Russia orders 2,000 more kamikaze drones from Tehran

• Tehran and Moscow have a military alliance, and Moscow has ordered 2,000 additional “suicide” drones from Tehran.
• Volodymyr Zelensky Israeli leaders’ refusal to support Kyiv had encouraged Russia’s partnership with Iran.
• “The disgusting sound of Iranian drones is heard in our skies every night.

Tehran and Moscow have a military alliance, and Moscow has ordered 2,000 additional “suicide” drones from Tehran. Said president of Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelensky Israeli leaders’ refusal to support Kyiv had encouraged Russia’s partnership with Iran. “This alliance of theirs simply would not have happened if your politicians had made only one decision … in 2014, when Russia began its aggression against Ukraine,” Zelensky said.

“The disgusting sound of Iranian drones is heard in our skies every night. According to our intelligence, Russia has ordered about 2,000 Shahed drones from Iran … and Iranian instructors came to teach Russians how to use them.”

Zelensky spoke as the West accused Russia of planning to escalate the situation in Ukraine by threatening to detonate a device packed with nuclear material.

The conflict started when Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, called his Western counterparts on Sunday and informed them that Moscow believed Kyiv was preparing to launch a so-called “dirty bomb.” French, British, and American foreign ministers said they denied the accusations and reiterated their support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.

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“Our countries made clear that we all reject Russia’s transparently false allegations that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb on its own territory,” they said. “The world would see through any attempt to use this allegation as a pretext for escalation.”

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine would use a “dirty bomb” attack to accuse Moscow of igniting a low-grade nuclear weapon, which would lead to radioactive contamination.

“The aim of the provocation would be to accuse Russia of using a weapon of mass destruction in the Ukrainian military theater and by that means to launch a powerful anti-Russian campaign in the world,” it said.

Zelensky said the Russian accusation was a sign that Moscow was planning such an attack itself and would blame Ukraine. “If Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly preparing something, it means one thing: Russia has already prepared all this,” he said.

“So when today the Russian Minister of Defense organizes a phone carousel and calls foreign ministers with stories about the so-called ‘dirty’ nuclear bomb, everyone understands everything well… understands who is the source of everything dirty that can be imagined in this war.”

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