Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 40

The Russian military call the provocation of photography and video with murdered civilians in the Kyiv region. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch documented war crimes against civilians in this region.

23:59

In one of the Russian military who told the Russian Ministry of Defense about the brutal circulation in Ukrainian captivity, they recognized the prisoner Pavel Kravchenko, writes the Telegram channel “We can explain”.

In March, Kravchenko appeared in the video of the Ukrainian project “Look for your”, where he said that he did not know that he was going to war, and also claimed that they were fed and not beat. In today's video, the Ministry of Defense Kravchenko spoke about the beating and murders of Russian prisoners by the Ukrainian military.

23:31

Airbnb reservation service suspenses work in Russia and Belarus.

On the territory of Russia and Belarus, from April 4, it will not be possible to book or rent housing, and guests from these countries will not be able to arrange the reservation “anywhere”, the service statement said.

23:07

The bodies of the dead civilians appeared on the streets of Buchi three weeks ago, when the city was controlled by Russian troops, writes The New York Times, analyzing satellite pictures.

From March 9 to March 11, dark objects the size of a human body appear on the pictures on Yablonskaya Street in Buch and remain in the same places for the next three weeks. Their location identifically recorded in the video on April 2, when the Ukrainian army returned the city under its control. In the second video from Yablonskaya Street, the newspaper writes, other bodies are visible. One lies next to the bicycle, the second - near the abandoned car. According to satellite pictures, they appeared between March 20 and 21.

The Russian army left Buch on March 30. In the Russian Ministry of Defense, photos and videos from Buch were called “staging” and “provocation”. The department said that "it is particularly concerned that all the bodies of people whose images are published by the Kiev regime have not been stiffed for at least four days, have no characteristic cadaveric spots, and in the wounds of unusual blood."

22:06

In the city of Chuguev, the Kharkov region, two people died as a result of shelling, several residential buildings were damaged and destroyed, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reports .

According to the agency, today Russian troops made the artillery shelling of Chuguev. In one of the houses in which the shell fell, a 38-year-old man and a 63-year-old woman were killed.

21:52

In Kirov, activist Mikhail Semenov was fined 30 thousand rubles for repost on VKontakte about the anti -war action, reports IDEL. REALIALS.

Semenova was found guilty of violating the organization of a mass event (part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to the police, on March 30, he published a photograph with the text “April 2, 14.00. The All -Russian Promotion of Protest ”and thereby carried out“ preliminary campaigning without filing a notification of a public event ”. The activist spent two nights before the court in the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Kirov.

20:42

France decided to send a number of Russian diplomats who “contradict the interests of security”, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the republic. The French television channel BFMTV reports that we are talking about 35 employees.

Fixed April 5 at 10:06. Initially, it was reported that France, according to BFMTV, sends 30 diplomats.

20:21

The State Duma introduced a bill on criminal liability for the execution of foreign sanctions, TASS reports with reference to the head of the Duma committee on state building and the laws of Pavel Krasheninnikov.

“A number of Russian companies, including state participation, for one reason or another, refuse to work with banks and enterprises that have already fallen under sanctions, due to the fact that they are also afraid to fall under them. Obviously, one of the goals of foreign sanctions is the destabilization of the Russian internal economy, the collision of the foreheads of domestic campaigns with each other, ”the deputy said.

The amendments provide for a fine of up to a million rubles or imprisonment for up to ten years. Their goal, according to Krasheninnikov, is “preventing the deterioration of the economic situation within the country”.

19:34

The Russian Ministry of Defense was distributed by a video with the Russian military who speak of cruelty in Ukrainian captivity.

The video has five men. They say that when capturing one of the military, they shot from the machine gun, and the other, wounded, "scored to death." One of the interlocutors of the Ministry of Defense says that the Ukrainian military threatened castration and hanging. Also, the heroes of the videos argue that with particular hostility in captivity they treated Russian pilots: they were beaten every time explosions were heard.

Earlier today, the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova spoke from the words of the Ukrainian military who returned from captivity that the Russians would have shot them, shot next to her ear, did not feed for several days, and some of the prisoners received frostbite.

19:19

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany recognized the Persons of Non-Grad "significant number" of the employees of the Russian embassy. This decision was made in connection with the killing of civilians in the Kyiv region.

According to the German television channel ZDF, the German authorities send 40 diplomats.

