Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 26

10 million Ukrainians have left their homes because of the war. In cities occupied by the Russian military, residents continue to protest against their power.

19:42

On March 19, the Russian military abducted the mayor of Berislav, Oleksandr Shapovalov, and a local activist, according to the Kherson regional administration.

19:16

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 135 hospitals have been damaged, nine of them cannot be restored, said . Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko

Also, according to him, 43 ambulances were fired upon.

19:09

Companions of politician Alexei Navalny in a new investigation claim that employees of the Federal Security Service are working on a yacht in Italy, which was associated with Vladimir Putin.

We are talking about the 140-meter yacht "Scheherazade" worth $ 700 million. It belongs to an offshore company from the Marshall Islands and flies the flag of the Cayman Islands. The Italian authorities are trying to identify its owner.

According to the authors of the investigation, they received access to the list of members of the crew of the yacht. Most of them are Russian citizens. According to indirect information, Navalny's associates came to the conclusion that at least 10 crew members are connected with the FSO.

Because of the EU sanctions, the Italian authorities began to arrest the villas and yachts of Russian oligarchs. Because of the war, the EU also imposed sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

18:51

Mykhailo Kumok, the fourth journalist of Mestnye Vesti abducted today in Melitopol, and his daughter were released, said Serhiy Tomilenko, head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, . Before that, it was not known that his daughter was also detained.

In the afternoon, three journalists from MV Holding were released. The National Union of Journalists reported that the Russian military held "preventive talks" with them and took away their mobile phones.

18:45

Russia will stop visa-free support for Japanese citizens to the Kuriles and will not continue negotiations on a peace treaty with the country, the announced . Russian Foreign Ministry

18:30

The court fined Marina Dmitrieva 20 thousand rubles, who was detained on Manezhnaya Square for a piece of paper with the inscription "Two words", reports . Sota

OVD-Info clarifies that the fine was imposed under the article on an uncoordinated action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The detention of Dmitrieva during the anti-war action was filmed by the operator of the publication Activatica.

18:18

The creator of the Dedmorozim charity fund, Dmitry Zhebelev, was charged with discrediting the Russian army for a photo with a poster “For those who do not know what it is to bury children and for not knowing. No war,” said the Permian himself.

Zhebelev was an adviser to the governor of the Perm Territory on social issues, but left this position on March 1. According to him, it was a mutual decision, but he did not disclose the reason for leaving.

"Dedmorozim" runs several projects that help orphans with disabilities, seriously or terminally ill children, for children at risk of orphanhood.

18:05

In Yekaterinburg, at the initiative of the Ogonyok bar, portraits of artists who spoke out against the war in Ukraine were hung opposite the establishment. So Ogonyok decided to support them.

Opposite the bar there are photographs of Svetlana Loboda, Valery Meladze, Vera Brezhneva, Ivan Dorn, Oksimiron, Maxim Galkin, Boris Grebenshchikov, Monatik and other artists. All of them were on the list of banned performers, which was told by the "Agency".

The owner of the bar, Yevgeny Keksin, does not consider this action political. “Their songs can be banned, they can be cut out of the rotation, but these songs are always with a person anyway. It is unfortunate that a person can simply be banned. This is a story about music, ” quoted It's my city him as saying. Keksin believes that the portraits will not hang for a long time, because there are townspeople who "do not like" this.

17:49

Former Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova responded to accusations of betrayal by the channel's employee Kirill Kleimenov because of her protest with an anti-war poster, writes Meduza.

“I’m scared, I was accused of betrayal. But I am a true patriot. I did it with my heart. In Ukraine, 115 children have already died, and they continue to die. And Russian soldiers, still very young boys like my son, are dying too. And I, like a mother, cannot help but cry, ”said Ovsyannikova.

17:26

Consul General of Greece in Mariupol Manolis Androulakis, who left the city on March 15, compared what he saw there with the cities destroyed during the Second World War and Grozny.

“What I saw, I hope no one will ever see,” quoted Reuters the diplomat as saying. - Mariupol will be included in the list of cities completely destroyed by the war. I don't need to name them - they are Guernica, Coventry, Aleppo, Grozny, Leningrad."

Androulakis helped dozens of Greek citizens and ethnic Greeks evacuate Mariupol after the outbreak of war and became the last EU diplomat to leave the city.

17:04

Members of the Just Russia - For Truth party submitted to the State Duma a bill on Russia's withdrawal from the World Trade Organization.

