Iran will reportedly send some 1,000 more weapons, adding short-range ballistic missiles and more attack drones, to Russia for its war against Ukraine.
CNN first reported on the deal, citing officials from a Western country that closely monitors Iran’s weapons program. Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat told Ukrainian media that the Kremlin bought Iskander ballistic missiles from Iran because Russia lacked them.
“In theory, it’s imaginable to shoot them down, but it’s very complicated with the means we have,” Ihnat said. “We have an air defense, not a missile defense. “
He said he believed the missiles would be placed on the northern border with Ukraine to fire at targets across Ukraine. Iran has already provided Russia with explosive drones that have severely damaged infrastructure, the Ukrainian military says it is increasingly successful in shooting them down.
“By moving missiles to RF, Iran knows it will attack our cities. By training Russians on how to use drones, he knows they will attack the energy sector,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak tweeted. “Tehran is complicit in the aggression in Europe and will have to be officially identified as such. “
Other developments:
►Moscow has stripped anti-war activist Arshak Makichyan, his father and two brothers of their citizenship.
The National Constitution Center will present its annual Medal of Freedom to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his “heroic defense of freedom against Russian tyranny. “Zelenskyy said he would donate the $100,000 prize to the Ukrainian Veterans Fund.
►Explosions rocked the city of Poltava in northeastern Ukraine, Governor Dmytro Lunin said on Telegram. Four Russian drones crashed into buildings and fires, and 3 drones were shot down, Lunin said.
Russia unveiled its annual fall draft on Tuesday with the dubious promise that the 120,000 potential recruits would be sent to fight in Ukraine.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the new army “will carry out responsibilities according to the purpose of the army units,” but will be sent to what the Kremlin calls the “special operation of the army” in Ukraine.
The Washington-based Institute for War Studies said in its latest assessment that Russian officials, involved in circumventing drafts, are “trying to lie to the Russian population into believing that fall recruits will not be sent into combat. “not the regions it has annexed, where some of the most brutal fighting is taking place, to be Ukraine.
The assignment comes days after the end of Russia’s “partial mobilization” assignment, which added 300,000 army reservists, mostly with combat experience. They were told they would be trained before being sent to the “army special operation” in Ukraine to serve as a profession. force in the territories already occupied.
The British Ministry of Defence, however, reported that thousands of those recruits had been sent to the front, many with weapons that “are in slightly usable condition”. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that the “inconveniences” noted at the initial level of the call had been corrected.
The ships loaded with grain leave Ukraine despite Russia’s suspension of its participation in a UN-brokered deal that promises the passage of important wartime food materials. Maritime humanitarian exhibition created in July. Fourteen ships set sail on Monday. Analysts say Russia is still bound by the terms of the grain deal it signed with Turkey and the UN, adding a pledge not to attack civilian ships carrying grain that Africa and elsewhere desperately need.
International experts have nearly finished an investigation into unsubstantiated Russian claims that Ukraine is making a radioactive “dirty bomb” at two sites amid developing protection considerations at a war-torn nuclear power plant, the world nuclear force leader said on Tuesday.
Russian state media RIA Novosti said it knew of the Eastern Mineral Enrichment Plant in the central Dnipropetrovsk region and the Kyiv Nuclear Research Institute as locations for the bomb’s development. The Ukrainian government denies this claim and has asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to investigate.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the agency’s director general, said he would deliver his first findings on the most recent claims by the end of the week.
Water and electricity were fully restored in Kyiv, a day after a Russian missile strike targeted critical infrastructure and crippled the city of 3 million people, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said. Kiev will continue to use force cuts to stabilize the force system, he said. Monday’s attack in the morning rush hour brought passengers to safety, cut off water supplies to 80 percent of the city and cut power to thousands of homes and businesses.
“I ask the other people of Kyiv to save electricity, especially in the morning and evening rush hours,” Klitschko said on Telegram. “This is very important because the (damage) in Ukraine’s energy formula is significant. “
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