GENEVA, December 30. /TASS/. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and his office, OHCHR, keep silent about Ukraine’s attempted drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Novgorod Region, which exposes their biasedness, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Geneva Office and other Geneva-based international organizations Gennady Gatilov said.
"While an increasing number of states condemn the Kiev regime's terrorist attack using a barrage of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the state residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Novgorod Region, a stubborn silence of the UN human rights system, led by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Turk, is puzzling," he wrote in a statement posted on the Russian mission’s Telegram channel.
"We regard such a behavior as another confirmation of Mr. Turk's political bias and unwillingness to provide a principled assessment of Kiev's criminal actions," he emphasized. "We await your appropriate response as well as an assessment from respective special procedures of the HRC. After all, its abscence would amount to silent cover up of yet another crime committed by the Kiev clique, which has shifted to a policy of state terrorism."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists earlier in the day that overnight to December 29 the Kiev regime had attempted a terrorist attack on President Vladimir Putin’s state residence in the Novgorod Region with the use of 91 long-range combat drones. All of them were jammed by Russian electronic warfare tools, he said, adding that no casualties or damage were reported.
In turn, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said that during a phone call with Trump, Putin drew attention to Kiev’s attack, which took place "almost immediately" after the US-Ukraine talks in Mar-a-Lago, and warned that it would not go "unanswered." The Russian leader also told Trump that Moscow’s position in negotiations to resolve the conflict would be revised.