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Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 71
20:47
In St. Petersburg SIZO-5, cellmates harassed the artist Sasha Skochilenko, who was arrested in the case of replacing price tags in a supermarket with anti-war leaflets, said the artist's girlfriend Sonya.
Last week, Skochilenko was transferred from a cell for 18 people to a six-bed cell. A few days later, when meeting with lawyer Yana Nepovinnova, the artist cried for a long time and talked about how hard it was for her in the SIZO because of the pressure from her cellmate.
The girl Sonya Skochilenko spoke in more detail about what is happening in SIZO-5. The “senior in the cell” allows the artist to eat only during a common breakfast, lunch and dinner. When Skochilenko missed breakfast due to a doctor's appointment, the "eldest" forbade her to eat before lunch. Also, a cellmate forces the artist to throw away some of her food under the pretext that “the refrigerator is not made of rubber.”
“In general, there is a very strange rule with a refrigerator: only the eldest can open it, otherwise it will allegedly defrost. Sasha cannot open the refrigerator on her own, and she also does not always have access to the rest of the products, since they are stored under the eldest’s bed, ”says Sonya.
After some time, other inmates joined the persecution. They began to tell the artist that she smelled bad, and forced her to wash her clothes every day. Recently, due to the requirement of cellmates to wash things right in the morning, Skochilenko was unable to have breakfast.
“Due to round-the-clock pressure, Sasha is in a very depressed state, she told me through a lawyer that she has no idea what will be left of her if she spends another ten years in such a place,” the artist’s girl said.
Skochilenko is accused under the article about "fake" about the Russian army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). She faces up to 10 years in prison.
20:08
The Azov Regiment published a video of explosions on the territory of the Mariupol Azovstal plant and reported that the assault on the enterprise continues.
The report says that the Ukrainian military is under heavy fire, while Russian forces use aircraft, artillery and infantry.
19:55
In Mariupol, occupied by Russian troops, signs in Ukrainian are being replaced with signs in Russian.
The city council published a photo with the replacement of the Mariupol road sign with a similar one in Russian. “The invaders destroyed our city, killed 20 thousand people, and now they are changing the signs. People with their problems will wait, ”the message says. The city council notes that the city has problems with water supply, electricity, communications and the delivery of food and medicine.
In addition, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko , said that the Ukrainian sign of the traffic police department was changed in the city to a sign in Russian. Moreover, it indicates that the department is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR.
19:29
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, apologized to him for Sergey Lavrov's words.
“They discussed the statements of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. The Prime Minister accepted President Putin's apologies for Lavrov's words and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust.
On May 1, in an interview with the Italian TV channel, Lavrov, speaking about the origin of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that Hitler "also had Jewish blood", and "the most ardent anti-Semites, as a rule, are Jews." After the Israeli authorities were outraged, the Russian Foreign Ministry also accused them of “supporting the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv”
18:58
Since March 1, Alena Smyshlyaeva, a resident of the Sverdlovsk region, has been issued six protocols on discrediting the Russian army because of her posts on Facebook, the reports . Network Freedoms project
All protocols were compiled by district police officer Alexander Golubtsov.
In all administrative cases, the Rzhev City Court fined Smyshlyaeva. In total, she has to pay 180 thousand rubles.
The court considered such phrases as “they bombed Kharkov”, “the valiant army will wipe my life”, “occupiers”, “troops commit crimes”, “you call Russian soldiers orcs”, “don’t go to war” as discrediting Russian troops.
17:05
The 76th Air Assault Division from Pskov was stationed in Bucha during the Russian occupation, Reuters reports based on documents left by the Russians during the retreat.
A resident of Bucha, in whose house the Russian military lived, after returning to the city, found most of the building burned, and in the surviving part he found a letter to Alexander Logvinenko sent by Oksana Rybakova. Reuters identified the soldier as a paratrooper from Pskov.
“Pusya, I love you madly, miss you very much and wait. I know and believe that you will return, everything will be fine with you, ”it is written on a piece of paper on which a lipstick mark is left. Reuters contacted Rybakova - she confirmed that Logvinenko is her partner, he serves in the paratroopers and was on a military trip for several weeks. In the next conversation, she began to deny relations with Logvinenko.
In addition, residents of Bucha found abandoned boxes of mortars, which indicated that they were checked by officers of military unit 74268, which is located in Pskov - the headquarters of the 76th division is located there. Its presence in Bucha is also indicated by the found list of radio call signs used by the 104th Air Assault Regiment from the 76th Division.
Reuters also suggests that there were fighters from the Vityaz unit of the National Guard in the city - after the troops left, local residents found an identity card of an employee of the National Guard in the name of Konstantin Korshunov.
After the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kyiv region, the bodies of more than 400 civilians were found in Bucha.
15:57
The Security Service of Ukraine reported on the detention of one of the leaders of Viktor Medvedchuk's "Ukrainian Choice" party. According to the investigation, he was engaged in "preparation for the overthrow of the constitutional order in Ukraine, coordinating his actions with the Russian special services."
“The attacker developed the concept of "people's autocracy", which involved the forcible seizure of power, the destruction of the financial and economic system and the change of the state border. These ideas were promoted through an extensive network of controlled public organizations. It was also established that in 2014 the attacker applied to the administration of the President of Russia for a personal reception: to “report” on the preparation of measures of subversive activity in Ukraine,” the SBU says.
The report of the service says that during the search, documents and seals of public organizations, prohibited symbols, equipment and a letter from the presidential administration of Russia were found on the detainee.
15:13
A 15-year-old volunteer of the Kharkiv Feldman Ecopark died from the shelling, two more employees were seriously injured, said the founder of the park, Alexander Feldman.
