RUSSIA threatened to kill Volodymyr Zelensky and put his body on public display after ramping up rage over a denied Ukrainian “plot” to blitz Vladimir Putin.

Putin goons hit the roof over claims – rejected as total fiction by Ukraine – that a drone attack was ordered to take out the Russian tyrant at his palace at Valdai.

And they yesterday appeared to have succeeded in damaging US brokered peace moves after Donald Trump – yet again – appeared to take Putin’s side.

Trump said of the alleged attack: “I learned about it from President Putin today. I was very angry about it.”

Trump accepted there may not have been an attack and ordered US intelligence agencies to make inquiries, adding: “We’ll find out.”

But rabid Putin cheerleaders led by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev issued direct threats to Ukraine’s president Zelensky yesterday in a serious blow to peace hopes.

Evidence grew overnight that this alleged strike on the palace – which Putin shares with his lover Alina Kabaeva, 42, and their sons Ivan, ten, and Vladimir, six –  was a crude fabrication.

Medvedev raged on X: “The stinking Kiev bastard is trying to derail the settlement of the conflict.

“He wants war. Well, now at least he’ll have to stay in hiding for the rest of his worthless life.

“I will not write here about his violent death, although right now the Grim Reaper is breathing down the bastard’s neck. 

“I wish for something else — for scientific purposes.

“It is very important that in the future, after his imminent demise, the green homunculus’s body, preserved in alcohol, be displayed in the Kunstkamera science museum in St. Petersburg, where Russian tsars collected freaks for the amusement of their descendants.”

Zelensky wishes death on Putin in Christmas speech after Vlad demands changes to peace plan & sends new wave of strikes

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Ukraine claims the drone threat to the Valdai palace – also known as Uzhin – was a hoax to enable Russia to carry on Putin’s near four-year war.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov alleged: “On the night of December 28-29, the Kyiv regime launched a terrorist attack using 91 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the state residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Novgorod region.

“All UAVs were destroyed by the air defence systems of the Russian Armed Forces.”

The Russian defence ministry claimed  its forces “intercepted” 41 drones over Novgorod region and another 49 flying towards the Putin residence.

Yet earlier in the day it had not mentioned any threat to Putin’s palace and nor had Novgorod region governor Alexander Dronov.

Ukrainian sources dismissed the claims as “lies”.

Local residents close to the sprawling palace also failed to report any explosions from air defence activity.

And online communities in the 15,000-population Valdai town failed to mention anything untoward.

The palace is surrounded by more than 20 modern air defence systems – which appeared to remain silent.

Experts said that the route of any Ukrainian drones would have taken was well guarded by Russian air defences.

But Lavrov and other Russian officials warned that Putin’s response would be military.

He said “Such reckless actions will not go unanswered.”

Zelensky warned: “I don’t trust Putin – he doesn’t want success for Ukraine.

“I believe he can say such words to President Trump… but it’s not true, really.”

The setback follows positive peace talks between Zelensky and Trump at the latter’s Mar-a-Lago home on Sunday.

The US president declared that peace was “closer than ever before” although there were still “one or two very thorny issues” to iron out.

Said issues are primarily to do with land concessions, as the Kremlin are demanding Ukraine hand over the entire Donbas region, something Zelensky insisted he could not approve alone.

Nevertheless, Trump hailed the “terrific” talks, adding: “

“We’ve made a lot of progress today, but really we’ve made it over the last month. This is not a one-day process deal. There’s very complicated stuff.

“I really believe we’re probably… closer than, by far, closer than ever before with both parties. In a few weeks, we will know one way or the other.”