Western militaries can certainly learn from Ukraine's"creativity," including its large-scale "Spiderweb" drone operation deep inside Russia, the top NATO commander responsible for battlefield innovation told AFP.

"What the Ukrainians did in Russia was a real Trojan horse - and the story of the Trojan horse happened thousands of years ago," French Admiral Pierre Vandier, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, said in an interview.

Russian officials, likely preparing for a possible war with NATO, appear to be creating conditions for their country to withdraw from international arms control treaties, according to a new article by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Russia's"unilateral moratorium" on land-based missiles, the use of which is prohibited under the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, is approaching its"logical end," suggesting that Russia may begin to openly use such missiles in the future, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

The Russian military is conducting an"offensive" in the Dnipropetrovsk region aimed at creating a buffer zone in Ukraine, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in comments to Russian media.

At the same time, he emphasized that there is still no precise understanding of the new round of negotiations with Ukraine, but contacts"need to continue."

The United States believes that Russia has not yet exhausted all options to respond to Ukraine's Operation Spider Web, which destroyed Russian bombers at air bases.

According to Reuters, citing US officials, Moscow is likely preparing a large-scale, multi-pronged attack that could involve missiles and drones.