Russia ‘using weapons smuggled by Iran from Iraq against Ukraine’
by Bethan McKernan in Kyiv and Vera Mironova in Lviv from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y2X5)
Iraqi militias and others say undercover networks being used to supply materiel such as RPGs and anti-tank missiles
Russia is receiving munitions and military hardware sourced from Iraq for its war effort in Ukraine with the help of Iranian weapons smuggling networks, according to members of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias and regional intelligence services with knowledge of the process.
RPGs and anti-tank missiles, as well as Brazilian-designed rocket launcher systems, have been dispatched to Russia from Iraq as Moscow's campaign has faltered in the last month, the Guardian has learned.
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