American intelligence really has information that Iranian specialists who teach Russian military manage military drones, as well as engineering personnel from Iran to serve these drones are in Crimea. BBC reports that the representative of the US National Security Council John Kirby.
The day before, the New York Times, referring to anonymous sources in intelligence, wrote about this. Tegeran officially denies the supply of drones of Russia, although unofficially Iranian sources this week confirmed this. Russia is renaming the barracking ammunition (they are also Kamikadze drones) “Shahd-136” to “Gerani-2” and repains them, the Ukrainian authorities reported.
Kirby confirmed that the United States has information about the presence of Iranians in the Crimea. How many of them are there, he could not say. According to him, the Russians are still ruled by the “mineders” directly in combat conditions.
“Tehran is now directly involved, in place and through the supply of weapons that hit the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. The United States involves all the means to disclose and disrupting the supply of these ammunition against the Ukrainian people. We will vigorously apply all American Sanctions directed against both Russian and Iranian weapons trade, ”said Kirby.
In recent days, Iranian drones were especially often used by Russia for attacks against Ukrainian energy infrastructure.