Moscow is looking for ways to restore combat power, turning to countries like Iran and North Korea.
Russia has been “desperate” in recent months, but that doesn’t make it any less dangerous. This was said in a briefing on October 20 by the spokesman of the US State Department, Ned Price, who commented on the military alliance between Russia and Iran.
According to him, Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine has “evolved” from grandiose plans to destroy the Ukrainian state to strikes on electricity grids, residential buildings, shopping centers, stations of the train and schools.
“In recent months, Russia has become increasingly desperate, and we have seen many signs of this – the mass mobilization, repression within Russia that follows this mass mobilization, the attempts at annexation by force, the imposing martial law in the regions that President Putin seeks to do. annex,” Price said. .
At the same time, the representative of the State Department emphasized that despair does not make Russia more dangerous.
“We see how Russia, perhaps in desperation, turns to countries like Iran with a request to provide goods that it cannot produce or obtain in other ways… Also, they (Russia) have study of agreements with North Korea,” – the official noted.
Earlier, the White House said that Russia was using Iranian drones to attack Ukraine, and that there were specialists from Iran in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea to help the Russian military.
Recall that official Tehran denied the transfer of weapons to Russia, including kamikaze drones.
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Source: korrespondent
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