Iranian-made Shahed-136 and -131 drones have become a common sight across Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war.
Tehran had denied supplying Moscow with the unmanned aerial vehicles , but then said it had sent a"small number of drones months before the Ukraine war."
The"majority" of the components for the Shahed drones are"foreign-made," including from the U.S. and China, the unnamed intelligence officer said. Firefighters extinguish a fire in a building materials store after a Russian drone attack in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on March 28, 2023. The city's mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, said a fire had broken out at a commercial premises, but that it had been contained.On Tuesday, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said 15 Shahed-136 drones had been used to strike Ukrainian territory.
Russian forces also used controlled air bombs over the Kherson region, launched from Su-35 fighter jets, Kyiv said. Ukrainian "drone hunters" showed what the Iranian UAvs look like inside. According to them, although Iran denied the supply of drones to Russia, many of the boards are inscribed in Farsi. And many electronic components of drones are made in the West, including the USA and Japan.…
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