Russia fired more than 1,000 shells into the Ukrainian city of Kherson this morning. Locals say it is the largest shelling of the city since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine. Russian troops have shelled the city's civilian infrastructure
🇺🇦 Сьогодні зранку росія випустила по українському місту Херсон понад 1000 снарядів. Місцеві кажуть, що це найбільший обстріл міста з початку війни росії проти України. Російські війська обстріляли цивільну міську інфраструктуру
Russia fired more than 1,000 shells into the Ukrainian city of Kherson this morning. Locals say it is the largest shelling of the city since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine. Russian troops have shelled the city's civilian infrastructure
🇺🇦 Сьогодні зранку росія випустила по українському місту Херсон понад 1000 снарядів. Місцеві кажуть, що це найбільший обстріл міста з початку війни росії проти України. Російські війська обстріляли цивільну міську інфраструктуру
One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever." In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information.
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