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2023-03-08T11:13:00.982Z


According to a security source, Russian-flagged ships left an Iranian port in January, on their way to Russia via the Caspian Sea. Among other things, the ships carried about 100 million bullets, about 300 thousand shells, ammunition for rocket launchers, mortars and machine guns - Moscow paid for the ammunition in cash


Iran has secretly supplied large quantities of bullets, missiles and mortar shells to Russia for its war in Ukraine, and plans to send more, a security source told Sky News.



According to the source, two Russian cargo ships left an Iranian port in January on their way to Russia via the Caspian Sea.

The ships carried about 100 million bullets and about 300 thousand shells.

Ammunition for rocket launchers, mortars and machine guns were also included in the shipments.

The source said Moscow paid for the ammunition in cash.



Iran is believed to be sending ammunition to Russia to help it replenish its stockpiles on the front line in Ukraine.

"Russia continues to use Iran as a rear base," the source said.

According to him, two cargo ships involved in the shipments of ammunition from Iran to Russia were named "Musa Jalil" and "Bagi".

Both had a Russian flag on them.

The ship owners declined to comment on the report.



The source added that one of the ships left Iran on January 10 and the other on the 12th.

They probably carried together 200 tankers full of weapons.

According to naval data, the ships stopped off the coast of Turkmenistan for two days, and then continued in the Caspian Sea until they reached the Russian port of Astrakhan on January 27.

On February 3, the ships left the port.



"Russia pays for the ammunition in cash, and in this way avoids the Western sanctions and also ignores the sanctions imposed on Iran," said the source.

Satellite photo of suspicious cargo ships (photo: screenshot, Twitter)

Ukrainian soldiers in Behemoth (Photo: Reuters)

On video: satellite images show the destruction in Bahamut (Reuters)

On the ground, the Wagner Group mercenary company claimed today (Wednesday) that it had captured the eastern bank of Bakhmut, the industrialized city in eastern Ukraine, where fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces has been raging for months.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that his forces "took control of the entire eastern part of Bakhmut", a mining town where 80,000 residents lived before the war.



Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview with CNN that if Bakhmut falls to the Russians, "they will be able to advance" and attack nearby cities in the Donetsk region.

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