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Ukraine has received a full of "close to $100 million" successful crypto donations, according to Alex Bornyakov, Ukraine’s lawman curate astatine the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the de facto crypto spokesperson of the government.
Speaking successful an exigency online briefing entitled "Digital Resistance: How Ukraine Is Leveraging Technology to Fight for Freedom," Bornyakov said that much than $60 cardinal of the $100 cardinal was received successful the main money tally by Kuna, the Ukrainian crypto exchange.
The remainder of the wealth has been sent to respective different smaller funds, Bornyakov indicated.
Asked by CoinDesk if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a presumption connected the relation of crypto successful the war, Bornyakov said that portion Zelensky has not said thing to him astir the crypto money specifically, "he shares our vision" that the usage of crypto could beryllium a "breakthrough from an economical standpoint" and that "we person the full enactment of the president astatine this point."
Bornyakov said helium did not cognize if anyone successful the American authorities had spoken to anyone successful the Ukrainian authorities astir the relation of crypto successful the war.
In an interview with CoinDesk TV connected Tuesday, Bornyakov repeated his petition that crypto businesses chopped services to Russian users arsenic portion of an unprecedented effort to chopped Russia disconnected from the planetary fiscal system.
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