The last day of victory

Everything you need to know early in the morning of May 9

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Siberia is covered by fires - in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, several villages in different areas burned entirely on Saturday, there are dead, injured and even criminal proceedings on negligence, here is a report from the region. The war in Ukraine continues:

• On Saturday, the Russian airstrike in the village of Belogovka, Lugansk region, was destroyed by a school, in the basement of which 90 people were hidden. 60 of them died.
• As a result of the Russian air raid on the night of Saturday, the Grigory Skovoroda, in the Kharkov region, was completely destroyed on Saturday.
• On the weekend, the first lady of the United States, Jill Biden, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudo, as well as the head of the parliaments of Germany and Norway, Berbel Bas and Masud Garahani, visited the weekend in Ukraine.
• The United States imposed new sanctions against Russia, Great Britain announced trade sanctions, and the EU did not agree on its sixth package of sanctions due to the resistance of Hungary.
• In Russia, on the eve of Victory Day, activists, human rights activists, and journalists are massively detained.

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Pour smashed

May 8, when the day of the World War II is celebrated around the world, Putin sent congratulations to the heads of most states of the post -Soviet space, including unrecognized formations, and separately congratulated the Ukrainians, wishing them a “peaceful and fair future”. He wished Ukrainian veterans “mental stable, good health and longevity”. Here is a story about the gift, which the 97-year-old veteran Ivan Lysun received by Victory Day: as a result of shelling the village of Zolochev in the Kharkov region, he lost his house, and he survived only a miracle.

The press service of the St. Petersburg Zaksa cut out from the congratulations of the head of the Yabloko faction from May 9 the desire to end the war in Ukraine.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky recorded a video message to the Day of Memory and Reconciliation against the backdrop of a destroyed nine-story building in the city of Borodyanka near Kiev: “This year we say“ never again ”differently. We hear“ never again ”differently. It sounds painful, cruel. Without exclamation, and with a question sign. You say: tell us about this to Ukraine,” said Zelensky ( full text in Russian). Western politicians in their appeals emphasized that the terrible experience of the Second World War this year again became the present for Europe ( the head of the European Commission , German Chancellor , and Minister of Defense of Great Britain ).

As the end of the Second World War in the post -Soviet countries celebrate, it is told here ; Here is a separate plot about Latvia , where all the events related to the victory of the USSR in the Second World War are directly prohibited, and on May 9, the day of mourning and memory of the victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The invasion of Ukraine is already changing and will change the attitude to the Second World War in Russia ( there is an opinion that the Victory Day this year is celebrated for the last time - in any case, the police tore off the traditional informal action on May 8 in Novosibirsk, and the police officer Svetlana Kaverzin detained the deputy of the City Council on suspicion of the “declension of the highest bodies of state power to refuse to conduct a special operation in Ukraine”).

Here are the answers of the inhabitants of several Russian cities to the question of whether Russia will pay reparations to Ukraine when the war ends (the spoiler: “For what? This Ukraine should pay Russia and the Donbass!”). For their part, the Kiev authorities, without waiting for the end of the war, are de -Russian: up to 500 streets, several metro stations, 60 monuments and memorial plaques will be renamed.

Military reports

The Russian army intensified shelling on all fronts, but especially in the Donbass. On Saturday, the air bomb destroyed the school in the village of Belogovka, Lugansk region - 90 people were hidden in the basement of this school, that is, all the inhabitants of the village who did not manage to evacuate. Only 30 people got out of the rubble, the hope that someone else survived was insignificant. In addition, as a result of shelling, the Popasnyansky water utility was destroyed in the village of Borovenka - about a million people were left without water, including residents of some areas of the so -called “LPR”. Here, the head of the Luhansk region, Sergei Gaidai, tells about this. The Ukrainian army left the city of Popasnaya, the battles for which lasted two months. Evacuation from the Luhansk region is more impossible . The Donetsk region is also continuously fired.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk reported on the evacuation of all women, children and elderly people who took refuge in the bomb shelters of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. The Red Cross announced the successful evacuation of another 170 citizens of Ukraine from Mariupol. The Azov fighters remaining on Azovstal arranged a press conference online, during which they accused the Ukrainian authorities of “saboting” the country's defense issues for eight years. They do not intend to surrender to surrender, because they are convinced that the Russians will still not save their lives. With the demand to release all those remaining on the Azovstal - both military and civilian - Ukrainian veterans of the Great Patriotic War turned to Putin. Vladimir Zelensky said that it is now impossible to unlock Mariupol by military means, and the diplomatic paths are not yet working, despite all the efforts of the Ukrainian authorities.

On Saturday night, as a result of the Russian air raid, the museum of the philosopher Grigory Skovoroda in the Kharkov region was completely destroyed (exhibits were taken out in advance). Here is a report from Gulyaipol, fired on May 6 - despite the inevitability of the Russian offensive, people do not want to evacuate.

At the weekend, Sumy region , Odessa and Odessa region were also subjected to shelling. Ukraine announced the destruction of three Russian boats and a helicopter near the island of Zmein; Russia does not mention the boats, but reports the destruction of two Ukrainian aircraft and one helicopter. Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Viktor Andrusiv, announced that the Crimean bridge on which there is supply for Russian troops operating in the south of Ukraine will necessarily be destroyed: “This is a matter of time.”

