Russian manufacturers use components from the U.S., China, the Netherlands, and Switzerland to produce the Gerbera drone, a cheaper and less deadly equivalent of Iran's Shahed, at a plant in Yelabuga,

Late in the evening of November 16, Russian kamikaze drones were spotted in the Kyiv region, according to the Kyiv Regional Military Administration. The combat work of the Ukrainian defenders of the sky in the Kyiv region became known at 11.

Ukraine's air defence has been responding to Russian drones in Kyiv Oblast on the night of 15-16 November. Source: Kyiv Oblast Military Administration; Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko Quote from the administration: "Drones were detected in the airspace.