(Reuters) Parisa Hafezi - Iran has provided Russia with 400 powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles capable of striking targets at a distance of between 300 and 700 km., sources told Reuters. The shipments began in January. An Iranian military official said there had been at least four shipments of missiles and there would be more in the coming weeks. Some of the missiles were sent to Russia by ship via the Caspian Sea, while others were transported by plane. UN Security Council restrictions on Iran's export of some missiles, drones and other technologies expired in October. Russia had already received missiles from North Korea. However, Ukraine's top prosecutor said on Friday the ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea had proven unreliable on the battlefield, with only two of 24 hitting their targets. By contrast, Jeffrey Lewis, an expert with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, said the Iranian missiles were precision weapons. Tehran also supplies Shahed drones to Russia. Ukraine's air force said in December that Russia had launched 3,700 Shahed drones during the war.
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