<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Iran of "lying" and "terrorist cooperation" by supporting Russia's war in Ukraine.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">It comes after Iran admitted for the first time it had supplied drones to Moscow, but only before the invasion.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The West believes Russia has used Iranian "kamikaze" drones to hit key infrastructure sites in Ukraine, but Iran and Moscow previously denied it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blackouts have hit much of Ukraine after the attacks on power stations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Western officials have accused Iran of supplying drones to Russia and of providing personnel on the ground to train Russian drone pilots.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Previously, Tehran denied the accusations, but on Saturday Iran's foreign minister said a small number of the vehicles had been sent to Moscow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We provided a limited number of drones to Russia many months prior to the Ukraine war," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters in Tehran.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, in an address on his Telegram channel, President Zelensky accused Iran of lying "even in this confession".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 44-year-old claimed that Ukraine was shooting down about 10 Iranian drones every day, despite Iran saying it had only supplied Russia with a small number.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr Zelensky warned Iran about its support for Russia, saying this would backfire.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We know for sure that Iranian instructors taught Russian terrorists how to use drones, and Tehran is generally silent about it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"And if Iran continues lying about the obvious, it means that the world will make even more efforts to investigate the terrorist cooperation between the Russian and Iranian regimes and what Russia is paying Iran for such cooperation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"There will be no such thing in the modern world that any of the terrorists or their accomplices will remain unpunished."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The US, EU and UK have all imposed sanctions on Iran for supplying drones to Russia for use in the conflict.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Russia has used the "kamikaze" drones - named after the Japanese suicide pilots in World War Two because they get destroyed on impact - to hit critical infrastructure sites across Ukraine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a consequence, rolling blackouts and restrictions on electricity use have been imposed just as the weather turns cold for winter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some Western leaders have called the attacks "war crimes", because under the Geneva Conventions - which define the rules of war - civilian infrastructure cannot be deliberately targeted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Saturday, Ukraine's national grid operator imposed further restrictions in some regions because electricity usage had grown compared to the same time last week. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>