Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that Ukraine carried out an attempted attack using 91 drones against the state residence of President Vladimir Putin in the Novgorod Oblast of Northwestern Russia, with all the drones being destroyed, according to the Russian state-owned news agency TASS.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denies claims made this morning by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, regarding an attempted drone attack against the residence of President Vladimir Putin in the Novgorod Oblast, adding that Russia is preparing and attempting to justify strikes against government buildings in Kyiv.

The White House states that President Donald J. Trump has just concluded a “positive call” with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding Ukraine.

The M/V Ursa Major, a Russian-flagged and operated heavy-lift ship, part of Russia’s Shadow Fleet, which mysteriously sank December 2024 in the Western Mediterranean off the coast Cartagena, Spain, was possibly sunk by a torpedo and was carrying two VM-4SG Nuclear Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR) bound for North Korea, likely to be utilized for their new class of nuclear-powered submarines, Spanish authorities have told La Verdad.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov states that President Vladimir Putin informed President Trump of the claimed Ukrainian drone attack against his residence in the Novgorod Oblast of Northwestern Russia during this morning’s phone call, with Trump said to have been “shocked and outraged,” reportedly telling Putin, “Thank God, we did not give Tomahawks to Ukraine,” according to the Russian state-owned news agency TASS.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently meeting in Florida with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, ahead of talks later this afternoon with President Donald J. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, for his meeting today with President Donald J. Trump.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump states that he would support further Israeli strikes against long-range missile and nuclear facilities in Iran, adding that Israel “would not exist” if someone besides Benjamin Netanyahu was Prime Minister.

President Donald J. Trump states that he spoke recently with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and that a pardon is “on the way” for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump appears to confirm moments ago that United States struck a shore facility last week in Venezuela which was being used to load drug boats, stating, “There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats, and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area, that's where they implement, and that is no longer around.” President Trump does not provide further details, or state whether this was a direct action by the U.S. Armed Force or a covert operation from an agency like the CIA.

President Donald J. Trump heard ranting on a hot mic to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, “Do I get credit for it? No. They gave the Nob-- I did eight of them. How about India and Pakistan? So I did eight of them. And then I'll tell you the rest of it.”

Asked earlier about claims made this morning by Russia officials about an attempted attack by Ukraine against the state residence of President Vladimir Putin, President Donald J. Trump appears to outright confirm that he entirely believed the story given to him during the call today with President Putin. Trump states that he learned about the alleged attack - which has been outright denied by Ukraine - from Putin and that it made him “very angry,” randomly adding that he stopped the delivery of Tomahawks to Ukraine, nearly verbatim from the statement by Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov.

U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has announced, that at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, military forces under Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS) carried out a strike today, December 29, against an alleged narco-trafficking vessel operating in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, intelligence indicated that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying illicit narcotics, with two suspected narco-terrorists killed in the strike, both believed to have been members of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).