Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 44

00:27

The commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine will be General Alexander Dvornikov, who has extensive experience in military operations in Syria and the commander of the Southern Military District, writes the BBC, citing its sources.

The interlocutor of the publication noted that there was poor coordination between the military units that invaded Ukraine at the end of February.

“This particular commander has a lot of experience with Russian operations in Syria. Therefore, we expect overall command and control to improve,” the source said. In his opinion, if Russia continues the previous military tactics, the Ukrainian troops will continue to effectively resist, since they are more maneuverable and act smarter.

23:18

The death toll from a missile attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk has risen to 52, said head of the Donetsk region Pavel Kirilenko . 109 people were injured.

He also said that a family of four and another civilian were killed in Avdiivka, but he did not disclose the details of the incident, accusing the Russian military of the murder. Another person died in Ugledar.

22:16

The Central Bank has canceled the commission of 12% for the purchase of foreign currency on the stock exchange, writes with reference to the order of the Central Bank. Kommersant

Banks will also be able to sell cash to Russians, and bank customers can now withdraw euros from their accounts again, the Central Bank reports in its telegram channel.

21:42

The European Union imposed sanctions against Putin's daughters Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova.

Again, the sanctions affected Russian businessmen - the Rotenberg brothers, Oleg Deripaska and the head of Sberbank German Gref, as well as the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov.

The list includes Oleg Dobrodeev, head of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Pavel Gusev, editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, Vladimir Sungorkin, editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Sergey Mikhailov, head of TASS, Alexey Pimanov, president of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding of the Ministry of Defense, and Igor Korotchenko, chairman of the public council under the Ministry of Defense and a regular participant in Russian TV shows on federal channels as a military expert.

Sanctions were imposed on the wife, mother-in-law and stepdaughter of the head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov, the ex-wife of billionaire Mikhail Fridman, the ex-husband of Putin's daughter Kirill Shamalov and Alisher Usmanov's brother Soadat Narziev.

Several dozen representatives of the DPR and LPR were also on the list.

21:21

US President Joe Biden blamed the attack on the Kramatorsk railway station on the Russian military.

“The attack on the Ukrainian train station is another terrible atrocity committed by Russia,” Biden said in a tweet.

A senior source in the US Department of Defense said that, according to preliminary data, the missile that hit the station was launched from Russian positions.

19:47

In Makarov, in the Kyiv region, 132 civilians were found who were shot dead when the region was under the control of Russian troops, said the head of the village, Vadim Tokar.

“As of yesterday, we raised 132 civilians who were shot by Russian orcs,” quoted Tokar as saying. Ukrayinska Pravda

According to him, the village is 40% destroyed and many houses cannot be restored.

19:42

Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova spoke about cases of rape of children in Bucha by the Russian military who controlled the city.

“A girl, 14 years old, was raped by five male invaders. Now pregnant. Bucha. Boy, 11 years old, raped in front of his mother - she was tied to a chair to watch. Butch,” writes Denisova.

She also spoke about the rape of a 20-year-old girl in Irpen by three soldiers.

18:26

18:21

Five people were injured during the shelling of the city of Zolote in the Luhansk region, and five houses were engulfed in fire, said the head of the region Serhiy Gaidai.

According to him, shelling of the village of Gorskoye continues for two days.

18:13

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Perm fined Dmitry Zhebelev, the founder of the Dedmorozim charitable foundation and ex-adviser to the governor of the Perm Territory, 30,000 rubles for an anti-war picket, the said . Permian himself

The court found him guilty of discrediting the Russian army.

In court, Zhebelev made a pacifist speech and the inadmissibility of the death of children. He also said that due to the sanctions imposed on Russia because of the war, many of his foundation's wards - children with incurable diseases - may be left without the necessary medical equipment.

17:52

In Lisichansk, a private residential building was shelled, a dead woman was found under the rubble, said the head of the Lugansk region Serhiy Gaidai.

In Severodonetsk, as a result of the shelling of high-rise buildings, there were fires in apartments, and in Shchedrishchevo and Kremennaya, in private houses. According to Gaidai, the shelling was carried out by the Russian military.

