Ukrainian artillery. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It’s been three weeks since Ukrainian brigades forced Russian troops across the wide Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, liberating Kherson city and...
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Ukraine Eyes CBDC For Retail and International Transactions
Altcoin News The Central Bank has met with representatives from various sectors. The bank would approach the subject of creating its own digital currency cautiously. The National Bank of Ukraine is co...
E-Hryvnia’s new CBDC concept takes shape in Ukraine
E-Hryvnia is a digital version of the Ukraine Hryvnia national currency created on the blockchain. CBDCs are commonplace, with many nations announcing plans to implement their own. Blockchain has num...
National Bank of Ukraine releases draft concept for digital hryvnia
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has introduced a draft concept for its central bank digital currency (CBDC) candidate digital hryvnia, or e-hryvnia. Ukraine’s central bank on Nov. 28 released a sta...
Ruslan Baginskiy Launches Crystal Edition Where Hat Accessories Meet Jewelry
The Ruslan Baginskiy Crystal Edition hat embellished with one of the six crystal accessories in the … [+] set. Ruslan Baginskiy Buzzed about Ukrainian milliner Ruslan Baginskiy has created an ex...
The Ukrainian Army Captured Dozens Of The Russian Army’s Old T-62 Tanks—And Is Now Sending Them Back Into Battle
An ex-Russian T-62 in Ukrainian colors. Via social media After losing a thousand of its best T-80 and T-72 tanks in Ukraine, the Kremlin early this summer began pulling 50-year-old T-62s out of long-t...
Ukraine’s World War II-Vintage Howitzers Still Work Just Fine
A Ukrainian M101 in action. Ukrainian defense ministry The Ukrainian army’s newest howitzers also are among its oldest. On Sunday, the first video appeared online depicting ex-Lithuanian M101 howitzer...
New British Brimstone 2 Missiles Are Bad News For Russian Tanks, Artillery, Air Defense, Command Posts…
The UK has been supplying Ukraine with Brimstone missiles since April. Yesterday the UK Ministry of Defence officially confirmed what was being unofficially claimed based on imagery, that Ukraine is r...
Russian Soldiers Are Freezing To Death In Eastern Ukraine
Russians huddle in a trench as a drone bomb explodes among them. Via social media The Ukrainian army has deployed some of its best brigades to eastern Ukraine, including the 92nd and 93rd Mechanized B...
Six Months After The Russians Shot Down Ukraine’s Last Naval Rescue Helicopter, the U.K. Is Sending Replacements
A Westland Sea King HU5 in Royal Navy service in 2013. Via Wikimedia Commons The United Kingdom is sending three Westland Sea King helicopters to Ukraine. The 1970s-vintage rotorcraft, which once serv...
Russia’s High-Tech Artillery System Was Supposed To Win The War In Ukraine. But Troops Didn’t Know How To Use It.
Ukrainian troops capture a Russian 2S19 howitzer in March 2022. Via social media The Russian army spent decades and billions of dollars building what should be the world’s most fearsome artillery fire...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Personal Brigade Is Fighting One Of the Ukraine War’s Hardest Battles
A 1st Presidential Brigade trooper near Bakhmut. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Officially, it’s the mission of the Ukrainian national guard’s 1st Presidential Brigade to defend the leader of Ukrain...
The Ukrainian Navy Still Has One Big Amphibious Ship. She’d Be Pretty Useful Right About Now.
‘Yuri Olefirenko’ in happier times, before the current war. Ukrainian navy photo There might be just one big ship left in the Ukrainian navy—the amphibious landing vessel Yuri Olefirenko. ...
Ukraine regulator drafting crypto tax rules – crypto.news
The resounding calls for crypto regulations have led to creating a special council under Ukraine’s securities (NSSMC). The new council is set to coordinate and draft crypto taxation regulations accord...
Here’s What Lies Ahead For Ukraine’s “Teenage Democracy”
KYIV, UKRAINE – 2022/11/11: People hold a banner that says “Kherson is Ukraine” celebrating the … [+] liberation of Kherson from Russian occupiers in central Kyiv. Ukrainian ar...
