Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 65

00:54

Rosfinmonitoring included in the list Andrey Golubev, a kung fu coach from Melitopol, of terrorists and extremists, drew the attention of the telegram channel that monitors updates to the list. Golubev's wife reported on April 7 that he had been kidnapped by the Russian military.

Olga Golubeva also wrote that her husband used to be a border guard. Melitopol is now controlled by the Russian military.

The Telegram channel notes that on April 29, only four people from the Zaporozhye region were included in the list. In addition to Golubev, there are 53-year-old Alexander Zhukov, 34-year-old Igor Gorlov and 43-year-old Vladimir Zuev. The latter was mentioned among the abductees in the telegram channel MelitopolNews.

In addition, the list included 30-year-old Aziz Amediev from Genichesk, Kherson region.

Next to all of them is an asterisk - this is how are marked . the defendants in cases under terrorist articles

23:59

In two villages in the Chernihiv region, the Russian military shot at least nine civilians, reports Radio Liberty . We are talking about the villages of Stary Bykov and Novy Bykov, which are separated by the Supa River.

On the first day of the occupation, February 27, the Russian military shot and killed six men who were seized on the streets of Staryi Bykovo. According to witnesses, this was the reaction of the Russians to the bridge blown up by Ukrainian troops and the shelling of their column.

Victoria Vovk said that among the six were her 29-year-old son Bohdan and 38-year-old son-in-law Alexander Mogirchuk. The military claimed they would release them after interrogation. The next day, she and fellow villagers found their bodies and four others killed near an abandoned building.

“They were not only shot in the head, they were also mocked. The son-in-law's carotid artery was cut, and his son's heart was pricked, his ribs were broken, ”recalls Vovk. According to her, the military did not allow the dead to be buried, and only on the ninth day did the locals manage to bury them in the local cemetery.

In the village of Novyi Bykov, the military tortured civilians in the local boiler house.

“Glass bottles were beaten on the prisoners’ heads, shots were fired from machine guns nearby, they were beaten with butts, and one was put a weapon in his mouth and said that they would be shot now,” said 21-year-old Maxim Didyk, who spent 12 days in the boiler room. He was suspected of adjusting the fire of the Ukrainian military.

According to the young man, mostly civilian prisoners were in the boiler room. He saw only three Ukrainian soldiers there. Before leaving the village at the end of March, the Russians began to take the captives out one by one and shoot them. One military man later told Didyk that he had executed four people, but let six of them go.

After the departure of the Russian army, three dead civilians were found in the cemetery 100 meters from the boiler room, including 38-year-old teacher of a boarding school and orphan Vladimir Vovk.

In addition, the fate of the two prisoners is unknown. Victoria Andrusha, a 25-year-old math teacher who came to stay with her parents in Staryi Bykov after the invasion began, was taken to a boiler house in a nearby village in March.

“Victoria spoke with the Russian military only in Ukrainian. She said that she was Ukrainian, a patriot. The last time I saw her was on March 27, after which Russian soldiers took her somewhere,” said Didyk, who saw the girl in the boiler room.

The second missing person is 52-year-old Alexander Ignatov, who also ended up in that boiler room. According to the prisoners, he was beaten the most. Ignatov had an accident two years ago, after which he developed partial amnesia, detachment from reality, and memory problems.

22:22

Military Commissar of the Perm Territory Alexander Kokovin has asked the regional authorities not to publish data on the dead, wounded and captured Russian soldiers in Ukraine without his consent, reports . Meduza

Kokovin raised this issue at a meeting of the organizing committee for preparations for the celebration in the region on May 9, which was also attended by Governor Dmitry Manokhin. At the beginning of his speech, the military commissar asked to finish the online broadcast of the meeting.

“I will ask the cameras to turn off. I just want to raise one question about the conduct of a special operation. A decree was issued by the President of the Russian Federation, respectively, through the Ministry of Defense, an order was issued by the Minister of Defense to enter information regarding the dead, wounded and those who are in captivity into the category “For official use,” the military commissar said.

He complained that in the local media there is "mostly unverified" information about the losses of the Russian army, and this "causes a certain resonance during the current draft campaign."

