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TESTIMONY: What I saw in Kim Jong Un's weapons tests — the North Korea rewriting the rules
I read these specifications and do the simple math. Ninety kilometers from the border: Seoul enters range. Warheads designed to destroy a nation's infrastructure.…

PROFILE: Dubna, second strike — Ukraine dismantles Russia's military space constellation
When Zelensky says "long-range sanctions," he is choosing his words with precision. This is not a metaphor — it is a doctrine. Ukraine is…

PROFILE: Black Spark, the ghosts who infiltrated the death factory at Alabuga
What I find vertiginous in this story is not the sabotage itself. It is the patience it demands. Several months of pretending, of smiling…

TESTIMONY: In Doha, Diplomats Seek Peace — and Iran Seeks Its Ransom
There is an almost tragic irony in this scene: two countries that exchanged military strikes barely two weeks ago, that cannot even share a…

TESTIMONY: Snihurivka, Night of June 30 — A 5,000 m² Store Consumed by Shaheds
On the night of June 30 to July 1, 2026, a Shahed-136 kamikaze drone hit a building materials and DIY store in

PROFILE: Ukraine's Mi-24V and Its 185 Kill Marks — A Living Legend of the Sky
Some machines tell a war better than any speech ever could. A Ukrainian Mi-24V helicopter, belonging to the 11th Army Aviation Brigade

TESTIMONY: After Putin, Russia will remain a threat — a Swedish intelligence chief shatters the illusion
On June 30, 2026, Thomas Nilsson, head of Swedish military intelligence, spoke words that deserve to be read slowly: "We do not

PROFILE: Twenty minutes to die — the life of a Russian recruit at the Ukrainian front
He arrives at the front. He sets down his gear. He looks around. He has not yet figured out where he is

TESTIMONY: What China is preparing after Kim Jong-un — and why the West must worry
There are questions that Western capitals avoid asking aloud because the answer is too destabilizing. The succession of power in North Korea