Russian Forces Rapidly Running Out of Iranian-Made Shahed-136 Drones--ISW

Russian forces fighting in Ukraine are quickly burning through their stockpile of Iranian Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 drones, as the invasion effort drags on, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Vladimir Putin's forces have stepped up the frequency of the UAV, or unmanned aerial vehicle, attacks across Ukraine since December, the think tank said in an updated analysis on January 7.

The Kremlin is hoping to continue its assault on the country's critical infrastructure, the ISW argued, without its supply of missiles suffering.

Russian forces have only 88 percent of their cache of Shahed drones remaining, meaning Moscow's forces would have just 90 Iranian-made UAVs left at their disposal by this count, Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov claimed in a Twitter post on Friday.

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