"Russian special services’ officers carried out a special technical examination of a navigation unit of one of the Ukrainian UAVs shot down on the night of 29 December 2025 over Novgorod region. The experts managed to extract a file containing a flight plan from the navigation unit," the statement read.
The decrypted data from the file showed that one of the facilities of the Russian presidential residence had been the final destination of the drone, the ministry said.
"These data will be submitted to the American party through established channels," the ministry added.
Other statements by Russian Defense Ministry:
Russian intelligence services retrieved a flight mission file from one of the Ukrainian drones that attacked Putin's residence.
The decryption revealed that the final target of the attack was specifically the object of this residence in the Novgorod region.