The parties are focused on the development of a faster UAV model, which would create additional problems for the Ukrainian air defense system.

Iran and the Russian Federation continue to conduct secret negotiations on cooperation in the production of drones, which Moscow actively uses in the war with Ukraine.

According to The Wall Street Journal, at the beginning of January, a high-level Iranian delegation visited the Russian Federation in order to agree on the construction of a new factory for the production of UAVs.

As part of the trip, Iranian officials inspected the construction site of the future facility in the city of Yelabuga (Republic of Tatarstan). Journalists found out that the parties expect to make at least 6,000 drones at the new plant.

It is also reported that Moscow and Tehran are focused on developing a faster UAV model to bypass the Ukrainian air defense system.

Russia is running out of Iranian drones

Earlier, experts said that Russia has already used up 193 Iranian Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones from the second batch of 250 received from Iran.

At the same time, the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says that the Russian occupiers can use against Ukraine all the drones that Iran promised to transfer to them by May of this year.

We are talking about a batch of 1,750 UAVs. Analysts believe that this is possible if the Russian Federation does not reduce the pace and uses them at the same speed as in the period from September to December 2022.