16:52

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has recognized Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as an extremist organization, reports . Mediazona

At the same time, the prosecutor clarified in court that he was asking for an exception for WhatsApp and not to ban the messenger, as well as the use of Facebook and Instagram for non-extremist purposes for ordinary users should not be considered participation in extremist activities.

During the meeting, Judge Olga Solopova asked how the decision to ban Meta would be enforced:

- Explain to me as a layman. We will wake up tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we will not have Facebook in the country?

“He is still gone,” prosecutor Timur Abregov replied.

The reason for the lawsuit was the news that Facebook and Instagram will change the moderation rules and will not delete posts with death wishes or calls for violence against the Russian military and the presidents of Russia and Belarus.

16:43

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, at least 557 Russian soldiers have died, the reports . BBC Russian Service

The publication compiled this list based on reports of dead Russian soldiers with exact data - name and rank.

Among the confirmed dead in Russia is one Major General, Deputy Commander of the 41st Army Andrei Sukhovetsky, who was 47 years old. Most of the dead are privates, sergeants and ensigns; only 448 people.

Since the beginning of the war, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the number of military dead only once, on March 2 - then it was about 498 soldiers. The department did not name the number of prisoners at all, although it recognized that there were such.

16:35

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) suspended grandmaster Sergey Karyakin for six months from participation in any of its competitions due to support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The organization believes that the chess player violated the Code of Ethics with his statements.

the next day after the start of the war Karyakin wrote : "Russia could not but intervene and protect the civilians of the LDNR."

At the same time, FIDE found another grandmaster, Sergei Shipov, not guilty of this violation for similar statements. The Federation explained that Shipov is less known, which means he has a smaller media platform. In addition, his statements were of a different and less provocative nature than the words of Karjakin, according to FIDE.

16:17

The Russian military kidnapped the 63-year-old head of the village of Tsirkuny in the Kharkiv region, Nikolai Sikalenko, says the head of the region, Oleg Sinegubov.

He writes with reference to eyewitnesses that Sikalenko was taken from his own home. The circuses have been occupied by the Russian military since the first days of the war.

According to Sinegubov, Viktor Tereshchenko, head of the Veliko Burluksky district, was kidnapped a few days ago, but he was released.

16:06

At Sheremetyevo Airport, 20% of employees were sent to idle, RIA Novosti reports , citing PR Director Anna Zakharova.

The reason for the downtime, the airport calls "large-scale decline in international air traffic." Employees are promised to pay two-thirds of their salary for idle time.

15:49

Paul Ronzheimer, a journalist for the German edition of Bild, published a video from the site of night shelling in Kyiv, where a shopping center burned down today.

“Just 15 minutes from the center [of Kyiv]. This is madness, ”the journalist comments on what he saw.

15:38

Alexander Kondratiev from Krasnodar was fined 30,000 rubles for spitting on a banner with the letter Z and the inscription #Don't Leave Our Own, said . lawyer Mikhail Benyash

The Prikubansky court of Krasnodar considered this to be discrediting the Russian army. Kondratyev himself said at the meeting that he considered the letter Z on this banner to be a swastika and therefore spat on it.

Kondratiev saw a banner on one of the streets of Krasnodar, driving along the road, stopped and got out of the car to spit on it. This moment was caught on the DVR of another motorist, and a few days later Kondratiev was detained by the police.

15:30

In Kharkov, after a shell hit a residential building, 96-year-old Boris Romanchenko, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, died, the administration of the Buchenwald memorial complex said , citing his granddaughter. It happened on March 18th.

In 1942, Romanchenko ended up in Buchenwald, after which he went through the Peenemünde, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps for three years. According to the administration of the memorial complex, Romanchenko advocated that people remember the Nazi crimes.

15:12

UNIAN reports that in Kherson, at a pro-Ukrainian rally, the Russian military threw stun grenades at the protesters and opened fire. There are wounded.

Local Telegram channels are posting a video of an injured man bleeding to death. The girl behind the scenes says that the wounded man is a pensioner.

Kherson is occupied by Russian troops.

15:02

The head of the Zhytomyr regional administration, Vitaliy Bunechko, accused Russian troops of shelling the villages of the Naroditsky district from Gradov. According to him, there are dead and injured, but the head of the region did not name their number.

14:59

The Financial Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post have made their articles available to readers in Russia and Ukraine, reports . Digiday

The New York Times did not cancel paid access, but on March 9 it created a telegram channel and publishes links to its texts and their fragments there.

14:41

The Russian military abducted four Melitopol journalists, claimed . the media holding "Mestnye Vesti"

“Armed men came to the home of journalists Yulia Olkhovskaya and Lyubov Chaika, publisher Mikhail Kumok, editor-in-chief of the Melitopolskie Vedomosti newspaper Yevgenia Boryan, took them away and took them away to an unknown destination,” the local news report said. Russian troops, according to the publication, are thus trying to achieve cooperation.

