Matthew Luxmore

Ukraine really has churned out drones over the last couple of years and has really expanded its ability to produce these small flying explosive and reconnaissance craft.

And they've enabled Kiev to hold back Russian troops on the front lines and really brought Russia to the point where it's not even using armoured vehicles anymore, since anything that is moving along the front lines

is quite an easy target for Ukrainians.

Now, with the coming of warmer weather and more tree cover, the Russians are trying to take advantage of that to kind of move small groups of troops forward.

But the other element is very far from the battlefield.

aerial campaign by both sides to try and strike each other's cities and infrastructure and military targets.

And Ukraine has been producing long-range drones that are able to fly far into Russian territory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calls this Ukraine's long-range sanctions against Moscow.

He's been calling for many years for financial sanctions against Russia's economy.

And now the Ukrainian narrative is essentially we're taking things into our

own hands trying to destroy or at least substantially damage their ability to produce the energy that is a lifeline of their economy.

Publicly, the Kremlin says nothing essentially is going to change until they achieve a victory.

And unless Kiev concedes to their demands, which at a minimum,

means that Ukraine surrenders the entire eastern Donbass province, there's really not going to be any backing down by Russia.

But privately, and of course, behind the scenes, they understand that the war is not going to plan.

And that has especially been the case over the last few months, even putting aside the colossal

loss of life.

It's becoming in some ways not necessarily unsustainable, but far harder for Putin to justify the war to his people.

Viktor Orban has in many ways been a standard-bearer for the international MAGA movement, as you might call it.

the international movement of conservative leaders and strong men who want to bring back what they call traditional values and patriotism in Europe.