This year, almost every night, sometimes morning and day – the threat of “shaheeds”.
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has already used more than 6,130 attack drones against Ukraine.
This was stated in the evening address by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“In Ukraine this year, almost every night, sometimes morning and day – the threat of “shaheeds”. Attack drones that Iran gave Russia. And which have become one of the main weapons of Russian terror against Ukraine. And which, unfortunately, the Russians and Iranians are improving,” the president said.
“This week alone, from Monday until today, every day – “shaheeds”. In one day on October 18, there were 129 such drones. Our soldiers are shooting down a significant number. Electronic warfare helps a lot. But not in everything. And that is precisely why more pressure is needed on Russia's ability to produce such weapons. “We need the ability to destroy both the storage bases for the “shahids” and the entire existing infrastructure for their production and logistics,” Zelensky added.
He emphasized that the Ukrainian side has always told its partners that it is necessary to be more decisive in countering such criminal alliances.
“Terrorists, unfortunately, know how to use the time that the indecisiveness of the free world gives them,” Zelensky noted. missiles, 500 attack drones and about 800 KABs.