Maxime Marquette
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OPINION: Ukraine strikes at 3,000 km — Zelensky rewrites the rules of long-range war
On June 27, 2026, President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke words that deserve to be weighed carefully: the Ukrainian company Fire Point has developed
PROFILE: Kosiniak-Kamysz, the Polish minister who put the MiG-29s on hold
On June 30, 2026, Poland's Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz shattered an illusion that Kyiv had been nurturing for months. On the set
INVESTIGATION: NATO fractures before Ankara — €70 billion at stake, Italy, and the time running out
On July 7 and 8, 2026, the heads of state and government of NATO member countries will gather in Ankara, Turkey. On
COMMENTARY: 7,000 North Korean soldiers fallen for Putin — and two prisoners who want to go South
More than 7,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in the Kursk Oblast campaign between 2024 and 2025. This figure,
EDITORIAL: Putin refuses peace — and says so without flinching
On June 29, 2026, the Kremlin delivered a message to the international community of disarming clarity: nothing has changed. Russia's position on
REPORT: Mobidik, the Ukrainian naval drone with a 1,400km range that covers the entire Black Sea
On June 30, 2026, in Kyiv, at the Ukrainian-Nordic DIH Naval Forge 2026 conference, company Avarid officially presented its naval drone Mobidik
DECODING: Ukraine-France and the SCALP licence — what the "first advances" actually change
On June 29, 2026, Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov dropped a statement that deserves careful unpacking: "first advances" had been recorded in
ANALYSIS: Nammo delivers hundreds of thousands of N7 warheads — Ukrainian drones change their calibre
On June 30, 2026, at the Eurosatory 2026 exhibition in Paris, a piece of information that deserved far more attention emerged almost
FACT-CHECK: Kongsberg and DevDroid sign for armed robots — what is true, what remains to be proven
On June 30, 2026, at the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in Poland, two companies signed a memorandum of understanding: Norwegian defence giant Kongsberg