Zelenskyy asks Trump for more US air defense help against Russian missile attacks, Kyiv says

The proposed measure reflects growing problems for Russia against Ukraine’s increasingly sophisticated drones, according to Thomas Withington, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. The draft bill “seems to indicate that … military-level drone defense capabilities in Russia are failing, because if they were working you wouldn’t need to do that,” Withington told The Associated Press. “This situation is not improving for Russia,” he said, noting that Moscow is battling to keep up with Ukrainian drone innovations. The measure seeks to “try and offload some of the burden of drone protection to the non-military, non-law enforcement sectors,” which are under strain, he said.