00:00Amid growing international condemnation of Iran's support for Russia's war in Ukraine
00:09and over the missiles sent from Tehran to Moscow, the Institute for the Study of War
00:14is looking into how and when Moscow is going to use them.
00:19According to the US-based think tank, Russia will use the short-range ballistic missiles
00:24to target Ukrainian critical infrastructure in the coming months.
00:29This move aims to alleviate pressure on Russia's own missile production while intensifying
00:35its military campaign.
00:37UK outlet The Times, citing Ukrainian intelligence sources, reported that Iran had delivered
00:43over 200 Fars-360 to Russia via Caspian Sea port on 4 September.
00:51The Fars-360 is more difficult to intercept than the airplane-like Shahed drones, but
00:57the missiles' shorter range of 120 kilometres means Russia will probably use them for the
01:05front lines or for bombardment of the cities close to the front, most likely the regions
01:11of Sumy and Kharkiv.
01:14For a bigger context, since February 2022, Russia launched over 10,000 missiles and thousands
01:21of explosive drones at Ukrainian cities.
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