US accuses Iran of having supplied dozens of combat drones to Russia during summer

US special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, has said that Iran supplied dozens of combat drones to Russia this summer in the course of the war in Ukraine. 

Iran also has deployed its military personnel in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, he said, according to the Kyiv Independent.

"Confronted with the evidence, they need a new policy, not a new story", Malley said.

Despite overwhelming evidence of Iranian drone deliveries to Russia, Iran had initially denied supplying them.

On November 5, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian acknowledged for the first time that his country had provided drones to Russia but claimed that it happened before their full-scale invasion of Ukraine.