Opinion

Ukraine now spends €80 million a night defending itself. This opinion revisits the 2019 decision to drop $12B in claims against Gazprom — and asks what that choice really cost.

Three Russian attacks shattered Kyiv’s centralized heating system. This is how CHP-5 and CHP-6 became the city’s Achilles’ heel — and why hundreds of thousands are freezing.

A silent deal to reshape Europe is unraveling. The US, Russia and China reposition — but Ukraine’s resistance is breaking the plan and forcing a new global alignment.

A Ukrainian security expert argues Russia is not a real state but an intelligence-run system manipulating data and oil exports to fuel a never-ending war.

Fewer Russian drones, worse blackouts. Kyiv faces freezing outages, silence from officials, and rising anger. Is corruption, not war alone, behind Ukraine’s energy collapse?

A brutal assessment of Ukraine’s war strategy, corruption, and political failure — arguing the country has the resources to win, but lacks will and accountability.

Journalists uncovered an illegal school in a Kyiv monastery where more than 60 children are taught Soviet-era curriculum, Russian language, films and songs — including the Russian national anthem — and Ukrainian security services have launched a criminal investigation. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

In a raw interview with a frontline Ukrainian infantryman, months-long rotations, freezing trenches and manpower shortages reveal why troops remain in the same deadly positions far beyond typical deployment — on empr.media.

In January 2020, Zelenskyy secretly traveled to Oman as Russia’s top security official arrived on the same plane. Five years later, Kyiv still has not explained why.

Ukrainian forces are closing on the final phase of the Kupiansk clearing operation with most Russian troops encircled and dwindling — intense fighting and strategic shifts as winter campaign continues. EMPR.media

Explosive probe finds Ukraine’s energy pricing corruption and unjust tariffs boosting intermediaries, destroying industry, costing jobs and stalling recovery amid war. empr.media

Ukraine’s peace talks have slipped from formal diplomacy into backroom deals with unmandated intermediaries, weakening institutional control and risking foreign influence over the nation’s future amid wartime negotiations.