Two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters in October that Iran had promised to provide Russia with surface-to-surface missiles as well as more drones.
Ilya has been served with a very harsh sentence of eight and a half years imprisonment for spreading fake news about the Russian armed forces special operations in Ukraine.
The US sports journalist criticized the Qatari World Cup organizers over their treatment of migrant workers in a post a day before his unexpected death.