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Ukraine to launch NFT marking Russian invasion

The Ukrainian government will launch an NFT marking the history of the Russian invasion with unique digital art, to fund its defenses.

Ukraine deputy minister of digital transformation, Alex Bornyakov, described the NFT collection as “like a museum of the Russian-Ukrainian war" told in NFT format.”

According to Bornyakov, each token would carry a piece of art representing a story from a news source, which they want to be cool and good-looking.

The Ukrainian government’s appeal for cryptocurrency donations passed $ 60million, which included a CryptoPunk NFT worth over $200,000.

Bornyakov said they are using the money to fund media activities and buy military equipment night-vision goggles, optics, helmets, and bulletproof vests but do not currently include weapons.

Ukraine’s “digital diplomacy” had social media platforms either blocking Russian state media content like Sputnik and Russia Today or labeling it.

A volunteer army of IT specialists, some under the banner of the Anonymous collective, have staged a series of distributed denial of service attacks against Russian targets, disabling state-backed websites such as Russia Today’s by bombarding them with traffic.

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