A Russian response to the military defeat in Ukraine. One person was injured in Iranian-made kamikaze drone attacks on the town of Bila Tserkva, about 100 kilometers south of Kyiv, the regional governor said on Wednesday, the first of its kind in this area.
“During the night, the enemy carried out Shahed-136-type kamikaze drone attacks on Bila Tserkva,” setting fires, Governor Oleksiï Kouleba said on Telegram.
“There were six blows and explosions,” he also specified, reporting one injury and damage to the infrastructure of this city that had some 200,000 inhabitants before the Russian invasion launched in February and that houses several military units.
The Southern Command of the Ukrainian army, for its part, indicated on Telegram that during the night it had shot down six drones of the same type. Command spokeswoman Natalia Goumenyuk said the planes were shot down in Mykolaiv district.
Tensions between Kyiv and Tehran
Ukraine reported the first Russian strikes carried out with Iranian-made drones in September, but so far these have mainly targeted the south of the country, including the strategic Black Sea city of Odessa. According to the media, Iran handed over hundreds of these drones to Russia despite warnings from Washington, an ally of Kyiv.
Asked about this issue, the BFMTV defense consultant, General Jérôme Pellistrandi, assures that “we can make a parallel with history.”
“The famous V1s and V2s that Hitler used were supposed to rock the war. It looks like the Russians are trying to do what they can to keep up the pressure, but the objective reality is that the Russians are on the defensive and forced to do so.” “. withdraw”, he develops.
Ukraine had announced that it would “significantly reduce” Iran’s diplomatic presence there in retaliation for these drone deliveries, removing the accreditation of the Iranian ambassador and “significantly reducing” the diplomatic staff of the Iranian embassy.
Tehran said it regretted this decision “based on baseless information, broadcast by foreign media propaganda” against Iran.
Source: BFM TV
