Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 31

22:50

The head of the Rivne region, Vitaliy Koval , said that an oil depot in the city of Dubno had been struck.

22:31

The mayor of Slavutych, Yury Fomichev, announced that the city was under occupation and spoke about the three dead civilians, without specifying the reasons for their death.

Fomichev noted that today the residents of the city declared their position by taking to the streets with Ukrainian flags. “This is our land, we ourselves know how we can live here,” the mayor said, adding that Slavutych remains a Ukrainian city.

He warned that the townspeople would need to hand over their weapons to the Russian military.

22:01

The head of the Lviv region, Maxim Kozitsky, said at a briefing that as a result of today's shelling of the region, two missile strikes were carried out on an oil depot in a residential area of ​​​​Lviv and two more on a defense plant located in a residential area.

According to the mayor of Lvov, Andriy Sadovy, with these strikes, Russian troops "said hello" to US President Joe Biden, who is visiting Poland. Lviv is located in western Ukraine, about 70 kilometers from the border with Poland.

21:07

The supply of electricity has been restored in the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, reports . the city administration

20:21

Lviv authorities report new airstrikes. The head of the region, Maxim Kozitsky, wrote about three explosions near Lviv, and the mayor of the city, Andriy Sadovy, wrote about another rocket attack on the city.

According to Sadovoy , the strikes caused "significant damage" to infrastructure. Residential buildings were not damaged.

Updated at 20:35. Added damage information.

20:11

The Yasnohorodka Ecopark in the Kiev region “almost completely turned into ashes” as a result of shelling, report its owners on Instagram. Most of the animals survived, but many of the animals are still in the park.

17 primates and 23 tortoises were evacuated from Yasnogorodka. Before the shelling, there were also 212 ungulates of 26 different species in the park, about 300 ostriches, 220 other birds, raccoons, raccoons, meerkats and porcupines - a total of 13 individuals.

The village of Yasnogorodka, where the park is located, came under shelling earlier this week.

19:08

The head of the Lviv region, Maxim Kozitsky , specified that there were only two missile strikes within Lviv. Five people were injured.

“The information that there was a hit in a residential building or other infrastructure facilities has not been confirmed,” writes Kozitsky. He did not comment on reports that one blow hit the oil depot.

The mayor of Lvov, Andriy Sadovoy , said that as a result of the shelling, “one of the industrial facilities in which fuel is stored” is on fire.

Earlier, Kozitsky reported three explosions near Lviv.

Updated at 19:42. Added the words of the mayor of Lviv.

19:02

Irina Tolmacheva, a Novosibirsk activist and member of the Alliance of Teachers, was searched. According to the deputy of the Council of Deputies of Novosibirsk, Helga Pirogova, the reason for the search was a "comment on the net." The search is related to the case of “dissemination of knowingly false information” about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

Pirogova also told Taiga.Info that Tolmacheva was released on bail.

What is the status of the criminal case, who is Tolmacheva on it, and what comment is in question, is not specified.

Updated at 19:13. Added information about the undertaking not to leave.

18:33

18:19

Mayor of Lvov Andriy Sadovoy confirmed the fact of airstrikes in the area of ​​the city. “Flew across Lviv,” he wrote, without specifying what exactly became the object of the attack. Sadovoy asked not to distribute photos and videos of what is happening.

At the same time, the head of the Lviv regional administration, Maxim Kozitsky, spoke about three powerful explosions near the city from Kryvchytsy.

Earlier, the Ukrainian media and telegram channels reported about the air alert in the region.

It is not clear from the reports whether the strikes were on the city itself or on its outskirts.

17:45

A court in the Sverdlovsk region fined Verkhnyaya Salda resident Viktor Zheltoukhov 30,000 rubles for posting on VKontakte using the letter Z in the words “evil” and “fascism.” about this The man told OVD-Info . The court found Zheltoukhov guilty of discrediting the Russian armed forces (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

17:18

In the Chernihiv region, the archive of the security service of Ukraine, which contained documents on repressions against Ukrainians in Soviet times, burned down. This was announced by the head of the state archival service of the country Anatoly Khromov. According to him, archive buildings in other regions (in particular, in Kharkiv) were also damaged, but the documents in them survived.

16:49

VKontakte blocked the community of the TJ publication at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. According to representatives of the social network, the prosecutor's office believes that the community has posted "deliberately false socially significant information", including "materials about Russia's alleged attack on the territory of Ukraine."

also disappeared under the blocking block The pages of Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the blogger Alexander Gorbunov " Stalingulag ", the news public Ateo and The Insider . Judging by the error that VKontakte issues when trying to open these pages from a Russian IP address, all of them were blocked due to the same order of the Prosecutor General’s Office dated March 25, 2022 No. 27-31-2022/Treb354-22.

In addition, Roskomnadzor blocked the site of the Polygon.Media publication (specific reasons have not yet been named) and the mirror of the St. Petersburg news site Paper.

Updated at 17:23. Added information about blocking the page of The Insider edition.

