Maxime Marquette
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EDITORIAL: For the first time, the EU extends its sanctions against Russia for a full year
On June 18, 2026, at the heart of a European Council summit in Brussels, the twenty-seven heads of state and government of
ANALYSIS: 1.3 Trillion Euros — The Real Cost of Sanctions for Russia According to Kallas
On June 15, 2026, during a press conference following the meeting of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, Kaja Kallas,
ANALYSIS: 81 New Targets — The EU Strikes the Shadow Fleet and Propagandists
On June 15, 2026, the Council of the European Union adopted a new package of restrictive measures against Russia. Not the grand
EYEWITNESS: In Sumy, three horses killed by a Russian drone in a children's riding school
On the night of June 16-17, 2026, shortly after midnight, a Geran-2 drone — the Russian version of the Iranian Shahed —
ANALYSIS: Kharkiv Pounded — Guided Bombs on 40 Houses, 9 Injured Including 4 Children
In the night of June 18-19, 2026, around 3:30 AM Kyiv time, the Russian army dropped guided aerial bombs — the notorious
ACCOUNT: Odradne Torn from Russia — 22 km² Liberated in the Kharkiv Oblast
On May 15, 2026, at dawn, the Ukrainian flag was raised once again over the village of Odradne, in the Dvorichna district,
ANALYSIS: Lyman, the Unrelenting Pressure — Between 10 and 23 Repeated Assaults per Day
Since mid-June 2026, the Lyman sector in eastern Donbas has turned into one of the deadliest points on the entire Ukrainian frontline.
COLUMN: 157 to 248 Battles a Day — the Permanent, Quantified Hell of the Ukrainian Front
Every morning, between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM Kyiv time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine publishes its daily
REPORT: Houliaipole, the Forgotten Front — 24 Russian Assaults in a Single Day
There are fronts we talk about until we're blue in the face—Pokrovsk, Kupiansk, the Donbas—and then there are the fronts we brush