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ANALYSIS: Ukraine Strikes the Voronezh Electronics Factory — Russian Missiles Robbed of Their Brain
On June 22, 2026, Ukraine struck the VZPP — Voronezh Semiconductor Device Plant, a factory in the western Russian city of Voronezh that produces…

REPORT: Rheinmetall, MBDA, Ukrainian Drones — Europe Forges Its War Arsenal at a Forced March
As of March 31, 2026, German defence giant Rheinmetall posted a consolidated order book of €73 billion — a figure that would have seemed…

NARRATIVE: Putin Says No — Why the Kremlin Master Refuses to Limit His Long-Range Missiles
In early June 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky did something unusual in the vocabulary of contemporary warfare: he wrote an open letter to his enemy. To…

ESSAY: Russia Struck Chornobyl and Rescue Vessels — Can We Still Speak of Red Lines
In the night of June 6–7, 2026, Russian forces launched 236 drones of types Shahed, Gerbera, and Italmas against Ukraine. Ukrainian forces shot down…

OPINION: Ukraine Strikes Russian Refineries — 25% of Capacity Goes Up in Smoke
There is something deeply symbolic in this act of war: Ukraine, fighting for its survival for more than four years with often inadequate means,…

NARRATIVE: The US-Iran Geneva Accord — 60 Days to Avoid Nuclear War
On June 17, 2026, in Geneva, representatives of the United States and Iran initial a 14-point memorandum of understanding. This document is not yet…

COLUMN: A French NATO Jet Shoots Down a Ukrainian Drone Over Latvia — Russia Turns Our Allies into Targets
On June 8, 2026, a French NATO fighter jet deployed as part of the alliance's Baltic air policing mission in Latvia shot down a…

OPINION: Russian GPS-Jamming Satellites — Moscow Launches Its Invisible War from Space
On June 5, 2026, the New York Times revealed what navigation and defense experts had suspected for years: Russian satellites belonging to the missile-launch…

REPORT: The Belarusian Spy in Toulouse — How Russia Films Our Drone Factories
On June 3, 2026, agents of the General Directorate for Internal Security detained a 48-year-old man born in Belarus, near Toulouse. The scene belongs…