Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 53

21:20

About 40 people died on the cruiser Moskva, she told Novaya Gazeta. Europe "the mother of a sailor who served on the ship for military service. The publication does not give the name of the woman for security reasons, but notes that the journalists received "documentary evidence of the call of her son and a photo from the service in the Navy."

The son called the woman on April 15, when he was given a phone - the documents and personal phones of the military remained on the cruiser. He said that the ship was hit from land, from the Ukrainian side, and the crew tried to put out the fire on their own.

“About forty people died. Several people went missing. And a lot of wounded. The wounded, mostly with severed limbs, because there were such explosions - both what detonated and what rockets hit, ”Novaya Gazeta quotes the woman as saying. Europe".

20:36

A message appeared on VKontakte in which a man named Dmitry Shkrebets claims that his son, a conscript soldier who served on the cruiser Moskva, has gone missing.

The message was deleted, its screenshots were saved in social networks, but soon the post appeared again with the comment “The guys will soon delete this post again, copy it.”

At the moment, only one dead person is reliably known - midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev. There is no official data.

18:25

In the house where political scientist Ekaterina Shulman lived ten years ago, unknown people hung leaflets with the text “She supports the Ukrainian Nazis.”

17:01

During the shelling of the center of the city of Zolote in the Luhansk region, two people were killed and four were injured, according to the head of the regional administration Serhiy Gaidai.

16:58

Oleg Buryak, the head of the Zaporozhye regional administration, said that his 16-year-old son was kidnapped at a checkpoint in Vasilyevka when he was evacuated from Melitopol. It is reported by Ukrinform.

According to Buryak, on April 8, his son left the city with two women he knew and three children. The car was stopped at the checkpoint. Three hours later, everyone except Buryak's son was released.

15:47

Volodymyr Zelenskyy promoted Rear Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa, Commander of the Ukrainian Navy, to Vice Admiral. The presidential decree is posted on the official website.

“And everyone knows what a brilliant operation!” Viktoria Strakhova, adviser to the head of the presidential office , commented on the increase on her Facebook.

15:31

injured in the shelling of the center of Five people died and 13 were Kharkov The rescue work continues.

The telegram channel "Kharkov Life" reported that a shell had hit a residential building; there is no official information about this yet.

14:43

In Severodonetsk, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, a new cemetery has appeared, which has more than 400 graves since the beginning of the war, reports the head of the regional administration Serhiy Gaidai.

According to him, about 20 thousand inhabitants remained in the city, while before the war 130 thousand people lived in Severodonetsk.

On April 16, five settlements in the Lugansk region were shelled, reports the National Police of Ukraine . As a result of the shelling, civilians were killed and injured, the police do not give the number of victims.

14:08

During the analysis of the rubble of houses in Borodyanka in the Kiev region, since April 6, 41 bodies of dead people have been found, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Rescuers dismantled the rubble of five multi-storey buildings, they have to dismantle two more.

in the Kiev region , UNIAN reports with reference to the head of the main department of the National Police for the region. In total, 996 bodies of dead civilians were found

12:56

A monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov was dismantled in Kharkov, reports Konstantin Nemichev, commander of the KRAKEN special forces unit of the Azov regiment, on his telegram channel. Kharkiv authorities have not yet commented on the dismantling of the monument.

As Current Time notes , the bust of Zhukov in Kharkiv was already demolished in 2019 during a protest against the congress of the Trust in Business party, but the city authorities reinstalled it.

11:24

Russian troops “at the request of Turkish President Rajip Erdogan” released “hostages held by Ukrainian Nazis in a Turkish mosque” in Mariupol, reported to the Ministry of Defense at a morning briefing. “The hostages, citizens of one of the CIS countries, have been released and taken to a safe place,” the statement said.

The Ministry of Defense also said that the Ukrainian authorities allegedly forbid their military in Mariupol to negotiate surrender. On the night of April 17, the department addressed the Ukrainian military and “foreign mercenaries” located on the territory of the Azovstal plant with an ultimatum to lay down their arms and leave from 6 am to 1 pm Moscow time. “Everyone who laid down their arms is guaranteed the preservation of life,” the Defense Ministry said.

In addition, at a morning briefing in the Ministry of Defense, they spoke about the destruction of an ammunition factory near the city of Brovary near Kiev. Mayor of the city Igor Sapozhko reported this morning about the rocket attack. According to him, infrastructure facilities were damaged as a result of the shelling.

10:49

During the day in Kharkiv, three civilians were killed as a result of shelling, reports the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov. 31 people were injured, including four children. In addition, three sappers were killed while clearing cluster munitions near Kharkov, and four more were injured.

Yesterday Kharkov was shelled twice. One of the blows fell on the Horse Market, which is open on Saturday.

9:25

Journalists from the Schemes project of the Ukrainian Radio Liberty identified the soldier who died during the sinking of the Moskva cruiser as midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev.

His widow Varvara Vakhrusheva published a photo in Odnoklassniki with the comment “He died doing his duty. He fought to the last breath for the life of the ship. A VKontakte user, at the request of Schemes, spoke to the widow. She said that the command informed her about the death of her husband at lunchtime on April 14. Vakhrusheva does not know whether anyone from her husband's military unit survived. 27 crew members, she said, were missing.

On the eve of the Russian Ministry of Defense posted a video of the meeting of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov with the crew of the Moscow. Journalists The Insider counted about 100 soldiers. How many people were on board the ship at the time of the sinking is unknown; the website of the Ministry of Defense says that the crew of the cruiser is 680 people.

Results of the 52nd day of the war

The Ministry of Defense showed a video of the meeting of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov with the crew of the sunken cruiser Moskva. There are still no official reports of dead or injured sailors.

The court in Lvov sent under arrest "Putin's godfather" Viktor Medvedchuk.

According to Ukrainian authorities, between 2,500 and 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers died during the war. More than 700 military and about 1,000 civilians are in Russian captivity.

Major General Vladimir Frolov, who died in Ukraine, was buried in St. Petersburg.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the magazine "People of Baikal". The publication kept a list of soldiers from Buryatia and the Irkutsk region who died in Ukraine since the beginning of the war.

Kharkiv was shelled twice, several people were killed.

Russian troops shelled an armored plant in Kyiv. One person died.

Cover photo: Oleksandr Ratushniak / UNDP Ukraine