The accusation contradicts the Iranian version that Tehran has not sent any such device since the beginning of the war.
March 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The UK Ministry of Defense estimates that Iran has sent new shipments of Shahed drones to Russia to attack positions in Ukraine despite the fact that Tehran has been assuring for months that it has not sent such devices to Moscow since the beginning of the conflict.
British Military Intelligence argues that Russian forces have launched at least 71 drone strikes throughout the month of March after a two-week hiatus late last month.
This indicates that Russia would have received “new regular batches in small numbers” of these devices in recent weeks, according to the evaluation published this Sunday.
The British Ministry of Defense specifies that Russia would be launching these new attacks from two axes within its territory, Krasnodar and Bryansk, with the triple intention of “relaxing its objectives in a broad sector of Ukraine”, as well as “reducing flight time towards them” and, in general terms, “give the Ukrainian air defense capabilities of themselves”, according to his assessment, published on his Twitter account.
The Iranian authorities have not ruled on the accusations this Sunday but, as a rule, they argue that they have never sent Shahed planes to Russia since the war began, although they admitted in November to selling batches of these aircraft to Moscow but “before the beginning of the invasion”, according to the words of the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian.
