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Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 47
20:23
The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, announced a high (yellow) level of terrorist threat in several urban districts and districts of the republic.
20:20
Deputy mayor of Mariupol Sergei Orlov insists that fighting for the city's port is still ongoing, according to the BBC. Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, claimed that the port was captured by the forces of the self-proclaimed republic.
The Vice Mayor also denied that the Ukrainian military in Mariupol ran out of ammunition.
19:05
The head of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamen Kondratiev, raised the level of terrorist threat to yellow in the Yeysk and Shcherbinovsky districts of the region.
This is already the fifth Russian entity bordering Ukraine that has made such a decision.
18:57
In Borodyanka, 19 people have been found dead since the beginning of the removal of the rubble of high-rise buildings that collapsed due to shelling, reports . the State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Residents of the village told journalists that the Russian military, threatening them with weapons, did not allow them to help people who were under the rubble after the collapse. Local residents also recalled that they heard screams and requests for help from under the rubble for several more days.
18:50
In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened about "fakes" about the Russian army against the artist Sasha Skochilenko, writes "Rotonda" with reference to the lawyer Dmitry Gerasimov. Her home is being searched.
On April 9, Skochilenko participated in an anti-war concert, and a day later the security forces came to the house of her familiar musician. Then the girl went to him and stopped getting in touch, writes "Paper".
According to the Network Freedoms project, investigators suspect Skochilenko of changing price tags in a supermarket for leaflets with information about the shelling of the Mariupol Drama Theater and the deaths of civilians.
Updated at 20:07. Added information "Network Freedoms".
18:30
In Lisichansk, four houses were destroyed as a result of the shelling, three people were injured, said the head of the Lugansk region Serhiy Gaidai.
“There are four direct hits on houses. Three of them were completely destroyed, one was partially destroyed,” writes Gaidai.
During the day, he also reported a direct hit on a high-rise building. As a result, one person died.
17:55
The Bryansk and Belgorod regions, following the Kursk and Voronezh regions, have declared a yellow level of terrorist threat. These regions of Russia border on Ukraine.
17:23
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin , claims that the port of Mariupol has come under the control of the forces of the self-proclaimed republic.
16:47
The Ukrainian military in Mariupol spoke about the lack of communication with the country's authorities and support, . Meduza noted
This morning, on the page of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade named after Rear Admiral Mikhail Belinsky, a message appeared that since the beginning of the war, it had received only one weapon and shells. Without replenishment of ammunition, the brigade could not fight back and was eventually pushed back to the Azovmash plant and surrounded.
“The mountain of the wounded makes up almost half of the brigade. Those who have not been torn off limbs and can walk, return to duty. The infantry was all killed and the artillerymen, anti-aircraft gunners, signalmen, drivers and cooks are conducting rifle battles. Even an orchestra,” the message said, partly written in Russian and partly in Ukrainian.
The brigade claims that the military and civilian leadership of the country promised to help them and offered various options, but none was ever implemented. “No one wants to communicate with us anymore, because we are decommissioned,” the post says.
In addition, yesterday the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, Svyatoslav Palamer, recorded a video message in which he also said that the authorities had promised to help, but now they have not been contacted for two weeks.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny wrote on Facebook this afternoon about the situation in Mariupol: “Communication with the units of the defense forces heroically holding the city is stable and maintained. I emphasize that the conduct of defense operations is not a topic for public discussion. We are doing everything possible and impossible for the Victory and the preservation of the lives of personnel and civilians in all directions.
15:17
Former Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who broke into the air with an anti-war poster, has become a freelance correspondent for the German Welt, reports the European media concern Axel Springer.
It is assumed that Ovsyannikova will write for the newspaper and work for the TV channel of the same name, including from Ukraine and Russia.
14:01
The EU has blacklisted 21 Russian airlines for failing to meet international safety standards. This means a ban on the operation of the aircraft of these airlines in the EU.
We are talking about Aeroflot, Pobeda, S7, Utair, NordWind, Ural Airlines.
“[The listing] reflects serious safety concerns due to the forced re-registration of foreign aircraft in Russia, knowingly allowing them to operate without valid airworthiness certificates,” the European Commission said in a release.
However, the EU closed its airspace to Russian aircraft at the end of February due to the invasion of Ukraine.
