Ukraine military claims Iranian drone used by Russia

The wreckage of what Kyiv has described as an Iranian Shahed drone downed near Kupiansk (Ukrainian military’s Strategic Communications Directorate via AP)

Ukraine’s military has claimed for the first time that it encountered an Iranian-supplied suicide drone used by Russia on the battlefield.

The Ukrainian military published images of the wreckage of the device, which resembles a triangular drone flown by Iran known as the Shahed, or “Witness” in Farsi.