The article you linked to states that at the party of the UAE Embassy in Pretoria, which took place on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the country's admission to BRICS membership, the Russian Ambassador to South Africa made a short speech and presented the UAE Ambassador with a symbolic banknote of one hundred units of countries BRICS. This banknote is purely symbolic, such money does not exist, it does not even indicate the name of this monetary unit. That is, this symbolic banknote has no practical significance for the emergence of a single currency of the BRICS countries.
There are still different rumors and opinions surrounding the single currency of the BRICS countries, but we have not yet heard at the official level that there will be such a currency and what kind it will be.

Russia fires cruise missiles at the entire territory of Ukraine almost every day and launches dozens of attack drones. You can tell different things about where the Russians are aiming, but the missiles mainly hit civilian infrastructure and residential buildings of civilian citizens of Ukraine. Either the Russians have crooked hands, or the Russians’ military equipment is so inaccurate, or they still deliberately shoot in such a way as to cause more harm to the economy of Ukraine and kill more civilians. Just yesterday, on September 8, Russia launched missile attacks on Sumy, Zaporozhye and Krivoy Rog, where civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were hit.
Source:
https://rus.azattyq.org/a/32584034.html

I can also give you an example. On September 6, the Russians fired rockets at the market in the city of Konstantinovka, Donetsk region. The attack took place around 2 p.m., when there were a lot of people in the market. There are 17 deaths and 32 wounded among the civilian population. 28 trade pavilions were destroyed. There were no military targets nearby, that is, the attack was carried out exclusively on civilians. There is already a reaction from officials in the US, Europe and other countries to this terrorist attack.
Source:
https://uatv.ua/takoj-tragedii-gorod-eshhe-ne-videl-posledstviya-rossijskogo-obstrela-rynka-v-konstantinovke-video/

So you are saying that there is no point in such shelling? No one in their right mind would waste ammunition on destroying cities instead of an army? Apparently the Kremlin and the Russian army have not been guided by common sense for a long time, because this has been going on for a year and a half.

In the combat zone in the Donetsk region and southern Ukraine, the destruction by Russians of 70-90 percent of cities and other settlements during their “liberation” has generally become a normal practice. After this war, the numbers and real consequences of the actions of the Russian occupation forces will definitely be announced. Over 71 thousand crimes of the occupiers have already been registered in Ukraine. In due time, they will be announced by the international tribunal when condemning racism.

Now the UN cannot even condemn Russia’s aggressive and piracy actions towards Ukraine, since Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council of this international organization and blocks all decisions it does not like. This is absolutely wrong and needs to be corrected, but it is impossible to correct it since Russia is against any UN decisions directed against it. This is a complete collapse of the UN as a permanent body and does not fulfill its functions.

If Russia uses nuclear weapons, it will not change anything, but the situation will sharply worsen for everyone, including Russia. Countries such as the USA, China, and India have long warned Russia not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Therefore, if Putin decides to do this, Russia will definitely find himself in complete diplomatic and economic isolation. And the consequences of a nuclear explosion will be very negative both for Russia itself and for Europe, which are difficult to calculate in advance. But this will not change anything for Ukraine; it will still defend itself, but it will be more difficult for Russia to attack it.

The Ukrainian government has already stated that Ukraine will not negotiate with the current Putin regime, since Putin does not comply with any agreements. In addition, Putin perceives any negotiations as a manifestation of the weakness of the other side and all his negotiations boil down to the demand for the actual capitulation of Ukraine and the presentation of territorial claims to it, which is unacceptable for Ukraine.

I don't think it's worth agreeing with your opinion about the financial freedom that CBDCs bring to people. CBDCs of different states increase the efficiency of the functioning of their national currencies, but do not provide any noticeable freedom in financial relations, since they are completely controlled by the governments of these states. Government cash gives people even more financial freedom than their CBDC.

As for private and commercial CBDCs, such as USDT, USDC, DAI, BUSD, they are direct competitors of state CBDCs and states will limit their circulation over time.

That is, you want to say that the United States and other NATO members should not supply weapons to Ukraine and thus the war will end faster by quickly destroying Ukraine and a significant part of Ukrainians by Russia?

