The war with Lithuania is coming

Everything you need to know early in the morning of June 22

Good morning!

The newly arrived in the new colony by Navalny was reprimanded that in the old colony he washed in a T-shirt, and not in a prison robe: “So that you understand: at 6:30 in the morning, all the convicts are washed and all go to the washbasin in T-shirts. But I went dangerously! I walked like an extremist, and my T-shirt threatened the current government,” he writes,-he writes. social networks. Navalny posts - a lesson of resilience, especially useful in the light of current news:

• Parts of the Ukrainian army were faced with the threat of surroundings near Lisichansky. The battles in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk continue.
• As a result of Russian shelling of the Kharkov region, 15 civilians were killed.
• In Russia, the second Su-25 attack aircraft crashed in a week.
• In response to the ban on the transit of sanctions cargo through Lithuania to the Kaliningrad region, Patrushev threatened with retaliatory measures that “have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania”.
• The State Duma legitimized the “parallel import”.
• The Kaliningrad lawyer was fined under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army due to speeches in court.

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Military reports

The battles in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk continue , the intensity of shelling has increased significantly. The head of the military administration of the Severodonets district, Roman Vlasenko, claims that in the Lugansk region all reserves that Russia were able to pull up from the occupied territories of Ukraine are now fighting. According to the head of the Lugansk regional administration, Sergei Gaidai, in the shelters of the Azot plant on the outskirts of Severodonetsk there are 568 civilians who abandoned the evacuation. Police and the National Guard bring them water, food and medication. The ongoing shelling of Lisichansk led to catastrophic destruction.

Gaidai confirmed that the village of Toshkovka, which Kadyrov spoke about the seizure the day before, is indeed under the control of the Russian army. A little later, the Ukrainian General Staff said that the Russian troops also captured the underles and peaceful valley - two small villages south of Lisichansk. Thus, the danger of the environment for the Ukrainian units protecting the village of Zolotoy and Gorskoye was created. If this maneuver succeeds, Russian troops will be able to go to Lisichansk from the rear.

Active fighting also go in the neighboring Donetsk region. The head of the region Pavel Kirilenko said that Russian troops “Grad” destroyed the third school in Avdeevka. Here is a report on how Donetsk electricians manage to work under these shelling. ( According to the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, almost a third of infrastructure facilities was destroyed as a result of the Russian invasion))

The Russian army resumed the shelling of Kharkov and the Kharkov region. On Tuesday, 15 civilians in Chuguev, Kharkov and the region became their victims. The head of the Sumy regional administration Dmitry Zhivitsky writes that on Tuesday the region was subjected to numerous shelling, including with the use of Kamikadze drones: Four people were injured. Nikolaev and the region are also sheated daily. In the Zaporizhzhya region, another American died . Here are new photos from the fronts.

The authorities of the annexed Crimea said that on one of the oil -processing platforms of Chernomorneftegaz, according to which the Armed Forces of Ukraine were struck on the eve of, a fire was not subsided. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that it responded to the shelling of the towers with the destruction of the hangar with drones near Odessa. The Ukrainian military reported the impact on the island of Zmein, captured by Russia at the very beginning of the war: the air defense system and the radar station were affected . The British military department writes in its daily report on the war that Ukraine as a whole managed to violate Russia's plans to establish control in the Black Sea.

American analysts from the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies state that the situation in the current phase of the war is close to Patova, and insist on expanding the supply of weapons to Ukraine, for which, according to them, the West will need a kind of “industrial mobilization”. It seems that Europe with this generally agrees: in response to the message of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, that the German self -propelled howitzers Panzerhabitze2000 have already been sent to the front, the Chancellor Scholz assured that Germany would continue the supply of weapons to Ukraine until the need would disappear.

Information and cultural wars

At a meeting of the UN Security Council, the Google representative spoke about the digital war that Russia wages against Ukraine is not only cyber attacks, but also the creation of dipfaces and attempts to control the narrative about the war on the network. The columnist of the newspaper Washington Post David Ignatius tells in detail how American IT giants helped Ukraine repel the attacks of Russian hackers.

The Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Alexander Tkachenko, explained in a large interview with “BBC”, which is the meaning of Russian culture sounding from Kiev to the boycott of Russian culture (spoiler: “Russian culture covered the landings of opposition figures, terror against the media and the imposition of a dictatorship”). The subtleties of the ban on the import of Russian books are explained here - Russian publishers, however, say that with the outbreak of war the export has nevertheless ceased, so that the new Ukrainian law only consolidates what has already happened.

There is no war in Russia

In the Rostov region, the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft crashed . The pilot died. This is the second such case in a week.

