Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 69

Russian troops dealt a new blow to Odessa. The Ukrainian authorities report a deceased teenager.

22:28

There were missile strikes in the Kirovograd region.

According to the South Operational Command, to which Ukraine 24 refers , there are dead and victims, and railway infrastructure is also damaged. The head of the Ukrainian railways, Alexander Kamyshin, said that Russian troops struck at six stations in the center and in the west of Ukraine.

It is also reported about missile strikes in the Transcarpathian region - the rocket hit the infrastructure facility. In the Vinnitsa region, the air defense system worked , two missiles were knocked down. Three more missiles are shot down in the Odessa region, one near Kiev.

22:00

For May 3, 21 civilians died in the Donetsk region, another 27 people were injured, writes the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko.

“Russia kills civilians! <...> This is the largest number of victims in one day since the Russians fired at the Kramatorsk railway station, ”it was reported.

According to him, 10 people died today in Avdeevka, five in the estuary, four in Ugled, as well as one person in the Great Novoselka and Shandrivlovo.

21:45

There were missile strikes on Lviv. Due to damage to three power plants in the city of the city, there are no electricity, according to the head of the regional administration Maxim Kozitsky. One person suffered, according to Mayor Lviv.

Updated at 22:12. Added information about the victim.

20:30

A friend of the sailor missing from the cruiser “Moscow” spoke about his death on social networks, and the agency paid attention .

“On April 13, 2022, the death of the Moscow missile cruiser and my second birthday. On this date, my friend and man, Leonid Savin, who can really be called a comrade, died, ”Gleb Lemchenko wrote on April 23.

Savin’s brother contacted him, but Lemeschenko refused to talk about the situation in more detail, noting that he was a military personnel: “The country said to be silent.”

The screenshot of this correspondence was published by the father of another missing carrier Dmitry Shrebets, to whom Lemchenko also refused to reveal the details. “I did not want to talk with us, the first interested persons about the fate of our children, you will talk to those who told you to“ be silent ”on behalf of the country, but you did not hold the language or just lied,” he wrote in a post with screenshots of correspondence.

The Agency writes that he was not able to find out if Lemchenko was on the cruiser when he sank.

20:11

Today, the Russian military fired at the Kharkov center, two people were injured, the office of the Prosecutor General of UKR Aina and the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov reported.

“The central park of the city, shops are damaged. In addition, there was a fire of two garage boxes - cars were damaged, ”the Office of the Prosecutor General’s office said.

18:35

As a result of the shelling of the Avdeevsky Koksochemical Plant, 10 people were killed, another 15 people were injured, the head of the Donetsk regional administration Pavel Kirilenko writes .

According to him, the number of victims may increase. “The Russians knew exactly where they aimed - the workers just completed the shift and at the bus stop waited for the bus, which was supposed to transport them from the factory home,” Kirilenko says.

Fixed. Initially, it was reported that the shelling occurred on April 24.

17:39

The Russian military captured the head of the village of Chernobaevka, Kherson region, Igor Dudar and his deputy, reports Gazeta.ua with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk. According to her, this became known on Monday.

16:59

156 people were evacuated from Azovstal, quoted by Ukrinform Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk. According to her, they are now waiting in the Zaporizhzhya region.

“We do not know how many buses are driving, we know that there are 156 people. It is important that we saved people, allowed other people to go through an open corridor. This is the corridor that we opened and hold it for the third day, ”she said.

According to preliminary estimates that Vereshchuk refers to, several hundred people remain in the basements of Azovstal: the military “Azov” and the Armed Forces, including women, as well as border guards and the National Guard. There are wounded.

15:58

The Community of Lawyers and Human Rights Office “First Department” reports that the FSB officers call the relatives of Russians who left Russia due to the threat of criminal prosecution.

“The security forces call family members for surveys and persuade their relatives to return to Russia. Apparently, someone really wants to increase the service for the search for “spies”, ”the post in the telegram channel says.

The “first department” is known about five such cases. The community clarifies that we are talking about people “against whom the FSB tried to start cases-they conducted operational-search measures (for example, inspecting the home), but they have not yet been charged and did not open the case. Only in words they stated that they were looking for Stateizers, spies and "accomplices of the SBU". "

15:44

In the village of Kalinovka, Kiev region, they found a grave of two men with traces of torture, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reports .

“According to preliminary information, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the occupation of the village were first tortured, and then two civilians were killed. The hands of the dead were with torn nails and tied behind their backs, firearms were discovered on their bodies, ”the message said.

15:32

“New newspaper. Europe ” said that the accusation of financing the“ Right Sector ”against activist Mikhail Kavun is based on the testimony of two secret witnesses and Ukrainian nationalist Igor Pirozhka , which is now in the Russian colony.

The 61-year-old geologist and biker from Moscow, Mikhail Kavun, is accused under the article on financing extremist activities (part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code).

