Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 72

22:45

Oil and gas company Shell announced the suspension of its filling stations in Russia and the plant for the production of lubricants until the sale of the Russian division to a new owner.

Earlier, the British-Dutch company announced that it would withdraw from projects in the Russian market.

22:28

50 civilians were evacuated from the territory of Azovstal today, reports the Russian Defense Ministry . The same figure was given by Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk.

“All rescued civilians have been handed over to representatives of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross for delivery to selected places of temporary accommodation,” the Ministry of Defense said in a release without specifying how many people decided to go to the regions controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, and how many to those occupied by the Russian military .

20:41

Petersburger Victoria Petrova was detained in the case of "fake" about the Russian army because of the nine videos published by "VKontakte", according to the project "Network Freedom".

Tomorrow the investigator will petition for Petrova's arrest. She is charged with spreading “fakes” motivated by political hatred (clause “e” of part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code), for which she faces up to 10 years in prison.

Human rights activists also report that Volgograd activist Yevgeny Kochegin has been put on the federal wanted list in a similar case. He himself left the country.

20:30

15-year-old Liza Chernyshenko, with a shot in her legs while driving a car, took four adults, including the wounded, out of the city of Popasnaya in the Luhansk region, the girl herself said. The video of her story, provided by the First Medical Association of Lviv, was published by The Insider.

According to Chernyshenko, she was taking two men who received shrapnel wounds to a hospital in the town of Bakhmut (before 2016, Artemovsk), about 30 kilometers from Popasna. With them in the car were also a woman and a friend of the girl's uncle Zhenya, who, along with her, was injured during the shelling of the car.

“Before that, I was completely whole,” says the teenager, specifying that on the way she managed to avoid mines on the bridge, but then the military saw the car. - Turn right - we were fired upon. I have legs. There was almost nothing I could do. The car stalled, barely started and we drove on. But then the car still died out due to the fact that the battery was shot through by a bullet. The military took us." Chernyshenko is sure that they were fired upon by the Russian military.

Two bullets hit the girl's knee on one leg, and another bullet hit the foot on the other.

To a clarifying question about how Chernyshenko was driving with injuries to both, she replied: “As far as she could, well, she was driving <...> It, of course, was very difficult for me, it was very painful, but at least somehow. I would not have thrown [the wounded] further under fire.” According to the teenager, all passengers of her car survived.

Chernyshenko said that her mother taught her to drive at the age of seven. A few years ago, the girl's mother died. In Popasnaya, where active battles and shelling are now taking place, the godmother who raised her remained. Chernyshenko herself is in a hospital in Lviv.

19:29

The Investigative Committee of Russia announced the detention in Kherson by the Russian military of a man who was preparing a terrorist attack for May 9 “under pressure from the defense industry”.

The military found a laboratory for the manufacture of explosives in the detainee's apartment, and also found weapons, ammunition, a grenade launcher and TNT there, the Investigative Committee claims.

“According to the military, the man planned to commit a terrorist act during the celebrations in honor of Victory Day. The detainee confirmed his involvement in the manufacture of Molotov cocktails and said that he acted under pressure from the Ukrainian territorial defense unit, ”the release says.

Russian investigators decided to give this a legal assessment, but so far the UK has not announced the initiation of a case.

18:34

Russia has returned 41 people to Ukraine in a new prisoner exchange, according to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk. Among them, 11 women.

28 returnees are military, 13 more are civilians. Among those released is the rector of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

18:18

The editor-in-chief of Baza, Nikita Mogutin, announced his departure from the publication.

“It didn’t happen today or yesterday, but about two months ago. Since the end of February, I have not worked in the publication <…> It was, indeed, a damned difficult decision, which, nevertheless, was long overdue. Much earlier than this damned February 24, ”Mogutin wrote.

According to him, he wanted to leave the project because he could not give him "all the attention he needed." But then Mogutin "fired up again when the question arose of covering the military theme."

“But the new laws and restrictions on journalists quickly showed me the acceptable limits of reporting on the topic. And I realized that in the conditions that have developed in Russia for journalists now, I simply will not be able to work. I just can't get stars instead of words, and words are the most dangerous commodity on the market right now,” he writes.

