In a video released by Ukrainian authorities, the country’s police can be seen trying to shoot down kamikaze drones with Kalashnikov assault rifles, as the Russians carried out several such attacks on Sunday night and Monday morning.

Footage released by Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs shows Ukrainian police officers on a bridge waiting for the drone to approach them before opening fire, with the drone’s distinctive sound about 30 seconds before the crash.

It is not known whether it crashed due to the fact that it reached a low altitude, from which it went into self-destruction mode, or because of Ukrainian police firing.

Anton Gerashchenko, one of the advisers to the Minister of Internal Affairs, notes that the footage shows that Ukraine needs modern air defense systems.

Later, another video appeared on social networks.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that it had carried out a large-scale strike on military facilities and energy infrastructure in Ukraine using “high-precision weapons”.

Moscow’s claims came after the Ukrainians said they shot down 37 Iranian drones and 3 missiles fired by the Russian armed forces.

Most of the drones were launched over Kyiv, and, according to Ukrainians, only 5 out of 28 kamikaze drones hit their target, the rest were shot down.

“All night and all morning, the enemy terrorized the civilian population. Kamikaze drones and missiles attacked all of Ukraine. A residential building was fired upon in Kyiv. The enemy may attack our cities, but he cannot defeat us. The occupiers can only be punished and condemned by future generations. And we will achieve victory,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyi encouraged in a message sent to Telegram.

Iran denies supplying kamikaze drones to Russia

In a strange move, Tehran’s government again denied on Monday that it had supplied any weapons to Russia, following multiple photos and videos that appeared on social media showing the use of Iranian drones by Russian armed forces in Ukraine.

“The published news about Iran’s supply of drones to Russia has political implications and is being spread by Western sources. We have not supplied weapons to any of the belligerent countries,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said during a press conference.

On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Iran “has not supplied and will not supply” any weapons for use in Ukraine. This statement, repeated several times in recent weeks by officials in Tehran, is contradicted by images of Iranian military drones that began to appear in the first half of September.

One of the most famous attacks by the Russians using kamikaze drones obtained from Iran was the September 23 attack on the port city of Odesa.

Journalists of The Washington Post wrote a day ago, citing representatives of the security of the United States and allies, that Tehran is preparing to secretly send Russia not only attack drones, as it was until now, but also ballistic missiles.

The Iranian military is said to be preparing the first batch of Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar missiles, two of Iran’s well-known short-range ballistic missiles capable of hitting targets at distances of 300 and 700 kilometers, respectively.

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