Maxime Marquette
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COLUMN: Izium Under Drones — When Terror from the Sky Strikes a City Already Broken
On the morning of June 26, 2026, a Russian drone struck a residential building in downtown Izium, in the Kharkiv region. A woman was…
EDITORIAL: Ukraine's Military Reform Betrays Those Who Have Fought Since 2022
They enlisted in February 2022, many of them voluntarily, in the first hours of their country's defense. They held Mariupol, defended Kharkiv, resisted in…
INVESTIGATION: TrophyLab, the Secret Library Turning War Trophies into Strategic Advantage
On the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, every destroyed tank, every intercepted missile, every downed drone had until now represented nothing more than a heap…
REPORT: Zelensky in Bratislava — Slovak Diplomacy Resumes Despite Fico
On June 25, 2026, Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár publicly confirmed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is interested in a visit to Bratislava. In…
DECODING: Ukraine Strikes the Voronezh Missile Factory — an Unprecedented Deep Strike Campaign
On June 22, 2026, the Ukrainian General Staff announced via Telegram that it had struck with high-precision air-launched cruise missiles a factory in Voronezh…
ANALYSIS: Russian Drone Strikes a Civilian Minibus in Nikopol — Two Dead, Twelve Injured Including Two Girls
On June 26, 2026, a Russian drone struck a public transit minibus traveling on the road entering Nikopol, in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. The result: two…
ESSAY: Ukraine's Cyber War Enters the European Age — the Cybersecurity Reserve
In June 2026, Ukraine crossed a decisive threshold in the digital war that Russia has imposed on it for more than four years: the…
COLUMN: Kupyansk Under Pressure — Radkivka Falls, the Ukrainian Bridgehead Holds
On June 22, 2026, a Russian source linked to the West Forces Group announced the capture of Radkivka, a village located north of Kupyansk…
OPINION: One million civilians under Russian occupation, cut off from basic services
A report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published in January 2026 establishes that approximately one million civilians…