Did you know that on December 5, 1994, the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the United States signed a memorandum of security guarantees for Ukraine in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons? These states, including Russia, pledged not only not to attack Ukraine in order to change its territory, but they themselves were guarantors of the security of such non-aggression by other states. At the same time, Ukraine abandoned the third most powerful nuclear potential, transferred its nuclear weapons, strategic bombers and even long-range missiles to Russia, and now Russia has treacherously violated the terms of this agreement and is firing Ukrainian missiles from Ukrainian aircraft at peaceful cities in Ukraine. The United States and other NATO countries, by now providing weapons to Ukraine, are fulfilling the terms of the Budapest Memorandum on guarantees for the security of Ukraine. Ukraine tried to be an absolutely peaceful state and began to sharply reduce its armed forces. At the time of the Russian attack in 2014, Ukraine had only a few tens of thousands of combat-ready army. But, as it turned out, the proverb that if you want peace, prepare for war remains true. Therefore, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are now one of the best armies in the world with invaluable experience of modern warfare and are successfully beating the Russian “second army of the world.”

The UN is supposed to ensure that countries comply with the UN Charter, which Russia has now completely violated by trying to seize Ukraine militarily. In this war, Russia is the attacking party and the aggressor, and Ukraine is only defending its freedom and independence. For some reason you completely forgot about this. This war will end immediately if Russia withdraws its troops from Ukraine.

In any case, this is good news for increasing the liquidity of the cryptocurrency. But big is seen from a distance. It is important that the alliance between Visa and Solana be long and lasting. I wonder why Visa did not conclude this agreement with Ethereum?

In recent years, all of us have seen and felt on our own bodies how quickly the climate on our planet is changing and what dangers this threatens us with. Scientists have long warned humanity about this. But this is how a person works: if he does not see it directly and really, then he will not do anything. The situation has already become directly catastrophic and this will push us very sharply to switch to alternative energy sources. Oil and gas can become raw materials for the chemical industry and will be used less and less as a direct source of energy. I think that soon it will be enshrined in international norms. Therefore, Russia will lose its current advantage in the energy sector.

Of course, if humanity begins to explore the more distant corners of our universe and supply rare metals and other chemical elements to Earth in large quantities, then this will affect the price of currently existing value standards, such as gold and silver. But I don't think it's worth worrying too much about it. Almost every year we discover new chemical elements with more complex structures and weights. Therefore, there will always be enough rare elements that can serve as a measure of value for us.

If our planet is supplied with the raw materials we need from outer space, people will only benefit from this. In any case, this will not affect the increase in inflation.

If the international economic sanctions imposed on Russia because of its military attack on Ukraine seem absurd to you, because they do not give the desired effect, offer your options on how to get Russia to stop killing Ukrainians and return to compliance with international norms and rules of conduct. International institutions such as the UN are currently incapacitated. The UN, which is called upon to respond quickly to such acts of aggression, cannot even condemn Russia's actions, let alone expel it from the Security Council, if only because the Russian Federation is illegally in the UN, since no one is in this organization did not accept.

I would like to hear from you what is the manifestation of selfishness on the part of Ukraine. The fact that Ukraine continues to defend its freedom and independence and does not want to give Russia part of its territories? Then, in order to quickly end this war, offer Russia the territory of your country, or are you also selfish in this regard?

The international community made very little effort to stop Russian military aggression when, in 2014, Russia militarily seized the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. What did they do besides showing concern? Therefore, Putin went further and is trying to capture the whole of Ukraine.

Do you think that in the so-called DPR and LPR, and even in Crimea, they are satisfied with life and the current situation? In Russia, they previously stated that they had come to liberate the Russian-speaking population of Donbass from Ukrainian Nazis, whom no one had even seen in their eyes. And what do they have today? Cities and other settlements where hostilities swept through are destroyed by 80-90 percent. There are practically no men left in the Donbass region: they either left, or died, or were mobilized to fight against Ukraine. Because of this, the work of communal services is practically paralyzed. The population is robbed and raped by the military. The industry in the Donbass has been stopped, some of the enterprises have been taken to Russia. Crimea from a prosperous peninsula and a paradise for tourists has turned into a military base of Russia, from 500 to 800 thousand Russians have moved there, who establish their own rules there. Do you think the locals like it?
After these territories are liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, I am sure that there will no longer be a desire to separate from Ukraine for a long time.

