FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual televised year-end press conference and phone-in held in Moscow, Russia December 19, 2024. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Thursday that a newspaper report that Russia or its proxies were flying surveillance drones over routes used to transport U.S. military supplies through Germany looked like fake news.

The story was reported by the New York Times, citing U.S. and other Western officials.

Asked about it by reporters, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin had not had time to read the story closely.

"But it’s hard to imagine, because then the Germans would have seen it clearly, and they would hardly have kept quiet. So, of course, all this looks more like another newspaper fake," he said.

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov, writing by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Toby Chopra)