The Second Winter
Yevgenia Mykhailivna Bezfamilna was 88 years old. As a child, she survived the Holocaust. She then died alone in her apartment in the historic center of Kyiv, a European capital under constant bombardment ...
Three Hours of Hope, Five Years of War – Peace Talks End in Abu Dhabi, Naturally Without a Breakthrough
After two days of negotiations in Abu Dhabi, representatives of Russia, Ukraine, and the United States ended the talks on February 5, 2026 after only a few hours. Publicly, all sides predictably described the meetings ...
Talks Under Fire – Abu Dhabi, Nights of Bombs, and the Limits of Reason
In Abu Dhabi, representatives of Russia and Ukraine have once again sat down at the same table, accompanied by the United States, while at the same time people in Ukraine were being buried under rubble, power plants ...
Putin’s Word, Trump’s Shrug, and the Next Strike – Reality-Detached Scenarios
Washington responds soberly, almost routinely. The president shows no surprise that Russia has resumed its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. This comes after Vladimir Putin had previously pledged to refrain from attacking ...
Kyiv Freezes, Moscow Remains Silent, Washington Asks
One week. That is all the president of the United States asked for. Seven days of reprieve for a city of millions, while temperatures in Ukraine fall to levels at which power outages are not ...
Shadow Fleet and Shadow State – How Russia Connects Military, Culture, and Camouflage
The attack by Ukrainian drones on the tanker Qendil in the Mediterranean was not an isolated incident, but a glimpse into a web of camouflage, personnel shifts, and informal structures. On board the vessel, which was targeted ...
Missiles from the shadows – Russia tests the next level of escalation over Ukraine
Shortly before midnight, the Ukrainian Air Force issued an unusual warning. From Kapustin Yar, a Russian strategic missile test site near the Caspian Sea, the launch of a ballistic missile was possible ...
The Power War - Why the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Becomes a Flashpoint in the Peace Plan
In the shadow of all front lines lies a place where Ukraine’s future could be decided - not by weapons, but by electricity. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, has been under Russian occupation ...
“I Understand President Putin on This Point” – Trump’s “Peace” for Ukraine Begins with Humiliation and Ends Without a Deal
The day Donald Trump receives Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida smells of power and staging. While houses burn in Ukraine and people are pulled from rubble, ...
A Peace Plan Without Takers - Why Moscow Is Likely to Reject the New U.S.-Ukrainian Proposal
When Volodymyr Zelensky presented the new 20-point peace plan on Tuesday, it was immediately clear that this was not simply an addendum, but a deliberate break with a draft that in the fall had looked very much ...
EU Instead of NATO – Moscow’s New Signal, Washington’s Pressure, and Zelenskyy’s Narrow Corridor
Russia has for the first time signaled in the ongoing talks that Ukraine joining the European Union could be acceptable to Moscow – as part of a possible peace settlement. This information ...
The Most Dangerous Days of the War
Volodymyr Zelensky made it unmistakably clear in Kyiv that the revised peace proposal from Washington still contains the demand his country will never accept: withdrawal from the Donbas. Put differently, the United States ...
Izium spricht weiter – und die Toten erzählen, was Russland verschweigen will
Die Erde von Izium hat lange geschwiegen, doch ihr Schweigen war nie leer. In den Wäldern, die einst nur nach Harz rochen, lagen Jahre lang 449 Menschen, verscharrt ohne Namen,…
Ukraine on the Brink - The Story of Putin’s Winter Offensive, Trump’s Peace Plan, a Nicholas, and a Villa in Spain
The situation at the front is intensifying at a speed that makes even experienced officers nervous. While Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is speaking in Miami with the Ukrainian delegation about ...
The peace Putin promises - and the truth Ukraine spoke long ago
Europe and Ukraine are making it clear these days how little trust they place in Putin's supposed willingness to negotiate. He spent five hours in the Kremlin with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, ...
Negotiations in the Half-Light – How Trump, Putin and a Tearing Peace Plan Make Europe Nervous
The world is watching as talks in Moscow attempt to create a peace that is not a peace. For five hours, Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Vladimir ...
America Moves the Borders - and Europe Holds Its Breath
Trump is examining whether the United States should officially recognize Russian control over occupied territories in Ukraine. It feels like a political earthquake that had long ...
And someone like this is negotiating with Russia? - the question no one dares to ask
When Steve Witkoff said on the Tucker Carlson show on March 21, 2025, that he had liked Putin, that Putin had been open with him and that he did not consider him a bad person, ...
