Russian forces are using a drone of Israeli origin in its invasion of Ukraine, defence specialists have reported. The Russian-made Forpost is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) derived from the Israeli Searcher II UAV, first developed in the 1980s. Russia acquired the licence to produce the drones from Israel in 2015. The deployment of the UAV was picked up last week when images of a downed Russian drone which carried the logo of the Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) surfaced online . A Russian licensed copy of the IAI Searcher known as Forpost was shot down in Zhytomyr region today. pic.twitte…