As of: February 12, 2024, 12:14 p.m
By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi
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Russia uses Iranian “Shahed” drones to attack Ukraine.
Russian soldiers are probably being trained for this in Syria.
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Drone use
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Ukraine war
: Russian operators are trained in Syria
Kremlin
wants to use
Syrian mercenaries
: They are being trained for the war in Ukraine
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Damascus – The Iranian-made “Shahed” kamikaze drones are the Russian army’s main weapon in attacks on both the Ukrainian military and Ukrainian infrastructure.
Russia is now so familiar with drones that they can now be manufactured on Russian territory.
Nevertheless, Russian soldiers continue to be trained in the use of the “Shaheds” - in Syria, according to Ukraine.
Drone use in the Ukraine war: Russian operators are trained in Syria
Russia is apparently paying several billion euros to import Iranian Shahed Kamikaze drones.
© IMAGO/Sobhan Farajvan
The Ukrainian military intelligence service GUR said on the short message service Telegram that Russian drone operators would be trained at the Shairat air base in the Syrian city of Homs.
The training program is led by the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, it said.
Accordingly, the Russian operators are being trained in the use of the Shahed-136 and Ababil-3 as well as Raad drones.
A Hezbollah commander named Kamal Abu-Sadiq is responsible for the training.
Russia is Syria's key ally in the civil war, saving Bashar al-Assad's regime from almost certain military defeat against predominantly Sunni rebels in 2015.
Iran is also allied with the Syrian regime.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is showing a military presence together with pro-Iranian militias such as Hezbollah.
Kremlin wants to use Syrian mercenaries: They are being trained for the war in Ukraine
According to a statement from Ukrainian military intelligence, not only Russian soldiers but also Syrian mercenaries are trained at the Shairat air base.
The Russian military wants to use these mercenaries as drone operators in the war of aggression against Ukraine.
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