Iran delivers munitions to Russia by Caspian Sea

The Wall Street Journal reported the information, citing its own sources in the Middle East.

Russian ships have been transporting large quantities of Iranian artillery shells and other ammunition across the Caspian Sea to help troops fighting in Ukraine. 

Over the past six months, cargo ships have transported more than 300,000 artillery shells and one million rounds of ammunition from Iran to Russia, according to official figures and documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. Intelligence on the shipments was passed on to the US.

Such active cooperation between Moscow and Tehran poses a growing problem for the US and its allies.

The latest shipment, which the WSJ learned about, left Iran for Russia by sea on March 23.

• Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers will submit proposals to the National Security and Defense Council to impose sectoral sanctions on Iran. The government made the decision at a meeting on April 25.

• Russian troops launched a new batch of Iranian Shahed-136/131 drones for the latest attacks on Ukraine in April.

• Russia continues to use Shahed-type “kamikaze” drones and other low-precision systems in an attempt to compensate for the lack of high-precision missiles and to detect Ukraine's air defense.