A Russian warship fired signal ammunition at a German military helicopter in the Baltic Sea, according to German media;
NATO foreign ministers have been meeting in Brussels, where the UK has urged other nations to increase their support for Ukraine;
Russian sources tell the Moscow Times that Russia's use of the new hypersonic Oreshnik missile was part of a propaganda operation to scare the West;
Ukraine's presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak is in the US to work on building contacts with Donald Trump's team;
Controversial right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson has returned to Russia, to interview foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.
The Druze are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Damascus in the area known officially as Jabal al-Druze.