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A large private museum dedicated to it8bit.club retro computers and video games destroyed earlier this week in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s ongoing terrible invasion. Although the destroyed museum is not at all comparable to the thousands killed and wounded, it is still a sad loss, as more than 500 units of computer history […]
The General Staff of Ukraine reports that over the past day, the Ukrainian armed forces repelled 7 enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, destroyed 8 tanks and other equipment of the invaders. “In the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, the Joint Forces group repelled 7 enemy attacks. Ukrainian soldiers destroyed 8 tanks, 8 armored […]
The largest music streaming service Spotify announced the complete cessation of work in Russia. This means that Russian users will be deprived of access to the library of the music service. Earlier, Spotify suspended sales of Premium subscriptions to Russians due to sanctions by the international payment systems Visa and Mastercard in connection with the […]
Mariupol City Council informs: Unfortunately, we start this day with bad news. Eyewitnesses reported that about 300 people were killed in the drama theater of Mariupol as a result of the bombing by a Russian plane. Until the last moment, I don’t want to believe in this horror. Until the last moment, I want to […]
The Dutch company Sprosus (Naspers holding), which owns the ad sites OLX and Avito, is not going to stop doing business in the aggressor country. Despite the appeals of the Ukrainian authorities, the holding claims that it takes care of both the Ukrainian and Russian offices. Employees of the Ukrainian representative office of OLX called […]
Two Ukrainian developers have created online maps of air alarms, where you can conveniently view the status of sirens in all regions at the same time. This format undoubtedly deserves attention and can be useful to many. Now we know about two such maps: Map of sirens by region. Its developer is @vdmkin Map of […]
The list includes International Paper, Abbot, Cargill, Otis, Subway, Burger King, Nestle, Raiffeisen Bank and many other companies. The hacker group Anonymous, which supports Ukraine in the information war, appealed to foreign companies that continue to operate on the territory of the Russian Federation. On their page on the social network Twitter, hackers appealed to […]
In connection with the war that Russia has declared on Ukraine, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has ruled out the possibility of making P2P transactions for a number of Russian banks and payment systems. This is stated in the message of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine. P2P is excluded from the list […]
Journalist Mstislav Chernov and photographer Yevgeny Maloletka, who shoot for the Associated Press, have been documenting events in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol for more than two weeks. They were the only international journalists who stayed in the city. Therefore, the Russian occupiers knew the names of the journalists and tracked them. “We were reporting […]
Russia demands that Google introduce censorship on the video hosting site YouTube. The Kremlin regime claims that the video hosting service should stop broadcasting videos with threats against Russians. Roskomnadzor accused the video platform of “engaging in terrorism.” The agency was outraged, as indicated in its appeal, by videos calling for distroyed the railway tracks […]