Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 94

20:08

As a result of the morning shelling of Nikolaev, a local resident, who worked as a janitor and cleaned the streets in the morning, was killed, reports the mayor of the city . Seven other people were injured, two of them in serious condition.

According to the mayor, residential areas were shelled, eight high-rise buildings were damaged.

“Mostly windows and doors. Of course, the property in the apartments and the cars parked in the yards were also damaged by shrapnel,” the statement said.

18:25

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, demanded the release of Ukrainian soldiers captured after leaving Azovstal, according to the website of the Elysee Palace.

Also, both European leaders demanded an end to hostilities in Ukraine and the lifting of the blockade of Ukrainian ports so that dry cargo ships with grain could leave them and thus avoid a food crisis.

The release says Putin has promised access to grain export ports if the route is cleared of mines.

The Kremlin press service, in a publication about this telephone conversation, does not mention the discussion of the captured military with Azovstal, but reports that Putin again promised to facilitate the export of grain from Ukrainian ports and blamed sanctions against Russia for the food crisis.

17:52

The Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev arrested the assets of Rosneft for 23 million hryvnias (about 47 million rubles), according to the Strana newspaper. The court also blocked the company's activities in Ukraine.

The decision was made on the basis of materials from the SBU.

As the newspaper notes, a criminal case has also been initiated under the article on the violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or the seizure of state power.

15:38

15:34

Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said that the soldiers released from captivity spoke about torture.

We are talking about employees who, after their release, are in medical institutions. Most of them were taken prisoner near Mariupol.

According to the Ukrainian military, at first they were kept in basements and outbuildings, and then transferred to the Donetsk pre-trial detention center and correctional colony No. 120, which are located on the territory controlled by Russian forces. Then they were taken to the pre-trial detention centers in Taganrog and Voronezh.

During the escort, the prisoners were wrapped around their eyes with tape, a bag was put on their heads, and their hands were tied with a rope.

Denisova notes that the officers and soldiers of the Azov Regiment were particularly ill-treated. They said that during interrogations they were forced to kneel, beaten with the butt of a machine gun on their toes and open wounds, used pliers, put a noose around their necks and were strangled, and also tortured with electric current.

“Ukrainian servicemen reported that the Rashists injected them with unknown drugs starting with the letter “M”, after which they lost consciousness and lost their memory,” writes Denisova.

In addition, according to her, the prisoners were forced to learn the poem “Forgive us, dear Russians” and learn the Russian anthem, the history of the creation of the coat of arms and the flag of Russia.

Women serving in the Ukrainian army who were taken prisoner claim that there were 17-20 prisoners in the cells for 2-3 people in the Donetsk pre-trial detention center. Instead of a toilet, they were left with a bucket, and they were not provided with hygiene products and were not allowed to wash. “The captives were also forced to have sex,” says Denisova.

She writes that the wounded were not provided with medical assistance and the doctor examined them only before being sent to the prisoner of war camp in Sevastopol, where representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross provided assistance.

14:57

Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar claims that Lyman has not yet been taken under the control of the Russian military and fierce battles are taking place in the city.

On the air of a single telethon, she said that while the battles were going on, it was too early to talk about their results.

12:34

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law abolishing the age limit for contract military service. We are talking about the conclusion of the first contract.

Previously, Russians aged 18 to 40 and foreigners aged 18 to 30 could sign such a contract. Now everyone is over 18 years old.

12:29

Former Channel One presenter Zhanna Agalakova urged Russians not to watch Russian television.

When asked by a BBC journalist what Agalakova would now say to her former viewers, who believed what she reported, she replied: “Turn off the TV. Because it's a brainwashing machine. Just don't listen, find other sources of information. Look on the Internet. And open your heart. War is evil. War is death."

In an interview, Agalakova said that if the host of the First departs from the rules, for example, on the air calls what is happening in Ukraine a war, and not a “special military operation,” then he can be punished - removed from covering certain topics or deprived of the bonus, which is 40% salaries.

Zhanna Agalakova has been working on Channel One since 1999. For the past 17 years, she has covered news from abroad. After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Agalakova left the channel.