18:58

The mayor of the city of Nikolaev, Alexander Senkevich, claims that the Russian military fired at the city with cassette shells. The victims and victims have not yet been reported.

This is not the first charge towards Russia in the use of cassette shells. Earlier, the organization of Human Rights Watch accused Russia of using cassette ammunition in Nikolaev during shelling on March 7, 11 and 13. The Convention prohibiting their use was signed by more than 110 countries, among them there is no Russia.

18:51

In Spain, the yacht of the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg was arrested, the Civil Guard of Spain reports .

The cost of a 78-meter Tango yacht is about 90 million euros. Today, the FBI and the Civil Guard of Spain, at the request of the United States, detained her in Palma de Majorca and searched it, after which she was arrested by the court decision.

“Although Vekselberg has not yet been very close to Vladimir Putin Putin, he is under the sanctions of the US Treasury, where he is investigated on the fact of tax fraud, money laundering and forgery to hide the fact of owning this luxurious yacht and avoid sanctions,” the civil guard statement said.

18:29

The Zhytomyr region is completely under the control of Ukraine, said the head of the regional administration Vitaly Bunechko.

“To date, there are no Russian occupation forces in our region. They left the northern communities, leaving behind not only equipment, but also their own trace, mining peaceful houses, ”Bunuchko writes. He also notes that the authorities decided to prohibit movement with weapons on the settlements of the region for everyone who is not in the performance of official duties.

17:59

In the Kyiv region, due to shelling, the landscape park "Dobrak" was destroyed.

“All staff, fortunately, are alive and safe,” the park said . The main building, all transport and equipment are completely destroyed. The report notes that the Russian military took garden tools with them.

16:23

The Lithuanian government decided to reduce the Russian diplomatic mission, and the Russian ambassador will have to leave the country, announced the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielyus Landsbergis.

Such a decision was made in response to the “continuing Russian aggression” and the murder of civilians in Buch.

Lithuanian ambassador to Moscow will have to return to his homeland.

Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich, following the Lithuanian colleague, announced a reduction in diplomatic relations with Russia, but has not yet called specific measures.

15:22

The Ukrainian military, freed from captivity, said that Russian employees beat them with butt, shot near the ear and intimidated, the Ombudsman of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova reports .

The prisoners were kept in the fields, pits and garages. Some did not give food for several days.

“The guys from the island of Zmein, who were tucked up to Sevastopol, local reporters began to be used for propaganda, telling about the humane Russian authorities, which organized the delivery of prisoners home,” writes Denisov.

However, instead, according to the Ombudsman, they were taken out in an unknown direction and settled in a tent town at a temperature of 20 degrees. Part of the prisoners, because of this, was frostbite.

“They were treated as prisoners, morally crushed, and during walks in the courtyard they lowered the dog,” says Denisov.

15:11

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Buch, where they discovered the dead civilians, the Russian BBC service reports .

“He examined the road with Russian equipment destroyed and talked with local residents. He stated that Russia has committed war crimes and genocide in Ukraine, ”the newspaper writes.

14:59

The Mariupol City Council published photos of the drama theater, which was struck on March 16.

About a thousand inhabitants of Mariupol hid from the building in the building. The City Council, citing an eyewitness, reported that there could be about 300 people who died, but the data from rescuers who dismantled the rubble have not yet been published.

14:44

Russian President Vladimir Putin canceled the simplified issuance of visas for European journalists and official delegations, follows from the decree "On response measures of visa nature in connection with the unfriendly actions of foreign states."

Also, diplomats and journalists from Europe will not issue repeated visas, and European owners of diplomatic passports will no longer be able to enter Russia or travel through a country without a visa.

13:41

Against the teacher from Penza Irina, Gene opened a criminal case under the article on Fakes about the Russian army (part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), said Pavel Chikov, head of the Human Rights Office of the Agora,.

However, a few days later, Chikov published a decision on the initiation of a criminal case, which indicates paragraph “D” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code - the distribution of “fakes” based on political hatred. The maximum punishment on this composition is 10 years of the colony.

“The critical statements of the English teacher was reported to the police by students of the eighth grade of the Olympic reserve school. They wrote a conversation on the records of the Russian army in Ukraine, ”Chikov wrote.

