{"id":129791,"date":"2024-09-07T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/ukraine-war-iran-sends-hundreds-of-missiles-to-russia-in-dramatic-escalation\/"},"modified":"2024-09-07T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T17:58:11","slug":"ukraine-war-iran-sends-hundreds-of-missiles-to-russia-in-dramatic-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/ukraine-war-iran-sends-hundreds-of-missiles-to-russia-in-dramatic-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war: Iran ‘sends hundreds of missiles to Russia’ in ‘dramatic escalation’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran is believed to have sent more than 200 ballistic missiles to Russia – a move security chiefs say would be a “dramatic escalation” of its defence partnership with Moscow.<\/p>\n

A Russian ship delivered the short-range Fatah-360 missiles from Tehran to a port in the Caspian Sea, a Ukrainian source told Sky News on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ukraine<\/strong><\/a> and its allies in the West have long feared that Iran has been supplying Russia with ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

Recap today’s developments in Ukraine with our blog<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

So far it has supplied Vladimir Putin<\/strong><\/a>‘s forces with large quantities of attack drones – as well as artillery shells and ammunition.<\/p>\n

But speaking at an event in London, CIA director Bill Burns said: “Should Iran ship ballistic missiles… it would be a dramatic escalation of the nature of the defence partnership.”<\/p>\n

Mr Burns also stressed how the Russia<\/strong><\/a>-Ukraine conflict demonstrates the impact of technology on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

He and his UK counterpart, MI6 chief Sir Richard Moore accused Russia of a “reckless campaign of sabotage”<\/strong><\/a> in the unprecedented joint event on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, military analyst Sean Bell said of the reported missile delivery: “It will mean Russia’s limited supply of its own Iskander missiles can now be focused on long-range targets – that’s very worrying.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We [also] understand that Russian soldiers have been in Iran doing training for the last few weeks.”<\/p>\n

Drone attacks on 11 Ukrainian regions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Ukraine overnight, dozens of drones were shot down across the country.<\/p>\n

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 67 drones were used across 11 regions, including Kyiv.<\/p>\n

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Fifty-eight of them were shot down with electronic weapons systems, they said.<\/p>\n

The remnants of a kamikaze drone were seen outside the Ukrainian parliament building in central Kyiv on Saturday.<\/p>\n

But the Ukrainian parliamentary press service said there had been no casualties and no damage to the building.<\/p>\n

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Read more from Sky News:
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Elsewhere, three men were killed and three people injured in an artillery attack on the eastern city of Kostiantynivka.<\/p>\n

Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin said the attack also damaged a high-rise building and local power lines.<\/p>\n

It came after a week of long-range Russian attacks, including the missile strike on a military academy and hospital<\/strong><\/a> in Poltava, which killed 55 people and injured 328 others.<\/p>\n

The funerals for some of the victims took place in the city on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Kyiv continued to launch its own strikes against Russia.<\/p>\n

In the Russian border region of Voronezh, governor Aleksandr Gusev said that a drone strike started a fire and the detonation of “explosive objects” on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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