kyiv claimed that around 400 Iranian drones had already been used against the Ukrainian population and that Moscow had ordered around 2,000.
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He had always denied it until then. For the first time, Iran reveals it delivered drones to Russia before the start of the invasion in February 2022.”We provided Russia with a limited number of drones months before the war in Ukraine”, announced Saturday, November 5, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, quoted by the official agency Irna. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, however, said he was ready to examine any evidence of the use of Iranian drones in the Ukrainian conflict. “During a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister last week, we agreed that if there is any evidence [de l’utilisation de drones iraniens par Moscou], he would provide it to us”said the head of Iranian diplomacy.
kyiv claimed that around 400 Iranian drones had already been used against the Ukrainian population and that Moscow had ordered around 2,000. In response, the EU and the UK announced new sanctions against Iran, targeting three generals and an arms company “responsible for supplying Russia with suicide drones” to bomb Ukraine. In September, kyiv decided to drastically reduce diplomatic relations with Tehran due to alleged arms deliveries to Moscow.
In addition, the Iranian minister again denied that his country had supplied missiles to Russia, judging these accusations “completely false”.