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Iran armed Russia with Shaheds. Now it wants the jet-powered Geran-5 remake back to fight Israel and the US

Russia turned Iran's imported Shahed into a jet that flies at up to 600 km/h, with a new airframe closer to a cruise missile than to the propeller drone Tehran sent it.

byTaisiia Vivdych

satellites caught russia expanding its shahed drone plant moscow already holds 6000 drones reserve · post satellite southern part alabuga special economic zone tatarstan newly built production halls published 14

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Russia built five more halls for the drones it assembles using Chinese parts to hit Ukrainian cities

The nightly waves that reach Kyiv and the western border regions mostly begin on the assembly lines inside this zone.

byYuri Zoria

Lecture at the Moscow Aviation Institute, 2021. Photo: Valery Sharifulin/TASS

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From Russian classrooms to Iran’s defense industry: how Moscow trains Iranian specialists

Almost 10,000 Iranians studied at Russian universities in 2025, 42% more than two years earlier, by the Russian science ministry's count, with medicine still the most popular field.

byStanovych Solomiia

Kaviz, a tanker linked to both Russia’s and Iran’s shadow oil networks, had carried Russian oil and called at Russian ports before being struck by US forces on 8 September 2026. Photo: Vesselfinder

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US struck 5 Iranian tankers – 3 were also linked to Russia’s shadow fleet

The vessels had carried Russian oil, called at Russian ports, or operated through networks used to evade sanctions, according to Ukraine.

byBenjamin Murdoch

3D model of a Russian Geran-4 jet-powered attack drone, shown from above with its tracker and navigation unit listed beside it.

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Russia builds 3,000 jet drones monthly to counter Ukrainian interceptors, HUR says

Moscow has ended production of the Geran-3 while expanding production of faster jet-powered models built to strain Ukraine’s air defenses, HUR says.

byDaniel Thomas

An Iranian Shahed-107 drone. Source: Oleksandr Kovalenko

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New Iranian loitering munition has started reaching Ukraine, analyst says. It’s built to hit deep behind front

Iran is improving its Shahed-107 kamikaze drones based on the Ukraine war, adding shrapnel elements.

byOlena Mukhina

Mohsen Rezaei, adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Photo: Press TV

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Iran was prepared to strike three Ukrainian sites over sunken ship but paused after Kyiv’s explanation, Tehran claims

A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader said Tehran still intends to make Ukraine "pay" for the attack despite suspending its immediate response. Ukraine has maintained the vessel was carrying Iranian drone and missile components for Russia.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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After Ukraine’s Caspian strike, Iran warns of retaliation. Ukraine faces that threat without defenses its allies gave Israel

Monitoring channels raised the prospect of a ballistic strike, but Ukrainian officials say no such intent is confirmed.

byOlena Mukhina

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US sanctions 13 Iran-Belarus-China entities supplying Iran’s IRGC. That’s three of four “Axis of Upheaval” states

The same Iran-Belarus-China network is the operational ecosystem supplying Russia's drone war on Ukraine.

byOlena Mukhina

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Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen it

Brussels could override the automatic formula that would otherwise let the ceiling jump from $44.10 to at least $65 a barrel in July, Bloomberg says.

byYuri Zoria

ukrainian intelligence russia's new jet-powered geran-4 attack drone runs chinese turbojets · post interactive 3d model jet powered telefly turbojet engines published ukraine's main directorate (hur) war-sanctionsgurgovua capture revealed agency

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Ukrainian intelligence: Russia’s new jet-powered Geran-4 attack drone runs on Chinese turbojets

The Geran-4 has a brand-new reinforced airframe and can pull high-G maneuvers at 300-400 km/h, per Ukraine's military intelligence. It carries up to 90 kg of thermobaric explosives.

byYuri Zoria

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Xi pledged to stop arming Iran—US intelligence warns the weapons still flow

Xi pledged to stop arming Iran, but US intelligence says covert Chinese weapons shipments continue via third countries—no deal, no monitors signed.

byMaria Tril

washington lets russian oil loophole expire ending months seaborne sanctions relief · post benin-flagged boracay crude tanker shadow fleet vesselfinder 1 ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Washington lets the Russian oil loophole expire, ending months of seaborne sanctions relief

