Ukraine wants Iranian drone factories destroyed

Amid US and Western allegations of Iranian involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian war by supporting Russian forces with qualitative weapons, Tehran is facing a major crisis with the West.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, called for the destruction of Iranian factories that manufacture drones and missiles.

He also called on Twitter for the arrest of the suppliers of those weapons to Moscow.

Iranian pledges

Despite Iranian pledges and previous official denials, Kiev accuses Tehran of planning to supply Russia with more weapons according to intelligence reports.

This in a way proves that Iran does not care about international sanctions.

Iran seems to be taking sides with Russia, although it pretends to be officially neutral.

It also claims that it is committed to a policy of non-interference in the war, contrary to the truth.

Common sanctions

This Iranian position comes against the background of Iran's economic and political situation which is aggravated due to international sanctions.

Russia's case is the same, after its involvement in the Ukrainian war and its inability to win it.

This makes both countries in urgent need for each other, in the light of their current crises, especially with Iran reducing its hopes for rapprochement with the West.

Despite Russia's huge distance ahead of Iran in defence industries, Iran was able to produce low-cost drones.

This tempted the Russians who were unable to cover the expenses of continuing the war in Ukraine.

It is the Ukrainians who are advancing at the expense of the retreating Russian army, whose country is suffering from a major economic downturn.

Ukraine suffers heavily from Iranian drone strikes, which, although somewhat primitive and slow, hit many civilian targets, especially Ukrainian infrastructure, such as water and electricity plants in major Ukrainian cities, such as the capital Kiev, and the coastal city of Odessa in the south-west of the country due to the inability of the Russians to advance in the face of Ukrainian counterattacks in the east, in particular.

Kiev accused Tehran of supplying Moscow with up to 1,700 drones, and says that Russia has used them to strike targets in Ukraine since September.

Iran and Russia deny these accusations, and the Russians argue that leaked information about the delivery of a large batch of drones by Iran to Russia is in the full interest of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Western sanctions on Iran are set to increase due to drone deals.

The Iranian leadership believes these deals will be profitable.

Western countries are, meanwhile, likely to respond positively to Ukrainian demands to liquidate Iranian drone factories that have become a threat to European security, especially Eastern European countries.