Russian Crypto Exchange Moves Money for Gaza Groups

[serveria.com]

Putin's Russia has no escape route. Putin is well aware that if his troops leave Ukraine, it will not only be the end of his more than two decades of rule, it will most likely end with his death. In Russia such mistakes are not forgiven. Unable to turn the war in his favor on the battlefield, Putin is relying on terrorism and intimidation of the Ukrainian population.

Muahaha as a good troll you're trying to present the situation exactly opposite to what happens in reality. In fact, Ukraine is employing the tactic of terrorism and intimidation: MLRS and battle drones are heavily used against civilian targets in Belgorod, Kursk and other Russian cities, including Moscow. I'm not even mentioning the Crocus City Hall tragedy, masterminded by the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence services.

As to the inability to turn the war in their favor, let me remind you that the "counter-offensive" of AFU ended with huge losses and no significant gains for Ukraine. Russia is attacking now all along the frontline, Ukraine is losing 1-2 towns and villages DAILY. Since the beginning of the year, AFU have lost more than 80000 troops. Most of the Western equipment had been destroyed. And you still think Ukraine is winning?    

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, at an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on March 28, said that 97 percent of Russian strikes against targets on Ukrainian territory were against civilian infrastructure, and their total yield since the beginning of 2024 exceeded nine kilotons. Already this year, Russia has practically destroyed all large thermal power plants in Ukraine.

Then explain me this: how is that possible, if Russia is attacking 97% civilian targets, why total civilian losses in Ukraine (after 3 years of war) are at least 5 times as low as civilian losses in Palestine? Last time I checked civilian losses in Ukraine were around 10k while in Gaza they have reached 50k after just a few weeks of fighting (was a while ago, perhaps even more now).

Perhaps you could also explain why you are calling power plants in Ukraine civilian targets, but at the same time you're calling oil refineries in Russia "legitimate targets" and "military targets"? What is the difference?  

At the same time, Russia is looking for all possible ways to reduce the assistance provided to Ukraine by the international community. Therefore, not a single source of military tension can now exist without Russia, including the Hamas attack on Israel in October last year. Politicians bought by Russia are working all over the world like never before. And we must admit that Putin partially achieved his goal. Since October, there has been virtually no US military assistance to Ukraine. But anyway, the terrorist Putin regime will come to an end very soon.

Perhaps you could elaborate on this? How exactly this is going to happen?  

And they really don't have to try and persuade anyone to stop or reduce assistance because the "international community" is running out of resources they can send to Ukraine without jeopardizing their own defensive capacity.

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[Argoo]

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, at an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on March 28, said that 97 percent of Russian strikes against targets on Ukrainian territory were against civilian infrastructure, and their total yield since the beginning of 2024 exceeded nine kilotons. Already this year, Russia has practically destroyed all large thermal power plants in Ukraine.

Then explain me this: how is that possible, if Russia is attacking 97% civilian targets, why total civilian losses in Ukraine (after 3 years of war) are at least 5 times as low as civilian losses in Palestine? Last time I checked civilian losses in Ukraine were around 10k while in Gaza they have reached 50k after just a few weeks of fighting (was a while ago, perhaps even more now).

Perhaps you could also explain why you are calling power plants in Ukraine civilian targets, but at the same time you're calling oil refineries in Russia "legitimate targets" and "military targets"? What is the difference?  

I'll start with this part of your questions. The difference in the high civilian casualties in Palestine compared to those in Ukraine is explained primarily by the density of the living population. In Palestine it is 734 people per square kilometer, and in Ukraine there are only 80 people per square kilometer, and even that was before the Russian attack. That is, under the same conditions of shelling in Palestine, approximately ten times more civilians die due to the high population density. In addition, I saw how a multi-story building completely collapses from each missile strike on Palestinian territory. At the same time, of course, the civilian mortality rate there is very high. In Ukraine, only the entrance collapses from approximately the same impact. In my opinion, thick brick or panel/concrete houses in Ukraine are much stronger and this is explained primarily by the different climate.

Oil and its refined products constitute the main source of income for Russia and in monetary terms it is approximately 49 percent of total profits. That is, Russia receives a significant part of its profit from oil and its refined products, which are then spent on the war to seize the territory of Ukraine. In addition, gasoline and diesel are the lifeblood of military equipment. Without this fuel, Russian military equipment will be a pile of scrap metal and will not be able to ensure aggressive actions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have long had a desire to attack Russian oil refineries, but did not have the appropriate capabilities; they appeared relatively recently, when Ukraine increased the production of its own drones. Oil and diesel are also used for civilian purposes, but the war in Ukraine is largely financed and supported by Russia through oil and its refined products.

The role of power plants in powering war cannot be compared with this role. It can be assumed that some electricity capacity is used in Ukraine for military purposes, however, in general, the generated electricity is spent on civilian consumption. But for the third year now, Russia has been striking not only at energy facilities, but also indiscriminately at housing stock, schools, and hospitals in order to simply kill more civilians and thereby intimidate them and force the Ukrainian government to stop resistance. But the terrorist country Russia will not succeed.

[Argoo]

Putin's Russia has no escape route. Putin is well aware that if his troops leave Ukraine, it will not only be the end of his more than two decades of rule, it will most likely end with his death. In Russia such mistakes are not forgiven. Unable to turn the war in his favor on the battlefield, Putin is relying on terrorism and intimidation of the Ukrainian population.

Muahaha as a good troll you're trying to present the situation exactly opposite to what happens in reality. In fact, Ukraine is employing the tactic of terrorism and intimidation: MLRS and battle drones are heavily used against civilian targets in Belgorod, Kursk and other Russian cities, including Moscow. I'm not even mentioning the Crocus City Hall tragedy, masterminded by the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence services.

