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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…
ESSAY: UK-Ukraine strategic dialogue — when justice becomes a weapon of war
On June 23, 2026, the leaders of Ukraine and the United Kingdom published a Joint Declaration on Strategic Dialogue that deserves careful reading —…
PROFILE: Crimea besieged — portrait of a peninsula collapsing under drones
There are moments when an administrative act tells a war better than any military report. On June 26, 2026, the pro-Russian authorities installed in…
COLUMN: Resisting in Kherson under occupation — and spending twenty years in prison for it
On June 18, 2026, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don heard the indictment in the case of three men from Kherson: Oleksandr Kruchynenko,…
EDITORIAL: Freya, the Ukrainian interceptor at $700,000 that challenges the Patriot monopoly
On June 18, 2026, the 35th meeting of the Ramstein Contact Group convened not at Ramstein but in Brussels. Fifty-seven countries present. Four billion…
INVESTIGATION: Anchorage phantom summit — Rubio vs. the Russian lie
For several weeks in June 2026, a strange diplomatic dance has been playing out between Washington and Moscow. Russia claims that "agreements" were reached…