Maxime Marquette
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ANALYSIS: Taiping Island, First Chinese Incursion and the Anatomy of a Strategy
On June 11, 2026, at 8:28 a.m., two Chinese government vessels — the Sansha Zhifa 301 and the Sansha No 2, both managed by…
REPORT: Beijing Maps East Taiwan and Rewrites the Rules of the Pacific
On June 16, 2026, the research vessel Xiangyanghong 22, belonging to the East China Sea Bureau of Beijing's Ministry of Natural Resources, departed the…
COMMENTARY: "Our patience is not endless" — Kyiv's warning
On June 23, 2026, Sergiy Melnyk, Ukraine's representative to the United Nations, delivered a sentence that The Guardian reproduced in its daily war briefing.…
REPORT: CRIMEA — THE RAILWAY BRIDGE STRUCK AND THE LIGHTS GOING OUT IN SEVASTOPOL
In the night of June 23–24, 2026, Ukraine struck Crimea at several points simultaneously. A railway bridge — a strategic target since the beginning…
ANALYSIS: US-EUROPE-UKRAINE NEGOTIATIONS — REALITY OR DIPLOMATIC THEATRE
On June 23, 2026, the Institute for the Study of War published its daily assessment of the Russian offensive campaign. In that document, one…
DECODING: RUSSIAN REFINERIES ON FIRE — KYIV STRIKES PUTIN'S OIL ARTERY
In June 2026, something changed in the nature of this war — not on the Kostiantynivka front, not in the diplomatic negotiations around the…
EDITORIAL: SUMY — A 13-YEAR-OLD CHILD AND THE SILENCE OF THOSE WHO COULD STOP THIS
A Russian drone struck a residential building in Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine, on that Monday in June 2026. It killed three members of the…
ANALYSIS: LAVROV AT THE G7 — RUSSIA IS SEARCHING FOR WHAT TRUMP REALLY PROMISED IT
On June 24, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made a statement that reveals less Moscow's strength than its disarray. "We are trying to…
INVESTIGATION: PUTIN'S SHADOW FLEET — 162 ENTITIES SANCTIONED BY CANADA
At the G7 summit in Évian, France, on June 16, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced during a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President…