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RFL/RE – The European Union is seeking concrete evidence for any Iranian involvement in Russia’s war on Ukraine, the bloc’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said on October 17.
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Video footage posted on social media showed drones buzzing over the Kyiv sky early on October 17 and smoke billowing as Ukraine said the capital and other regions were being targeted in a fresh wave of air strikes.
Kyiv has said that Russia is using Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles laden with explosives known as kamikaze drones to strike civilian and infrastructure targets inside Ukraine.
“We will look for concrete evidence about the participation (of Iran in the Ukraine war),” Josep Borrell told reporters as he arrived for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg, adding that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba would take part in the gathering.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has denied that Tehran has provided weapons to either side in the conflict.
“The published news about Iran providing Russia with drones has political ambitions and it’s circulated by Western sources. We have not provided weaponry to any side of the countries at war,” said Nasser Kanaani during a weekly press conference on October 17.