The United States and the UK announced new military assistance packages for Ukraine. The further course of the war here is trying to predict the American military analyst Rob Li (spoiler: trampling in the Donbass will last another month, the war can last several years). The conversation with another American, Alexander Windman, who was one of the leaders of the European Department in the National Security Council under Trump (Windman, is interestingly explains the relationship between Trump and Putin and does not believe in the possibility of applying nuclear weapons Russia).

Watch fresh photos of the war here .

In the occupied territories

The “new authorities” occupied by the Russian army Kherson announced the desire to “live in the Russian Federation”, although they understand that in this case, in terms of development, “something close to the Crimea”. The mayor of the occupied Tokmak of the Zaporizhzhya region Igor Kotelevsky died at 57 - according to unofficial data, this is suicide: Kothelevsky has been mayor since 2009, he refused to cooperate with the Russian military, but did not leave the city.

New evidence from the Kiev region: the story of a resident of Irpen, whose house was destroyed by the Russian military; The happy story of the evacuation of Buchi - the Russian military shot on the car, but did not miraculously fall; And the heartbreaking story of the family , shot on February 28, 20 km from Buchi when trying to evacuate.

The impression of the horror is also left by conversations with the Mariupol residents , whom the Russian authorities for some reason brought to the village of Wrangel 200 km from Vladivostok.

International

On Sunday, Kiev was visited by the heads of the parliaments of Germany and Norway Berbel Bas and Masud Garahani and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (he also went to Irpen). Trudeau met with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky-together they participated in the online meeting of the heads of state “Big Seven”. In the statement, following the meeting of the state, G7 again expressed support to Ukraine and promised to tighten the economic isolation of Russia. The United States and the UK have already announced new sanctions. American include visa restrictions on 2600 officials from Russia and Belarus, a ban on cooperation with Russian state television channels and some export restrictions. London introduces 35 percent tariffs for trade with Russia and expands the list of goods whose export is prohibited to Russia.

The European Union has not yet been able to coordinate the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which includes an embargo on Russian oil: Hungary is opposed to its adoption, despite the fact that it was given a delay in the introduction of this embargo.

The wife of US President Joe Biden Jill graduated from her Eastern European tour in Uzhgorod, where she was received by the first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya. Prior to this, Jill Biden met with Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia and Romania.

On Sunday, a concert in the Kiev metro was played by the U2 group.

Google began blocking the accounts and YouTube channels of deputies of the Russian State Duma that fell under sanctions.

Strengthening the “self -cleaning” of Russian society

All weekend there were searches and interrogations of activists of movements “Spring” and “Eva’s ribs”. Femactivist from the “Ribs of Eve” is accused of “Fallinginating”, and members of “Spring” - of “creating a non -profit organization encroaching on the personality and rights of citizens” (earlier under this article they initiated a case against the FBC of Navalny). It was as if there is some urgency: the Petersburg Femactivist Polina Titov was detained on Monday night at the bar, and the former participant in the “spring” of Roman Maximov was found in Veliky Novgorod, from where they took the interrogation to Moscow. Read more here .

Mass searches for activists, journalists and human rights activists took place on the eve of Victory Day in Moscow. Anna Loiko, a journalist of the Sota publication, was arrested for five days. The editors also connects this with Victory Day.

The artist Alexander Skochilenko, sent in a pre -trial detention center in a criminal case on “discrediting the Russian army” for anti -war price tags, was transferred to a more comfortable camera after complaints about the injury. In addition, she was provided with gluten -free nutrition.

Two interviews: with a teacher of the Omsk university Dmitry Rudakov , dismissed from work after students' denunciations, and with an oncologist Ilya Fomintsev , who, after the arrest and visit of the police, decided to leave Russia.

Everything else

• The current president of the unrecognized South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov, who expressed a desire to join Russia, lost the election. Alan Gagloev was elected president. Georgia considers South Ossetia its territory and does not recognize these elections.
• In the elections in the legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland, for the first time in history, the Party “Shinn Feyn” (“We ourselves”), advocating Olster from the United Kingdom and the unification of Ireland, won . Association is possible after its approval in referenda in Ireland and Northern Ireland, and holding a referendum - only when surveys show that most residents of North Ireland support reunification (while they show the opposite).
• The former security officer John Lee was elected the new head of the Hong Kong administration - his college of electors, which includes loyal to Beijing, was elected, so the chosen one also turned out to be Poskinsky.

Seven links

• Pressing. The advice of a philosopher, political scientist, psychiatrist and human rights activist about what everyone can do now to stop the war. And two materials about emigration from Russia: Considerations of demographers Mikhail Denisenko and Julia Florinskaya on the intensity of departure and his influence on Russia and the emigrants themselves plus the story about the initiative "Nansen's Passport - 2.0" for the military wave of Russian emigrants.
• World War II. Conversation with the historian Elizabeth of Chatanzeyskaya about the American program of Lend-Lease and her influence on the situation at the front. Or a conversation with a 90-year-old Petersburger Greta Baum about how the Second World War destroyed the life of her family.
• About Soviet life. The interview with Maria Rozanova - Portnich, restorer, artificial, jeweler, editor, publisher and wife of Andrei Sinyavsky, recorded in 2014. Or the story of Soviet children's illustrators and “strange animators” who managed to create free art where it was not supposed.

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