You describe events incorrectly and place accents incorrectly, so the conclusions about the negative participation of the United States in the Russian war against Ukraine are absolutely wrong. I see that in your understanding, white and fluffy Russia is undeservedly attacked by the United States and that the United States is trying to worsen the attitude of other states towards Russia as much as possible. But what about Russia, which from the very beginning after the collapse of the USSR has been consistently pursuing an aggressive policy towards its neighbors, forming pro-Russian puppet regimes on their territory, which are constant hotbeds of military conflicts? So it was in Moldova with the formation of the pro-Russian Transnistrian Republic, during the attack on Georgia in 2008 with the formation of the pro-Russian South Ossetia, during the attack on Ukraine in 2014 with the formation of the pro-Russian DPR and LPR on its territory. You describe the opening of Russia's military attack on Ukraine as "there was a war", as if it were some kind of natural disaster, and not a pre-planned attack on another state with the aim of capturing it. Already on the first day of such an attack in February 2022, the Office of the President of Ukraine received calls from the Kremlin with a proposal to sign a surrender. How else should the international community react in relation to the aggressive actions of Russia, which brazenly and cynically began to ignore all possible international norms and show that it relies exclusively on military force in relation to other states? Maybe the United States should have helped Russia's aggression so that you don't reproach it now?

Civilized states have long decided who in the current war on the territory of Ukraine is the aggressor and who is the victim of the attack. Yes, the military industry of the US and NATO member countries is now at full capacity and will have big profits because Russia's aggressive military actions have spurred the arms race. In addition, Russian weapons in this war showed very low efficiency, while NATO weapons supplied to Ukraine, on the contrary, showed high efficiency. Therefore, military orders are now sent to the defense enterprises of the NATO countries, and above all the United States. After all, now the Kremlin also continues to threaten war with the Baltic countries, Poland, and Germany. Russia deserves the current negative attitude towards itself, as it continues to attack the peaceful cities of Ukraine every day and sow death and devastation.

Anyway, I listened to your opinion. By the end of autumn, we'll see which of us is right.
The Ukrainians really spent more than two months breaking through the first and most difficult line of defense. But the invaders also spent about 60% of their time and money on the construction of this line of defense. The broken line of defensive positions consisted of a system of interconnected Russian trenches and dugouts, protected by anti-tank ditches and dense minefields. Therefore, it was foolish to throw a lot of infantry and a lot of equipment into its breakthrough. It was a relatively slow and staged work with methodical clearing of large areas. Now the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will go faster, there is already the possibility of maneuver and the use of more equipment and people. Therefore, the APU is going according to plan.

Ukrainians defend their land and their independence. We have no choice or alternative. But what are the Russians dying for in Ukraine? For Putin's imperial ambitions?

It turns out interestingly: in 2014, Russia occupied the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, in February 2022, it threw all the power of its armed forces into an offensive against Ukraine in order to finally capture Ukraine, and the war, it turns out, was started by the United States. What is the basis for such nonsense? To somehow partially remove the blame for the aggression from Russia? No, Russia started the war and there is no getting away from this fact. It's just that Putin and his entourage were mistaken in the degree of resistance from Ukraine and the amount of international support this time for Ukraine. But this does not relieve Russia of all responsibility for unleashing this largest and bloodiest war since the Second World War.

Governments are simply not jumping to conclusions about various private and commercial stablecoins just yet. But this does not mean that after some time they will not be attacked by them. Stablecoins are essentially the digital currency of the same states whose national money is used by stablecoins as their collateral. For now, governments are busy issuing their own CBDCs, and they will presumably compete with the current decentralized and not-so-decentralized stablecoins. Therefore, governments will collect various facts of abuse in the field of implementation of these stablecoins and begin to gradually restrict their circulation. How this will end is hard to say. This will be influenced by many factors that, from the current position, may or may not occur.