On March 31, Baza Telegram-Canada wrote that after the teacher’s conversation with adolescents, the audio recording of the conversation came to law enforcement officers and now she is “shining <...> 10 years of imprisonment” without specifying whether the criminal case has been opened.

Communicating with the students, the gene criticized the invasion of Ukraine and talked about the lack of freedom of speech in Russia. “We have a totalitarian regime. Any dissent is considered a thought of the crime. We will all go for 15 years. And I also now leave for 15 years, ”said the teacher.

Updated April 8 at 19:15. New information has been added about an article imputed by the teacher.

13:17

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the video and photos from Buchi, where after the Russian military left on the streets there were corpses of murdered civilians.

“The other day, the next fake attack was undertaken in the city of Buch, Kyiv region, after Russian troops came out of there in accordance with plans,” Lavrov said at a meeting with the deputy general of the UN Humanitarian issues. “There, a few days later, a staging was arranged, which Ukrainian representatives and their Western patrons accelerate through all channels and social networks.”

13:01

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia rejects accusations of murders of civilians in Bucha.

“This information should be seriously doubtful. From what we saw, video materials - in many ways they cannot be trusted, because there are identified by our specialists from the Ministry of Defense signs of video submachions and various fakes of certain ones, ”Sandov insists .

The Ministry of Defense indirectly led only one video with Fake: yesterday the department replaced the corresponding publication of the Teleceps “War with Fakes”. The channel, posting a video in low quality, assured that in one fragment the hand of a deceased man was “stirring”, and in the other - in the rear mirror, you can see how he “sits down”.

Mediazone journalist Maxim Litavrin drew attention to the fact that in the same video in the original quality it is clear that in the first case it is a glare from a scratch on the glass, and not a moving hand, and in the other, the reflection in the rear-view mirror is still distorted.

12:32

Employees of the FSB began to come to the participants of telegram charts in support of Ukraine, says the community of lawyers and human rights activists “First Department”.

“Already to several participants in such chats, the FSB officers came and held operational-search measures at their place of residence, seized all the equipment and carriers of information. The participants themselves were threatening to prosecute criminal liability until the prosecution of the Stateizer, ”the report said.

Having studied the documents drawn up by the FSB during these visits, and the stories of those to whom they came, the “first department” came to the conclusion that the operatives came to the participants of the Cyber ​​Partizana telegram chats, Cyber ​​Ddogs and Stop Russian War.

“The security forces monitor the participants there who support the calls to“ deliver ”government sites or resources of pro -government media, write comments on social networks and the media, analyze information from hacked sites,” the community said.

The First Department notes that a nickname in Telegram with personal data may not be easy if the user has hidden a phone number in the profile, but you can track it through connections with other users whose telephone in the profile is not hidden in other social networks.

12:08

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to check the actions of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under an article on Fakes about the Russian army due to reports of the murder of civilians in Bucha.

“In order to discredit Russian military personnel, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine distributed video recordings shot in the city of Buche Kyiv region as evidence of the mass destruction of civilians in the city of Buch. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, all materials published by the Kyiv regime about the crimes of Russian military personnel in the indicated village do not correspond to reality and are provocative, ”the UK release said.

11:51

The European Union condemned the murders of civilians in Buch and assigned responsibility for them to the Russian authorities.

“The obsessive images of a large number of dead and victims among the civilian population, as well as the destruction of civil infrastructure, show the true person of a brutal aggressive war, which Russia wages against Ukraine and its people. Mass killings in Buch and other Ukrainian cities will be included in the list of atrocities committed on European land, ”the European Council said .

The EU emphasized that the Russian authorities are responsible for these murders, since they were committed at a time when Russian forces controlled these areas, and the provisions of international law on occupation are extended.

“President Putin must stop this war immediately and unconditionally,” the EU summarizes.

11:38

The FSB reported on the detention of a 40-year-old resident of Alushta, whom the special service calls the "supporter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis," TASS reports .

“At the place of his residence [he], he kept a homemade explosive device with an explosive charge of more than 500 grams. The detainee also found a pistol, TNT, gunpowder, as well as other objects related to illegal activities, ”says the FSB.

On the phones of the Crimean, they found “Video materials of radical content, photographs with the image of nationalist symbols and fascist paraphernalia, as well as correspondence with members of Ukrainian nationalist battalions.”

