Iranian instructors in Belarus help launch drones at Ukraine
IRYNA BALACHUK — SUNDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2022, 13:14
The National Resistance Center reports that Iranian instructors were brought to Belarus, where they are training the Russian military and coordinating UAV launches on infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.
Source: NRC website
Quote from NRC: "In the village of Mikulichi, in Gomel Oblast, a group of Iranian instructors, officers of the IRGC, who are under the increased protection of the Russian National Guard and FSB officers, have been spotted.
According to information from the Belarusian partisans, it was these instructors who coordinated the launches of the Shahed-136 UAV at infrastructure facilities in the Kyiv Oblast, and the Northern and Western oblasts of Ukraine."
Details: According to the local resistance group, the Russians have taken complete control of the air bases in Baranavichy and Lida. The occupiers continue to use them to launch strikes on the territory of Ukraine.
Background:
- The New York Times previously reported that Iran sent instructors to occupied Crimea to help the Russians overcome problems with a fleet of drones they purchased from Tehran.
- Before that, the Ukrainian resistance movement noticed that there are up to 20 instructors from Iran on the territory of the temporarily occupied Kherson Oblast.
- The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Shahed drones will not affect the course of the war - the Russians use them hoping to generate nonlinear effects through terror.
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