Maxime Marquette
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ANALYSIS: Russian guided bombs on Zaporizhzhia — one dead, fifteen injured, the terror of June 28
On June 28, 2026, Russian armed forces struck the city of Zaporizhzhia with guided aerial bombs. The toll, confirmed by mid-morning by Governor Ivan…
NARRATIVE: Colonel Koziura — The SBU Traitor Sentenced to Life After a Ghost Operation
On June 25, 2026, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv delivered its verdict in one of the most serious espionage cases of the war:…
REPORT: TAF Industries and PGZ sign in Gdańsk — a European drone factory for Ukraine is born
Gdańsk. The city of Solidarność, the shipyards, the workers' resistance to the Soviet empire. On June 25, 2026, in this same city charged with…
ANALYSIS: Zelensky dismisses four ambassadors — Ukrainian diplomacy reinvents itself under pressure
On June 26, 2026, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed three decrees dismissing Ukrainian ambassadors to Oman (Olha Selykh), to Cyprus (Serhiy Nizhynskyi), and to Vietnam…
DECODING: Vovchanski Khutory — Russia attacks every day, fails every day, loses every day
Imagine a military commander who orders the same attack, against the same fortified point, day after day, achieving the same result every time: losses…
FACT-CHECK: Victoria Amelina — three years after Kramatorsk, the facts against forgetting
The facts are established. On June 27, 2023, a Russian missile struck the Ria Lounge restaurant in Kramatorsk, in Donetsk Oblast. 13 people were…
COMMENTARY: Tytan Technologies launches a factory producing 3,000 drones a month — Munich enters the war
Tytan Technologies, based in Munich, will launch a new factory in August 2026 capable of producing 3,000 autonomous interceptors per month. This figure —…
OPINION: Former Russian Soldiers Banned from the EU — Paris and Rome Block, the Signal to Moscow Is Ambiguous
The idea is simple, direct, morally unassailable: ban entry into the European Union for former Russian soldiers who fought in Ukraine. Ursula von der…
OPEN LETTER: Moscow, your bridges are falling — Ukraine cuts your lines one night at a time
I am writing to you, Moscow, in the style you understand: that of raw facts. In the night of June 24 to 25, 2026,…