Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 61

This morning, missile strikes were delivered to railway facilities in Vinnitsa, Rivne and Lviv regions of Ukraine.

22:40

Due to today's shelling by the Russian military railway stations in the west and in the center of Ukraine, one employee was killed, four were injured, Ukraine 24 reports with reference to the head of the Ukrainian railways Alexander Kamyshin.

The head of the Lviv Regional Administration Maxim Kozitsky this morning reported on the missile shelling of the traction substation of the Krasnoe railway station. Also reported about shelling of objects in the Rivne and Vinnitsa regions.

22:31

The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov announced the second shelling in the evening - in the village of Zhuravlevka. Two civilians, a man and a woman were injured. According to Gladkov, there is destruction of houses.

22:23

Journalists of the project "Schemes" of the Ukrainian Radio Liberty write that they found another mass burial near Mariopol using satellite shots.

We are talking about the village of Small Crimea five kilometers from Mariupol. Trenches, the length of which originally amounted to 60-70 meters, appeared on the territory of the Staroklimsky cemetery on March 24, on April 7 they increased, some parts of the trench were buried. According to journalists, the length of the trenches is more than 200 meters.

The mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko said that the authorities know about the export to the Russian military bodies of the inhabitants of Mariupol to the Old Crimea. “These fascists - and I have no other words - attract the local population for the burial, for food. They told us that it is necessary to “work out” to make you get food, water ... Now in Mariupol there are not enough humanities that they import, so people are forced to do this, ”Boychenko also said.

20:54

The Russian military requires the residents of the village of Velikaya Aleksandrovka, Kherson region to leave the village until April 28, they say in the Ukrainian army.

“The residents who have not fulfilled the order will apply forced evacuation,” the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.

20:49

The Russian military took control of the building of the Kherson City Council, Ukrainian Pravda reports with reference to the head of Kherson Igor Kolykhaev and employees of the City Council.

The mayor and employees of the Council left the building. The Russian military removed the flag of Ukraine, took the keys to the building from the guard. From tomorrow, advice will not work.

20:31

According to the UN, during the war in Ukraine 2,665 civilians were killed, another 3,053 were injured. Of these, 1,127 killed and 1,473 wounded were recorded in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

Actual figures, they say in the organization, are significantly higher - part of the information expects confirmation, from some places the information is delayed.

19:16

The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov spoke about the shelling from the Ukrainian side of the Nekhoteevka farm. According to him , four land ownerships and one car were damaged, there are no injured among civilians.

Updated at 20:37. Added damage data.

19:02

Kemerovo journalist Andrei Novashov, accused of spreading the "fakes" about the actions of the Russian army, was banned from communicating with the journalists "Siberia. Realories ”and“ Taigi.info ”, write “ Siberia. Realities ". Novashov collaborated with these editions.

The criminal case against Novashov was instituted due to posts on the Internet, including because of the repost of the publication of journalist Victoria Ivleva “VKontakte” about the situation in Mariupol during the war. In March, the journalist was searched, after which the court chose a preventive measure for him in the form of a ban on using the Internet, making calls by phone and attend public events.

18:24

The Investigative Committee of Russia claims to be detained by the Ukrainian military Sergey Batynsky, who raped a woman and killed a man in Mariupol.

A criminal case of cruelty to the civilian population was brought to the senior lieutenant of Batynsky (part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code). According to the department, in early April, the Ukrainian military detained two civilians who traveled past the checkpoint and locked them in the basement.

“Having consumed alcohol, Batynsky brought the detainee and, <...> threatening the murder, committed violent acts of a sexual nature against her. When the man held in the basement tried to stop them, Batynsky shot him, ”the press release also said.

He pleaded guilty, reported in the UK.

17:53

In the city of Dergachevo and neighboring villages of the Kharkov region, three people were killed from shelling today, one person was wounded, according to the head of the Kharkov regional administration Oleg Sinegubov.

“The Russians shoot artillery on the streets, residential buildings,” he wrote.

Also, as Sinegubov writes, two civilians suffered in the Zolochevsky district.

17:27

The FSB published a video in which five men who allegedly planned the murder of Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov are detained and interrogated.

During the interrogation, one of the detainees says that the murders of other Russian TV presenters were also discussed, “people who carried propaganda: Soloviev, Kiselev, Skabeev, Popov there. <...> Keosayan, Simonyan. " Also, as the detainee said, arson of machines with the “symbols of support of a special operation” and military enlistment offices were planned.

17:04

The Mariupol City Council drew attention to the frames of the plot of RT, on which mass burials in Mangush are visible.

The photo shows the burial with numbered signs on which the names of the dead are written. Judging by one of the tablets, at least 268 people are buried in one of the sectors of the mass grave.