“I will ask, colleagues, everyone who has some desire to write to the newspaper, let's interact with me together, agree on some issues and then write. Because none of you has more information than me,” Kokovin summed up.

According to estimates , 32 soldiers from the Perm Territory died in Ukraine. Mediazona's

21:47

The Ukrainian military blew up the railway bridge across the Seversky Donets River, which connects Liman with Rayhorodok, reports with reference to the press service of the Joint Forces Operation, which unites Ukrainian law enforcement and military structures. Hromadske

The bridge was blown up along with the wagons. Now from Liman, which is at the epicenter of the fighting in the Donetsk region, it is impossible to get by rail to Slavyansk.

21:18

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that a new mass grave was found in the Kiev region, in which 900 people died, reports Ukrayinska Pravda.

“They are picking up traces [of crimes] – mobile crematoria that the Russians brought in and burned people, corpses. But nevertheless, they [the investigators] search and find. Imagine, there were so many killed that, despite the fact that they burned [part of the corpses], they again found the grave of 900 people in the Kyiv region. 900 people!” Zelensky said in an interview with Polish journalists.

Later, Zelensky’s press secretary Sergei Nikiforov clarified to Ukrayinska Pravda that on April 29 another mass grave was indeed found in the Kiev region, however, speaking of 900 dead, the president was referring to the total number of bodies found in the area around the grave.

Updated at 22:33. Added commentary of the press secretary of the Ukrainian president.

21:06

Rossiya-24 showed a story about a family of three who left the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. The report says that the man worked as a foreman and knew the territory well.

One of the heroines of the story, Natalya Savina, claimed that at the plant, the Ukrainian military told them that they "can evacuate at their own peril and risk, but we would not advise you to go towards the eastern gates at all, because you will be met there very badly, terribly" . “Of course, they didn’t say that they would shoot from behind, but we knew from the beginning of March that this happened during the evacuation,” she added.

At the same time, she did not speak about any specific cases and details. According to Savina, she managed to find a radio at the plant and learned about the humanitarian corridor from Vesti.FM messages.

20:42

At a citywide teachers’ council in Moscow on April 28, several thousand schoolteachers were told how important it is before May 9 to “correctly present the peacekeeping and liberation nature of the special operation” and remind students that “certain Anglo-Saxon political interests stood behind every conflict after World War II,” writes "Mediazona" with reference to the record of the teachers' council.

Vladimir Gubernov, head of the Academy of the Foreign Intelligence Service, spoke with such theses to the teachers. He also said that the USSR fought "not only against Nazi Germany, but also against the whole of Europe", and Poland "for centuries" planned to destroy Russia.

The director of the Historical Memory Foundation, Alexander Dyukov, also spoke at the teachers' council - he said about the division of Poland by Nazi Germany and the USSR in 1939: "Everything is not so simple."

Gubernov also said that since we live in a world "where wolves eat bunnies," schoolchildren should be brought up "in constant readiness to defend their home" and at the same time discard "romantic pacifist reasoning."

Mediazona also writes about new methodological recommendations for school lessons. So, in a biology lesson, children are invited to talk about military field medicine and the rules for sorting the wounded according to the degree of lethality of wounds, since “it is important to identify the hopelessly wounded so as not to spend a lot of time on them.”

At Russian language lessons, students should be told about the dangers of the work of employees of the federal media and put them on a par with Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Sholokhov. As an example of military correspondents, employees of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Evgeny Poddubny and Alexander Sladkov, Irina Kuksenkova from Channel One and an employee of Komsomolskaya Pravda Alexander Kots

Also in the lesson, the teacher should explain that one of the tasks of a journalist in war is to arouse hatred for the enemy and maintain morale, to arouse pride in his country.

20:07

The Bi-2 group reported that they hung up the banner "Za President" in the Omsk sports complex because of their concert scenery, and the concept of the musicians was "without politics." The performance in Omsk was cancelled.

“For every B2 show, we build a black cabinet around the stage to provide visual isolation. This is an integral part of the scenography: we build a similar structure at all our concerts, ”the VKontakte group said in a message.

Bi-2 insists that the administration of the Krasnaya Zvezda sports complex first agreed on “changes in the appearance of the hall”, but before the start of the concert they called a truck crane and began to dismantle the scenery, “because the stage covered the poster from the previous event.” We are talking about a banner with the inscription "For the President."

