Admiral Igor Kostyukov, head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of Russia's Armed Forces, handed over the controlling mechanism of a drone found among the downed fragments to a representative of the military attaché's office at the US Embassy in Moscow.
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday that it has handed over proof that the Ukrainian military had targeted a Russian presidential residence this week. It said that a senior Russian military chief handed over part of a Ukrainian drone containing data to a US military attache. On Monday, Moscow accused Kyiv of trying to strike a residence of President Vladimir Putin in Russia's northern Novgorod region with 91 long-range attack drones, after which Russia said it would review its negotiating position in ongoing talks with the US on ending the Ukraine war.