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TESTIMONY: In occupied Crimea, prisoners stranded — Russia paralyzed
For more than a week, not a single political prisoner has left occupied Crimea. Not one Crimean Tatar sentenced by the occupation courts. Not…
PROFILE: Naftogaz under fire — the Ukrainian face of the war against energy
On June 27, 2026, Russian ballistic missiles and drones struck the production facilities of Naftogaz Group simultaneously in the oblasts of Poltava and Kharkiv.…
TESTIMONY: Ukraine crosses the EU threshold — first cluster opened, resistance to overcome
On June 15, 2026, the European Union and Ukraine officially opened negotiations on the first cluster of EU accession. After months of preparation, dozens…
PROFILE: KAB glide bombs, Russia's guided munitions devastating Pokrovsk — portrait of a terror weapon
The KAB — from the Russian Korrektiruyemaya Aviabomba, meaning "correctable aerial bomb" — is the weapon that has come to define Russia's air campaign…
PROFILE: The New Reach of Ukrainian Strikes — When Kyiv Learns to Hit Far and Hard
Some changes in war are measured in kilometers. On June 23, 2026, Meduza — the independent Russian-language media outlet in exile — published a…
TESTIMONY: Putin Sends His Veterans to the Duma — War as the Regime's Political Springboard
On June 28, 2026, Dmitry Medvedev announced that United Russia, the ruling party, would field nearly 500 veterans of the war against Ukraine as…
PROFILE: Putin's ghost boats — Starlink, the Black Sea, and the naval drone war
At 4 a.m. on June 23, 2026, several Russian unmanned boats were launched toward the southwestern Ukrainian coastline in the Black Sea. These Unmanned…
TESTIMONY: Ukrainian Magura drones tested by US special forces in the Philippines
In late June 2026, Bloomberg reported something that would have sounded like science fiction two years earlier: United States special forces had used Ukrainian…
PROFILE: Mohamed Abdel — The Egyptian Cook Killed by a Russian Drone on a Civilian Cargo Ship in the Black Sea
The Victress was a cargo vessel. It was owned by a Turkish businessman named Cengiz Akpınar. It sailed under a Panamanian flag — a…