One day after the West decided to send advanced tanks to Kyiv, Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with dozens of drones manufactured by Iran.
According to General Valery Zalony, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia launched 55 missiles at Ukraine today, Thursday, January 26, and 47 missiles were destroyed, including 20 near Kyiv, according to Zalony.
And Ukraine announced that it shot down 24 explosive drones made in Iran, last night.
According to the mayor of Kyiv, the initial assessment indicates that one person was killed and two others injured in this city.
It is noteworthy that this is not the first time that Russia has attacked Ukraine using Iranian-made drones.
Not long ago, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, Yulia Klimenko, declared in an exclusive interview with Iran International that while electricity is one of the basic needs of citizens in the bitter cold of this country, Iranian-made drones are used to attack power plants. Ukrainian.
In an interview with Iran International on Tuesday, December 22, Klimenko lamented Tehran’s support for Moscow in the war against Ukraine, saying, “This is quite clear and Zelensky made it very clear that, unfortunately, Iran is involved in the war in Ukraine.” They support Russia.”
Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, said that the lack of electricity in this country continues and nearly 9 million people are without electricity.
After a Ukrainian official requested the destruction of the drone manufacturing factories in Iran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, threatened that this request would have “political and legal consequences.”
“We consider the threatening statements by the Ukrainian authorities irresponsible, and we hold Ukraine the political and legal consequences of such threatening statements,” Kanani said on Monday, December 26.
The Iranian official did not specify exactly what he meant by “political and legal consequences.”
This comes while the United Nations is investigating the source of the downed drones in Ukraine.
The new wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine came a day after Washington and Berlin gave the green light to transport dozens of heavy tanks to Kyiv.
Germany expects to deliver its first shipment of Leopard-2 tanks, which it has promised, to Ukraine at the end of March or early April.
