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Russia and Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky says Moscow is planning a campaign of Iranian drone attacks

Zelensky said that the drones are of Iranian manufacture Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia is planning a long campaign of drone attacks, in an attempt to break Ukraine's morale. Zelensky added that he had seen intelligence reports that Russia would carry out its attacks with Iranian "Shahid" drones. This statement comes after an attack by Ukraine on Russian forces in the Donbass region, and said that it had killed hundreds of them. In a rare admission of casualties in the battles, Russia said that 63 of its soldiers were killed in the attack. Speaking overnight in Kyiv, Zelensky said Russia aimed to "exhaust" Ukraine with a protracted series of drone attacks.