Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 46

20:32

During the shelling of the station in Kramatorsk, 57 people were killed, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk regional administration, on the air of the telethon. 109 people were injured, some of them in serious condition. All victims are in safe regions of Ukraine.

Earlier it was reported about 52 dead. Kirilenko was able to provide updated data, as the investigation team completed its work at the station.

19:23

The rector of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in the village of Karabanovo, Father John Burdin, who was fined in early March for an anti-war sermon, held his last service, according to Elena Glubokovskaya, a resident of Kostroma.

"He's leaving. Myself. No one forced him to do this, ”she wrote on her Facebook. According to her, the church has already appointed a new rector.

Later, Burdin said that he had not taken off his rank and expected to return to service in another diocese.

Updated April 11 at 15:57. Added a comment from the priest himself.

18:01

12,000 Ukrainians forcibly taken to Russia received Russian passports, according to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova. According to her, the Russian authorities “are intimidating the most vulnerable categories of people – women, people with disabilities, pensioners” into applying for Russian citizenship.

“Forcible passportization is illegal and is not recognized by Ukraine, it is contrary to the principles and norms of international law and directly violates the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Population in Time of War,” Denisova added.

17:28

In the Kursk region, from April 11, a yellow (second of three) level of terrorist threat is introduced, said the governor of the region, Roman Starovoit.

17:08

17:00

A Russian flag was hung over the Mariupol City Council building. Photos and videos appeared in the telegram channel “WarDonbass. War in Donbass. Special Operation Z in Ukraine.

The post is accompanied by a comment: “Yesterday, together with the RT film crew, they set up the Russian flag over the city administration of the city of Mariupol,” and the caption “Olga Seletskaya.” Olga Seletskaya used to tell the Russian media about the “secret prison of the Azov Battalion” in Mariupol. She is included in the Peacemaker database as a militant of an illegal armed group.

Yesterday, Ramzan Kadyrov told on his Telegram channel how the Russia Today film crew is working in Mariupol "right in the thick of things" with the support of Chechen ministers.

16:10

Two people were detained in Dnipro, who painted the monument to Alexander Pushkin with the letter Z, the reports . Strana newspaper

“These people are overexcited citizens who believe that Pushkin is a symbol of Russian aggression,” commented Mayor Boris Filatov. The detainees were handed over to the SBU, where they had a preventive conversation, and then they were released.

The monument to Pushkin will soon be washed away (so far, at least partially, the letters Z have been painted over ), the mayor promised. He also assured that the city authorities were not going to dismantle the monument, and recalled that the Russian poet lived in exile in the city. “I would very much like patriotic citizens to go to war with the invaders, and not with monuments,” Filatov added.

15:48

Since the beginning of the war, 1,222 people have died in the Kiev region, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova said on Sky News.

As of April 9, the UN High Cormissariat counted 1,766 dead civilians in Ukraine. The organization believes that the actual number of victims is much higher, but during the fighting it is often impossible to collect and verify data.

15:31

In the village of Novopavlovka, Dnipropetrovsk region, a local resident died after picking up a cluster munition, reports the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk. He also spoke about three airstrikes on the Dnipro airport, in which five emergency workers were injured.

“Repeated attack on the Dnipro airport. There is no living space left on it. The airport itself was destroyed, as well as the infrastructure nearby. And the missiles keep flying and flying,” said the head of the regional administration, Valentin Reznichenko.

15:13

In the village of Buzovaya in the Kiev region, a mass grave with dozens of dead was discovered, said the head of the Dmitriev community (it includes the village) Taras Didych. In a Reuters commentary, he said that the bodies of two local residents are being exhumed right now. “I can’t reveal the details,” Didych added.

14:25

In Kherson, the Russian military broke up a pro-Ukrainian rally, writes Yury Sobolevsky, the first deputy head of the regional council, on Facebook. In the area where the rally was held, shots were heard, Suspilne Novini adds, citing its correspondent.

Kherson has been under the control of the Russian military since the beginning of March. Yesterday, a Russian flag was hoisted over the city administration building. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian military uses printing houses in Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region to print campaign materials for a referendum on the creation of a "Kherson People's Republic".

13:41

The Russian military, who were in the Chernobyl zone, plundered two research laboratories, according to the State Agency of Ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone.

From the laboratory of the Ecocenter enterprise, the military stole or damaged 133 sources of ion radiation with a total activity of about 7 million Becquerels. This is comparable to 700 kilograms of radioactive waste with the presence of beta and gamma radiation, the agency specifies. This dose can be lethal.

The Russians removed computers and office equipment from the laboratory of the Institute for Nuclear Safety Problems. In addition, sources of ionizing radiation and samples of fuel-containing materials disappeared from the laboratory. Where they are now is unknown.

Earlier, the Ukrainian authorities reported that the Russian military had destroyed the Chernobyl archive.

