Maxime Marquette
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EDITORIAL: France Seizes Its Fifth Phantom Tanker — Macron Declares War on Putin's Money
On June 24, 2026, the French navy stopped a ship called the Deliver. It was flying a Cameroonian flag. It had departed from Primorsk,…
REPORT: Ukrainian grain ports under Russian bombs — the world holds its breath
The ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdennyi are Ukraine's lifeline to the global food market. Through these three port complexes on the northwestern Black…
DECODING: 1,000 for 1,000 Exchange — 160 Ukrainian Soldiers Freed, the 75th Return Since 2022
On June 26, 2026, 160 Ukrainian military personnel set foot on free soil again after months or years of captivity in Russian prisons and…
FACT-CHECK: Crimea Under State of Emergency — Ukrainian Strikes Really Are Starving the Peninsula of Fuel
On June 26, 2026, Russian occupation authorities in Crimea declared a regional state of emergency. The official declaration cites fuel shortages and repeated power…
COMMENTARY: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear — The 750 kV Line Repaired but Unusable, the Danger Persists
Since March 24, 2026, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe — the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), occupied by Russia since March 2022…
OPINION: DART, Ukraine's Cloud-Launched Missile That Shorts Out Russian Power Grids
The image is almost surreal: a stratospheric balloon drifting silently at 11 to 18 kilometres altitude above Russia, carrying a missile that, at the…
OPEN LETTER: Merz, Macron, Starmer, Meloni, Tusk — Europe Finally Speaking With One Voice for Ukraine
Ladies and gentlemen, leaders of Europe, allow me to address this open letter to you following your meeting in Berlin on June 24, 2026.…
TESTIMONY: Kerch in Flames — Russian Spy Ships Volga and Vyatka Destroyed Before They Could Strike
In the night of June 25 to 26, 2026, drones operated by the Ukrainian Security Service — the SBU — struck the Zatoka shipyard…
NARRATIVE: 6,000 Strikes on Ukraine's Energy Grid — €91 Billion in Scars, and Winter Is Coming
Since February 24, 2022, Russia has not only waged war against Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. It has conducted a methodical, systematic war against light,…