Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 64

01:51

BBC journalist Ben Brown, who interviewed UN Secretary General António Guterres in Kiev, tweeted: "The UN Secretary General told me he was shocked that Russia launched a missile attack on Kiev at a time he is in town for talks with President Zelensky.”

23:11

As a result of a strike on a residential building in Kyiv, 10 people were injured, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

The agency clarifies that we are talking about a 25-storey building. Due to the impact, the first and second floors were partially destroyed.

22:54

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Zakhar Tatuiko, a participant in an anti-war rally, to a year and four months in a colony-settlement for spraying a spray can in the direction of a police officer.

According to investigators , on March 2, Tatuiko on Nevsky Prospekt, during a rally against the war in Ukraine, grabbed a policeman who was detaining another protester and sprayed him with pepper spray. The policeman did not receive any injuries - the investigator reported only contact dermatitis (skin inflammation).

The Petersburger was accused of using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). He pleaded guilty. “10,000 rubles were recovered from Tatuiko as compensation for damages,” the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg reports, without specifying what kind of damage they are talking about.

22:08

Three people were hospitalized after a strike on a residential building in Kiev, said the mayor of the city Vitali Klitschko.

22:02

Two Russian military men, whom the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine called involved in violence against civilians in Bucha, said that they left the army several years ago and were not in Bucha. The wife of the third military man from the list reported the same.

The "Agency" contacted Sergei Peskarev and Dmitry Sergienko . They both say that they were not in Bucha and left the service three years ago.

Sergienko confirmed that he served in the 64th motorized rifle brigade, mentioned by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, but said that he now works in the civilian industry and has not communicated with his colleagues for a long time.

In addition, the wife of another Russian from the list, Mikhail Kashin, told the Agency that he quit five years ago and was not in Bucha either.

Earlier today, the Prosecutor General's Office announced the suspicion of ten Russian military men in violence and abuse of civilians in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region. on her Facebook page . Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova published the names of the suspects and their photographs

21:15

Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on the shelling of the city by the Russian military: "Two hits in the Shevchenkovsky district." The UN Secretary General is now on an official visit to the Ukrainian capital.

Svetlana Vodolaga, a spokeswoman for the Kiev department of the State Emergency Service, told Hromadske that one blow was struck at the “object” and the other at the housing sector near it. There are victims, but the exact data is still unknown. Vodolaga added that the hit was on the first floors, and people remain on the upper ones.

There were also explosions in the Kyiv region. According to the press secretary of the regional department of the State Emergency Service, Victoria Ruban, there was a hit on "infrastructural facilities." The agency traditionally does not disclose information about the affected facilities.

Pro-Kremlin journalist Oleksandr Kots writes that the strikes were carried out on the Artyom defense plant in Kiev. He later added that "subscribers from Kiev report" strikes near the Zhuliany airport.

The Artem plant is located in the Shevchenkovsky district, not far from the center of Kyiv.

19:37

In the Volgograd region, police registered an 11-year-old schoolboy from Kamyshin because of posts on social networks that the security forces regarded as discrediting the Russian army, reports . Infokam

After the federal media paid attention to the news, the publication removed it from the site. The page has remained in the web archive.

19:18

Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine , told Time that on the night of February 25, the Russian military twice tried to storm the presidential complex in the center of Kiev, where Volodymyr Zelensky was then with his wife and children.

18:55

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced a new exchange of prisoners - 45 people returned to Ukraine. Of these, 13 officers and 20 soldiers, including five wounded, as well as 12 civilians.

18:40

In Moscow, a teenager was detained near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior with a poster "Uy oine." According to OVD-Info, the police do not let the lawyer into the Khamovniki police department, where the young man was taken.

18:34

The Bi-2 group reported that they were not allowed to hold a concert in Omsk and it was canceled.

Omsk oppositionist Daniil Chebykin writes that the group refused to perform with the "For the President" banner in the background. The band's staff hung the banner with a black canvas, but the venue's administration demanded that it be removed.

“Now these events can be used to continue the information attack that Bi-2 has been subjected to in the media over the past week. We regard this situation as a continuation of the attacks on the group and our fans, ”the message of the VKontakte group says.

17:29

CNN published the story of a 16-year-old resident of a village in the Kherson region, occupied by Russian troops, about rape by the military.

