
Already 1730 Ukrainian military left "Azovstal" and surrendered to the Russian side.
In Norilsk, the court sent an 18-year-old teenager for a burned Georgievsky ribbon to the pre-trial detention center, the Investigative Committee reports .
According to investigators, on April 23, the young man published two videos in an unnamed messenger, on which he burns a ribbon and calls to others.
Against the teenager, whom the department calls the “adherent of radical Ukrainian nationalism”, they opened a criminal case on the rehabilitation of Nazism by desecrating symbols of military glory (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code; up to three years of colony).
The case was started on the basis of materials collected by local FSB officers.
Zemfira released a new anti -war song and a clip.
The deputy head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Sergei Kiriyenko , said that Vladimir Putin decided to patronize Russian regions over cities and regions of the DPR and LPR.
Since the beginning of May, four Russian regions have announced that they would take patronage over cities or areas of the DPR and LPR, and Chuvashia - over the Donetsk electrical engineering plant. Schertism suggests that the authorities of the Russian regions will help them with restoration.
Director Kirill Serebrennikov, at a press conference in Cannes, urged to relieve sanctions from the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
“He helped modern art and did it for a long time. These are not propaganda films, just the opposite, ”Serebrennikova quotes The Hollywood Reporter. In Cannes, he represents his new film "Tchaikovsky's wife."
Abramovich turned out to be one of many Russian businessmen who fell under the sanctions of the European Union and Great Britain. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky asked the United States to postpone the introduction of restrictions against Abramovich, since he is actively involved in the negotiation process.
The Central Bank of Russia said that from May 20, banks without restrictions can sell any cash foreign currency, except for US dollars and euros.
“The current restrictions on the sale of cash US and the euro are maintained - until September 9, 2022, citizens can buy only those US dollars and euros that entered the cash desks of banks since April 9, 2022,” the release said.
The Central Bank introduced restrictions on the movement of currency in the country, after the Western countries adopted sanctions against it and its reserves abroad were blocked.
12 people were killed and more than 40 were injured as a result of shelling Severodonetsk, which go in the morning, said the head of the Luhansk region Sergey Gaidai.
According to him, the Russian military is firing at heavy weapons: "Mostly, purposeful hit in residential buildings."
During the debate in the court of Kiev, the prosecutors demanded a life imprisonment of the Russian military Vadim Shishimarin, who accused of the murder of a civilian resident, reports “ґrati”.
The process was postponed until tomorrow, so that the defender can prepare for my performance.
The head of the Kherson region, appointed by the Russian military, Vladimir Saldo, at a meeting with the heads of the districts, announced that the region would become a subject of Russia.
“We look at the Russian Federation as our country. Because now the territory is under the control of the Armed Forces, in the future it will be transformed into the subject of the Federation. That is, there will be the Kherson region of the Russian Federation, ”Saldo said.
He said that the regional budget has already been approved in rubles.
The Security Service of Ukraine announced the detention of Mikhail Tsarev, the brother of the ex-deputy of the Supreme Rada Oleg Tsarev, who in 2014 supported the separatists in the east of the country. Brother politics is suspected of trying to organize sabotage in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
“He was confident in the ambulance of Russia: he expected the occupation of the region and the position of the head of the regional state administration promised to him. When the arrival of Russians failed, he received the task of destabilizing the situation in the region through an explosion series at infrastructure facilities, ”says SBU speaker Artem Dekhtyarenko.
According to the SBU, the detainee at home found weapons, ammunition and TNT checkers, as well as a Russian passport.
The detainee is suspected under Article 113 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (sabotage), which threatens from 10 to 15 years in the colony.
Tsarev himself in early May in Kiev in absentia sentenced to 12 years in the colony for calls for separatism.
The press service of the courts of Bashkortostan confirmed Fontanka that the musician Yuri Shevchuk drew up a protocol on discrediting the Russian army.
“Literally, the materials on Yuri Shevchuk entered the Soviet District Court of Ufa, under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. The court hearing has not yet been scheduled, the materials have just been registered, are under consideration, transferred to Judge Egorova, ”the press service said.
Earlier, the Ufa producer Radmir Usaev said that after yesterday’s DDT concert in Ufa to Shevchuk, security officials came to the dressing room and had a conversation with him for about an hour about the past performance.
“They even had a desire to detain“ our everything ”, but at the last moment they had the mind to offer Yura the protocol (which you can guess about) and, sitting in their armored minibuses, left us to share impressions of the concert,” Usaev wrote on Instagram.
Yesterday at the concert, Shevchuk spoke out against the war in Ukraine: “Now people are being killed in Ukraine - why? Our boys die there - why? What are the goals, friends? Again, the youth of Russia and Ukraine dies, old people and women, children die. For some Napoleon plans of our next Caesar, right? Homeland, friends - this is not an ass of the president, which must be trained all the time, kiss. Homeland is a beggar’s grandmother at the station selling potatoes. This is the homeland. "
The audience met the statements of the musician by applause.
