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PROFILE: The Strikes That Hit Russia in Its Space and Its Lungs
Within 48 hours between June 22 and June 24, 2026, Ukrainian forces struck two targets that, individually, would have been among the most significant…
COLUMN: €7 Billion for Ukraine's Reconstruction — Europe Bets on a Country Still at War
On June 26, 2026, at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, the European Union formally launched the European Flagship Fund for Ukraine Reconstruction. The…
EDITORIAL: Ukraine Built a Drone Nation — And No One Can Take That Away
On June 22, 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence announced that 95% of all drone procurement is now sourced domestically. That single percentage point, at…
INVESTIGATION: Putin Says One Thing, Does Another — The Diplomatic Theater of June 2026
On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin publicly declared that Russia was "ready to negotiate" — citing the Istanbul 2022 framework, the Anchorage 2025 contacts,…
REPORT: Ukraine Strikes Russia's Eyes in Space — Dubna, Vladimir, Orenburg
Between June 21 and June 25, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck three of Russia's most sensitive infrastructure targets in a sequence that military analysts have…
DECODING: $3.39 Billion from the World Bank — 20 Ukrainian Reforms Unlock the Deal
On June 25, 2026, at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, Ukraine's Ministry of Finance and the World Bank signed a historic agreement: the…
FACT-CHECK: Russian ballistic missiles — Ukraine's 53% interception rate, the verified facts
In June 2026, a troubling statistic circulated in both Ukrainian and Western defense media: Ukraine's interception rate for Russian ballistic missiles had dropped to…
COMMENTARY: The EU's €90 billion loan — the first €3.2 billion reaches Kyiv
On June 25, 2026, at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the first disbursement of the…
OPINION: Russian naval drones run on smuggled Starlink — Ukraine sank three
Ukraine's naval forces recently sank three Russian surface drones in the Black Sea — an operation that, in military terms, appears modest but reveals…