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The Owls Are Not What They Seem by Chris Sampson

Four years inside Ukraine’s most dangerous intelligence agency

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The Heavenly Hundred by Chris Sampson

The Sacrifice of Liberty

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The Storm Above Kyiv: Four Years of Russian Air War Data — And What It Tells Us About Trump's "Peace Prize" Delusion by Chris Sampson

What You Learn When You Don't Go to the Shelter

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America Talking Out Both Sides of Its Mouth: The Marco Rubio Parade in Munich by Chris Sampson

Secretary of State promises alliance. President threatens seizure. Ukraine gets the bill.

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The Invisible Front: Ukraine’s Partisan War in Occupied Territory by Chris Sampson

How Atesh, Zla Mavka, and Others, Continue a Resistance Tradition That Won’t Stop for Ceasefires

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The Starlink Trap: How Ukraine Turned Russia’s Satellite Lifeline Into a Counterintelligence Harvest by Chris Sampson

When Starlink blocked Russian military access, Moscow hunted for Ukrainian civilians to exploit. Ukraine’s 256 Cyber Assault Division turned that desperation into a trap.

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Who’s Actually Corrupt? The Numbers Ukraine’s Critics Don’t Want You to See by Chris Sampson

Transparency International’s data shows the even during war, Ukraine was serious about tackling corruption, while the critics failed their own people.

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BURNING THE LIFELINE: How Ukraine Systematically Dismantled Russia’s War Machine, One Refinery at a Time by Chris Sampson

A comprehensive investigation into four years of Ukrainian deep strikes, the political lie that tried to stop them, and what it means when your enemy attacks hospitals while you attack oil refineries

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Stacking Dead Russian Generals by Chris Sampson

An Accountability Campaign Conducted on the Battlefield

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The Forgotten Thousands: How Russia Is Winning the War Against Ukraine’s Children by Chris Sampson

The first children Russia took were small enough to carry. That was February 2022. They are teenagers now.

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When the Exit Is the Enemy: How X’s Link Suppression Betrays Its Own Free Speech Mission by Chris Sampson

A legal and public-interest analysis of anti-competitive conduct on the platform formerly known as Twitter

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When the Exit Is the Enemy: How X’s Link Suppression Betrays Its Own Free Speech Mission by Chris Sampson

A legal and public-interest analysis of anti-competitive conduct on the platform formerly known as Twitter

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Peace Through Profit: How Steve Witkoff’s Business Partnerships Shape Trump’s Ukraine Strategy by Chris Sampson

How a $500 million crypto deal, frozen Russian assets, and a billionaire network converged to turn diplomacy into an investment strategy

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THE HARVEST: RUSSIA'S DIASPORA INFLUENCE CAMPAIGNS by Chris Sampson

A leaked blueprint from Moscow confirms the playbook hasn’t changed — only the tools.

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The Engineered Winter: How Russia’s Energy Blitzkrieg Is Remaking Ukraine’s Cities by Chris Sampson

A forensic analysis of the systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure and what it reveals about occupation strategy

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How Russia Weaponizes INTERPOL Against People Who Fought for Ukraine (and Why It Works) by Chris Sampson

An Investigative Analysis of International Law Enforcement Tools as Instruments of Political Persecution

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When Your Router Goes to War: The Ubiquiti Scandal and What It Means for Tech Accountability by Chris Sampson

A major American tech company’s equipment is all over the Russian front lines in Ukraine. The evidence is damning. The silence is deafening.

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The $58 Billion They Don't Want You to Know About: How MAGA Republicans Voted Against Your Paycheck by Chris Sampson

Ukraine aid isn't foreign charity—it's the biggest domestic manufacturing investment in a generation. And your representative probably voted to kill it.

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Trump Just Sanctioned Russia’s Biggest Oil Companies. Don’t Pop the Champagne Yet. by Chris Sampson

Don't blink, you'll forget what happened for 11 years

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Trump's Pattern of Betrayal Part Four: The Hacking of Donald Trump by Chris Sampson

How the Kremlin Groomed an American President—And Why Ukraine Pays the Price

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Trump, Putin, and the Systematic Betrayal of Ukraine-Part Three: From Election to Humiliation by Chris Sampson

The Pre-Inauguration Warning Signs: November 2024 – January 2025

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The Shadow Presidency: Trump’s Interregnum of Influence and the Sabotage of Ukraine by Chris Sampson

Part Two of “The Trump Betrayal: A Chronicle of Ukraine’s Abandonment”

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Trump’s Pattern of Betrayal Pt 1: Why Ukraine Must Prepare for the Worst by Chris Sampson

