{"id":1368907,"date":"2026-03-12T18:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/iranian-uav-operators-launched-shaheeds-over-ukraine-zelensky\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:58:54","slug":"iranian-uav-operators-launched-shaheeds-over-ukraine-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/iranian-uav-operators-launched-shaheeds-over-ukraine-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian UAV operators launched “shaheeds” over Ukraine – Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the first Shahed attack drones that Russia used to strike Ukraine were controlled by Iranian operators.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This<\/span> was reported by<\/span><\/a> the RBC-Ukraine news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked if Zelensky was afraid of opening “another front” and becoming an enemy of Iran through aid to Middle Eastern countries, he replied that Tehran is a long-time ally of Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n

In particular, Iranian UAV operators taught the Russians how to use “shaheeds”, because they did not know how.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There were no Russian operators, there were operators from another country, the country where the “shaheeds” came from, because they needed to be trained. They trained them in a real war,” Zelensky explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, according to the president, Iran has transferred a significant number of artillery shells and missiles to the Russian occupiers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier, the SBU reported in absentia about suspicion to Iranian General Abdollah Mehrabi<\/a> . He is suspected of supplying engines for Shahed suicide drones, which Russia uses against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Recall that the EU has information about Iran sending ballistic missiles to Russia<\/a> , but there is currently no guaranteed evidence of this.<\/p>\n

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the first Shahed attack drones that Russia used to strike Ukraine were controlled by Iranian operators. This was reported by the RBC-Ukraine news agency. When asked if Zelensky was afraid of opening “another front” and becoming an enemy of Iran through aid to Middle Eastern countries, he replied that Tehran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1209456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1368907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}