United States President Donald Trump said he believes Russia may be helping Iran "a little bit," before pointing to US support for Ukraine as a possible justification, the British newspaper The Guardian reports.
In an interview with Fox News Radio this morning, the US president was asked if he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin was supporting Iran after US-Israeli strikes on the country.
"I think it might be helping him a little bit, yeah, I guess. And he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right? Yeah, we're helping (Ukraine). And then (Putin) says that, and China would say the same thing. You know, it's like, hey, they're doing this, and we're doing this. To be fair, they're doing this, and we're doing this," Trump said.
On Thursday, British Defense Secretary John Healy said that Putin's "hidden hand" was behind Iran's military methods.
He was speaking after British officers at the UK military headquarters in London told him that drone pilots from Iran and Iranian proxy groups were increasingly adopting tactics "from the Russians".
Iran has already launched more than 2.000 "shahid" drones across the Middle East in response to the US-Israeli attack launched on February 28. These long-range weapons are being used extensively by Russia against Ukraine.
Last week, the Washington Post and other media outlets reported that Moscow was providing Tehran with intelligence on US military resources in the region.
Putin denied Russian involvement in a phone call with Trump, US special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Tuesday.
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