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Russian troops are actively using the alleged Iranian drone kamikaze Shahed-136, renamed the "act 2", causing some "devastating" attacks on Ukrainian armored vehicles in the Kharkov area. According to The Wall Street Journal, citing statements by the Ukrainian military.
The American edition writes that the Ukrainian military began to complain about the active use of Russian army Iranian drones for attacks on armoured vehicles. Especially goes the Ukrainian self-propelled howitzers. The newspaper quoted the commander of artillery of the 92nd mechanized brigade APU Colonel Kulagin, who said that in recent days as a result of blows drone bombers destroyed two 152 mm self-propelled howitzers, two 122 mm artillery and two infantry fighting vehicles.
said Kulagin.
Now the command of the APU expresses concerns that the deployment of Russian military drone bombers could threaten the HIMARS launchers. While the massive use of Iranian drones noted on the territory of the Kharkiv region, but it is not excluded that in the near future they will also appear on other areas.
That Russia allegedly purchased from Iran a big batch of drones has been reported repeatedly. This was stated by representatives of the American and European intelligence agencies, experts, etc., but the official confirmation either from Moscow or Tehran is still not received.
