In recent weeks, the Russian military has been trained in Iran as part of a drone transfer agreement. This was\u00a0announced by\u00a0the first deputy spokesman of the US State Department Vedant Patel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KYIV. UkraineGate . 12 . August . 2022 l Ukraine News .<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Citation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “We can confirm that over the past few weeks, Russian officials have conducted exercises in Iran as part of the UAV transfer agreement,” Patel said during a telephone briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United States will “decisively apply” sanctions for arms trade to both Russia and Iran, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We will continue to use all available tools, including sanctions, but not limited to, to prevent, deter and eliminate the procurement network that supplies UAV-related materials and technologies to Iran,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What happened before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On July 12, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan\u00a0said\u00a0Russia had asked Iran to provide it with “hundreds” of combat drones for use in the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Subsequently, the White House\u00a0released\u00a0information that Russian officials visited Iran at least twice to inspect the UAV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The U.S. State Department said Washington would impose sanctions on Iran if the country supplied drones to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In recent weeks, the Russian military has been trained in Iran as part of a drone transfer agreement. This was\u00a0announced by\u00a0the first deputy spokesman of the US State Department Vedant Patel, KYIV. UkraineGate . 12 . August . 2022 l Ukraine News .\u00a0 Citation “We can confirm that over the past few weeks, Russian officials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11447,16],"tags":[813,996,2399,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-44501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-ukraine-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44501","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=44501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44503,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44501\/revisions\/44503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}