Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry says decrypted navigation data and a drone part were given to a U.S. military attaché in Moscow, releasing video of GRU chief Igor Kostyukov at the handover.
- Kyiv denies aiming at Putin or his residence and says its operations focus on military and other lawful targets, calling Russia’s materials falsified.
- Independent confirmation of the fragments, flight‑route charts and “decoded” data has not emerged, and outside analysts frame the move as a pushback to the CIA reports and a bid to shape negotiations.
- U.S. media report CIA Director John Ratcliffe briefed President Trump on the assessment; Trump later shared a New York Post editorial critical of Putin after initially expressing anger over the alleged attack.
- The dispute unfolds as both sides report new drone and missile strikes and casualties, including unverified Russian claims of deaths in occupied Kherson and mass shoot‑downs.