Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha also on Tuesday said that Russia has not given any evidence of an alleged early Monday attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin's residence in the Novgorod region "because there's none."
"Russia has a long record of false claims — it's their signature tactic," Sybiha said in a post to the social platform X.
Ukraine has also said the Kremlin is peddling "lies" meant to justify additional attacks on the country, including government buildings in Kyiv.
Moscow alleges that Kyiv attacked Putin's presidential residence with 91 long-range drones that it shot down. Kremlin officials have since said the country would retaliate and that it's negotiating position to end its war in Ukraine was under review.
"This terrorist action is aimed at collapsing the negotiation process," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, as reported by Reuters. "The diplomatic consequence will be to toughen the negotiating position of the Russian Federation."
He added that Moscow's military knows how it will respond.
The accusations will likely upend President Trump's efforts to broker an end to the conflict that began in February 2022. Trump has sought a peace deal since the start of his second term, and last month the U.S. initially proposed a 28-point plan on ending the war before Ukraine countered with a 20-point framework several weeks later.
Trump on Monday appeared to take Russia's side in the finger-pointing, telling reporters he was informed of the alleged attack by Putin and that he "was very angry about it."
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker in remarks on Fox Business on Tuesday acknowledged the reports by Russia, while adding that it was "unclear" what actually happened.
Whitaker said, "it seems to me a little indelicate to be this close at a peace deal and then to do something that would be viewed as reckless."
Read the full report at thehill.com.
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