Russia just bought lethal drones from Iran to use in Ukraine. Why this matters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% :Russian troops have been receiving training in Iran to fly the drones for weeks.
46% :Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iranian security and political issues analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a national security thinktank in Washington D.C. said Iran has been pouring resources and research and development money into its drone program.
43% : "Politically, the changing direction of arms trade between Iran and Russia cannot be ignored," said Taleblu.
42% : WASHINGTON - Russian officials immediately signaled buyer's remorse after they received their first shipment of lethal drones from Iran to bolster their depleted arsenal, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
41% : The purchase of drones from Iran shows that the Russian defense industry can't keep pace with battlefield losses and that sanctions have prevented Russia from importing the high-tech parts it needs to build them, a second U.S. official said.
36% : The weapons sale underscores the toll the six-month war has taken on Russia's military, the international isolation that has forced Russian President Vladimir Putin to depend on an unsavory ally, and the low quality of the drones supplied by Iran, U.S. officials say.
22% : "And what punitive measures will Biden, who continues to seek a weaker and shorter nuclear deal with Iran, consider against the mullahs?"

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.