In addition to drones, Tehran would plan to deliver Russia soil-to-ground missiles, despite threats from new American sanctions.
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The case reveals the vulnerability of the Russian army, very weakened by eight months of war in Ukraine and faced with a melting of its most modern military equipment. According to the Reuters agency, confirming information from the Washington Post published on Sunday October 16 and citing Iranian sources, Tehran would be ready to deliver Sol-Sol missiles to Russia, Fateh and Zolfaghar type. This agreement would have been concluded within the framework of a visit to Moscow of an Iranian delegation on October 8.
The Russian Defense Ministry does not recognize such military assistance, but it has already existed, for several months, in the form of drone deliveries. And it could still gain momentum despite American warnings. According to our information, Iranian instructors are also deployed in small numbers on the field, as they were in Syria, in order to supervise the use of this equipment.
In reaction to these developments, the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kouleba, proposed to President Volodymyr Zelensky to break diplomatic relations with Iran. kyiv also tries to obtain from Israel, concerned first of all by the Iranian ballistic program, additional anti -aircraft defense means.
Vedant Patel, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, did not wish to publicly comment on any deliveries of Iranian missiles to Russia. But he reiterated the threat of American sanctions against any facilitator of armaments for Moscow, in particular drones, prohibited for export, according to him, within the framework of resolution 2231 of the United Nations Security Council ( UN).
“Russia has lost more than 6,000 pieces of equipment since the start of the war, and there is enormous pressure on its defense industry to replace these losses, he said on Monday. It is constrained To rest on unreliable countries like Iran for its equipment and supplies, and, according to our information, some of the drones noted in these transfers have experienced many failures. “
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As of July 11, US National Security Councilor Jake Sullivan spoke of an imminent delivery of Iranian drones to Russia. Appeared in the Ukrainian sky in September, after having been repainted in Russian colors, they offer a new military option in Moscow, regularly causing explosions in cities like kyiv or Dnipro, yet located far from the front.
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