Maxime Marquette
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REPORT: Ukraine Strikes Russia's Eyes in Space — Dubna, Vladimir, Orenburg
Between June 21 and June 25, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck three of Russia's most sensitive infrastructure targets in a sequence that military analysts have…
DECODING: $3.39 Billion from the World Bank — 20 Ukrainian Reforms Unlock the Deal
On June 25, 2026, at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, Ukraine's Ministry of Finance and the World Bank signed a historic agreement: the…
FACT-CHECK: Russian ballistic missiles — Ukraine's 53% interception rate, the verified facts
In June 2026, a troubling statistic circulated in both Ukrainian and Western defense media: Ukraine's interception rate for Russian ballistic missiles had dropped to…
COMMENTARY: The EU's €90 billion loan — the first €3.2 billion reaches Kyiv
On June 25, 2026, at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the first disbursement of the…
OPINION: Russian naval drones run on smuggled Starlink — Ukraine sank three
Ukraine's naval forces recently sank three Russian surface drones in the Black Sea — an operation that, in military terms, appears modest but reveals…
OPEN LETTER: To a Contracting Ukraine — Your Economy Resists, Even as It Retreats
Ukraine, in the first quarter of 2026, your GDP contracted by 0.6% year over year. This is the sharpest contraction since the wartime recovery…
TESTIMONY: The DRAGON System — Eighteen Months on Ukraine's Battlefield
On June 28, 2026, the manufacturer of the DRAGON air defense system announced the official integration of this standardized system into Ukraine's armed forces…
NARRATIVE: Gdańsk 2026 — ten billion in promises for a Ukraine in reconstruction
On June 25 and 26, 2026, the city of Gdańsk — once the birthplace of Solidarność, the movement that cracked the Soviet empire from…
REPORT: The Ukrainian flag on the Kinburn Spit — a victory in the fog of war
On June 25, 2026, the Southern Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine raised the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag on the Kinburn Spit, a natural…