Report: Israel gives Ukraine intel about Iranian drones

Russia has begun using Shahed 136 suicide drones on the battlefield

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A local resident sits outside a building destroyed by Russian, Iranian-made, drones after an airstrike on Bila Tserkva, southwest of Kyiv, on October 5, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A local resident sits outside a building destroyed by Russian, Iranian-made, drones after an airstrike on Bila Tserkva, southwest of Kyiv, on October 5, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP

Israel is providing Ukraine with basic intelligence about Iranian drones which Russia has begun to use on the battlefield, according to a Wednesday report in The New York Times.

A senior official told the newspaper that Israel was sharing the intelligence, which comes after Moscow's deployment of Iranian-made Shahed 136 suicide drones. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had used the drones during Monday's aerial bombardment of the country that the United Nations estimated left at least 12 civilians dead and more than 100 wounded.

According to the president, Ukrainian intelligence believes that Russia ordered 2,400 Shahed 136 drones from Iran.

On Thursday morning, Ukraine accused Russia of using the drones in an attack on the Kyiv region. 

The official also told The Times that a private Israeli firm was also giving Ukraine satellite imagery of Russian troop positions.

Ukraine continues to be critical of the Jewish state however for not providing more "defensive weapons and equipment," a point made by Ukraine's ambassador to Israel in a recent interview with i24NEWS.

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