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REPORT: Kostyantynivka — 53 Russian dead for every 3 Ukrainians, the numbers Putin denies
On June 23, 2026, the deputy commander of the Ukrainian 19th Army Corps, Yuriy Madyar, delivered a figure no propaganda can erase: Russian forces…

DECODING: How Russia Poisons AI Systems to Rewrite Reality Before the War Even Ends
We thought we had understood Russia's disinformation methods. Fake Twitter accounts. Troll farms in St. Petersburg. Mirror sites imitating legitimate media. Poor-quality but viral…

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…

OPINION: OFAC Removes Russians from Sanctions — Trump Quietly Yields to Moscow
On June 24, 2026, OFAC — the Office of Foreign Assets Control within the U.S. Treasury Department — quietly removed from its SDN list…

TESTIMONY: Putin Sends His Veterans to the Duma — War as the Regime's Political Springboard
On June 28, 2026, Dmitry Medvedev announced that United Russia, the ruling party, would field nearly 500 veterans of the war against Ukraine as…

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…

COMMENTARY: The Ukraine-EU Claims Commission — the Legal Weapon Putin Fears
On June 17, 2026, the European Union officially approved the Convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine. This administrative body, hosted within the…

ESSAY: Ukraine's Cyber War Enters the European Age — the Cybersecurity Reserve
In June 2026, Ukraine crossed a decisive threshold in the digital war that Russia has imposed on it for more than four years: the…

OPINION: Lukashenko blinked before Zelensky — and that is enormous
On June 19, 2026, President Zelensky issued a public ultimatum to Alexander Lukashenko: seven days to remove the signal repeaters from Belarusian territory that…