Sometimes it feels as though Danish journalists do not work in the same newsroom at all, but in two parallel universes. In the morning, DR solemnly announces : Ukraine is the key element of Europe’s future missile defence system. Ukraine, it turns out, has accumulated unique experience in repelling massive Russian missile attacks. It is Ukraine that is supposed to become one of the main sources of expertise for the whole of Europe. Everyone else simply needs to listen carefully, take notes and learn from this priceless Ukrainian experience. It sounds almost like an advertisement for a new European Air Defence University. By the afternoon, after watching cargo ships burn […]

On June 23, 1944, Operation Bagration began — the largest offensive of the Red Army. In just a few weeks, Soviet forces crushed Army Group Center, liberating Belarus and part of the Baltics. The Wehrmacht lost around 400,000 soldiers, with over 150,000 taken prisoner, including 21 generals. Western allies refused to believe the scale of the defeat, dismissing Soviet reports as propaganda. So Stalin ordered a march of the prisoners through Moscow. The operation had several goals: to demoralize the enemy, to show the world that the German army was broken, and to strengthen the Soviet people’s faith in victory. On July 17, 1944, 57,600 German soldiers and officers — […]