10/16/2022
Washington Post citing US defence officials claims that Iran is ready to send surface-to-surface missiles to Russia.
“An intelligence assessment shared in recent days with Ukrainian and U.S. officials contends that Iran’s armaments industry is preparing a first shipment of Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar missiles”
These missiles have a 300km and 700km respective range.
The shootings come after President Vladimir Putin announced a large mobilization to shore up his faltering war effort in Ukraine, where the Ukrainian army has been recapturing territory in the east and south occupied by Russia.
Putin said Friday that more than 220,000 reservists already had been called up as part of an effort to recruit 300,000.
At least 16,000 of them have been deployed “in units that get involved in fulfilling combat tasks,” Putin said a news conference Friday in Astana, Kazakhstan, adding that he expects the mobilization to be completed within two weeks.
Russian media have reported at least seven deaths among people who were recently drafted. Asked Friday why some servicemen had died so soon after mobilization began, Putin said that in some cases training could take just 10 days.
In late September, Putin acknowledged that there had been “mistakes” in how the Russian government had been carrying out his draft. He described cases of people entitled to deferments being wrongly drafted, such as fathers of many children, men with chronic diseases or those above military age.
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