After Iran supplies their "martyrs" to the Russian Federation, there is a risk that Russia may supply its fighter jets to Iran, and instead receive ballistic missiles.

Volodymyr Kopchak, the head of the South Caucasian branch of the Army Conversion and Disarmament Research Center, assessed the threat of a new stage of cooperation between Tehran and Moscow.

He said this in an interview with TSN.ua.

According to him, the number of modern functional

that can perform a wide range of tasks, primarily on the ground , is already

in the Russian Federation .

"Terrorist attacks on Ukraine, on the population, infrastructural facilities and not only they encapsulate them under sea-based carriers, carriers of calibers from the Black and Caspian seas. From the air, they release missiles by "strategists" - Tu-95. Now they are trying to adapt them to Tu- 160. The MiG-31 is a well-known carrier of "Daggers". The last large-scale raid was distinguished not so much by the increase in the number of Kh-22s, which Ukraine still mostly does not shoot down, and by "Daggers" and mass strikes on point targets. The last percentage of shooting down was lower, than before. That is, they

," says Kopchak.

Why Iran fighter jets

"They made peace with Saudi Arabia. The attack on

is interesting , because China is now situationally out of the game. At least until the summer, Turkey is busy with Erdogan's re-election, which is a landmark for itself and the entire Middle East," the analyst added.

We will remind that Russia is going to sell Su-35 fighters to Iran.

According to Sky News, the Russian Federation exported 200 containers of weapons from Iran - about 100 million rounds of ammunition and 300,000 projectiles.

The Financial Times suggested that the Kremlin is not yet buying ballistic missiles from Iran due to fears that the US and Western countries will transfer long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian intelligence has not yet recorded the facts of Russia's receipt of Iranian ballistic missiles, against which Ukraine's air defense is powerless.

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