Ukraine reports that Iran has sent Russia experts in handling suicide drones

Iran and the Russian Federation have reached an agreement to send to Russian territory experts and instructors in the handling of Iranian-made attack drones, the Ukrainian army reported Thursday.

As published by the Ukrainian General Staff on its Facebook page, the experts sent to Russiain addition to being trained to operate the “Shahed-136″ drones that Moscow has already been using in Ukrainewill also help the Russian troops in the handling of the “Arash-2″ drones, second-generation devices, more powerful and accurate, which may be deployed in the future.

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The Ukrainian Army does not specify where the Iranian experts have been sent or how it has obtained this information, but on Wednesday it assured that they had shot down a total of 223 Iranian-made “Shahed-136” type suicide drones in recent years. 36 days.

“From the moment the first Iranian-made Shahed-136 suicide drone was shot down inside the territory of Ukraine (on September 13, in Kupiansk), the air defense units of the Air Force and other units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine have destroyed 223 unmanned aerial vehicles”, sources noted.

On the other hand, in the course of the last 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled Russian attacks in several areas of the country, especially in the east, such as Bilohorivka (Luhansk region) and Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Klishchiivka, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Nevelske, Opytne and Marinka, in the Donetsk region.

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Meanwhile, Russian forces carried out 11 missile strikes and 28 air strikes, as well as more than 65 multiple launch rocket system strikes over the course of the past 24 hours, according to the sources.

More than 25 cities, towns and villages were attacked by Russia on this last day, spread throughout the country, including the Zaporizhzhia region in the south, where the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is located.

The Russians deployed guided cruise, air-to-surface, and anti-aircraft missiles to attack Ukraine. They also deployed more than a dozen “Shahed-136” drones, half of which were launched from the territory of Belarus, the Army added.

Source: Elcomercio

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