Like the New York Times who speaks of a maneuver of staggering magnitude […] an unprovoked declaration of war, on a scale, on a continent and in a century when it was thought no longer possible. »
In Ukraine, the Odessa news site, Dumskaya, made the choice of practical information. For example, it relays calls for blood donation or the message from the mayor of the nearby town of Yuzhnyy, who fears a disaster at the Odessa port plant: “ We have ammonia in our warehouses, so I ask all residents to move to the countryside if possible. »
Dumaskaya also publishes an emergency guide. ” How to prepare with your family and take care of your own home, how to communicate with loved ones in the absence of network and mobile communication, what to do when you hear sirens, and the rules of conduct in a war zone. »
Sobriety prevails in the Russian media
For their part, most of the titles of the Russian press are content for the moment with factual information. While the Ukrainian newspapers speak of ” aggression ” and D'” invasion », of fights against « the enemy », the Russian daily Kommersant just title ” worsening in Ukraine “. On the newspaper’s website, there is a transcript of Vladimir Putin’s speech and a summary of international reactions, then Kommersant soberly reports that in the current context of the market collapse, the Moscow Stock Exchange suspended trading this morning. No additional comments.
Exception on the site of Novaya Gazeta, the independent newspaper reports that a hundred MPs have published a letter in which they denounce the invasion of Ukraine. The elected officials of various cities of Russia including Moscow and Saint-Petersburg condemn what they describe as an attack, ” an unprecedented atrocity that cannot and cannot be justified “. They ask the Russian population not to participate and not to be silent.
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Call to China
The BBC or the newspaper The Australian in the words of a British official: The Asian countries, and in the first place China, must contribute to making Russia a pariah. For the moment, it has failed since China this morning rejected the term invasion and was content to call on Russia and Ukraine to dialogue to prevent the situation from getting worse.
the China Daily quotes the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the delivery of American weapons to Ukraine: ” It is irresponsible to add fuel to the fire on the one hand and to blame those who fight the fire on the other hand. »
The effectiveness of the sanctions in question
For now, the sanctions are only coming from Western countries which are expected to further tighten the measures in the coming hours, but Russia could find ways to circumvent them. the New York Times recalls that if the sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 had had rapid and very serious consequences for the Russian economy, the situation is very different today. Since then, the cryptocurrency market has exploded and Russia has had plenty of time to prepare for sanctions and therefore to look for ways to circumvent the checkpoints that states rely on.
” If banks are the eyes and ears of governments, the explosion of digital currencies is blinding them. ” Short, ” everything of which [la Russie] requiresWrite the New York Times, is to find ways to trade without touching the dollar “.
This will be all the easier since, still according to the American daily, Moscow is developing its own central bank digital currency. Russia can also count on hacking techniques such as ransomware [pour] steal digital currencies [et] compensate for loss of revenue due to sanctions “.
What’s more, ” new tools developed in Russia can help hide the origin [des] transactions. This would allow companies to trade with Russian entities undetected. »
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