Jeddah: For providing Russia with lethal "kamikaze" drones to attack Ukraine, Iran is now subject to a number of new European sanctions.

On Wednesday, sanctions experts from the 27-member EU bloc decided to blacklist Shahed Aviation Industries, two senior military officers, and Brig. Gen. Saeed Aghajani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who is in charge of Iran's drone programme.

The EU governments are anticipated to approve the sanctions, which include asset freezes and travel restrictions, on Thursday. The spokesman for French President Emmanuel Macron stated on Wednesday that there are new listings for the drone issue that should be adopted this week.

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"I believe we have enough evidence to say that Iran is a duck if it behaves like a duck, talks like a duck, and admits to giving drones to the largest duck in the world. Gabrielius Landsbergis, the foreign minister of Lithuania, said, "Let's sanction the duck out of them.

A flurry of Shahed-136 suicide drone attacks targeting people and energy infrastructure have hit Ukraine. Since the first one was fired on September 13, its military claimed on Wednesday to have shot down more than 220 of the Iranian-made weapons.

A thermal power plant in the western Ukrainian city of Burshtyn was struck by a Russian missile strike on Wednesday, the most recent in a string of assaults on vital infrastructure that has rendered nearly a third of the nation's capacity to generate electricity inoperable just before winter.

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At a Wednesday UN Security Council meeting that is held behind closed doors, the US, Britain, and France will bring up the issue of Iranian arms transfers to Russia. Resolution 2231, which supported the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, is viewed by Western powers as being broken by the export and purchase of drones.

On Wednesday, Israel made the offer to assist Ukraine in creating air attack warning systems for civilians. Israel has restricted its assistance to Ukraine to humanitarian aid despite condemning the Russian invasion.

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In order to "assist in the development of a lifesaving civilian early warning system," Israel had asked Ukraine to "share information about their needs for air defence alerts," according to Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

To alert residents to take cover when missiles are launched, Israel has a radar network that activates sirens or cellphone alerts. According to a defence ministry spokesperson for Israel, Ukraine might be offered similar early warning systems.