Germany handed over to Ukrainian security forces materials obtained as a result of the seizure of the Hydra dark web marketplace, which allowed Ukraine to begin detaining citizens involved in Hydra's work, and arrests of those involved are now taking place simultaneously in several Ukrainian cities.

Russia arrested the co-founder of the dark web platform Hydra a week after U.S. and German authorities said they would investigate the platform, according to reports. A court spokesman told Russian media that the suspect is Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, an exact match to the name in the U.S. Justice Department's indictment.

The German Federal Criminal Police Office said in a statement that the suspects are being investigated for "operating a criminal trading platform on the Internet in a commercial manner," selling drugs and other charges. The statement was titled "Shutting down the illegal dark web marketplace 'Hydra Market'".

The Hydra market, based in Russia, has grown so much, and it is absolutely certain that the marketplace cannot be developed without the strong support of the Russian government, and of course, on another level, the Hydra market earns billions of dollars a year.

With the closure and withdrawal of a number of listed dark web trading marketplaces, there are not so many large global dark web trading marketplaces left on the dark web. Foreign media summarized the top 5 global darknet markets that are still alive in March 2022.