Investigative Journalism
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 ...
It is a message that makes even the most war-weary news cycle pause: On June 1, 2025, Moscow requested urgent consultations with the United States. The reason? An attack ...
Donald Trump loves to talk about “deals” – as if wars were merely tedious negotiations over square footage, suffering a collateral side effect of diplomacy. Now it’s Russia. And again: no word about the dead, no rebuke for the aggressor...
The world had grown used to the spectacle: Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed peacemaker, promising a swift resolution to the war in Ukraine – a firm handshake here, a tough deal there. Even during the campaign, ...
It was a sentence only Donald Trump could formulate – direct, glaring, maximally derailing: “Putin has gone absolutely crazy.” No diplomatic nuance, no caveat, no subtext...
It was a night when the sky over Ukraine no longer carried any promise - only a droning, a whistling, a death from afar. Over 350 Russian drones raced through the darkness, ...
Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States and self-proclaimed dealmaker, who just a few months ago loudly promised to end the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours,” suddenly sounds very different. In a recent Truth Social post ...
First moments of freedom – Ukrainian prisoners of war cheer on their way home after a swap with Russia. The bus has just crossed the Ukrainian border. Welcome home.
Trump Dances to Putin's Tune. A phone call, pompously announced as a diplomatic milestone, ended in exactly the absurdity that has become the hallmark of Donald Trump's presidency: a grotesque spectacle of peace ...
Trump and Putin Speak Again About Ukraine Peace Ein gefährliches Spiel mit verschlüsselten Worten. US-Präsident Donald Trump und der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin haben am Montag erneut miteinander telefoniert –…
The Farce of Istanbul. It was a moment that revealed everything about the state of the Ukraine war: As Volodymyr Zelensky stood alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, ...
It began with a vision – a vision that floated like a pizza delivery drone and stung like a Siberian combat drone model. What was once sold as a harmless idea – a civilian project delivering packages and monitoring fields ...
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he was not surprised that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not attend the planned peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey. "I didn’t think it was possible for Putin to come if I’m not there," ...
A Drama in Diplomatic Acts It was a night that shimmered like a distorted mirror of hope. Vladimir Putin, the czar of calculated calm, stepped before the cameras and announced the unthinkable...
America’s Resource Pact with Ukraine On April 30, 2025, the United States and Ukraine signed a new economic agreement. The official message: hope, reconstruction, partnership. But behind the headlines lies a reality that is more complex, more fragile, more contradictory.
The Great Putin Lie - Myths, Realities, and the Politics of Belonging Since 1954 This article examines the political and cultural identity of Crimea from 1954 to the present and refutes the claim that the peninsula was oppressed under Ukrainian rule and longed for reunification with Russia.
Washington, D.C. – He had promised it to the world. Loudly, proudly, chest puffed out: Donald Trump would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours - and he’d do it before even setting ...
On March 18, 2014 Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. The takeover was swift and largely bloodless, but it sent relations between Moscow and the West into ...
Trump Demands Ukraine’s Surrender Donald Trump is placing ever-growing demands on Ukraine to release urgently needed military aid and intelligence. According to a report by NBC, the U.S. president expects not only ...