KYIV (Dispatches) -- A senior Ukrainian official confirmed that Iran has so far not sent ballistic missiles to Russia contradicting earlier western reports to the contrary. Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Intelligence Directorate, said in an interview with the New York Times that so far, Iran has declined to transfer ballistic missiles to Russia. “Iran is not hurrying to do this, for understandable reasons, because as soon as Russia fires the first missiles, the sanctions pressure will grow” on Iran, Budanov claimed.