Ukraine’s Drone Boats Are Winning The Black Sea Naval War
A Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicle, beached near Sevastopol. Via social media An apparent Ukrainian drone-boat strike on Novorossiysk, a hundred miles from Russian-occupied Crimea in southern Russia...
Some Of Russia’s Last Good Troops Needed Three Weeks To Capture A Half Square Mile Of Eastern Ukraine
53rd Mechanized Brigade artillery in action. 53rd Mechanized Brigade The Kremlin is determined to capture all of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. The oblast after all is the seat of ...
The Ukrainian Army’s Helicopters Sat Out The Last Campaign. They Sure Aren’t Sitting Out This One.
Ukrainian army Mil Mi-8s. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It was an open question, as Russian forces massed along Ukraine’s borders in late 2021 and early 2022, whether the Ukrainian army’s helicopte...
Russian Soldiers Are Surrendering To Ukrainian Drones. This Has Happened Before.
Russian prisoners in Ukraine. Via social media Firing missiles, dropping tiny bombs and spotting targets for artillery, the Ukrainian army’s drones undoubtedly are responsible for hundreds, if not tho...
Aid For Ukraine Denies Sending Funds With FTX To Democrats
The second crypto exchange in the world, FTX, collapsed taking down several companies in the fallout. The contagion negatively impacts companies, projects, and hedge funds and could have consequences ...
Would Putin Launch An Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Against Ukraine?
EMI receiver or spectrum analyzer display during measurement getty The nations of Europe are on edge after a Ukrainian missile, apparently defending against Russian attacks, appears to have flown off ...
A Russian Regiment Reportedly Lost 2,500 Draftees In Just Two Weeks Of Fighting
An abandoned Russian T-72B3 near Svatove. 92nd Mechanized Brigade The Ukrainian army’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade is killing Russian draftees as fast as the Kremlin can shove the unhappy, unfit conscript...
Ukrainian Territorials Are Wearing Down Russian Defenses In Zaporizhzhia. Are They Preparing For A Counteroffensive?
A 110th Territorial Brigade trooper. 110th Territorial Brigade A few videos circulating online and depicting the goings-on in one Ukrainian army reserve brigade are not definitive evidence of a coming...
US Futures Rise as Ukraine Escalation Fears Recede: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — US futures rose as panic subsided that a rocket which struck inside the Polish border came from Russia and marked an escalation in the Ukrainian war. Most Read from Bloomberg Contr...
How The Ukrainian Army Could Get Behind The Dnipro River And Roll Up Thousands Of Russian Troops
Ukrainian troops pass each other. Ukrainian defense ministry The Dnipro River is the biggest natural obstacle in all of Ukraine. Running north to south through major cities including the capital Kyiv,...
The Graphic Death of Yevgeny Nuzhin Underlines the Risk of Prisoner Exchanges in Ukraine
An image claimed to be of Russian combatant, Yevgenny Nuzhin while he was an inmate, circulated on … [+] social media. social media/e2w A former Russian prison inmate who defected to Ukraine aft...
Russia’s Southern Supply Hub Is Now In Range Of Ukraine’s Rockets. Expect Explosions.
Ukrainian HIMARS firing in June 2022. Ukrainian army photo Ukrainian advances in southern Ukraine could lead to, well, further Ukrainian advances in southern Ukraine. To understand why, look at Russia...
A Strategic Strip Of Sand. Rumors Of Ukrainian Raids. As Russian Forces Retreat, Keep An Eye On The Kinburn Spit.
Kinburn Spit. Google Maps The Kinburn Spit is a narrow finger of sand and scrub, barely three miles long, that juts from the wider Kinburn Peninsula into the Black Sea at the mouth of the Dnipro River...
Starving, Freezing, Getting Shot At By Their Own Regiment—No Wonder These Russian Draftees Surrendered
Russian draftees after surrendering near Svatove. Via social media The 92nd Mechanized Brigade is one of the best and, for the Russians, most dangerous formations in the Ukrainian army. So you can’t b...
Easily In Range Of Ukrainian Artillery, Kherson’s Airport Was A Death Trap For Russian Troops
Chornobaivka Airport burns on March 16, 2022. Maxar Three days after the Kremlin ordered its starving, battered forces to retreat from the right bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine’s Kherson ...