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There are consistent efforts to push these narratives that are pro-Russian, portraying the West as an aggressor rather than a Kremlin that wants to violate Ukraine’s sovereignty and fights this war for its own imperial ambitions,” says Natia Seskuria, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.

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.

Abu Dhabi regards that they helped Egypt a lot over the past 15 years,” said HA Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, the London think-tank. “So they expect backup on positions that they have on issues that they consider to be primarily Emirati in focus.”