<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has launched more than 30 drone attacks on Ukraine in just two days.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b>He added that in total, Moscow had also carried out some 4,500 missile strikes and over 8,000 air raids.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaking from Kyiv and standing beside what appeared to be a downed Iranian Shahed drone, Mr Zelensky pledged to "clip the wings" of Moscow's air power.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Western officials believe Iran has supplied a large number of drones to Russia, but Moscow and Tehran deny it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Russia's aggressive use of drones "appalling".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The top US diplomat accused Russian commanders of using the devices to "kill Ukrainian civilians and destroy the infrastructure they rely on for electricity, for water, for heat" during a visit to the Canadian capital Ottawa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In recent weeks, Russian attacks have targeted Ukraine's civilian infrastructure, damaging the country's electricity and water supply just as temperatures begin to drop.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Western countries say Iran is supplying its domestically developed drones to Moscow and that Iranian military experts are on the ground in Russian-occupied Crimea to provide technical support to pilots.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kyiv has identified the drones used in some attacks on its infrastructure as Iranian Shahed-136 drones. They are known as "kamikaze" drones because they are destroyed in the attack - named after the Japanese fighter pilots who flew suicide missions in World War Two.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"If... it becomes clear to us that Russia has used Iranian drones in the war against Ukraine, we will definitely not be indifferent about this issue," Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>