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REPORT: Syzran, the Russian refinery Ukrainian drones refuse to spare
On the night of July 11 to 12, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck the refinery at Syzran, in Samara oblast, more than 900 kilometers from…
REPORT: In Ankara, Zelensky wrestles out a weapons promise still wrapped in fog
On July 8, 2026, in Ankara, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky secured from Donald Trump a long-awaited announcement: a license letting Ukraine build its own…
ANALYSIS: Ukraine's Patriot license won't build a single missile before 2028
On July 8, 2026, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump told President Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States would grant Ukraine a…
FACT-CHECK: The Refinery War, How Ukraine Is Hitting Russia's Economic Nerve
For several months, Ukraine has run a systematic campaign of drone strikes against Russian oil refineries, a strategy that directly targets the economic nerve…
COLUMN: Syzran Burns a Third Time, and Moscow Still Says Nothing
On the night of July 11 to 12, 2026, Ukrainian drones once again struck the Syzran refinery in the Samara region, more than eight…
ANALYSIS: The Patriot license for Ukraine, Lockheed and RTX caught off guard
Some admissions carry more weight than the announcement they were meant to support. At the NATO summit in Ankara, President Donald Trump promised Volodymyr…
ANALYSIS: Trump's Patriot promise to Ukraine, where things actually stand
Some of the most consequential lines in modern diplomacy get said almost in passing, between two handshakes. At the NATO summit in Ankara on…
DECODING: Al-Azraq, the Jordanian base turned target in Iran's retaliation
There are nights when Jordan no longer has the luxury of watching a war from a safe distance. On July 9, 2026, air-raid sirens…
DECODING: Trump threatens to decimate Iran over an assassination plot
On July 10, 2026, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that "1,000 missiles are locked and loaded, pointed at the Islamic Republic of Iran,…