Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 112

The people's militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic claim that the Ukrainian side disrupted the evacuation of civilians from the Azot chemical plant. According to police estimates, there are from 300 to 500 people on its territory.

00:07

A missile hit a train carrying humanitarian aid in eastern Ukraine, said José Andrés, founder of the charity World Central Kitchen. According to him, the missile was fired by the Russian military.

There were no casualties in the impact, but one food car was a "total loss." Andres posted a photo of the destroyed carriage.

World Central Kitchen prepares and distributes food in disaster areas. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, WCK has been helping local residents in Ukraine.

21:56

Two Americans who fought on the side of Ukraine were captured by the Russian military last week after a battle near Kharkov, The Telegraph and CNN report, citing fellow soldiers.

39-year-old Alexander Dryuk and 27-year-old Andy Huin served as volunteers in one of the regular units of the Ukrainian army. Both of them previously served in the US Army.

The Telegraph notes that they became the first Americans captured by the Russian side in this war.

A fellow American soldier said that on June 9 their unit encountered larger Russian forces, although the city was not expected to be occupied by the Russians. During the battle, the Americans disappeared and, as colleagues suggest, were captured.

“We suspect that they lost consciousness either from an anti-tank mine or from a shot from a tank at them, because later search efforts found no traces of them, nothing,” says the publication’s interlocutor, clarifying that the remains of the bodies were not found either. The launch of drones did not produce any results.

Shortly after the battle, a colleague saw a message in a pro-Russian telegram channel about the capture of two American soldiers near Kharkov.

“This is too big a coincidence for it to be otherwise - we are the only Americans fighting in this area,” explained the Telegraph’s interlocutor.

Relatives of the Americans said that both military men last contacted them on June 8 and warned that they would be without contact in the coming days.

21:10

The Yalta City Court sentenced a former inspector of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to 5 years of probation in the case of disseminating “fakes” about the Russian army using his official position (clause “a” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), Kryminform reports .

In addition to the suspended sentence, the Crimean citizen was given three years of probation and a three-year ban on working in the federal fire service.

“The man, while in uniform while performing his official duties as an inspector of the Ministry of Emergency Situations department, publicly disseminated false information at meetings of residents of certain districts of Yalta about the conduct of a special military operation of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine. Realizing that the information he popularized was perceived by uninformed persons as reliable and competent, the defendant also carried out door-to-door visits in order to convey false information to the maximum number of people,” Elena Varlamova, a representative of the FSB department for Crimea, described the essence of the accusation.

The defendant fully admitted his guilt.

The telegram channel “Mash on the Wave” writes that the convict’s name is Andrei Samodurov and in March he began going around apartments, calling on Yalta residents to evacuate and talking about the threat of an American attack.

OVD-Info noticed that on the website of the Yalta court in the Samodurov case file , the announcement of the verdict is dated June 1.

20:27

As a result of the shelling of the city of Stakhanov in the Lugansk region, four civilians were killed and five more were injured, according to the telegram channel of the representative office of the self-proclaimed LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination.

In the village of Krinichnoye, two people were killed and one person was injured during shelling.

The LPR, which controls both settlements, blames the Ukrainian military for these attacks.

19:48

The United States will provide Ukraine with another $1 billion in military assistance, the White House says .

This money will also be used for artillery and coastal defense equipment, as well as ammunition for artillery and missile systems for use in battles in the Donbass.

In addition, the United States is allocating $225 million for humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians.

“I spoke with President Zelensky this morning to discuss Russia’s brutal and ongoing war against Ukraine. “I reaffirmed my commitment that the United States will stand with Ukraine as it defends its democracy and maintains its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of unprovoked Russian aggression,” US President Joe Biden said in a statement.

19:09

On the 25th [February], I was shocked, to say the least. I thought that it would all stop, as we were all told, at the entrance to, I don’t know, Donbass, and the finish line. But when two days later I found out that we had gone further there, for me it was no longer shock, but horror <...> For me, this war is a disaster, complete horror. I don’t know, maybe I’ll be imprisoned or killed for these words, I don’t know, but I’m telling it like it is. <...> I'm just shocked. I don’t understand why in 2022... And no one can explain this to me.

Former captain of the Russian national football team and ex-Zenit player Igor Denisov - in an interview with the Nobel YouTube channel

17:46

17:07

In Moscow, a report on “discrediting” the Russian army was drawn up against Andrei Sozonyuk, who was detained for an anti-war picket, OVD-Info reports .

He went to the Ministry of Defense building with a poster with the inscription “War is when completely innocent people die for the interests of others.”

15:52

The head of the Mykolaiv regional administration, Vitaly Kim , published a video showing the consequences of artillery shelling that damaged a high-rise building. According to him, five people were injured. Where and when the shelling occurred is not specified.

15:41

Residents of Chechnya are being threatened to go to war in Ukraine, writes The Insider. Opposition blogger Khasan Khalitov told reporters that local security forces kidnapped and sent his brother to Ukraine.

The Chechen human rights organization Vayfond says it has received dozens of reports since the start of the war about illegal attempts to send men to Ukraine. It is difficult for the organization to count the exact number of applicants: “Many are so intimidated that, as soon as they receive an answer, they erase the correspondence and delete their account.”

