President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Tuesday that Iranian drones, which Moscow has been using en masse in recent days to strike Ukrainian energy infrastructure, are a symbol of the “military and political bankruptcy” of Russian forces, Agerpres reports.

“The very fact that Russia is asking for help from Iran is an admission by the Kremlin of its military and political bankruptcy,” President Zelenskyy said in his daily speech on social media.

“For decades, they spent billions of dollars on their military-industrial complex and eventually bowed to Tehran to get fairly basic drones and missiles,” he criticized. In his opinion, “from a strategic point of view, this will not help them anyway”, assured the head of the Ukrainian state.

Earlier on Tuesday, Iran said it was ready to hold talks with Kiev to clear up what it considered “baseless” claims that Tehran supplied Moscow with weapons and drones used by Russian forces to invade Ukraine.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said that “Iran is ready for negotiations and discussions with Ukraine to resolve these allegations,” the statement said.

Kyiv and its Western allies have accused Russia of using Iranian-made drones in large-scale attacks in Ukraine in recent weeks.

In recent days, the media reported on the possible deliveries of Iranian surface-to-surface missiles to Russia in the near future, but neither Tehran nor Moscow confirmed this.

In this context, Ukraine on Monday asked the European Union to introduce new sanctions against Iran, and Ukrainian diplomacy on Tuesday offered President Zelensky to sever diplomatic relations with Tehran.

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