According to him, today a team of employees and volunteers of the park came under fire during the evacuation of African buffaloes. The deceased volunteer, Feldman says, helped his parents feed and evacuate the animals. “This is the sixth victim from among our team,” writes the founder of the park.
14:59
The work of the Zaporizhzhya TPP was stopped, said the mayor of Energodar Dmitry Orlov. The city is occupied by Russian troops.
“Unfortunately, this is a forced step - the company has run out of coal. And there is no way to organize its regular deliveries. This is due to the occupation of our city, and logistical difficulties due to constant hostilities in southern Ukraine, destroyed infrastructure, bridges and sections of the railway,” he wrote.
Employees of the enterprise were sent to idle. According to Orlov, the shutdown of the thermal power plant will not affect the provision of public services to residents of the city.
14:47
This morning in St. Petersburg, five activists of the Peaceful Resistance group were searched in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army, writes Rotunda.
Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov said that searches were taking place at the homes of St. Petersburg residents Olga Smirnova, Asan Mumdzhi, Tatyana Sichkareva, Vlad Shipitsyn and Ilya Tkachenko. Their equipment was confiscated. The status of the activists in the case is not yet clear.
“Olga Smirnova managed to call me and inform me that the search was being carried out as part of a criminal case under part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code - this is an article about the spread of fakes about Russian troops by a group of people for political reasons. According to Smirnova, the security forces had complaints about some publication in the Peaceful Resistance group on VKontakte for March 4. At the same time, the group has already been blocked by Roskomnadzor, ”Rotonda quotes the human rights activist. The maximum penalty under this part of the article is 10 years in prison.
14:02
13:58
The Russian Foreign Ministry has declared seven Danish diplomats persona non grata.
This is a retaliatory measure after the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Denmark, they say in the department. The decision is also explained by "the provision of military assistance by the Danish authorities to Kyiv."
13:34
Ilya Kiva, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the pro-Russian Opposition Platform for Life party, claims that blogger Anatoly Shariy, who was detained in Spain, was released on bail.
12:59
According to the UN, 3,238 people have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, and another 3,397 have been injured. Most of the deaths and injuries were caused by the use of explosive devices with a wide area of effect.
The organization notes that the real numbers are higher, since some cases require confirmation, and information is delayed from some places - for example, from Mariupol, Izyum and Popasna.
In the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, the UN specifies, 1,700 people were killed, 1,652 were injured.
12:21
The Russian military shelled the Svyatogorsk Lavra in the Donetsk region, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reports .
Seven civilians were injured. These are refugees who lived on the territory of the Lavra because of the war.
10:49
The Security Service of Ukraine reports the detention of pro-Russian blogger Anatoly Shariy in Spain. He is suspected of treason and violation of the equality of citizens.
According to the SBU, yesterday Shariy was detained by law enforcement agencies of Spain. “According to the SBU investigators, he carried out illegal activities to the detriment of the national security of Ukraine in the information sphere. There is reason to believe that Anatoly Shariy acted on the orders of foreign structures,” the service said in a statement.
He will be extradited to Ukraine, writes . Segodnya
Updated at 12:29. Added information about extradition.
10:30
RIA Novosti, citing an anonymous representative of the headquarters of the operation to liberate Azovstal, claims that the Ukrainian military offered to exchange civilians on the territory of the plant for food and medicine.
The interlocutor of the agency estimates the number of civilians at 200 people, including women, the elderly and children.
“We have to maintain contacts with the Azov Nazis who have settled there and representatives of the SBU in the interests of saving the civilians who remained there. During the negotiations, they offered us to exchange civilian hostages for food and medicine. The indicated terms of the deal are fifteen hostages per ton of food, as well as medicines. They warned that no one else would be allowed to go to Ukraine, now they will only be exchanged, ”RIA Novosti quotes an unnamed interlocutor.
Today, the Ministry of Defense promised to open humanitarian corridors for civilians located on the territory of Azovstal. The Ukrainian authorities daily report shelling of the plant.
10:18
In the villages of Zhuravlevka and Nekhoteevka of the Belgorod region, shelling is underway from Ukraine, writes Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
“A house and a garage were destroyed in Nekhoteevka. There were no casualties among the civilian population. The shelling continues,” he said in a statement.
10:10
One person died in the Donetsk region, writes the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko.
According to him, due to the night shelling of the city of Chasov Yar, a civilian was killed, 17 houses were damaged.
Also, a missile strike fell on Kramatorsk - 25 people were injured, 9 houses, a school and civilian infrastructure were damaged.
9:32
On May 4, five civilians were killed in the Luhansk region due to shelling, according to the head of the regional administration Serhiy Gaidai.
“This is not the final data, because in Popasnaya and Gorsky houses are burning one after another. Thus, at least eight houses were destroyed or damaged in Gorsky alone, three in Kamyshevas, four in Severodonetsk, four in Lisichansk, and at least four in Novodruzhesk,” he writes.
Results of the 70th day of the war
The Associated Press, in its investigation, concluded that about 600 people died as a result of a Russian military strike on the Drama Theater in Mariupol.
Ukrainian journalist Oleksandr Makhov died under fire.
The Russian military took out about 100,000 tons of grain from the Luhansk region, another 30,000 tons were destroyed. The authorities of Ukraine say that this is the volume of needs of the inhabitants of the region for almost three years. The sowing campaign has not started only in the Lugansk region.
The commander of the Central Military District of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, awarded his tanker son, who led the failed attack on Chernigov, the BBC Russian Service found out.
Cover photo: Alexander Ermochenko, Reuters/Scanpix