Russia-Ukraine war

Recent deliberations about alleged deliveries of weapons to Russia from abroad are groundless, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed.

There is no evidence yet that Moscow has already used Iranian ballistic missiles against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has stated.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that Washington is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with top Ukrainian officials.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has warned that Tehran will take reciprocal measures after the US and the three European states imposed sanctions against Iran over the alleged missile delivery to Russia.

Kiev has announced it will review its options and could even cut relations with Tehran if Russia used ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to attack targets in Ukraine.

The United States has formally accused Iran of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, saying Washington will take measures to punish Tehran. The Islamic Republic has denied providing Moscow with weapons for the conflict.

The Ukrainian army struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes.

Washington cannot confirm reports that Tehran had supplied Moscow with ballistic missiles, White House national security spokesman John Kirby has stated.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Islamic Republic of Iran in protest at the alleged move by Tehran to provide missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.

The Kremlin, asked on Monday about a Wall Street Journal report that Tehran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Moscow, announced that Iran is Russia's partner, and that the two countries are developing dialogue in all areas.

The European Union claimed that its allies had shared intelligence that Tehran had supplied Moscow with ballistic missiles, and warned of new sanctions on Iran if the matter was confirmed.

Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, former head of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's parliament, criticized the public declaration of Iran's sale of ballistic missiles to Russia, calling it "the dirtiest form of Russophilia."

Kiev’s allies are concerned that in the wake of the Russian army’s offensive, the Ukrainian troops could be forced to give up the border areas in the Kursk Region within a few months, Bloomberg has reported citing officials.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has announced Iran's provision of ballistic missiles to Russia, "will have devastating consequences for the Ukrainian-Iranian bilateral relations". The Iranian government has denied providing weapons to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.

The head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns has not confirmed recent Western media reports that Tehran has transferred ballistic missiles to Moscow amid the war in Ukraine.

The mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations has rejected the accusation of Iran supplying ballistic missiles to Russia as baseless and misleading.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pushed for more air defense systems and long-range strike capabilities during a meeting Friday with the US and Western leaders. He made the plea as Russia continues to pound Ukraine with missiles and drones.

High casualties inflicted upon the Ukrainian military since Kiev launched its incursion in Kursk Region could render its armed forces useless, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that Kyiv intends to indefinitely hold the Russian land it seized in its surprise incursion last month.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba tendered his resignation to the national parliament on Wednesday, according to Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk. It comes after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky initiated an apparent purge of senior officials, sacking the deputy head of his office and accepting resignation letters from three ministers, as well as the country’s deputy prime minister.

Washington is “close” to approving the shipment of long-range cruise missiles to Kiev despite repeated warnings from Moscow, Reuters has reported, citing officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The weapons in question – Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) – could be integrated into US-designed F-16 warplanes supplied to Ukraine by its Western sponsors.

A Russian strike against a military educational facility in central Ukraine has killed 49 people and injured at least 219 others, according to a Ukrainian regional military official, in one of the deadliest single attacks since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Ukraine has threatened Mongolia with “consequences” for not arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his arrival in Ulaanbaatar on Monday and handing him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Russia has launched another massive attack on Kyiv, firing more than 20 missiles at Ukraine’s capital the night before the beginning of the new school term.