This year – nearly every night, and sometimes in the mornings and during the day – we face the threat of Shahed drones, the strike drones given to Russia by Iran, which have become one of the main tools of Russian terror against Ukraine, and, unfortunately, the Russians and Iranians continue to improve them, emphasized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his video address on Sunday.

“Just this week, from Monday until today, there have been Shaheds every day. On October 18th alone, there were 129 of these drones. And since the beginning of the year, Russia has already used over 6,130 Shaheds. Our warriors manage to shoot down a significant portion of them. Electronic warfare systems help a lot, but not with everything. That’s why there needs to be more pressure on Russia's ability to already produce these weapons. We need the capability to destroy not only the storage bases for the Shaheds but also the entire infrastructure for their production and logistics,” the President said.

Zelenskyy noted that the Ukrainian side has always told its partners that they need to be more decisive in countering such criminal alliances.

“Unfortunately, terrorists know how to take advantage of the time that the free world's indecision gives them,” he stated.