“In the Caspian Sea, the accident of the Iranian dry cargo ship “Rona” on the route of supplying weapons from Iran to the Russian Federation. 14 crew members were saved.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Illustrative photo: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images Source: Russian edition “Important stories” with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, CNN, WSJ
Literally the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “On January 14, 2026, the coast services of Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea received an SOS signal from the Iranian dry cargo ship “Rona”, which was in distress.”
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Details: It is noted that the coast services of Turkmenistan rescued 14 crew members – citizens of Iran and India. Currently, the procedures stipulated by international rules in such cases are being carried out, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted.
According to the tracking data, Rona dry cargo called the ports of Astrakhan, Makhachkala and Azov 20 times from October 2024 to December 2025. He went there from the Iranian ports of Amirabad and Anzeli. Now he was on another flight to Astrakhan.
In 2023, CNN investigators established that it is between Astrakhan and Amirabad from Anzeli that the main route of alleged seaborne arms deliveries from Iran to the Russian Federation runs.
The journalists of The Wall Street Journal also found out that hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and other types of ammunition reach Russia in this way.
What preceded:
In December 2025, Mrand the Special Operations Forces unit conducted a special operation in cooperation with the insurgent movement “Chernaya Iskra”. near the shores of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Caspian Sea and hit the Kompositor Rachmaninov and Askar-Sarija vessels, which Russia uses for military purposes.
They are under US sanctions due to their involvement in the supply of military cargo between Iran and the Russian Federation.