Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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NARRATIVE: 1,198 days after Surrey, Los Angeles puts a price on the man accused in Nijjar’s assassination
The FBI made Satinderjeet Singh, known as Goldy Brar, the 543rd name on its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives on September 28, 2026,…
FACT CHECK: Zelensky is right about Lyman, but his 10,660 Russian casualties remain unverifiable
Volodymyr Zelensky said on September 27 that the Ukrainian army had put 10,660 Russian soldiers out of action in one week. On Lyman, he…
EDITORIAL: Trump wants Russian refineries spared, and Kyiv must hold its cards while the Kremlin refuses
Donald Trump told reporters on September 27 that he had asked Volodymyr Zelensky to “take it easy” on Russian refineries. We say no.
SPECIAL REPORT: Oleshky eats its weeds, and the Russian occupier has left it without a convoy since May 26
The residents of Oleshky, a town occupied by the Russian army since February 24, 2022, lived this summer on vegetables from their gardens, and…
COMMENTARY: Moscow hits Kyivstar three times in September, and targets the phone that warns
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, was hit three times in September: its engineering team’s office in Kyiv on the 11th, a building housing its…
NARRATIVE: Moscow says it targets only the military, and its bomb hits a second floor in Saltivka
In Kharkiv, rescuers spent the whole morning of September 28 searching the second floor of a building in Saltivka, and Mayor Ihor Terekhov finally…
ANALYSIS: 100 strikes on warehouses since June, and Moscow takes its war to Kyiv’s shelves
ACLED has recorded about 100 Russian strikes, or series of strikes, on civilian warehouses in the Kyiv region since mid-June, against around 50 between…
FIELD REPORT: In Sumy, the Kremlin’s bombs shatter a refuge for child victims of violence
When the Barnahus in Sumy opened in December 2023, the regional council had set out toys, candy and tea; on Sunday, September 27, Russian…
OPINION: Wadephul was right to see Lavrov, who answered de-escalation with “to the end”
Johann Wadephul spent 22 minutes behind closed doors with Sergey Lavrov on September 26, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.