Two soldiers found Dasha (her name has been changed) and two girls, aged 12 and 14, while the teenagers were looking for food in a house where they were hiding from shelling. One of the soldiers was drunk and began to ask how many rooms there were in the house and how old the children were. He turned out to be from Donetsk, his colleagues called him "Blue".

First, he took Dasha's mother to another room, but then quickly let her go. After that, he called Dasha herself.

“When I entered, he first told me how he saved two people in our village – a mother with two children,” the girl recalls. Soon "Blue" got angry, started yelling at Dasha and demanded that she undress. On refusal, he began to threaten to kill. At that moment, another military man entered the room - he warned "Blue" that he would have problems in the unit if he did anything to the girl.

However, this did not stop the military man, and he raped 16-year-old Dasha. During the events described, Dasha was about six months pregnant, CNN notes.

“When I resisted, he strangled me and said he would kill me. Then he made an unimaginable threat: “Either you sleep with me now, or I will bring 20 more people,” the victim recalls.

According to her, "Blue" tried to attack her several more times, until two Russian snipers intervened, who took her and her family to another house. There, Dasha was told that "Blue" was killed, but then she found out that this was not so.

After the rape, Dasha was summoned by the commander of the Blue. The conversation was more like an interrogation.

“He used some kind of psychological trick. He started saying the same things the rapist had said to me, yelled at me and [said he would] do the same thing to me as the rapist. I was very scared and started crying,” says the girl. After this reaction, the commander decided that Dasha was telling the truth.

16:45

The Azov regiment reports that the Russian military bombed Azovstal all night and publishes a video from a military field hospital on the territory of the plant.

“The Russians massively dropped multi-ton bombs capable of breaking through any concrete defenses. Then, having already caused destruction, they continued to mercilessly shell the ruins from naval artillery, ”the message on the Azov telegram channel said.

Due to night shelling, part of the building collapsed - as a result, some wounded Ukrainian soldiers died, while others received shell shock or new injuries, according to Azov. The destruction affected the operating room and now it is impossible to help the wounded military.

The video shows a man digging through the rubble. In "Azov" they specify that under them were the dead soldiers, who were seriously injured, and their colleagues who helped them.

Yesterday, Azov reported that there were about 600 wounded Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of civilians on the territory of Azovstal.

15:53

The Nizhny Novgorod portal NN.ru reports the death of 19-year-old military man Nikita Koshelev on the border with Ukraine. The publication refers to the parents who received the funeral - it lists the Belgorod region as the place of death. Koshelev's death is confirmed at the college where he studied. This is the first report of a person killed in shelling in Russia.

Koshelev is a resident of the city of Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod region. In July 2021, he was called up for military service, and in February he ended up on the border with Ukraine.

The last time Koshelev got in touch was on April 18, his friend said: “The text message from him was at 11 a.m. with a penny: “We will be bombed, if anything, I’ll call you or write to you in the morning.” The conscript had two and a half months to serve.

The day after his last message, on April 19, information appeared about the shelling of the village of Golovchino. The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov spoke about three victims.

15:26

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine suspects 10 Russian soldiers of torturing civilians in Bucha. They want to be put on the wanted list.

10 servicemen of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade were informed in absentia of suspicion of ill-treatment of the civilian population and other violations of the customs of war. According to the investigation, while Bucha was under Russian control, the military held civilians hostage without providing them with food and water.

“The suspects deprived people of the opportunity to move freely, put them on their knees, blindfolded them with adhesive tape and rags, tied their hands with plastic clamps. The victims were threatened with murder and purposefully shot in their direction,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. People were also beaten and robbed.

14:50

Russian troops have taken more than 2,000 exhibits from Mariupol museums to Donetsk, including original works by Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Aivazovsky, reports . the Mariupol City Council

According to the council, among those taken out were also ancient icons, a handwritten Torah scroll, a Gospel of 1811 made by a Venetian printing house, and more than 200 medals from the Efim Kharabet Museum of Medal Art.

14:29

Three civilians were killed and three more wounded because of today's airstrike on the New York settlement in the Donetsk region, writes the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko.

“Russian unguided air missiles hit an industrial enterprise and residential areas. At least 9 private houses were damaged, but the exact number of damages has yet to be determined,” the statement said.

