Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 97

22:10

The Pskov city court appointed 20 hours of compulsory work to the daughters of the commander of the Pskov division for an anti-war picket, reports . Sever.Realii

According to lawyer Volodymyr Danilov, sisters Anastasia and Elizaveta Grigoryeva went to the picket on March 6 with a poster “Peace to Ukraine, Freedom to Russia!”.

The girls, who are still studying at school, said that after the arrest they were kept at the police station for four hours. “They put a lot of pressure on us. They said: "So, two articles, you will pay a fine of 60 thousand." From the Center "E" a person said: "Well, yes, there will be a colony," ”Elizaveta recalled. In addition, later the political officer spoke with the girls for a long time, then three more military men, and at school the teacher talked to them about the action.

The court twice returned the case file to the police because of violations, but for the third time found the sisters guilty of holding an uncoordinated action.

According to the girls, a month before the start of the war, their father said that he was leaving for exercises in Belarus, and on February 23 they phoned for the last time.

21:40

The Russian military occupied most of Severodonetsk, said the head of the Luhansk region, Sergei Gaidai. Because of the shelling, it is not possible to bring humanitarian supplies into the city and evacuate people from there.

20:07

The leading design engineer of the Ukrainian state enterprise Antonov was detained because of posts on the Internet justifying and supporting the Russian invasion, the reports Kiev regional prosecutor's office . He faces up to five years in prison.

The detainee is a resident of the city of Irpin near Kiev. As the prosecutor's office clarifies, the reason for the case was his posts with the phrases “There is no such country as Ukraine. There is the outskirts of Russia”, “For Ours”, “Power to Truth”, as well as a publication with a map of Ukraine, “on which part of the territories of our state allegedly began to belong to neighboring countries.”

Antonov is a former Soviet, and now a Ukrainian enterprise that develops, manufactures and repairs aircraft of the An series. One of the most famous models is the An-225, or Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world. The only flight copy was destroyed in the first days of the war.

19:49

The head of the Lugansk region, Sergei Gaidai, accused the Russian military of an airstrike on Severodonetsk, as a result of which a shell hit a tank with nitric acid at a chemical plant. Later, the LPR responded by accusing the Ukrainian military of blowing up the tank.

Gaidai asks local residents not to leave the shelter and warns that nitric acid is dangerous if inhaled and gets on the skin or mucous membranes.

In April, the head of the region accused the Russian side of hitting a tank with nitric acid in Rubizhnoye. Then in the LPR, too, in response, they blamed the Ukrainian military for the strike.

Updated at 21:33. Added information about the response position of the LPR.

19:22

Alina Koreniuk, a resident of Ukrainian Popasna, claims to have recognized her belongings in a photograph of a Russian tank with the letter Z with stolen items, reports . BBC

In particular, she recognized the new boiler, which she was going to install even before the war, the tablecloth from the dacha, new sheets with Disney characters for her children, and a red blanket. Korenyuk notes that something was covered with bed linen, and suggests that it could be a TV and other equipment that the family left at home during the evacuation.

The Ukrainian woman's husband drew attention to the photo. "He said, 'Do you notice anything strange in this photo?' And he asked me if I see the same thing as him, ”recalls Korenyuk.

As the BBC clarifies, the picture with the tank, which drives past the destroyed residential buildings in Popasna, was taken at the end of May. The Russian military took control of the city on May 8. According to Koreniuk, the tank was filmed on the street just five minutes from her house.

Korenyuk left Popasna with her family on February 24, and in April she and her children left for the UK.

17:54

Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council , told Reuters that up to 12,000 civilians could remain in Severodonetsk without the opportunity to leave the city. The mayor of the city, Alexander Stryuk, in a conversation with the Associated Press, estimated the number of people remaining in Severodonetsk at about 13,000 people.

“We fear that up to 12,000 civilians remain caught in the crossfire in the city without sufficient access to water, food, medicine and electricity. The almost continuous bombardment forces civilians to seek shelter in bomb shelters and basements and leaves very few options for those who try to escape,” Egeland said, adding that he was “horrified” by the devastation in the city.

According to the mayor of Severodonetsk Alexander Stryuk, about half of the city has already been captured by the Russian military. The evacuation of citizens was suspended due to constant shelling.

The Norwegian Council for Refugees has been working in Severodonetsk and other areas of the Luhansk region since 2014 and is engaged in legal assistance to refugees, the provision of housing and material assistance, as well as food security.

