Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 120

23:32

The US presidential administration has allocated a new $450 million military aid package to Ukraine.

The package contains HIMARS MLRS, shells for artillery systems and coastal defense boats, said at a briefing. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby

23:11

According to UNESCO, 152 cultural institutions have been damaged since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

Of these, 70 objects are religious. 12 museums, 30 historic buildings, 18 cultural sites, 15 monuments and 7 libraries were also damaged or destroyed.

Also, with reference to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, UNESCO notes that since February 24, 209 educational institutions have been destroyed, another 1,819 buildings have been damaged.

21:28

Ukraine and Moldova were given the status of candidates for EU membership. this on Twitter Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel announced .

“A historic moment and a signal of hope for Ukrainians,” he wrote.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the decision of the European leaders and wrote: "The future of Ukraine is in the EU."

Updated at 21:50. Zelensky's quote added.

21:00

In the Donetsk region today, six people died from shelling by the Russian military, according to the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko.

According to him, three people died in the village of Prishib, two in the town of Avdiivka, and one more in the town of Chasov Yar.

The number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha cannot yet be determined.

20:29

20:19

In the industrial zone of Severodonetsk, many protective structures were destroyed, said the head of the regional administration, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, fighting in the region continues in all directions.

“As long as there is such an opportunity, we will work with people, we will work with the city, we will help both the military and civilians, bring humanitarian aid and evacuate people, as long as there is at least some opportunity to do this,” he said.

Lisichansk is also under heavy shelling. Gaidai said that about 40 people were evacuated from the city today.

18:42

The Ministry of Education proposes to include a “special military operation” in Ukraine in the school history course.

The draft amendments to the federal state educational standard say that the requirements for the subject results of mastering the history course should reflect the “reunification” of Crimea and Russia and the special military operation in Ukraine.

17:38

Cisco, which produces telecommunications equipment, will leave Russia and Belarus because of the war in Ukraine.

“Since our announcement on March 3, we have continued to closely monitor the war in Ukraine. We have now made the decision to begin the systematic phasing out of our business in Russia and Belarus,” the company said in a statement .

In March, Cisco stopped business processes and sales in Russia.

16:14

45% of the territories of the Donetsk region are under the control of Ukraine, according to CNN.

“It is very difficult to say that the rest are controlled by the enemy, because these cities are being destroyed by the enemy – they are just territories,” said the head of the region, Pavel Kirilenko.

15:37

Three cruise missiles were fired at Nikolaev today, according to the telegram channel of the Odessa City Council, citing the data of the Yug operational command.

The military claims that the rockets were fired from the territory of the occupied Kherson region. One civilian was injured.

In addition, the Ukrainian military reports that two more rockets were fired at the Odessa region, but they were shot down.

15:28

Three people were killed when a rocket hit a two-story residential building in Zolochiv, Kharkiv region, said the region's police . The dead are a 51-year-old woman and two men aged 47 and 52.

The department insists that the shell that hit the apartment building was fired by the Russian military. Neighboring buildings and garages were also damaged.

Investigators opened a criminal case on violation of the laws and customs of war.

14:54

Nike has announced its decision to withdraw from the Russian market.

“As a result, Nike.com and the Nike mobile app will no longer be available in this region. Nike stores have recently temporarily closed and will not open again,” the Russian online store said in a statement.

At the end of May, Vedomosti wrote that Nike did not renew the franchise agreement with Inventive Retail Group, which owned the largest retail chain of this brand in Russia. A Nike spokesperson then told the newspaper that due to operational capabilities, the company decided not to renew existing or enter into new business relationships in Russia.

14:13

The general director of the Ural Compressor Plant, Denis Tasakov, responded to a strike of workers due to non-payment of wages, saying that "during the Great Patriotic War, no one asked about wages," according to the local agency EAN.

Tasakov explains the problems with salaries as a “military special operation” and the subsequent sanctions that hit the partners of the enterprise. According to EAN, the general director of the plant promised to fully account for those workers who do not participate in the strike.

