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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,029,660 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

At least 5 killed, 39 injured in Russian attacks against Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/at-least-killed-injured-in.html

Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, unilaterally halted an agreed shipment of military aid to Ukraine due to baseless concerns that US stockpiles of weapons have run too low, it has been reported.
A batch of air defense missiles and other precision munitions were due to be sent to Ukraine to aid it in its ongoing war with Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in 2022. The aid was promised by the US during Joe Biden’s administration last year.
But the Pe…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,028,610 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Mark MacKinnon begleitet ukrainische Eliteeinheiten. Einige dienten zunächst in #Kabul und kämpften jetzt an zentralen Stellen, wie #Kyjiw, Asow-Stahl und anderen.
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An elite squad of Ukrainian fighters has been battling Russian occupation on the front lines. This is the story of their war - The Glo…

Multi-polarization during the 9th European Parliament
Sebastiao Rosalino, Ant\'onio Curado, Fl\'avio L. Pinheiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03214 h…

Multi-polarization during the 9th European Parliament
Brexit, a global pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and record inflation - few legislative bodies have faced such a cascade of shocks as the European Parliament did during its 9th term (2019-2024). Using the Bipartite Configuration Model and a set of network statistics, this research explores how multi-polarization was characterized during this term by constructing and analyzing co-voting networks across all legislative subjects and within specific legislative subjects. The results cont…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,027,540 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Good summary of the background:
"But a number of cultural and geopolitical factors – an openly rightward turn among the tech elite; the growing perception of a Chinese threat to US global hegemony; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, along with Trump’s withdrawal from established defence arrangements, putting the fear of God into EU leaders – have made it clear that there is money, fast and deep money, to be made in defence tech."

Mark O'Connell: If you didn’t have qualms about Spotify before, wait until you hear what its founder has done
Over the past couple of years, tech investors have pivoted toward a collective embrace of the military-industrial complex

Number of Ukrainian children killed and injured amid Russian full-scale invasion jumps threefold in recent months: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/number-of-ukrainian-children-killed.html

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity quietly ended the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, a program that offered free services to vulnerable critical infrastructure sectors and was first launched in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

While Venezuela is not a democratic example like Ukraine, the echoes of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Trump moves US military assets toward the Venezuelan coast are certainly there.
"Maduro spoke to the Venezuelan people on Monday, asking them to prepare for an invasion.
"In the face of this maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum preparedness for the defence of Venezuela," Maduro said of the deployment, which he characterized as "an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat."
He deployed troops along the coast and at the border with Colombia. He also urged Venezuelans to enlist in a civilian militia.”
#Trump #Venezuela #Russia #Empire #War
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-us-attack-military-drug-cartels-1.7624235

Ukraine announced on June 13 that its short-range Sapsan ballistic missile would go into mass production
-- a major development in Kyiv's ongoing efforts to domestically produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia's full-scale invasion.
As Ukraine faces growing challenges in securing weapons from Western partners, and Russia continues launching drone and missile strikes on civilians, the development of Ukraine’s missile production is seen as a critical step toward strength…

Tired of military aid delays, Ukraine has designed its own ballistic missile — and it’s already in mass-production
Ukraine announced on June 13 that it's short-range Sapsan ballistic missile would go into mass production, a major development in Kyiv's ongoing efforts to domestically produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia's full-scale invasion. As Ukraine faces growing challenges in securing weapons from Western partners, and Russia continues launching drone and missile strikes on civilians, the development of Ukraine’s missile production is seen as a critical step toward strengthening its defense c…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,025,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

'Ukraine is biggest landmine challenge since World War II,' says head of world’s largest demining organization: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/ukraine-is-biggest-landmine-challenge.html

Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
Mark M. Bailey, Mark I. Heiligman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14836

Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
How can we detect when global events fundamentally reshape public discourse? This study introduces a topological framework for identifying structural change in media narratives using persistent homology. Drawing on international news articles surrounding major events - including the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Feb 2022), the murder of George Floyd (May 2020), the U.S. Capitol insurrection (Jan 2021), and the Hamas-led invasion of Israel (Oct 2023) - we construct daily co-occurrence graphs of n…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,024,210 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

It feels bad, seeing Putin being offered a red carpet and warm welcome by Trump in the USA while Putin's missiles hit civilian targets and he continues his invasion of Ukraine. Aggression is rewarded.
#putin #trump #ukraine

From high above Eastern Europe, NATO's airborne surveillance crews
operating the alliance's E-3 Sentry planes
have tracked Russia's evolving air war since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In the early days, aircrews watched Russian warplanes fly bombing runs toward the front lines.
Now, aircraft are rarely crossing into Ukrainian airspace, having largely been replaced by standoff missile strikes and drone attacks
as both sides rely m…

How NATO surveillance jet saw Russian air war against Ukraine change
As the front lines froze, and air defenses got better, Russia and Ukraine pivoted away from close bombing runs to standoff attacks.

Germany charges man over cyberattack on Rosneft subsidiary https://therecord.media/germany-charges-cyberattack-rosneft

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,023,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,022,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,020,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Putin took Trump for granted.
Trump will make him pay for it.
Trump’s announcement on Monday about aid to Ukraine proves once again that he is nothing if not thin- skinned.

If Trump has been consistent about one thing throughout his tumultuous, decade-long political career,
it is support for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and skepticism of Ukraine.
In 2014, Trump praised Putin’s illegal seizure of Crimea
— a prelude to Russia’s full-blown invasion of Ukr…

Putin took Trump for granted. He’s going to pay for his mistake.
After the president’s startling, welcome shift on Ukraine, there’s more to do.

Imagine spending years as an intelligence officer, working diligently to subvert the Kremlin,
only to watch the US stand with Russia, Iran and North Korea,
as it did in February when it voted against a UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine.
In that moment, Tim Weiner said: “You come to the realization, if you hadn’t already:
‘My God, the president of the United States has gone over to the other side. He has joined the authoritarian axis.’”

Trump signals Ukrainians who fled invasion may stay in US until war ends: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/trump-signals-ukrainians-who-fled.html

18,500 soldiers convicted in Russia of desertion or unauthorized absence since 2022, analysis finds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/soldiers-convicted-in-russia-of.html

The origins and meaning of the tryzub, the Ukrainian coat of arms: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/the-origins-and-meaning-of.html

The Pentagon has for months been blocking Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russia, U.S. officials said,
limiting Kyiv from employing a powerful weapon in its fight against Moscow’s invasion.
A high-level Defense Department approval procedure, which hasn’t been announced, has prevented Ukraine from firing any U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, deep into Russia

Analysis: Why JD Vance is very wrong about Russian 'concessions' in Ukraine peace talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/analysis-why-jd-vance-is.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,040,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Robotics company Tencore raises $3.7 million in one of the largest known investments in Ukraine defense tech: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/robotics-company-tencore-raises-million.html

How Ukrainian teens are training for war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/how-ukrainian-teens-are-training.html

A Short Drop or a Sudden Stop? Sanctions, Trade Shocks, and Firms’ Adjustment Margins: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/a-short-drop-or-a.html

Georgian-Ukrainian electronic music festival ICKPA returns to Kyiv amid shared resistance to Russian imperialism: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/georgianukrainian-electronic-music-festival-ickpa.html

Marjorie Taylor Greene is spreading lies about Ukraine’s protests. Russia is taking note.: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-spreading.html