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INVESTIGATION: AI Defense Center A1 — Ukraine Places Artificial Intelligence Inside the Kill Chain
What the A1 Center does is the military equivalent of a Silicon Valley startup: short cycles, rapid iteration, obsession with the real problem of…
INVESTIGATION: Ukrainian drones in NATO airspace — Tsahkna says yes, and a whole doctrine shifts
On June 29, 2026, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna gave an interview to the Financial Times whose words deserve to be cited
INVESTIGATION: Kallas rejects an EU army and names Ollongren to the EEAS — Europe chooses its path
On June 30, 2026, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas drew a sharp line: no common European army. The announcement, delivered from
INVESTIGATION: SCALP missiles manufactured in Ukraine — a Franco-Kyiv deal reshaping the war
On June 29, 2026, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov used a word that had never been spoken in this context before: "progress."
INVESTIGATION: The 21st Sanctions Package Against Russia — A Race Against the Clock Until July 15
July 15, 2026 is not an arbitrary date. It is the date on which, absent agreement among the 27 European Union member
INVESTIGATION: Kim Jong Un — nuclear program, new destroyer, and soldiers in Russia — Pyongyang escalates
On July 1, 2026, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) published its Korean Peninsula update, covering events through June 30,
INVESTIGATION: Moroccan fertilizer, the Iran war and inflation — why Trump had to bend on his own tariffs
On June 29, 2026, Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation declaring an economic state of emergency to temporarily suspend — for 8
INVESTIGATION: NATO fractures before Ankara — €70 billion at stake, Italy, and the time running out
On July 7 and 8, 2026, the heads of state and government of NATO member countries will gather in Ankara, Turkey. On
INVESTIGATION: €3.9 Billion for Ukrainian Drones — How the EU Arms Ukraine from Brussels
On June 30, 2026, the European Commission disbursed €3.9 billion to Ukraine — the first payment from the defense tranche of the