Drones and missiles
NARRATIVE: Oleshky, the town where elders ate grass, is finally waiting for its convoy
Grass, on the menu. Weeds, too. Foraged outdoors, under the drones. The elders’ meal. In Oleshky, this autumn. Not in an old textbook. This year. An occupied Ukrainian town. Kherson sits right across. The river divides them.
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COLUMN: Kyiv crosses its Southern Bridge on foot while its interceptors keep it waiting
A bridge, on foot. An October morning. Half an hour walking. High above the Dnipro. A hole behind you. Ihor makes this trip now.…
EXPLAINER: Why the UN finally calls Russia’s cold a crime against humanity
A man in Kyiv. Fifty-three years old. Last winter. One precise fear. Not the missiles. Not the sirens. “The scariest thing was to fall…
OPEN LETTER: Mr Hegseth, your interceptors are waiting for a signature while Kyiv counts its nights
Mr Hegseth. A signature. Yours. It is missing. It has been missing for weeks, for people who have never seen your office or your…
PROFILE: Viacheslav Klymov, the Nova Poshta boss who says his firm downs Russian drones
A post office. Parcels everywhere. Yellow trucks. They have rolled along Ukrainian roads for years, between cities, villages and front lines. They still roll.
OPINION: China learns drone warfare on Kyiv’s back, and Moscow lends it a wind tunnel
Researchers at the windows. A jump. On September 28, a Russian strike hits the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Scientists jump out of…
COLUMN: Melania Trump wrests a truce for Oleshky, and Moscow has a different date
Melania Trump bent two general staffs. Not with missiles. With a calendar. Oleshky will breathe. A local truce starts on October 29, 2026. The…
EDITORIAL: Putin wants a final deal and signs it with 21 missiles on Kyiv
Putin wants a final deal. He said so on television. Not a short pause. A full settlement. Nothing less.
COLUMN: At 54 Volodymyrska Street, Moscow burns the address Ukrainian science has held since 1919
A Russian jet-powered drone struck the presidium building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on September 28, in broad daylight, at 54…
FACT CHECK: Hegseth’s Pentagon didn’t hide its eight wounded Marines. It just never said a word
On September 18, Pete Hegseth branded a report on undisclosed deaths “FAKE.” Four days earlier, his own Pentagon had said nothing about eight Marines…