Maxime Marquette
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NARRATIVE: Oleshky, the town where elders ate grass, is finally waiting for its convoy
Grass, on the menu. Weeds, too. Foraged outdoors, under the drones. The elders’ meal. In Oleshky, this autumn. Not in an old textbook. This…
COLUMN: Kyiv crosses its Southern Bridge on foot while its interceptors keep it waiting
A bridge, on foot. An October morning. Half an hour walking. High above the Dnipro. A hole behind you. Ihor makes this trip now.…
EXPLAINER: Why the UN finally calls Russia’s cold a crime against humanity
A man in Kyiv. Fifty-three years old. Last winter. One precise fear. Not the missiles. Not the sirens. “The scariest thing was to fall…
OPEN LETTER: Mr Hegseth, your interceptors are waiting for a signature while Kyiv counts its nights
Mr Hegseth. A signature. Yours. It is missing. It has been missing for weeks, for people who have never seen your office or your…
EDITORIAL: Two hours of diesel for sanctions, Donald Trump’s bad bargain
A tanker. Forty thousand tons. Russian diesel. Bound for New York. Enough to cover barely two hours of American demand, analyst Ieva Miyares calculates.
ANALYSIS: Abu Dhabi after November 4, a peace negotiated without Europe
A date. November 4. A Russian holiday. Then, maybe, a table. In the Gulf. The Kremlin set its calendar, and it pinned it to…
INVESTIGATION: Brasov, the September 14 fire and the Russian network that recruits on social media
A message. It arrives one evening, from an unknown account, with a friendly tone and a tempting sum. An offer of money. An easy…
PROFILE: Viacheslav Klymov, the Nova Poshta boss who says his firm downs Russian drones
A post office. Parcels everywhere. Yellow trucks. They have rolled along Ukrainian roads for years, between cities, villages and front lines. They still roll.
FACT CHECK: Trump’s million against voter fraud, what the numbers really say
One million. In dollars. Promised to anyone who reports voter fraud leading to an arrest, then a conviction. Donald Trump makes the offer. It…