The Council notes that only one burial sector is visible in the photo. In total, they, judging by the satellite images of April 9, four. “Therefore, Russia's propagandists themselves documented the fact of the murder of 1000 Mariupol residents,” it was reported.

Also, referring to the information of eyewitnesses and the scale of the burial, the Council gives a preliminary assessment of the buried Mariupol residents - from three to nine thousand people.

16:35

The Security Service of Ukraine rejected the accusations of the Russian authorities of preparing an attempt on TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov.

“The Security Council of Ukraine is systematically working to strengthen the security of our state and does not intend to seriously comment on the new fantasies of the Russian special services that simply come up with the next achievements for the Russian audience,” the SBU said.

The special service added that she did not have plans for the murder of Solovyov.

16:11

In the case of attempted murder of the Prochrevsky TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, six people were detained, the Investigative Committee reports .

According to SK, the detainees planned to undermine the presenter’s car. The case was initiated against them on the articles on the preparation for the murder for hiring in connection with the performance by a person of official activities or the fulfillment of public duty (part 1 of Article 30, paragraphs “B”, “E”, “F”, “Z” of part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code).

Investigators will ask the court to send suspects to the pre -trial detention center.

16:01

Since the beginning of the war, at least 1,744 Russian military had died in Ukraine, the Mediazone calculated on the basis of publications on social networks, the media and on the websites of state institutions.

“Real losses are more - far from all dead are publicly reported by the press, relatives, local authorities or educational institutions,” the publication emphasizes.

Most of the dead - from Dagestan (125 people) and Buryatia (85 people). Mediazon notes that in these regions a median salary barely exceeds 20 thousand rubles.

Almost a thousand messages mention the age of the dead-most of them are 21-23 years old. Another 69 killed less than 20 years, and 13 is only 18.

The Russian Ministry of Defense for two months of war only reported the number of dead military. On the last statement of the department dated March 25, 1,351 military was killed in Ukraine, and another 3,825 employees were injured.

15:44

As a result of missile strikes near the cities of Zhmerinka and Kazatin in the Vinnitsa region, five people were killed, 18 wounded, the regional prosecutor's office reports .

The department clarifies that the strikes were inflicted on transport infrastructure facilities.

This morning, the Russian military struck five railway stations in the western and central parts of Ukraine.

Two missile strikes were inflicted by rail in the Rivne region, there were no casualties there. Another blow fell on the traction substation of the railway near Lvov.

15:36

RTVI calculated that the Russian Ministry of Defense reported about 140 shot down Ukrainian military aircraft, while Ukraine had only 98.

15:24

Olga Yakimova, a student of the Ural State Architectural and Art University, who collected signatures against a banner with the letter Z on the university building, called to the dean’s office where the police were waiting for her, reports it's My City.

As Yakimova said, she was ordered to fill out an explanation. The police were also interested in the chat of the initiative group of students and the questions where activists are going to send a letter against the banner and how students will go if they do not remove it.

The student said that police officers interview other university students who expressed about the banner. She carried a letter with signatures to the rector.

Also, for a conversation to the police, they called the Chat administrator Daria Nikulin.

More than 580 people signed a letter against the banner, of which about 300 are university students.

15:03

In Kiev, sculptures are dismantled at the Friendship of Peoples Arch, the mayor of the city Vitaly Klitschko said . It was opened in 1982 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the USSR-on the sculpture under the arch it says: "To commemorate the reunification of Ukraine with Russia."

“Russia marked its attitude to Ukraine” by the brutal killings of civilians, the destruction of our cities and villages, the desire to destroy our statehood. 8 meters of metal of the so -called "friendship of the two peoples" will be removed from the center of Kyiv, ”Klitschko wrote.

The arch of friendship of peoples consists of three elements - the actual arch of titanium sheets in the form of a rainbow, a bronze sculpture of two workers and sculptures from granite with a stage from the Pereyaslav Rada .

Bronze sculpture is dismantled this week, later they are dismantled and granite. They are going to leave the arch, but they are renamed and illuminated by the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

“Old symbols acquire a new meaning,” writes the mayor of Kyiv.

14:09

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General’s Office said that the FSB officers “stopped the activities of a terrorist group”, which planned the murder of a Russian television journalist. The FSB claims that an attempt on TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov was planned.

“The FSB of the Russian Federation, together with the IC of the Russian Federation, was detained by a group of members of the neo -National terrorist organization“ National Socialism/White Power ” - Russian citizens who planned the killing of a public figure, the famous journalist Vladimir Solovyov,” RIA Novosti, the FSB release, “Novosti Security Service, was detained .