According to investigators, he traveled to Ukraine from 2015 to 2019 to transfer money to the “right sector”. The investigation claims that he handed over to the cake, which is called the political leader of the Right Sector branch in the materials, 20 thousand hryvnias (about 47 thousand rubles at today's rate) and another 70 thousand rubles to the “other participants” of the movement. At the same time, the Right Sector reported that the pie was a participant in the movement in 2014, but he was soon excluded "due to the fact that he pursued his goals."

The materials also say that Kavun was familiar with the leaders of the Right Sector and kept letters and gratitude from them "for help in the struggle for the independence of Ukraine."

The New Gazeta suggests that other bikers can be secret witnesses. Their testimony says that Kavun “in the presence of other members of the biker club admired the activities of participants in the“ Right Sector ”, for whom he purchased products and medicines. In addition, Kavun’s familiar families said that the security forces interviewed the bikers before the detention of an activist.

Kavun during interrogation did not admit guilt. He said that in 2015-2019 he really came to Ukraine to friends, but denies the financing of the Right Sector and acquaintance with its leaders. The biker said that he was not familiar with the cake.

According to Kavun, he helped humanitarian and volunteer organizations in Ukraine. For example, twice transferred the money to the Lviv Medical Center “Holy Seraphim” (there is no such organization in Lviv; probably we are talking about the Center for St. Paraskev) and three times for the Kyiv Charity Foundation “The Road of Good”.

The son of Kavun insists that the case is fabricated: “They want to make a Nazi Jew from my dad. Show that he hates Russians and sponsor the "right sector". Although his wife is Russian <...> I think that dad is pursued for Ukrainian-Jewish roots. "

14:55

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that he was shelling the territory of Azovstali, RIA Novosti reports .

The representative of the press service of the department Vadim Astafyev claims that during the evacuation of civilians from the plant, the Ukrainian military took advantage of the regime of silence and reached the fire positions.

“They left the basements, took fire positions in the territory and in the buildings of the plant. Now the units of the Russian army and the DPR, using artillery and aviation, are beginning to destroy these fire positions, ”Astafyev said.

At the same time, the head of the Mariupol patrol police, Mikhail Vershinin, said “Suprilna Novini” that the Russian military began to storm Azovstal in several places. As the publication clarifies, Vershinin himself is located at the plant.

“For almost a day there was artillery and aviation training. When we went [evacuation] buses, they paused and began to hench both at night and during the day, ”says Vershinin.

At the same time, despite the evacuation of civilians in recent days, civilian citizens remained on the territory of the plant - the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko and the Azov Regiment in their video from the basements of the plant reported. The regiment also claims that two women died as a result of nightly shelling.

14:40

The Azov regiment claims that the two women at Azovstal died after air strikes tonight. As specified in the message, the dead were civilian.

A man in a tracksuit, whose name is not called, explains to the camera that the girls were in the kitchen during shelling. He claims that in this part of the plant there were no Azov employees, but the military brought them products and came to report some news.

“About a dozen people of the wounded, fractures of arms, legs. And two girls, why were they injured? - says the man. - <...> Well, then you guys know. We shouted, knocking, seeing or heard ... Well, we heard that they are digging us up. It turned out to be [you]. You dug us, the Azov unit. "

According to him, about 30 children are in this part of the plant.

Last week, the evacuation of civilians with Azovstali began with the assistance of the UN. Today, Mariupol mayor Vadim Boychenko told Reuters that more than 200 civilians remain in the tunnels of the plant.

13:09

Russia sank into 155th in the Press Freedom rating for 2022, which is the international organization “Reporters without borders”. Before that, the country took 150th place. Now Russia has been in a group of countries with the worst conditions for freedom of speech. In total, in the list of 180 states.

“In Russia, the government established total control over information, introducing large -scale military censorship, blocking the media and pursuing rebellious journalists, forcing them to mass emigration <...> This control over information is not limited to the boundaries of Russia. The Kremlin imposes its vision of war to some of its neighbors, especially Belarus, ”the organization said.

At the same time, Belarus is in 153 place in the ranking, although a year ago it occupied the 158th.

“Reporters without a border” emphasize that “the war that Russia wages in Ukraine has the destructive consequences for the freedom of the press” in this region. “The Russian army in the occupied territories purposefully chose news sources in the form of a target and tried to force local media to cooperate,” reporters say.

The page dedicated to Russia says that no more journalist in the country is safe from the threat of serious accusations on "vaguely formulated dragon laws."

“Although the level of connection to the Internet is very high, almost two -thirds of Russians learn the news mainly from television, which is controlled by the government, and Rosia social networks, such as VKontakte,” the organization notes.

12:19

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Yair Lapid, who said the Jews did not kill themselves during the Holocaust, but to blame Jews of anti -Semitism - the lowest manifestation of racism towards Jews. Lapid so answered the statement of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

“They drew attention to the anti -historical statements of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Yair Lapid, which largely explain the course of the current government of Israel to support the neo -Nazi regime in Kiev,” the statement said.

