A French army AMX-10RC. Wikimedia Commons Ukraine is getting AMX-10RC armored vehicles from French stocks. The six-wheel AMX-10RC with its 105-millimeter gun looks like a tank, but without the tracks....
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With Electrical Grids Under Assault, U.S. And Ukraine Seek Scarce Transmission Gear
An autotransformer completely destroyed after a Russian Attack. Getty Images Russia, eager to break Ukraine’s power grid, is subjecting Ukrainian electrical substations to a withering array of missile...
The UK recession will be almost as deep as that of Russia, economists predict
London Stock Exchange Toby Melville | Reuters LONDON — The U.K. economic contraction of 2023 will be almost as deep as that of Russia, economists expect, as a sharp fall in household living standards ...
Russia Has A Plan For Pinning Down Ukraine’s Super-Upgraded M-55S Tanks
The 47th Assault Brigade’s M-55Ss. Via social media The Ukrainian army’s new 47th Assault Brigade is up-armoring its super-upgraded, ex-Slovenian M-55S tanks as the unit apparently prepares to r...
New Ukraine Howitzers Make Headlines, While The M-109 Gun Toils In Obscurity
An M109 self propelled 155mm gun fires in Ukraine Getty Images In Ukraine, America’s humble M-109 howitzer isn’t getting much attention. Overshadowed by more modern self-propelled guns, the M-109 is a...
Tesla, Wynn, Traeger, Amazon and more
Tesla charging stations at a car showroom in the morning light. The expansion of the charging infrastructure is still not progressing as desired. Jan Woitas | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Check ou...
Russia To Build New Power Facilities In Siberia As Crypto Mining Demand Soars
As the war in Ukraine continues in its 10th month, the Russian Federation recently announced a possible increase in energy production as demand from crypto miners increased. This increase in crypto mi...
If Russia Is This Bad At Conventional Warfare, What Does That Tell Us About Its Nuclear Posture?
Russia’s military performance in Ukraine has proven to be, in the words of the Economist’s year-end edition, “spectacularly incompetent.” Western observers have noted major deficiencies in intelligenc...
The Bank of Russia opposes unrestricted cryptocurrency investment
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage According to governor Elvira Nabiullina, the Russian central bank is prepared to consider permitting cryptocurrency use domestica...
Ukraine’s Drones Keep Hitting Russia’s Bomber Bases. Now Russian Missile Crews Are Getting Jumpy.
A Russian air force Su-27 in 2016. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian military on Dec. 29 apparently sent more explosives-laden drones to strike a Russian air force base outside Moscow. It was at least t...
Russia Plans to Establish New Power Plants Amid Mining Surge
22 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News People are consuming more power, which might strain the system’s infrastructure. Republic of Khakassia and the Irkutsk Oblast grids are under the most strain ...
Russia Makes a Move to Set National Crypto Exchange in Motion
Russia is avid for launching ‘National Crypto Exchange’ throughout the country The ‘National Crypto Exchange’ currently awaits a favorable reception A majority of the Duma legislative house members is...
Draft legislation for the digital Ruble forwarded by legislators in Russia
A group of Russian legislators, headed by Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the Financial Market Committee, have proposed draft legislation to create the digital Ruble that the Bank of Russia will issue. T...
Amid High Energy Demand From Miners, Russia Mulls Building New Power Plants in Siberia – Mining Bitcoin News
Growing electricity consumption in the crypto mining sector may require the construction of new power generation facilities in Siberia, the energy minister of Russia has acknowledged. Demand continues...
Energy Companies Increase Spending in 2023 as Oil Prices Rebound
Oil and gas companies plan to increase their capital expenditure budgets in 2023 due to gains in crude oil prices, executives said in a recent Dallas Federal Reserve‘s energy survey. The majorit...
VanEck Suspends Russia ETFs Due to Prolonged Inactivity after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Investment firm VanEck recently suspended two Russia ETFs as Western sanctions bite hard on profitability. New York-based asset manager VanEck is liquidating its Russia exchange-traded funds (ETFs) fo...
