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The Ukrainian drone detectors that may soon protect everyone else
Meet one Ukrainian company that's trying to give this tech a global reach
Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister on the 2026 sowing, the labor crisis, and a sector holding steady under fire
Taras Vysotskyi on the 2026 sowing season, the war’s drag on labor, and a sector that has refused to contract.
Russian mines cost Ukraine $11 billion every year. Clearing them is the work of decades
Deputy Minister Ihor Bezkaravainyi, who lost his leg to a mine in 2015, on clearing Russia’s mines from Ukraine.
“Stop treating Russia’s bankers as faceless technocrats”: inside the war crimes case against Russia’s central bank
A landmark ICC complaint reframes Russia's financial occupation of Ukraine — pillaged banks, forced rubles, and passport-gated medical care — as a war crime
Nicolas Tenzer: stop talking about peace, the question is victory
French geopolitical expert on his book Our War, Putin's nihilist regime, and the strategic autonomy Europe must build with or without Washington
Ukraine’s EU membership: when, not if—but 2027 is unrealistic, says veteran MEP
A Lithuanian MEP who negotiated his own country's EU accession explains why 2027 is unlikely, why the procedural machinery isn't moving yet, and why Ukraine's membership is still a question of when, not if.
Scan, switch, sanction—the app turning Western shoppers into Russia’s exit enforcers
About 2,300 large Western companies still pay taxes in Russia. State sanctions won’t touch most of them—going after…
Bulgaria’s new Orbán? Ex-president Radev’s anti-Ukraine party wins country’s eighth election in five years
Bulgaria's ex-president Rumen Radev has won Sunday's parliamentary election — the country's 8th in five years. He opposes arms for Ukraine, wants "practical relations" with Moscow.
Vladislav Inozemtsev: A collapse is not imminent
Economist Vladislav Inozemtsev on oil windfalls, Ukrainian strikes, and why the war will be won on the ground
“There are no small literatures”: an American scholar on Ukraine’s battle for culture and truth
Showing atrocities doesn’t move people. Andrew Giarelli has been thinking about why and what works instead.
Inside the EU parliament: the bloc Ukraine wants to join is already fracturing
A Baltic MEP on Hungary’s veto, Europe's war fatigue, and why the bloc Ukraine wants to join is already splitting apart.
Russia’s allies keep dying. Russia keeps doing nothing. Defense analyst explains the Axis of Evil’s fatal flaw.
The whole system runs on one thing. Take it away, and there's no axis at all.
“Performance for the sake of performance”: two ceasefire experts explain what’s really happening at Russia peace talks
Last week's stalemate in Geneva was no surprise. Two experts break down Moscow's ceasefire playbook
Ben Hodges: stop treating Russian sabotage like a crime scene
Former US Army Europe commander Ben Hodges on why Europe keeps treating Russian sabotage like a crime scene
She spent 15 years decoding Russian talks. Her verdict: the battlefield will decide.
A seasoned former diplomat on reading Russia's negotiation theater
“I felt disgusted”: Ukrainian chess champion on FIDE welcoming Russia back while missiles still fall
Chess joins just five other sports—out of 108—to ease sanctions on Russia. Ukrainian, English, and Norwegian federations are taking FIDE to court.
“Certainly not a Russian model”: Ukraine’s assault architect confronts accusations of meat-wave tactics
High casualties, convict soldiers, and questions about Syrskyi
Why does Ukraine’s grid survive missiles that would black out Europe? Ousted energy chief explains
Volodymyr Kudrytskyi on Soviet overcapacity, stolen shelter funds, and why war is no excuse for corruption
UN traces Kherson’s “human safari” up the chain of command — to Putin himself
Erik Møse, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, which has declared Russia’s drone terror a crime against humanity, explains how investigators traced a direct chain of command—from drone operators on the Dnipro’s left bank to the Kremlin itself.