Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Online casinos will be even more strictly regulated in Ukraine!

Online casinos will be regulated even more strictly in Ukraine amid growing addiction among Ukrainian soldiers at the front.

President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on 20 April on countering the negative effects of online gambling, which proposes banning it for the military until the end of martial law.

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Zelensky backed the decision by the National Security and Defence Council after announcing that the government was preparing to tighten control over Ukraine’s online gambling industry.

The new regulations, which were adopted after a prominent Ukrainian military activist, Pavlo Petrychenko, launched a campaign highlighting gambling addiction among soldiers, called on Zelenskyy to impose stricter controls on online casinos.

The rules to be imposed will force gambling operators to limit the length of gaming sessions, the number of accounts a user can register and the amount a person can play each day.

The restrictions are due to come into force in a month’s time. However, some experts have argued that many of the restrictions in the order already existed in a law legalising gambling that Ukraine adopted in 2020 after a decade-long ban.

More than two years after its onset, the war has left more than 11,000 Ukrainian civilians dead, more than 20,000 wounded (believed to be more, 11,000 missing and 28,000 captives. The armed forces have also been badly hit with 35,000 dead (24,500 confirmed by name), 15,000 missing, 3,400 captured and between 90,000 – 100,000 wounded.

In addition to the loss of life, the material damage is hard to count, with the amount of damage increasing from day to day depending on the daily attacks by Russian aggressors. Whether we are talking about damage to the civilian infrastructure or to the state, it will take a long time after the end of the war for the population to recover from the psychological and material trauma.

 

sources: Politico and The Kyiv Independent





Author: Editor

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