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Note· No. 1196

OPINION: DART, Ukraine's Cloud-Launched Missile That Shorts Out Russian Power Grids

The image is almost surreal: a stratospheric balloon drifting silently at 11 to 18 kilometres altitude above Russia, carrying a missile that, at the…

Reportage· No. 1193

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,…

Analysis· No. 1189

ANALYSIS: General Cherry Struck — Why Russia Cannot Stop Ukraine's Drone Factory

On June 22, 2026, Russian forces struck the production facility of General Cherry, one of Ukraine's most prominent domestic drone manufacturers. The attack was…

Essay· No. 1188

ESSAY: Putin's "Negotiations" — A Manual of Deliberate Contradiction

On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin declared to the world that Russia was "ready to negotiate" — citing the Istanbul 2022 framework, the Anchorage…

Profile· No. 1187

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…

Investigation· No. 1184

INVESTIGATION: Putin Says One Thing, Does Another — The Diplomatic Theater of June 2026

On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin publicly declared that Russia was "ready to negotiate" — citing the Istanbul 2022 framework, the Anchorage 2025 contacts,…

Reportage· No. 1183

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…

Analysis· No. 1181

FACT-CHECK: Russian ballistic missiles — Ukraine's 53% interception rate, the verified facts

In June 2026, a troubling statistic circulated in both Ukrainian and Western defense media: Ukraine's interception rate for Russian ballistic missiles had dropped to…

Note· No. 1179

OPINION: Russian naval drones run on smuggled Starlink — Ukraine sank three

Ukraine's naval forces recently sank three Russian surface drones in the Black Sea — an operation that, in military terms, appears modest but reveals…

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