A representative of the Chechen opposition movement 1ADAT, Ibragim Yangulbaev, claims that the republic’s police chiefs “have been given orders to collect volunteers by any means.” According to him, the men are kidnapped and given an ultimatum: if you don’t go to fight, you will go to prison on a trumped-up criminal case.

Yangulbaev also says that the police may offer relatives to pay a “ransom from Ukraine.” “The head of the Sernovodsky District Department of Internal Affairs, Khas-Magomed Magomadov, even set a fee of 450 thousand rubles for the ransom from Ukraine. We know for sure that he takes bribes, since we were able to confirm the facts of kidnappings and ransoming of several people,” explained the 1ADAT representative. Chechen blogger Islam Belokiev, who is now fighting on the side of Ukraine, told reporters that he knows of cases of criminal cases being initiated after refusing to go to war.

The Insider also cites the story of an 80-year-old local resident who three weeks ago received the body of his grandson from Ukraine. “He went without telling us anything because he knew we would get in trouble if we objected. He saved his family, but he himself died,” he says. According to a local resident, the grandson was “ordered to be buried quietly” without holding a funeral.

14:36

The authorities of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic claim that the Ukrainian side disrupted the evacuation of civilians from the Azot chemical plant.

“We began to observe the ceasefire, organized a corridor from the entrance of the plant to the exit from Severodonetsk . But already at 8:10 the Ukrainian side began shelling in the area of ​​the exit from the plant,” RIA Novosti quotes Alexander Nikishin, a representative of the LPR people’s militia.

Nikishin said that “only one grandfather came out along the humanitarian corridor.”

14:07

13:58

A second criminal case was opened against a resident of Nizhny Novgorod for discrediting the Russian army (part one of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), reports MVD Media.

In April, he was fined 40 thousand rubles under the administrative article on discrediting the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). In May, a man was stopped by traffic police officers - “a poster with false information” about Russian troops was placed on the rear window of his car. After this, the first criminal case was opened against the Nizhny Novgorod resident. According to MVD Media, during a search of his home, “posters with similar inscriptions” were seized. After this, the man was given a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain activities.

A second criminal case was opened due to “additional facts of illegal activity.” “In the office premises where he carries out his work, searches were carried out, as a result of which computer equipment and posters with similar inscriptions were confiscated,” writes MVD Media.

The man is now under house arrest.

13:23

In the Zaporozhye region, “lists of volunteers are being formed to protect the region from the Ukrainian military,” said the head of the occupation administration of the region, Yevgeny Balitsky.

“We already have battalions of people, we are not registering them yet, but there are a large number of people who would like to defend their homeland today from the Armed Forces of Ukraine . People come and sign up. We are currently recording large lists. More than 200 people are already on the list of people,” RIA Novosti quotes Balitsky.

13:04

IKEA has decided to “reduce the scale of its business” in Russia, RBC reports , citing the company’s press service. The company will sell four factories and divest its production assets in the country.

“This decision will entail optimization, which will also affect many employees,” the press service said.

As the report notes, in the past few months the situation with supply chains around the world has worsened, so the company “does not see an opportunity to resume sales in the foreseeable future.”

11:29

Because of the war in Ukraine, a shortage of commercial drones has arisen in Russia, writes Kommersant, citing an anonymous interlocutor at a large marketplace and director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Ruslan Pukhov.

The newspaper's interlocutor says that the shortage of devices arose due to the decision made in April by the Chinese company DJI to stop supplies to Russia and Ukraine.

According to Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, the shortage was also contributed to by “private initiatives to purchase supplies for the DPR and LPR”: “Although they have run out in the capital, people are buying equipment in other regions.”

10:59

In Ukraine, the head of the information response group of the 1st department of the department for interaction with the media of the Russian Guard, Sergei Postnov, was killed, according to the website of the Council of Veterans of the central office of the Department of Internal Affairs.

For more than four months, Colonel Postnov “carried out service and combat missions in the zone of a special military operation.” “As part of group V, he broke through to Gostomel, then participated in the liberation of a number of cities and towns in the Kharkov region and the Lugansk People’s Republic,” the report says.

9:35

The Russian military shelled the city of Apostolovo, killing four people, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration Valentin Reznichenko. Another person is injured.

“A dozen residential buildings and a hospital were damaged in the city. The shelling area is covered with cluster munitions. Pyrotechnics are working,” Reznichenko wrote.

9:19

The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoyt, said that this morning the Krupets checkpoint in the Rylsky region was shelled from the Ukrainian side. According to him, there were no casualties or destruction.

Results of the 111th day of the war

On June 15, the Russian Ministry of Defense promised to open a humanitarian corridor from the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk for civilians to the city of Svatovo, which is under the control of the self-proclaimed LPR. According to estimates from the republic's police representative Andrei Marochko, there are from 300 to 500 people at the chemical plant.

According to the UN, 4,395 people have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, including 275 children. In the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, 5.5 thousand people died.

The State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill equating switching to the enemy’s side in an armed conflict to treason.

Former Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, who called the war in Ukraine a “great tragedy,” became an adviser to the Russian Prosecutor General and announced that she was stopping “any public activity.”

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