Ukraine’s battlefield experience and rapidly expanding defense industry have made it an indispensable security partner that should be part of NATO, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.Addressing the NATO Defense Industries Forum in Ankara on Tuesday, Zelensky told alliance leaders that Kyiv now possesses some of Europe’s strongest military capabilities.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.He added that modern warfare has fundamentally changed and that Ukraine has become a global leader in drone warfare while defending itself against Russia’s invasion.“If Ukrainians already know how to fight like this, then it does make sense for these capabilities to become a part of the alliance’s collective defense. That would make all of us stronger,” he said.Zelensky argued that Ukraine had become “a source of extraordinary defensive capability” for NATO and said its experience fighting Russia would remain strategically valuable, as Ukraine would continue to share a border with Russia long after the war.“The fact is that we will remain next to the source of the problem, Russia, for a long time,” he said.Drone warfare has transformed modern combatZelensky said the nature of warfare had undergone a revolution comparable to the introduction of machine guns during World War I, tank warfare during World War II, and the invention of missiles.“Today, drones and the very technology of fighting at a distance represent a revolutionary change in the technology of war,” he said.