The Russian fleet is experiencing the same problems with the personnel as the army as a whole: the parents of the surviving conscripts from the Moscow cruiser said that their sons were again sent to the war zone, although Putin repeatedly certified the Russians that conscripts in this war were not participating ( this is the conversation with the mother of the little Vishera, who managed to return their son from Ukraine).

Several British newspapers at once wrote with reference to an unnamed Western official, that mass mobilization may occur in Russia in the near future. In fact, she is already going: in Ivanovo, for example, the military commissar demanded that the organizations interview employees about their readiness to serve under a contract, and the mass call of military military commissariats has been leading for a long time. This should be fruit, given that since the beginning of the war, Channel One speaks of politics 11.5 hours a day.

Is it possible against the backdrop of a clear lack of resources to the entry into the war of the Belarusian army, here is explained by political analyst Valery Karbalevich (spoiler: perhaps everything, but the Belarusian society is sharply against).

Occupation, captivity, exchange prospects

The referendum on the entry of the Kherson region of Ukraine is planned to be held in the fall of 2022, said Kirill Stremuzov, the head of the military-civil administration created by the Russian military. What will come from this “referendum” will tell the time (the attack of the Ukrainian army in the Kherson region has no noticeable success). Now the occupation authorities are not even able to transfer the captured regions to rubles - this is an interview with the first deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine Katerina Rozhkova, in which she says that the branches of Ukrainian banks continue to work even in the occupied territories.

Russian media report that the American military, captured in the Kharkov region, are in Donetsk. In an interview with the American television channel MSNBC, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that they could not guarantee that they were not threatened with the death penalty. The early court in the so -called “DPR” sentenced two British subjects and citizen Morocco to the death penalty. In this regard, Great Britain sent Russia a diplomatic note. The Ambassador of Russia to London Andrei Kelin said on television that the “arrogant, instructive” tone of this note does not cause Moscow to cooperate with London - let them say they turn directly to the “DPR”.

Julia Fedosyuk - the wife of the captured fighter of the Azov battalion and one of the leaders of the Azovstali Defenders Association - believes that such statements are intended for intra -Russian use and to increase the value of the prisoners in exchanging, here is an interview with her . Her words are partly confirmed by squabbles that arose in Russia in connection with the exchange of Ukrainian paramedic Julia Paevskaya : pro-Kremlin journalists write that she was exchanged for the son of some important Chechen, and in Chechnya this fiercely denied .

The United States will create a special group of investigation of war crimes in Ukraine. It will be headed by a Ministry of Justice Eli Rosenbaum, who is called the most famous American "Nazis hunter."

International Echo of War

• Bloomberg, citing their sources, reports that the EU countries agreed to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate for members of the European Union. Several EU countries insist on developing the seventh package of sanctions against Russia - new restrictions can affect gold.
• In the meantime, the European Union and Lithuania will have to deal with the consequences of previous packages. Prohibing the railway transit of goods from Russia to the Kaliningrad region, Lithuania spread it to freight car transportation. Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that Lithuania would soon be taken to “hostile actions” and that “their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania”. Patrushev claims that Lithuania acts “with the filing of Western countries”, as if forgetting that Lithuania is part of this “West”. Russian officials rest on the illegality of Lithuania’s actions, but it is very difficult to substantiate this illegality: Lithuania has stopped fulfilling a bilateral agreement with Russia, obeying pan -European sanctions. The lawyers surveyed “BBC” call this issue not legal, but purely political. It is unclear what Russia can answer, given that Lithuania is a member of NATO. Political scientist Ivan Preobrazhensky believes that Russia will create an air corridor in the Kaliningrad region, illegally closing part of the airspace of Lithuania, and NATO countries will have to think about whether it is worth entering into an armed conflict about this. What awaits the Kaliningrad region in the conditions of limited receipt of goods, read here .
• Next week, negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN representatives dedicated to the problem of grain export from Ukraine may take place in Istanbul. Peskov confirmed that such a meeting is being prepared, representatives of the Ministry of Defense will participate in it from Russia. The global food crisis began to formalize in connection with the pandemia, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has aggravated it - how it all happens is explained in detail here .
• The Indian government convinces oil companies to buy cheap Russian oil, writes Wall Street Journal with reference to sources in the industry. Prior to the record values of the purchase of Russian oil, China increased. Against this background, the European country is introduced by emergency regime in connection with a reduction in Russian gas supplies by Northern Stream.
• In Latvia, the pro -Russian publicist and politician Vladimir Linderman, who ardently supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was detained ; In the United States, Hector Alehandro Cabrera Fuentes, a well -known scientist who performed the tasks of the Russian special services, was sentenced to four years in prison - they recruited him by finding out that Fuentes had two families, one in Russia, the other in Mexico, and his wives do not know about each other's existence.

