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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…
OPINION: Ukraine Strikes Russian Refineries — 25% of Capacity Goes Up in Smoke
There is something deeply symbolic in this act of war: Ukraine, fighting for its survival for more than four years with often inadequate means,…
PROFILE: Putin's Russia — A War Economy Devouring Its Own Future in Q1 2026
In the first quarter of 2026, Russia devoted 5.9 trillion rubles — approximately $81.4 billion — to military spending. That figure represents 46% of…
INVESTIGATION: Russia's War Economy Reaches Its Limits — What the Kiel Report Says
Since 2022, one narrative has dominated discussions about Russia's economic resilience: Putin is holding, the sanctions are not working, the ruble is surviving, Russia's…
COMMENTARY: Ukraine-EU Cluster 1 opens — a historic breakthrough that must stay on track
On June 15, 2026, in Luxembourg, at the second EU-Ukraine accession conference, something happened that many had stopped hoping for over months: the European…