Published: Dec 31, 2025, 17:52 IST | Updated: Dec 31, 2025, 17:52 IST
Moscow claims Ukraine launched a swarm of drones toward one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official residences in the Novgorod region. A strike Moscow says targeted the very centre of Russian power. Kyiv dismisses the entire episode as fiction while Moscow calls it terrorism. As the accusations intensify, rhetoric is hardening, and the risk of greater escalation is moving dangerously closer.