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"These UAVs are slow, noisy and fly at low altitudes, making lone aircraft easy to target conventional air defenses," the U.K. Defense Ministry said on Monday.

Ukraine says its troops have destroyed hundreds of the Iranian-produced drones Russia hoped would turn the tide of the war in its favor.

The U.S. said that Tehran is helping to train Russians to use the unmanned aerial vehicles which have hit civilian targets in Ukraine.

"We have never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before and we will not plan to export them," a North Korean official said.

Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer told Newsweek the move may have been to remind China and Russia of U.S. strategic capabilities.

In 2022, numerous senior American and European officials asked the Saudis to help blunt the oil price rise following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This time the Saudis said no. What changed? As with most historical processes, the altered relationship between Saudi Arabia, the West has numerous causes.

While the Iranian regime selling military equipment and fighting proxy wars is nothing new, this time Iran's actions sparked a chain reaction: the European Union threatened Iran with graver sanctions and the United States declared Iran had violated U.N. Security Council resolutions.

"These aren't weapons that are gonna change the battlefield, they are weapons that are gonna kill more civilians," Katherine Lawlor of the ISW told Newsweek.

After Spears expressed support for the people of Iran, the Islamic Republic News Agency took aim at the pop star on Twitter over her conservatorship.

Over the past several weeks, Iran has continued to deny supplying drones or other military equipment to Russia.

Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles are complicating Ukraine's fight against Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed recent reports of Russia receiving military supplies from Iran in a video statement Tuesday.

The Iranian missiles, which are being sent to Russia to use in Ukraine, are capable of traveling hundreds of miles farther than U.S. HIMARS.

On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the country "has not and will not provide any weapon to be used in the war in Ukraine."

"Iran is collapsing," said Javaid Rehman, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on human rights to Iran, as protests continue to rage across Iran..

Elnaz Rekabi has allegedly been detained by authorities after footage of her competing abroad without her hijab went viral.

"It is only a matter of time before Russia will have to concede," CEPA's Krista Viksnins told Newsweek.

Missile attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine continued overnight on Monday.

The intercepted attacks follow drone strikes early Monday and as Ukraine demands Iran stop providing military support to Russia.

The use of the drones appeared to introduce a new element to the aerial theater of the war.

"Iran is fully responsible for the safety of our wrongfully detained citizens, who should be released immediately," State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

The blaze erupted as Iran has been rocked by large protests after the death of Mahsa Amini in mid-September.

The Ukrainian general staff said on Saturday that the country's air force had destroyed six Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones overnight.

It is time to recognize the rights of Iranian people to resist and rebel against brutal suppression.

Videos on social media showed workers demonstrating at refineries in the south after Iran's chief justice said, "If we've made mistakes, we can amend them."

"It's time that the United States engaged with the Iranian Kurdish, or otherwise democratic opposition," Komala leader Abdullah Mohtadi said.

It is time for people in the United States to learn the dangers of theocracy. To see them writ plainly, look to women's current struggle for freedom in Iran.

An expert told Newsweek that Iran giving drones to Russia for use in Ukraine makes it harder for the U.S. and Europe to get the country to stop nuclear plans.

Anti-government protests have gripped Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody.

The Ukrainian armed forces shared footage of the remains of what it said was a Shaheed unmanned aerial vehicle that Russia is increasingly relying upon.