Why Geneva Becomes a Burden for Ukraine – and for All Those Who Stand by Her
In Geneva, delegations from the United States and Ukraine sit at long tables, and both sides speak of progress. But the more words are spoken, the clearer it becomes that no one ...
A Peace That Is Not One - Republicans Sharply Criticize the Peace Plan
In Washington, a quiet but unmistakable fracture is emerging even within the Republican Party - a break Trump did not anticipate. Several prominent Republicans are openly opposing key ...
Negotiating About Our Future - Just Without Us: Trump Treats Ukraine As If It Could Simply Be Handed Over to Moscow
Until shortly before this article, we were still researching, conducting conversations, gathering information. What Trump calls a peace plan goes further than anything Moscow ever dared to hope for. In Kyiv, people lived ...
Frozen Future – Europe’s Struggle Over 140 Billion, Burning Apartment Blocks in Kyiv and Ukrainian Strikes on Russian Oil Facilities
It is the moment when even the familiar formulas of diplomacy no longer hold. Brussels negotiates, the capitals hesitate, and time in Kyiv runs faster than Europe wants to admit ...
The Price of Truth – How Europe’s Patience Is Fading and Zelenskyy Struggles in the Whirlpool of a New Corruption Scandal
Zelenskyy stands before journalists in Kyiv, but the real question has long been hanging heavily over the city: How deep does this new corruption scandal truly go? The resignations of ministers, the removal of half ...
The Staging of Rapprochement - Trump’s Moscow Moment Was Never Real
What yesterday still sounded like a diplomatic revival of the Cold War turns out today to be what it was from the very beginning: another bluff from the White House ...
The President Who Applies Pressure - Trump’s Secret Outburst at Zelensky and the Humiliation of a Press Conference
Behind the doors of the White House, far from cameras and calculated gestures, a scene reportedly unfolded on Friday that left even long-time observers of American foreign policy speechless ...
The Limits of War - Trump’s Reluctant No to the Tomahawks for Ukraine
It was a scene of outward politeness and inner tension: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, side by side in the Cabinet Room of the White House, flanked by Vice President J. D. Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott ...
The Winter War for Light - Russia’s Attacks, Trump’s Hesitation, Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy
Russia once again attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight - part of a systematically conducted campaign aimed at destroying the country’s energy infrastructure before the cold sets ...
Trump’s Ukraine U-Turn - on the Same Day He Told the World: “Your Countries Are Going to Hell”
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 Sky is Burning: How Russia’s Drone Swarms Redefine War
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 ...
Russia’s War Children – How the Kremlin Is Systematically Recruiting Students for War
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 ...
The Price of False Peace - Why Ukraine Stands Firm While Russia Crumbles
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.
Parades in Beijing, Blood in Odesa – Putin’s Victory Tour While Ukraine Burns
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 ...
Moscow’s Invisible Eyes: How Russian Drones Spy on Germany’s Weapons Routes While Kyiv Burns
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 ...
Russian Missiles Hit US Electronics Plant: An Attack on Western Economic Interests in Ukraine
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.
Trump’s Dangerous Game: How the President Lost Credibility After Alaska
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.
The Summit of Illusions
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 ...
Alaska: The Capitulation in Real Time - A Commentary
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 ...
Reception for the Pariah
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 ...
Countdown in Alaska - The hour of truth for Trump, Putin and Ukraine
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 ...
The Hour of the Autocrats: How Putin and Kim Are Shuffling Their Cards Before the Alaska Summit and Blowing All Dimensions
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 ...
Where Russia Once Left America: The Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska - A Documentation of Hour Zero
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.
The Staging of Peace - How Trump and Putin Are Making a Mockery of the World
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 ...
"There is no other option - no one in Ukraine can be allowed to live."
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 Compulsion Toward Peace – Trump’s Ultimatum, Putin’s Defiance, and the Spiral of Drones
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 ...
Putin speaks nicely - and bombs at night: Trump sends Patriot missiles to Ukraine
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.
Europe at a Crossroads – Why Zelensky Is Speaking Plainly in Rome
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 ...
Kyiv in Flames - and the West Does What It Does Best: Hesitate
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 ...
The Sky Burns, Silence Reigns
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 ...
Fire Over Kyiv - and Silence in the West: How Much Longer Will Europe Watch? - "President Trump is very well informed," Zelensky said
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 ...
Trump and Putin talk for nearly an hour - "Perhaps with a few good jokes at the expense of world order"
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 ...