How Iran’s ‘kamikaze’ Shahed drones are being used in Ukraine
Major Ilya Yevlash said he cannot remember one day without the sound of suspected Iranian “kamikaze” drones wreaking havoc in his country. Since August 2022, Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russia have had to contend with so-called Shahed drones: a technology that, when launched, “destroys everything,” according to Yevlash, the spokesman of Ukraine’s Air Force. “If a Shahed hits an old building where there are a lot of people, they will totally destroy it,” Yevlash told Euronews Next. Shahed drones were used once again when Iran launched more than 300 missiles at Israel last week in what many saw ...