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Oct. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Ten Iranian citizens participating in a training exercise for the use of drones would have died in Crimea in a Ukrainian attack, according to Ukrainian sources quoted by Israeli television KAN.
The attack occurred last week in an area of Crimea, according to the sources consulted and not confirmed by official channels. Although kyiv and its allies have denounced the use of Iranian drones by Russia, Tehran has denied that it has provided this war material to Russia.
The source of the information is the National Center of the Ukrainian Resistance: “The Russians have taken Ukrainian instructors to the occupied territory of Kherson and Crimea to launch Shahed-136 kamikaze drones”, this organization has indicated, which in turn refers to information of the Ukrainian underground “resistance”.
“They teach the Russians to use kamikaze drones and to supervise the launch of drones against Ukrainian civilian targets, including attacks on Nikolaev and Odessa,” he added.
Last Thursday, a Pentagon spokesman, Brigadier General Pat Ryder, warned that “Iranians have been on Ukrainian territory to help Russia with drone operations.”
“We continue to consider Iran complicit in exporting terror not only to the Middle East region, but also to Ukraine,” he said. Pentagon press chief Ned Price specifically singled out Crima on Thursday for the presence of Iranian trainers.
On Friday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed that they had managed to shoot down 85 percent of the kamikaze drones launched by Russia, the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported. On the same Friday, Iran advised all its citizens to immediately leave Ukrainian territory.
