CIA assesses Ukraine was not targeting a Putin residence in drone attack, contrary to Kremlin claim, sources say据消息人士透露，美国中央情报局评估认为，乌克兰无人机袭击的目标并非普京的住所，这与克里姆林宫的说法相反。
The CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack in the north of his country, according to US officials, undercutting an assertion the Russian president had made to Trump in a Monday phone call.
The CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack in the north of his country, according to US officials, undercutting an assertion the Russian leader had made to President Donald Trump in a Monday phone call.
The CIA’s director John Ratcliffe briefed Trump on the assessment Wednesday, the officials said.
Russia had publicly raised allegations Ukraine attempted to hit Putin’s home Monday, and Trump told reporters Putin had told him of it over the phone. At the time, the president said he was troubled by the reported action, seeming to believe the Russian leader even as Ukraine strenuously denied it was behind any such attack.
“I don’t like it. It’s not good,” Trump said, describing himself as “very angry” upon hearing the claim.
He conceded it was “possible” the allegation was false and such an attack had not occurred, then added, “But President Putin told me this morning it did.”
Sources said Ratcliffe later briefed Trump that the CIA did not believe it was true. And on Wednesday, Trump appeared to have adopted a more skeptical posture toward posting, posting a link to a New York Post editorial on Truth Social with the headline, “Putin ‘attack’ bluster shows Russia is the one standing in the way of peace.” The Post’s editorial board noted it was “rich that Putin, who has waged a brutal war for nearly four years, believes that any violence in his vicinity merits special outrage” and asserted that “Any attack on Putin is more than justified.”
“But here’s the rub: The drone strike likely never happened. (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky vigorously denied it. (Kremlin spokesman Dmitry) Peskov said the Russians could provide no evidence, and urged the press to ‘take the Kremlin’s word for it. No, we won’t,” the board wrote.
CNN has reached out to the White House for comment. The CIA declined to comment.
Putin’s claim of an attack — and the subsequent US assessment that it wasn’t true, first reported by the Wall Street Journal — came amid intensive talks led by Trump and his envoys to end the war in Ukraine.
Putin levied the allegation a day after Trump met Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago , and emerged optimistic on progress to broker a peace in the conflict.
Some European officials said the claim was an attempt by Putin to derail the peace efforts while not catching Trump’s blame.
Others have also cast doubt on the Russian claim. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday that it was a “deliberate distraction.”
The defense ministry in Moscow said Wednesday that 91 drones had been launched from northern Ukraine against Putin’s residence near Valdai in the Novgorod region of northwestern Russia.
More than half had been intercepted several hundred kilometers away, the ministry said, without specifying how it knew they were destined for Valdai. The rest had been intercepted over Novgorod between 3 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. local time on Monday, according to the ministry.
The ministry published a map purporting to show the path of the drones and where they had been brought down.
据美国官员称，中央情报局评估认为，乌克兰最近在俄罗斯北部发动的无人机袭击的目标并非俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京的住所，这与普京周一在与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的通话中作出的说法相矛盾。
官员们表示，中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫周三向特朗普汇报了评估结果。
俄罗斯公开指控乌克兰周一企图袭击普京的住所，特朗普告诉记者，普京在电话中向他提及此事。当时，特朗普表示他对这一报道感到不安，似乎相信了俄罗斯领导人的说法，尽管乌克兰方面强烈否认策划了任何此类袭击。
“我不喜欢这样。这不好，”特朗普说，并形容自己听到这一说法后“非常生气”。
他承认这一指控“有可能”是虚假的，这样的袭击可能并没有发生，然后又补充道：“但普京总统今天早上告诉我，袭击确实发生了。”
消息人士称，拉特克利夫后来向特朗普汇报说，中央情报局并不认为此事属实。周三，特朗普似乎对社交媒体上的信息持更加怀疑的态度，他在Truth Social网站上发布了一篇《纽约邮报》的社论链接，标题为“普京的‘攻击’虚张声势表明，俄罗斯才是和平的绊脚石”。《纽约邮报》的社论指出，“普京发动了近四年的残酷战争，却认为在他附近发生的任何暴力事件都值得特别谴责，这真是可笑”，并断言“任何针对普京的攻击都是完全正当的”。
“但问题在于：无人机袭击很可能从未发生过。（乌克兰总统泽连斯基）强烈否认了此事。（克里姆林宫发言人佩斯科夫）称俄罗斯方面无法提供任何证据，并敦促媒体‘相信克里姆林宫的话’。不，我们不会相信，”该委员会写道。
CNN已联系白宫寻求置评。中央情报局拒绝置评。
普京声称遭到袭击，而随后美国方面评估认为袭击不实（《华尔街日报》率先报道了此事），与此同时，特朗普及其特使正牵头进行密集会谈，以结束乌克兰战争。
在特朗普与泽连斯基在海湖庄园会面，并对斡旋冲突和平取得进展表示乐观的第二天，普京提出了这一指控。
一些欧洲官员表示，普京此举意在破坏和平努力，同时又不让特朗普承担责任。
其他人也对俄罗斯的说法表示怀疑。欧盟外交政策负责人卡娅·卡拉斯周三表示，这是“蓄意转移视线”。
莫斯科国防部周三表示，91架无人机从乌克兰北部发射，袭击了普京位于俄罗斯西北部诺夫哥罗德州瓦尔代附近的住所。
该部表示，超过一半的包裹是在数百公里外被拦截的，但并未说明是如何得知这些包裹的目的地是瓦尔代。该部还表示，其余包裹是在周一当地时间凌晨3点至8点30分之间在诺夫哥罗德上空被拦截的。
该部公布了一张地图，声称显示了无人机的飞行路线和坠落地点。