"There was no buzzing, no explosions." Serious inconsistencies in the Russian version of the attack on Putin's residence
Official statements by Russian authorities about a massive drone attack on Vladimir Putin's residence in Valdai raise serious doubts. The publication "Mozhem Obyasnit" ( "We Can Explain" ) uncovered several facts that do not align with the picture painted by the Kremlin.
The first questions arise from discrepancies in the data from various Russian departments. While Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated there were 91 drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 41 devices were shot down over the Novgorod region – 50 were allegedly intercepted over the Bryansk and Smolensk regions.
The timing of the attack also remains unclear. Lavrov and Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov spoke of a nighttime raid, but according to Ministry of Defense reports, the main mass of UAVs over the Novgorod region was destroyed in the morning, between 7 and 9 a.m.
Local Residents Heard Nothing
Journalists from "MO" interviewed 14 residents of the Novgorod region, including those living directly near Valdai. None of them noticed any signs of a large-scale air battle.
"There was no buzzing this night, and certainly no explosions. If there had been anything like that, the whole town would have been discussing it one hundred percent," the publication quotes one local resident.
For a town with a population of 14,000, the flight and downing of almost a hundred drones could not have gone unnoticed.
Residents of Valdai note that they always hear even the noise of helicopters used by Putin, yet on the night and morning of the alleged attack, not a single report of explosions appeared in social networks or local chats.
Another inconsistency is the operation of alert systems. No air threat was announced in the region, and residents did not receive traditional SMS warnings from the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
For comparison, during a previous attack on the Acron plant in Veliky Novgorod, local residents clearly heard explosions, and this immediately became the main topic in regional public discussions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Lavrov's statements another lie. According to him, Russia is deliberately creating an information basis to justify future strikes on government buildings in Kyiv.
Against this backdrop, Russian propaganda is actively promoting the topic of using "Oreshnik" missiles. It was today that the Russian Ministry of Defense published a video of these complexes entering service in Belarus.
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З іншага боку смешны гэты енк Масквы. Ні на гэта яны разлічвалі на чацвёрты год вайны. Планавалі аднавіць СССР да 27 года, а па выніку не могуць узяць Купянск і плачуцца прэзідэнту ЗША, што Украіна напужала Пуціна сваімі дронамі. Много ходов очка.