16:22

The mayor of Chernigov, Vladislav Atroshenko , said that less than half of the inhabitants remained in the city. Now in Chernigov, according to him, there are 120-130 thousand people, while before the war the population of the city was 280-290 thousand people.

15:34

Rapper Face has removed his music from Russian streaming platforms. “It’s hard for me to report this, but I have no moral right to work with pro-state music services, given the current situation,” wrote . he

15:19

Russian troops damaged the memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Drobitsky Yar on the eastern outskirts of Kharkov. A photo of the menorah after the shelling was posted on Twitter by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

14:31

Eight kangaroos have been evacuated from the Kharkiv Zoo, according to the founder of the park Alexander Feldman.

14:20

Frontman of the Ukrainian group "Boombox" Andriy Khlyvnyuk, who joined the territorial defense of Kyiv, came under mortar fire. photos of his injuries The musician posted on Instagram.

13:14

The father of the Melitopol journalist Svetlana Zalizetskaya was released, she reports on Facebook.

He was released after the journalist wrote that the RIA-Melitopol website no longer belongs to her. “The RIA-Melitopol website operates under the control of persons located in the territory controlled by Ukraine and, in my opinion, provides objective information,” Zalizetskaya specified.

The Russian military abducted 75-year-old Iosif Zalizetsky on March 23.

12:52

The mayor of Slavutych, Yuriy Fomichev, has been released, writes the Kharkiv public newspaper TRUHA, citing local residents. He spoke to the people gathered in the city and confirmed that he was a prisoner.

12:21

In the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, as a result of hostilities in the suburbs, there is no electricity, reports . the city administration

12:11

At the door of the St. Petersburg activist, the head of the Mayak movement, Darya Heikinen, unknown people left a pile of manure. Vandals flooded the locks with mounting foam, stained the door with green paint and pasted stickers with the inscriptions “A Finnish Nazi lives here!” and "We know what you did!!!".

This is the second day in a row that vandals have attacked the Heikinen door. Yesterday they wrote "TRAITOR" on her door and also left "a bunch of shit on the rug." The activist wrote a statement to the police.

11:47

correspondent TSN.ua Andriy Tsaplienko was wounded in the Chernihiv region, where a film crew was filming a report on the humanitarian corridor.

“Jumped. I have a small shrapnel [wound],” Tsaplienko wrote on Facebook last night.

According to the TV channel, first the Russian military launched a drone, and 15 minutes later they fired at a convoy with civilians, as well as journalists from TSN and the Turkish TV channel TRT World.

“There were a lot of civilians and cars who were waiting for permission to cross to Chernihiv and take their relatives from there,” the quotes 1 + 1 holding Tsaplienko. According to him, the shelling was carried out from the Smerch multiple launch rocket system, 122-mm artillery, a mortar and a tank, and it lasted about an hour and a half.

11:35

Oleksandr Pavlyuk, the head of the Kiev regional military administration , claims that the Russian military entered Slavutych and seized the hospital, and the mayor of the city, Yuriy Fomichev, was kidnapped.

Pavlyuk writes that the military threw stun grenades towards the protesting citizens and fired into the air.

11:18

Ukrainian radio stations in the FM band have stopped working in Kherson, now only Russian stations are broadcast there, reports , citing local residents. Suspilna Kherson

11:11

Residents of Slavutych (Chernihiv region) took to the pro-Ukrainian rally, according to the local city council. According to Energoatom, the Russian military is shelling checkpoints in the city. In the video, shots are heard from the city, and are visible infantry fighting vehicles . Russian military

In the morning, the mayor of Slavutych called on the townspeople to come out to the main square. Shortly before the Facebook call was published, on the same page, the city council recommended not to go out for safety reasons.

10:37

According to Georgy Muradov, Permanent Representative of Crimea under the President of Russia, in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine, “people are increasingly using Russian rubles in their calculations.” His words are quoted by RIA Novosti. The day before, the Kherson regional prosecutor's office reported that the Russian military were distributing 10,000 rubles to local residents, and began a pre-investigation check on the financing of actions committed with the aim of forcibly changing the constitutional order, seizing state power (Part 3 of Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

At the same time, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, signed a decree on the use of both Russian rubles and Ukrainian hryvnia. The decree sets the rate of 2.5 rubles per hryvnia, while prices in hryvnia should be rounded up to whole units (without kopecks) upwards.

09:55

Vladimir Putin signed a law recognizing veterans of the war with Ukraine as veterans.

09:40

Results of the 30th day of the war

The Russian Ministry of Defense for the second time since the beginning of the war reported losses: 1,351 Russian soldiers were killed, another 3,825 soldiers were injured.

The authorities of the Lugansk and Kharkiv regions spoke about new shelling and the dead.

The UN has confirmed 36 cases of abductions or disappearances of opponents of the invasion in Ukrainian cities occupied by Russian troops.

In Russia, more than ten criminal cases have been opened about "fake" stories about the Russian army. The article was introduced only three weeks ago. The President of Russia signed the law on criminal punishment now for "fake" about the actions of the Russian authorities abroad.

Cover photo: Serhii Korovainyi, UN Women