Halloween decorations

I went to Virginia and hiked and the colors were wonderful. No, leaves, don’t go!

European Commission President Ursula con der Leyden said that frozen Russian assets were 211 billion euros or $223.15 b. The bloc decided Russia has to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction. You break it, you buy it. Finance ministers have made progress on basic principles. Next step is a proposal on how to use the assets. 

There are reports that, throughout the invasion, Russia’s military has rats and mice. 

Russians who do online sex for money are suffering. Users can tell they are from Russia and sometimes are rude to them. Some pretended to be Ukrainian to earn more but their platforms blocked their accounts. OnlyFans stopped working with Russians because they couldn’t transfer money to Russia. Other platforms make them use a VPN to hide their location. 

Two Ukrainian “hacktivist” groups claim they broke into Russia’s largest private bank. A Ukrainian intelligence official told NPR that the Ukrainian counterintelligence agency helped.