OREANDA-NEWS  Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, commenting on reports about plans for joint production of drones by Russia and Iran, said that Moscow has its own programs for their creation.

"Russia has a number of its own programs to create unmanned aerial vehicles for a variety of purposes. These programs are being implemented. As you know, a list of presidential instructions has recently been adopted, signed and made public on the development of the field of unmanned aerial vehicles. Therefore, we have our own development programs," he told reporters when asked to comment on WSJ publications about the possible construction of a Russian-Iranian drone manufacturing plant in Russia.

Peskov added that he did not know which sources of information the publication relied on.