About this on November 11 in a conversation with Russian lawyer and blogger Mark Feigin in the Feigin LIVE program on YouTube informed Advisor to the President’s Office, Ukrainian blogger Oleksiy Arestovich.
“There are persistent rumors in diplomatic circles that Iran really doesn’t want to supply long-range missiles to Russia. It’s like they’ve made them an offer that’s hard to refuse. They’ve explained the depth of the depths… I’ve really thought about it And [секретарь Совета безопасности России Николай] Patrushev seems to have skated in vain, as they say, – said Arestovich. “I think this visit was very clearly related to the fact that they slowed down arms contracts.”
Patrushev arrived in Tehran for negotiations with the Iranian government on 9 November.
The Russian Security Council head’s trip came amid allegations that Iran is supplying kamikaze drones to Russia to support Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. On the eve it became known that in the summer of the Russian Federation transported 140 million euros in cash and samples of western weapons seized in Ukraine to Iran in exchange for the first batch of dronesincluding kamikaze drones.
Russia is using at least two types of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine this fall: kamikaze drones Shahed-136 and multipurpose UAVs Mohajer-6.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine accused Iran of complicity in the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine due to Tehran’s arms supplies to Russia. Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba October 18 offered to break off diplomatic relations with Iran.
Iran first denied drone deliveries to the Russian military. On Nov. 5, Iran’s Foreign Ministry admitted as much such deliveries werebut he assured that we are talking about a “limited number of drones” and deliveries “several months” before the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
CNN and Reuters reported that Iran is preparing to send Russia this year a new batch of weapons for use in the war against Ukraine, which includes, in addition to attack drones, surface-to-surface ballistic missiles with increased accuracy.
Tehran’s claim that it supplied a “limited number” of drones to Russia “months before the war in Ukraine started” is not true, said US Special Representative for Iran Robert Melli. About this he he wrote on Twitter on November 5th.
Iran handed over to Russia dozens of shock drones this summer – The US Special Representative for Iran has denied statements by the country’s Foreign Ministry.
