{"id":4675,"date":"2026-01-01T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/01\/russia-ukraine-drones-sumy-chernihiv-putin-residence-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:30:31","slug":"russia-ukraine-drones-sumy-chernihiv-putin-residence-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/01\/russia-ukraine-drones-sumy-chernihiv-putin-residence-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says Ukrainian Drones Launched from Sumy and Chernihiv in Attack on President Putin\u2019s Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces&#8217; air defense missile units announced that the drones targeting the country&#8217;s president&#8217;s residence were launched from the Sumy and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine, with attempts to attack coming from multiple directions.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Romanenkov, citing Russian state media, said evidence of this air assault was identified at around 19:20 Moscow time on Wednesday, December 28. According to him, Kyiv attempted to simultaneously use several routes to direct the drones toward Vladimir Putin\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the operation was &#8220;purposeful and precisely planned&#8221;; however, after repelling the attack, no casualties or material damage were reported on Russian soil.<\/p>\n<p>Romanenkov emphasized that in neutralizing the attempt, Russian air defense teams and electronic warfare units acted in a coordinated and effective manner. No further details were provided regarding the number of drones or the type of equipment used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says Ukrainian drones targeting President Putin\u2019s residence were launched from Sumy and Chernihiv, with the attack successfully repelled and no damage reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}