{"id":263449,"date":"2026-01-02T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:38:21","slug":"cia-tells-trump-ukraine-did-not-try-to-assassinate-putin-contradicting-russian-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263449\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA tells Trump Ukraine did not try to assassinate Putin contradicting Russian claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c093bfe1-ac35-4278-af66-a7f82282b64e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Maroosha Muzaffar and Max Hunder<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9UK IndependentToday at 12:46<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has told US president Donald Trump that Ukraine did not attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin, contradicting Russian claims that Ukrainian drones targeted one of the Russian president\u2019s residences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">US intelligence assessed the allegation as false, indicating Putin misrepresented the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Photo: Getty Images Maroosha Muzaffar and Max Hunder \u00a9UK IndependentToday at 12:46 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,550,7,8,551,1543,2263,5445,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-263449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-vladimir-putin","25":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news","28":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115825783923850974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}