17:38

In Moscow, the court imposed the first fine in an administrative case on calls for sanctions against Russia (Article 20.3.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), the drew attention. CHTD telegram channel

On March 28, the Lefortovo Court fined Vladislav Arnichev 35,000 rubles. According to the Muscovite, the reason for the case was his YouTube video, in which he spoke about the sanctions. According to the decree, the FSB officer found the video.

“I would not like to repeat the wording from there, but they were as harsh as possible. Now the video is hidden,” Arinichev told the Telegram channel. In court, he pleaded not guilty.

17:01

The death toll from the strike on the Kramatorsk railway station has risen to 50 people, according to the head of the Donetsk region Pavel Kirilenko.

“Of the 98 wounded who were taken to medical facilities, 16 were children, 46 were women and 36 were men. Twelve of them died in the hospital. 38 people died right at the station,” wrote Kirilenko.

According to Ukrainian authorities, about 4,000 people were at the station at the time of the strike.

16:48

Russia is expelling 45 Polish diplomats in response to the same decision by Poland, reports . RIA Novosti

16:38

Finland is expelling two Russian diplomats, and one was denied a visa extension, the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper writes , citing the country's government.

16:08

The former head of the operational information and international relations service of the FSB, General Sergei Beseda, who was sent under house arrest after the start of the war, was transferred to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, journalist reports Andrei Soldatov . He also notes that the Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee is dealing with the general's case.

about the arrest of Beseda The journalist spoke in early March. According to Soldatov's sources, the reasons for initiating the case were "theft of funds allocated for subversive and undercover work in Ukraine, as well as deliberately false information about the political situation in Ukraine."

15:37

The Russian pro-government telegram channel Siloviki this morning published a video with puffs of smoke from the Kramatorsk railway station, accompanied by the caption “Ten minutes ago, arrivals at the Kramatorsk railway station. They are working on a cluster of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, drew ” Mediazona attention. Later, the video was deleted, but remained in the reposts of other channels. on the Typical Donetsk telegram channel , which, judging by the caption, was filmed in Shakhtersk, which is under the control of the DPR. appeared Also this morning , a video with the launch of two rockets

This morning in Kramatorsk, a railway station was shelled, where there were almost four thousand people who wanted to evacuate. According to preliminary estimates, 39 people died, more than 100 were injured. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the station was fired upon by two Tochka-U missiles by the Russian military.

The Russian Defense Ministry denies accusations that Ukraine shelled the Kramatorsk railway station. The agency claims that Tochka-U missiles are in service only with the Ukrainian army. In early March, the Conflict Intelligence Team, citing photographs from the village of Desnyanka in the Chernihiv region , reported that the Russian army had begun using Tochka-U.

14:47

The police detained a Muscovite born in 1984 who attacked the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov, according to MVD Media.

“During the boarding of passengers on the train at the Kazansky railway station, two men in medical masks, calling themselves the conductor, went into the car,” MVD Media reports. It is noted that the identity of the second man is established until he was found.

14:12

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russian military fired on civilians during the evacuation, killing four people, including one child, according to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

According to the agency, on April 7, the Russian military fired at a boat with people evacuated from Kherson to the Dnipropetrovsk region from Gradov. “Having covered a distance of 15 kilometers by boat, civilians were fired upon in the coastal strip,” the Prosecutor General’s Office reports. Seven people were injured, two people have not yet been found.

13:49

The DPR announced the termination of the work of the OSCE special monitoring mission on the territory of the republic, reports Interfax with reference to the Foreign Ministry. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPR Natalia Nikonorova also said that a member of the mission "engaged in illegal actions" was detained.

13:08

Almost 4,000 people were there at the time of the missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station, according to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

13:02

The Russian Defense Ministry denies accusations of shelling the railway station in Kramatorsk. According to the agency, "Tochka-U tactical missiles, the fragments of which were found near the railway station of Kramatorsk and published by eyewitnesses, are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces."

