Russian invasion The world's response

Musk paid for Tommy Robinson's trip to Russia

Last month, British far-right figure Tommy Robinson appeared in Moscow with tech guru Elon Musk's father Errol Musk. In a video clip at a luxury hotel in the Russian capital, Robinson urged Britons to protest in the streets after a knife attack in Belfast.

Errol Musk tells The Guardian that he arranged the trip and that it was paid for by his sons Elon and Kimbal's Musk Foundation.

The elder Musk is deeply pro-Russia, has met Russian ministers and believes that Russians have a "genetic advantage" over the rest of the West. He describes Tommy Robinson as a "great young man" and says they met Russian politicians during their visit.

Robinson himself says he traveled to Russia to see "the beauty of a civilized country."

Sources: Germany buys 50,000 drones for Ukraine

Germany is financing 50,000 drones for Ukraine, a source with insight told Reuters.

It is one of the largest single drone orders for Ukraine from another country.

The order includes, among other things, FPV drones of the Shrike model, which are manufactured in Ukraine. The drones will be equipped with components from the American company Auterion. The company's CEO Lorenz Meier confirmed to Reuters an order of $90 million, equivalent to around 974 million kronor.

Meier, however, does not want to comment on any further details.

Britain is also investing heavily in drones for Ukraine. Last month, the country announced that it plans to deliver 150,000 drones this year, worth 752 million pounds - around 9.7 billion kronor.

Analysis: Did Putin give up war goals for the sake of the Olympics?

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) justified the decision to allow Russian athletes back in by saying that the Russian committee no longer includes sports from the occupied Ukrainian regions.

Russia has not denied this, writes the Kyiv Post in an analysis, and wonders if Putin has given up one of his most important war goals – total control over the occupied territories – in order for Russian athletes to participate in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

"It is understandable that the Kremlin would want to hide this from an international audience [...] because it shows that they are willing to negotiate and give up some of the 'spoils of war', even if they officially refuse to compromise."

There are similarities between Putin's war on Ukraine and Trump's war on Iran – in particular that both have stalled, write Anton Troianovski and Paul Sonne in the New York Times.

There is, however, one crucial difference: Putin is determined to continue at any cost, while Trump increasingly seems to be wavering in the face of the long-term consequences – among other things, he has acknowledged the risk of economic depression, they continue.

– (Trump) seemed, at least for a while, to have learned a lesson from the war: that it would be better if he ended it, says Joe Biden’s former Iran envoy Robert Malley.