Iran is preparing to send about a thousand more weapons to Russia, including short-range ground-to-ground ballistic missiles and additional attack drones. This is reported by CNN with reference to data from official sources of one of the Western countries, which one is not specified in the material. The supply of arms could give the Kremlin a significant advantage on the battlefield.
Sources say the latest shipment of weapons from Iran to Russia included about 450 drones that the Russian military used in Ukraine. Last week, Ukrainian officials said they shot down more than 300 Iranian drones.
Earlier it became known about the preparation of supplies to Russia from Iran of Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar missiles, the range of which is 300 and 700 km, respectively.
Officially, Iran denies the supply of weapons to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin also denied reports of this. On October 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia used about 400 Iranian Shahed-136 drones in the war against Ukraine.
“About 400 Iranian drones have already been used against the civilian population of Ukraine… Nevertheless, I am grateful to our military, 60-70% were shot down. This is a good result, but I sympathize with everyone who lost their loved ones due to Iranian drone attacks,” the President of Ukraine said at a meeting with President of Guinea-Bissau Umaru Shisoku Embalo.
On October 17, Ukraine was subjected to massive Russian attacks by Shahed-136 drones. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that four people were killed in the attack in the Shevchenkovsky district of the city, three were hospitalized, and several people received minor injuries.