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TESTIMONY: Ukrainian Elections Await the End of Martial Law — the 2027–2029 Budget Confirms It
Budgets are political documents before they are financial ones. What a government chooses to include — or to omit — the allocations it forecasts…
NARRATIVE: Russia Listed Alongside ISIS and Al-Qaeda for Crimes Against Ukrainian Children
There are words that, repeated long enough, eventually lose their weight. We must not let that happen to this one: for the fourth consecutive…
REPORT: UK Sends £752 Million — 150,000 Drones and 350 Missiles for Ukraine
On June 23, 2026, British Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis announced the largest British military aid package to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale…
ANALYSIS: Budapest Blocks Ukraine's EU Accession — The Path Grows Dangerously Long
In June 2022, when the European Union granted Ukraine official candidate status, the emotion was overwhelming. It was a historic recognition — a signal…
DECODING: Russia's war economy — exhausted but not yet broken, says Kiel Institute
The report by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy published in June 2026 sums up the state of Russia's economy in a phrase…
FACT-CHECK: Rheinmetall wins Bundeswehr contract for 23 Bergepanzer 3 A2
Since 2022, Germany has delivered to Ukraine military equipment that, two years earlier, nobody believed it was capable of giving. Leopard 2 tanks, IRIS-T…
REPORT: The Kremlin threatens any state that touches frozen Russian assets in Europe
On June 24, 2026, as Europe was discussing new ways to use the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to fund aid to Ukraine,…
DECODING: Zelensky sanctions 67 collaborators and structures in occupied territories
On June 26, 2026, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed decrees 501/2026 and 502/2026, imposing sanctions against 67 collaborators and organizations operating in the temporarily occupied…
ANALYSIS: Nammo N7 — how Norway secretly armed Ukrainian drones
The Eurosatory 2026 arms exhibition, held in Paris in June, is one of the largest gatherings of the global defense industry. It was there…