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Russia’s mercenaries left Malian city under escort by rebels they came to fightMali broke ties with Ukraine in 2024 to keep its Russian protectors. Those protectors just retreated from a strategic northern city under escort by the same rebels Bamako accused Kyiv of backing. -
Russia’s military spending hits $190 billion in 2025. Ukraine’s reached $84 billion at 40% of GDPRussia increased military expenditure by 5.9% to $190 billion, consuming 7.5% of GDP, one of the highest shares globally, while its oil revenues continue funding the war machine. -
Ukraine’s new B-2 drone is a mystery. Its kills aren’t.Russian air defenses are collapsing as more and more different Ukrainian drones strike as far as 200 km. -
NATO’s top military officer: Russia is trying to reclaim Soviet territory, and threat extends beyond BalticsEstonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Albania, and Slovakia were Soviet satellite states. -
The arms Ukraine outgrew in two years are now its potential export catalogueBudanov listed older FPVs, 2022-2023 long-range drones, sea drones, and bombers as candidates for sale to Asia and Africa. -
24 February 2022 was the West’s chance. It chose comfort instead.The West had a duty. It lacked the civilizational stamina to honor it. -
“We have done everything”: Ukraine’s EU membership talks expected to start in June, Zelenskyy saysKyiv says it has completed all preparations and is now awaiting a decision from EU leaders. -
Sanctions on Russia: Do they work? Why? Why not? Blame? Changes?For the past 50 months, the West has steadily increased its sanctions on Russia – at least on paper. A conference in Kyiv this weekend is analyzing sanctions roll back, accountability, the role of civil society, war profiteering, Putin’s enablers, and which sanctions have worked and not. -
Scan, switch, sanction—the app turning Western shoppers into Russia’s exit enforcersAbout 2,300 large Western companies still pay taxes in Russia. State sanctions won’t touch most of them—going after every individual corporate holdout isn’t politically feasible, and, as Felix Hosse puts... -
EU just held its first summit without Orbán, and discovered his obstruction was covering deeper divisionsWithout him in the room, diplomats acknowledged behind closed doors that Orbán had long absorbed the blame for conflicts that were never really his alone. -
A low-tech transport plane firing high-tech interceptor drones is Ukraine’s newest Shahed-hunterOne in three Russian aerial targets over Ukraine is now destroyed by an interceptor drone that costs less than a used car. This week, Ukraine added a new launch platform to that fleet: a 1969 Antonov An-28 transport plane. -
Ukraine’s An-28 transport just shot down a Shahed with a drone—on cameraModern problems require modern solutions. If shooting down cheap Russian Shaheds with air-to-air missiles from jets is not cost-effective, why not replace MiGs and F-16s with An-28 turboprop transport planes... -
Save all living things: Europe’s 20th sanctions package still spares Russia’s nuclear war machineThe EU has sanctioned almost everything Moscow touches—except the one company running an occupied nuclear plant and building parts for Russian missiles. -
Ukraine’s new firms boom where missiles can’t reachYear four of war, and Ukrainian business formation is accelerating—in sectors and cities the war can’t physically touch. -
Kremlin builds “hotbed of tension” narrative against Lithuania — ISW warns of groundwork for Baltic aggressionISW reports Moscow is using accusations against Lithuania and NATO over Kaliningrad Oblast to build justifications for potential future military action against the Baltic states. -
Russia spent 20 years hardening Ukraine by accident. Europe won’t get that gift.Two decades of hybrid pressure built the Ukraine that stopped Russian tanks in 2022. Moscow has drawn the lesson. NATO's eastern flank should assume it has months, not decades. -
Critics said Ukraine was losing the mid-range drone war. Russia’s burning trucks disagree.More Ukrainian drones are ranging across the Russian logistical zone to strike trucks and starve front-line regiments' of vital supplies. -
Senate Democrats challenge Russian oil waiver—Moscow revenues hit two-year highA Delaware senator walked the Treasury Secretary through the loop. The March oil numbers closed it. -
Slovakia’s Fico will skip Moscow’s parade but still lay flowers in the KremlinThe EU's last openly pro-Russian leader reframes his 9 May visit as a "pilgrimage for peace." The flowers at the Kremlin wall stay on the schedule. -
EU approves €90 billion Ukraine loan and 20th Russia sanctions package as Hungary’s veto fallsFirst tranche expected in May or June, with funds directed to weapons, budget, and energy defense.
