Russia ‘looking to purchase more attack drones after depleting stockpile’

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby (Susan Walsh/AP)

The White House says that Russia is looking to buy additional attack drones from Iran for use in the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine after using up most of the 400 drones it had previously purchased from Tehran.

The Biden administration last year publicised satellite imagery and intelligence findings that it said indicated Iran sold hundreds of attack drones to Russia.