Trump spurns Kremlin’s Putin residence attack claim, Russia kills 2 in Kyiv

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, refutes claims that Ukraine attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence as the conflict rages on, saying he did not “believe that strike occurred” after initially accepting the Kremlin’s account on its face.

No one was aware at the time whether a report about the alleged incident was accurate, Trump, on Air Force One, said to reporters on Sunday night. He added that “something” happened close to Putin’s residence, but that Ukraine did not, according to US officials, believe it was being targeted by it.

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Ukraine immediately denied involvement, accusing Russia of conducting a false-flag operation to stifle peace negotiations. Moscow responded right away by saying that the incident would stifle its commitment to peace negotiations.

Following the publication of a video of a downed drone that Kyiv claimed had launched at Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region, reports of the attack surfaced last week.

Putin was not at the residence at the time, and the residence was not damaged, according to the ministry.

Along with Ukraine, its Western allies fiercely disagreed about the legitimacy of the attack.

Russia and Ukraine are negotiating a ceasefire agreement to put an end to the nearly four-year conflict, according to the claim made.

Following a meeting with European leaders in France on Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, said the ceasefire plan was “90 percent ready.” The main concerns remain about ceding land that was or was taken over during a war.

2026 is the first time a civilian has died in Kyiv.

The first casualties in the capital of 2026 were reported by Ukrainian authorities on Monday morning that two people had died in an overnight Russian attack on the Kyiv region.

A medical facility in Kyiv’s northern sector, where an inpatient ward was operating, was set on fire by the Russian attack, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

A body was discovered inside the building after the fire was extinguished, according to the service. According to the service’s announcement on Telegram, a woman was also hurt, and 25 people were evacuated.

According to Governor Mykola Kalashnyk on Telegram, a man in his 70s was killed in the Fastiv district, southwest of the capital, while critical infrastructure was also damaged and destroyed in the Kyiv region.

Kalashnyk added that some areas of the area remain without power.