It also says that the detainees found a home -made explosive device, eight Molotov cocktails, six pistols, a grenade, a hunting for a hunting rifle, more than a thousand rounds, nationalist literature and drugs.

The special service reports that the detainees are already giving confession.

“Of course, now they will unsubscribe from this, but the facts and evidence are irrefutable,” Putin said, but did not give any details.

He also spoke that Western allies urge Ukraine to use all methods to “win the battlefield”.

“With the realization that this is impossible, another task comes to the fore - to split Russian society, to destroy Russia from the inside. But here a hitch, it does not work. Our society shows maturity, cohesion, supports our armed forces, ”the president said. “Since they are defeated on the information field, fooling, of course, their citizens and using their monopoly position in the information space of their countries and in some other countries, but they suffer a fiasco in Russia - they moved to terror, to prepare the murders of our journalists.”

He added that in the CIA, “apparently give such advice” to the Ukrainian authorities. “Here is the attitude to the rights of journalists, this is the attitude to the dissemination of information, this is the attitude to human rights as a whole,” Putin summed up.

13:41

In Yakutsk, the police detained activist Aikhal Ammosov, reports OVD-info with reference to his friend, who drew attention to Storis Ammosov.

Last week, the activist went to the building of the local funeral bureau with a poster with the image of the coffin and the inscription “The groom arrived”, which refers to the stage from the film “Cargo 200”.

12:52

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that today from 14:00 in Moscow the Russian military and the forces of the DPR will stop hostilities and take the units to a safe distance from Azovstali so that civilians could leave the territory of the plant.

The Ukrainian side for the start of the humanitarian operation should raise white flags around the entire perimeter of Azovstal and “in separate directions”.

In the same statement, the Ministry of Defense again claims that the humanitarian corridor from the plant is open around the clock from March 21, although the last weeks the territory of Azovstal is regularly fired.

12:41

The Governor of the Kursk Region Roman Starovoit claims that in the village of Borovskoye Russian Air Defense, two Ukrainian drones shot down.

12:32

The son of the founder of the Children's Cinema festival “Kits” from Mariupol Olga Novikova was captured, now 5 thousand euros are demanded from her for preserving his life. Novikova in a conversation with Medusa suggested that extortionists are representatives of the DPR, since they spoke Russian with a dialect inherent in the inhabitants of the Donetsk region.

The military called Novikova from the account of her son in Facebook messenger. Olga told them that she became a refugee and she did not have 5 thousand euros and the opportunity to collect them in a day. “This is not our business. If you don’t collect, we will send you a video of how we kill your son, ”Novikova quotes the interlocutors.

Olga promised that in the event of a transfer of money, her son would be sent to the Russian military commandant’s office, where "he will work with all the other prisoners for the benefit of the Soviet Union."

“They demand 5 thousand euros to preserve his life. Not for return. Not for safety. And just for preserving his life, ”the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Peter Andryushchenko was indignant . “Given the time until Monday morning, [April 25].”

He published a video of the interrogation of Alexei Novikov, who sent his mother. The young man says that he was detained on April 23.

- Who are you? Where was it? Speak quickly, ”the man asks behind the scenes.
-I am a soldier of the 109th brigade of territorial defense of the Donetsk region, a commandant platoon.
- Called in Mariupol?
- Yes.
- Was a volunteer?
- Yes.
- How do you treat you here?
- Fine. I have food here, water, a toilet, - Novikov turns around and shows it to a bucket.
- They beat you? Well, except for pussy just.
- Besides that.
-Something hurts you?
- No.

Alexey Novikov is a first-year student, he studied political science. It is kept in the area of ​​the village of Maloyanisol in the Donetsk region, about 45 kilometers from Mariupol. The Ukrainian authorities included him in the lists for exchange.

11:45

Since the beginning of the war, 3,818 civilians have died in Ukraine, the country's Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova told Interfax-Ukraine. More than 4 thousand people were injured.

These data do not include victims in Mariupol and those areas of the Kyiv region where prosecutors cannot yet get.

Venediktova also said that the Russian military raped not only women and children, but also men and elderly people. However, the prosecutor's office cannot investigate all cases.

“Not all victims are able to talk to us today. Because they, firstly, are in the occupied territories. If they have already left for a safe territory, the West of Ukraine or even to Europe, then secondly, they are in such stress that they do not even speak with public organizations. They are really afraid that they will be found and killed, ”the Prosecutor General explains.

In addition, Venediktova reported that two colonies were “defrosting” for the Russian prisoners of war, but so far the Ukrainian authorities have enough 60 places of temporary detention of prisoners created at the beginning of the war. They can accommodate up to two thousand people.