The day before, CNN published a report on how the Russian military brought radioactive dust from the Red Forest (the forest took on the most radioactive dust during the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986) to the premises of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant where they lived. TV channel reporters measured the level of radiation on the packaging of the Russian army food ration, which they found on the outskirts of the forest. The level exceeded the natural radiation background by 50 times.

The fact that the Russian military was digging trenches in the Red Forest and probably received serious doses of radiation was reported by the Ukrainian authorities shortly after the withdrawal of the Russian army from the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The General Staff of Ukraine reported that the injured Russian military, who returned from the Chernobyl region, were placed in the Gomel Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology in Belarus. The head of the Bellingcat investigative project, Hristo Grozev, citing his sources , said on Twitter that the Geiger counter in the Belarusian clinic "almost broke" when one of the Russian soldiers was there.

12:47

12:38

During the day, Russian troops launched 66 strikes on Kharkov and the region, according to the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov. Nine people were injured. During the shelling of the city of Dergachi, Sinegubov said, two people were killed.

Earlier today, Maxar Technologies released satellite imagery showing a 12-kilometer column of Russian troops passing through Veliky Burluk in the Kharkiv region on April 8.

12:10

A train with refugees from Ukraine arrived in the Leningrad region, reports Paper. The day before, the governor of the region Alexander Drozdenko said that 550-650 refugees from Mariupol would come to the Tikhvin region. They will be placed in the Tsaritsyno Lake boarding house. "Paper" could not find data on the existence of such a boarding house.

At the end of March, the mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko , claimed that 20-30 thousand people were forcibly taken out of the city to the territory of Russia. In total, according to the Ukrainian authorities, 45,000 people were forcibly taken from Ukraine to Russia.

11:30

Russian troops "destroyed the headquarters and base of the nationalist Dnepr battalion, where a few days ago reinforcements from foreign mercenaries arrived," said Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov at a morning briefing. The headquarters was located in the village of Zvonetskoe, Dnepropetrovsk region.

The head of the regional council, Nikolai Lukashuk , said that there were 7 air strikes in the Dnieper at night. As a result, one infrastructure facility was completely destroyed. One person was hurt. In addition, an unnamed infrastructure facility was destroyed in Pavlograd, and a rocket was shot down in the Solonyansky community of the Dniprovsky district of the region, the fragments of which fell on the roof of a farm.

At the same time, the state emergency service for the Dnipropetrovsk region reported that in the Dniprovsky district a shell hit a farm, completely destroying the building. There were no casualties.

The village of Zvonetskoye is located in the Solonyansky district. The neighboring village of Majorca, three kilometers from Zvonetsky, is already in the Dnieper region.

10:51

In Novosibirsk, tenth grader Yevgeny Fokin was prosecuted for “fake news” (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) for reposting in a Telegram chat, the reports Sibirmedia telegram channel . The young man signed a non-disclosure agreement.

According to human rights activist Pavel Chikov, Fokin left a comment on the post in the Novosibirsk 2020 Coalition telegram chat. The teenager is defended by lawyer Yegor Solunin.

Updated at 20:04. Added information about telegram chat and lawyer.

10:05

Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova confirmed the April 9 exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine. Among the released Russians are four employees of Rosatom and an unnamed number of military personnel.

The day before, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said that as a result of the exchange of prisoners, 12 military and 14 civilians returned to Ukraine.

9:33

Ukraine has imposed a trade embargo against Russia, according to Taras Melnichuk, representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada. According to the Ukrainian side, the ban on the import of goods from the Russian Federation into the customs territory of Ukraine will cost Russia about $6 billion annually.

9:08

Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov spoke about a new type of bombs dropped by Russian troops. These bombs are dropped by parachute. The Telegram channel “Suspilne Kharkiv” published a photo of such a projectile. On the eve of the appearance near Kharkov of a new type of weapon - mines PTM-1C - wrote The New York Times.

Results of the 45th day of the war

Roskomnadzor blocked Kholod.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv and met with Volodymyr Zelensky. Johnson promised to provide Ukraine with 120 armored vehicles and anti-ship missile systems. The visit of the British Prime Minister was not announced in advance.

A shell hit a tank with nitric acid in the Luhansk region. Local authorities blame Russian troops for the attack.

The third exchange of prisoners took place between Russia and Ukraine.

The New York Times writes about a new type of mines that are found near Kharkov: PTM-1C. They can explode both on contact and automatically: each mine can be programmed to self-destruct.

The EU Delegation, which left Kyiv at the beginning of the war, returned to the capital of Ukraine. Other diplomatic missions - Slovenia, Lithuania, Turkey - also restored their work, and the Italian embassy intends to return to Kyiv after Easter.

Cover photo: Oleksiy Samsonov, KMDA**