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Moscow Hands Drone Memory Unit to U.S., Claiming Kyiv Targeted Putin’s Novgorod Residence

On 1 Jan 2026 Admiral Igor Kostyukov passed a recovered drone navigation controller to a U.S. military attaché, asserting its logs prove Ukraine’s 91-drone swarm sought to hit President Putin’s lakeside estate—an assertion immediately contradicted by U.S. intelligence.