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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,…
FACT-CHECK: Crimea Under State of Emergency — Ukrainian Strikes Really Are Starving the Peninsula of Fuel
On June 26, 2026, Russian occupation authorities in Crimea declared a regional state of emergency. The official declaration cites fuel shortages and repeated power…
NARRATIVE: 6,000 Strikes on Ukraine's Energy Grid — €91 Billion in Scars, and Winter Is Coming
Since February 24, 2022, Russia has not only waged war against Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. It has conducted a methodical, systematic war against light,…
PROFILE: The Strikes That Hit Russia in Its Space and Its Lungs
Within 48 hours between June 22 and June 24, 2026, Ukrainian forces struck two targets that, individually, would have been among the most significant…
REPORT: Ukraine Strikes Russia's Eyes in Space — Dubna, Vladimir, Orenburg
Between June 21 and June 25, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck three of Russia's most sensitive infrastructure targets in a sequence that military analysts have…
OPEN LETTER: To a Contracting Ukraine — Your Economy Resists, Even as It Retreats
Ukraine, in the first quarter of 2026, your GDP contracted by 0.6% year over year. This is the sharpest contraction since the wartime recovery…
DECODING: Krasnodar and Yaroslavl refineries in flames — Putin admits the energy disaster
In the night of June 27–28, 2026, Ukrainian drones simultaneously struck two Russian refineries on two geographically distinct fronts. The first strike targeted the…
OPEN LETTER: Shadow fleet, Russian drones, Crimea — the June 15 mini sanctions package
On June 15, 2026, the European Union adopted a supplementary sanctions package targeting Russia: 34 individuals and 47 entities designated, including 2 people and…
ANALYSIS: The 21st Sanctions Package — oil at $44, cod, and Kirill at the heart of the friction
Since 2022, the European Union has adopted twenty sanctions packages against Russia. Each one has generated internal friction — Hungary blocking, Italy negotiating exemptions…