the army of Ukraine said on Tuesday (13), for the first time, that its forces shot down an Iranian-supplied drone used by Russia on the battlefield in the east of the country.
“With great presumptuousness, it can be said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine first destroyed an Iranian attack drone near Kupyansk,” the Ukrainian military’s Directorate of Strategic Communications said in a statement on Telegram, posted alongside footage from the Ukrainian military. drone allegedly shot down near a town in Kharkiv district.
“Analysis of the appearance of the wing elements of the drone allows us to say with certainty that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed an Iranian UAV for the first time. It is a Shahed-136 long-range kamikaze UAV,” the statement added.
THE CNN could not independently verify the Ukrainian allegations.
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The statement comes after US intelligence warned in July that Tehran planned to send “hundreds” of bomb-carrying drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine.
In August, a US official told CNN that the Russians were believed to have been training on the drones for several weeks.
At the end of the month, Iran’s military launched exercises with more than 100 locally made combat and reconnaissance drones to display their “power”, state media reported.
Iran began introducing the Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 drones, also known as UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, to Russia at Kashan airfield south of Tehran in June, US officials told CNN . Both types of drones are capable of carrying precision-guided missiles.
Source: CNN Brasil
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