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HISTORICAL FACTS: Shahed - The Untold Story

Russian drone hits building storing spent nuclear fuel near Chornobyl

Attack was ‘extremely vile’ and deliberate, says Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy

The Guardian - UK

Cyprus seeks to 'Nigel Farage-proof' UK military bases amid Reform government fears

CYPRUS is asking the UK Government for guarantees in case Nigel Farage becomes prime minister ...

The National (Scotland)

What we know about the Geran-2 drone that hit a residential building in Romania

The Iranian-made Shahed drones are one of Russia's main long-range strike UAV’s used by Moscow against Ukraine. First deployed back in 2022, Russia then set up domestic production, calling them Geran.

Euronews

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'Cheap air-to-air missile': Ukraine has turned a vintage 55-year-old Russian-designed Antonov An-28 twin-propeller aircraft into a versatile A-10 Warthog-type platform complete with Gatling-class gun, VR headsets to intercept Russian Shahed drones

Ukraine repurposes Antonov An-28 into an anti-drone platform using miniguns and interceptor drones, balancing cost efficiency with operational limitations.

TechRadar

Zelensky confirms Ukrainian forces shot down Shahed drones in the Middle East

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The Independent UK

Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers and what that does – and doesn’t – change about warfare

Before dawn on March 1, 2026, Iranian Shahed drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates. A third commercial data center in Bahrain was hit, though it is less clear whether it was deliberately targeted. Iran has also indicated that it considers commercial data centers…

The Conversation

Concerns raised over Shahed kamikaze drone listings on Alibaba — they featured AI guidance to lock onto ‘people, building, vehicles, ships, etc’

Chinese eTail giant Alibaba has removed listings and suspended the accounts of sellers that were found to be advertising 'cruise missiles' and 'suicide attack drones.'

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Putin’s ‘hidden hand’ lies behind Iran’s drone tactics, UK defence secretary says

Pilots reportedly adopting Russian tactics as statement in name of new Iranian supreme leader vows continued attacks on US bases

The Guardian - UK

LUCAS FLM 136: America’s cheap Iran-designed Shahed drone clone

The US is deploying its own inexpensive drone to counter Iran’s Shahed 136 unmanned aerial vehicle. Enter the Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System known as FLM 136 LUCAS.

Euronews

The U.S. military turns to Ukraine for a desperate fix to the deadly Iranian drone problem

Ukraine’s ingenuity is now the saving grace for military assets in the Middle East.

We Got This Covered

The Iran war could hit Britain — Starmer must equip the country to defend itself

It will take more than 10 days to get the destroyer HMS Dragon tooled up, battle ready and on station to protect Akrotiri and the island of Cyprus from Iranian drone and missile attacks. The RAF base there has already been hit by Iranian Shahed drones, probably launched by Hezbollah…

Evening Standard

Why the Middle East crisis will have a 'negligible' impact on the war in Ukraine

Russia has been wreaking havoc on Ukraine for years with the Iranian-designed Shahed kamikaze drone, but Iran's current troubles will not dent Moscow's ability to send barrages of the drone toward Ukrainian targets.

Euronews

Growing up in a cold and dark Ukraine under constant Russian attack: ‘My 4-year-old can tell the bombs apart’

SPECIAL DISPATCH: As world leaders wring their hands over Ukraine, Sam Kiley in Kyiv meets a leading politician whose daughter Sophia was born just before the invasion and – alongside her parents and sister – is battling to survive as Putin’s latest strategy targets power supplies

The Independent UK

Administrative building hit in Kharkiv as drone targets busy street

The regional prosecutor’s office in Kharkiv has released video footage of the moment a Shahed drone struck an administrative building in the city centre.

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Russia launches massive aerial attack on Kyiv, injuring at least 23

As Kyiv suffered a major attack overnight on Friday, one resident who lives in the centre of the Ukrainian capital told Euronews that the number of Shahed drones "are far more numerous and deadlier than before".

Reason

Ukraine's Drones Just Took Down a Chunk of Russia's Bomber Fleet. What Does That Mean for America?

When anyone can have an air force, superpowers aren't as powerful as they used to be.

The Guardian - UK

Deadly, cheap and widespread: how Iran-supplied drones are changing the nature of warfare

Attacks using Shahed drones have been carried out by militias in the Middle East and Russia in Ukraine

Evening Standard

Ukraine war: Russian drones target Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities as Zelensky denies Putin assassination attempt

Ukrainian air defences say they downed 18 out of 24 kamikaze drones that Russia launched in the pre-dawn attack

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