11:57

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the town of Liman in the Donetsk Oblast was "completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists".

in 2016 as part of a decommunization policy. The Russian government calls the city Krasny Liman, although the Ukrainian authorities renamed it Liman

11:43

Since February 24, 4,031 civilians have died in Ukraine and 4,735 people have been injured, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Among the killed were 261 children, among the wounded 406 children.

More than half of the victims of hostilities among the civilian population in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions - 2,274 dead and 2,673 wounded. Most of them are residents of areas controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.

The UN administration notes that the real number of dead and wounded is much higher, but from areas where active hostilities are taking place, information is received with a delay and is awaiting confirmation.

11:10

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has approved sending long-range multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine to repel Russian military advances in the Donbass, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal write , citing U.S. officials who asked to remain anonymous.

The transfer of such systems is likely to be announced next week, the sources said.

10:56

The head of the occupation administration of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, announced the creation of the Melitopol State University, which is "adapted to the Russian Federation."

The university will be founded on the basis of universities already established in the Zaporozhye region.

“This will allow us to largely enlarge, raise the level of the teaching staff and adapt the system of this educational institution to the Russian Federation as much as possible,” Balitsky said.

rector of the university . has been appointed Andrei Chuikov, a former teacher at the Kharkov University of Internal Affairs and a police lieutenant colonel,

Chuikov said that teachers and students of educational institutions, which are now part of Melitopol State University, are automatically transferred to a new university. He promised all students of paid departments a transfer to a budget department, and this year's graduates "diplomas from one of the prestigious Moscow universities."

In April 2014, Chuikov, being a policeman, went to the rally of opponents of Euromaidan in Kharkiv. As the Ukrainian media wrote, he apologized to the protesters for participating in the operation to free the local administration from pro-Russian activists and asked to be dismissed from the internal affairs bodies “until constitutional order sets in in the country,” and then defiantly took off his shoulder straps.

After the start of the Russian invasion, Chuikov recorded a video message against the background of the Soviet flag, in which he called on the Ukrainian security forces to lay down their arms and "join the liberation campaign against Kiev."

10:25

The Russian military continues to shell Severodonetsk, said the head of the Luhansk region Sergei Gaidai.

“The enemy fired at Severodonetsk at point-blank range several times, at least three times - very powerfully, in some places street battles began,” Gaidai writes on his Telegram channel. As a result of the shelling, 14 multi-storey buildings were damaged.

Due to the shelling, the destruction in the last 24 hours was in other cities of the region - Gorsky, Zolote and Lisichansk, as well as in two villages.

10:13

The border of the Kherson region with the territories controlled by Ukraine was closed, . RIA Novosti reports with reference to the deputy head of the region, Kirill Stremousov, appointed by the Russian military

“Crossing the border from the Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions is very dangerous, given the systematic shelling of Ukrainian militants. After the latest attacks on their part, civilians who ended up in the buffer zone were killed. Therefore, we do not recommend traveling to Ukraine at all, under no pretext,” Stremousov said.

You can leave the region to the Crimea or the Zaporozhye region, which was also occupied by Russian troops.

Results of the 93rd day of the war

The DPR announced the capture of the city of Liman in the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian authorities acknowledged that "the city is mainly controlled by Russian troops."

According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, about 70 dead were found under the rubble in the city on the territory of the former Oktyabr plant.

A resident of Irpin, returning to the city after the withdrawal of Russian troops, found a Polaroid photograph of a Russian military man in her apartment.

The Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is part of the Moscow Patriarchate, has declared its full autonomy and independence. But later, Metropolitan Clement of the UOC said that the statement was only a reminder of the status of the church as independent and self-governing, and not a severance of relations with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Several deputies of the Primorsky Territory Legislative Assembly demanded that the Russian President withdraw troops from Ukraine. The head of the Communist Party faction promised to take "the toughest measures" against them.

In Yekaterinburg, an 80-year-old pensioner was fined for distributing anti-war leaflets.

Cover photo: Andoni Lubaki / Sipa USA / Vida Press