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INVESTIGATION: The Ukrainian Drone That Exploded in a NATO Port — Russian Electronic Warfare Strikes Constanta
On June 5, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. local time, an explosion rang out in the civilian port of Constanta, Romania. Not a Russian missile.…
PROFILE: Mark Rutte and the "Trump Trillion" — The man who convinced Trump not to abandon NATO
There are moments in diplomacy when everything hinges on a single gesture, a single document, a single conversation. On June 24, 2026, NATO Secretary…
NARRATIVE: Ankara, July 2026 — the summit set to reshape the war and the Alliance
On June 25, 2026, speaking from Washington, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte chose words that belong nowhere near the usual register of Atlantic diplomacy.…
REPORT: The E5 Berlin Summit — Europe's Five Military Powers Unite for Ukraine
On June 24, 2026, the leaders of the five largest military powers in Europe gathered in Berlin under the informal format known as the…
DECODING: Poland buys V-BAT drones — the Baltic becomes advanced surveillance terrain
On June 25, 2026, a relatively low-profile arms purchase made headlines in defense circles: Poland became the first NATO Eastern Flank country to acquire…
COLUMN: Ramstein, four billion dollars — the free world puts its armor back on
On June 18, 2026, the Ukraine Defense Contact Group — the Ramstein format — convened at NATO headquarters in Brussels. This was no ordinary…
ANALYSIS: Ukraine and NATO Launch a Competition to Block Russian Airfields
On June 28, 2026, Ukraine and NATO partners launched an open innovation competition with a single objective: find the technologies capable of durably disabling…
DECODING: 5% of GDP on Defense by 2035 — NATO Faces Its Historic Bill
In 2025, at the Hague summit, NATO leaders adopted an objective that had seemed unthinkable to many of them: dedicating 5% of GDP to…
ANALYSIS: 1.5 million Russian casualties — what this figure reveals about the nature of the war
On June 23, 2026, on the sidelines of a NATO defense ministers' meeting, a senior Alliance official — speaking anonymously to the UK Defence…