Russian army trucks near Ukraine in April 2021. Russian social media Jan. 13, 2022: The Russian Army Doesn’t Have Enough Trucks To Defeat Ukraine Fast The Kremlin has used trains—hundreds of them with...
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A Year On From The Invasion
Authored by Simon Flowers, Chief Analyst and Chairman at Wood Mackenzie. Russia’s war has had a huge impact outside Ukraine, particularly for the global energy markets. Soaring prices and supply chain...
Briton Wanted by US for Advising North Korea on Crypto Arrested in Russia – Bitcoin News
A British national wanted with a red notice from Interpol for consulting North Korea on cryptocurrencies has been detained in Moscow. U.S. authorities allege that the man helped the regime in Pyongyan...
How Iran’s Acquisition Of Russian Military Hardware Could Impact The Middle East
Iran might soon receive advanced Su-35 Flanker-E multirole fighter jets from Russia and possibly other military equipment, including S-400 air defense missile systems. How substantially these acquisit...
Ukrainian Pilots Could Toss Their New GPS-Guided Bombs 50 Miles Behind Russian Lines
Via Quora The United States is supplying Ukraine with winged, GPS-guided bombs, Bloomberg reported. The Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range lends itself to a special bombing method—one that ad...
The Russian Army Is Time-Traveling Back To 1966 As It Reequips With Hundreds Of Old BMP-1 Fighting Vehicles
BMP-1. Wikimedia Commons The Soviet BMP-1 was one of the first modern infantry fighting vehicles. It both reflected, and helped to drive, profound changes in Soviet ground-combat doctrine when it ente...
‘Ukraine Will Never Be A Victory For Russia’
Topline Biden warned Russia that the U.S. and its NATO allies “will not waver” in their support for Ukraine, he said Tuesday from Poland, while condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russ...
Xi Jinping Reportedly Planning Moscow Trip As U.S. Claims China Might Offer ‘Lethal’ Aid To Russia
Topline Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning his first trip to Moscow since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine nearly a twelve months ago to promote peace talks and urge the Kremlin to avoid usi...
Russia sends record amounts of oil to China
Vladimir Putin’s regime exported record levels of oil to China last month – Sergey Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Russian exports of discounted crude and fuel oil to China jum...
Russia and Iran Are Building a New Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency
Iran and Russia are reportedly working together to establish a new gold-backed digital currency that will help each nation avoid sanctions imposed by the United States. Many experts are saying this is...
Crypto: Yandex is on it in Russia
Russia’s top search engine has implemented dedicated consultation with different crypto assets, after much information was inhibited to the country’s users. Russia has long suffered censorship by many...
Ukraine Should Have No Problem Arming Its Old Soviet Jets With New British Cruise Missiles
A Royal Air Force Tornado armed with Storm Shadows in 2004. Wikimedia Commons The United Kingdom will give Ukraine “longer-range weapons,” U.K. prime minister Rishi Sunak said at a diplomatic conferen...
Bank of Russia to Start Testing Digital Ruble With Real Users on April 1 – Finance Bitcoin News
The Central Bank of Russia plans to launch test operations with digital ruble transactions between real customers at the beginning of April. More than a dozen banks will join the upcoming stage of the...
Ukraine Wanted Whole Brigades Of Western Tanks. It’s Getting Fractions Of Them, Instead.
A Canadian Leopard 2A4 arrives in Poland ‘en route’ to Ukraine on Feb. 5. Anita Anand The Ukrainian government’s ambition, months ago, was to get whole brigades of new tanks from its Weste...
Ukraine Is On Track To Win The War Against Russia, With The Partner’s Support.
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov speaks during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, … [+] Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole) Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All righ...
When Russian Troops Got Stuck In a Minefield Near Vuhledar, They Deployed A ‘Flamethrower’ Rocket Launcher. The Ukrainians Blew It Up.
A TOS-1A the Ukrainians captured last year. Via social media Desperate to break through Ukrainian defenses around Vuhledar, a major strongpoint in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the Russian army dep...
Bank of Russia to Debut Digital Ruble in April 2023
The first consumer pilot for the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) will be rolled out by the Bank of Russia on April 1, 2023, as part of preparations for this day. According to the f...
U.S. Accuses Russia Of Crimes Against Humanity In Ukraine—Here’s What That Means
Topline The U.S. has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, with accusations Russia has continued a “widespread and system...
Bank Of Russia Set To Roll Out Pilot CBDC As…
The Bank of Russia is all set to roll out the first consumer pilot of the country’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), with the pilot set to launch as early as the 1st of April, 2023. The pilot wi...
Russia to roll out CBDC pilot with real consumers in April
The Bank of Russia is preparing to roll out the first consumer pilot for the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) on April 1, 2023. Russia’s central bank is set to soon debut the first real-w...
Russia to Launch CBDC First Consumer Pilot of CBDC on April 1
10 hours ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News The planned CBDC pilot will include actual businesses and real consumers. The participating financial institutions have technically validated their preparedness...
Russia planning to roll out CBDC in April
After years of crippling sanctions, Russia is planning to introduce its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), which may be ready for testing as soon as April. Russian Central Bank first deputy gov...
In A Few Years, The Russian Army Could Run Out Of Tanks. What Happens Then?
Russian president Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod in 2015. Wikimedia Commons Two or three years. That’s how long the Russian army might have before it runs out of tanks, according to one estimate...
Ukraine Is Going To Run Out Of T-64 Tanks
An upgraded Ukrainian T-64BV with modern optics and reactive armor. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian army went to war with around 800 active T-64 tanks. In the 11 months since Russia widened its attack...
Russia’s War In Ukraine Might Have Pushed Millions Into Extreme Poverty, Researchers Warn
Topline Soaring energy prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have pushed millions of people around the world into extreme poverty in 2022, researchers warned on Thursday, urging gover...
In 1993, A Soviet Army Division Left 350 T-80 Tanks In Ukraine. Today, They Fight Against Russia.
Early T-80s in Soviet service. Soviet army photo The Soviet army’s 20th Tank Division was one of the most powerful ground-combat formations of the late Cold War. The Poland-based division had no fewer...
Russia Doubled Its Army In 2022. But Its Casualties Doubled, Too.
Mobilized Russian marines after they were captured outside Vuhledar. Via social media Kremlin officials knew as early as last spring that they had a manpower problem. Russia’s wider war in Ukraine the...
Iran And Turkey Push Ahead With Ambitious Drone Factory Projects In Russia And Ukraine
Recent reports indicate that Iran and Turkey are pushing ahead with their respective projects to build enormous factories in Russia and Ukraine for manufacturing large numbers of their homegrown Shahe...
After Losing An Eighth Of Their Helicopters, Russian Attack Regiments Are Switching Up Their Tactics
An Mi-28 attack helicopter in or near Ukraine. Russian defense ministry capture After taking a brutal beating in the first year of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, the Russian air force’s attack helicop...
Poland Made A Better Russian-Style Tank—And Gave It To Ukraine
Polish PT-91s during a 2017 exercise. U.S. Army photo The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the Polish army’s tank corps in a precarious position. Poland’s tankers long had ridden in Soviet ta...