Ukraine's drone pilots went to Sweden's Aurora 26 exercise on Gotland and played the enemy. The training stopped three times. Swedish and NATO forces kept running out of things to defend with.

In late March the NATO commander, with a team of analysts and experts, visited the Ukrainian capital. The first meeting provided a nasty surprise, when the NATO team was told that currently Europe is not prepared to defend itself against Russian forces armed with drones.

NATO allies increasingly study Ukraine's wartime innovations in drones and defense production as the alliance prepares for its July summit in Ankara.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine has received intelligence indicating Russia will launch an assault involving drones and missiles.

Recent Russian drone attack on Romania could be ‘deliberate provocation’ to probe Western alliance’s defences and test political fallout

China accuses Japan of pursuing remilitarisation after Tokyo deploys officers to NATO’s Ukraine assistance mission.

Hungary will once again be a reliable partner of the most powerful military-defense alliance in the world,” Magyar wrote in a Facebook post. “I told the Secretary-General that Hungary will not send weapons or fighting equipment to the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Russia's spy chief has claimed NATO is planning for a "large-scale conflict" and that the EU is rapidly arming itself against Moscow. Elsewhere, Ukraine's army says it struck one of the biggest refineries in Russia last night.