“True, money should remain for those who are on strike. But I would like people to change their minds. I don’t want to apologize to anyone, because everyone should understand the situation. During the Great Patriotic War, no one asked about salaries, but we have a state defense order, and it is now in jeopardy. People are dying, and this, it seems to me, is more important. And now everyone has become so smart, we have strikes!” Tasakov said.

Factory workers started another strike more than two weeks ago. One of them told E1.ru that delays in wages began in January, and in March and May, workers already refused to work - but in both cases, partial payments began and they returned to work. On June 22, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on non-payment of wages for more than 20 million rubles.

13:48

The Ministry of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Media of Russia has accused Ukraine of a DDoS attack on Gosuslugi.

The agency claims that around 9:30 a.m. today, Ukrainian Telegram channels began calling for attacks on the site and “the entire e-government infrastructure” and published more than 50 attack IP addresses.

“The Ukrainian side has declared its priority goal to paralyze the provision of socially significant services in Russia <…> From this moment on, the portal has recorded an almost tenfold increase in load. At peak times, it was up to 340 thousand requests per second. Attacks are being carried out not only on the State Services portal, but also on a mobile application, a payment system, as well as life support systems for the Russian e-government infrastructure, ”the Russian department said in a telegram channel.

The Ministry of Digital Affairs assures that the security and infrastructure management systems are operating normally and user data is protected.

13:39

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put on the wanted list the coordinator of the movement "Spring" Bogdan Lytvyn, ex-employee of the FBK Ivan Drobotov and activist Sofya Semenova, who opposed the war in Ukraine, writes Mediazona , which found their data in the search database.

A criminal case has been opened against Lytvyn and Drobotov on the creation of an NPO that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens. The case was opened after Viasna called for various anti-war actions.

Semenova, on the other hand, is being accused in a case of hooliganism because of the burning of an effigy in military uniform on Maslenitsa.

Drobotov and Semenova were given a ban on certain actions, but both of them were able to leave Russia.

13:23

The European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it supported granting Ukraine and Moldova the status of candidates for the European Union, TASS reports .

The decision on granting the status will be made by the leaders of the EU countries at the summit in Brussels, which takes place on June 23-24. Ukraine and Moldova will receive the status if it is supported by all 27 EU member states.

13:00

The UK has banned the supply of oil refining goods and technologies, aviation fuel and goods and technologies related to chemical and biological weapons to Russia, according to the government website.

In addition, the country's authorities prohibit the export to Russia and use in the country of pounds sterling and EU currencies, as well as the "provision, delivery or delivery" of such banknotes to people associated with Russia.

12:49

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that on June 22, the Russian military carried out strikes in the Nikolaev area.

The agency claims that as a result, 49 tanks with fuel for Ukrainian military equipment and up to 50 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems were destroyed, and three bases for the repair of armored vehicles were hit. The department did not comment on the data on the injured civilians.

The Ministry of Defense also reports that more than 650 Ukrainian soldiers were killed as a result of Russian strikes and shelling over the past day.

Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich reported yesterday about seven missile attacks on the city by the Russian military. As a result of the attacks, three civilians were injured and five multi-storey buildings and eight private houses were damaged. In addition, as a result of shelling, two tanks with sunflower oil caught fire.

again this morning near Nikolaev Explosions were heard .

11:53

The State Duma apparatus recommended that aides to deputies refuse to travel abroad, writes , citing four sources in the lower house of parliament. Vedomosti

“When applying for leave in the personnel department, it is now required to manually write on the form that “no vacation is planned abroad,” one of the sources said. According to him, the employees of the personnel department are holding preliminary conversations with the assistants of the deputies that "now the geopolitical situation is difficult and it is better not to leave Russia."

The assistants to the deputies were not told what they could face if they signed such a form, but then nevertheless went abroad.

The second interlocutor of the newspaper is sure that this document operates "at the level of advice and recommendations and there are no sanctions or restrictions." He and a third source consider this practice normal and justified.

