Confessed to claims of supplying drones to Russia

Tehran. After repeatedly denying claims of supplying drones to Russia, its Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdullahian finally admitted on Saturday that the drones were sent to Russia before the attack on Ukraine began in late February. Kyiv claims that about 400 Iranian drones have already been used against the civilian population of Ukraine, and Moscow has ordered about 2,000 more. Kyiv and its Western allies have accused Russia of using Iranian-made drones to launch attacks in recent weeks.

According to Iran’s official news agency IRNA, Amir-Abdullahian said that ‘we had supplied a limited number of drones to Russia a few months before the war in Ukraine.’ But he again denied that Iran had given missiles to Russia. was supplied. He called all these allegations completely false. In recent weeks, the Russian military has rained missiles and explosive drones on Ukrainian infrastructure. Because the Ukrainian army, strengthened by the delivery of Western weapons, has pushed back Russian troops in many areas in ground attacks.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Iranian officials of lying about the delivery of drones to Russia. Zelensky said he eventually decided to admit that he had supplied drones for Russian terrorism. But even in this confession they lie. We shoot down at least 10 Iranian drones every day. While the Iranian regime claims that it allegedly gave very few drones to Russia even before the attack began. Earlier, a spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry warned Iran that the “results of collusion” with Moscow would “outweigh the gains from Russia’s support”. Britain and the European Union have accused three Iranian generals and an arms firm of supplying drones to Russia.