The President stressed that Ukraine will certainly provide an appropriate international response to this.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia’s appeal for military assistance to Iran is the Kremlin’s recognition of its military-political bankruptcy.
He announced this during the evening video message.
“The very fact that Russia turned to Iran for such help is the Kremlin’s recognition of its military-political bankruptcy. For decades, they spent billions of dollars on their military-industrial complex, and in the end they bowed to Tehran to get fairly simple drones and missiles,” the president said.
In his opinion, this will not help Russia strategically anyway, but will only additionally prove to the world that “Russia, on the trajectory of its loss, is trying to draw someone else into its accomplices in terror.”
“We will definitely provide an appropriate international reaction to this. But now, at the tactical level, due to Iranian drones, the terrorists may still have certain hopes, some calculations, new illusions – all this will fall apart, like their previous calculations. 237 days of this war prove that we are able to find an answer to any threat if we act together – all Ukrainians and all the peoples of the free world,” Zelensky stressed.
Use of Iranian drones in Ukraine: what is known
As UNIAN reported earlier, on October 17, Vice-President of the European Commission, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrell said that the European Union was gathering evidence and was ready to respond to the use of Iranian drones in the Russian war against Ukraine.
On the same day, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that last week Russia had 300 Iranian kamikaze drones, the general contract provides for the transfer of 2.4 thousand such units to the Russians.
On October 18, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that Ukraine was ready to provide EU member states with a “bag of evidence” about the transfer of kamikaze drones by Iran to Russia. The Foreign Minister also suggested that the President of Ukraine break off diplomatic relations with Iran.
(C)UNIAN 2022
Iranian crimes against Ukraine are piling up. First they shot down a Ukrainian airliner, then they lied about it and kept it when they were bound to turn it over. And now, terrorism and murder. Ditto Belarus. All this for what? To help a two-bit mini terrorist in the Kremlin?
Ukraine should annex Belarus and the other two should give Ukraine free gas for 100 years after their leaders and liars are swinging from a tree.
Hard to believe that we still have so much evil in this world, even though we already have the 21st century. I am glad for every buck that we’ve invested in our military! It sure comes in handy with all these trash countries.