12:44

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow fined the head of the Gagarinsky municipal district, Elena Rusakova, and the head of the Lomonosovsky district, Gordey Nefyodov, 150 thousand rubles under the article on discrediting the Russian armed forces (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for anti-war appeals to the president, the Activatica portal . reports

In early March, the councils of deputies of the Gagarin and Lomonosov districts in their appeals called for the withdrawal of troops from the territory of Ukraine and an end to hostilities. “The hands of Russian soldiers and Russian weapons are sowing terrible destruction in residential areas of cities and villages, information is being received about the death of civilians, about hundreds of wounded and left homeless. There is no and cannot be any justification for this. Calling such actions "peacekeeping" is the height of cynicism," the Gagarin Council of Deputies said in a statement.

12:26

The British Foreign Office has included in the sanctions list the daughters of Vladimir Putin, Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova, as well as the daughter of Sergei Lavrov, Ekaterina Vinokurova.

12:11

The European Union approved a new package of sanctions against Russia, according to the EU website.

12:08

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wrote that the attack on the Kramatorsk railway station was carried out by Russian troops with Tochka-U missiles. According to him, there were thousands of Ukrainian civilians at the station awaiting evacuation.

11:48

After yesterday's attack, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta was diagnosed with burns to the eyes and conjunctiva, the cornea is intact, writes Novaya Gazeta.ru. Europe".

Yesterday Muratov was doused with red oil paint with acetone in the train car from Moscow to Samara.

11:33

In Kramatorsk, the railway station came under rocket fire from Russian troops, killing more than 30 people and injuring more than 100, according to the chairman of the Donetsk regional administration Pavlo Kirilenko and the head of the Ukrainian Railways Alexander Kamyshin .

According to Kirilenko, two Iskander missiles with a cluster charge hit the station building. The headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR claims that the strike was carried out by Ukrainian troops with a Tochka-U missile.

11:18

Japan has declared eight Russian diplomats and employees of the trade mission persona non grata, TASS reports citing a representative of the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

Corrected at 19:17. The number of exiled diplomats has been specified.

11:09

On the TV channel "Russia-24" they showed a story about the preparation in Ukraine by people in military uniform of a dummy to pass it off as a corpse. Director Nadezhda Kolobaeva said that the video used in the plot was filming the series in the Leningrad region.

“On March 20, we were filming a fall from a window for our series in Vsevolozhsk, and this is our stunt coordinator with an assistant preparing Albertik for shooting!” she wrote.

Journalist Roman Super said that neither the director's nor the editorial team of the TV channel "knew that this was not Ukraine", and the video was "brought" to them.

10:27

Since the beginning of the war, 208 residential buildings have been damaged in Kiev, according to the Kiev city administration. 46 schools, 29 kindergartens and one orphanage were also damaged.

9:44

The Russian aluminum company RUSAL, founded by Oleg Deripaska, called for an investigation into the killings in Bucha, drew the Financial Times attention. There are no charges against a specific party.

On April 6, the company's website published a statement by the chairman of the board of directors, Bernard Zonneveld. It notes that the company operates in 20 countries, including Ukraine. “Reports from the Ukrainian city of Bucha shocked us. <...> We stand for an objective and impartial investigation of this crime and call for severe punishment for those responsible. No matter how difficult it may seem in the context of the ongoing information war,” the statement said.

8:40

The US Treasury has imposed blocking sanctions against Alrosa and the United Shipbuilding Company.

8:32

In Bucha, it was possible to identify 163 local residents who were killed, said the mayor of the city, Anatoly Fedoruk, in an interview with Voice of America.

Results of the 43rd day of the war

The UN General Assembly suspended Russia's participation in the UN Human Rights Council.

German intelligence intercepted Russian military radio messages discussing the killing of civilians in Bucha, writes Der Spiegel. The department suggests that the crimes could be part of a strategy to intimidate the civilian population and suppress resistance.

Meduza released drone footage from Bucha proving that civilians had been killed prior to the withdrawal of Russian troops.

The BBC, citing several witnesses, reports that the Russian military prevented the residents of Borodianka near Kiev from dismantling the rubble of residential buildings in order to find survivors of the collapses.

The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, was doused with red oil paint with acetone with the words "Here's to you for our boys."

Cover photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine