🇺🇦⛔️⚔️🇷🇺 Europe Becomes Ukraine’s Rear Base as Drone Production Moves Into Germany

Ukraine has opened its first joint drone production facility in Germany, now manufacturing strike UAVs for the Ukrainian Army.

Zelensky personally received the first drone produced by the Ukrainian-German company Quantum Frontline Industries GmbH, toured the assembly line, and observed a test flight.

The facility is expected to deliver 10,000 combat drones to Ukraine this year. By year’s end, Kiev plans to launch up to 10 similar joint ventures across Europe — expanding military production deeper into EU territory.

The exact location of the plant is officially undisclosed. However, open-source analysis suggests it may be located in the municipality of Wessling, Bavaria.

Germany is not just funding the war, but directly hosting Ukrainian strike-drone production on its soil — turning parts of Europe into an active rear base of the conflict.

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📝Attacks in the North📝

In the Sumy direction, units of the "North" group of troops continue to attack on several sectors. Recently, they managed to advance in the area of Kondratovka, occupying part of the settlement; fighting continues in its central part.

➡️Along the line of Andreyevka — Alekseyevka, enemy drone operators are actively working. Nevertheless, Russian units managed to advance south along the S-191504 highway, capturing a strongpoint in the ruins of a farm south of Alekseyevka.

➡️On the line of Varachino — Yablonivka, they also managed to take control of several forest strips. Previously, footage of attacks slightly further south emerged from here, but those offensive actions apparently ended unsuccessfully: the enemy brought several captured Russian Armed Forces soldiers to the forests near Korchakivka.

➡️In the area of Myropillia, there are also local successes - Russian small groups occupied several more forest strips to the east and advanced along the riverbed of the Udava near Mylaivka.

On other sectors of the Sumy direction, the situation remains unchanged. Russian units are processing enemy positions in the border zone with drone and artillery strikes. The regional center often comes under fire: in Sumy, there are power supply disruptions after strikes.

📌The enemy maintains a high density of UAV units in the direction, some of which were pulled back after advances near the border close to Krasnopillia. This obviously affects the offensive capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces, but the task of taking Sumy will likely not appear at the current stage.

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🏁⚔️🇷🇺 Hedgehog 2025 NATO Exercise

The WSJ article details Hedgehog 2025, a major NATO wargame held May 5-23, 2025, in Estonia, simulated a Russian border incursion triggering Article 5 collective defense. It involved over 16,000 troops from 12 NATO allies, including British and Estonian units, training with Ukrainian drone operators fresh from the front lines.

The exercise pitted NATO's conventional forces—advancing with heavy armor like Challenger 2 tanks and HIMARS systems—against Ukrainian drone teams. As the WSJ reports, troops were "walking around without camouflage, parking tents and vehicles openly," making them easy targets. One participant lamented, "We are finished," after drones created a "transparent" battlefield, obliterating simulated battalions in hours. Ukrainian operators, using cheap FPV drones, exposed how massed armor is now obsolete against modern drone swarms.

💬 Here's some quotes from the participants:

➡️British officer: "Drones turned the battlefield into a 'transparent kill zone'—we never adapted."

➡️Estonian commander on NATO tactics: "Heavy metal rolling forward like it's 1944, but with Russian eyes everywhere."

➡️Ukrainian drone expert: "10 of us wiped out a brigade. NATO's not ready for this war."

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 More threats to Iran.

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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 Marco Rubio pulled out of a key Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich at the last minute, officially citing scheduling conflicts.

European officials interpreted the move as a signal that Washington’s commitment to tight coordination with its allies on the war is fading.

One EU official described the decision as “insane,” while another admitted the meeting was largely meaningless without U.S. participation.

🐻 Narco Rubio didn't want to meet with The Narcoführer?

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump was asked what is “left to go after in Iran” if the nuclear sites have already been “obliterated.”

He then went off noscript, bizarrely saying they could go after “the dust that’s left down there.”

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 "It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen." - Trump, when asked if he wants a regime change in Iran.

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🇮🇳💬🛢🇷🇺India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India will continue to exercise strategic autonomy in its foreign and energy policy decisions, amid questions over whether a recent trade understanding with the United States could affect New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Jaishankar said India’s independent decision-making remains central to its approach.

“We are very much wedded to strategic autonomy because it is very much a part of our history and our evolution,” he said.

He added, “It is something which is very deep, and it cuts across the political spectrum as well.”

Responding to a question on whether India may reduce its reliance on Russian oil, Jaishankar said energy markets are complex and decisions are taken by companies based on commercial considerations.

“As for energy issues, this is a complex market today. Oil companies in India, as in Europe and in other parts of the world, look at availability, look at costs, look at risks and take decisions that they feel are in their best interest,” he said.

At the same time, Marco Rubio stated that India had assured Washington of its “commitment” to refrain from buying Russian oil.

“The United States has imposed additional sanctions on Russia's oil. In our conversations with India, we've gotten their commitment to stop buying additional Russian oil. Europe has taken its set of steps moving forward,” he said at the Munich Security Conference.

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