In August of this year, the Ukrainian government handed over to the G7 countries a report on the components of the Shahed-136/131 Iranian kamikaze drones. It said a significant number of drone parts are produced by companies headquartered in the US, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Japan, Poland and other countries.
Citing this report, "The Guardian" writes that the Ukrainian side allegedly offered allies to attack the production of these drones in Syria, Iran and the Russian economic zone "Alabuga".
The publication writes that the Ukrainian side agrees to launch missile strikes on production facilities if the allies provide the necessary weapons, the document says.
The report indicates that Iranian UAV production has adapted and mostly uses available commercial components, the supply of which is poorly controlled. It also has customs data showing that almost all drone parts go to Iran via Turkey, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Costa Rica.
- Back in November 2022, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine reported that almost all of Shahedʼs details were foreign: from the USA, China, Germany and Japan. This became known after studying the structure of the drone. They even found a Ukrainian part in it — an electric relay produced by the Kharkiv "Radiorele" plant.