Maxime Marquette
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EXPLAINER: Brussels pays for Kyiv’s drones and ties its budget aid to a parcel law
There is a number on this parcel: €150. It is the threshold below which a parcel ordered from abroad enters Ukraine free of VAT.…
ANALYSIS: €6.6 billion unlocked for Ukraine, and only €1.9 billion with an EU address
1.9. Remember that number before the other one. On Friday, September 25, 2026, in Brussels, the 27 member states unlocked €6.6 billion from the…
NARRATIVE: Pechersk, 8 a.m., a Kremlin-launched jet Shahed and a 14-year-old’s empty place
A 14-year-old boy is missing in Kyiv tonight. We do not know his first name. The authorities have not released it. I will not…
NARRATIVE: Odesa, two dead, a postal terminal hit again, and the “logistics” Moscow claims
A parcel. Cardboard, packing tape that sticks to your fingers, a label with a name and a phone number.
COLUMN: Moscow hits the Kryvyi Rih steelworks four times, and no one signs the payroll
Kryvyi Rih, before. A city of iron. Mines, slag heaps, furnaces. And in the middle, the largest steelworks in Ukraine, the old Kryvorizhstal, which…
FIELD REPORT: In broad daylight, Moscow hits a Kyiv internet hub and leaves four dead in a parking lot
Three bodies in a parking lot. It is the mayor’s second message on September 25. At 3:03 p.m. Kyiv time, Vitali Klitschko writes that…
FACT CHECK: Belousov celebrates a namesake, and ISW puts Russian lines 10.2 km from Dobropillia
Ten point two. That is kilometers. On September 24, at 10:15 p.m. ET, the Institute for the Study of War publishes its daily assessment.…
COMMENTARY: In Zaporizhzhia, Russian drones hit the ambulances the next strike will need
An ambulance goes. That is its whole job. It waits, engine off, and when the city hears the explosion, it heads toward the noise…
INVESTIGATION: 339 children named in Istanbul, and Moscow silent on more than 200
339 names. A list handed to the Russian delegation in Istanbul on June 2, 2025. Partial information on about 20% of the children. Nothing…