“As for the reports on the use of the Bayraktar drone by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on positions in Donbass, we are now rechecking this information,” he said during a press conference.

Lavrov added that the history of the use of UAVs by Ukraine should "make all those who indulge Ukraine's capricious demands that it should be admitted to NATO tomorrow" ponder. 

“And of course, it should make those who arm the Kiev regime controlled by neo-Nazis,” the minister concluded.

On October 26, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that the Ukrainian military used the Turkish Bayraktar drone for the first time in Donbas.