Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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REPORT: Trump and Pezeshkian sign the MoU — 14 points to stop a war
On June 17, 2026, at the close of the G7 summit in France, U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian digitally signed…
BREAKDOWN: Iran and nuclear inspections — the lie poisoning the peace
On June 23, 2026, an open dispute erupted between Washington and Tehran over a question as fundamental as it is explosive: had Iran or…
ANALYSIS: The U.S. Senate slaps Trump on Iran — 50-48, a Republican fracture
On June 24, 2026, the U.S. Senate passed a war powers resolution aimed at forcing President Donald Trump to end military hostilities against Iran,…
BREAKDOWN: Lavrov is looking for Trump — what Russia really wants to know after the G7
On June 24, 2026, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, delivered a statement of unusual precision in its calculated disarray. Reported by Reuters via Investing.com…
ANALYSIS: Russia's war economy under strain — the cracks are widening
In March 2022, when the first major waves of Western sanctions hit Russia — freezing the central bank's reserves, exclusion from SWIFT, export bans…
REPORT: Huliaipole, the 2nd hottest direction on the Ukrainian front
On June 21, 2026, across the entire Ukrainian front, 205 combat engagements were recorded in a single day, according to data compiled by UNN.…
EDITORIAL: Kyiv's patience is not infinite — the peace offer can expire
On June 22, 2026, before the United Nations Security Council, Andrii Melnyk, Ukraine's permanent representative, spoke words that the diplomatic world had grown accustomed…
TESTIMONY: Sumy, June 22, 2026 — three generations erased in an instant
At 4:50 in the morning on June 22, 2026, in the community of Znob-Novhorodske, Shostka district, in Sumy oblast, in northern Ukraine, a Russian…
COLUMN: Zelensky Wants to Bring the War Home to Putin — and He Is Right
On June 22, 2026, as swarms of Ukrainian drones disrupted Moscow's airspace once again, President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on social network X that he…