Russian stability

The State Duma adopted a bill on “parallel import”, which allows to import goods into Russia without the permission of the copyright holder - it will allow Western sanctions by importing prohibited goods through third countries. This will still not solve all the problems: here are conversations with Russian dentists about how the war changed their work - despite the fact that medical products did not fall under the sanctions, violation of logistics chains led to explosive prices. The agency writes that the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin met with Putin to explain to him the destructiveness of the war in Ukraine for the Russian economy, but he did not react to this.

In Russia, there are not enough 170 thousand IT specialists-and it’s not even anxious that they are not enough, but that for some reason the deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated this. There is a suspicion that ITSHNIKS will soon be banned. Given that in April, the birth rate in Russia fell to the indicators of 1943–44, the departure is logical to ban generally at all.

The war with anti -war sentiments continues:

• In Moscow, there is a trial of the municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov - he is accused under the article on Fakes about the Russian army for the fact that at a meeting of the Council of Deputies he proposed to cancel district holidays in connection with the war. The case was investigated in five days, but Gorinov was arrested until November 19 of this year.
• The court in Moscow fined 65 thousand rubles of the municipal deputy Marina Lukyanets for two protocols about “discrediting” - for the hashtag “no“ no one ”and the word“ any war is not a world ”.
• Pskov deputies wrote a complaint to the prosecutor’s office against the head of the district, which forbade children to hang the letter Z and v.
• The Kaliningrad lawyer Maria Bonzler was fined 60 thousand rubles under the article on the “discredit” of the Russian army for two speeches in court. This is the first time that the lawyer was brought to administrative responsibility for speech in court.
• Viktor Rau was fined the chief of the Altai newspaper Listov’s newspaper for 120 thousand rubles in the case of calls for sanctions.
• In the Tula region, 30 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting” were fined a citizen of Ukraine - for a conversation in the foyer of the hotel that the Russian army was killing civilians.
• The Tver court of Moscow fined 70 thousand rubles of a citizen of Kazakhstan Vladimir Chuvilov, who went on June 19 on Red Square with a poster "Vegan against war. Stop this madness." He was found guilty of “discrediting” (50 thousand rubles) and violation of picket rules (20 thousand).
• Roskomnadzor blocked in Russia the site of the British newspaper The Telegraph, and the court in St. Petersburg - sites of "International French Radio" (RFI) and the publication "Belarusians and the market".
• “Yeltsin-Center” deleted an anti-war statement from his site-supposedly at the request of law enforcement agencies.

Despite the war, the moral police continues to operate: the court in Moscow forbade a video with a kiss of TV presenters Ksenia Sobchak and Anastasia Ivleeva, and Perm students were threatened by the expulsion for the fact that they shot a survey about the attitude to LGBT.

The FSB reported on the detention of a resident of the Vladimir region, who is suspected of preparing a terrorist attack at a rally. Whom the FSB detained in the case of “preparing the attempt on Solovyov’s TV presenter” is explained in detail here (spoiler: all detainees are previously convicted neo -Nazis with experience, and the idea that the attempt was prepared by order of Ukraine is apparently explained that in Ukraine, according to the FSB, there are also continuous “Nazis”).

All the connection with Ukraine of the deputy of the Sakhalin Regional Duma Dmitry Pashov was sentenced to 4.5 years in a maximum security colony in the case of the smuggling of the crab.

Everything else

• The head of the ruling party “Law and Justice”, Yaroslav Kachinsky, left the Polish government, although the post of Deputy Prime Minister was created for him at one time.
• In the UK, the largest strike of railway workers in 30 years.
• The State Council of France (the highest administrative judicial authority) upheld the ban on Burkini - swimsuits that completely cover the body in force. Grenoble City Council tried to cancel the ban, but the vigilant connoisseurs of the bikini disputed this step, and the matter came to the highest court.

Six links

• Hungry. Conversation with the artist and writer Katya Margolis, who helps Ukrainian refugees in Venice. Or a conversation with a professor at the University of Tartu, the historian of Russian literature and Pioneer Runet Roman Leibov about verses during the war and the notorious abolition of Russian culture.
• Renaissance. An excerpt from the study of Ulyana Dobrova “Sikst IV and the artist of the papal court of Melozzo da FORLI. Renaissance in Italy” (Publishing House of Word/Slovo)-about the features of the papal court of the 15th century. Or a fragment from the book of Ross King “The Bankotorgovets from Florence” (the ABC Publishing House), dedicated to the Florentine bookboy Vespasiano da Bistichchi, who established the spread of rare manuscripts, including ancient philosophers, along the Apennine and beyond.
• Science. A conversation with the astronomer and a popularizer of science Vladimir Surdin about what is happening in the modern science of space and whether artificial intelligence will replace the human researcher soon. Or a story about the difficulties that physicists face when creating a universal quantum computer.

Sincerely yours,
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