EU member states have given their support to imposing fresh sanctions on Tehran if its military backing for Russia’s war in Ukraine is proved in the wake of attacks on Kyiv allegedly using Iranian-made drones.
In talks on Monday, the bloc’s foreign ministers reached an in-principle consensus on sanctioning Tehran for supplying Shahed 136 “kamikaze” drones to Moscow if it obtains incontrovertible evidence they are being used against Ukraine, as Kyiv has insisted.
Witnesses said the explosions that struck Ukraine’s capital on Monday morning were preceded by a humming noise similar to a loud lawnmower engine, a description that suggests the Shahed 136 drones may have been used.