“Our performances always bring together people of different views and beliefs, who are united by a love of music. Our concept is without politics,” the group notes.

Yesterday opposition member from Omsk Daniil Chebykin reported that Bi-2 refused to perform with a pro-government banner in the background and hung it with a black canvas, but the site administration eventually removed it.

19:53

In the Voronezh region, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Nina Belyaeva, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Council of People's Deputies of the Semiluksky municipal district, because of her speech at a meeting in which she called the actions of the Russian military contrary to Christian dogma.

The case was initiated under the article on “fake” stories about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). 32-year-old Belyaeva is now abroad.

The MP herself published a video recording of this meeting in March. At it, other deputies decided to discuss Belyaeva’s post, in which, according to them, she wrote that “Putin is a bloody dictator,” and called the military “non-Christs.” “If you don’t like it, let her leave,” shouted one of the deputies at the meeting.

Belyaeva herself said that she was answering the interlocutor's question whether the Russian military were not Christians, and wrote that their actions "have nothing to do with Christian doctrine." “And yes, indeed, I said that there is a way out for the soldiers not to take part in the actions that their leadership is forcing them to do, by surrendering,” Belyaeva added.

At the same time, the deputy said that she considers the invasion of Ukraine a war crime and calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine.

19:02

The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video of the interrogation of Briton Andrew Hill, who, according to Russian authorities, fought on the side of Ukraine and surrendered in the Mykolaiv region. His head is bandaged and his left arm is in a cast.

When asked by the person behind the camera, Hill replies that he has no rank and does not know which unit he was in: “I don’t know the unit. I only know that the organization I helped when I crossed the border told me that if I want to help, I can bring more help if I go with them.

He clarified that there were seven other people in the group with him, but he did not know who these people were.

- How much did you get paid? says the man behind the scenes.

“They didn't pay me,” Hill replies, but after the cut, he says he should have been paid. They promised they would pay, but they didn't pay anyone.

Hill said that he first helped refugees on the border between Poland and Ukraine.

At the end of the recording, Hill asks:

- I'm safe?

Yes, you are safe, of course.

How long will they keep me before they send me to England.

“I can't tell you at all now how long it will take. You can be sure that nothing threatens your life.

Hill is then asked to say something to the British who want to go to Ukraine. “They need to think carefully about whether this concerns us,” says Hill. According to the Briton, he is divorced and has four children.

18:36

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow has arrested in absentia the head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district, Elena Kotenochkina, against whom a criminal case has been opened for “fakes” about the Russian army, reports . Interfax

She has also been put on the wanted list. Kotenochkina is abroad.

The day before yesterday, the court sent Aleksey Gorinov, a municipal deputy of the same district, accused in the same case, to a pre-trial detention center. The reason for the case was a recording from a meeting of deputies, at which Kotenochkina and Gorinov condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

18:25

The Mariupol City Council reports that the Russian military removed the surviving ventilators from the city.

18:12

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of Novaya Gazeta. Europe” for covering the war in Ukraine, reports RIA Novosti . The Prosecutor General's Office considered the publications unreliable.

18:06

The authorities of Kiev have asked residents of the city not to use private cars if possible in order to save gasoline for military vehicles.

The city administration offers to use public transport and promises to expand the network of routes.

Earlier today, Sergey Kuyun, director of the Ukrainian A-95 Consulting Group, which specializes in the fuel market, wrote on Facebook that there is a shortage of gasoline not only in Kiev, but also in other regions of Ukraine.

“In fact, it has been difficult with gasoline in most regions for a couple of weeks now, it’s just that in Kyiv they didn’t know about it or didn’t pay attention. The surprise in the capital is mainly due to the fact that its traders tried to supply it on a priority basis, ”Kuyun writes.

He notes that many citizens have returned to Kyiv and fuel consumption has increased: “Large network companies say that they are now selling as much fuel as they did a week or two ago. But if earlier this was enough for a day, now for several hours. There is no way to supply more."

17:35

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has blocked the accounts of the daughter of the press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Elizaveta Peskova, the stepdaughter of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Polina Kovaleva, and the son of banker Konstantin Malofeev, Kirill Malofeev, reports Bloomberg.

