Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 39

20:59

Near Kharkov, the Russian military fired on an evacuation convoy that was supposed to carry people from the hospital, reports , citing the head of the regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov. Hromadske

The driver of one of the buses, reports Suspilne Novini , died. According to preliminary data, the convoy did not have time to reach the hospital, so there were no patients or medical staff on the buses.

The buses were supposed to evacuate people from the hospital in Balakliya, which had come under fire the day before.

20:39

Dutch journalist Robert Dulmers was expelled from Ukraine for distributing photos and videos of rocket attacks on Odessa, reports Suspilna , citing the Security Service of Ukraine. The authorities took away his accreditation and banned him from entering the country.

The publication "In the City" clarifies that at first Dulmers was banned from entering for three years. The journalist left the country in the direction of Moldova, but then tried to return to Ukraine. After that, he was banned from entering the country for 10 years.

Photo and video Dulmers posted on his Twitter . Robert Dulmers is a war correspondent covering, among others, the war in Yugoslavia and the trial of Radovan Karadzic.

In addition, the SBU airfoil detained two bloggers for publishing the video, writes Vgorod . The law prohibiting posting photos and videos of shelling was adopted on March 26. Violation of it is punishable by up to 12 years in prison.

19:58

As a result of shelling of Nikolaev one person was lost, reports the head of regional administration Vitaly Kim . 14 people were taken to the hospital, 11 were hospitalized, including a 15-year-old teenager. Kim added that there are also dead and wounded in Ochakovo, Mykolaiv region.

Earlier, the mayor of Nikolaev, Alexander Senkevich, spoke about missile attacks on the city.

At a briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry, it was said that “as a result of the strike on the Balovnoye airfield, in the suburbs of Nikolaev, an aircraft parking lot and a fuel storage facility were destroyed,” and “large fuel storage facilities” were destroyed in Konstantinovka, Nikolaev Region, Slavuta, Rivne Region, and Ternopil. The department also reported on an artillery strike in the Novoselovka area and an attack on the Vasilkov airfield in the Kyiv region.

19:35

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova said that 410 bodies of civilians were taken out of the Kiev region. 140 of them have already been examined by prosecutors and other specialists. Venediktova stressed that the cities liberated from Russian troops are a crime scene, and forensic specialists work there.

19:01

Instagram users report deleting posts and hashtags related to reports from Bucha in the Kiev region.

When you try to click on the #buchamassacre or #bucha hashtag in the application, a message appears that this hashtag is hidden because it was reported for not complying with company guidelines. Instagram's web interface simply says that the page was not found.

Student magazine DOXA said that Instagram removed a publication post retelling a Human Rights Watch report on Russian army war crimes in Ukraine because of a "hatspeech". After the appeal, the social network reinstated the DOXA post .

The Kholod post with a carousel containing photos of the dead was also deleted by the social network.

Updated at 19:22. Added information about the deleted post "Cold".

18:37

Kherson journalist Konstantin Ryzhenko got in touch. His audio message appeared in the telegram channel “Ochi kobzar of Kherson region”. Yesterday, the same channel reported , citing relatives of the journalist, that he had made contact with his acquaintance.

Ryzhenko said that he did not have access to his main accounts and that he was "on the run." He clarified that he would be involved in helping refugees, but so far he would not be engaged in journalism.

Konstantin Ryzhenko ceased contacting at the end of March, after the Russian military began to search for him, according to him.

18:05

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called the photo and video from Bucha in the Kiev region "another provocation" and "staged by the Kiev regime." The department claims that while the city was under the control of Russian troops, "not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions."

17:57

Some of the Ukrainians evacuated by Russian troops from Mariupol to Russia made their way to Estonia on their own, writes on Facebook. Lyudmila Denisova, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada,

People from the Kherson, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions also reached Estonia through Russia. Some of them were forcibly deported to Russia, and some chose to go through Russia, since they could not reach Estonia through Western Ukraine.

In total, according to the Mariupol authorities, the Russian military took almost 40,000 people to Russia and the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. Denisova notes that the military separated children and parents: they took 17 children who were undergoing treatment from Mariupol, while their parents stayed and were eventually evacuated to Zaporozhye.

16:55

The Conflict Intelligence Team has named some of the Russian military units involved in the occupation of the Kiev region and asked for help identifying the rest.

