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With a little help from US SIGINT, I suppose.
Ukraine was Soviet Union's manufacturing base. It also built the biggest airplane in the world. I think Ukraine can manage by itself
OP up there was talking about SIGINT - signals intelligence. That means that we helped them design their bombing run (eg to avoid detection) and probably helped designate a target.
Whether or not they received any assistance in the design or manufacturing of the drone, they very very likely had help from US intelligence.
Yes, that is what I meant. For a drone like this to hit its target, it must avoid being detected by air defence. The only way to achieve this for a simple system like this is to go around it, i.e. it has to know where the air defence assets are. Which is where the US comes in because there is no other way for Ukraine to obtain this kind of information.