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Weekly developments — 12 July 2026
NATO's Ankara summit converts Ukraine assistance into a year-committed baseline with a Patriot co-production pledge; Ukraine opens a sustained drone campaign against shadow-fleet tankers in the Sea of Azov; Russia's refining crisis deepens; the Zaporizhzhia plant logs its 21st complete loss of off-site power.
- Ankara summit fixes 2026 assistance baseline; Patriot co-production pledgedhigh
- Sustained drone campaign opens against shadow-fleet tankers in the Sea of Azovmoderate
- Refinery strikes deepen Russia's gasoline shortfallmoderate
- Ground front static; Kyiv claims Russia's rate of advance halvedmoderate
- Zaporizhzhia plant logs 21st complete loss of off-site powerhigh
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Russia–Ukraine
Public alphaThe largest interstate war in Europe since 1945, now an attritional contest of industrial capacity, manpower, and political endurance. Its outcome will set the price of territorial aggression for a generation — which is why capitals far from Kyiv treat it as a referendum on their own security.
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