We, I see, have different sources of information. I trust the news of my government in Ukraine, but you proceed mainly from what is presented in the official Russian news. The Ukrainian military is now showing how they are slowly but surely advancing on the southern front, in the direction of Melitopol and Berdyansk. In the Melitopol direction, on August 22, Ukrainian troops recaptured the village of Rabotino, on August 27, there were also reports of a strong advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Robotino in the direction of Novoprokopka and Verbovoye. The loss of Rabotino for the Russian occupation forces threatens the exit of the Ukrainian defense forces along the 0408 highway to break through the second line of defense.
It is in the Rabotino area that the defense of the Russians in the Zaporozhye region begins to crack the most, despite the fact that in this region there are about 100 thousand Russian soldiers, which is 3 times more than the advancing Ukrainian forces.
Source: https://politeka.net/news/412990-mozhet-porvatsya-eshche-v-odnom-meste-situaciya-na-zaporozhe-rezko-izmenilas-v-polzu-vsu

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have significantly succeeded in counter-battery combat and every day they destroy 20-30 enemy artillery systems, its RZSZ, air defense and other military equipment. Yes, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are moving slowly, during the period of the counteroffensive since June 6, only about 200 square kilometers of territory have been liberated. But the enemy's equipment is being knocked out at a fast pace, and without it, additional waves of mobilization will not have the desired effect.

At the same time, what progress has Russia made on the Ukrainian front over the past year? Captured Bakhmut at the cost of 50 thousand lives only "Wagnerites", not counting the losses of the regular army? So now Bakhmut is practically surrounded by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and it’s even a problem for the Russians to get out of him, because he is completely under fire control from the high-altitude hills around him.

The events of the autumn months at the front will show which propaganda - Russian or Ukrainian - is more truthful.

The answer will probably be, as always, in the middle. Any type of savings has its advantages and disadvantages. Keeping money in cash means that you don't get the profit that you could get in the form of dividends if you kept it in the bank. Banks control your savings, may require additional information about them, may block them, but they are also protected by law and court. Storing in stablecoins means more freedom, they are convenient to use if we are also dealing with cryptocurrency transactions. But their storage also does not always bring profit, in addition, all the risks associated with them, including possible our own mistakes, fall entirely on us.

Therefore, I think that it would be right to partially keep your money in a bank, partially in stablecoins and cryptocurrency, and some part for everyday needs, in cash. This needs to be decided based on the legislation of the host country, inflation, family circumstances and other similar factors.

I responded roughly with the same information that you wrote. But the answers to almost all these questions will become obvious in a year or two.

But now I would like to hear your opinion on whether the Armed Forces of Ukraine will reach the Sea of Azov during the autumn months, cutting off the land corridor created by Russia through the occupied territories of Ukraine to Crimea, and whether during this time Crimea will become a trap for the Russian army, turning into an island, when Will the Kerch Bridge be finally destroyed? Well, at the same time, how will they react to this in Russia, because the fact that the front in southern Ukraine is now cracking in many places is hiding from the inhabitants of Russia and this will be a real shock for them?

Monero is an almost completely anonymous coin and therefore it is prohibited for circulation in many states. This coin is often used by people in criminal and other dark deeds. Therefore, it is always under the close attention of states and their law enforcement agencies. Such coins have no future in civilized states, where some control over the movement of cash flows is considered the norm. Of course, Monero will always have its own circle of users, but that is why it will not be a very widespread cryptocurrency.

Whether we like it or not, however, all states will be forced to regulate the circulation of cryptocurrency on their territory. This is a direct responsibility of the state in the field of the financial sector of the economy. All the statements of some participants in the cryptocurrency market that the cryptocurrency is a decentralized system and therefore cannot be regulated by anyone is nothing more than a wishful thinking. No state can allow large amounts of funds to be circulated on its territory, which it cannot control at all. Therefore, it is worth recognizing that states will regulate the cryptocurrency market as a whole. For the cryptocurrency and the participants in this market, this is both good and bad. It all depends on how far-sighted and balanced such regulation will be.