In March, the leadership of the United Russia faction in the State Duma obliged the deputies of the party to obtain permission from the head of the faction to travel abroad.

11:20

In the village of Pechenegy in the Kharkiv region, as a result of night and morning shelling, seven civilians were injured, including two children, said the head of the region, Oleg Sinegubov.

Also late last night, the Russian military shelled the Industrial district of Kharkiv, which led to a fire in the warehouse. As a result, no one was hurt.

10:59

Briton Aiden Eslin, who was sentenced to death in the self-proclaimed DPR for participating in the war on the side of Ukraine, called the family and said that representatives of the DPR promised to carry out the sentence and told him that “time is running out”, reports BBC News .

“Aiden was very upset when he called his mother this morning. The gist of what Aiden said was that the DPR told him that no one from the UK had made contact [with them] and that he would be executed,” said the Briton’s grandmother, Pamela Hall. “No words, just no words, it must be everyone’s worst nightmare to have a member of your family threatened like that.”

Hall hopes that the information about the lack of attempts by the British authorities to negotiate for the release of Eslin is not true.

BBC News sources in the British government said the ministers did not want to negotiate directly with Russia in order to prevent the Russian side from claiming that the captured foreigners were mercenaries. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that she discussed with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba the possibility of releasing foreigners.

British prisoners Aiden Eslin and Sean Pinner, as well as Moroccan Saadun Brahim in the unrecognized republic, were sentenced to death, including being accused of mercenarism. At the same time, all of them officially served in the Ukrainian army and have lived permanently in Ukraine in recent years.

The British authorities insist that they should be treated as prisoners in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.

09:37

Svyaznoy was the first major Russian retailer to confirm that it had begun importing electronics into the country through parallel imports, writes . Kommersant

A company representative said that the network has expanded the range in this way by more than 100 positions, including tablets, laptops, smart watches, Samsung and iPhone smartphones, and Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo game consoles.

Svyaznoy clarified that many devices imported through parallel imports will cost 10-20% more than goods imported before the start of the war in Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions.

Previously, the Russian government allowed parallel imports, that is, the importation of goods into the country without the consent of the copyright holder. So the authorities are trying to avoid a shortage of goods due to the mass exodus of foreign companies from Russia.

09:26

The Czech government has decided not to issue visas and residence permits to Russians and Belarusians until the end of March 2023, reports České noviny . An exception will be humanitarian visas.

The authorities explain this decision as an attempt to protect the foreign policy interests of the Czech Republic in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which was supported by Belarus.

The decision does not apply to Russians and Belarusians who have already received a residence permit and want to extend it. Also, the provision does not apply to applications for short-term visas from relatives of citizens of the Czech Republic or the European Union.

08:59

Three people were injured in Lisichansk yesterday, said the head of the Luhansk region Serhiy Gaidai. In addition, late in the evening of June 21, the body of a man who died as a result of shelling was found in the city.

The city was shelled several times yesterday. Many houses were destroyed in Novoinovka, Gorsky and Zolote.

In Severodonetsk, the Russian military will shell a brick factory, the Stekloplastika enterprise, and a chemical equipment plant. The building of another checkpoint of the Azot plant, where civilians are hiding, was damaged. Earlier, the Ukrainian authorities reported that the Ukrainian military only controlled the industrial zone in the city, possibly due to the intensive shelling of industrial enterprises.

Gaidai also reports that since June 22, the villages of Loskutovka and Rai-Aleksandrovka have been under the control of the Russian military.

Results of the 119th day of the war

Reporters Without Borders, during an investigation into the death of Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary maker Max Levin, came to the conclusion that he was killed by the Russian military.

In the Rostov region, a fire broke out at the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery, which is located near the border with Ukraine. Presumably as a result of a drone attack.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin spoke about plans to turn the territory of Azovstal in Mariupol into an industrial park or a recreation area.

"Pskov province" said that the court dismissed the claim of the conscript, who challenged the conclusion of the contract with the military unit, claiming that he did not sign it.

*Cover photo: Roman Pilipey / EPA / Scanpix *