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COMMENTARY: A Status Check on Russia's Shadow Fleet
In seventy-two hours, in early July 2026, Ukraine claimed strikes against 21 vessels, including 19 tankers, near occupied Crimea, according to reporting by Fox…
COLUMN: The War Ruble, a Cold Read One Month Later
One month after Washington tightened sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, the moment seems right to look coldly at what these numbers actually say, without…
EDITORIAL: Why Omsk Going Offline Matters More Than It Looks
On July 6, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck the Omsk refinery, Russia's largest, in what Reuters and CNBC described the following day as the deepest…
REPORT: Yaroslavl in flames, when the war reaches deep into Russia
In late March 2026, a refinery in the city of Yaroslavl, more than 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow, took a direct hit followed by…
OP-ED: Putin faces his own price cap, the extended-decree maneuver
A presidential decree extending a mechanism to 2027 announces nothing spectacular; it quietly reveals that no quick exit from the economic war is being…
EDITORIAL: Russia's shell industry, 17 times pre-war output
Seven million shells a year, seventeen times the pre-invasion level: however cold this figure looks on paper, it actually measures the depth of an…
REPORT: Russian oil price cap extended into 2027
A decree signed quietly, a cap lowered without fanfare: the economic war over Russian oil is no longer fought in grand speeches, but in…
ANALYSIS: Russia bans diesel exports, anatomy of a shortage
On July 8, 2026, the Russian government crossed a threshold rarely reached since the war began: a flat-out ban on diesel exports until July…
FACT CHECK: The State of Play at Ust-Luga and Primorsk
The Ust-Luga oil terminal was hit twice in one week by long-range drones, according to CNN on March 28, 2026, a double strike that…