14:09

The Gorno-Altai court fined the newspaper Listok 300,000 rubles under the article calling for sanctions against Russia (20.3.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). As wrote , the reason for the fine was a note in which the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Viktor Rau, called for sending the names of officials who supported the war to the Nuremberg 2.0 telegram bot. Mediazona

The founder of the Listok newspaper is now in jail, he is accused of spreading "fake news" about the Russian army. Also, the newspaper publisher has already been fined under the article on discrediting the armed forces.

13:37

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to “study and analyze” the books of Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon, against whom a criminal case has been initiated in Russia about “fakes” about the Russian army, about inciting hatred and calling for war.

“These books are on open sale in Russia. A number of media and social networks have published appeals to the investigating authorities about the need to give a legal assessment of this fact,” the press release says.

12:58

In one of the eastern districts of Kharkiv, a man was killed and two wounded due to shelling, according to the head of the Kharkiv regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov.

12:25

There will be no water supply in Lisichansk until the end of hostilities, said the head of the city administration Alexander Zaika.

12:04

The FSB reported on the arrest of a former Ukrainian marine, a "supporter of neo-Nazism", who allegedly prepared a terrorist attack in Simferopol, reports . RIA Novosti

The FSB claims that during the search, the detainee was found homemade explosives, "attributes of Ukrainian national formations" and his correspondence "with Ukrainian radicals."

The detainee was charged with preparing for a terrorist attack (Article 205 of the Criminal Code) and illegal acquisition of explosives (Article 222 of the Criminal Code). According to the secret service, the man, born in 1988, carried out “on the instructions of the nationalists of the Azov regiment, preparations for an explosion and arson in one of the shopping and entertainment centers in Simferopol.”

10:45

In the Kharkiv region, as a result of shelling, one person was killed and eight injured, said the head of the regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov.

According to him, during the day, Russian troops launched 11 artillery attacks on Kharkov, also fired at the cities of Dergachi and Chuguev, as well as the village of Zolochiv.

10:35

In the Luhansk region, four people were killed in a day, four more were injured, 10 houses were destroyed, said the head of the regional administration Serhiy Gaidai.

According to him, the Russian army carried out 29 strikes on peaceful points using aviation, mortar weapons, multiple launch rocket systems and cannon artillery. The cities of Popasnaya and Lisichansk, as well as the Mountain Community, came under shelling. A 58-year-old man died in Gorsky, an 85-year-old woman died in Severodonetsk, two more people died in Novodruzhesk and Lisichansk.

10:04

A rocket attack was carried out in the Zaporozhye region, three people were injured, including one child, reports the regional administration . Damaged two houses in the private sector.

The administration said the strike was carried out by the Russian military, with Kh-55 air-to-ground missiles.

9:28

From the website of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the news about plans to “expropriate the surplus” of the harvest of Ukrainian farmers in the Kherson region was removed. on the telegram channel of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory A message appeared about the hacking of the site.

“The news about the so-called food supplies from Ukraine is fake. It has been removed from the feed. The site is currently operating normally. Security measures to protect the site from outside interference have been strengthened. The information will be passed on to law enforcement agencies," the Telegram channel said in a statement.

Updated at 9:40. Added information from the telegram channel of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

9:01

The Kherson region of Ukraine from May 1 is moving into the ruble zone, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy chairman of the military-civilian administration established by Russian forces in the region. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

According to Stremousov, the transition period will take four months, at which time both rubles and Ukrainian hryvnias will be accepted, after which the region will switch to payment only in rubles.

Results of the 63rd day of the war

The military-civilian administration of Kherson, established by Russian forces, said that they had appointed their mayor of the city and the head of the Kherson region.

Residents of Kherson, who came to a rally against Russian control and holding a referendum on the creation of the Kherson People's Republic, were dispersed with gas and stun grenades.

There are more than 600 wounded Ukrainian soldiers at Azovstal in Mariupol, said Ukrainian military Serhiy Volynsky. There are also wounded civilians there.

The FSB reported on the detention in the Belgorod region of two Russians, "supporters of Ukrainian Nazism", who allegedly planned to damage the railway tracks along which military trains travel.

The Oktyabrsky court of St. Petersburg sent RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko to a pre-trial detention center in the case of "fake" about the Russian army.

Cover photo: Alexander Ishchenko, Shutterstock.com