Despite its regulated online gaming industry, Ukrainian officials have said that since 2020, rogue offshore sites have continued to target the country. And many of those illegal platforms are operating from Russia.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s recent attack on illegitimate offshore gaming websites is to assure that the country’s land-based casinos and legal iGaming platforms aren’t wrongly impacted by illegal operators.<\/p>\n
But the Ukrainian Gambling & Betting Association says the country isn’t doing its members any favors by recently announcing that tax payments and other financial obligations won’t be delayed, as requested. Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers said last month that the Billionaire’s Casino and legal iGaming sites must pay their duties for 2022 before April.<\/p>\n
\nCompanies that invested in the legal land segment have not even begun to recoup their investment, and today they remain closed,” said Mykola Melnyk, a spokesperson for the Gambling & Betting Association. “It’s very painful that the changes initiated by the Cabinet of Ministers will, unfortunately, affect investments, which are already very difficult to bring to the Ukrainian market.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in more than 42K deaths, with an additional 15K people missing. The property damage of the war is estimated at north of $350 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Monday that his troops won’t retreat from Bakhmut, the devastated Eastern Ukrainian city that Russian forces have sought to capture for over six months. Though far less impactful to the ongoing war, Ukraine also announced this week that it’s taken steps to rid Russian businesses of being able to electronically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":263012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,13592],"tags":[81871,84088,82242,81953,85376],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Ukraine Blocks Offshore Casino Platforms Operating From Russia<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n