Ukrainian troops make anti-aircraft machine gun to destroy drones in Mykolaiv

UKRAINIAN troops make anti-aircraft machine gun to destroy drones in Mykolaiv.

The National Guard servicemen created a homemade anti-aircraft machine gun to destroy drones in Mykolaiv.

"We have been working with this for about 1.5 months. We shoot down Shahed [Iranian-made drones]," one of the soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine said.

Another soldier said they had shot down more than 80 drones.

Tensions have heightened between Tehran and Kyiv amid accusations by Ukrainian and American officials for Iran of supplying drones to Russia to be used in Ukraine.

Some Western media outlets have in recent months published photos of what they claim are remains of Iranian-made drones, Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6, allegedly used in Ukraine by Russian forces.