Zelenskyy accuses Russia of using 400 Iranian drones against civilians

Amid the escalation of war between Moscow and Kyiv, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said that Russia has used nearly 400 Iranian drones against the civilian population of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian media publication The Kyiv Independent.
He referred to the claim from a Ukrainian media publication, The Kyiv Independent. The Ukrainian President claimed that about 400 Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones were used in multiple explosions that took place in Kyiv and targeted the country’s civilian population. “Russia has used about 400 Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones against Ukraine’s civilian population,” Zelenskyy said.
On 17 October, Russia initiated a brutal attack on Ukraine with 43 drones. Later, Moscow’s forces used 28 drones to attack Kyiv that day, killing five people, The Kyiv Independent reported.
As ties continue to deepen between Tehran and Moscow, Iran has denied supplying weapons to Russia. The action has received widespread condemnation from across the globe. Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, was rocked by multiple explosions earlier on 17 October by “Kamikaze” drones, and several residential buildings were damaged during the attack, following which Kyiv claimed Moscow used Iranian-supplied drones in the strikes against major Ukrainian cities in recent weeks and pleaded with Western countries to step up their assistance in the face of the new challenge. The war between Russia and Ukraine escalated after a truck exploded on the Crimea road bridge, causing seven fuel tanks of a train heading to the Crimean Peninsula to catch fire.