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EDITORIAL: Kronstadt Hit — Ukraine Redefines the Limits of War at 1,100 km From the Front
In the night of June 2 to 3, 2026, something extraordinary happened at the Kronstadt naval base on the doorstep of Saint Petersburg: the…
REPORT: Rheinmetall, MBDA, Ukrainian Drones — Europe Forges Its War Arsenal at a Forced March
As of March 31, 2026, German defence giant Rheinmetall posted a consolidated order book of €73 billion — a figure that would have seemed…
DECODING: Poland's White Book Exposes Putin's Invisible Arsenal Against the Baltic States
On June 16, 2026, in Luxembourg, before the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski laid an explosive dossier…
ANALYSIS: China's GLM-5.2 — 744 Billion Parameters and the AI Race That Threatens the West
On June 13, 2026, Z.ai — a spin-off from Tsinghua University and one of China's most advanced AI laboratories — released GLM-5.2, its next-generation…
OPEN LETTER: To Those Who Want Ukraine to Negotiate — A Country Does Not Surrender Its Future
I write this letter grounded in a single number. One. Seventy percent. That is the proportion of Ukrainians skeptical that ongoing talks will lead…
TESTIMONY: When the USA-Iran Deal Crashes Oil Prices — and Bleeds Russia's War Finances
In March 2026, global oil prices experienced their largest disruption in years. Iran had effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for US-Israeli…
NARRATIVE: Putin Says No — Why the Kremlin Master Refuses to Limit His Long-Range Missiles
In early June 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky did something unusual in the vocabulary of contemporary warfare: he wrote an open letter to his enemy. To…
ESSAY: Russia Struck Chornobyl and Rescue Vessels — Can We Still Speak of Red Lines
In the night of June 6–7, 2026, Russian forces launched 236 drones of types Shahed, Gerbera, and Italmas against Ukraine. Ukrainian forces shot down…
COLUMN: Russian Hybrid Warfare — 50,000 Digital Signals and a Europe That Won't Strike Back
On June 17, 2026, the AsymIntel European strategic autonomy monitor published an analysis that deserves to be read as an alarm. The European External…