Maxime Marquette
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TESTIMONY: In occupied Crimea, prisoners stranded — Russia paralyzed
For more than a week, not a single political prisoner has left occupied Crimea. Not one Crimean Tatar sentenced by the occupation courts. Not…
NARRATIVE: Phantom Defense neutralizes 7,000 enemy drones — Ukraine pushes the boundaries of the possible
Seven thousand hostile drones neutralized. Not on some vast military plain, but above a Ukrainian city, at the heart of a densely populated regional…
REPORT: Lavrov, the G7 and the Question Moscow Asks Trump: Have You Really Changed Sides?
On June 24, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke in Moscow with a question that summed up the entire diplomatic uncertainty of the…
ESSAY: Vasylivka, Henichesk, Crimea — Ukraine's logistical lockdown strategy against Russia
On June 23, 2026, Ukrainian aviation struck the bridge over the Karachokrak river in the occupied city of Vasylivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Images captured after…
PROFILE: Naftogaz under fire — the Ukrainian face of the war against energy
On June 27, 2026, Russian ballistic missiles and drones struck the production facilities of Naftogaz Group simultaneously in the oblasts of Poltava and Kharkiv.…
COLUMN: The Fourth Law and Axon — when Silicon Valley funds Ukraine's drone war
In June 2026, a Ukrainian technology company founded in Kyiv in 2023 announced a strategic investment from an American firm that was still making…
EDITORIAL: Russia's September Elections — A Farce That Reveals Everything About Wartime Russia
On June 28, 2026, United Russia, Vladimir Putin's party, announced its lead candidates for the legislative elections scheduled in September 2026. At the top…
INVESTIGATION: The 81st Airmobile Brigade Repels the Russian Assault — How Sloviansk Held for Two Days
On June 17, 2026, two columns of Russian mechanized forces converged on the Sloviansk sector with a precise objective: pierce the Ukrainian defensive line,…
REPORT: Ukraine signs the public procurement law — $3.4 billion from the World Bank unlocked
On June 23, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law that will never lead a war bulletin — but one that fundamentally transforms how Ukraine…