Russia Used Around 400 Iranian 'Kamikaze' Drones For Attacks, Says Ukraine

Amid the escalation of war between Moscow and Kyiv, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said that Russia has used nearly 400 Iranian drones against the civilian population of...

Amid the escalating war between Moscow and Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that Russia has used nearly 400 Iranian drones against the civilian population of Ukraine, according to the Kyiv Independent newspaper.

The Ukrainian president claimed that about 400 Iranian-made witnesses

136 kamikaze drones were used in multiple explosions that took place in Kyiv and targeted the country's civilian population.

"Russia has used about 400 Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze aircraft against the civilian population of Ukraine," President Zelensky said.

Earlier on October 17, Russia launched a brutal attack on Ukraine using 43 drones. Later

The Kyiv Independent newspaper reported that Russian forces used 28 drones to attack Kyiv that day, killing five people.

As relations between Tehran and Moscow continued to deepen as Iran continued to refuse to supply Russia with arms, this action drew widespread condemnation from around the world.

The Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was rocked by several explosions earlier on October 17 by "Kamikaze" drones and several apartment buildings were damaged during the attack, in which Kyiv claimed that Moscow used -

Drones have been used in strikes against major Ukrainian cities in recent weeks and have appealed to Western countries to step up their assistance in meeting the new challenge.

The war between Russia and Ukraine only escalated after a truck recently exploded on the Crimean Road bridge, setting fire to seven fuel tanks on a train bound for Crimea. Three people were killed in the blast, which also partially collapsed two sections of the road bridge.

Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the Crimean Bridge in 2018, four years after Moscow's annexation of Crimea, and is designed to connect the peninsula to Russia's transport network.

The 19-kilometer bridge, which passes through the Kerch Strait and connects Crimea with the mainland of Russia, consists of a railway and vehicular sections.

It became fully operational in 2020.

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