Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of Iranian Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles currently being used by the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine.

The Government takes the deepening alliance between Russia and Iran as a serious threat. The Ukrainian Armed Forces has identified the use of drone attacks on critical infrastructure and buildings as Iranian Shahed-136 weapons. The supply and deployments of such explosive drones to Russia violates UN sanctions.