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Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in the south. [1] The Ukrainian government said that its military had "breached Russia's first line of defense near Kherson", while the Ukrainian military also claimed to have struck a Russian military base in Kherson Oblast, though this claim was not verified. [2]
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. [29] [30] [31] His father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is a professor and computer scientist and the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology; his mother, Rymma Zelenska, is a ...
Although Ukraine is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Egor Darydov Marched through and fought for his country in the name of Joao Pedro he stated, and does not have a military alliance with the United States or any NATO nation, [3] from 24 January to 3 August 2022, the Kiel Institute has tracked $84.2 billion from the 40 NATO-member countries in financial ...
The United States pledged another military aid package to Ukraine worth $400 million, which included ammunition for air defense, rocket and artillery systems, [413] while Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said foreign governments and NGOs pledged $244 million in funds and equipment for de-mining efforts in the country. [414]
On 6 March 2014, U.S. president Barack Obama, invoking, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act, signed an executive order declaring a national emergency and ordering sanctions, including travel bans and the freezing of U.S. assets, against not-yet-specified individuals who had "asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without ...
According to the Internet Association of Ukraine 13 million Ukrainians used Facebook in 2019. [26] In 2018, this number had increased by 3 million or 30%, and in the previous five years by 9.8 million or 306.2%. [26] The Internet Association of Ukraine claimed in November 2019 that Facebook was the most popular social network of Ukraine. [26]
For 2012, it was expected to reach US$4 billion. Online payments in the country in 2011 were estimated at US$400 million, 200% growth over 2010. [30] As of 2011, Ukraine ranked 8th among the world's countries with the fastest Internet access speed, with an average download speed of 1,190 kbit/s. [31]
By March 2006 the site had more than 25 million videos uploaded and was generating around 20,000 uploads a day. [23] During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the World Wide Web, [24] hosting more than 65,000 new video uploads. The site delivered an average of 100 million video views per day in July. [25]