17:41

The Pechora City Court fined Lyudmila Zaichenko, a kindergarten employee, for talking about the war in Ukraine, reports Mediazona , which drew attention to the publication of the press service of the Komi courts and the case file .

The site of the local kindergarten "Yolochka" says that Zaichenko works as a nurse, her experience is 42 years.

According to the press service, the nurse, in conversations with colleagues, said that the Russian Armed Forces were waging war, and not a “special military operation”, and supported the policy of the President of Ukraine and the actions of the Ukrainian army against the Russian military, criticized Vladimir Putin, “thus undermining confidence to conduct a special military operation to protect the citizens of the DPR and LPR and the reputation of the federal authorities involved in its implementation.

Zaichenko herself partially admitted this in court and explained that she was from Ukraine and she had relatives there. At the same time, she denied criticizing Putin and supporting Zelensky.

Judge Irina Khusainova found the nurse guilty of discrediting the Russian army and fined her 30,000 rubles.

16:59

Canada has imposed sanctions against gymnast Alina Kabaeva, who, according to journalists , has three children from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The daughters and wife of businessman Mikhail Fridman, the general director of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company Andrey Kozitsyn, the co-founder of the Hoff furniture hypermarket chain Mikhail Kuchment and his wife Milana Koroleva, the chief accountant of Gazprom Mikhail Rosseev and several top managers of Russian banks were also sanctioned. Only 21 people.

16:21

Russian military pilot Alexander Krasnoyartsev will be tried in Ukraine after he ejected from a downed plane and killed Chernigov resident Vitaly Sergienko, writes The New York Times.

On March 5, Sergienko and his son-in-law Sergei Tkachenko left the house to the noise and approached the ejected pilot from different sides, Tkachenko himself told reporters. According to him, the pilot shot Sergienko in the chest.

After that, Krasnoyartsev was detained by the military of the territorial defense of Chernigov. According to Ukrainian serviceman Ivan Lut, the pilot's face and chest were covered in blood, he was lying on the ground with his hands up, asked not to shoot and said he was surrendering. “We had to fight our own guys to save his life,” Loot says.

According to the sister of the deceased, Svetlana Voiteshenko, Krasnoyartsev told her that he did not know that he was attacking civilian objects. She herself does not believe the pilot.

15:41

The Russian Foreign Ministry has declared one employee of the Montenegrin embassy in Moscow persona non grata.

15:29

The police of Ukraine publishes photos of the consequences of the night shelling of Slovyansk. As a result, three people died and six more were injured.

15:19

The Verkhovna Rada removed Lyudmila Denisova from the post of Ombudsman of Ukraine for Human Rights, Ukraine-24 reports with reference to MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.

The discussion of her work was initiated by the Servant of the People faction.

“Unfortunately, since the beginning of the war and the great suffering of Ukrainians, Mrs. Denisova has hardly fulfilled her powers to organize humanitarian corridors, protect and exchange prisoners, counteract the deportation of people and children from the occupied territories, and other human rights activities,” MP Pavel Frolov wrote Facebook on . According to him, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk was forced to deal with all these topics.

Frolov called Denisova's media work "incomprehensible": according to him, the concentration on unproven details of "sexual crimes committed in an unnatural way" and "child rape" in the occupied territories only harmed Ukraine.

The deputy also noted that Denisova spent a long time after the start of the war not in Ukraine.

14:15

Employees of hospitals in Bashkortostan are forced to transfer money from their salaries to help residents of the city of Krasny Luch, controlled by the authorities of the self-proclaimed LPR. this with reference to the Action trade union . reports Nestka

On behalf of the head of the administration of the head of the republic, Maxim Zabelin, samples of applications were sent to the heads of medical districts, which must be filled out by hospital employees. “I ask you to deduct from the salary for May 2022 the amount of __ to provide assistance to the residents of the city of Krasny Luch,” the statement says. Journalists write that cleaners need to enter the amount of 200 rubles in the document, nurses - 500, doctors - 1000.

Vedomosti previously reported that Moscow is engaged in the distribution of "patronage" over the municipalities of the self-proclaimed republics. According to the newspaper, Bashkortostan got exactly Krasny Luch: among other things, deputies and officials transferred one-day earnings to help the residents of the city.

13:29

Activist Makar Konkov, who picketed on Manezhnaya Square yesterday with an anti-war poster, was charged with the fourth protocol under the article on discrediting the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), writes OVD- Info .

