Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 118

23:05

A court in Kaliningrad twice fined lawyer Maria Bontsler 30,000 rubles because of her speeches at court hearings. . prisoners The telegram channel “Support for political Memorial".

This is the first time that a lawyer has been prosecuted for speaking in court, notes Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial".

On March 21 and 23, defending those detained at anti-war actions in court, the lawyer said that "Russia attacked Ukraine." against her After that, two protocols were drawn up under the article on discrediting the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

“The protocols were drawn up under Article 20.3.3 - for the fact that I defended my wards in court and during the meetings in the Central District Court I uttered the word “war” twice. It turns out that either the “eshniki” have access to all our protocols, or the judges could transfer them, ”the lawyer said after drawing up the protocols.

22:29

To date, one person has died in the Donetsk region, said the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko. Another 19 people were injured.

According to him, the man died in the city of Chasov Yar.

The number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha is still impossible to recover.

20:33

In the Kharkiv region, due to shelling by the Russian military, 15 people have died today, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the regional administration. Another 16 people were injured.

According to him, an 8-year-old boy died in the Kharkov region. There were six dead in the Chuguev community, and three in the Zolochiv community. Five more people died in Kharkov.

20:08

Moscow municipal deputy Pavel Yarilin was detained to draw up a protocol under the article on discrediting the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). this He announced on Facebook.

Yarilin said that he was taken to the police department. He did not specify why a protocol was being drawn up against him. The trial will take place tomorrow.

19:57

As a result of today's shelling of Nikolaev, one person was killed, three more were wounded, said the head of the city, Alexander Senkevich.

According to him, buildings and cars belonging to two private enterprises were also damaged.

18:33

The Russian military shelled a residential area of ​​​​Kharkov, write the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov and the head of the investigative department of the regional police Sergey Bolvinov .

According to Bolvinov, five people died, 11 people were injured.

“The Russian military shelled the Industrial District. Commercial and residential buildings were shelled. Not a single military facility,” Bolvinov wrote.

17:49

The Ministry of Defense reported on the shelling of Zmeiny Island. The Ukrainian operational command "South" confirmed this information.

“A concentrated attack was carried out on Zmeiny Island using various forces and methods of destruction,” the Ukrainian command said in a statement. Russian forces "suffered losses", the military operation is still ongoing.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the shelling took place around 5 am on June 20. “The plan of the operation of the Kyiv regime provided for the infliction of massive air and artillery strikes on the island of Serpents, followed by a landing and its capture,” the ministry said in a statement.

16:07

President Vladimir Putin called Russia's "armed component" the most effective in the world, reports . RIA Novosti

“I don’t think there is a more effective armed component in the world today than in Russia,” Putin said, talking to graduates of higher military educational institutions.

Russia has been waging war in Ukraine for almost four months now. During this time, according to journalists, the authorities reported the death of more than three thousand Russian soldiers, and at the end of March, the Russian army retreated, leaving the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions. In recent weeks, Russia has been fighting for areas of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, which remained under the control of the Ukrainian authorities.

15:31

from the website of the Yeltsin Center at the request of the security forces was removed An anti-war statement , It's My City reports , citing the center's press service.

The text of the February 25 statement is still available on the web archive.

“This is an unthinkable disaster for both countries and their peoples. Realizing the full measure of responsibility that lies with us as citizens of the stronger side of the fratricidal conflict, we call for an immediate halt to hostilities," it said.

15:19

The families of Chernomorneftegaz workers who went missing after the shelling of drilling platforms will be paid compensation of 6.5 million rubles, said the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov.

Five rescued from the platform will be paid 3 million rubles each.

14:45

In the Tula region, Ukrainian citizen Tatyana Skomarida was fined for talking about the Russian military killing civilians in Ukraine, reports . the press service of the region's courts

The Efremov Interdistrict Court found her guilty of "discrediting" the Russian army and imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles.

The case was heard on June 20. At the same time, the conversation that became the reason for the administrative protocol took place on June 19.

According to the press service, then Skomarida in the lobby of the Vstrecha hotel in the city of Yefremov “expressed a negative attitude towards the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, conducting a special military operation on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, namely, that the Russian military is killing civilians in Ukraine.”

Mediazona drew attention to the fact that the court website has a card of another administrative case against a Ukrainian woman - she was found guilty of disobeying the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). What punishment she received in this case is unknown.

In March, the publication Zarya Efremov wrote that 116 refugees from Mariupol were settled in the building of the Vstrecha hotel, which is part of the Efremov hotel complex.

14:19

Ukraine returned the bodies of another 35 dead Ukrainian soldiers, according to the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of the country.

14:15

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian military launched missile strikes on a military airfield near Odessa in response to yesterday's shelling of Chornomorneftegaz drilling platforms.

The military department claims that as a result, hangars with Bayraktar-TB2 drones were destroyed.