In addition, the Vesti website was hacked and is not working.

Later, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine announced the release of Boryan, Olkhovskaya and Chaika after a conversation about the need to cooperate with the Russian military. However, it is still unclear where Mikhail Kumoka, the publisher of MV Holding, is located.

Updated at 14:51. Added information about the release of three journalists.

13:49

The Russian military shelled the Podolsky district of Kiev at night, killing eight people, according to the mayor of the city, Vitali Klitschko.

According to him, as a result of the shelling of the Podolsky district, a shopping center burned down, two schools and two kindergartens, as well as six residential buildings were damaged, three of which are no longer suitable for life.

The mayor of Kyiv also notes that due to fires after airstrikes, the air in the city is polluted, and asks to wear respirators on the street and not open windows.

13:17

A resident of Tula was fined 48 thousand rubles because of a poster posted on the balcony with the inscription "I am against the war."

“Thus, [she] undermined confidence in the conduct <…> of a special military operation to protect the citizens of the DPR and LPR,” the said in a statement . press service of the region’s courts

Tulyachka pleaded guilty under the article on discrediting Russian troops.

12:49

The cook of the Irkutsk department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Mark Levitsky, was forced to resign because of an anti-war picket, reports . Irkutsk Insider

Levitsky, according to the publication, worked at the Federal Penitentiary Service for three years. In early March, he went to the Trud stadium in Irkutsk with a poster: “Putin is not Russia. No war in Ukraine. Putin to resign. He was detained and released without a protocol a few hours later.

However, the authorities found out about the participation in the picket and forced Levitsky to submit a letter of resignation, citing the charter , which prohibits the employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service from participating in rallies and pickets. The cook does not remember getting acquainted with this document and signing it.

12:30

In Kemerovo, a criminal case has been opened against Sibir.Realii journalist Andrey Novashov for fakes about the Russian army, according to the Network Freedoms project.

The reason for the case was the post of Novashov on VKontakte, in which he published the text of the Mariupol deputy Pyotr Andryushchenko about the results of seven days after Mariupol was surrounded by Russian troops. This text was given in the translation of the Russian journalist Victoria Ivleva.

According to Network Freedoms, the investigator suggested that Novashov "apologize in front of the armed forces," but the journalist refused. He faces up to three years in prison.

12:04

Several houses in Odessa were damaged due to shelling by naval artillery, said Sergei Bratchuk, spokesman for the operational headquarters of the Odessa Regional Administration. No one died as a result of the shelling.

11:19

Kirill Kleimenov, the head of the information programs directorate of Channel One, accused Marina Ovsyannikova of betrayal and cooperation with the British embassy, ​​who broke into the air during the Vremya program with an anti-war poster.

“Shortly before that, according to our information, Marina Ovsyannikova spoke with the British embassy. Which of you has been on the phone with a foreign embassy? Not with the visa center, but with the embassy. With his employee, of course, even if he, as they say, is in civilian clothes. For example, I never led, ”Kleimenov says on the air of the First with an announcer’s intonation. - Why am I? No, not to spy mania, let specially trained people do this.

I mean to call a spade a spade and nothing more. An emotional outburst is one thing, but betrayal is another. And when a person betrays his country and at the same time all of us, people with whom he worked side by side for almost 20 years, betrays coldly, prudently, for a firmly agreed bonus, by the way, so as not to lose the previous one, the woman with the poster timed the action exactly to receive another salaries. So, betrayal is always a personal choice of a person. You can't save him, as you know. But it is necessary to call a spade a spade. Otherwise, if a well-known act for 30 pieces of silver would be called an impulse of the soul, you see, world history would have gone differently.

Just in case, I wish everyone good health, everyone without exception, even traitors. They will continue to live with this burden.”

11:02

Yesterday, the UN announced that the number of Ukrainians who left their homes because of the war has reached 10 million people. Some of them left the country, the other part went to other regions of Ukraine.

Residents of Berdyansk, Kherson and Energodar, occupied by Russian troops, came out to protest with Ukrainian flags. In Berdyansk, the protesters were roughly dispersed.

The Russian airline "Ural Airlines" will send part of the employees on idle due to the "difficult geopolitical situation".

Mathematician Konstantin Olmezov from Donetsk, who was unable to leave Russia for Ukraine to "defend his country", committed suicide.

Cover photo: Kiev City State Administration