11:21

Vnukovo Airport sent part of the employees to a simple one, Interfax reports .

“Vnukovo Airport is forced to reduce expenses <...> in terms of personnel, the reception is closed, downtime was introduced, and a part-time regime was offered due to reduced loading,” the representative of Vnukovo told the agency.

During downtime, the airport employees will receive two -thirds of the salary.

Two sources of Izvestia, familiar with the measures taken, said that 30% of employees received instructions on the possible subsequent reduction. The airport noted that the state reduction decisions have not yet been made.

At the end of March, Sheremetyevo sent 20% of employees to a simple.

11:08

In the Lviv region, in the morning, a missile blow was delivered at the traction substation of the Krasnoye railway station, said the head of the region Maxim Kozitsky.

There is no information about the victims yet. According to Kozitsky, the Russian military launched missiles from the south-east of Ukraine from strategic aircraft aircraft, possibly Tu-95. The Ukrainian military managed to knock one rocket.

10:54

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the blow to the oil refinery in Kremenchug. Earlier, the head of the Poltava military regional administration said that as a result of strokes on the refinery and thermal power plants, a man died and almost the whole city was left without hot water.

Представитель российского Минобороны Игорь Конашенков также сообщил, что за сутки убиты более 240 украинских военных.

10:08

США пока не ввели санкции против гимнастки Алины Кабаевой, которую считают любовницей президента России Владимира Путина, из-за опасений, что это приведет к «дальнейшей эскалации напряженности между Россией и США» и усложнит мирные переговоры с Украиной, пишет The Wall Street Journal со ссылкой на американских чиновников.

Минфин США уже подготовил пакет санкций против Кабаевой, отметили собеседники издания, но Совет национальной безопасности решил исключить ее имя из санкционного списка.

Источники издания считают, что Кабаева причастна к сокрытию личного состояния Путина за рубежом. По данным WSJ, гимнастка — мать троих детей президента: в 2015 году она родила ребенка от Путина в Швейцарии, а в 2019 году — еще двух близнецов в Москве.

Сам Путин никогда не признавал отношений с Кабаевой.

9:39

«На Луганщине семь домов разрушили россияне на Пасху, третий раз попали в нефтеперерабатывающий завод, — написал глава области Сергей Гайдай. — <…> В воскресенье вся область оказалась под мощными обстрелами».

В частности В Лисичанске повреждены две многоэтажки и два частных дома, в Северодонецке — один многоэтажный дом, а в Рубежном и Горном — частные дома.

Кроме того, из-за обстрелов несколько автомобилей попали в аварии.

9:23

В результате обстрела Кременчуга погиб один человек, рассказал глава Полтавской областной военной администрации Дмитрий Лунин. Another seven suffered.

«Самый большой обстрел области за время полномасштабного российского вторжения», — написал Лунин.

По местным ТЭЦ и нефтеперерабатывающему заводу ударили девять ракет. Из-за удара по ТЭЦ почти во всех районах города нет горячей воды.

8:56

В Брянске ночью произошел пожар на нефтебазе АО «Транснефть-Дружба» в Фокинском районе.

По данным источника «Интерфакса», также загорелся резервуар объемом 10 тысяч с дизельным топливом на территории нефтяного комплекса на Снежетьском валу. О пожаре на другом объекте сообщает и РИА «Новости», не уточняя, что это за объект.

О пожаре на нефтебазе ночью сообщило областное управление МЧС: «К месту вызова направлены пожарно-спасательные расчеты по повышенному рангу (номеру) пожара». Вскоре ведомство удалило сообщение. Это заметил «Коммерсантъ».

Власти пока не назвали причин пожаров.

Как передает РИА «Новости», для тушения пожара привлекли силы МЧС Воронежской, Калужской, Курской, Орловской, Смоленской, Тульской областей и Москвы.

От Брянска до границы с Украиной около 150 километров. В апреле в области, как и других российских регионах, граничащих с Украиной, повысили уровень террористической опасности.

Итоги 60-го дня войны

В Луганской и Донецкой областях не прекращаются обстрелы. Также удары нанесли в Днепропетровской, Полтавской и Харьковской областях.

Десятки мирных жителей в Буче и Ирпене были убиты флешеттами — авиационным оружием, распространенным в Первую мировую войну.

Украинский омбудсмен Людмила Денисова рассказала, что пленных украинских военных содержат в колониях Ростовской области.

Роскомнадзор заблокировал шахматный сайт Chess.com, выступивший против войны в Украине и запретивший участвовать в призовых турнирах игрокам, поддержавшим вторжение.

Фото на обложке: Олег Переверзев для «Холода»**