Mogutin created Baza together with Anatoly Suleymanov and Alexander Potapov. All three worked in senior positions in the pro-Kremlin media Life.

17:59

The Azov Regiment claims that the Russian military on the territory of Azovstal knocked out a car that was supposed to evacuate civilians. This happened while the ceasefire was in effect.

“This car was moving towards civilians in order to evacuate them from the plant. As a result of the shelling, one fighter was killed and six were wounded,” the report said. It also says that the car was hit by an anti-missile tank system.

Azov published a video of a wounded man in a T-shirt with the regiment's symbols and a photo of a damaged car.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry promised that a humanitarian corridor from Azovstal would be opened from 8:00 to 18:00 on May 5-7 and the Russian military would not fire at that time.

16:57

At least 2,120 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine, the reports based on its calculations with a team of volunteers. BBC Russian Service

The BBC based its analysis only on reports containing specific information about the deceased, including the full name and rank and, if possible, the place of burial.

The Russian Ministry of Defense twice announced the number of losses - in the latter case, the department recognized the loss of 1,351 soldiers.

16:50

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the "Crimean Human Rights Group" as an "undesirable organization" in Russia.

“It has been established that the activities of the Ukrainian organization pose a threat to the constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation,” the agency said in a statement .

The Crimean Human Rights Group appeared in the summer of 2015. The organization monitors cases of human rights violations in Crimea and draws the attention of journalists and the public to specific cases.

16:37

Russian military-appointed head of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo told reporters during a meeting with United Russia member Andrey Turchak and DPR head Denis Pushilin that the region would switch to rubles.

“In parallel, both the ruble and the hryvnia will move. But gradually, naturally, the hryvnia will be completely replaced by the ruble,” said Saldo. According to him, a Russian bank will soon open in the Kherson region.

Residents of Kherson three times - from 2002 to 2012 - elected Saldo as mayor of the city. After the start of the Russian invasion, he wrote on Facebook that Kherson is Ukraine.

16:10

Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrei Turchak told the residents of Kherson that "Russia is here forever."

Turchak, together with the head of the self-proclaimed DPR, Denis Pushilin, visited Kherson, reports RIA Novosti . “Russia is here forever, there should be no doubt about it, there will be no return to the past. We will live together,” he says in a video released by the agency. When asked about the status of the region, he suggested "do not get ahead of ourselves" and said that it would be determined by the inhabitants of the region.

15:55

The heads of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR have appointed ambassadors to Russia.

The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin , appointed Olga Makeeva, who headed the parliament of the self-proclaimed republic from September to November 2018, to the post. The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, gave this post to Rodion Miroshnik. He was the press secretary of Viktor Yanukovych from 2006 to 2007, when the ex-president of Ukraine headed the government.

15:38

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested journalist Alexander Nevzorov in absentia.

He is accused of spreading "fake news" about the Russian army (part 2 of article 207.3) because of a video about the shelling of a maternity hospital in Mariupol by the Russian military. The maximum penalty under this article is 10 years in prison. Yesterday, the Russian Interior Ministry put Nevzorov on the wanted list.

15:14

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivered a speech in memory of employees of the USSR Foreign Ministry who died during the Great Patriotic War. He said: "We honor, of course, the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the victims of concentration camps."

On May 1, Lavrov, in an interview with the Italian TV channel Mediaset, in which he, speaking about the origin of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that “Hitler also had Jewish blood”, as well as “the most ardent anti-Semites, as a rule, Jews.” Yesterday, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Benet reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to the Israeli Prime Minister for Lavrov's words.

14:20

Amnesty International has released a report on Russian war crimes in the Kiev region.

In Bucha and other cities and villages near Kiev, the organization documented 22 cases of killings, "most of which were clearly extrajudicial executions." Some of the killings were carried out with armor-piercing rounds, which can only be fired from specialized rifles carried by "elite Russian units", including some units of the Airborne Forces.

At least 40 people died as a result of airstrikes on March 1 and 2 on residential buildings in Borodianka, according to Amnesty International. Most of them died in basements where they hid from shelling, the rest - in their apartments. It is noted that no military targets were found in these houses.

