The war in Eastern Europe: Against the background of the continued Russian invasion, the strategic communications department of the Ukrainian army announced today (Tuesday) that the army shot down a drone made by the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the report, the drone, which is similar in shape to the “Shahad-136”, was shot down near the city of Kupyansk, in the Kharkov region of eastern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, according to a post published on the “Telegram” network, it is written that “after an analysis of the components of the wing and the drone, it can be confidently stated that the Ukrainian army destroyed an Iranian suicide drone for the first time.”
An intelligence friend on duty in Ukraine told me the following. It has been confirmed that Iranian-made Kamikaze UAVs were used for the first time in the Ukraine-Russia war.#Ukraine #Russia #İran #Iranian #war #BREAKING pic.twitter.com/Z6ZUnmb0vn
— NOAH (@noahwarpress) September 13, 2022
As you may recall, last August, the deputy spokesman for the US State Department, Vednet Patel, said that “the US was able to confirm that Russian officials conducted training in Iran, as part of the planned transfer of Iranian drones to Russia, for use in the war in Ukraine.”