Zaluzhny did not ask for 500000 drones in order to reverse the situation on the battlefield. Drones are effective tool for both sides, but they will not win the war for Ukraine. Z has to keep propping whatever moral is still left amongst the soldiers and the general population, because there is nothing else left.
The Ukrainians are no longer interested in F - 16, because they know that they are not a game changer. Last year or a year before, maybe.