In particular, in the Bucha area, writes CIT, there were soldiers of the 104th parachute regiment and the 234th regiment of the 76th airborne assault division. Investigators suggest that the 40th or 155th separate brigades of the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps took part in the "cleansing" of settlements in the direction of Bucha - Gostomel - Ozera.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the complete liberation of the Kyiv region from Russian troops on the evening of April 2. Since then, the world's media have published videos and photographs from various cities in the region, showing destroyed houses and dead people. The most evidence of the dead civilians is in the city of Bucha, where were buried in a mass grave. at least 280 people

The Ukrainian authorities called what happened in the Kiev region " the hell of the 21st century " and the genocide of the Ukrainian people and called for tougher sanctions against Russia. The actions of the Russian military in Bucha, Gostomel, Irpin and other cities of the Kiev region were condemned by British Foreign Minister Liz Truss , President of the European Council Charles Michel , German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock and other politicians.

The Russian Ministry of Defense did not comment on the reports from Bucha, limiting itself to a repost of the telegram channel “War against fakes”. The post claims that the messages from the Kyiv region are fake, and in one video, “the “corpse” on the right moves its hand.” In fact, we are talking about a glare on the glass of a car.

13:52

Residents of Kherson took to the pro-Ukrainian rally. According to "Suspilna Kherson", the audience went to the monument to Taras Shevchenko, chanting "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!" and other slogans.

Photos from the event were also posted on Facebook by the first deputy head of the Kherson Regional Duma, Yuriy Sobolevsky.

13:36

The Russian Defense Ministry reposted on Telegram a message from the pro-Kremlin channel “War on Fakes”, which claims that reports of numerous deaths in Bucha (Kyiv region) “look like a planned media campaign.” Officially, the Ministry of Defense does not comment on the reports of the media and the Ukrainian authorities about the killed civilians near Kiev.

13:15

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky posthumously awarded the Order for Courage, III degree, to journalist and photographer Maxim Levin, who died near Kiev. The order was awarded for covering Russian aggression, says . the decree

12:54

The Ukrainian landing took control of the Pripyat region and part of the state border between Ukraine and Belarus, according to the Facebook command of the air assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

12:21

After the withdrawal of Russian troops from Borodyanka, Kiev region, volunteers found more than 300 dead dogs in a local shelter . Since the beginning of the war, the animals have reportedly been locked in enclosures without food or water. 150 dogs survived, of which 27 are in serious condition. They were taken to private clinics for treatment.

12:06

In Kakhovka (Kherson region), the Russian military opened fire on local residents who had gathered for a pro-Ukrainian rally. According to Suspilne Kherson, there are wounded and detainees.

11:52

The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch has documented war crimes against civilians by Russian troops, according to the organization 's website.

Human Rights Watch in its report provides a detailed description of the war crimes that occurred in the territories occupied by Russia from February 27 to March 14. We are talking about the repeated rape of a woman near Kharkov and mass executions in the Chernihiv and Kyiv regions.

The day before, on April 2, the former prosecutor of the UN International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the UN International Tribunal for Rwanda, Carla del Ponte, in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Les Temps, called Vladimir Putin a war criminal and called for an international arrest warrant for the Russian president.

10:45

Russian troops struck in the Odessa area. Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the missile attacks destroyed an oil refinery and three storage facilities for fuel and lubricants.

Odessa authorities and telegram channels reported explosions in the city area in the early morning of April 3. Some of the missiles, said Vladislav Nazarov, officer of the Yug operational command, were shot down by Ukrainian air defense. As a result of the airstrike, "critical infrastructure facilities" were damaged. According to preliminary data, no victims.

9:41

Lithuanian documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravichyus died in Mariupol, reports the news agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine . The agency claims that he was killed by the Russian military when the director tried to leave the city.

Mantas Kvedaravičius was 45 years old. In 2016, he made a film about Mariupol - "Mariupolis".

9:25

Among the dead in the Kiev region, they found the headman of the village of Motyzhin (Makarovsky district) Olga Sukhenko with her husband and son, wrote Ukrainian journalist Kateryna Malofeeva . Sukhenko was abducted on March 23rd.

In the Kyiv region, since April 2, journalists and local authorities have been finding the bodies of the dead. AFP correspondent saw city of Bucha, one of them had their hands tied . Thus, an least 20 dead at on the same street in the

Results of the 38th day of the war

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that the entire Kiev region was freed from the Russian military. The photographs from the liberated region show the bodies of the dead on the streets of cities, some of the dead with their hands tied.

More than 200 people were detained at anti-war rallies across Russia.

Lithuania was the first of the EU countries to completely abandon Russian gas.

Yandex CEO Yelena Bunina resigned and said she would not return to Russia because of the war with Ukraine.

Marianna Vyshemirskaya, who was evacuated from the maternity hospital in Mariupol, gave an interview to Russian journalists and posted an Instagram story commenting on the incident. She says that no one heard the sounds of an avinalet, and believes that the maternity hospital came under fire, but not from the air.

Cover photo: Oleksiy Samsonov / KMDA