Human rights activists spoke to several witnesses to the airstrikes. “I left my apartment to go work in the garage as my wife was about to take a couple of elderly neighbors down to the basement. When I got to the garage, about 150 meters from the building, there was a strong explosion. I ducked behind the garage. When I looked, I saw a big gap in the building. The entire middle part of the building collapsed - exactly where the inhabitants were hiding in the basement. My wife Galina was among those killed. I still see her at the door of our apartment, the house where we lived for 40 years,” said local resident Vladimir Yaroshenko.

13:45

Pensioner Natalya Filonova, who asked the minibus driver to remove the letter Z hanging in the cabin, was arrested for five days, Sibir.Realii reports , citing activist Lilia Donskaya.

The Soviet District Court of Ulan-Ude considered Filonova's actions petty hooliganism and police resistance.

On April 26, a pensioner asked the driver of a minibus in Ulan-Ude to remove the letter Z from the passenger compartment. In response, the driver dropped off other passengers and took her to the police station, where she became ill. After that, Filonova was hospitalized.

13:19

About 15 thousand people out of more than 100 thousand of the city's population remain in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, 80% of infrastructure facilities are damaged, writes with reference to the head of the city administration Oleksandr Stryuk. Hromadske

“There are troops around the city trying to storm it. <...> We still have people who made the decision not to leave even earlier. Now it is very difficult to persuade them to leave the city. These are isolated cases when we manage to persuade someone,” he says.

According to Stryuk, the power supply in the city is damaged, it is difficult to restore it.

12:18

Alena Smyshlyaeva, a resident of the Sverdlovsk region, was fined six times under the article on discrediting the actions of the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for 180 thousand rubles, according to the Network Freedoms project.

From March 1 to April 5, “local police lieutenant Alexander Golubtsov regularly visited Alena Smyshlyaeva’s Facebook page and drew up protocols,” writes the project.

11:43

Last night, the Russian military fired on the Azot enterprise in Severodonetsk, writes the head of the Lugansk regional administration, Sergei Gaidai. Two people died in the city.

According to him, at about 18:00, Russian shells hit one of the last gas stations in the Luhansk region and the Azot railway facility located nearby.

“Sleepers and grass caught fire on a total area of ​​400 sq. m. There was a threat of fire in the tanks of the enterprise. However, the rescuers managed to warn him in time,” wrote Gaidai.

According to him, yesterday in Severodonetsk 16 attacks were carried out on residential areas and infrastructure facilities, which killed two people. 12 buildings, an electrical substation and a complex of commercial buildings were also damaged. Seven more houses were destroyed during the day in Rubizhne, two in Novodruzhesk.

10:55

Intelligence shared by the United States with Ukraine helped sink the Moskva cruiser, reports . NBC

The Ukrainian military reached out to the US to ask about the ship sailing on the Black Sea south of Odessa. The US identified it as "Moscow", helped confirm its location, after which Ukraine targeted the ship and hit it with two Neptune anti-ship missiles, unnamed officials told NBC. At the same time, the United States did not participate in the decision to strike the cruiser - American naval intelligence shares data with Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russian ship attacks.

According to NBC, U.S. officials "expressed concern that reports of U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine could anger Putin and provoke an unpredictable reaction."

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that a fire broke out on the cruiser, after which the Moskva sank while being towed.

9:40

against journalist Ilya Azar A protocol was drawn up under the article on discrediting the use of the Russian army (part 2 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The maximum penalty for it is a fine of up to 100 thousand.

As the journalist writes, the prosecutor's office told him that the case was opened because of a post on Facebook, which one is not clear.

9:32

500 people were evacuated from Azovstal, Mariupol and adjacent areas, said UN Secretary General António Guterres . Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced the next evacuation from Mariupol, which is scheduled for today, 12:00.

“I hope that continued coordination with Moscow and Kiev will lead to more humanitarian pauses to ensure the safe passage of civilians,” Guterres wrote.

Results of the 71st day of the war

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 SBU announced the detention of pro-Russian blogger Anatoly Shariy in Spain. In Ukraine, he is suspected of treason and violation of the equality of citizens.

In St. Petersburg, the residences of five activists of the Peaceful Resistance group were searched in connection with the case of “fakes” about the Russian army.

Cellmates harassed the artist Sasha Skochilenko, who was arrested in the case of replacing price tags in a supermarket with anti-war leaflets.

Cover photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine