Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 30

00:15

Four residents of Kherson told CNN that the city is still under the complete control of Russian troops.

Earlier, a Pentagon spokesman said that Ukrainian troops managed to push back the Russian army in Kherson.

23:34

Chinese state-owned Sinopec has suspended talks to invest up to $500 million in a gas chemical plant in Russia and sell Russian gas, sources told Reuters.

The company followed the call of the Chinese authorities for caution in connection with the tightening of sanctions against Russia.

According to Reuters, Sinopec planned to take over the gas chemical plant jointly with the Russian Sibur, but decided to suspend negotiations after the imposition of sanctions against Gennady Timchenko, a member of the Sibur board of directors.

For the same reason, gas sales negotiations with Novatek, where Timchenko was also on the board of directors, were suspended. After the imposition of sanctions, he left the company.

22:47

The US Federal Communications Commission has included Kaspersky Lab in the list of companies that threaten national security.

22:34

The UN spoke about 36 cases of disappearances and abductions of people in Ukrainian regions controlled by the Russian army, the reports . BBC Russian Service

Typically, the victims of abductions are local community leaders, a journalist, and anyone who publicly opposes the Russian invasion.

22:18

Vladimir Putin signed a law on criminal liability for "fakes" about the actions of the Russian authorities abroad.

The law also introduces administrative liability.

The punishment is the same as for "fakes" about the Russian army - up to 15 years in prison.

21:59

The Russian military has lost control of part of Kherson, according to The New York Times, citing a senior Pentagon official.

According to him, the Ukrainian troops managed to push back the Russian army. However, the newspaper does not specify the scale of the Ukrainian advance.

21:22

Jewelry company Tiffany & Co. announced that it would stop buying new diamonds mined in Russia, writes Bloomberg.

Prior to this, the same decision was made by Signet Jewelers Ltd. It is the world's largest jewelry retailer.

20:53

Pobeda Airlines has decided to reduce its fleet from 45 to 25 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, RBC reports citing Andrey Yurikov, acting CEO of the company.

In a letter to employees, a copy of which is at the disposal of RBC, it is said that the reduction in the fleet will cover "the need for spare parts for the entire fleet in the future." The source of the agency confirmed the authenticity of the letter.

20:16

Spotify completely stops working in Russia, writes the Swedish edition of Expressen.

The company justified this decision with a recent law that imposes restrictions on access to information and freedom of expression and criminalizes certain types of news.

Probably, we are talking about a law on terms of up to 15 years for "fakes" about the Russian army, which is going to be supplemented with punishment for "fakes" about the actions of the Russian authorities abroad.

18:54

Four fallow deer and three Welsh goats died due to the shelling of the Kharkov zoo, said the founder of the park Alexander Feldman.

For the past month, Feldman and volunteers have been taking animals out of the zoo, which is located in the shelling zone. However, some inhabitants remain in the enclosures.

During this time, three zoo employees who came to feed the animals died under shelling.

16:40

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined Oleg Orlov, a member of the Board of the Memorial Human Rights Center, 20,000 rubles for violating the rules for holding the action (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), reports Polny PTS telegram channel . On February 26, Orlov came out with an anti-war picket near the building of the Federation Council, together with former PMC member Yevgeny Enikeev and human rights activist Alla Frolova.

16:27

The Russian Defense Ministry for the first time since March 2 reported Russian losses. To date, 1,351 Russian servicemen have been killed and 3,825 wounded, according to the agency.

Sergei Rudskoy, Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces , said that the Russian military did not initially plan to storm the blocked Ukrainian cities, but now they do not exclude such a possibility.

The Russian army blocked, according to him, Kyiv, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and Nikolaev.

Rudskoy also claims that the Ukrainian air force and air defense system are "virtually completely destroyed" and the navy "ceased to exist".

16:16

Hackers from a "closed group of Ukrainian cyber resistance" have stolen the personal data of most residents of Buryatia, reports Meduza . In the leak, among others, there is the head of the republic, Alexei Tsydenov, the chairman of the local Supreme Court, Albina Kirillova, and the speaker of parliament, Vladimir Pavlov. In total, the list has 692 thousand lines.

Ukrainian hackers gained access to personal data of residents of Buryatia by hacking an information service based on the “Unified Regional Integration Platform of the Safe City Hardware and Software Complex”. This data, according to a representative of the hackers, “is already being used to attack the financial sector,” and the stolen funds will go to food and clothing for Ukrainians.

Meduza confirmed the theft using another data leak — users of Yandex.Food.

15:48

In St. Petersburg, the police with machine guns came to the school lesson to the labor teacher Gennady Tychin, writes Novaya Gazeta . He was taken away and kept in the department for more than 48 hours.

Tychin is sure that this happened because on March 1 he told the school security guard that he was proud of his Ukrainian origin. “After this conversation, the administration began to put pressure on me. I was told that [I need to quit because] I am promoting something to the children here. I am against the "special operation", and said so when I was first called. But as a teacher within the walls of the school, I am not on anyone's side. And I don’t discuss politics with students, ”Novaya Gazeta quotes the teacher.

Tychin filed an application addressed to the director, in which he spoke about the pressure exerted on him. The next day, at the lesson of labor, which Tychin taught at the fifth grade, two policemen with machine guns came and took the teacher away. More than 48 hours after the arrest, Tychin was brought to the Primorsky Court of St. Petersburg, where irreparable contradictions were found in the protocol. The teacher was released, but fired from the school, now he is waiting for a subpoena and plans to challenge the dismissal.

14:52

Russian Post closed the subscription to Novaya Gazeta on its website.

The press service of the Russian Post told the newspaper that “if there is no possibility to subscribe on the site, then the publication itself decided so.” Novaya Gazeta claims that it did not close the subscription.

“The editorial office of Novaya Gazeta receives numerous complaints from subscribers that the Russian Post does not deliver new issues of the newspaper. Also, paper issues are not issued in the branches,” the newspaper writes.

Earlier, Novaya Gazeta reported that kiosks were refusing to sell its latest issues.

14:33

About 20% of small businesses have laid off or laid off employees due to sanctions and the crisis, Forbes reports citing a survey by the Action Accounting service. About 11% of companies fired or laid off less than 10% of their staff, 6.3% of companies - from 10% to 30% of their employees, 2.8% - from 50% to 100% of their employees.

In 13.7% of companies, revenue fell by more than 50%, about 23% of respondents said that their revenue has not changed or increased, follows from the survey data.

14:04

The Kharkiv police reported on the morning shelling of the city clinic with a point for issuing humanitarian aid from multiple launch rocket systems. Four people died, three were injured.

13:49

The Trukha Telegram channel published a video from the Mariupol Drama Theater shelled on March 16.

13:35

Reuters, citing three US officials familiar with the situation , reports that up to 60% of Russian precision-guided missile launches are unsuccessful. Why exactly the missiles do not reach their targets - the sources do not explain.

13:15

The Armed Forces of Ukraine specified that the landing ship "Saratov" was destroyed in the port of Berdyansk occupied by the Russian military. Earlier, the Ukrainian Navy announced the destruction of the Orsk ship.

Also, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the ships "Caesar Kunikov" and "Novocherkassk" were damaged. The Russian Defense Ministry has not yet commented on these data.

12:54

The FSB reported on the detention of a citizen of Ukraine and Poland on suspicion of espionage, reports RIA Novosti . The FSB claims that an SBU agent under the pseudonym "Kid" spied on Ukrainian journalists and political scientists in Russia and admitted to collaborating with the Ukrainian and Polish special services.

12:25

In the Luhansk region, on the territory controlled by Ukraine, 23 residential buildings were damaged as a result of shelling, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The shelling affected Lisichansk, Rubizhne, Kremennaya, Novodruzhesk and the village of Voevodovka. In addition to residential buildings, a light industry enterprise, an educational institution, household buildings, garages and infrastructure facilities were damaged.

The head of the Lugansk regional administration, Sergei Gaidai , said that during the shelling in Severodonetsk and Rubizhne, five people were killed and eight more were injured.

12:11

Businessman Pyotr Aven, who fell under European sanctions , gave an interview to the Financial Times in which he did not agree that he was close to the Kremlin. “It is very strange to be under sanctions just because you are meeting with the president,” Aven said, stressing that the bank tried to be “out of politics.”

He also complained about the difficulties he faced because of the sanctions: “Will I be allowed to hire a cleaning lady or a driver? I don't drive... Maybe my stepdaughter will. We don't understand how to survive."

11:58

The Ostankino Court of Moscow registered a case against Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who went on the air with an anti-war poster, about discrediting the Russian Armed Forces (part 1 of article 20.3.3, a fine of up to 50 thousand rubles). The meeting is scheduled for April 14th.

On March 15, the Ostankino Court of Moscow fined Ovsyannikova 30,000 rubles for a video message urging her to attend rallies.

10:45

More than 10 criminal cases are being investigated in Russia about fakes about the armed forces, said Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee.

“The sanctions of the new articles of the Criminal Code are very severe and, I believe, will help minimize false information and its negative impact on a wide audience,” he said in an interview with TASS.

10:20

AvtoVAZ plans to transfer all employees in Togliatti and Izhevsk to a four-day work week for the summer, . the company said

The shortening of the working week is due to "the forecast of the Russian automotive market and the continued significant shortage of electronic components supplies." AvtoVAZ is also postponing corporate holidays to April 4-24 in order to “make every effort to restore component supply chains” during this period.

The company notes that it has asked for support from the government to maintain the level of income of employees, and "these funds have already been allocated."

9:48

The FSB reported on the detention of a resident of Khabarovsk for treason, reports . RIA Novosti

“A resident of Khabarovsk anonymously via the Internet turned to the Ukrainian special service with a proposal to transfer for a monetary reward information that could be used to the detriment of the security of the Russian Federation, including for committing acts of sabotage,” the FSB said.

9:46

According to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, 135 children died during the war, and another 184 were injured. There are also 2,702 war crimes and 1,640 national security crimes.

9:20

Australia has imposed sanctions against 22 "Russian propagandists and disinformers", Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his family due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The list includes the editor-in-chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan.

9:01

The authorities of the Sumy, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions report active shelling of residential buildings.

More than half of the children from Ukraine became refugees. That's 4.3 million children.

Yesterday, the Kremlin showed a fragment of a meeting between the President of Russia and members of the Security Council, at which they separately drew attention to the presence via video link of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who did not appear in public for almost two weeks.

The Pentagon said that since the beginning of the war, Moscow has refused to conduct telephone conversations between Shoigu and the Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov with the American military leadership.

In Moscow, a girl with a patch on a bag with a crossed-out portrait of President Vladimir Putin was issued a protocol on discrediting the Russian army, since Putin is its supreme commander.

12 members of the National Guard refused to go to fight in Ukraine, after which they were fired.

Cover photo: Fotoreserg, Depositphotos