Maxime Marquette
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ANALYSIS: Pokrovsk-Dobropillia — The Russian Logistic Maneuver Toward Rodynske and Bilytske
Since mid-June 2026, analysts from the DeepState group have been sounding the alarm on a movement that most observers risk underestimating: Russian
DECODING: 123 or 300 Russian Soldiers in Kostiantynivka? — The Intelligence Numbers War
On June 15, 2026, Brigadier General Oleksandr Bakulin, commander of the 19th Army Corps, spoke before cameras during the 24/7 joint news
REPORT: Kostiantynivka, the Siege to Come — Infiltration, Pokrovsk-Style
Kostiantynivka, a city of 67,000 pre-war residents in the Ukrainian Donbas, is experiencing something its defenders know all too well: the start
ANALYSIS: Germany Eyes Ukrainian Missiles to Fill the Void Left by Washington
July 2024. Joe Biden and Olaf Scholz announce with great fanfare that the United States will deploy Tomahawk missiles in Germany starting
DECODING: 2,555 Flamingo Missiles Per Year — Fire Point's Dizzying Industrial Challenge
Seven missiles per day. Two thousand five hundred fifty-five per year. This isn't the promise of a general staff officer in a
FACT-CHECK: Flamingo Exploded in Odesa — Russian Propaganda or a Real Failure?
On June 17, 2026, EADaily — a Russian-Kremlin agency sanctioned by the European Union since February 24, 2025 — published an article
OP-ED: MBDA, Diehl, Luch — Europe Adopts Ukraine's Missile DNA
There is something vertiginous about watching history turn back on itself. Villepinte, northern suburb of Paris, mid-June 2026: eighty Ukrainian companies parade
INVESTIGATION: FREYJA, the Ukrainian Anti-Ballistic Shield Aiming for One-Third the Cost of a Patriot
It is pink. That is the first thing you notice in the video published on June 3, 2026 by Iryna Terekh, Technical
EDITORIAL: Ukrainian Ballistic Missiles Will Change Everything—Fedorov’s Gamble
On June 16, 2026, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, launched a sentence over the airwaves of TSN that resonated like a