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INVESTIGATION: May 2026, deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022
On June 23, 2026, the UN released a report that should have made front pages around the world. In May 2026, at least 274…
ANALYSIS: Kostyantynivka on the verge of falling — eight months of siege, a city in agony
Since autumn 2025, Kostyantynivka — a former industrial city of 67,000 inhabitants in Donetsk oblast — has been resisting Russia's stranglehold. Eight months. Eight…
DECODING: Sanctions extended one year: the EU finally changes tempo against Moscow
On June 19, 2026, the European Union made a decision that received little media coverage but is strategically considerable. It extended its entire regime…
OPINION: Russia's deficit explodes: Putin is financing his war on credit
Some numbers tell the truth better than any speech. Russia's budget deficit has exceeded $80 billion in 2026. Not according to hostile Western analysts.…
COMMENTARY: The sanctions wall holds through 2027: patience against chaos
On June 19, 2026, the European Union did something simple but deeply symbolic: it extended its economic sanctions against Russia for one year, instead…
OPINION: The refinery war: Russian oil's Achilles' heel
A few days ago, I read a line in a dispatch and stopped cold: Ukrainian drones had traveled more than 1,300 kilometers to strike…
DECODING: Two years of the Moscow-Pyongyang treaty: the axis of authoritarians
On June 22, 2024, Vladimir Putin landed in Pyongyang and set his signature alongside Kim Jong-un's on a mutual defense treaty. Two years later,…
EDITORIAL: Three hundred billion for Iran: the price of a false victory
300 billion dollars. That is the figure that circulated in dispatches of June 23, 2026 concerning the framework of the US-Iran agreement — the…
OPINION: Zelensky reaches out, Putin spits: the diplomacy of contempt
Volodymyr Zelensky has said he wants peace. He has said it hundreds of times, since the start of the large-scale war in February 2022.…