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Drones and missiles

The war of machines: drones, missiles, shields, and the race to shoot them down.
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Reportage· No. 1263

NARRATIVE: Phantom Defense neutralizes 7,000 enemy drones — Ukraine pushes the boundaries of the possible

Seven thousand hostile drones neutralized. Not on some vast military plain, but above a Ukrainian city, at the heart of a densely populated regional…

Profile· No. 1260

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.…

Column· No. 1259

COLUMN: The Fourth Law and Axon — when Silicon Valley funds Ukraine's drone war

In June 2026, a Ukrainian technology company founded in Kyiv in 2023 announced a strategic investment from an American firm that was still making…

Analysis· No. 1252

ANALYSIS: Putin Admits Fuel Shortages — Russia's Economic Fracture Accelerates

On June 28, 2026, at the United Russia party congress, President Vladimir Putin officially acknowledged that Ukrainian strikes on Russian refinery infrastructure were causing…

Reportage· No. 1244

REPORT: Ukrainian grain for Shahed drones — the network bypassing sanctions

Between September 2025 and March 2026, ships left Turkish ports loaded with Ukrainian grain. Official destination: Iran. Real destination, according to an investigation by…

Essay· No. 1236

ESSAY: Zelensky Tightens the Vise — the Ukrainian Sanctions Strangling Russia's War Machine

There is a war being waged without the sound of cannons. Without drone footage. Without columns of black smoke over refineries. It is the…

Analysis· No. 1231

ANALYSIS: Moscow refinery offline until 2027 — Ukraine strikes Russia's economic heart

On June 16 and 18, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow refinery — also known as the Kapotnya refinery, named after the southern district…

Column· No. 1228

COLUMN: Izium Under Drones — When Terror from the Sky Strikes a City Already Broken

On the morning of June 26, 2026, a Russian drone struck a residential building in downtown Izium, in the Kharkiv region. A woman was…

Investigation· No. 1226

INVESTIGATION: TrophyLab, the Secret Library Turning War Trophies into Strategic Advantage

On the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, every destroyed tank, every intercepted missile, every downed drone had until now represented nothing more than a heap…

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