https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-bank-runs-great-depression-stock-market-sanctions-deflation-2022-2

"Ukrainians and Russians are packing ATM lines, prompting fears of what happened in the US during the Great Depression"

U.S. banks prepare for cyber attacks after latest Russia sanctions | Reuters

Seems that everything in Russia is being hacked. An average car charging station near Moscow. Saying: "Out of Service. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to Heroes..." /r

Facebook takes down fake accounts boosting Russian disinformation in Ukraine (engadget.com)

Sanctions hit will see Russia economy contract 20% Q/Q in second quarter - JPMorgan (reuters.com)

Economy minister says Germany can do without Russian gas (dw.com)

Japan gov't, BOJ to craft "maximum costs" sanction on Russia (english.kyodonews.net)

India and China exploring alternatives after Russia's cut off from SWIFT (tribuneindia.com)

Intel and AMD stop industrial chip sales to Russia (techspot.com)

Russian central bank orders block on foreign clients' bids to sell Russian securities (investing.com)

'A global financial pariah': how central bank sanctions could hobble Russia (ft.com)

After a meeting with the Swiss Federal Council, Switzerland's president, Ignazio Cassis, said that the country would immediately freeze the assets of Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail V. Mishustin and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, as well as all 367 individuals sanctioned last week by the European Union.  (NYT)

Netflix Declines to Carry Russian Propaganda Channels (variety.com)

Minister of Digital Information of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov said that Starlink equipment from Elon Musk has already arrived in the country (i.redd.it)

The sanctions against some Russian banks include cutting them off from Visa and Mastercard, and consequently Apple Pay and Google Pay. -BBC

The Russian stock market remains closed amid fears of a massive share sell-off. -BBC

Buying foreign currency costs Russians about 50% more than it did a week ago - if they can get hold of it at all. -BBC

Russia says Meta, Google should be held accountable for 'inciting war' (reuters.com)

Personal data of 120,000 Russian servicemen fighting in Ukraine (pravda.com.ua)

Google maps disables live traffic feature for Ukraine after reports it was being used to track ground activity during Russian invasion (businessinsider.com)

QuoteUkraine's Air Force, along with units of the army and territorial defense, destroyed a large Russian military convoy near the city of Bashtanka in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region, Mykola Lukashuk, chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council announced on Facebook. Military bloggers report that the convoy contained up to 800 vehicles.

Source: https://kyivindependent.com via Twitter

I'm taking 800 vehicles with a grain of salt.  Waiting for more confirmations.

Canada previously had closed it's airspace to Russian planes, now they have closed all seaports and territorial waters to Russian ships.

Hacking group shuts down the Control Center of the Russian Space Agency. Russians no longer have control of their own spy satellites (i.redd.it)

Russian firms rush to open Chinese bank accounts as sanctions bite (reuters.com)

Russian economy close to default. "Sanctions imposed on Russia have significantly increased the likelihood of default on Russian government bonds in hard currency," JPMorgan analysts said. (edition.cnn.com)

Yandex: Russian search engine warns it could default

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/yandex-russian-search-engine-warns-it-could-default/ar-AAUB4cP?ocid=BingNewsSearch

Financial screws turned on Russia as insurers exit - Reuters.com

Russia bans FB.

Finally, Putin and I agree on something ;-)

Yeah, maybe Biden could do the same?

Twitter is banned too now.

>> Financial screws

Q: What's the difference between a dollar and a ruble?
A: About a dollar

Feb 4: 75.74 rubles to the dollar
March 4: 124 rubles to the dollar

>>agree

PS - my reasons are much different from Putin. For Putin this is a "first kill all the lawyers" motive. For me it's more a "save the children" motive.

>"save the children"

You'll have to ban TikTok & Instagram then.  Banning FB is more to save the minds of the old people.