Chagri Poyraz, head of sanctions at Binance, said that the company continues to look for people under sanctions among its users.

Reuters Sources told that last year an employee of the company agreed to turn over data on the transactions of his clients to the Russian authorities. Binance denies this .

17:18

In Krasnodar, a teacher from gymnasium No. 92 was fired for talking about the war in Ukraine, reports Yuga.ru, citing the press service of the mayor's office. The Ministry of Education of the region told Zhivaya Kuban that the teacher wrote a statement of her own free will.

"Live Kuban" writes that the parents of the students handed over to the editors the notes with the statements of the teacher of Russian language and literature. The children recorded the words of the teacher in the classroom on a voice recorder. “Moms and dads of the guys added that the teacher is a former resident of Ukraine,” the publication draws attention.

On the published recordings, the teacher shares her dissatisfaction with the militarization of society, tells the students that they were lucky to live not in the Belgorod region, where there were cases of shelling from the territory of Ukraine: “Don’t go to a foreign country, then you won’t listen to the sounds in your own. But I’m not for you, I’m talking about sore things. ”

“If they knew how to negotiate, if they knew how to talk, they wouldn’t have to rattle weapons and shed human blood if they knew how to talk. And then when there are not enough words, they start grabbing the nuclear button, ”the teacher complains in another passage.

In yet another fragment, she criticizes the education system: “Our entire education system is built on this: you have no right to vote, you are small, you are insignificant, you don’t know anything about life at all. And so on. Totalitarian system, violence, you have no right - which results in adulthood - to have a different opinion. Oh, you have a different opinion - you got 15 years and sit with your opinion if your opinion does not coincide with mine.

The unnamed parents believe that the teacher is “arranging Russophobic propaganda in her classes, insulting the Russian Armed Forces and the St. George ribbon, the symbol of victory.” They also complained that the teacher “reads the poems of great poets <...> in her own way”, shows the children the “Brigade” and studies the “camp language” with them. “Live Kuban”, referring to parents, claims that the teacher “diagnoses” children in his lessons.

The telegram channel "PE Krasnodar" clarifies that the teacher's name is Maruchana Voronina.

15:55

14-year-old weightlifter Alina Peregudova and her mother died in Mariupol, reports . the Mariupol City Council

“She was a member of the candidate athletes of the Ukrainian national team. And last year she won gold medals at the national championship. She aspired to win the highest level victories and further. But the “Russian world” came, which “liberated” her from this future, ”the message says.

15:44

Human rights activist Oleg Orlov and former employee of the International Memorial Irina Galkova were detained on Red Square, writes . the team of the liquidated Memorial Center

They stood in a picket with posters “USSR 1945 is a country that defeated fascism. Russia 2022 is a country of victorious fascism” and “Stop killing people! Peace to Ukraine!

15:24

The Ukrainian army regained control over the village of Ruska Lozovaya, Kharkiv region, the command of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports .

“It was from this suburb during the occupation that the enemy fired aimed at the civilian infrastructure and residential areas of Kharkiv,” the ground forces said in a statement.

15:12

Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova claims that in Russian-controlled territories, students are forced to donate blood for wounded Russian soldiers.

“It became known about 700 cases of involuntary blood donation in institutions such as Donetsk National University, Donetsk National Technical University, Donbass National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Donbass Academy of Law, Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky, Luhansk Medical University, Lugansk Pedagogical University , Luhansk Academy of Internal Affairs,” writes Denisova.

14:28

Russian troops used phosphorus shells in the village of Solovyevo, Donetsk region, writes Governor Pavel Kirilenko. No injuries or casualties have been reported.

13:53

The vice-speaker of the State Duma, United Russia Sholban Kara-Ool, said to the military man who lost his memory: "We will fight again." a video from the meeting, which took place on April 26 in St. Petersburg, He published on his Telegram channel.

On the recording, a soldier lying on a couch says that his memory is “only recovering”: “I remember the names.”

Earlier, Sholban Kara-Ool visited the Tuvan military, who returned from Ukraine without legs. “My guys and I will definitely get on our feet,” he wrote after that in his Telegram channel, posting a video from the meeting. They don't have a single hint of doubt. They defended their homeland and firmly believe that the truth is on the side of Russia. We intend to continue to serve!”

