Investigative Journalism
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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,…
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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