Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 105

22:22

In Ukraine, a criminal case on collaborationism was opened against the People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the ruling Servant of the People party Oleksiy Kovalev, reports . the State Bureau of Investigation

“The deputy cooperates with the occupying forces of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region. The enterprises controlled by him supply food products to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with subsequent sale on the territory of the Russian Federation, and also import fuel and lubricants from the occupied Crimea to the Kherson region,” the SBI said.

In addition, Kovalev is suspected of hosting the Russian military in his sanatorium in the Kherson city of Holaya Pristan.

The department also drew attention to the post of the deputy on Facebook. This afternoon, he spoke about yesterday's meeting with Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia Sergei Kiriyenko, who visited the Kherson region.

“It was stated that Russia is here seriously and forever! <...> I think that I will say not only about myself, but also about other participants in the meeting - people came out with the realization that Russia hears and understands us, ”wrote Kovalev.

In early April, the deputy announced on his Ukrainian-language Facebook page that he was with his family “on the territory of the temporarily occupied Kherson region,” where he comes from, and assured that he lives and works there according to the laws of Ukraine.

After that, he regularly told in his posts how he delivered sugar , medicines and other necessary items to the needy residents of the region.

On April 28, the Servant of the People party, whose leader is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, suspended Kovalyov's membership.

20:51

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent former priest Ioann Kurmoyarov, who is accused in the case of spreading "fake news" about the Russian army, to a pre-trial detention center, the reports press service of the city courts . He faces up to 10 years in prison.

about the detention of the former hieromonk this morning reported Baza . According to her, the reason for the criminal case was the video “Who will be in hell and who will be in heaven?”.

In the video, Kurmoyarov commented on the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin: “We, as martyrs, will go to heaven, and they will simply die.”

“From the point of view of Christian doctrine, we will not find ourselves in any paradise, because blessed peacemakers find themselves in paradise. And the one who unleashed the aggression, well, he will not be in paradise, ”Kurmoyarov said. He also criticized the actions of the Russian authorities in relation to Ukraine and spoke of civilian casualties due to shelling.

Baza specified that Kurmoyarov was defrocked and had recently worked as an office manager. Last year, the priest filed complaints with the police and the FSB with a request to bring Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to justice for insulting the feelings of believers. According to the priest, their feelings were offended by Soviet symbols and Hitler's cap in the main temple of the Ministry of Defense.

15:57

The authorities of the self-proclaimed DPR report a strike by the Ukrainian military on the center of Donetsk.

RIA Novosti reports that two women and a girl were injured.

15:27

The Moscow Choral Synagogue denied that Moscow's Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt left Russia after being pressured to publicly support the war in Ukraine, reported RTVI . Earlier today, the rabbi's daughter-in-law, journalist Avital Chizhik-Goldshmidt, spoke of his departure due to pressure.

“No, this is not true, absolutely false information. First, his grandson was born, and then his father ended up in the hospital, so he temporarily left. Someone is spreading, we also encountered this and were very outraged. We won’t sue, he said no, because he will return,” representatives of the synagogue told the TV channel, but RTVI does not indicate who exactly.

15:16

Former Yekaterinburg City Duma deputy Nafik Famiyev was fined 35,000 rubles under the article on discrediting the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for a screenshot of a tweet by ex-head of the city Yevgeny Roizman, 66.ru reports citing lawyer Yulia Fedotova .

Famiyev reposted to his Telegram channel the news about Roizman's trial, accompanied by a screenshot of a tweet from the ex-head of the city, where he calls the war in Ukraine "terrible, ridiculous and mediocre." Roizman himself has already been fined for this tweet.

“Judge Taranenko, according to this protocol, returned the materials to the police, because nothing can be established from them on the basis of an offense. The police did not correct anything in time, and they launched the same materials in court again. They sent the same protocol, but to another judge, who happily accepted it, ”said Fedotova.

According to her, the same judge had already fined Famiev for a similar amount earlier. This is his third trial under the article on discrediting.

14:34

Grain from the Zaporozhye region began to be delivered to the countries of the Middle East, reports with reference to the head of the occupation administration of the region, Yevgeny Balitsky. Interfax

“We will definitely export a significant part, the rest will be processed into oil or flour. <...> We send grain through the Russian Federation, the main contracts are concluded with Turkey. The first trains have already gone through the Crimea, went in the direction of the Middle East,” he said. According to Balitsky, "it was a traditional market for Ukraine."

14:17

About 500 fighters of the National Guard from Kabardino-Balkaria returned to Russia from Ukraine after they came under fire there, Mediazona reports , citing the National Guardsmen, who asked not to be named.

