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Russia hit Ukraine’s hydropower plant eight days ago — and poisoned a river that flows into MoldovaMoldova's Environment Minister said the oil volume in the Dniester already "significantly exceeds" the initially reported 1.5 tonnes. -
Two weeks of someone else’s war earned Russia more than a month of someone else’s sanctions cost itZelenskyy says the windfall—compounded by US sanctions relief—gives Putin more room to keep fighting. -
Zelenskyy calls European pipeline pressure “blackmail”—and a sanctions rollback in disguiseThe president says some European leaders are conditioning weapons supplies on Ukraine restoring Russian oil revenues. -
Mined in, starved out, hunted from above—life in the towns Russia demands at the peace tableIn occupied Oleshky, mined roads trap civilians while Russian drone trainees use food queues as practice targets. Residents call it "safari." -
Security guarantees without NATO: Are they worth the paper they’re written on?Western promises won’t stop a second invasion. Ukraine’s army might. -
Frontline report: Ukraine gutted Russia’s spring offensive staging ground—400 sq km gone in weeksRussia planned to launch its spring offensive from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Ukraine got there first—and Starlink's collapse helped. -
43% of Russian POWs rated Ukrainians as less than fully human — and Kremlin propaganda explains whyThe more a captured Russian soldier believed Kremlin narratives, the more likely he was to dehumanize Ukrainians on a validated scientific scale — a finding researchers say helps build the legal case against Russia's propagandists as abettors of aggression. -
Countries turn to Ukraine for help as Iran shows up their outdated air defensesUkraine gets window of opportunity to educate the world how to defend against the modern air war -
We scored every way the Iran war hits Ukraine. Two gains, eight losses.We scored every military, economic, and geopolitical factor. The result isn't close. -
Iran threatened to close Hormuz. That was enough.When a strait closes on paper, prices move as if it has closed for real. -
Naftogaz wins $1.4 billion Gazprom case—now comes the harder partSwitzerland’s highest court closed Gazprom’s last appeal. Collecting is another matter. -
“They don’t like the EU”: Europe’s top diplomat says Washington wants to divide EuropeKaja Kallas told the Financial Times that the United States "does not like the European Union" and has been "very clear" it wants to divide Europe — a charge she levelled as Washington launched new trade probes against the bloc this week. -
Forget easing Russian sanctions. Europe should be boarding Russian tankers.Wagner veterans ride Russia's oil tankers through NATO waters. The cargo could fill Europe's reserves. Nobody stops them. -
Turkey’s Ukraine war bill: soybean imports at risk as Erdoğan warns of global crisisWartime disruptions already cut Ukrainian grain deliveries to Turkey 16%—and Ankara is now pushing hard for peace talks. -
Ukraine’s fuel costs spike as global tensions push inflation above forecastFebruary’s 7.6% reading slightly missed the NBU’s forecast—fuel was the culprit. -
Bank Lviv sale shows Ukraine’s development finance model can actually workThree development funds spent 20 years on this. Crédit Agricole spent one deal buying the result. -
Western technology is powering one of Russia’s most terrifying weapons—and it must be stoppedTexas Instruments. Intel. Taoglas. All found in Russian bomb debris. -
The fabricated crises in Transcarpathia that help win Hungarian elections—and block Ukraine’s path to Europe.From a 2018 firebombing to 2026 troops, Budapest has run the same playbook against Ukraine's west—with Russian fingerprints at every turn. -
Oil swings $30 in a day as Iran turns Hormuz into a diplomatic weaponFrom $120 to $90 in 24 hours: Iran named its price for reopening the world’s most critical energy chokepoint. -
Before Russia’s all-out war, Ukraine imported almost no weapons. Four years later, it buys more than any country on EarthEven as Washington reduced military aid to Ukraine in 2025, European states, Australia, and Canada stepped up deliveries, with 25 countries buying US-made weapons under the PURL mechanism specifically for transfer to Kyiv, SIPRI reported.