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NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump said on December 29 that he was very angry with Ukraine when Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that a swarm of Ukranian drones had allegedly targeted one of his residences. However, Kyiv denied the claim. Speaking to reporters ahead of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump said the Russian leader raised the issue during a call earlier in the day.
“You know who told me about it? President Putin, early in the morning, he said he was attacked. It’s no good. I’m very angry,” Trump said of the alleged drone strike. He also acknowledged that the claim could turn out to be untrue, conceding it was “possible” the attack had not happened.
“It’s one thing to be offensive because they’re offensive. It’s another thing to attack his house. It’s not the right time to do any of that,” he added.
Trump commented after Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of attempting to attack Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region, west of Moscow, with a swarm of long-range drones late on December 28 and 29. He said 91 drones were launched in the alleged attack but were all intercepted by Russian air defences.