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COMMENTARY: Two years of the Russia-North Korea alliance — Pyongyang glorifies its dead in Ukraine
I find it impossible to read about North Korean soldiers dying in Ukraine without feeling something that analysis alone cannot contain. These are young…
COLUMN: One more year — the EU extends its sanctions against Russia through July 2027
Economic sanctions do not win wars on their own. But they deprive the adversary of resources, complicate its military imports, and impose a political…
PROFILE: Dubna, second strike — Ukraine dismantles Russia's military space constellation
When Zelensky says "long-range sanctions," he is choosing his words with precision. This is not a metaphor — it is a doctrine. Ukraine is…
INVESTIGATION: The Hornet drone forces Russia to build a five-layer defense
What Ukrainian engineers accomplished with the Hornet exemplifies what the war in Ukraine has produced at its best: local solutions, adapted to real threats,…
INVESTIGATION: The ZIRKA — $2,000, 340 km/h, and Automatic Death for Shaheds
I am struck by this relentless equation: Russia pays a few tens of thousands of dollars for its Shaheds; Ukraine was responding with missiles…
DECODING: Putin Rejects Peace — and Explains Why He Cannot Accept It
When a head of state calls his adversary's government a "regime," he is not just playing with semantics. He is signaling that he does…
DECODING: Izhevsk at 1,300 km — Ukrainian Drones Strike the Kupol Plant in the Heart of Russia
On the morning of July 1, 2026, long-range drones developed by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck the Kupol plant, located
ANALYSIS: Russia's Zircon Is Not Hypersonic — It Is Quasi-Ballistic, and That Changes Everything
For several years, Vladimir Putin's regime has made the Zircon missile one of its preferred deterrence arguments. A hypersonic missile, it claimed
OPEN LETTER: Thomas Nilsson Is Right — the Russian Threat Will Outlast Putin, and Europe Must Hear It
On June 30, 2026, Thomas Nilsson, head of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST), gave an interview to Bloomberg in