“Putin made a grave mistake invading Ukraine, and the Russian people should never forgive him for it.” That’s what a now-retired Russian military commander told me earlier in the week when I began plotting out this article.

Romania says a Russian drone has hit a block of flats in the country, which it calls a "grave escalation".

Romania's emergency services declared the drone's entire explosive payload detonated sparking a terrible blaze on the tenth floor of the apartment block.

In a ⁠corn ⁠field in eastern Ukraine, soldiers fired ⁠drones into the sky using a slingshot, aiming at military targets in the ​country's Russian-occupied east, dozens of kilometers away.

Romania says a Russian drone has hit a block of flats in the country, which it calls a "grave escalation".