At the same time, the Investigative Department of the FSB opened the case only under the article on the illegal acquisition and storage of an explosive device (part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code).

11:25

11 fighters of the OMON of the National Guard Office for Khakassia refused to go to Ukraine, the local magazine "New Focus" writes with reference to several sources independent of each other.

“The police special forces from Khakassia not only refused to participate in ...“ special operations ”, but expressed everything that they think in the eyes of a certain senior general of the Russian Guard,” the magazine writes. According to him, riot police are trying to dismiss for negative reasons.

According to the sources, at the beginning of the year, riot police were sent to exercises to the west of Russia, and then to Belarus. It seemed to the security forces atypical that they were ordered to take with them the ammunition used in the dispersal of protests: for example, shields and batons. On February 24, part of the National Guard group, “mainly from the Siberian regions”, was sent to Ukraine.

According to Focus, the column went without covering from air and heavy equipment and was eventually broken. “There were seven wounded in the Khakass Sobra alone, one went missing and dead,” the magazine said, adding that the number of those killed is unknown, and there are prisoners. After that, the security forces who remained in the field camp in Belarus or returned there began to refuse to send to Ukraine.

10:46

Президент Франции Эммануэль Макрон призвал к ужесточению санкций против России после убийства мирных жителей в украинском городе Буча, передает Reuters со ссылкой на интервью Макрона радио France Inter.

“There are very clear evidence indicating war crimes. Более или менее установлено, что российская армия ответственна [за убийства в Буче], — сказал французский президент. — То, что произошло в Буче, требует нового раунда санкций и очень четких мер».

По его мнению, санкции должны быть нацелены на угольную и нефтепромышленность.

10:10

Роскомнадзор пригрозил «Холоду» блокировкой в случае отказа удалить статью о первом дне войны. Этого потребовала Генпрокуратура.

Поводом стал материал, опубликованный в первый день войны, «Россия начала войну с Украиной. Что нужно знать».

По мнению Генпрокуратуры, в нем есть недостоверная общественно значимая информация о «проводимой Вооруженными силами РФ специальной военной операции, ее форме, способах ведения боевых действий, потерях Вооруженных сил РФ и жертвах среди мирного населения».

9:54

Октябрьский районный суд Петербурга арестовал на 10 суток Ануш Панину, которая вышла на пикет с антивоенным плакатом, стилизованным под объявления секс-работниц, сообщает объединенная пресс-служба судов города.

Суд назначил такое наказание по статье об организации акции, повлекшей нарушение общественного порядка или санитарных норм либо создавшей помехи движению пешеходов.

Накануне тот же суд назначил Паниной за этот же пикет штраф 40 тысяч рублей по статье о дискредитации российской армии. Вину в этом правонарушении активистка не признала.

8:43

В Новодружеске во время обстрела вечером 3 апреля были убиты два волонтера, рассказал глава Луганской области Сергей Гайдай.

Он утверждает, что волонтеры попали под обстрел со стороны российских военных. Погибшие выдавали гуманитарную помощь местным жителям.

«Так было и вчера, пока не прилетела мина. Кстати, одна из погибших спасла жизнь коллеге, прикрыв ее собой, когда начался российский обстрел города», — написал глава области.

За прошедшие сутки из-за обстрелов пожары произошли в двух многоэтажках Северодонецка и нескольких частных домах Новодружеска.

8:31

Мэр Николаева Александр Сенкевич сообщил о ракетных ударах по городу. Он попросил жителей не публиковать фотографии и видео ударов.

Итоги 39-го дня войны

Минобороны России назвало «очередной провокацией» и «постановкой киевского режима» фотографии и видео из Бучи с телами убитых людей, в том числе со связанными руками.

Human Rights Watch обвинила российских военных в преступлениях против мирных жителей. Правозащитники подтвердили информацию о массовых казнях в Черниговской и Киевской областях и многократном изнасиловании женщины под Харьковом.

Из Киевской области после ухода российских войск вывезли 410 тел мирных жителей, рассказала генпрокурор Украины Ирина Венедиктова.

В Каховке в Херсонской области российские военные открыли стрельбу по участникам проукраинского митинга.

Российские военные нанесли удар в районе Одесса по нефтеперерабатывющему заводу и хранилища горюче-смазочных материалов.

Фото на обложке: Rodrigo Abd, AP/Scanpix