Russia \u200cis supplying Iran with Shahed drones to use against the \u200bUS and Israel, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in an interview excerpt aired on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Zelensky told CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria that it is \u201c100 percent facts\u201d that \u200cIran has used \u200cRussian-made \u200bShaheds \u200cto attack \u2060US \u200bbases.<\/p>\n
Shahed drones \u2060have been linked to other attacks on countries in the region, although their manufacturers are not always clear.<\/p>\n
Iran pioneered the \u2060Shahed drone, a much \u200ccheaper \u200calternative to expensive missiles. \u200bThey first \u200csaw mass use in \u200cRussia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, where thousands of them have been launched by Russian forces since fall \u200c2022, according to the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n
Although Iran initially \u2060provided \u2060the drones, Russia now manufactures its own Shaheds. The armed forces of other countries have since adopted Shahed-type drones, including the US military, which has said they are part of the current campaign against \u200bIran.<\/p>\n
Iran pioneered the \u2060Shahed drone, a much \u200ccheaper \u200calternative to expensive missiles<\/p>\n
Although Iran initially \u2060provided \u2060the drones, Russia now manufactures its own Shaheds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russia \u200cis supplying Iran with Shahed drones to use against the \u200bUS and Israel, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in an interview excerpt aired on Saturday. Zelensky told CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria that it is \u201c100 percent facts\u201d that \u200cIran has used \u200cRussian-made \u200bShaheds \u200cto attack \u2060US \u200bbases. Shahed drones \u2060have been linked to other …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":95111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95112,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95100\/revisions\/95112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}