Russia launched fresh strikes across Ukraine on Tuesday morning, continuing a days-long aerial assault under President Vladimir Putin’s new war commander that has taken a serious toll on Ukrainian power infrastructure and civilians. Moscow insists it is only targeting power installations, and it has indeed hammered Ukraine’s energy and water supplies, including a power plant in Kyiv that was hit Tuesday.
With power cuts already spreading as Ukraine’s harsh winter approaches — and with civilians being killed daily by the ongoing barrage of “suicide drones” that Russia is launching along with its missiles — Kyiv’s mayor and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy have labeled Russia a “terrorist state.”
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A swarm of the Iranian-made, explosives-packed drones slammed into buildings in Kyiv on Monday killing four people, including Viktoria Zamchenko, who was reportedly six months pregnant with her first child.
Ukraine claims Russia has ordered nearly 2,500 suicide drones from Iran, reportedly at a cost of around $20,000 each, a fraction of the price of a guided missile.
Iran has denied that it is providing Russia with weapons for the war, but the Reuters news agency reported Tuesday, citing unnamed Iranian sources, that Tehran had actually agreed to provide Russia with even more weapons in a new deal arranged during an early-October visit by Iranian security officials to Moscow. The deal, which CBS News could not independently verify, apparently saw Iran promise not only drones, but surface-to-surface missiles.
Ukraine’s foreign minister said Tuesday that he was submitting a proposal to Zelenskyy to sever the country’s diplomatic ties with Tehran completely over its provision of drones to Russia. Last week, a top British intelligence official said the Russian military’s “supplies and munitions are running out.”
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