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EDITORIAL: Russia's September Elections — A Farce That Reveals Everything About Wartime Russia
On June 28, 2026, United Russia, Vladimir Putin's party, announced its lead candidates for the legislative elections scheduled in September 2026. At the top…

ANALYSIS: The EU votes unanimously for the first time since March 2025 — and sends a message to Moscow
On June 18 and 19, 2026, European Union heads of state and government convened in Brussels for a European Council that had all the…

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…

FACT-CHECK: Putin admits fuel shortages — verifying the facts of June 28, 2026
On June 28, 2026, at the congress of the United Russia party, President Vladimir Putin publicly addressed Ukrainian strikes on Russian refining infrastructure and…

OPINION: 80% of Russians Expect the Crisis — Putin Won the War and Lost His Country
On June 25, 2026, Ukrainska Pravda published the findings of a survey that should be required reading in every European foreign ministry: 80% of…

NARRATIVE: 1,395,790 Russian soldiers — the death counter that never stops
On June 24, 2026, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published its daily report on Russian losses. The cumulative figure since…

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…

PROFILE: KAB glide bombs, Russia's guided munitions devastating Pokrovsk — portrait of a terror weapon
The KAB — from the Russian Korrektiruyemaya Aviabomba, meaning "correctable aerial bomb" — is the weapon that has come to define Russia's air campaign…

COLUMN: Seven Years for Two Tweets — Putin's Russia Devours Its Last Opponents
On June 24, 2026, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow delivered its verdict: Maxim Kruglov, 39 years old, vice-chairman of the liberal opposition party…