13:49
Croatia is expelling 24 employees of the Russian embassy, writes the local edition of Telegram, citing the Foreign Ministry.
We are talking about 18 diplomats and six people from the administrative and technical staff of the embassy.
13:42
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on the capture of the village of Kamenka in the Kharkov region, reports . RIA Novosti
13:25
More than 240 priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate have signed a letter demanding a church tribunal over the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, Archpriest of the Dnipropetrovsk diocese Andrei Pinchuk wrote on Facebook.
The priests are unhappy that Patriarch Kirill supported the war in Ukraine. They ask the Council of Primates of the Ancient Eastern Churches to evaluate Cyril's statements and deprive him of the right to occupy the patriarchal throne.
After the start of the Russian invasion, some communities decided to move from the UOC to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, proclaimed in 2018 and not part of the Moscow Patriarchate.
12:55
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called sanctions against Russian journalists imposed by the European Union inadmissible.
“The introduction of any restrictions on journalists, representatives or heads of the media, we consider it absolutely unacceptable, we strongly condemn this. This is beyond any understanding, ” TASS quotes Peskov.
The sanctions list included the heads of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Komsomolskaya Pravda, TASS and the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding of the Ministry of Defense.
12:20
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that tens of thousands of people had died in Mariupol, reports . Ukrinform
“Mariupol is destroyed. There are tens of thousands of dead, but even despite this, the Russians do not stop the offensive operation. They want to make Mariupol a demonstratively destroyed city,” Zelensky said, speaking to the South Korean parliament.
Earlier, the city authorities reported that in Mariupol there were about five thousand dead.
12:10
The head of the self-proclaimed DPR, Denis Pushilin , said that hostilities in the Donbass would be "intensified."
11:53
In the Zaporozhye region, the head of the Chernihiv village council left the village, refusing to cooperate with the Russian military, reports . the regional military administration
According to regional authorities, the Russian troops that have occupied the Chernihiv community are looking for participants in the military operation in Donbass from Ukraine and are putting pressure on civil servants and volunteers who do not want to cooperate with them.
“According to information from the Chernihiv community, the occupiers take property out of houses, spend the night in the houses of local residents. Many civilians are therefore forced to leave for Zaporozhye,” the administration said in a statement. They specify that looting is also taking place in other areas of the region occupied by Russian forces. The loot is presumably taken to the Crimea.
11:27
At night in the Nikolaev area the enterprise from Qatar suffered from blow, told the head of the region Vitaly Kim . A security guard was injured as a result of the impact.
11:23
The manufacturer of equipment for mobile networks Ericsson suspended work in Russia and sent employees in the country on paid leave, according to the website of the Swedish company.
10:38
The number of Ukrainians who left the country since the start of the war has exceeded 4.5 million, according to the UN.
Almost 2.6 million Ukrainians crossed the border with Poland, and about 700,000 more with Romania; 400 thousand people left for Russia, the UN specifies, citing data from the governments of these countries.
However, today the Polish border service reported that 2,657,000 citizens of Ukraine have already entered the country.
10:26
11 civilians, including a seven-year-old child, due to shelling by Russian troops over the past day in the Kharkiv region killed Oleg Sinegubov, head of the region, . Another 14 people were injured.
According to Sinegubov, during the day the Russian military launched about 66 strikes from artillery, mortars and multiple launch rocket systems.
10:22
The French group Societe Generale decided to leave Russia and sell Rosbank to Vladimir Potanin's Interros investment company, according to the group's website.
10:14
In the Luhansk region, a private clinic and a school in Severodonetsk and a sports facility in Zolote were destroyed, said the head of the region Serhiy Gaidai.
“There are no surviving critical and any other infrastructure facilities left in our region,” the governor wrote.
Results of the 46th day of the war
The death toll from the strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk has risen to 57 people.
In the Kyiv region, mass graves continue to be found - now in the village of Buzovaya.
The Ukrainian authorities accused the Russian military of looting two research laboratories in the Chernobyl zone.
The Ombudsman of Ukraine claims that 12,000 Ukrainians who were forcibly taken to Russia received Russian passports there.
In Novosibirsk, a tenth-grader was charged with “fake news” for commenting on a post in a telegram chat, and in Moscow, an activist was detained who stood with a book “War and Peace” in the Alexander Garden.
Cover photo: Oleksandr Ratushniak / UNDP Ukraine