An Underwater Archaeologist Came Back From War to Discover a Piece of Ukraine’s Lost History
Dmytro Kobaliia left an underwater expedition to fight. The war that interrupted his work also revealed a wreck — and an international mission to…
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‘The $300 People’: How Russia Recruits Ukrainians on Telegram — and Throws Them Away
Russian handlers find them on Telegram, pay them $300 and increasingly detonate the evidence. Ukraine fights back with billboards and prosecutions. It also sometimes…
Ukraine Built an ‘Amazon’ for Its Army. Battlefield Points Buy Drones
Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Oksana Ferchuk tells Independence Avenue Media how a state-run marketplace lets brigades order drones directly, get them in days…
A Leading Ukrainian Analyst Says Europe Deserves Credit for Sustaining Ukraine’s Fight as Washington Steps Back
President Trump's envoys were received politely in Kyiv. But analyst Mykola Bielieskov says nobody there expects the shuttle diplomacy to work — Ukraine is…
Trump Signs Sweeping Russia Sanctions Bill Named After Lindsey Graham
Most Democrats dismissed it as a blank check for Trump to impose tariffs. Republicans — and some Democrats — called it much needed leverage…
Commentary: The Belarusian Front is Back
The drone-guidance relays Zelenskyy forced offline in June are working again, Ukrainian officials say — and a Russian drone that crossed from Belarus into…
Daniel Fried: Take Trump’s Peace Push Seriously — and Pass the Sanctions Bill to Back It
Daniel Fried says the Trump administration's renewed push to end Russia's war against Ukraine is worth taking seriously — but diplomacy without credible pressure…
Sanctioning Russia Act: Can Congress Finish What Lindsey Graham Started?
The Senate passed the late senator's sanctions bill as a tribute. Six weeks later, it's stuck in a House fight over Trump's tariff powers…
John Lough: A Pause in the War Would Be Dangerous — for Putin
Days after Witkoff and Kushner floated a "win-win" settlement in Kyiv, the NATO veteran and Kremlin analyst argues Putin is still trying to negotiate…
