• Tehran has revealed for the first time that Iran gave Moscow drones prior to the start of the Ukraine war.
• The West believes that Russia employed Iranian “kamikaze” drones to attack vital infrastructure locations in Ukraine.
• Ukraine has warned Iran that its backing for Russia would ultimately backfire.

Kyiv has warned Iran that the “consequences” of supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine are greater than the “benefits”.

It happens after Iran revealed for the first time that it only gave Moscow drones before to the start of the war.

Although Iran and Moscow have previously denied it, the West believes that Russia employed Iranian “kamikaze” drones to attack vital infrastructure locations in Ukraine.

After the strikes on the power plants, several areas of Ukraine have experienced blackouts.

Iranian authorities have been charged with sending troops on the ground to train Russian drone pilots as well as shipping drones to Russia.

Tehran has previously refuted the claims, but on Saturday it was revealed that some of the vehicles had been brought to Moscow by Iran’s foreign ministry.

“We provided a limited number of drones to Russia many months prior to the Ukraine war,” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters in Tehran.

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Ukraine retaliated, claiming that Iran’s backing for Russia would ultimately backfire.

“Tehran should realize that the consequences of complicity in the crimes of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine will be much greater than the benefit of Russia’s support,” foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said.

In response to Iran providing drones to Russia for use in the conflict, the US, EU, and UK have all put sanctions on the country.

The Shahed-136 “kamikaze” drones, which have the name of the Japanese World War Two suicide pilots because they are instantly destroyed upon impact, have been employed by Russia to attack vital infrastructure targets throughout Ukraine.

As a result, restrictions on electricity use and rolling blackouts have been implemented just as the weather turns chilly for winter.

Due to the fact that the Geneva Conventions, which outline the rules of war, forbid the purposeful targeting of civilian infrastructure, several Western politicians have referred to the bombings as “war crimes.”

Because electricity usage had increased compared to the same period last week, some regions were subject to additional limitations on Saturday by Ukraine’s national grid operator.

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