In addition, in a new report, the Ministry of Defense reports that 570 “nationalists” were killed as a result of Russian air strikes, missile forces and artillery.

Yesterday, the Ukrainian military fired on drilling platforms near Crimea. Seven people were missing and three were injured.

13:05

Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev promised that Russia's measures in response to Lithuania's refusal to transit goods to Kaliningrad "will have a serious negative impact" on Lithuanians, RIA Novosti reports .

“Russia will certainly react to such hostile actions. Appropriate measures are being worked out in an interdepartmental format and will be taken in the near future. Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania,” Patrushev said.

He calls Lithuania's decision a "blockade" of the Kaliningrad region.

On June 18, the Lithuanian railway company LTG Cargo, fulfilling the requirements of the European Commission, stopped the transit of sanctioned goods to the Kaliningrad region. This applies, for example, to items made of iron and steel, jet fuel, products for use in the aviation and space industries, oil and petroleum products, coal, construction equipment, as well as caviar, alcohol, fertilizers. The authorities of the region announced plans to deliver these goods by sea.

12:21

In Gorno-Altaisk, the editor-in-chief of the Listok newspaper, Viktor Rau, was fined 120,000 rubles under an article about calls for sanctions, the reports . Network Freedoms project

The reason for the case was a note in which Rau called for sending the names of Russian officials who supported the war to the Nuremberg 2.0 telegram bot as part of collecting information “for further trial of them” and transferring data to foreign ministries of foreign affairs.

In the materials of the administrative case, the police presented a certificate from Yulia Khvastunova, an employee of the Gorno-Altai State University, in which she evaluates Rau's publication. The university website indicates that Khvastunova's scientific specialty is theology.

As human rights activists write, according to Khvastunova, “the author of the article relies solely on pro-Western liberal sources with an aggressively anti-Russian line, exactly repeating the propaganda and information slogans of the pro-Western anti-Russian system, which in a situation of brutal information war is a deliberate activity to misinform the population of Russia, constantly ignores official statements by the Russian authorities, as well as video footage showing the mild, sensitive nature of the conduct of hostilities and the protection of civilians.”

Since the judge announced only the operative part of his decision without reasoning, it is not yet clear whether Khvastunova's arguments formed the basis of the decision.

11:53

During the day in the Kharkiv region, three people were killed, seven more were injured, according to the head of the region Oleg Sinegubov.

The Chuguevsky, Kharkov and Izyum regions were under shelling. In the latter, a fire is being extinguished at a gas processing plant, which began due to shelling.

The Russian military continues to shell the areas of Kharkov. At night, they hit an educational institution, the building was destroyed by 40%.

According to Sinegubov, fighting continues near the city of Izyum.

10:46

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the British newspaper The Telegraph, noticed the Roskomsvoboda project.

“The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation considered one of the publication’s articles to be fake and entered it into the register of prohibited information,” the project clarifies.

The reason was a newspaper article about the use of mobile crematoriums by the Russian military. The publication was accompanied by a comment by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace that the crematoria could be used to cover up evidence of military casualties.

10:12

The head of the Donetsk region, Pavel Kirilenko, accused the Russian military of shelling a school in Avdiivka with shells of a Grad multiple launch rocket system with a magnesium charge.

“This is the third school destroyed by the Russians in Avdiyivka. In total, the invaders destroyed about two hundred schools in the Donetsk region, ”writes Kirilenko.

10:08

Over the past day, a man died in Lysichansk, and a local resident was injured - she was evacuated to Kramatorsk, said the head of the Luhansk region, Sergei Gaidai.

“We are establishing the final number of victims, because yesterday it was almost impossible to move around the city,” he writes on his Telegram channel.

In Gorskoye, another 13 houses were damaged due to shelling, seven in Novoivanovka, and a lyceum in Vrubovka was destroyed.

Fighting continues in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk. According to Gaidai, the Russians got into the building of the first gate of the Azot plant, fired at the territory of the brick factory and opened fire in the area of ​​three bridges. Fighting is also taking place near Nikolayevka.

The head of the region also said today that 568 people remain at Azot, including 38 children. According to Gaidai, these are mainly employees of the enterprise with their families, who "flatly refused to evacuate."

Results of the 117th day of the war

Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine, said that the Ukrainian army had lost about 10,000 soldiers since the beginning of the war.

Ukrainian forces attacked the drilling platforms of the Crimean "Chernomorneftegaz". Seven people who were on the platforms were missing, three more were injured.

The head of the Bryansk region accused the Ukrainian military of shelling a border village with weapons supplied by Western countries. One person was hurt.

The Ukrainian army in Severodonetsk controls only the territory of the Azot plant, the head of the Luhansk region said.

According to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk, more than 1,500 Ukrainian civilians are held captive in Russian prisons.

Cover photo: Sofia Bobok / Anadolu Agency / ddp / Vida Press