Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 131

23:46

Relatives of three prisoners in the St. Petersburg colonies No. 6 (Obukhovo) and No. 7 (Yablonevka) said that they are trying to recruit convicts to be sent to Ukraine as volunteers in the Wagner PMC, they write Important Stories .

According to a relative of a prisoner in IK-7, "inspectors" came to the institution and called on the convicts to "defend the Motherland." Then, late in the evening, they gathered the seniors in the detachments, after which they began to agitate the prisoners to go to the east of Ukraine.

“They will be formalized there supposedly as a stage, they will be taken to the border under escort, like ordinary prisoners,” says the source of the publication. His relative said that the convicts were warned that they would be sent to "the vanguard, to help detect the Nazis, so not everyone will return." Those who survive are promised 200,000 rubles in rewards and an amnesty, while the families of the victims are promised 5 million rubles each, the source said. This is not a contract, but only a verbal agreement. The prisoner, after the persuasion of his relatives, refused to go to Ukraine.

At the same time, another interlocutor of the publication said that his relative, who is serving time in the same colony, agreed to go to Donbass. They did not conclude a contract with him, but they promise to issue it upon arrival at the place.

Unnamed sources of Important Stories claim that after agitation in Yablonevka, recruiters were supposed to go to IK-4 (Fornosovo) and IK-6.

Information about IK-6 was confirmed by a relative of the prisoner who is in it. He also says that the convicts were offered to go to the Donbass on the basis of an oral agreement only. “They say that they are sending them without tokens and passports <...> At the same time, they are not calling those who are in jail for 20 years, but, for example, a young man who has a few months left before [replacing the real term with] forced labor,” notes this companion.

23:07

The Ukrainian flag has not yet been set up on Zmeiny Island, but only dropped from a helicopter, told CNN. Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the defense forces of southern Ukraine,

“The flag was brought to the island by helicopter. It will wait for the troops to arrive, and then it will fly,” Gumenyuk said, explaining that no Ukrainian troops have landed on the island yet.

Earlier, Russian troops left Snake Island.

22:50

The film crew of the Russian TV channel "TV Center" came under fire in Donetsk, according to a message on the channel's website. The operator's assistant Andrey Alekseev was wounded.

The report claims that the group was working near the railway station in Donetsk when the shelling took place, one of the shells "exploded literally 20 meters" from them. Alekseev was seriously wounded in the head and chest, he is in the operating room.

22:21

In the Kherson region, a former FSB officer and ex-deputy chairman of the government of the Kaliningrad region, Sergei Eliseev, was appointed head of the occupation government. This was announced by the head of the occupation administration of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo.

From 1993 to 2005, Eliseev worked for the FSB, and since 2016, in the Kaliningrad region.

His deputies have been Vladimir Bespalov, former first deputy minister for municipal development and internal policy of the Kaliningrad region, and Alexei Kovalev, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, against whom a criminal case has been initiated due to cooperation with Russia in the Kherson region.

“This is not a temporary, not a military, not some kind of intermediate administration, but a full-fledged authority. The fact that this government includes not only Kherson residents, but also Russian managers speaks very clearly about the direction of the future of the Kherson region. This direction is to Russia,” wrote Saldo.

20:47

Director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State Humanitarian University Igor Isaev said that he had resigned from his post.

“I will miss my beloved students and the best colleagues in the world. But no Z-rector,” he wrote on Facebook.

19:53

In Taganrog, Rostov region, a private house caught fire after a drone fell on it, reports RIA Novosti . The fire has already been extinguished and there are no casualties.

“The house caught fire in the private sector on 15 New Lane. All services work there. Fragments, presumably, of a drone that hit him, were found nearby, ”said an unnamed source from the agency.

Telegram channel Baza published a video of the fire.

19:13

In the Ivanovo region, after the military enlistment office was set on fire, a criminal case was opened against a local resident about a terrorist attack, writes . Ivanovo News

“A 31-year-old man, in order to destabilize the activities of the authorities, set fire to the military commissariat of the city of Shuya, Palekhsky and Shuisky districts of the Ivanovo region by throwing a home-made incendiary device through the window of the building, which was localized in a timely manner,” the press service of the regional department of the FSB said.

On the night of March 19, in the city of Shuya, an incendiary mixture was thrown through the window of the military registration and enlistment office, reported Ivanovo News . The suspect was detained in early April and sent to a pre-trial detention center. After that, a case was first opened against the man under the article on intentional damage to property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code), now on a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

18:52

In Moscow, picketers Oleg Morozov and Igor Knutov were detained on Red Square and have already been released. The first stood up in a picket with a poster "No to war", the second - with a poster "There are no excuses for war."

