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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bethan McKernan in Kyiv and Vera Mironova in Lviv

Russia ‘using weapons smuggled by Iran from Iraq against Ukraine’

Bavar-373 air-defence missile system
An Iran-made Bavar-373 air-defence missile system is understood to have been donated to Moscow by Tehran. Photograph: AP

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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