As the dangerous alliance of rogue states China, Russia and Iran grows, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) troops are reportedly ramping up their support for Putin's invasion by now serving actively in Ukraine.
This, despite official denials from both Russia and Iran.
The 50 or so IRGC specialists have supposedly been deployed to train Moscow's forces to operate deadly Iranian-supplied Shahed-136 loitering munitions or ‘kamikaze drones.' (RELATED: Classified Report: Putin Undergoing Treatment for Advanced Cancer)
However, reports the Daily Mirror, in some cases, they are suspected of having directly controlled the drones in their attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets.
The 11ft-long Shahed-136 drones can travel at over 100 mph with an explosive warhead in the nose. They can be carried on various fast-moving vehicles to rapidly change launch locations after firing.
They reportedly have a range of several hundred miles.
The deadly drones are usually fired in salvos of five or more from a launch rack and are designed to evade air defenses and overwhelm ground targets and defensive systems during the attack.
They are believed to first have been deployed to Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, before being actively used by the Russian Army in Ukraine beginning in September. (RELATED: Navy's Embarrassingly Woke Training Video Pushing Gender Pronouns Gets Slammed)
The drones have reportedly faced some operational issues in Ukraine.
According to Sasha Baker, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, these Iranian drones being used by Russian forces in Ukraine have suffered from “numerous failures on the battleground.”
Meanwhile, dozens have been shot down by Ukrainian air-defense units. Still, the suicide drones pose a significant threat, able to reach Ukrainian targets well behind the front lines.
Ukraine's air force command reported that Shahed-136 drones were used to launch attacks on the southern cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv, as well Bila Tserkva, just 50 miles south of Kyiv.
Newsweek reported the Ukrainian Armed Forces posted on Facebook:
The enemy continues aerial reconnaissance using UAVs and also activates air attacks using Iranian kamikaze drones of the Shahed-136 type. It was in this way that the port infrastructure of Ochakov was once again struck. One of the two attacking drones was shot down by our units, the other hit a port tug…
Another kamikaze drone Shahed-136 attacked Kryvyi Rih. As a result of hitting a two-story non-residential building…
The Daily Mirror reports that the Iranian troops were sent to the southern and eastern front with hundreds of Shahed-136 drones which have been hammering Ukrainian cities, adding:
Ukrainian artillery and drone teams have recently destroyed one Shahed-136 base in southern Ukraine, according to Kyiv sources.
Putin's senior commanders signed up the IRGC troops despite repeated denials from the Iranian regime that they are involved.
They have been based in Dzankoi in Crimea and Kherson in the south, where one IRGC team has already been destroyed.
One Ukrainian military source told the Daily Mirror: “At least one of the Iranian training teams has been hit recently and they are actively being hunted down.
More concerning to Ukraine and its Western allies, the Ukrainian military claimed last week that Russia has sent these drones to Belarus for possible attacks in western or central parts of Ukraine.
According to Kyiv Independent, Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces “West” reported that at least 20 Iranian Shahed-136 loitering drones were delivered to the Luninets airfield in Belarus, located around 50 kilometers from Ukraine.
Ukrainian military bloggers have warned that the Iranian drones can be used to target Western arms supplies to Ukraine that use land corridors in the west of the country to bring in weapons and supplies.
No reports on whether Iranian troops will also go to Belarus to train and operate these drones there. ALD
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If Iran has committed troops I feel it’s time for NATO including the U.S. to step in and stop having meetings and bitching whining and complaining. We should ALL explain to Russia, Iran and all the rest that they’d better give it their best shot now or back off for good. Personally, I’ve had an up close and personal look at war and it isn’t a pleasant sight. I’ve also had a pretty close look at what nuclear weapons can do. What I saw was under controlled conditions and can only imagine what might happen of some miserable ass were to detonate a really big nuclear weapon. Though we have a GUTLESS WONDER as President, we must stand up to all this stuff before it’s entirely too late and Earth could be totally destroyed. We’d better stop talking, having meetings and start acting.
And the whole time Putin pretends to be Orthodox! In meeting with the totalitarian mullahs, his face radiates infinitely more joy and delight than he ever showed while participating in a Russian Orthodox mass. So it seems to me.
Iran China Russia is the new Tri- Pact of the 1930
s Obama gave Iran a boatload of taxpayer dollars to keep them from constructing a nuclear bomb. It only shows me Obama wants to destroy this country. On the other hand, Putin is giving Iran the yellow-cake uranium that they need. This is treason. They hung Rosenbergs back in 1950s for giving Stalin plans to build the nuclear bomb. Hillary gave Putin yellow cake uranium with a reset button. This is treason. Everyone knows this they have sold us out. They deserve the death penalty just like the Rosenbergs got. No wonder Biden is telegraphing nuclear doom.American Liberty you
re not from America are you? Everyone knows Obama gave Iran billions for their nuclear treaty. Iran China and Russia are all on the same team.s wrong with you even CNN reported this. Everyone has seen the videos. American Liberty aren`t we all looking for the truth here??????????????????Hillary Clinton gave Putin yellow cake uranium with a restart button? What
So Gospodin Putin is now in cahoots with the psychopathic dictators of theocratic Iran! That should come as no surprise. Birds of a feather flock together. Ha!