Years of Trump's pathology are on display for easy reminder of what comes next

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THE COMPREHENSIVE DESTRUCTIVE BREAKDOWN OF RUSSIA’S MAXIMALIST DEMANDS — Part III by Chris Sampson

Part III — Cultural Engineering, Economic Capture, and Legal Erasure: How the Final Demands Complete the Dismantling of Ukrainian Sovereignty

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THE COMPREHENSIVE DESTRUCTIVE BREAKDOWN OF RUSSIA’S MAXIMALIST DEMANDS by Chris Sampson

Part II — Ukraine’s Forced Neutralization: The Political and Military Dismantling of a Sovereign Nation

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THE BREAKDOWN OF RUSSIA’S IMPERIALIST & MAXIMALIST DEMANDS by Chris Sampson

Part I — Territorial Concessions, Demilitarization & New Borders

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A Man Without a Mandate: The Legal Case That Steve Witkoff Cannot Lawfully Represent the United States—Or Ukraine by Chris Sampson

The Shadow Diplomacy the Founders Warned about and Sought to Prevent

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A Crime In Plain Sight: State Capture of Ukraine by Trump and Putin by Chris Sampson

How intercepted calls reveal a $293 billion war profiteering conspiracy orchestrated by a real estate developer, Russian intelligence, and American megadonors

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The $174 Billion Lie: How Ukraine Aid Actually Works by Chris Sampson

What Washington actually spent, where the money really went, and why the loudest critics are lying about it

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The Fire That Failed-Part I: The Glazyev Tapes and the Blueprint to steal Odesa by Chris Sampson

How Russia designed, financed, and coordinated the operation to capture Odesa—in their own words

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THE FIRE THAT FAILED: THE ODESA TRADE HOUSE FIRE - PT 2 by Chris Sampson

How Russia’s Hybrid Warfare Playbook Collapsed in Odesa

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The Myths of Jeffrey Sachs — and the 49 Days That Never Were by Chris Sampson

A forensic investigation into how a Columbia economist built a false narrative about Ukraine—and why the receipts prove otherwise

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The Quiet Patriot: A Story of Ordinary Heroism in Extraordinary Times by Chris Sampson

A Reluctant Leader Who Never Needed Applause

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The Structure of the Trump-Putin 28-point Capitulation Plan is Internally Incoherent by Chris Sampson

Or how my speech teacher condemned me to logical fallacy thinking forever

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THE ORTHODOX WEAPON: HOW RUSSIA TURNED RELIGION INTO AN INSTRUMENT OF WAR by Chris Sampson

A Reminder of the InformNapalm leaks that show us Russia's cynical use of religion

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In Bravo: Combat Medics of the Hospitallers of Ukraine, filmmaker Andy Brame takes you inside the world of Ukraine’s volunteer combat medics who risk everything to save lives on the frontlines.

This powerful NatSecMedia documentary features intimate conversations with those training to join the renowned Hospitallers Medical Battalion, including Mariia-Khrystyna Dvoinik — known by her callsign “Alpaca” — a brave paramedic whose dedication inspired many and who was tragically killed in action in November 2024.

Through gripping interviews and raw footage, Bravo honors the courage, sacrifice, and resilience of Ukraine’s medics as they fight not only for survival but for freedom.

🙏 Support the Hospitallers and help protect the lives of Ukraine’s defenders.

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Letter to Forbes: You lied about the 501 Separate Naval Infantry Battalion and owe a retraction

To Send Letters to Defenders, who have returned and that either we have filmed, photographed or covered, please submit the email today.

Victor Lebediev – a former officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the rank of Major, a combat veteran of the 2015–2017 and 2022–2023 campaigns, and a veteran of the russo-ukrainian War. An ethnic Russian, he joined Ukraine’s Defense Forces to protect the Ukrainian people, the sovereignty, and the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Victor is an ethnic Russian, originally from Central Asia, where he attended a sports boarding school and a construction college. He earned his first technical higher education in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and currently resides in Poltava. In 1986, he took part in liquidation efforts following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He spent nearly 10 years working in Russia, including in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, before returning to Ukraine.

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The Russian Lt. General Igor Kirillov was killed in Moscow. He was guilty of ordering use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. Sanctioned by the UK on October 8, 2024, Kirillov was charged by SSU in Ukraine the day before he was eliminated in Moscow.

When asked about ‘well did they try to bring him to court’, I did correctly state that in Ukraine, the concept of the International Community is rather useless considering 3 years of standing by with a bare involvement to stop a super power from destroying the country.

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