Russia has been launching missile and drone strikes across Ukraine for three years. Russian propagandists claim that they are being carried out on military targets. But it is mainly residential buildings, educational institutions, hospitals and other civil infrastructure that are being destroyed. Or maybe I’ll remind you how last winter Russia deliberately attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in order to “freeze” the population and break the will to resist? Are these not terrorist attacks?
Ukraine only recently began striking military targets in Russia and oil refineries when it was able to establish its own production of drones. And even then, their power cannot be compared with the missiles that Russia constantly launches at Ukraine.

 Do you think that a real war is when missiles fly only in one direction, towards Ukraine?
And if for every hundred missiles one response arrives, is that already terrorism? More than 2,000 Russian missiles and more than 9,200 drones have been shot down over Ukrainian territory alone. How often do explosions occur in Russian cities? I think it will be fair if the Ukrainian Armed Forces try to make parity in this matter. Otherwise, Russians do not feel at all that their country has been fighting against a neighboring state for three years.

Let's then return to the events of World War II, when the USSR was attacked by Germany. Can the actions of the USSR be considered terrorism when they attacked German territory and reached Berlin, destroying populated areas on German territory and killing many German civilians?

Do you blame the Ukrainians for the tragedy at Crocus City Hall? On what basis? Because you want to?

[Alone055]

That's the risk of crypto which makes every government concerned. Terrorism financing! By nature, crypto can be used for such illicit activities and this news surely proves that there's a risk and why a global crypto framework is needed.

I know a lot of people would disagree with me but there's no denying of the fact the privacy cryptos can indeed be used for terrorism financing with leaving a trace. EU is facing a grave crisis and if the crypto is being used to finance the terrorist activities, it needs to stop. Now it was from Russia, tomorrow, it can come from Iran and day after tomorrow, it will come from Jordan. There's no known way to stop this!

A global framework and intelligence agency to curb illegal crypto transactions has become a necessity. 

How do you suggest that happens? And how will the agency or framework catch those transactions when they are completely private and unknown? I know that if a transaction is done through a wallet that is linked with a KYCed account or something or a wallet that is from an exchange or other platform then it is easily traceable, but if a transaction is done from a completely unknown Bitcoin to a completely unknown Bitcoin address, there is no way for that intelligence or framework to link it to any group or anything.

It is understandable if they keep watching certain wallets that receive large transactions to see if the funds are then sent to a centralized exchange that is linked to a person as they require KYC for you to use P2P services, but I wonder what they would do if the transactions are done through different wallets and in smaller quantity, they won't be able to keep an eye on hundreds or thousands of Bitcoin wallets.

[Argoo]

In fact, Ukraine is employing the tactic of terrorism and intimidation: MLRS and battle drones are heavily used against civilian targets in Belgorod, Kursk and other Russian cities, including Moscow. I'm not even mentioning the Crocus City Hall tragedy, masterminded by the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence services.

Putin's Russia orchestrated the Crocus City Hall tragedy, planning to blame it on the Ukrainians and ensure that the US Congress would no longer provide aid to Ukraine. But then in Russia they made a fatal mistake: the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case for complicity in terrorism based on this fact against US congressmen and this caused the opposite effect. Trump and House Chairman Johnson quickly changed their rhetoric because of this, and on April 20, the House of Representatives voted for about $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, which Johnson had deliberately not brought to a vote since October last year.
Tomorrow, April 23, the Senate must vote on this bill, and Biden has already indicated that he will quickly sign it. NATO, in turn, also stated that they are ready to send weapons to Ukraine within a few days, which are already in European warehouses. Putin, who invested a colossal amount of money into the “congress” project, was ultimately defeated.

Recently, when Russia’s advantage in the air was one in thirty, and in shells one in ten, and even despite the fact that aviation was intensively dropping guided bombs weighing from 500 to 1,500 kilograms on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces simply could not resist with anything , and also with a significant superiority in manpower, the invaders slowly advanced through the ruins of the captured settlements of Ukraine. The situation should change in the near future, especially when the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have F-16s to shoot down bombers before dropping bombs. So the arrogance and imperial stupidity of Russia can play as a turning point in this war.

In addition, the US Congress also voted to confiscate the assets of the terrorist country Russia and its oligarchs collaborating with the Putin regime, and use them to help Ukraine's defense and reconstruction after the war. And although this amount is small, about 5 billion dollars, it is a precedent and a demonstrative step for Europe, where over 300 billion of Russian assets have been seized.

[alani123]

So let's see, bitcoin.com, being owned by Roger Ver, self proclaimed libertarian who renounced his U.S. citizenship to be able to live more "freely"...  Hosts a hit-piece on Russia and the only organization in Palestine resisting against the Zionist occupation. Oh how the tables have turned. This is plain state-propaganda. Hamas being labeled as a terror org just makes way for Israel to keep committing genocide. Literally the Palestinians in Gaza have no other way to resist. Yes, Hamas being fond of a theocracy isn't the ideal organization to organize an armed resistance group through their paramilitaries but what can we do. They're the de facto government in Gaza, and last time the west afforded pestilential the right to have elections they were elected in a majority vote. Probably elections haven't been held since in fear of the more west-aligned PLO losing also the west bank.

Bitcoin being used for financial transactions isn't news though. Money needs to get in Gaza as well in spite of Israel's terror choke hold on these people. Money finds a way one way or the other. These people need to live. So money getting in a 40 by 10 km strip of land is just used for terror purposes? If these people were afforded equal rights by their occupying force, there wouldn't ever be a need for a Hamas or so called "money laundering". Just something to think about, but much of the western world needs to start thinking about blaming the aggressor first.