📲💰Crypto executives and investors flush with digital wealth are assembling a big-money effort to elect a slate of crypto enthusiasts to Congress in this year’s midterm elections, the industry’s first significant foray into American politics.

Crypto interests are raising money for a super PAC that aims to spend $20 million promoting candidates friendly toward the sector. Coinbase, the largest U.S.-based crypto exchange, hosted a previously unreported fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) over a Zoom call last week.

Executives are organizing events for insiders to contribute to candidates in cryptocurrency. A

The sector has leaped more than tenfold in total market value since this point in the last election cycle two years ago, topping $2.1 trillion as of Wednesday.

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⚡️🇺🇦 Ukraine has asked the US, among other things, to transfer Russian-made Su-25 ground attack aircraft to Kiev, CNN reports, citing Ukraine's list of military needs provided to Congress

⚡️ DPR can't be a part of Ukraine after number of countries recognised People's Republic, People's Militia Spokesman told Sputnik

⚡️ Ukrainian forces will not be given a corridor to leave Mariupol, DPR says

⚡️ Since 17 February, 12 civilians have been killed and 15 have been injured as a result of shelling within the territory of the LPR by Ukrainian troops, according to the country's JCCC representative

❗️ 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Tadine, New Caledonia region

⚡️ In the Kiev region, Russian National Guard troops detained a high-ranking Ukrainian State Security Service officer who coordinated the activities of saboteurs

The Russian Defence Ministry has published footage showing the destruction of a fortified Ukrainian strongpoint and the firing positions of armoured vehicles by Ka-52 helicopters

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⚡️ Turkish FM Cavusoglu said that a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine is possible in the next two weeks

⚡️ Moscow has received a signal from Ankara about the possibility of organising a meeting between Lavrov and Kuleba, the Russian Foreign Ministry says

📌 The latest updates on the Ukraine op from the Russian Defence Ministry:

▪️ Russian forces have destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian nationalists, 2 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, and 9 vehicles for various purposes over the past 24 hours;

▪️ On 30 March, high-precision air-based missiles destroyed fuel depots in the eastern and northern parts of the country;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 52 Ukrainian facilities at night;

▪️ Russian air defence shot down 18 Ukrainian drones, including one Bayraktar -TB2;

▪️ In total, 124 aircraft and 77 helicopters, 216 anti-aircraft missile systems, 341 drones, 1,815 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 195 multiple launch rocket systems, 762 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,689 Ukrainian armed forces special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation

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❗️Great Britain imposes sanctions against Sputnik's Head Anton Anisimov

❗️UK slaps sanctions on Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency

❗️ Peskov says US has no idea what's going on in Kremlin after Pentagon claims Putin not fully informed

⚡️ Italy's PM says that Putin revealed during their conversation that the conditions for a ceasefire with Ukraine are not yet ripe

❗️ Ukraine threatens to sink any foreign ship trying to leave its ports, Russian MoD says

❗️ Turkey will not join sanctions against Russia, Erdogan says