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INVESTIGATION: The 1,200 km front, anatomy of a war of attrition
The front line running through Ukraine stretched, as of May 2026, roughly 1,200 kilometers, according to data compiled by Ukraine War Analytics on May…
REPORT: Pokrovsk, the slow death of a Donbas symbol city
In May 2026, Russian forces were only 3 to 5 kilometers from the center of Pokrovsk, according to data compiled by Ukraine War Analytics…
DECODING: Fire Point, the company that changed the range of the war
A Ukrainian company now produces roughly 200 long-range strike drones a day, according to remarks attributed to its co-founder Denys Shtilerman and reported by…
ANALYSIS: The Omsk strike, the raid that redefines Ukraine's reach
On July 6, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck the Omsk refinery for the first time, a complex located roughly 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine's borders, according…
DECODING: Zelensky's diplomacy between Washington and Brussels this summer
President Volodymyr Zelensky has multiplied, over recent weeks, his diplomatic trips and interventions with Washington and Brussels, in a context where Western military and…
DECODING: Ukraine's economic resilience under Russia's summer strikes
As the Russian military multiplies its strikes against Ukrainian energy and industrial infrastructure, Ukraine's economy continues, against the expectations of some pessimistic observers, to…
FACT-CHECK: what the closure of Hormuz really means for the global economy
On July 12, 2026, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, citing the massive American strikes of the preceding nights…
DECODING: Iran isolated but still defiant after the American response
In a matter of days, the Islamic Republic of Iran found itself in a position its own leaders probably could not have imagined a…
FACT-CHECK: Iran's nuclear program after the American strikes
Since the night of July 11-12, 2026, American forces have struck roughly 140 targets linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, according…