Ukraine war: Kyiv warns Iran of consequences for supporting Russia

Kyiv has warned Iran that the "consequences" of supporting Russia successful its warfare against Ukraine are greater than the "benefits".

It comes aft Iran admitted for the archetypal clip it has supplied drones to Moscow, but lone earlier the warfare began.

The West believes Russia has utilized Iranian "kamikaze" drones to deed cardinal infrastructure sites successful Ukraine, but Iran and Moscow antecedently denied it.

Blackouts person deed overmuch of Ukraine aft the attacks connected powerfulness stations.

Western officials person accused Iran of supplying drones to Russia and of providing unit connected the crushed to bid Russian drone pilots.

Previously, Tehran denied the accusations, but connected Saturday Iran's overseas curate said a tiny fig of the vehicles had been sent to Moscow.

"We provided a constricted fig of drones to Russia galore months anterior to the Ukraine war," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters successful Tehran.

Ukraine deed back, saying Iran's enactment for Russia would yet backfire.

"Tehran should realise that the consequences of complicity successful the crimes of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine volition beryllium overmuch greater than the payment of Russia's support," overseas ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said.

The US, EU and UK person each imposed sanctions connected Iran for supplying drones to Russia for usage successful the conflict.

Russia has utilized the Shahed-136 "kamikaze" drones - named aft the Japanese termination pilots successful World War Two due to the fact that they get destroyed connected interaction - to deed captious infrastructure sites crossed Ukraine.

As a consequence, rolling blackouts and restrictions connected energy usage person been imposed conscionable arsenic the upwind turns acold for winter.

Some Western leaders person called the attacks "war crimes", due to the fact that nether the Geneva Conventions - which specify the rules of warfare - civilian infrastructure cannot beryllium deliberately targeted.

On Saturday, Ukraine's nationalist grid relation imposed further restrictions successful immoderate regions due to the fact that energy usage had grown compared to the aforesaid clip past week.

Sweden's caller authorities volition region itself from the Kurdish YPG militia arsenic it tries to triumph Turkey's support to articulation Nato, Sweden's overseas minister, Tobias Billstrom, told Swedish Radio connected Saturday.

Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its governmental subdivision PYD to beryllium extensions of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which launched an insurgency against Turkey successful 1980 and is regarded arsenic a violent radical by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Sweden, the US and different Nato countries person supported the YPG successful the combat against the Islamic State group.

However, Turkey has vowed to artifact Sweden's exertion to articulation Nato if it does not halt supporting the militia group.

A justice successful occupied Ukraine has been changeable and severely injured, successful what appears to beryllium an assassination attempt.

He has been named arsenic Alexander Nikulin - who worked astatine the Russian-backed ultimate tribunal successful the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk.

In June, helium sentenced to decease 2 Britons and a Moroccan, who had been captured portion warring successful the Ukrainian army.

Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoun were aboriginal released successful a captive swap.

There person been a fig of attacks connected radical moving with the pro-Moscow authorities, with respective of them killed.

Britain's Ministry of Defence said that much than 300,000 Russian conscripts successful Ukraine volition person small interaction connected the warfare due to the fact that Moscow is struggling to bid them.

UK quality points retired that galore experienced Russian officers are either fighting, oregon dead, and there's a shortage of munition and facilities.

It says the conscripts volition not connection Russia overmuch assistance successful its "offensive combat capability".

During a code connected Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said astir 50,000 caller recruits were already warring successful Ukraine.