US discovers construction of Iranian drone plant in Russia
Biden called it a full-fledged military cooperation that is detrimental to Ukraine, Iran's neighbors and the international community
On Friday, U.S. intelligence agencies revealed for the first time how Iranian drones are entering Russia and the plant on its territory where they are planned to be produced.
Source. This was reported by moscowtimes.eu.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby presented a satellite image dated April 4 of a site in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (an industrial and production zone in the Elabuga district of Tatarstan). According to the United States, Russia and Iran are building a drone manufacturing plant there.
The plant is expected to start operating early next year, Kirby said.
"We have information that Russia is receiving materials from Iran. This is a full-fledged military cooperation that is detrimental to Ukraine, Iran's neighbors and the international community," he said.
Until the plant is built, drone supplies from Iran are being shipped across the Caspian Sea. The US showed the route by which the drones are delivered to Russian air bases, from which they are launched into Ukraine.
From the factory in Tehran, they are brought to the Iranian port of Amirabad, delivered by sea to Makhachkala, and from there – by land to the city of Primorsko-Okhtarsk in the Krasnodar Territory on the shores of the Azov Sea (with a military airfield nearby) and to the Sishcha airfield (near the village of the same name in the Bryansk Region), where the 566th Military Transport Aviation Regiment is based.
Background. Earlier, Sky News published a contract between Russia and Iran to supply weapons for the war in Ukraine.
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