The Russian military Vadim Shishimarin, who was judged in Kiev for the murder of a civilian resident, said that he shot a man to “be behind me”, reports “ґrati”.
- What is your inner attitude to the victim? - the lawyer of the military Viktor Ovsyannikov asked during the interrogation.
“I didn't want to kill him.” I shot to keep me behind, ”Shishimarin answered.
He also clarified that he was ordered by the ensign of Makeev, and not his other, his colleague of the Kufak, who later died.
“The ensign saw that he was talking on the phone and said to shoot. Then an unknown person turned to me and began to scream to shoot because I endure their danger, ”the defendant recalled.
21-year-old Shishimarin today in court apologized to the wife of the murdered Katerina Shelipova: “I understand that you cannot forgive me, but I apologize.”
The prosecutor asked Shelipov what punishment for a Russian she considers adequate. “I think life imprisonment. But if he is changed to our defenders "Azovstal", I will not mind, "said the wife of the murdered.
The FSB expert Svetlana Mochalova explained that the “actions that contradict the official position” of the Russian Ministry of Defense are considered to be discrediting the army, the project “Network Freedom” reports with reference to a linguistic study, which was conducted in the administrative case of the resident of Novouralsk, Viktor Kazakov.
A fragment of the document was published by lawyer Alexei Bushmakov.
“The discrediting of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation refers to actions committed intentionally and contradicting the official position of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and aimed at deprivation primarily among citizens of the Russian Federation of confidence in them, to undermine authority, and the image of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the study said.
In addition, the FSB expert identified four strategies for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces:
In Bakhmut near Donetsk, the shell hit the five -story building, as a result, the entrance collapsed, according to the head of the region Pavel Kirilenko. According to preliminary data, no one was injured.
In addition, shells flew to a private house and an administrative building. Six people got out of the blockages of a private house.
According to Kirilenko, out of 73 thousand residents of Bakhmut, a little more than 20 thousand are in the city today. He calls on everyone who has such an opportunity to leave the region: “Now in the Donetsk region there are no absolutely safe places. Evacuation saves life! ”
Over the past day, ten civilians were killed in the region: seven in the estuary and three in Bakhmut. Among the dead are two children. Seven more people were injured.
The border village of Tetkino in the Kursk region was again fired this morning, said the head of the subject Roman Starovoit. One person died.
“According to preliminary data, this is a truck driver who brought raw materials to the alcohol. The enemy struck several blows to this object. There are also wounded. First aid is provided to them, ”the official wrote.
Several houses were injured.
The authorities of the Voronezh region confirmed that the deceased was a driver. It turned out to be a resident of the Novousmansky district Vasily Merzlikin, who was located in the territory of the plant for working affairs. He has three children left.
In Severodonetsk, where fierce battles are now underway, four people were killed in a day, three were injured, according to the head of the Luhansk region Sergey Gaidai.
Two dead were found in the apartment where the shell got. The man died near one of the houses. On the same street, a woman and a man fell under fire from the Russian military. The woman died on the spot, a man with fragmentation wounds was hospitalized.
At least eight houses were damaged, some were burning individual apartments or entire entrances.
“In some places, due to powerful shelling, rescuers were not able to go to the places of fire for two hours,” Gaidai noted.
The shelling continues in Lisichansk - there the woman torn off her hand. According to the head of the region, the Russian military de -energized the powerful electrical substation in Lisichansk - now the region is left without light.
In Mariupol, 771 Ukrainian military left with Azovstali, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports .
In total, from May 16, 1,730 Ukrainians surrendered to the Russian side. Of these, 80 people were wounded - they were taken to hospitals in Novoazovsk and Donetsk, controlled by the DPR.
The department also publishes a new video with the military who leave the plant and their inspection. Some go on crutches, others with bandaged legs or hands. Later, the Ministry of Defense published a video of conversations with prisoners who say that they are well fed, everyone has mattresses and blankets and generally treat them normally.
Updated at 11:18. Added information about the video with the comments of prisoners about the conditions of the content.
The Ukrainian military continues to leave the Mariupol plant "Azovstal" and surrender to the Russian side. Some of them, supposedly, were taken to the Taganrog pre -trial detention center.
The head of the DPR said that more than 60% of residential buildings were destroyed in Mariupol. At the same time, he spoke about plans to restore the Ukrainian city occupied by Russia "with an accent to the resort business."
In Kyiv, the court began to consider the first case against the Russian military accused of the murder of a civilian resident.
The authorities of the Belgorod and Kursk regions continue to report the shelling of border areas.
Against the journalists of Ruslan Leviev and Michael Naki opened a criminal case of the spread of “fakes” about the Russian army.
The FSB reported on the detention of Kemerovo for damage to the power lines. The special service calls him a “supporter of the Ukrainian Nazis” - a case of sabotage was initiated against him.
In Russia, another military registration and enlistment office was thrown into Molotov cocktails - this time in the Shchelkovo near Moscow.
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