US complicit in Ukrainian attacks on Russian airfields – DPR

A group of American specialists assisted Ukraine in modernizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that were subsequently used in an attack deep inside Russia, the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has said.

“A US company directly helped the Ukrainian [military] modernize… the drones that were used to strike airfields in Russian territory,” Denis Pushilin told RT in an interview published on Saturday.

He added that the UAVs in question had been fitted with a US GPS navigation system. According to Pushilin, the drones were modernized at an aviation plant in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov.