Ukrainians Defeated Swedish Forces. Such Maneuvers... 0 15

To prepare for modern warfare involving drones, Ukrainian soldiers were invited to the alliance's exercises. They demonstrated that NATO is not yet ready for full protection against unmanned aerial vehicles.

The scenario of the exercises is as follows: an unnamed adversary is increasing military presence at NATO's eastern borders, reports Associated Press.

Gotland is facing power outages and food shortages due to sabotage. Sweden is leading the exercises, which test what NATO members can do before Article 5 of the collective defense treaty is invoked.

"Theoretically, this could happen as early as tomorrow," said AP exercise commander Rear Admiral Jonas Vikström.

The invited Ukrainian soldiers demonstrated how to conduct drone warfare. Their unit defeated Swedish forces during the exercises, one of the drone operators told AP. According to him, "they interrupted the exercises three times" to consider how to act more effectively, but in real life, they would have died.

Swedish forces need to improve their drones and tactics, and commanders must understand more deeply how to conduct warfare using them, said another operator fighting against the Russian army. Western military personnel cannot grasp what it is like, he added: "You need to see it with your own eyes."

All NATO forces must "quickly learn" to conduct operations using drones and counter them, and the "fastest" way is to listen to Ukrainians, said Sweden's Armed Forces Commander General Michael Claesson, reports The Moscow Times.