Konkov said that he managed to stand with a poster “No to war. Freedom of Russia. Resignation to Putin” about 10 minutes. During this time, an unknown person with a St. George ribbon on his chest pushed Konkov, demanded that he “get out” and threatened to pour a bowl of soup on him, which he held in his hands.

OVD-Info reports that Konkov has been detained for the fourth time in a month and a half, and each time protocols are drawn up against him under the article on discrediting the army. Also, two protocols were drawn up against the activist on violation of the procedure for holding a public event.

13:16

The Ukrainian military continues to fight for Severodonetsk, but may withdraw to save troops, said Serhiy Gaidai, head of the Luhansk regional administration.

“If they need to move across the river, to Lisichansk, in order to save the troops, they will probably do it,” he was quoted by the BBC Russian Service.

“[The Russian military] are attacking Severodonetsk from several directions. Unfortunately, they have already managed to enter the city, and the situation is very difficult,” Gaidai also said.

If Severodonetsk and Lisichansk are captured, then the entire Luhansk region will be under the control of the Russian military, the BBC Russian Service notes.

12:05

A court in Ukraine sentenced the Russian military Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov to 11.5 years in prison for shelling the Kharkiv region, writes Grati . Both soldiers pleaded guilty.

The Kotelevsky District Court of the Poltava Region found Bobykin and Ivanov guilty of violating the laws and customs of war.

According to investigators, the Russian military contractors, namely the driver-loader of the Grad combat vehicle Bobykin and the gunner Ivanov, on the first day of the war, February 24, fired from the Grad in the direction of the Kharkiv region from the territory of the Belgorod region. Then they crossed the border with Ukraine and fired in the direction of Kharkov, which damaged residential buildings in the village of Kazachya Lopan and a lyceum in the village of Veterinary near Dergachi.

11:57

Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Marat Khusnullin said that 50 people in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have applied for Russian passports so far.

“When I was in these regions and talked with residents, many people spoke about such a need,” he wrote.

11:46

The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that a van with 152 mined bodies of fallen soldiers was found on the territory of Azovstal, reports . RIA Novosti

The department said that four mines were placed under the van, and the mass of explosive was enough to destroy the entire van.

The van "was mined at the direction of Kyiv in order to accuse Russia of deliberately destroying the bodies," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said, citing interrogations of Azov regiment prisoners. According to him, another goal is to prevent the removal of bodies to relatives, “in order to save the political ‘reputation’ of the Kyiv regime and Zelensky personally.”

11:04

A woman and a 12-year-old child were killed this morning in the Kharkiv region due to shelling, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the regional administration, . One person is injured.

Sinegubov also notes that three people died in the region yesterday. 14 people were injured, including a 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.

9:58

The head of the self-proclaimed DPR, Denis Pushilin, said the republic had its own merchant fleet. It consists of ships left at the berths of Mariupol.

“Part of the courts will come under the jurisdiction of the Donetsk People's Republic. Appropriate decisions have been made on this,” Pushilin told RIA Novosti.

9:19

Two people died in Lisichansk over the past 24 hours, one of them is French journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, said . head of the Luhansk regional administration Sergei Gaidai

Three people were wounded, among them are those who accompanied the evacuation car with the journalist that came under fire. The second victim was found near his home.

“We don’t know how many civilian casualties in the areas of Severodonetsk that the militants have entered over the past two days,” Gaidai notes.

Results of the 96th day of the war

60% of the housing stock of Severodonetsk cannot be restored; critical infrastructure has been destroyed. Fighting is still going on for the city, it is partially controlled by the Russian military.

The BBC Russian Service estimated the number of Russian military dead in Ukraine at 3,052.

French journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff died in the Luhansk region. He was in an evacuation bus carrying civilians.

In Ukraine, the first case of rape during the war was sent to court. The accused is a Russian soldier of the 239th Regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Vitebsk-Novgorod Division Mikhail Romanov.

From the Kherson region to Russia began to export the grain of the last harvest, said the deputy head of the occupation administration of the region Kirill Stremousov.

A court in Udmurtia has taken into custody the former director of a rural house of culture, Ilya Farber. He is accused of setting fire to the military registration and enlistment office and the recruiting office.

An explosion occurred in Melitopol, which the occupation authorities of the city qualified as a terrorist attack.

Cover photo: Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu Agency / ddp / Vida Press