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Russia has accused Ukraine of plotting terror attacks as the country approaches full-scale war
“The aim of the sabotage and terrorist acts is the destabilization of the social-poitical situation …” …read more Source: Business...
Researchers have built the first ransomware for smart thermostats
BI IntelligenceThis story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Security experts have constructed the first ransomware for smart thermostats, according to Motherboard. On August 6, at cybersecurity conference Def Con, hackers Andrew Tierney and Ken Monroe revealed the malware...
The Ukrainian government has announced a plan to turn the radioactive wasteland of Chernobyl into something incredible
The Ukrainian government has a plan to convert the Chernobyl nuclear power plant into a solar farm. …read more Source: Business...
Ukraine has become a hotbed of illegal arms trading
The recent conflict there took huge amounts of arms out of government arsenals and put them in the hands of irregular units unable to properly control them. …read more Source: Business...
The conflict in Ukraine is heating up again
Over 9,400 people have been killed in Ukraine since the conflict began. …read more Source: Business...
Ukraine has become a trove for the black market arms trade
Thomson ReutersSLOVIANSK, Ukraine/MOSCOW (Reuters) – On Feb. 12 last year, the same day that a ceasefire ended the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine between rebels and government forces, a former rebel fighter seized a chance to turn his inside knowledge of the conflict into hard cash. He traveled to a spot on the Russian-Ukrainian...
Prominent journalist killed after bomb is placed under his car in Ukraine
Thomson ReutersMOSCOW (AP) — A prominent journalist was killed in a car bombing in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, on Wednesday, sending shockwaves through the Ukrainian journalist community that was shaped by the gruesome killing of the publication’s founder 16 years ago. The country’s top online news website Ukrainska Pravda said its...
A prominent investigative journalist was killed in car bomb in Kiev
A prominent journalist working for the online investigative newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev early on Wednesday morning. …read more Source: Business...
Chilling animation shows how MH17 was shot down with a Buk surface-to-air missile
Two years ago today, on July 17, 2014, 298 civilians from 11 countries perished when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. The Dutch Safety Board concluded in its October 2015 final report that MH17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was hit by a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from territory controlled by...
2 Years Later: Video shows the moment Russian-backed rebels realized they shot down a civilian airliner in eastern Ukraine
Australia says MH17 footage of rebels rummaging through victims’ bags shows attack was not an accident and urges Russia to cooperate with investigations. …read more Source: Business...
