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NATO promises Ukraine anti-drone systems

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NATO will deliver air defense systems to Ukraine in the coming days to help the country defend itself against drones, including Iranian drones, that Russia is using against critical infrastructure, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. At the same time, Iranian officials told Reuters that Tehran had promised to supply Russia with missiles and more drones.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has proposed to President Volodymyr Zelensky that his country cut diplomatic ties with Iran on the grounds that the Islamic Republic supplies Russia with weapons that are used in Ukraine. According to Kyiv's claims, the Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital were carried out with the help of Iranian Shahed-136 drones, although the Kremlin and Tehran deny this. 

"The fact that Russia is turning to Iran for such help is an acknowledgment by the Kremlin of its military and political bankruptcy," commented Zelensky. "Ukraine will send an official note to the Israeli government with a request for the immediate delivery of air defense systems," the Ukrainian foreign minister announced.

Russia should be recognized not only as a sponsor of terrorism, but also as a terrorist state, demanded the vast majority of MEPs at the plenary session in Strasbourg. Some of them even demanded that Russian diplomats be expelled from Europe.

Russian authorities in the occupied Kherson region ordered the evacuation of residents of four municipalities near the front. The head of the pro-Kremlin administration in the region, Vladimir Saldo, accused the Ukrainian forces of planning to destroy the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and flood the entire river. 
The commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine, General Sergey Surovikin, said that traffic along the Kakhovska embankment and the Antonovsky Bridge was suspended due to Ukrainian shelling. He defined the situation on the fronts in Ukraine as "tense". 



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