The Year In Energy Prices
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 14: Prices for gas at an Exxon gas station on Capitol Hill are seen March 14, … [+] 2022 in Washington, DC. The cost of gasoline continues to rise across the globe a...
Russian Attacks On Ukraine Power Grid May Be Global
Sabotage of U.S. electrical substations make it harder for Ukraine to recover from Russian attacks Getty Images Russia is repeatedly attacking Ukraine’s power grid, subjecting electrical substations t...
Ukraine Could Get American M-2 Fighting Vehicles. They’re Exactly What The Ukrainian Army Needs To Stay On The Offensive.
U.S. Army soldiers dismount an M-2 alongside Hungarian solders in BTR-80 armored personnel carriers during a NATO training exercise. U.S. Army photo The administration of U.S. president Joe Biden is c...
Poland, Germany’s Plans for Russia Oil Pivot Start to Take Shape
(Bloomberg) — Germany and Poland pledged to stop buying Russian oil by the end of this year. Their plans to do so are starting to take shape. Most Read from Bloomberg Germany, Europe’s top buyer...
Russia Attacks Ukraine Power Grid, Leaves Hospitals Without Electricity, Here Are UNITED24 Aid Efforts
Actor and director Liev Schreiber, seen here in Ukraine, has been serving as a UNITED24 ambassador … [+] trying to raise funds to purchase power generators for hospitals. (Photo: Andrii Yushchak...
To Survive Ukraine’s Air-Defenses, Russian Pilots Fly Low And Lob Rockets. It Might Not Be As Inaccurate As It Seems.
Russian air force Su-25s firing unguided rockets over Ukraine. Via social media It’s one of the weirdly iconic images of the Ukraine war: Russian and Ukrainian helicopters and attack jets flying low o...
How Ukraine Uses Old World War II Scrounging Tactics To Fight Russia
Captured Russian gear has kept Ukraine in the fight. Getty Images Ukraine is demonstrating that hard-won lessons from old, long-forgotten World War II playbooks remain relevant. Since Russia’s invasio...
Ukrainian Commandos Decimate Russian Mechanized Force Using Racing Hobby Drones
SHENZHEN, CHINA – MARCH 28: A DJI First-Person View (FPV) drone is seen at Mission Hills Golf Club … [+] on March 28, 2021 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by Liang Xiashun...
With The Lachin Corridor Blockage, Nagorno-Karabakh Close To A Humanitarian Catastrophe
On December 27, 2022, UNICEF issued a statement warning about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the result of the virtual closure of the Lachin Corridor, a road that links ...
Gold-Based Digital Assets Issued in Russia – Bitcoin News
A blockchain platform built by Russia’s largest banking institution, Sber, has been used to issue digital assets based on gold. The value of the tokenized precious metal will depend on the prices of p...
Why Are Mercenaries Driving Russia’s Best T-90 Tank?
A T-90M that the Ukrainian army captured. Ukrainian army photo It seems that Russian mercenary firm The Wagner Group is operating Russia’s best tank, the T-90M. That would be yet another wrinkle in th...
If NATO Won’t Give Ukraine Offensive Weapons, “Defensive Tanks” Will Do
Older M60-A3 tanks are widely available defensive weapons, and should be sent to Ukraine. AFP via Getty Images It is no secret that Ukraine needs defensive NATO-standard armored vehicles. Speaking at ...
Former president of Russia says collapse of global financial system will accelerate crypto adoption
Dmitry Medvedev, the former President of Russia, believes that a worldwide financial collapse will result in a widespread acceptance of cryptocurrencies. He predicts that both the US dollar and the eu...
Russian Wildberries Shows Tech Companies Increasingly Domestic, Less Foreign
Russia’s woman-founded and woman-owned e-commerce company, Wildberries, is seeing the benefit of … [+] foreign firms leaving the market because of sanctions. (Photo Illustration by Rafael ...