This undated photograph released by the Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate shows the wreckage of what Kyiv has described as an Iranian Shahed drone downed near Kupiansk, Ukraine.
photo: AP
Kyiv accused Russia, on Sunday, of bombing Odesa with Iranian-made drones.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian news agency quoted Vitaly Kim, head of the Regional Military Administration in Mykolaiv, saying that none of the Iranian-made drones fired at the region in southern Ukraine reached their target because of its forces' response.
"We already have a certain number of Iranian Kamikaze Drones that were shot down. None of them reached its target in the city of Mykolaiv. In addition, during the past day, the Ukrainian armed forces shot down an Orlan-10 drone," Kim added.
He added that the Russian forces bombed last night the center of the city of Mykolaiv with various weapons.
On Sunday, Kyiv accused Russia of bombing Odesa with Iranian-made drones, pointing out that the administrative building in the city center was targeted three times.
These Iranian drones are seen flying above Odesa in videos widely shared on the internet. The Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed they had destroyed four Iranian Shahid-136 drones in the Mykolaiv region with mid-range anti-air missiles on September 22.
A spokeswoman for the military command in the south, Natalia Gumniuk, confirmed that Iranian drones carried out the attack.
It is noteworthy that Ukraine had decided a few days ago to reduce the level of diplomatic relations with Iran because of providing Russian forces with unmanned aircraft, in a move that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described as "collaboration with evil."
On the other hand, Tehran denied these "accusations", considering that they are merely Western campaigns aimed at causing discord between it and Kyiv.
The US intelligence had warned last July (2022) of Iranian plans to send hundreds of drones loaded with bombs to Moscow to help it with its war on Ukrainian soil.