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EDITORIAL: France Seizes Its Fifth Phantom Tanker — Macron Declares War on Putin's Money
On June 24, 2026, the French navy stopped a ship called the Deliver. It was flying a Cameroonian flag. It had departed from Primorsk,…
COMMENTARY: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear — The 750 kV Line Repaired but Unusable, the Danger Persists
Since March 24, 2026, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe — the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), occupied by Russia since March 2022…
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,…
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…
DECODING: American MAAWLR Systems — Ukraine's Secret Weapon for Air Defense
Ukraine has received and deployed on the battlefield the MAAWLR (Medium Advanced Air and Missile Launch Rail) systems from American company Sierra Nevada Corporation,…
EDITORIAL: 68,900 war crimes, 97 convictions — international justice is falling behind
On June 22, 2026, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andriy Kravchenko presented his one-year activity report — and the numbers it contained should have stopped every…
COMMENTARY: Seoul ready to welcome North Korean soldiers who fought for Putin
On January 11, 2025, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the Security Service of Ukraine announced something unprecedented in the history of this conflict: two…
NARRATIVE: 7 Ukrainian civilians freed June 27 — lives stolen by Russian occupation
On June 27, 2026, 7 Ukrainian civilians were freed by Russia and returned to Ukraine. Their ages ranged from 35 to 66. They had…