According to them, the fighters were supposed to enter the territory of Ukraine after the units of the Ministry of Defense in order to protect the territories occupied by Russia. But in the end, the National Guardsmen got to Ukraine before the military and immediately came under fire near Kharkov, after which they decided to return to Russia.

“We had AK, RPK, SVD, ammunition for each and three grenades. We had a branch of the ACS, respectively, they had their own weapons. The hardest thing we had was armored personnel carriers, ”one of the fighters told reporters. According to them, they mostly moved through the territory of Ukraine on trucks covered with tarpaulin.

Lieutenant Colonel Zaur Ikaev, chief of staff of National Guard Unit 3723 in Kabardino-Balkaria, threatened fighters who expressed a desire to leave Ukraine: he said that everyone “who crosses the border in the opposite direction will be considered war criminals.”

Nevertheless, already on February 28, the fighters arrived in the border village of Zhuravlevka, Belgorod Region, from where they went to a temporary deployment point in the village of Zorino, Kursk Region, where two generals promised them that they would not be pursued. On March 4, the fighters reached their unit in Kabardino-Balkaria, in the village of Zvezdny.

As a result, protocols were drawn up against them for a gross disciplinary offense and they were fired in March and early April.

13:45

The Kommersant-FM radio station was hacked, according to the telegram channel of the publishing house.

The radio station broadcasts the anthem of Ukraine, the Ukrainian song "Chervona Kalina" and the song "We Don't Need War" by the Nogu Svelo group.

12:58

Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldshmidt left Russia after demanding public support for the war in Ukraine, writes his sister-in-law, journalist Avital Chizhik-Goldshmidt. His wife, co-founder of the Moscow Jewish school "Lauder Etz Chaim" Dara Goldshmidt, left Russia with him.

“They flew to Hungary two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now they are in exile from the community in which they loved, built and raised their children for more than 33 years, ”Chizhik-Goldshmidt wrote.

According to her, Pinkhas Goldschmidt refused the demand to support the war, after which he and his wife were subjected to pressure from the authorities. First, Pinchas and Dara Goldschmidt went to Eastern Europe to collect funds to help refugees, after which they went to Jerusalem, where the rabbi's father was in the hospital.

11:10

Over the past day in the Kharkiv region killed five people, said the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov.

According to him, because of the shelling, one person died in Kharkov, two - in the village of Cherkasskaya Lozovaya, one more person died in the village of Pechenegy and the village of Korobochkino.

Six people were also wounded in Kharkov. Residential buildings, administrative premises and private households, a supermarket and other non-residential premises were damaged.

10:53

Journalists Andrey Soldatov, Ruslan Leviev and Michael Naki, who were charged with criminal cases under the article about “fakes” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), had their property arrested, human rights activist Pavel Chikov told Breakfast Show .

According to him, Soldatov, Leviev and Naka's bank accounts were blocked, Leviev's motorcycle was also arrested. “And there is one more case that I won’t talk about, but property has also been arrested there,” Chikov said.

Yesterday, the human rights activist, without naming names, spoke about the seizure of property from four defendants under the article about "fake" about the army. According to him, all of them are not in Russia and are put on the wanted list.

10:29

Roskomnadzor demanded that the Podcast.ru service remove the release of the Stop the War podcast.

The podcast is published by the DOXA magazine, claims from the department arose for the release of Anti-War Newsletter No. 53.

“Since we work on the territory of the Russian Federation and want to remain available to podcasters for as long as possible, we fulfill this requirement,” the service said in a statement.

8:55

Yesterday, a man was killed on one of the central streets of the city of Lisichansk after artillery shelling, said the head of the Lugansk regional administration, Sergei Gaidai. One woman was wounded, she was hospitalized in the city of Chernivtsi.

According to him, the fighting in Severodonetsk continues, the Ukrainian military is holding back the assault. Yesterday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke about the "complete liberation of residential areas" of the city by the Russian army.

Results of the 104th day of the war

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported on the "complete liberation of residential areas" of Severodonetsk. According to him, the Russian military controls 97% of the Lugansk region. He estimated the total number of captured Ukrainian soldiers at 6,489.

About 600 Russian conscripts participated in the war, about 12 officers were held accountable for this, said the military prosecutor of the Western Military District Artur Egiev.

In the self-proclaimed DPR, a trial has begun against foreigners who participated in hostilities on the side of Ukraine and were captured.

The Russian military launched a missile attack on the second largest grain terminal in Ukraine in the city of Nikolaev, said the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell. According to him, the terminal has been destroyed.

The writer Dmitry Glukhovsky was charged with fake news about the Russian army for posting on Instagram.

Cover photo: Aris Messinis / AFP / Scanpix