Putin will visit Tehran next week to discuss deepening economic ties with Iran

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Tehran next week to discuss deepening economic ties with Iran, according to the Kremlin.

Iran plans to provide Russia with “up to several hundred” drones to be used in the war in Ukraine, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday. The move indicates Moscow is running out of precision weapons, according to U.S.-based military analysts, who added that closer cooperation between two U.S. adversaries is likely to encourage the West to step up military assistance to Kyiv.

The death toll continues to rise from Russian strikes in eastern and northern Ukraine. At least 41 people were killed in Chasiv Yar, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, when a Russian missile hit a residential complex over the weekend, according to officials. Three others were also killed Monday in Kharkiv when Russian airstrikes damaged a shopping center and residences.