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The White House released recently declassified intelligence on Tuesday confirming that the Russian mercenary organization Wagner group has been preparing to provide an air defense capability “to either Hezbollah or Iran,” according to National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.

Wagner was preparing to provide the capability at the direction of the Russian government, Kirby said.

The newly downgraded intelligence did not specify where the missile system would be coming from. But CNN previously reported that the Wagner Group had been tasked with carrying out the delivery of a surface-to-air SA-22 missile system from Syria to the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to provide Hezbollah with the Russian-made missile defense system, known as a Pantsir, two people familiar with the intelligence told CNN last month.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well hopefully that goes through. Israeli airstrikes cause nothing but needless death.

[–] cuibono@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Another two Lebanese journalists were just killed by IDF in south lebanon. One of which was killed just an hour after having tweeted that israel has been intimidating journalists and that they couldn't stay quiet. I hope they'll get air support there because it is absolutely ridiculous at this point how many they've killed. I don't know why Iran would need it, even from Russia's pov. I haven't heard of them being directly involved yet.