Iran is preparing to supply Russia with hundreds of drone aircraft, including advanced models capable of firing missiles, the Biden administration said Monday, publicly revealing what U.S.
officials say is a secret effort by Tehran to provide military assistance for Russian’s invasion of Ukraine.The planned delivery of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, disclosed by national security adviser Jake Sullivan at a White House briefing, could provide a significant boost to Moscow’s efforts to find and destroy Western-supplied artillery and other weapons systems that have slowed the advance of Russian troops in recent weeks.
“Our information indicates that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred UAVs, including weapons-capable UAVs on an expedited timeline,” Sullivan told reporters in the White House briefing room.“It’s unclear whether Iran has delivered any of these UAVs to Russia already,” Sullivan said, “but this is just one example of how Russia is looking to countries like Iran for capabilities.
There are various indications that Russian-backed forces are running out of precision weapons, something that the UAVs from Iran would change, he added. Ukraine has used UAVs — many of them supplied by NATO countries such as Turkey — to destroy hundreds of Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers since the start of the invasion. Moscow, which now finds itself diplomatically isolated and under heavy economic sanctions, has struggled to replace some of its lost military hardware, while Ukraine is receiving billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, including state-of-the-art artillery systems from the United States.
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