{"id":220390,"date":"2026-08-13T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-iran-accuses-kyiv-of-deadly-attack-on-iranian-vessel-in-caspian-sea-theguardian-com\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:18:10","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-iran-accuses-kyiv-of-deadly-attack-on-iranian-vessel-in-caspian-sea-theguardian-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-iran-accuses-kyiv-of-deadly-attack-on-iranian-vessel-in-caspian-sea-theguardian-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Iran accuses Kyiv of deadly attack on Iranian vessel in Caspian Sea – theguardian.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zelenskyy says Iran is using Russian satellite images to help direct strikes in Middle East. What we know on day 1,614
Iran\u2019s foreign ministry on Saturday condemned <\/strong>what it called <\/strong>a \u2060Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea<\/strong>, saying it killed one sailor and \u2060injured another. Tehran called the apparent attack an act of aggression and said it would defend its national \u200binterests and security. Ukraine\u2019s diplomatic representative to Iran was summoned, Iranian state media reported. Throughout \u200bthe war in Ukraine, Kyiv has had to counter Iranian-designed drones deployed by Moscow, and it has offered its drone \u2060interception expertise to countries in the Middle East that have been attacked by Iran.
Iran and Russia are two of the five countries that border the Caspian Sea and Russia maintains a powerful naval force there<\/strong>, making the inland body of water a platform for long\u2011range power projection<\/strong>, and a vital strategic bridge to Iran. Iran\u2019s denunciation of the Ukraine attack on the ship coincided with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s comments that Russia was passing its satellite observations in the Middle East to Iran to enable it \u200cto direct strikes in the region. Zelenskyy on Saturday said on X that Ukraine had \u201cachieved very strong results with long\u2011range strikes in the Caspian Sea \u2013 including vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran\u201d. <\/strong>
Zelenskyy also said <\/strong>Russia wanted to bring \u2060in 30,000 \u2060North Korean \u200btroops to take part in its more than four-year-old conflict with Russia,<\/strong> and was \u2060already preparing to receive them. Under a mutual defence pact, North Korea<\/a> sent an \u2060estimated 14,000 soldiers to Russia\u2019s Kursk Region in \u200b2024 to help \u200cMoscow beat back \u200ca major incursion into the region by Ukrainian \u200cforces. \u201cPreparations have been under way in Russia\u2019s \u200cVoronezh region since June to receive [North Korean troops],\u201d Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address, adding that the communist dictatorship was preparing \u200bto supply Russia with new launchers for ballistic missiles.
Twelve people were killed, including five children, in an drone attack \u2060on \u200ba holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia region<\/strong>, Russian-installed local authorities said on Saturday, \u2060accusing Ukraine of deliberately attacking civilians. Kyiv did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Meanwhile, the \u2060Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under attack from Russian forces \u2060early on \u2060Sunday, \u200bwith falling debris triggering fires in at least three \u2060districts,<\/strong> Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russian \u2060forces had targeted the capital with \u200bballistic missiles. \u200cBut an \u200cair alert was lifted after about \u200c50 minutes and the air force rescinded its warning of missile deployment. Klitschko said one blaze had broken out on the seventh \u200cand eighth floors of a multi-storey apartment block in \u200ba central district. There were no immediate \u2060reports of casualties.
Kazakhstan\u2019s \u2060president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, said on Saturday a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine might be \u2060reached if \u2060both sides froze the conflict and resumed negotiations<\/strong>. Tokayev made the remarks while meeting Vladimir Putin at a Russia-Kazakhstan forum \u2060in the Siberian city of Omsk. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, quoted by the state \u200bTASS news agency, said Putin outlined to Tokayev in detail the state of Russia\u2019s military operations in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Zelenskyy says Iran is using Russian satellite images to help direct strikes in Middle East. What we know on day 1,614Iran\u2019s foreign ministry on Saturday condemned what it called a \u2060Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying it killed one sailor and \u2060injured another. Tehran called the apparent attack an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}