During the first four months of the Russia-Ukraine war, the “Most Valuable Player” award could readily go to the Bayraktar TB2 drone. This drone provided the Ukrainians with the necessary air power to...
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Ukrainian Troops Are Pushing Back The Russians In The South
Ukrainian artillery in action. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian troops appear to be advancing toward Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine. Their progress overall is slow, but seeming...
As Russians Advance In The East And Ukrainians In The South, Moscow And Kyiv Want Different Things
Russian troops entering Severodonetsk. Russian government capture The Russian army and its separatist and mercenary allies appear to have entered Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, possibly signaling t...
One Small Town. A Dilapidated Road. These Are The Russians’ Main Targets In Eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian gunners fire an FH-70 howitzer. Ukrainian army photo A tiny town called Siversk and a potholed road running through it. That’s the current focus of the combined might of the Russian army’s b...
Up To 15,000 Russians Have Died In Ukraine: U.K. Defense Ministry
Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Russian army in three months of fighting has lost as many soldiers killed in action as the Soviet army lost in nine years of warfare in Afghanistan starting in 197...
Drone Ships Posed To Play Important Role In Russia-Ukraine War
The Russia-Ukraine war has featured more drone technology than any previous war. Indeed, part of Ukraine’s initial success is due to their effective usage of the Bayraktar TB2 aerial drones. Meanwhile...
The Russians Are Throwing Everything They’ve Got At One Ukrainian Garrison
Russian paratroopers in Popasna. Social media capture With a thunderous artillery barrage, the Russian army on Thursday launched its latest offensive in Ukraine. Much of what’s left of the Russian arm...
Putin Sets Russians on Wild Hunt for Dollars in Black Market
(Bloomberg) — As the ruble’s official exchange rate parts ways with its value on the street, dollars are becoming hard to find. Most Read from Bloomberg For Boris, a doctor based in Moscow, the ...
The Blockchain Group Lobbies Against Legislation Designed to Prevent Russians from Using Crypto
The Blockchain Group is working to prevent members of Congress from passing legislation that would place sanctions on oligarchs or individuals in Russia for using cryptocurrency. The organization clai...
The Russians Lost Nearly An Entire Battalion Trying To Cross A River In Eastern Ukraine
The aftermath of the Russian attempt to cross the Siverskyi Donets River. Ukrainian army capture The better part of a Russian army battalion—50 or so vehicles and up to a thousand troops—in recent day...
Following The Money To A Network Of OTC Providers
With a continuous lack of precise regulation for Crypto brokers in Russian, hundreds of Russian and … [+] Belarusian Over-The-Counter (OTC) pawnshop-like providers that operate in a gray zone al...
The Russians Are Losing The Naval War Off Ukraine—To An Enemy With No Warships
A TB-2’s view of a ‘Raptor’ patrol boat right before hitting it with a missile. Ukrainian defense ministry Ukraine’s navy, which after scuttling its flagship no longer has a single l...
The Russians Got Caught Faking A TB-2 Drone Shoot-Down
The apparently-staged TB-2 crash from late April 2022. Via social media As Russia’s wider war in Ukraine enters its third month, Ukraine’s small force of Turkish-made TB-2 armed drones continues to pl...
Is Laughing About The Holocaust In Good Taste? Ask ‘H*tler’s Tasters’
Hannah Mae Sturges, MaryKathryn Kopp and Hallie Griffin in a scene from HITLER’S TASTERS. Burdette Parks Are we allowed to laugh about Hitler? Is it okay to joke about the dictator responsible f...
Wrestling Russia On The Blockchain
As known, Crypto doesn’t provide enough liquidity to allow Russia to bypass SWIFT sanctions in full. … [+] However, as Blockchain-based investigators review transaction spikes in different...
The Russians Just Grabbed One Of The Ukrainians’ Rarest Tanks
A T-64BM Bulat on parade in 2008. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region have captured a very rare Ukrainian T-64BM Bulat tank. The roughly 100 Bulats tha...
Saxo Bank Warns Russians on Upcoming Nasdaq Service Termination
Nasdaq exchange in the United States and the Nordic countries will stop offering services to customers from Russia from April 29, according to a letter sent by Danish brokerage Saxo Bank to its Russia...
The Russians Appear To Be Sending A Deep-Diving Submersible To The Wreck Of The Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Kommuna’ and her AS-28 submersible. Russian navy photo The Russian navy reportedly is trying to salvage sensitive materials from the wreck of the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, which sank...
Binance Updates its Policy for Russians Amid Latest EU Sanctions
In line with the recently-imposed fifth wave of sanctions from the European Union toward Russia, Binance has made changed to its policy regarding investors from and based in the world’s largest countr...
Bill ‘On Digital Currency’ Caps Crypto Investments for Russians, Opens Door for Payments – Regulation Bitcoin News
Russia’s recently revised bill “On Digital Currency” limits crypto purchases for non-qualified investors while providing legal ground for some cryptocurrency payments, according to local media. The dr...
Ukrainian Troops Reportedly Fired A Captured Russian Rocket Launcher … Back At The Russians
A Russian TOS-1 in Ukraine. Russian defense ministry photo The Russian army that rolled into Ukraine on the morning of Feb. 24 brought with it some of the world’s most powerful, and indiscriminate, ar...
Currency.com halts operations for Russians in response to invasion of Ukraine
In these circumstances they can no longer continue to serve their clients Russian residents would no longer be able to access its services Ukraine’s government has utilized crypto platforms to s...
Belarus-Based Crypto Exchange Stops Operations For Russians Over Invasion Of Ukraine
Currency.com, a cryptocurrency platform based in Belarus, announced Wednesday that it will block its services to Russian users in response to Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. Currency.com disclosed th...
Belarusian crypto exchange stops trading for Russians over war in Ukraine
Announced in a blog post published on Tuesday, April 12, the Belarusian crypto exchange Currency.com says it will restrict its services for Russian users following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine...
Belarus-born crypto platform halts operations for Russians in response to invasion of Ukraine
Crypto trading company Currency.com has announced it halted operations for clients based in Russia following the country’s “violence and disorder” imposed on the people of Ukraine. In a Tuesday announ...
$130b held in crypto by Russians as per Prime Minister
Digital money possessions of Russians are worth billions of dollars The Russian top state leader announced that crypto usage has increased over the last few months The public authority is yet to embr...
EU seeks to block crypto wallets linked to sanctioned Russians
The European Union is once again showing support for Ukraine during the ongoing war. The EU is now imposing further sanctions on Russia that targets cryptocurrency wallets and the deposits made to the...
Russians Collectively Own Over $130 Billion Worth of Crypto, Prime Minister Mishustin Claims
Mikhail Mishustin – Russia’s Prime Minister – believes the Russian population collectively holds more than 10 trillion rubles ($130 billion) worth of cryptocurrencies. He assumed that most of those in...
Russians collectively hold $130B in crypto, Prime Minister says
The Russian prime minister declared that the cryptocurrency holdings of Russians are worth billions of dollars but the government is yet to adopt a regulatory framework for the industry. Russians coll...
Sanctioned Russian’s Family Sells $6 Billion Stake in Gold Miner
(Bloomberg) — Said Kerimov, the son of sanctioned Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, resigned from the board of gold miner Polyus PJSC on Monday, the same day his family’s holding company red...
Confirmed: Russians do not evade sanctions using crypto, Chainalysis
As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues, cryptocurrencies are taking on an important role in the conflict, but not in the capacity of evading sanctions on Russian entities or oligarchs. On the contrary, ...