Next, the Russian department gives examples of cooperation of Jews with the Germans during the Second World War.

“The historical tragedy is that if during the Second World War some Jews participated in crimes forced, then V. Zelensky speculates on their roots does this quite consciously and quite voluntarily. Hide behind the origin of himself and covers them with natural neo -Nazis, spiritual and blood heirs of the executioners of their people, ”Russian diplomats insisted.

In addition, they complain about the “abolition” of Russians in Ukraine, having paraphrased the famous quote: “At first in Ukraine, in 2014, they came for the Communists, then for the socialists, then the whole“ civilized ”world was silent when the Russians were“ canceled ”in Ukraine. There is not enough fantasy to understand what "non -conventional" people will go "to knives" yes "to Gilyak" behind the Muscovites? "

The Russian Foreign Ministry also accused the Israeli minister of ignoring the "epidemics of the destruction and desecration of monuments to the real righteous of the peoples of the world - soldiers of the Red Army, who stopped the Holocaust and saved the Jewish world."

On May 1, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking of the origin of Zelensky, said: “He puts forward an argument: what kind of nationification they have if he is a Jew. I can be mistaken, but Adolf Hitler also had Jewish blood. This means absolutely nothing. The wise Jewish people says that the most ardent anti -Semites are usually Jews. The family is not without a freak, as we say. ”

This caused the indignation of the Israeli authorities. The country's Foreign Minister called Lavrov’s words unforgivable.

11:23

In the village of Novofontank, the Nikolaev region, the bodies of two local residents with traces of torture and gunshot wounds were found in a common grave, the regional prosecutor's office reports .

One of the dead were connected by legs. The agency clarifies that the grave found packages of the Sukhpaiks of the Russian army.

11:17

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed yesterday's missile blow in the Odessa region.

“High -precision Onyx missiles” in the Odessa region struck the logistics center at the military airfield through which foreign weapons were delivered. Angars with the unmanned aerial vehicles of Bayractar TB2, as well as missile weapons and ammunition received from the United States and European countries, ”the agency said.

The Russian military does not comment information about the death of a teenager and the wound of a minor girl as a result of this blow.

10:46

Since the beginning of the war, the Investigative Committee of Russia has opened 35 criminal cases under a new article about Fakes about the Russian army (article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), said the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin in an interview with RT.

In addition, investigators opened 14 criminal cases due to the fact that Ukrainian investigators, according to the UK, illegally initiate criminal cases against Russians.

Bastrykin also said that in Russia there are now more than 2 thousand Ukrainian prisoners of war.

10:23

The Pope Francis asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but did not receive an answer, Reuters reports with reference to an interview with Francis by the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera.

According to the Pope, three weeks after the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, he asked for a senior Vatican diplomat to tell Putin a meeting of the meeting. “We have not yet received an answer, but still insist,” Francis said.

“I am afraid that Putin cannot and does not want this meeting at such a time. But how can you not stop such cruelty? " - added dad.

He also said that he called up through Zoom with Patriarch Kirill, who then for 20 minutes with papers justified Francis the need for war. In addition, Pope at the end of April talked to the prime minister of Hungary Viktor Orban-according to the pope, he told him that Putin plans to end the war by May 9.

Fixed at 13:20. Initially, it was mistakenly written that Cyril explained the need for war with a map in his hands.

9:34

Since the beginning of the war, 3,153 civilians have been killed in Ukraine, according to the Office of the Supreme Commissar of the UN Human Rights. 3 316 people were injured.

Among the dead are 226 children, and among the wounded - 319.

A little more than half of the victims - in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. 1638 people died there. Moreover, the vast majority are residents of the districts controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. 1,539 people were killed there, while 99 people were killed in the territories of self -proclaimed republics.

The UN emphasizes that the real number of victims is much higher, since many reports of the dead cannot be verified due to continuing hostilities.

Results of the 68th day of the war

As a result of a new missile blow to Odessa, a 15-year-old boy died, a minor girl was injured.

In the Kyiv region, after the departure of the Russian troops, the bodies of 1202 dead peaceful citizens were found.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine called the first suspect in the murders of Bucha. However, his relatives said that he did not serve in the Russian army, lives in the Belarusian Mozyr and was not in Ukraine since the beginning of the war. The man himself also told reporters that he was not in Buch.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking of the origin of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, said that Hitler "also had Jewish blood", and "the most ardent anti -Semites are usually Jews." The Israeli Foreign Ministry was called these words unforgivable and outrageous.

In the Kherson captured by the Russian troops, one of the local Internet provider, after disconnecting the connection, went to the Rostelecom network instead of Ukrainian infrastructure.

Photo on the cover: Alexander Ermochenko, Reuters/Scanpix