Total hybrid

Good morning!

Sweden and Finland officially announced that they were joining NATO, and the President of Finland called Putin to inform him of this personally. Sauli Ninistu emphasized that Russia's actions prompted Russia's actions to join the Military Union. The rest is like this:

• Russia allocates its troops from Kharkov and tries to develop an offensive in the Luhansk region. The battles go on the approaches to Severodonetsk.
• Türkiye is ready to participate in the evacuation of the wounded from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, but Moscow does not yet give consent.
• Over the weekend in Russia, three more arson of military commissariats were committed.
• In Venice, the activists captured Mikhelson’s mansion, a transaction was blocked in Portugal to sell the Abramovich mansion.
• Ukraine won the Eurovision Council.

Military reports

The Kharkov authorities said that Russia was withdrawing troops from the city, Kharkov has not been fired at for several days. The fighters of the Kharkov Teroborne post a video against the background of the border pillar: at least, in one of the plots, control over the state border has been restored.

The most intense situation is in the Luhansk region: the Russian army is being selected to Severodonetsk, the battles go to the villages closest to the city. City residents die under shelling, a hospital in Severodonetsk was repeatedly fired on Sunday - here the head of the military administration Sergey Gaidai talks about the situation in the region. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, in the border regions, Russia prepares up to 2500 reservists for sending to war. See fresh photos of the war here .

The authorities of Mariupol accused Russia of using phosphorus ammunition against Azovstali. On the territory of the enterprise there are about 600 wounded Ukrainian military, about 40 of them in critical condition. The defenders of the plant end in food and water: here is the story of the fighter of the battalion “Azov” by Dmitry Kozatsky about the mood among the military. The wives of the defenders “Azovstal” again called for the salvation of their loved ones. The Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra, who won on Saturday at Eurovision, ended their performance by the same call. Turkey is ready to evacuate the wounded from Azovstali by the sea, but Moscow has not yet agreed to the implementation of this plan.

On Sunday night, the Lviv region was sheated - rockets were most likely released from submarines in the Black Sea. On Monday night, explosions were heard in Nikolaev and Kherson. The Governor of the Belgorod Region announced the shelling from Ukraine of the village of Sereda, there is a victim. Here is a report on moods in this Russian region.

In the New Kakhovka of the Kherson region, which is under the control of Russia, the military abducted the former deputy of the regional council of Viktor Lamznyuk. The “new authorities” of the region explained the shooting in the Kherson pre -trial detention center, which was reported by the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisov, “suppressing the rebellion”. One person died.

According to British intelligence, Russia lost a third of the forces deployed on the border with Ukraine in February. Russia itself has not reported its losses for a long time, and the court in St. Petersburg blocked four foreign sites for publishing these data.

In its new strategy, NATO will designate Russia as a direct threat. The Secretary General of the organization said that Ukraine could win in this war, and urged the alliance members to build up the support of Ukraine. The G7 countries promised to supply weapons to Ukraine as long as it needed. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, in this regard, said that the West declared a “total hybrid war” to Russia, the consequences of which “will feel everything without exception”.

The consequences are felt

The press service of the Italian police spoke about the attempt of Russian hackers to disrupt the voting process at Eurovision (hackers managed to interfere).

It is much more difficult to interfere with the global food crisis, which may be the result of this war. Due to the blocking of the Black Sea, Ukraine has lost the possibility of exporting grain, which hits not only on its budget, but also in the presence of food in those countries that buy this grain. Here, the vice-president of the Kiev School of Economics, Oleg Nivevsky, explains why it is impossible to rebuild the logistics of grain export in the shortest possible time. Against this background, India has already banned the export of wheat.

The blocking of Ukrainian ports beats not only in the world food market, but also on the transportation of other goods - this is an interview with Andrei Stavnitser , a co -owner of the port of TIS next to Odessa, the largest on the Ukrainian Black Sea coast.

The war destroys Ukrainian infrastructure- for example, a report from the village of Demidovo, Kiev region, which turned out to be flooded with water due to a breakthrough of the dam on Irpen. According to the President of Zelensky, the restoration of Ukraine will be one of the topics of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Here, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine tells how the country is going to “hunt” Russian assets abroad to compensate for the damage caused by the war.

