Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed legislation finalizing Moscow’s illegal annexation of four Ukrainian regions, pushing forward despite not controlling any of the four provi...
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Near Protocol Founder: Ukraine Shows How Crypto ‘Delivers Help Directly to People’
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, millions in cryptocurrency donations have found their way into the digital wallets of the Ukrainian government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) opera...
Rivers At Their Backs And Ukrainian Brigades Closing In, A Lot Of Russian Troops Might Need To Learn To Swim
The Ukrainian 128th Mountain Brigade. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russian paratroopers are fleeing their positions in a critical sector of the front in southern Ukraine. While at least one Ukrain...
Pro-Russian Groups Raised $400,000 in Crypto Since Ukraine Invasion, Report Reveals – Bitcoin News
Groups supporting Russia’s war effort in Ukraine have been actively collecting cryptocurrency to fund paramilitary operations and evade sanctions, researchers say. According to a new report, these org...
Russians Use Drastic Measures To Avoid Putin’s Military Draft—Including Self-Mutilation
Topline Russians have resorted to drastic measures to avoid being drafted to fight in Ukraine, a sign of desperation as President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to revive the flagging invasion pushes poten...
Ukraine Is Capturing Russia’s Old T-62 Tanks. Will It Use Them?
A Ukrainian commando with a captured Russian T-62. Ukrainian defense ministry photo After losing around 700 tanks in Ukraine through this spring, the Russian army began pulling 50-year-old T-62 tanks ...
Orsted to use more fossil fuels as energy crisis continues
Jens Auer | Moment | Getty Images Energy firm Orsted is to continue or restart operations at three fossil fuel facilities after being ordered by Danish authorities to do so, as governments around Euro...
Ukraine Breaks Through More Occupied Territory As Moscow Attempts To Formalize Illegal Annexation
Topline Russian lawmakers pushed through the final procedural steps needed to annex seized Ukrainian territory on Tuesday, persisting despite Moscow not fully controlling any of the four regions it cl...
Ukraine’s Counteroffensives Appear To Be Part Of A Much Bigger Plan—To Divide The Russian Army
A Ukrainian army BMP fighting vehicle. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A month into Ukraine’s twin counteroffensives in southern and eastern Ukraine, Kyiv’s overall strategy is becoming clearer. Expe...
Elon Musk Slammed For Russia-Friendly Proposal To End War In Ukraine
Topline The world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk faced sharp backlash Monday afternoon after sharing his thoughts on how to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on terms far more amenable to Russia than the W...
Stock Market Gains After Mixed Manufacturing Reports, War In Ukraine Escalates
The stock market gained on Monday after mixed manufacturing data for September. OPEC+ may cut oil production as the war in Ukraine showed no signs of easing. Oil giants Chevron (CVX) and Exxon-Mobil (...
Pro-Russian Outfits Turn to Crypto Fundraising to Support War Efforts Against Ukraine: Report
Pro-Russian outfits have resorted to digital asset funds in a bid to support the war efforts against Ukraine while evading international sanctions. A new report suggests that these groups are raising ...
Inside The Powerful New CEO Club Quietly Welcoming Refugees
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and board member of Alphabet Inc., and Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, speak with Jenna Gilbert of Human Rights First. Google Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, Accenture’s Julie Sw...
Sunday, October 2. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leads a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council … [+] in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Uk...
Ukrainian Forces Are Advancing In Southern Ukraine
Ukrainian troops liberate Khreshchenivka. Ukrainian army photo Just a day after liberating Lyman, a key supply hub for Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are on the move in the south,...
Crypto Transactions Ban: European Union Retaliates Over Russian Referendum in Ukraine
As the development in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the former reported to organize referendums within the occupied regions of the latter. The whole world condemn this move of Russia and...
Saturday, October 1. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information
KUPIANSK, UKRAINE – OCTOBER 1: Kupiansk refugees flee over a destroyed bridge on October 1, 2022 in … [+] Kupiansk, Ukraine. The city has been successfully captured by Ukrainian Armed Forc...
Ukraine Egg King Faces $1 Billion Fraud Case in the Cowboy State
(Bloomberg) — Tucked below news of the Vienna zoo’s newborn orangutan, Austria’s top-selling newspaper carried a notice in June this year that would have been easy to miss. Most Read from Bloomb...
Gas Prices Near $4 Again, Continuing 2-Week Climb
Topline Average U.S. gas prices continue to climb back up, increasing for the 14th-straight day Saturday as ongoing issues from the war in Ukraine and Hurricane Ian impact supply – and higher prices a...
Lockheed Martin hikes dividend 7% as Ukraine war drags on
Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT, -0.90% said late Friday its board approved a 7% hike to the aerospace and defense company’s dividend. The company said it will pay a $3-a-share dividend, up from a pre...
Three Rules For Successful Bear Market Investing
Bear markets aren’t any fun LightRocket via Getty Images The markets are ugly: through the first three quarters of 2022, the S&P 500 is down nearly 24%, and the bond market, usually a safe h...
A Russian Regiment, Currently Surrounded In Eastern Ukraine, Has A Tragic History Of Defeat
Ukrainian troops advance. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian army reportedly has nearly completed its envelopment of the Russian garrison in Lyman, a transport hub in eastern Ukraine’s Don...
Friday, September 30. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information
In this image released by the Police Press Service, the view from a drone shows the site of a … [+] Russian rocket attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. A Russian strike on th...
How Israel Could Discreetly Aid Ukraine Militarily
Israeli defense firms have a good track record of modernizing older military hardware, including Soviet-era systems. Israel could use this proven expertise to aid the Ukrainian military discreetly. Sl...
At Least 23 Dead In Zaporizhzhia After Russia Strikes Civilian Convoy, Ukrainian Officials Say
Topline At least 23 people were killed in a Russian strike on a convoy of vehicles near the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia Friday, according to officials in Kyiv, on the same day Moscow is ...
Thousands Of Russian Troops Are About To Get Trapped In Eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian troops inspect captured Russian T-80 tanks outside Kharkiv. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A month after launching a major counteroffensive outside the free city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukra...
Wednesday, September 29. Russia’s War On Ukraine: Daily News And Information
A man cries over a dead body after Russian forces shelled via cluster bomb a bus stop in a … [+] residential area in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. September 29, 2022. Photo by Suspilne Media Dispatches fro...
DOJ Charges Russian Billionaire Deripaska With Violating Sanctions—And Scheming For His Child To Be Born In U.S.
Topline The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Thursday accusing Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and three associates with violating U.S. sanctions imposed against the aluminum tycoon in 201...
Ukraine Said To Have Mauled A Russian Fighter Regiment, Shooting Down A Quarter Of Its Crews
An Su-34 belonging to the 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian armed forces’ aggressive counterattacks in the south and east starting in late August have chewed up several o...
Here’s What Would Happen If Putin Ordered A Nuclear Strike In Ukraine
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to annex swathes of occupied Ukrainian territory and vowed to defend Russian territory by any means necessary last Wednesday, including using nucl...
Wednesday, September 28. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information
Relatives and friends comfort a woman after Ukrainian rescue workers found a body of a person under … [+] the debris following a Russian attack that heavily damaged a school in Mykolaivka, Ukrai...