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Russia tells its regions to raise taxes on residents and businesses to plug a record budget holeThe combined regional gap grew fivefold from 2024 and almost eightfold from 2023, with the tax service now pressing governors to find more revenue. -
Russians pulled 30-year record of cash from banks in May. Central Bank now tracks monthly cash limits, can freeze “suspicious” withdrawalsAnalyst cites geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, internet outages disrupting online banking, and central bank rate cuts as driving the cash flight. -
Ukraine honors Euromaidan Press war correspondent Zarina Zabrisky with the Order of MeritRecognition for years of Kherson dispatches and the documentary -
Ukraine’s drones got bigger warheads. A Russian corvette in the Baltic just found out.The Fire Point FP-1 that struck Boikiy at Kronstadt on 3 June crossed 1,100 km to get there — and arrived with a heavier warhead than the model that started Ukraine's deep-strike campaign. -
“It was never formulated as Ukraine winning”—NATO’s ex-military chief on the missing strategyIt was also not formulated, "We're doing this so that Russia can lose this war." So the formulation became, "We're going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes," Admiral Bauer tells EP -
EU urgency to dump Rosatom is growing but Russia will use every lever to prevent itThis is part three of a series of three articles exploring Rosatom, its role in the war in Ukraine, and Moscow’s international influence. -
Russia more than doubles production of converted SAMs to make ballistic missile strikes even harder to defendMissiles add few qualitative improvements but do add mass to Russia's terror attacks -
Russia keeps four field armies fed through three southern towns. Ukraine’s drones just arrived.A 1 June drone strike near Chernihivka hit the layer the Russians used to assume was out of reach. -
Ukraine showed the world its drone launcher. Russia found it four days later.AI-targeted drones need training images to find their targets. Ukraine just gave Russia one. -
Ukrainian strawberry prices drop 21%—but carrots and potatoes climbCheaper berries, costlier carrots—Ukraine’s wartime produce market moves in different directions in the same week. -
Ukraine plays Russia today for a French Open final. The Russian stays mum on war; the Ukrainian doesn’t"They have phones. They have Instagram." Five weeks after Madrid, Kostyuk and Andreeva meet again — with overnight casualty counts between them. -
Russia wants €47 million from the company arming the country it invadedThe contract Moscow wants money over built the training center where Putin's troops rehearsed for Ukraine. -
Sport is letting Russia back in. This Ukrainian tennis player says no.Tennis cracked the door open. Other federations are quietly walking through. -
Russian corvette stationed near St. Petersburg for repairs now needs more of them after Ukrainian strikeDrones struck the center of the ship, where its expensive and capricious electronic systems are located. -
Hungary unblocks $7.7 billion in EU arms payments after dropping two-year veto on Ukraine aidPrime Minister Péter Magyar's cabinet reversed a Viktor Orbán-era block, with the immediate sum a first tranche of more than €40 billion in queued claims. -
Russia is losing so many trucks it’s now eyeing Cold War scrapHow many more trucks can the Russians lose along Ukraine's highways before they must drag old trucks from long-term storage? -
Ukraine’s vape market is 93% illegal. The trail leads to a sanctioned Russian oligarch.Smuggled from Poland and barely taxed, the shadow trade drains a country at war—and the network behind it ties back to Oleg Boyko. -
Next five years: Rosatom’s “strategic window” to lock in European dependenceThis is part two of a series of three articles exploring Rosatom, its role in the war in Ukraine, and Moscow’s international influence. -
Russia’s monthly land grab in Ukraine has collapsed from hundreds of km² to 14, OSINT data showAs Ukraine paired a battlefield network linking every drone and sensor with strikes deep behind Russian lines, DeepState's monthly tally for May is the smallest in years of Russia's grinding offensive. -
A Putin-list oligarch runs Poland’s vape market. The EU won’t sanction him.Ukraine, Poland, and Australia sanctioned Oleg Boyko. Brussels left him off—as his lawyers move.
