The British Ministry of Defense estimates that Russia has used up nearly all of its current stockpile of Iranian-made weapons and will seek to get more of those supplies.
The ministry said yesterday in a daily Twitter intelligence update that Russia had deployed a number of Iranian-made drones in the war with Ukraine since last September, and pointed out that Russian attacks combined the use of drones with conventional weapons systems. which can be reused, and the army is using Russian drones to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
The Washington Post on Sunday quoted three government officials with ties to intelligence known to US and other Western security agencies that Tehran is currently handing over “key structures and components” to Moscow to start production.
On the ground, a baby was killed as a result of a rocket attack on a maternity ward in a hospital in the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said yesterday. Rescuers pulled the baby’s mother and a doctor out of the rubble. were still alive.
Oleksandr Starukh, the governor of the Zaporozhye region, said Russian missiles were used in the attack.
Crimea, which is under Russian control in Ukraine, was attacked by drones while Russian forces were on alert, according to a statement by authorities appointed from Moscow.
The governor of the Sevastopol administrative region in Crimea said on Telegram that the region had been attacked by marches and explained that two marches had “so far been shot down.” He confirmed that no civilian infrastructure was hit and urged residents to remain calm.
Ukraine has experienced unusually mild temperatures this fall, but temperatures are starting to drop below freezing, with temperatures expected to reach -20 degrees Celsius or even lower in some areas during the winter months.
Russia targeted Ukrainian energy installations during the winter, after a series of battlefield setbacks, including the withdrawal of Russian troops from the southern city of Kherson to the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, which runs through the center of the country.
