Topline A Russian soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing an unarmed civilian during Ukraine’s first war crimes trial since Russia invaded the country in February, in what could be the first of ma...
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Ukraine’s Guns Are In Range Of Izium. That’s Bad News For Russia.
Ukrainian howitzers are no farther from Izium than this circle. David Axe/Google Maps art Ukrainian gunners shelled a Russian air-defense system in eastern Ukraine probably sometime in the past couple...
Dispersed and displaced, Ukraine’s crypto industry adapts to war
At the outset of the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s use of crypto donations to fund its war effort drew mass attention from the global crypto industry. At the same time, the conflict displaced the entir...
Will Ukraine’s Army Invade Russia?
Ukrainian main battle tank near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on May 15, 2022. (Photo by YASUYOSHI … [+] CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images With Ukrainian forces now on the Russian bor...
Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra Celebrates Eurovision Win
Topline Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest early on Sunday as the sentimental favorites handily topped the charts after securing a record number of public votes, in a...
Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry approves charity NFT project
Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, on Thursday tweeted out support for Avatars for Ukraine, a non-fungible token (NFT) project directly...
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Broken Russia’s Siege Of Kharkiv
Russian infantry mobility vehicles GAZ Tigr destroyed as a result of fight in Kharkiv, located some … [+] 50 km from Ukrainian-Russian border, on February 28, 2022. – (Photo by SERGEY BOBO...
Ukraine’s New Fundraising Platform Accepts Crypto, Allows Donors to Allocate Funds – Bitcoin News
United24, a new fundraising platform announced recently by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accepts a number of cryptocurrencies, alongside traditional payment methods. The initiative also per...
Russia Claims Ukraine’s Anti-Tank Missiles Are Duds. So Why Are Russian Tanks Burning?
A Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with U.S. Javelin missiles during military exercises in Donetsk … [+] region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. (Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service via...
Ukraine’s Best Fighter Jets Just Bombed The Hell Out Of The Russian Troops On Snake Island
Su-27s strike Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture The Ukrainian air force’s best fighter jets just staged a daring raid on the Russian force occupying Ukraine’s strategic Snake Island. Th...
Ukraine’s Air Force Is Back! But Who Knows For How Long.
A Ukrainian Su-25 over Donbas on May 7, 2022. TikTok capture Ten weeks into Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, Kyiv’s tiny, aging air force is in much better shape than anyone should have expected prior t...
Interview: Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Innovation – crypto amid the war
The cryptocurrency space is full of interesting projects. The below is one that I found particularly captivating – the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Innovation. At the onset of the tragic war in Ukrai...
Interview: Ukraine’s NFT Museum of War
Every so often, you get an interview opportunity that really makes you stop and think. This was one of those cases – a Q&A with the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation, Virtual Assets Off...
Ukraine’s Drones Are Peeling Back Russian Defenses On Infamous Snake Island
A Ukrainian TB-2 strikes a Russian Strela-10 air-defense system on Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture Ukraine’s Snake Island was one of Russia’s first conquests in the wider war between ...
Russian Victory Day Parade Cut By 35%, Emphasizing Ukraine’s Battlefield Prowess
TOS-1A Solntsepyok (Blazing Sun) multiple thermobaric rocket launchers are one of the many systems … [+] that won’t be present for Russia’s sadly diminished 2022 Victory Day Parade H...
Ukraine’s Citizen-Soldiers Are Shooting 60-Year-Old Artillery At Russian Tanks
Ukrainian troops train with an MT-12 in 2019. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s territorial troops are true citizen-soldiers. Volunteers all, they enlist with local brigades and fight in their hom...
Finland To Donate Seized Bitcoin Worth $77 Million Towards Ukraine’s War Effort
The country’s customs officials seized the cryptocurrency in connection with several illegal operations. The country began looking into using Bitcoin as a means to help Ukraine back in March but has d...
Ukraine’s Artillery Might Be Winning The War With Russia
Ukrainian 2S3 in Donbas in March 2015. OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine photo As Russia widened its war in Ukraine in late February, many observers assumed Russian artillery would dominate t...
Ukraine’s central bank bans purchasing cryptocurrency using local currency
Ukraine’s central bank has banned the purchase of cryptocurrencies using the country’s local currency, invoking martial law, which has been in effect since the invasion by Russia. The National Union B...
Russia Wants ‘Full Control’ Over Ukraine’s South, East And Eyes Part Of Moldova, Commander Says
Topline Russia will try to assert full control over large swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine and could be targeting Ukraine’s neighbor Moldova, a commander of Russia’s Central Military Dist...
Ukraine’s Central Bank Bans Crypto Purchases in Local Currency
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T-72s To The Rescue? Ukraine’s 5th Tank Brigade Could Roll Into Battle Any Day Now.
Ukrainian tanks train in 2021. Ukrainian defense ministry The Ukrainian military’s success in sinking and damaging Russian warships could have a happy side-effect for Ukraine’s war effort on land. The...
EU Approves Crypto License & Payment Gateway for Ukraine’s QMALL: Now Globally Connected, A World of Opportunity Awaits
While the country of Ukraine hasn’t yet received approval for its long-held dream to join the European Union just yet, QMALL, the country’s best-known crypto exchange, was recently given the all-clear...
Ukraine’s Shift To A New NATO Arsenal Is Unprecedented-And Inevitable
Ukraine will need 155mm guns—like this M777 artillery piece. ASSOCIATED PRESS Defending your country is hard enough. Managing to defend yourself while shifting from Russian-derived heavy weaponry to a...
Ukraine’s vice prime minister thanks the crypto community for donations
Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the cryptocurrency community has been active in supporting the Ukrainian government financially. More than $100M worth of crypto aid has been sent to Ukraine. ...
Zelensky Aide Urges Europe To Speed Up Weapons Transfers Amid Concern Over Ukraine’s Ammunition Inventory
Topline Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on Saturday urged European countries to expedite the transfer of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns over whether Ukrainia...
Ukraine’s Bayraktar Drone Helped Take Out Russian Flagship
Russian media has confirmed that the cruiser Moskva, its 12,000-ton Black Sea flagship, suffered a major explosion and has been abandoned due to fire. Ukraine claims to have struck the ship with two N...
More Than 500 Ukrainian Children Killed Or Injured Since Russia Invaded, Ukraine’s Prosecutor’s Office Says
Topline More than 500 children have been killed or injured since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine six weeks ago, Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday, while the United Nations’ childre...
Ukraine’s NFT collection is still far from selling out after a week
Midway through last week, the Ukrainian government launched its much-anticipated NFT collection, with the goal of raising around $1 million for war and humanitarian efforts. Yet after a week has passe...