Alex Ritson
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Are you surprised that it has taken this amount of time for the rest of the world to wake up to the importance of this?
Have any countries come to you?
Have you had extra demand requests in the last week?
President Zelensky says Ukrainian experts will arrive in the Gulf this week to offer immediate help with drone defences.
But he's clear nothing should damage Ukraine's own, and he's looking to swap interceptors for more Patriot missiles.
It's also about more than just selling drones.
Allies would also need training in how to use them.
Victoria Honchoruk works for the Snake Island Institute, a defence think tank, and believes Ukraine can teach the world a great deal.
The war in the Middle East poses risks for Kiev.
Rising oil prices, fuelling Russia's war machine, distracted allies turning their attention elsewhere.
But Ukraine's hard-won expertise in interceptor drones gives President Zelensky an opportunity, not just to win new friends and funds in the Gulf, but also to keep his war from being forgotten.
Colombia's left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, will soon be leaving office.
But before he does so, he wants to rewrite the constitution.
The outcome of legislative elections on Sunday could help him, although the result could also mark a right-wing comeback, a recent trend in other Latin American countries.
Colombian politics remains in the shadow of powerful cocaine gangs and the decades-long civil war.
More recently, President Trump has threatened military action in Colombia.
I got the latest from Luis Fajardo, BBC Monitoring's Latin America specialist.
Yes, because President Petro still has hugely ambitious plans, really, before he leaves office in August.
To what extent has President Trump and his threats against Colombia overshadowed these elections?
Lewis Fajardo.