34|| Front Page Top

6 Same culprits as Mar-a-Lago ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-12-30 09:12|| 2025-12-30 09:12|| Front Page Top

7 No photos, no video, residents across the lake from the villa don't report anything unusual and the place has more air defenses than their military bases. Don't believe Ukraine actually targeted this.

Methinks that this 'report' has more to do with derailing the peace process.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-12-30 09:51|| 2025-12-30 09:51|| Front Page Top

8 Russia refuses to offer proof of 'Ukrainian attack on Putin's residence' because 'every drone was shot down'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-30 10:50|| 2025-12-30 10:50|| Front Page Top

9 Meanwhile there's a kid nearby crying because a mean guy shot down his brand new drone he got for Christmas and was playing with it...

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-12-30 11:57|| 2025-12-30 11:57|| Front Page Top

10 Russian Orthodox Christmas is January 7th.

Posted by badanov 2025-12-30 14:18|| 2025-12-30 14:18|| Front Page Top

11 I dunno. It sounds like a move the Ukrainians would make. And the best part is there is no down side for them. If they do any damage, even if only some scorched paint, it is a great media victory. If the strike is thwarted, the Ukrainians can claim the Russians made up the whole thing to derail which ever multi-point peace plan is current.

There is an opportunity cost in that those 91 drones cannot be used to cause damage closer to the line of combat.
tl;dr: The fact that they chose PR over battle damage makes me suspect the Ukrainians.

As for No photos, no video, residents across the lake from the villa don't report anything unusual, do you want to be the one posting pix of damage to Darth Putin's dacha on Telegram? State secrets, comrade!

Posted by SteveS 2025-12-30 18:25|| 2025-12-30 18:25|| Front Page Top

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