Welcome to The World in Ten.
In an increasingly uncertain world, this is The Times' daily podcast dedicated to global security.
Today with me, Alex Stibble and Stuart Willey.
Russia has again launched a new record number of drones at Ukraine.
Soon after, Donald Trump said he was reversing last week's pause in weapons deliveries to Kiev.
It comes as President Trump appears to be re-evaluating his relationship with Vladimir Putin,
saying he's unhappy so little progress has been made towards peace.
And as that relationship cools, a former Ukrainian Defence Minister has told The Times,
there can be no peace until Putin is gone.
Our reporter in Ukraine, Tom Ball, conducted the interview with Alexei Reznikov.
Tom's our guest today, speaking to us from Lviv.
We'll discuss this claim from Reznikov in a minute, Tom, but...
Before that, there's been yet another record number of drone assaults overnight.
Does this escalation look like stopping anytime soon?
Sadly, no, I think is the straight answer to that.
There were more than 700 she-head drone strikes last night up from 550 last weekend and 500 the weekend before that.
Clearly, Russia is ramping up.
these attacks.
It's enabled by the fact that it has significantly escalated its production of these drones,
not least the fact that it's being helped by Iran and the original design,