{"id":44338,"date":"2022-08-10T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T08:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44338"},"modified":"2022-08-10T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T08:27:22","slug":"russians-began-training-on-iranian-drones-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44338","title":{"rendered":"Russians began training on Iranian drones &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Russian experts have begun training with drones in Iran over the past few weeks. This is a sign that Russia intends to purchase the systems in order to use them in the war in Ukraine, a US government spokesman told CNN, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate . 10 . August . 2022 l World NEWS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Citation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Over the past few weeks, Russian officials have conducted exercises in Iran as part of an agreement to transfer UAVs from Iran to Russia,&#8221; a U.S. official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that intelligence on the exercise had recently been declassified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 12, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan\u00a0said\u00a0Russia had asked Iran to provide it with &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of combat drones for use in the war against Ukraine. He added that it is not yet known whether the country has already delivered any UAVs to russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House subsequently\u00a0released\u00a0information that Russian officials had visited Iran to inspect combat drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 19, the US State Department announced that Washington would impose sanctions on Iran if the country supplied russia with combat drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Source : Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Russian experts have begun training with drones in Iran over the past few weeks. This is a sign that Russia intends to purchase the systems in order to use them in the war in Ukraine, a US government spokesman told CNN, KYIV. UkraineGate . 10 . August . 2022 l World NEWS. Citation &#8220;Over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[11002,9978,813,996,2399],"class_list":["post-44338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-cnn","tag-drones","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44340,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44338\/revisions\/44340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}