At the same time, the war continues to be financed by Western countries buying oil and gas from Russia: the European Commission has prepared a new guide to Russian gas payments in accordance with Putin’s requirements, which Brussels first called the sanctions. The sixth package of sanctions of the European Union has not yet been adopted.

There are small troubles: in Venice, activists captured the palace belonging to the head of Novatek Leonid Michelson, and in Portugal the sale of a mansion belonging to Roman Abramovich was blocked . With the outbreak of war, the influence of Russia in the Balkans has significantly weakened .

There is no war in Russia

The head of Ukrainian intelligence claims that Putin is seriously ill, the war will last until the end of this year, and the turning point will come in August. Where did he get such information from, he does not tell, but the Western press also willingly writes about Putin's illness, asking, however, the question of whether rumors about it are deliberately spread.

According to The Insider , only 10% of Russian television journalists support the war in Ukraine. Why do they continue to work on television, where the war is called the “special operation” is not very clear, but here the former Channel One editor Marina Ovsyanikova is trying to explain their motives. Ovsyannikova, who, after her demarche, on the air of the Time program left Russia and now works in Die Welt, said that the ex -husband, the director of the Spanish editorial office of RT, filed a lawsuit against her on the issue of raising children. What exactly the claim is, she does not know, but calls this matter “by the machinations of Margarita Simonyan”. The Yandex.cartes service stopped showing photos of Marina Ovsyannikova when searching for her name.

Over the weekend in Russia, three more attempts for arson of military commissariats were committed . From February to April of this year, the number of thefts of goods from Russian stores increased by 18% compared to the same period last year - the confectionery is most often stealing.

In Moscow, the head of the Committee for Civil Rights, the chairman of the Commission of the Presidential Council of Human Rights on the Development of the Penitentiary System Andrei Babushkin, died .

Discreditors and telephone terrorists

According to OVD-Info, in Russia, almost two thousand administrative cases have been instituted in Russia under the article on “discrediting” the armed forces. The total amount of fines is approached 20 million rubles. 30 thousand of them will be paid by a teacher from the village of the Shestakovo of the Smolensk region - she was fined for an avatar in VKontakte with the inscription “No War”.

In some regions, two protocols are drawn up for participants in anti-war shares-about “discrediting” and something else, here is an example from Krasnodar. An anti -war committee appeared in the Krasnodar Territory, read an interview with one of its participants.

The innovative way of preventing anti -war shares was invented in St. Petersburg: on the eve of the expected events, activists are detained as part of a criminal case of “telephone terrorism”, and after two days they release - these are seven such stories . An interview with Stanislav Semenyuk, who burned the Russian tricolor in a country village in the Leningrad region and is now accused immediately both criminally and administratively, read here .

On Saturday, the Moscow police tore off the concert of anti -fascist groups Criminal State and The Dead President.

The teacher of the Institute of Public Sciences of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Council of State Denis Grekov resigned from the university after the colleague wrote a denunciation for his anti -war post on Facebook.

With the outbreak of war, depressed from Russia found themselves in volunteer work at the refugee reception center on the Ukrainian-Polish border- this is a report in which all familiar faces.

Everything else

• Ten people died and three were injured as a result of shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket in New York. The police detained an 18-year-old shooter-he allegedly committed a crime on the basis of racial hatred. Almost all the victims are dark -skinned.
• Israeli police beat the participants of the funeral of the journalist of Al-Juzira, who was killed on the western bank of the Jordan River. The USA and the EU subjected Israel to criticize.

Six links

• A view from the side. The guide of the “shelves” according to books that foreign authors wrote about Russia: from apologists to cruel criticism, from the 16th to the XXI century. Or a conversation with Chekhov’s biographer Slavist Donald Reifield about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Russian emigrants. 15 commented quotes from the memoirs of Felix Yusupov. Or the story of the fate of the passenger of the philosophical ship of Alexander Krimomov - in 1947 he was sent from France to the USSR, where arrest, camps, friendship and quarrel with Solzhenitsyn, and writing memoirs occurred.
• The device of the company. Longrid about world housing inequality: the purchase of housing around the world is becoming less affordable, and there is no universal recipe to solve the problem. Or an essay on the cult of effectiveness and obsession with work, which often displaces all life from life.

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