"Russia is almost certainly increasingly sourcing weaponry from other heavily sanctioned states like Iran and North Korea as its own stocks dwindle," defense officials added.has contacted the Russian defense ministry for a response to Wednesday's daily assessment by the British MOD, which tends to emphasize Ukrainian gains and Russian losses.
Ukraine's armed forces said on Wednesday they had shot down 908 enemy drones since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, although this figure is not independently verified. A cyclist rides past a building partially destroyed by a missile strike in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 13, 2022. The British Ministry of Defense has said that Russia has used Iranian drones during the war in Ukraine for the first time.d that Western sanctions had made it hard for Russia to replace drones shot down by Ukrainian forces because of restricted access to components.
This had forced Moscow to turn to Iran, which has reportedly shipped Russia two types of UAVs. These are Shahed-type UAVs, such as the one shot down by Ukraine, which can carry missiles and be used for reconnaissance. The other is the Mohajer-6, a drone that can carry four precision-guided missiles. "These new deliveries should create some parity in the drone domain," Marina Miron, a research fellow from the Defense Studies Department at King's College London toldlast week,"moreover, they should help Russia to conduct strikes without putting its troops at risk."