They drew up protocols under articles on violation of the procedure for holding a rally (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and discrediting the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), reports . OVD-Info

18:38

Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal estimated the plan for the restoration of Ukraine at $750 billion.

“We believe that the confiscated assets of Russia and Russian oligarchs should become a key source of funding,” he said at an international conference in Lugano ( quoted by TASS).

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, noted that the European Union has already allocated 6.2 billion euros to Ukraine, and will allocate even more in the short and long term.

17:08

The FSB issued an official warning to a Russian citizen who, according to the agency, transferred money to the Ukrainian Come Back Alive Foundation, which helps the Ukrainian army, reports and publishes a video of the warning. RIA Novosti

In the video, at least five employees, one of whom is in civilian clothes, are knocking at the apartment and demanding that the man stand against the wall. Then one of the employees tells him that the transfer of money to the foundation "creates the conditions for the commission of a crime." According to the FSB, such actions can be qualified as treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code).

Updated at 17:33. The name of the fund has been added.

16:05

British citizen Aiden Aslin, who was sentenced to death in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, has appealed the verdict, RIA Novosti reports.

“Today, July 4, a cassation appeal was filed with the Appeals Chamber of the Supreme Court by the lawyer of the third convicted Aslin Aiden regarding the change in the sentence,” the agency quotes a court representative.

Three foreigners who fought on the side of the Ukrainian army were sentenced to death on July 9. Earlier, Briton Sean Pinner and Moroccan citizen Brahim Saadoun appealed against the verdict.

15:53

14:00

The Ukrainian flag was set up on the Serpent's Island, said Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the defense forces of southern Ukraine.

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has published a photo of the flag.

The Russian military left the island last week.

Updated at 15:40. A photo of the State Border Service of Ukraine has been added.

13:27

As a result of yesterday's shelling of Belgorod, five people from one family were killed, reports RIA Novosti with reference to their relative. Yesterday, three family members were reported dead.

“Oleg died, their first wife Olga, their two children, the girl would have been twenty-two and the boy would have been sixteen in August, and Olga’s mother died, Tatyana,” said their relative Irina.

Soon, the press service of the government of the Belgorod region told RBC that they had no information about the new dead and they still knew only about four dead. However, information about the death of five members of the same family was confirmed to Kholod by Yulia, a volunteer from the Tenth Circle organization. The organization helps refugees from Ukraine in Belgorod, including helping the dead members of this family.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the missiles fired were shot down, but the head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, specified that one of them detonated after the fall. He also said yesterday that three citizens of Ukraine and one Russian were killed. A local resident told reporters that the three dead were a family from Kharkov, who had gone to Belgorod for the duration of the hostilities.

Updated at 13:37 and 13:51. Added information from RBC and Kholod.

13:03

Lawyers of the “Team Against Torture” filed a complaint with the Investigative Committee because of the beating by the police of a junior researcher at one of the Moscow institutes, Artem Bobrov, who was detained on May 9 at the “Immortal Regiment” rally in the center of Moscow. Then he unfurled a poster with the inscription "Stop the war with Ukraine."

“According to Bobrov, several police officers kicked him in the stomach when he refused to talk to them, demanded to introduce himself and explain the reason for the detention. One of them called Bobrov a “scoundrel” and said that he “ruined the holiday,” human rights activists write about the actions of the security forces immediately after the arrest of the Muscovite. According to him, the police threatened to plant drugs on him.

In addition, in the official car, one of the security officials demanded that Bobrov unlock the phone and, for each refusal, hit the detainee in the face. Then, in the Bobrov police station, lieutenant colonel Khalilov hit his head against the wall, he put the detainee in a stretch and sometimes beat him on the leg, the CPT notes. The Muscovite was also beaten for refusing to be photographed and leave fingerprints.

For the picket, Bobrov was fined a total of 65,000 rubles under the articles on uncoordinated action and “discrediting” the Russian army, and he was also sentenced to 10 days of arrest under the article on disobedience to the police.

12:25

Today, at about 4 am, the Russian military launched a missile attack on the Shevchenkovsky district of Kharkov, reports . the head of the regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov,

According to him, the blow fell on the school building. According to preliminary data, there was no one in the gymnasium and no one was injured.

