Wars

Lavrov Wants an Answer From Washington, but He Has Declared the Front Line Untouchable

The door is open for negotiators, while the one thing actually up for negotiation has been declared off limits. A...

15 August 2026 Read more →

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Ukraine

From 60 gigawatts to 12: Ukraine enters its fourth war winter with a system that is barely breathing

Before the war it had almost 60 gigawatts. Today it has twelve. And if the strikes continue at the same...

14 August 2026 Read more →

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Wars

An Iranian missile was waiting for Trump in Ankara: the US president was smuggled out in a food truck

At a NATO summit two hours' flight from Skopje, intelligence services were working with a scenario in which the American...

13 August 2026 Read more →

Wars

A Drone Carrying Explosives Hit a Ukrainian Plane in Germany, and Nobody Noticed for Four Hours

The Semtex device was found by the driver of an airport van. The DNA trail leads back to a 2024...

11 August 2026 Read more →

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Wars

Russia Is Cutting the Bridges to the Danube: The Next Target Is the Transhipment at Constanta, and That Is a NATO Port

After the rail bridge at Zatoka, the road bridge at Maiaky went down too. Both routes to the Danube ports...

11 August 2026 Read more →

Wars

Mykolaivka Is the Gateway to Sloviansk: One Brigade Is Defending It, and the Neighbouring One Left the Field Long Ago

Russia took 106 square kilometres in July - the fastest since January, but a fifth of last year's. The maps...

11 August 2026 Read more →

Wars

A Million Roubles for One Recruit: Russia Is Paying for Resistance to the War at a Fixed Rate

In Ryazan a middleman gets 804,598 roubles for bringing in a foreigner, and only 57,471 for a neighbour. The price...

08 August 2026 Read more →

Ukraine

200,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Are Listed as Absent: The State Is Searching for Its Own Citizens

A former defence minister said the number out loud. When a state spends resources finding the people it already mobilised,...

08 August 2026 Read more →

Wars

Russia has launched its own Starlink over Ukraine: 550 kilometres up and four passes a day

Twelve satellites at 550 kilometres, four passes over Ukraine every day. The admission doesn't come from the Kremlin - it...

07 August 2026 Read more →

Wars

Three weeks without a single foreign ship in Odesa: the Danube Delta is next on the list

Since 22 July not one foreign cargo ship has entered the three Odesa ports. Cargo doesn't disappear - it just...

07 August 2026 Read more →

Wars

The Train Was Late, the Missile Was Not: Eight Killed on a Platform Near Kyiv Waiting to Go Home

The last suburban train was running late and eight people were waiting for it at the station. By morning the...

06 August 2026 Read more →

Ukraine

Fourteen Dead in Kyiv in One Night: Four Residential Districts, Not a Single Military Target

Drones and ballistic missiles on four residential districts of a European capital. The Balkans know this scene by heart -...

06 August 2026 Read more →