A Russian air force Su-24M in 2009. Alexander Mishin photo via Wikimedia Commons The Sukhoi Su-24M supersonic bomber that was shot down and crashed practically on top of Ukrainian positions outside Ba...
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XRP Rival Powers Humanitarian Cash Disbursement to Ukraine Residents Impacted by the Russian Invasion
An XRP competitor is powering humanitarian cash disbursements to the people of Ukraine in the midst of Russia’s military aggression. The Stellar (XLM) Development Foundation (SDF) and the Internationa...
Did The Russians Sabotage Ukraine’s Neptune Missiles?
The Ukrainian navy’s first Neptune battery. Wikimedia Commons The Neptune anti-ship missile was one of Ukraine’s secret weapons. Developed in fits and starts and completed just weeks before Russ...
The UN Is Sending War-Torn People In Ukraine Aid In Crypto
A growing number of human rights organizations from around the world are turning to crypto and blockchain technology as a remedy to challenges in underdeveloped or conflict-torn countries caused by a ...
Ukraine Deradicalized Its Extremist Troops. Now They Might Be Preparing A Counteroffensive.
A 98th Azov Battalion M-113. Via social media The narrative the Kremlin advances to justify its brutal war on the Ukrainian people—that Ukraine is a far-right Nazi regime bent on destroying Russia—is ...
Can Stablecoins Revolutionize Foreign Aid? The UN Thinks So.
If only stablecoins had been around in the late aughts. The likes of USDC and USDT would have provided a viable — and, potentially, game-changing — alternative for cash aid disbursements in Iraq and A...
UN partners with Stellar to send aid to Ukraine
The United Nations (UN) has recently partnered with the Stellar Development Foundation to initiate a digital cash disbursement system empowered by the Stellar network. This technologically advanced sy...
Ukraine Crisis Highlights Security Needs Of Civilian Nuclear Power
Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, … [+] 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant loca...
Russia Launches Massive Attack—9 Ukraine Power Stations Damaged
Topline Russia has launched a massive wave of missile attacks across Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said on Friday, forcing civilians to seek shelter and knocking out power, water supplies and critical ...
With GPS-Guided Munitions, Ukraine’s Pilots Could Hit The Russians Almost 100-Percent Of The Time
A U.S. Air Force airman loads JDAMs on a Boeing B-52 bomber. U.S. Air Force photo The U.S. Defense Department reportedly plans to equip the Ukrainian air force with satellite-guided bombs. The Pentago...
Stellar Development Foundation, International Rescue Committee pilot blockchain-powered aid system in Ukraine
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have partnered to pilot a blockchain-powered cash disbursement system in Ukraine. The pilot, called Stellar Aid As...
The Destruction Of Religious Sites By Russian Forces In Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, Putin unleashed an attack on Ukraine without any provocation and without any credible justification. Subsequent months have seen evidence suggesting that Russian troops are perpe...
Why Does Ukraine Want Patriot Missiles Which Could Not Protect Saudi Arabia Against Drones?
According to news reports, the U.S. is finalizing plans to send Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine. The country has been coming under increasing attack from Russian drones and cruise missiles and ac...
As Russian Amphibious Ships Bore Down On Southern Ukraine In February, The Ukrainians’ Sole Anti-Ship Battery Opened Fire
2019 test-launch of the Neptune missile. Ukrainian defense ministry The Neptune anti-ship missile is one of the iconic weapons of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. Two of the 17-foot missiles, fired by a...
How Ukraine Became a Crypto Innovation Hub
Alex Bornyakov is the Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about how the country is using cutting edge technologies such as cry...
U.S. Coal Exports To Europe Up 46% By Weight, 184% By Value
Coal was the nation’s fourth-ranked export by tonnage in the month of October, trailing three other … [+] energy sources: oil, refined petroleum and natural gases. ustradenumbers.com Europ...
Ukraine Is Finally Getting More MiG-29s. Maybe.
A Slovak MiG-29 in 2014. Rob Schleiffert photo Slovakia again has pledged to Ukraine all 11 of its old Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters. The country recently placed the jets into storage in anticipation of jus...
Elections, Ukraine, Soldiers Abroad, Pence, and Santa Claus
Voting Ease: With Election 2022 finally over, we can begin to look at voters’ experience. Pew recently released new findings from its invaluable series on the vote count. In 2022, 88% of self-identifi...
Jamie Dimon worries about the ‘extraordinary’ dangers posed by the Ukraine war. ‘I would definitely be preparing for it to get much worse’
Europe may have been spared from an extreme [hotlink ignore=true]energy crisis this year, but the head of one of the world’s largest banks is worried about what’s next. Through a mix of unseasonably w...
Ukraine’s Fight For Democracy Is Worth The Short-Term Spike In Energy Prices
A Ukrainian soldier looks at flames after throwing a cocktail Molotovs during a self-defence … [+] civilian course on the outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. – The Russia...
Europe’s power crisis has ‘very little to do with Putin’: CEO
This image, from Sept, 2022, shows a liquefied natural gas tanker arriving at a port in the Netherlands. Siese Veenstra | AFP | Getty Images The power crisis gripping Europe has little to do with Vlad...
To Stop Killer Drones, Ukraine Upgrades Ancient Flak Guns With Consumer Cameras And Tablets
At an exercise near Dnipro, a crew uses a tablet with a feed from two commercial CCTV cameras sold … [+] by Chinese company Hikvision to aim a 20-millimeter M75 anti-aircraft gun. Ukraine Territ...
Ukrainian Military Is Targeting Russian Fuel Supply Lines As Winter Approaches
The lifeblood of any modern army is diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is used in most military vehicles as well as in the generators that provide electricity to command posts and living facilities. Accordingly...
The Russian Army’s Terminator Vehicles Are Heavily Armed, Highly Protected … And Far Too Few To Matter
A BMP-T near Svatove. ANNA New capture Arms-maker Uralvagonzavod manufactured only 10 or so high-tech BMP-T Terminator fighting vehicles for the Russian army. This spring most, or all, of the heavily-...
Super-Upgraded M-55S Tanks Have Arrived In Ukraine
An M-55S in Ukrainian service. Via social media The first video has appeared online depicting the Ukrainian army’s ex-Slovenian M-55S tanks. The video depicts what appears to be a four-person M-55S cr...
China GDP Poised To Outperform World Average In 2023 – PwC
A woman has her routine COVID-19 throat swab at a testing site despite authorities starting to ease … [+] some of the anti-virus controls in Beijing on Dec. 8. China is the last major country st...
Five Brave Ukrainian MiG Pilots Blunted the Russian Attack On Kyiv On Day One Of The War. Not All Of Them Survived.
Lt. Col. Vyacheslav Yerko. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Kremlin had a bold—some might say reckless—plan for swiftly defeating the Ukrainian armed forces and toppling the government in Kyiv. Th...
Banksy Sells Rare Rat Prints To Raise Money For Ukraine
Topline Banksy is selling off a series of rare screen prints to raise money for an organization helping civilians affected by the war in Ukraine, where last month murals by the pseudonymous street art...