Over the past day, cities and villages of Kharkov, Izyum and Bogodukhovsky districts have been under shelling. Three residents of the village of Bezruki in the Kharkov region were killed, six more were injured.

12:17

11:52

The head of the Belgorod Metropolis, Metropolitan of Belgorod and Starooskolsky John called for prayers for "an end to the bloodshed on Ukrainian soil" after the shelling of Belgorod.

“Tonight, missiles from the Ukrainian armed forces hit sleeping Belgorod residents in residential areas,” reads a posting yesterday on the website of the local diocese. - Among the dead were residents of the Kharkov region, who came to hide from the war in peaceful Belgorod. However, no one knows the day or hour when our earthly life will end, no one knows how it will happen (Matthew 24:36-39). We call for an intense prayer for the repose of the dead and for the recovery of the injured, for an end to the bloodshed that is taking place on Ukrainian soil, but today it has also come to our homes. It's time, according to the word of the Holy Scripture, "to beat swords into plowshares" (Is.2:4). May the Lord save all living and grant peace on earth.

11:15

The occupation administration of Melitopol claims that the Aviagorodok microdistrict was left without electricity and water after rocket fire from the Ukrainian military. Several tanks with drinking water were delivered to the microdistrict.

The day before, the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, who was elected by the townspeople at the end of 2020 and left the region after being released from Russian captivity, spoke about the attacks on the local airfield. According to the mayor, there was a base of Russians there, and as a result of shelling, several dozen soldiers were injured. Russia did not comment on this information.

9:51

The American pharmaceutical company MSD is halting the supply of vaccines against chicken pox, rubella, measles and mumps to Russia, but will retain the sale of its drugs, which have no analogues, Kommersant writes, citing . several market participants

MSD has sent notices to counterparties to discontinue supply of Varivax chickenpox and MMR II measles, mumps and rubella vaccines.

Antonina Oblasova, co-founder of ANO Collective Immunity, said that, according to the law, a pharmaceutical company can stop deliveries only one year after the Ministry of Health is notified.

Roszdravnadzor confirmed that the company has filed a notice of plans to stop importing these vaccines into Russia, but assures that there are enough domestic analogues in the country.

Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, several large pharmaceutical companies have announced that they will not conduct clinical trials of new drugs in Russia, and Eli Lilly has stopped supplying non-essential drugs to the country, except for drugs for cancer patients and people with diabetes.

9:14

The Ukrainian "Energoatom" accused the Russian military, who occupied the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, of the death of hydroshop diver Andrey Goncharuk as a result of torture.

The enterprise claims that the Russians beat Goncharuk and tortured him, demanding to come up with a justification for the need to drain the cooling pools of the nuclear power plant, but the diver refused.

“On June 29, in a state of coma with numerous bodily injuries, he was taken to the hospital in Energodar. But the injuries turned out to be incompatible with life, and today he died without regaining consciousness,” Energoatom said in a statement.

On Thursday, June 29, the state-owned enterprise reported that Russian forces were preparing a provocation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. According to Energoatom, the Russians were going to accuse the Ukrainian nuclear scientists of storing weapons on the territory of the station.

“For this, several workers were detained and they are tortured to confess, or rather, to slander themselves that, allegedly, back in March, they dropped some kind of weapon: explosives or shells into the concrete bowls of the cooling pools at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant,” the report said.

Energoatom claimed that under this pretext, the Russians demanded to drain the cooling pools in order to check its bowls, and to stop the pumps supplying water to the security systems of power units. The Ukrainian company warned that if this happened, the nuclear power plant safety systems would be left without cooling, which threatens nuclear safety, especially in the warm season.

In addition, the enterprise feared that the Russians themselves “could throw anything into concrete bowls: explosives, unexploded shells, other weapons, and then blame the ZNPP workers or its defenders for this.”

Results of the 130th day of the war

Explosions thundered in Belgorod last night, killing four people, including a family from the Kharkov region. The Russian Defense Ministry accused the Ukrainian military of shelling and noted that Russian air defense systems shot down all three missiles fired.

The Insider writes, citing analysts, that the fragment that hit the high-rise building is the first stage of the Russian Pantsir air defense missile system, which is designed for air defense. The governor of the Belgorod region also said that the explosion occurred due to the fall of a downed rocket, which was only partially damaged.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to the President on the "liberation of the LPR" and the capture of Lisichansk. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that the Ukrainian military had left the city.

Cover photo: STRINGER / AFP / Scanpix