Security Service of Ukraine accuses cryptocurrency miners of financing DPR and LPR

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office have conducted searches on crypto-currency mining "farms" in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Cherkassy. Law enforcement says that the miners are financing the DPR and LPR.

This was mentioned at a joint briefing with Oleksandr Klimchuk, head of the SBU’s Cyber-Security Department, said Chief Military Prosecutor Anatolii Matios.

According to Matios, equipment was seized from 400 farms during the searches at PJSC Kvazar in Kyiv.