13:21

The Russian military captured two Britons involved in humanitarian aid in Ukraine, writes , citing Dominic Byrne, co-founder of a network of charitable organizations. BBC Russian Service

According to him, yesterday the British tried to help a mother with two children leave the settlement, which had come under the control of the Russian army. At the checkpoint they were stopped by the Russian military, after which no information was received from them. The woman, who was waiting for help, received a "strange text message", after which the Russian military broke into her house, accusing her of "assisting British spies."

13:10

Access to the syg.ma platform is blocked in Russia.

“Today we were blocked for ‘mutiny and fakes’ – we oppose the war and Russian imperialism. The blocking does not affect our work in any way, it’s just that everyone who reads syg.ma in Russia will have to use a VPN, ”the portal writes.

The Roskomnadzor registry indicates that access to a certain page was restricted, but the entire site was unavailable.

12:36

The border control point of the FSB in the Bryansk region came under mortar fire from the territory of Ukraine, there were no casualties, writes Governor of the region Alexander Bogomaz . According to him, the shelling damaged the power and water supply lines, they have already been restored.

11:55

Radio Liberty journalist Vera Girich died due to a missile attack on Kiev, reports . her colleague Oleksandr Demchenko

A Russian rocket hit the journalist's house, he writes: "Vera lay there all night, and they found her only in the morning."

11:50

From today, the Borjomi company temporarily stops production at bottling plants in Georgia. This decision was made due to financial problems caused by the war in Ukraine, reports with reference to the company's statement. RIA Novosti

“The difficult situation in the main sales markets for the company's products was exacerbated by limited access to bank accounts, which closed the company's ability to receive foreign exchange earnings and settle accounts with creditors. The company continues to work to this day in the hope of significantly improving the situation, which, unfortunately, has not yet succeeded, ”the statement says.

The main owner of the company is the Russian Alfa Group, founded by sanctioned businessman Mikhail Fridman.

11:27

In the Kharkiv region, five civilians were killed by shelling, and 11 more people were injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the regional administration, . According to him, over the past 24 hours, the Russian military has launched one missile strike and two multiple rocket launcher strikes in the region. There were also 16 artillery attacks.

10:44

One person died in Kiev due to rocket fire, said the mayor of the city, Vitali Klitschko.

“Rescuers, who continue to examine and clear the rubble of a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, where a rocket hit yesterday, have just discovered the body of the deceased,” he wrote.

9:58

The OSCE monitoring mission closes its office in Ukraine.

“We have explored all possible options for a political dialogue with the participating States in order to achieve an extension of the mandate of the special monitoring mission, but the position of the Russian Federation left us no choice but to take steps to close the mission,” the statement said.

The OSCE noted that the Polish office will continue to engage with participating States to explore alternatives for the mission's future role in Ukraine.

“We continue to do our best day and night to support our Ukrainian colleagues, and we continue to apply pressure through all available channels to end the detentions, intimidation and disinformation that are so dangerous for members of our national mission,” the OSCE says.

Earlier, the authorities of the DPR and LPR detained employees of the OSCE monitoring mission. Criminal cases were opened against them for espionage in favor of Ukraine and, in the second case, for treason.

9:19

In the Kursk region, a checkpoint in the village of Krupets, Rylsky district, was fired from mortars, writes the governor of the region, Roman Starovoit, . There were no casualties or injuries, he said.

Results of the 64th day of the war

The Russian military launched a missile attack on Kyiv while UN Secretary General António Guterres was there. One of the blows fell on a multi-storey residential building - 10 people were injured, four were hospitalized.

The Nizhny Novgorod portal NN.ru reported the death of 19-year-old military man Nikita Koshelev in the Belgorod region. This is the first report of a person killed in shelling in Russia.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine announced that it suspects ten Russian military men of violence and bullying of the residents of Bucha. Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova published the names of the suspects and their photographs. Two servicemen from the list told reporters that they have not served in the Russian army since 2019 and have not been to Buchi; the wife of the third military man said the same.

The Azov Regiment writes that the Russian military continues to bomb Azovstal.

Cover photo: Efrem Lukatsky, AP/Scanpix