A U.S. official tells NewsHour that the CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack, a claim that Putin made to President Trump and that Trump seemed to accept earlier this week.

And this afternoon, a President Trump social media post suggested he agreed with what Europeans argue tonight

that it's Russia that is blocking a peace deal with Ukraine.

Nick Schifrin begins with Russia's latest strikes on Ukraine at a tense diplomatic moment.

Russia's New Year's Eve welcome in Ukraine's third largest city on Moscow's battlefield of choice, civilian infrastructure.

Where the victims were the vulnerable, the elderly, four-legged family members, and a seven-month-old infant.

By day, their homes blackened the now homeless spent New Year's night displaced.

A Christmas tree, the only thing left standing in a ruined apartment.

We've been left out on the street.

Any family could find themselves in the same situation.

Everyone is equal now.

No one knows where the next strike will land.

And today, about 400 miles to the north, Russia's top general threaten more strikes.

Valerie Gerasimov told troops posted near Ukraine's northeast border that their mission was to seize what he called buffer zones inside two Ukrainian provinces, even though the current U.S. peace plan calls for Russia to withdraw

entirely from those exact provinces.

The president of the Russian Federation ordered to continue expanding the line of defense

next year.

But it's not defense that Russia is playing when it comes to information operations.

Moscow released these images today

of what it claimed were Ukrainian drones that targeted a Vladimir Putin residence, complete

the map of the drone's alleged route. That Putin home in northwest Russia, exposed by

former opposition leader Alexei Navalny's foundation, as 75,000 square feet, located on a property that spans 370

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