Iran complicit in Russian aggression against Ukraine, says Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has urged Iran to stop supplying Russia with the weapons it uses in the war against Ukraine. A statement published on the ministry’s official website addresses the government of Iran:
Supplying weapons to wage an aggressive war in Ukraine and to kill Ukrainian citizens makes Iran an accomplice to Russia's criminal aggression, its war crimes, and its acts of terrorism against Ukraine.
Iranian drones in Russia’s air strikes on Ukraine
- The civilian deaths and destruction wrought by Russia’s ‘high-precision’ missile strikes Among the ‘targets’ claimed to have been ‘reached’ are a Kyiv office building, a cycling bridge, playgrounds, and apartment blocks
- More than 1,300 Ukrainian towns and villages left without electricity following Russian missile attacks
- Russia continues drone, missile, and artillery strikes throughout Ukraine
Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, called on the European Union to impose sanctions against Iran for colluding with Russia.
In the past week, the Foreign Ministry said in its statement, Russia has used Iranian “kamikaze” drones as part of over a hundred air strikes on Ukrainian cities. These massive attacks have damaged apartment buildings, power plants, sewage treatment plants, bridges, playgrounds, and other kinds of civilian infrastructure and facilities. There were also civilian casualties.
Following the Crimean Bridge explosion on October 8, Russia launched a number of massive air strikes against Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian authorities, a third of the country’s energy infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed by the shelling.
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