Investigative Journalism
It was a day of contradictions such as only Donald Trump can stage. At noon he berated heads of state and institutions alike in a 56-minute speech before the United Nations General Assembly ...
The night of September 6 to 7 over Kyiv began with a distant hum, barely louder than a swarm of mosquitoes on a summer evening. But the people of the Ukrainian capital ...
How serious the Russian state is about the systematic militarization of children is revealed by our research into the preliminary rounds of Zarnitsa 2.0 in the Ural Federal District: What was once a harmless school game ...
It is a bitter arithmetic of this war: the more fiercely Moscow targets the Ukrainian hinterland with drones and missiles, the more united Ukraine's home front becomes - and the more visibly the edges of the Russian system fray.
Vladimir Putin steps off his plane in Tianjin as if he were the sovereign ruler of a peaceful great power - while the sirens wail again in Ukraine. “On the night of August 31, Russia used drones to strike four energy facilities in the Odesa region ...
The shadows of drones glide silently over the snow-covered fields of Thuringia. Invisible to the naked eye but present on the radar screens of German military bases, they circle above those routes where American ...
The night once again brought the familiar wail of air raid sirens over western Ukrainian cities, but this time the missiles fired from Russia struck a target of particular symbolic and economic significance.
It was a picture for the history books: President Zelenskyy in a black suit instead of his usual military attire, surrounded by European heads of state and government who had rushed to Washington at lightning speed.
It is a Monday when the world looks to Washington - and yet hardly anyone seriously doubts that this summit rests on shaky ground. At the White House today, Europe’s top leaders are gathering to ...
One must burn this image into memory: The President of the United States applauds a war criminal. Not hidden, not by accident - no, in front of rolling cameras, with the fervor of a groupie ...
Vladimir Putin grinned broadly as the B-2 bombers thundered overhead - American stealth bombers, once designed to keep Moscow’s imperial ambitions in check, now formed the honor guard for a man wanted by the International ...
In Anchorage, Alaska, temperatures on this Friday are just barely in the double digits - but politically it is a day when the thermometer climbs into the red zone. In just a few hours, US President ...
In the icy cold of Alaska, two men will meet on Friday whose handshake could shake the world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan to negotiate at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ...
Alaska - that vast, icy outpost of America, where the Bering Strait leaves only 88 kilometers between two world powers, will on August 15, 2025, become the stage for a meeting whose historical irony is hard to surpass.
A summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is on the horizon. The details? Still unclear. The timing? Maybe next week. The location? "To be announced later." It sounds more like the teaser for a boxing match ...
Shortly after midnight, explosions tear the sky over Kyiv. Drones loaded with explosives penetrate the Ukrainian capital from all directions, followed by a relentless salvo of deadly rockets. Blazing ...
The war in Ukraine has entered a state that can no longer be described as either a ceasefire or an escalation – but rather both at once. While Russian rockets and drones rain ...
Desperation and determination hung in the air as the train rolled into the station in Kyiv. On the platform stood Andrii Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
In the halls of the Roma Convention Centre on this July 10, there was a tense seriousness in the air. The conversations were polite, the setting familiar, but the tone ...
The night over Kyiv was short, loud, and deadly. For the second time within 48 hours, Russia pelted the Ukrainian capital with a hail of rockets ...
It was one of those nights when war doesn't announce itself - it simply arrives. Like a fever that suddenly bursts behind the temples. The sky over Ukraine buzzed, vibrated ...
t was a night that sliced through the air like a glowing knife. Just before midnight, sirens began to wail in Kyiv. Minutes later, the sky over the Ukrainian capital ...
Washington/Moscow – US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation lasting about an hour on July 3. This was confirmed by Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov to the Russian news ...
It does not begin with explosions, but with lawsuits. Not on the front lines, but in the chambers of Russian arbitration courts, whose dry transcripts reveal more than any military press conference ...
Kyiv – In a symbolic counterstrike, a Ukrainian long-range drone hit a major Russian arms plant in the city of Izhevsk - roughly 1,300 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The attack ...
Kyiv – As the war in Ukraine continues with unabated ferocity, a contradictory picture is emerging these days. On the one hand, attacks on cities such as Odesa and Kharkiv ...
It starts like a scene from a poorly acted political play. Four elderly gentlemen, all holding party membership cards, pens, and peace-loving pathos, write a manifesto. Not just any manifesto – but a document that threatens to catapult Germany’s security policy straight back to the 1980s...
It began with a humming sound, barely distinguishable from the wind or distant machinery - but soon it became the sound of destruction that tore the cities of Kyiv and Odesa from the darkness. In the early hours of Tuesday, Russia ...
It was a sentence spoken with the carelessness of a man who has never been forced to wait out the end of a bombing raid in a basement. “Maybe it's better to let them fight for a while.” ...
It was a sentence that almost got lost in the noise of the news - and yet it heralds a geopolitical earthquake. “Putin told me very strongly that Russia will respond to Ukraine’s attack ...
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