Ukraine will Beziehungen zu Iran abbrechen

Nach den jüngsten Drohneangriffen, die, wie es heißt, bis zu 30% der ukrainischen Energieversorgung zerstört haben, kündigt Kiev an, es wolle seine Beziehungen zum Iran abbrechen:

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Tuesday he had called on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to break off Ukraine’s diplomatic relations with Iran.

Kuleba said Kyiv was willing to share a “bag of evidence” with the European Union that Russia had used Iranian-made military drones in the current conflict. The EU is currently considering sanctions against Iran should the Ukrainian claims be proved.

Russia used dozens of ‘kamikaze’ drones in attacks Monday that Ukraine says were Shahed-136s, killing four people in Kyiv. “Tehran bears full responsibility for the destruction of relations with Ukraine”, Kuleba told a news conference.

While Iran has denied supplying drones to Russia, analysts point out they could be a cheap if less effective alternative to Russia’s diminishing stocks of missiles. The State Department’s Vedant Patel Monday backed up Ukraine’s claims, saying there was “extensive proof” Russia was using Iranian-made drones.

Iran has been a close military ally of Russia in the Syrian war, where Moscow supplies air power and Tehran tens of thousands of militia ground troops to defeat the opponents of Bashar al Assad's government.