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EU fertilizer imports from Russia are up 14%. PepsiCo opened a Russian factory. The chips are still flowing.After five years of sanctions, new data shows Europe’s ledger still tilts toward Moscow. -
Russia built the world’s only missile-armed icebreaker. A Ukrainian sport plane just crippled it.The $222 million ship never left the shipyard. -
What holds Ukrainian labor market together if not conditions—and how long can it last?Higher wages aren’t buying loyalty—merely time. -
Ukraine barters with Gulf states: Patriot missiles for anti-drone capabilitiesAnti-drone experts already deployed to half-dozen countries, but road for weapon transfers yet to be paved -
Sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker struck by drone near Istanbul, 140,000 tons of oil on boardThe ALTURA had transported millions of barrels of Russian crude to India and China before the strike. -
Five weapons, 57 days: how Budapest escalated against Ukraine after one Russian drone strikeKyiv’s Foreign Ministry says gas imports from Hungary haven’t stopped yet—and that Ukraine has contingency plans ready. -
Reuters: 40% of Russia’s oil exports offline, mostly due to Ukrainian drone strikes — worst disruption in Russian historyRussia earns roughly a quarter of its state budget from oil and gas. This week's attacks halted oil loadings at both Russian Baltic Sea terminals. -
Russia’s unstoppable Mach-6 missile just got killed by a Ukrainian droneAfter peeling back Russian air defenses in Crimea, Ukrainian drone operators are now hunting down Russia's best missiles on the ground. -
FPV drone strikes in Baghdad expose US vulnerabilityFortifications are no longer enough to guard against cheap, yet persistent threat -
Ukrainian grain was stolen, relabeled Russian, and sold to a UN food program supplier—the paperwork said nothing about MariupolThe same Russian family builds attack drones for Russia’s war on Ukraine and exports stolen Ukrainian wheat. Some of it reached a UN food program supplier in Turkey. -
Russia building satellite network to replace Starlink, launches first 16 into orbitLarge-scale deployment still years away, but Russia has all it needs to make it happen -
Russia sells its oil while arming the enemy Washington is bombingRussian oil is moving. Iranian is not. The difference goes straight to Ukraine’s front line. -
Zaluzhnyi now blames Zelenskyy for the counteroffensive. He wasn’t always so sure.Ukraine's cursed 2023 counteroffensive ran into Europe's largest fortified belt without air cover. The blame game between Kyiv's leaders lets the biggest culprit off the hook. -
Denmark outspends everyone on Ukraine. I walked the streets to find out why.Danes head to the polls on 24 March, but Ukraine barely registers as a campaign issue—because 70% already agree on keeping the world's highest per-capita support going. -
Mesh networked “smart mines” under development by Poland, Estonia, UkraineLikely to be used along the borders of Russia and its allies -
Rosneft’s classified document recommended smoke screens against GPS-guided drones — and the same document explains why that’s uselessEvery barrier in the document also uses shallow foundations to dodge permit requirements — a structural choice the presentation explicitly flags as its own kill switch. Putin's simultaneous PMC-arming law is Moscow's admission the engineering fixes aren't enough. -
NATO in talks to bring more Ukrainian know-how to allied air defenseGoal to be able to take down 95% of all air threats -
Russia marched into Huliaipole in December. Now it can’t march out.Ukrainian advances in the southeast are taking the pressure off Zaporizhzhia city and its 700,000 pre-war residents. -
Why Ukraine’s Cabinet drafted a resolution to fire its anti-corruption chief—and why it never came to a vote?Secret audit draft, smear campaigns, and blame-shifting: the pressure on Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau has changed tactics—and is harder to protest. -
Gold down 27%, Urals up 71%—Russia’s sanctions hedge melts as its oil budget fillsThe war filling Moscow’s oil coffers is also eroding its sanctions hedge.