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REPORT: In Ankara, Zelensky wrestles out a weapons promise still wrapped in fog
On July 8, 2026, in Ankara, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky secured from Donald Trump a long-awaited announcement: a license letting Ukraine build its own…
ANALYSIS: Ukraine's Patriot license won't build a single missile before 2028
On July 8, 2026, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump told President Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States would grant Ukraine a…
FACT-CHECK: The Refinery War, How Ukraine Is Hitting Russia's Economic Nerve
For several months, Ukraine has run a systematic campaign of drone strikes against Russian oil refineries, a strategy that directly targets the economic nerve…
ANALYSIS: Trump Lifts Turkish Sanctions and Reopens the Door to Erdogan's F-35s
Donald Trump announced, at the NATO summit in Ankara in early July 2026, that the United States would lift the sanctions imposed on Turkey…
ANALYSIS: The Ankara Summit, Between Spectacular Promises and Real Timelines
The 36th NATO summit, held in Ankara on July 7 and 8, 2026, will be remembered for a striking contrast: between the scale of…
ANALYSIS: Pokrovsk, the City Moscow Never Finishes Taking
There are city names that, over months of war, turn into barometers. Pokrovsk is one of them. Since the summer of 2025, this crossroads…
ANALYSIS: NATO's $1.8 Trillion, the Real Price of Deterring Putin
Combined defense spending across the thirty-two NATO member states surpassed, in 2026, the 1.8 trillion dollar mark, according to projections confirmed in early July…
FACT-CHECK: NATO's €70 Billion Pledge to Ukraine, What's Actually New
On July 8, 2026, at the close of a summit held in Ankara, the thirty-two member states of NATO signed a joint declaration promising…
ANALYSIS: Ukrainian Patriots, why coproduction could take years, not months
Every promise made at a NATO summit gets measured, in the first 48 hours, by the emotion it generates rather than the calendar it…