Security Council: In the focus of a closed meeting the issue of Iranian drones in the hands of Russia

The USAthe Britain and the France intend to raise the issue of deliveries of Iranian weapons systems to Russia during today’s closed-door meeting Security Council of the UN, as diplomats stated, since Kyiv accused Moscow of using drones against political targets.

In a separate development, Ukraine invited UN experts to inspect the wreckage of Iranian dronesas Kyiv claims, which Russia used to attack Ukrainian targets, in violation of UN Security Council resolution 2231 concerning the 2015 international agreement on the nuclear program of Iranaccording to a letter obtained by Reuters.

Russia launched dozens of kamikaze drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) against Ukraine on Monday, hitting energy infrastructure and killing five people in Kyiv.

Ukraine maintains that it is an Iranian-made Shahed-136 attack drone. Kyiv proceeded yesterday Tuesday to cut off its relations with Iran.

From the side of Tehranas reported by APE-MPEdenies supplying attack drones to Moscow. The Kremlin denied yesterday that its forces used Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles in attacks against Ukraine.

Citing current and former US officials, The New York Times reported yesterday that Iran has sent trainers to the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to help them deal with problems related to the fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles they bought from Tehran.

The newspaper reported that the Iranian trainers were operating from a Russian military base in Crimea, where several of the drones are based, after being handed over by Iran. The trainers are from the Revolutionary Guards, which Washington has classified as a terrorist organization.

To a question related to this publication, a representative of the US Department of State responded: “Although we do not comment on targeted intelligence leaks, we have warned since July that Iran was planning to deliver weapons to Russia for use against Ukraine».

“There is an abundance of evidence that Iranian drones have been used to attack Ukrainian civilians and military targets, despite the fact that Iran continues to lie about its involvement.”

Two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters that Iran had promised to provide Russia with surface-to-surface missiles in addition to supplying more drones.

“We want to invite experts from the UN to visit Ukraine as soon as possible to inspect recovered Iranian-made drones, in the framework of the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231,” Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN said in a letter distributed yesterday to the members of the Council.