#Vladimir Putin

A false claim by Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov about an alleged Ukrainian drone attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s residences has drawn renewed attention to where the Russian leader actually lives, and to a network of official and unofficial palaces—revealed through investigations, satellite imagery, and leaked records—designed for secrecy, luxury, and protection from modern threats such as drones.

Moscow claims it has placed its new Oreshnik ballistic missile system on combat duty in Belarus, but the only hardware Russia was willing to show looked more like support vehicles than a nuclear-capable strike weapon.