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Odesa Oblast authorities intend to build a new bridge across the Dniester Estuary in Zatoka. Due to massive strikes by the Russian Armed Forces, the facility cannot be restored. Odesa Oblast is planning to build a highway with a bridge crossing the Dniester Estuary to replace the bridge destroyed by the Russians. This was reported […]
The PayPal payment platform has announced the launch of its own stablecoin, the PYUSD stablecoin, for transfers between users and payments for goods. According to Bloomberg, the coin is pegged to the dollar at a one-to-one ratio, fully backed by dollar deposits, short-term Treasury bonds, and similar cash equivalents. PYUSD is designed in such a […]
Despite the risks posed by a full-scale war, European gas traders have started storing natural gas in Ukraine to take advantage of lower prices and available capacity Reuters reports this with reference to three traders and company representatives. The agency notes that after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU sought to […]
From the Polish border to Lviv, this special vehicle from distant Scotland was accompanied by a police patrol car with lights and sound signals on, not even stopping at red lights in the city. And no one interfered with this escort… “It was nice to see the people of Lviv waving and cheering us on […]
The administration of US President Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday, August 8, new military aid to Ukraine worth $200 million, dw reports, citing Reuters, citing US officials. This is the beginning of the distribution of funds after an accounting error by the US Department of Defense: the cost of weapons provided to the Armed […]
The “sudo rm-RF” hackers, who hacked into the website of the Moscow City Bureau of Technical Inventory, have made part of the database publicly available. “No leakage? Today we are going to post the first part of the database! – The Insider reports that the project said. Below are the files available for download. The […]
The release of Christopher Nolan’s historical drama Oppenheimer, which tells the story of the father of the atomic bomb and the Manhattan Project, brought with it an interest in everything related to nuclear physics. And despite the fact that nuclear energy has been in the public eye for quite some time, there are still misconceptions […]
For the attack, the Ukrainian military used a TORO kamikaze drone with a precision camera that destroys enemy equipment and manpower with explosives. The Ukrainian military launched a TORO kamikaze drone that destroyed a Russian infantry fighting vehicle. The video of the FPV drone’s battle with a tank was posted by Colonel Anatoliy (“Stirlitz”) Stefan […]
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced the approval of the first batch of M1 Abrams to be delivered to Ukraine. The tanks will soon go to Europe. Doug Bush, chief of the U.S. Army’s acquisition office, said the M1 Abrams is ready for shipment. The tanks will be delivered to Europe and then put […]
On the morning of Tuesday, August 8, SpaceX launched 15 of its Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit, Space.com reports. At 6:57 a.m. Kyiv time (almost midnight in the United States), a Falcon 9 cargo rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base […]