Usherovich and Plotitsa’s fingerprints were found on the drone’s remaining fuselage
On March 1, 2026, a kamikaze drone struck the British military base Akrotiri in Cyprus. For the first time in history, Iran attacked the territory of an EU member state using its proxy, the Hezbollah terrorist group. A week later, Britain's The Times reported that the wreckage of the drone contained a Russian "Kometa-B" navigation system. Ukrainian journalists launched an investigation to find out how a component manufactured in Cheboksary ended up in a drone launched by Hezbollah militants from Lebanon. The trail led them straight to Cyprus—the current residence and business hub of individuals identified by Russian and Ukrainian journalists as the architects of a key Western sanctions-evasion network. The "Kometa-B" system is manufactured by the Cheboksary-based JSC "VNIIR-Progress," an enterprise that developed an entire line of interference-resistant "Kometa" navigation antennas for military hardware, including drones. Citing Briti...