Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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REPORT: Sweetheart, Ukraine's 150-km Reconnaissance Drone Flying Under the Radar
Since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022, the war in Ukraine has produced a quiet but radical technological revolution. Great powers pour billions…
REPORT: Ukraine Strikes Crimea's Military Spine — Saky, Hvardiiske, and the S-400 Neutralised
On the night of June 24, 2026, units of the Security Service of Ukraine's Alpha group conducted coordinated strikes on two major Russian military…
DECODING: €251 Million for Ukrainian Housing — How Europe Is Rebuilding While the War Continues
On June 26, 2026, the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) and the Italian government signed a €251 million housing reconstruction agreement for Ukraine.…
ANALYSIS: General Cherry Struck — Why Russia Cannot Stop Ukraine's Drone Factory
On June 22, 2026, Russian forces struck the production facility of General Cherry, one of Ukraine's most prominent domestic drone manufacturers. The attack was…
ESSAY: Putin's "Negotiations" — A Manual of Deliberate Contradiction
On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin declared to the world that Russia was "ready to negotiate" — citing the Istanbul 2022 framework, the Anchorage…
PROFILE: The Strikes That Hit Russia in Its Space and Its Lungs
Within 48 hours between June 22 and June 24, 2026, Ukrainian forces struck two targets that, individually, would have been among the most significant…
COLUMN: €7 Billion for Ukraine's Reconstruction — Europe Bets on a Country Still at War
On June 26, 2026, at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, the European Union formally launched the European Flagship Fund for Ukraine Reconstruction. The…
EDITORIAL: Ukraine Built a Drone Nation — And No One Can Take That Away
On June 22, 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence announced that 95% of all drone procurement is now sourced domestically. That single percentage point, at…
INVESTIGATION: Putin Says One Thing, Does Another — The Diplomatic Theater of June 2026
On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin publicly declared that Russia was "ready to negotiate" — citing the Istanbul 2022 framework, the Anchorage 2025 contacts,…