Ukrainian here. Where did you hear that? Don't read news there anymore, they manipulate you. Ukraine introduced sanctions against russian businesses on its territory. As part of those sanctions, websites of three major russian IT companies have been blocked. That included Yandex (which is very similar to google, also has a lot of web services), and a couple of russian social networks.
I can say the same. Those services that were banned are either the most outrageous war propaganda outlets, or honeypots that gather intelligence information (imagine half of all Ukrainians communicating via a social network that is fully controlled by the enemy).
Re:Swift is like Kotlin
by igor_filippov on Thursday May 18, 2017 @08:50AM
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Yeah because russian military strategy is based on photos and videos teenagers share in vk.com
> Those services that were banned are either the most outrageous war propaganda outlets
That's what most totalitarian states say when they limit the access to the information.
> Imagine half of all Ukrainians communicating via a social network that is fully controlled by the enemy
Oh, yeah, I see now. You were being sarcastic, isn't it?
just for curiosity, do you still have access to Internet and https://github.com/jetbrains/kotlin? I have heard that social networks and many other services in Ukraine are prohibited by the government (after prohibiting other media like TV and newspaper) and now people are installing VPN and other tools by using experience of China to overcome these obstacles. Is it so?