Senators from both parties had pressed the administration to drop the carve-out that critics said funneled billions into Moscow's war chest.

byYuri Zoria

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Senate Democrats challenge Russian oil waiver—Moscow revenues hit two-year high

A Delaware senator walked the Treasury Secretary through the loop. The March oil numbers closed it.

byPeeter Helme

ukraine launches push sync sanctions allies — russia's shadow grain fleet first list · post ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy news reports

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One US team, two wars. Zelenskyy says Ukraine can’t wait for Iran to close

Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells CNN it would be a "big risk" to pause Ukraine peace talks until the US war with Iran ends, and calls the EU's €90 bn loan "life and surviving."

byMaria Tril

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Oil jumped 8% as Trump’s Hormuz blockade undid the ceasefire crash

Talks collapsed in Pakistan. A naval blockade replaced a truce. For Russia’s war revenues, the brief window of relief is over.

byPeeter Helme

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Ukraine just X-rayed Russia’s $100,000 drone — and found components from China, Taiwan, and Switzerland

Only the EU is sanctioning the factory behind this drone. That's the problem.

byOlena Mukhina

satellites alone don't explain nine-fold jump strike accuracy — informnapalm says russian sof doctrine does · post missile interception fragments iranian hit haifa oil refineries bay israel causing temporary power

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Satellites alone don’t explain Iran’s nine-fold jump in strike accuracy — InformNapalm says Russian SOF doctrine does

Iran's missile hit rate rose from 3% to 27% in weeks. The data transfer was real, but without Russian SOF closing the loop between reconnaissance and fires, those numbers don't move that fast.

byYuri Zoria

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Pentagon called in Vatican’s top US diplomat over Pope’s anti-war remarks, media reports

The Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV's Vatican envoy over his anti-war remarks. Sources describe a "bitter lecture."

byMaria Tril

US Vice President JD Vance during a meeting wih Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on 7 April, 2026, in Budapest. Source: Viktor Orban

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WP: Hungary is sharing intelligence with Iran, while Vance flies to Budapest to back its leader amid election campaign

Vance is Campaigning for a man whose minister offered Iran his intelligence services.

byOlena Mukhina

Iran

Iran armed Russia with Shaheds. Now it wants the jet-powered Geran-5 remake back to fight Israel and the US

Russia built five more halls for the drones it assembles using Chinese parts to hit Ukrainian cities

From Russian classrooms to Iran’s defense industry: how Moscow trains Iranian specialists

US struck 5 Iranian tankers – 3 were also linked to Russia’s shadow fleet

Russia builds 3,000 jet drones monthly to counter Ukrainian interceptors, HUR says

New Iranian loitering munition has started reaching Ukraine, analyst says. It’s built to hit deep behind front

Iran was prepared to strike three Ukrainian sites over sunken ship but paused after Kyiv’s explanation, Tehran claims

After Ukraine’s Caspian strike, Iran warns of retaliation. Ukraine faces that threat without defenses its allies gave Israel

US sanctions 13 Iran-Belarus-China entities supplying Iran’s IRGC. That’s three of four “Axis of Upheaval” states

Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen it

Ukrainian intelligence: Russia’s new jet-powered Geran-4 attack drone runs on Chinese turbojets

Xi pledged to stop arming Iran—US intelligence warns the weapons still flow

Washington lets the Russian oil loophole expire, ending months of seaborne sanctions relief

Senate Democrats challenge Russian oil waiver—Moscow revenues hit two-year high

One US team, two wars. Zelenskyy says Ukraine can’t wait for Iran to close

Oil jumped 8% as Trump’s Hormuz blockade undid the ceasefire crash

Ukraine just X-rayed Russia’s $100,000 drone — and found components from China, Taiwan, and Switzerland

Satellites alone don’t explain Iran’s nine-fold jump in strike accuracy — InformNapalm says Russian SOF doctrine does

Pentagon called in Vatican’s top US diplomat over Pope’s anti-war remarks, media reports

WP: Hungary is sharing intelligence with Iran, while Vance flies to Budapest to back its leader amid election campaign

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