The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, said that he would submit a proposal to President Volodymyr Zelensky to break diplomatic relations with Iran, writes The Guardian.
In the context of accusations of Iran’s supply of weapons to Russia, Dmytro Kuleba insisted that Tehran bears full responsibility for the destruction caused by Iranian drones in Ukraine.
Kyiv will also send an official note to Israel with a request for cooperation and immediate supply of air defense equipment, Kuleba said.
The Ukrainian official also appealed to the ministers of foreign affairs of the European Union with a request to introduce sanctions against Iran, because it helps Russia “carry out terrorist attacks against Ukrainians.”
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The Kremlin says they do not know whether the Russian military is using Iranian drones in Ukraine
On Tuesday, the Kremlin said it had “no information” about the use of Iranian-made drones in a “special military operation” against Ukraine.
The comments came from Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, after he was asked at a daily news conference about reports that the Russian armed forces used drones obtained from Iran in attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Monday.
Kremlin-accredited journalists directly asked Peskov whether Russia was buying drones from Iran.
“No, we do not have such information. Russian equipment is used, you know that, with Russian names. All other questions can be addressed to the Ministry of Defense,” Peskov replied.
Iran’s Shahed 136 drones are called “Herad-2” by the Russian Armed Forces.
Under pressure from journalists in Moscow, Peskov again replied that “no, we do not have such information.”
On Monday, Iran again denied that it had supplied drones to the Russian military, despite numerous photos and videos documenting their use by Russia in the war in Ukraine.
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Since the summer, the United States has warned that Moscow has requested hundreds of military drones from Iran for use in Ukraine.
Tehran assured that it would not sell military UAVs to Moscow, but literally a day later, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan presented satellite images showing Iranian drones being inspected by a Russian delegation on June 8.
At the end of August, an official representative of the Washington administration said that these drones of the Mohajer-6 and Shahed series had already arrived in Russia.
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