
In the city of Klintsy, Bryansk region, three men fired at a military unit, Mash reports . The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Bryansk region confirmed the information about the “incident” to the Podyom publication, but did not disclose the details.
According to Mash, this happened around 4:15 am. Three men were armed and masked, one of them was wounded by return fire. Now they are looking for.
In Omsk, a local resident with a third disability group, Zakhar Zakurdaev, was fined for wearing a passport cover with the coat of arms of Ukraine. He says that the police beat him during the arrest and forced him to sign a confession that he was involved in rallies and “Ukrainian groups”. It is reported by "Omsk Civil Association".
On March 15, Zakurdaev came to the narcologist Alimova at the Clinical Dermatovenerologic Dispensary in Omsk to undergo a medical examination. Alimova asked the man about his attitude to the war and why the Ukrainian coat of arms was depicted on his passport, to which Zakurdaev replied that he did not like that people were dying in the war.
On March 28, the police detained the man at work. In the department, according to Zakurdaev, a protocol was drawn up against him under the article on discrediting the army, he was beaten, forced to sign a protocol of a search of the apartment and a confession that he was related to mass rallies and could be involved in "Ukrainian groups", in particular, to the regiment " Azov. He was released from the department the next day.
In May, the court fined Zakurdaev 30,000 rubles. The resolution states that the man “defiantly” put his passport on the doctor’s table, and after a question about his attitude towards Ukraine, he “came into a state of nervousness, spoke in an aggressive manner about the course of a special military operation,” said that the Russian army was involved in war crimes, and also "expressed aggressively" about Vladimir Putin.
The Russian military fired again at Nikolaev today, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports .
Infrastructure facilities came under fire, which caused two fires.
From the beginning of the war to July 3, more than 10 thousand civilians were killed or injured in Ukraine, follows from the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. 4889 people died, of which 335 were children.
“I emphasize that the real numbers are probably much higher,” Bachelet said.
Most of the victims are the result of the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. More than 1,200 bodies of civilians have been found in the Kyiv region alone. The UN, Bachelet said, is working to confirm more than 300 allegations of killings by Russian military forces in non-active combat situations.
The death of 17 journalists, media workers and bloggers was also documented, and 14 more were injured.
According to the UN, the high number of civilian casualties and destruction raises concerns that the actions of the Russian military do not comply with international humanitarian law. Likely, “albeit on a much lower scale,” Ukrainian forces were also not fully able to comply with the requirements of humanitarian law in the east of the country. The organization is also concerned about "the placement of military facilities next to civilian facilities and the use of human shields by both sides."
In Donetsk, a ten-year-old girl died due to shelling by the Ukrainian military, writes the mayor of the city controlled by the self-proclaimed DPR, Aleksey Kulemzin.
In the center of Moscow, near the monument to Cyril and Methodius, activist Andrei Golovin, who joined an anti-war picket, was detained and released, reports . OVD-Info
A protocol was drawn up against him under the article on discrediting the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
Employees of the enterprises of the state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation are offered to go to fight in Ukraine as volunteers as part of PMCs or as contract army employees, writes The Moscow Times, citing three workers.
According to a worker at Admiralty Shipyards (part of USC), the employees were offered to conclude a contract with the Ministry of Defense with a salary of 300,000 rubles a month to go to Ukraine.
On June 2, the head of one of the workshops called 20 workers to the office, where they were given summons to the military enlistment office. In the commissariat, the workers were asked for personal data, whether they had wives and children, and in the end, whether they agreed to go to work under the contract. According to the interlocutor of The Moscow Times, none of the workers who were called with him then agreed, but he learned that his colleague from another workshop had gone to Ukraine.
The same offer was received by employees of the Baltic Shipyard (also part of USC), two workers said. In addition, one of the workers of the Baltzavod claims that in April he received a “negative” salary - for 15 working days he was credited with more than 27 thousand rubles, but after deducting taxes, dormitory fees and a past debt of 19 thousand rubles, he owed the company more 2 thousand rubles.
An employee of the Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant, which is part of Metalloinvest, Alisher Usmanov, also spoke about the call to go to Ukraine. In this case, the workers were offered to participate in hostilities as volunteers of a private military company with a salary of 205,000 rubles, the source says. The press service of Metalloinvest denies the recruitment of volunteers at their enterprise.
The State Duma adopted a law on granting veteran status to civilians participating in a “special operation” in Ukraine, reports . RIA Novosti
We are talking about civilian personnel of the Armed Forces, repair teams, doctors and other specialists.
State Duma deputy Yaroslav Nilov said that media workers will also be able to receive this status. “The accepted norms apply to war correspondents,” he said ( quoted by RT)
Updated at 17:31. Nilov's quote added.
The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that gives the government the opportunity to introduce special measures in the economy during Russia's military and counter-terrorist operations abroad.
The document assumes that at the time of the introduction of special measures, legal entities will not have the right to refuse to conclude contracts with the state for the supply of goods, performance of work or provision of services "in order to ensure the conduct" of operations of the Russian Armed Forces abroad.
The bill also allows processing, going to work at night, on weekends and non-working holidays at certain enterprises during the operation of special measures.
In addition, if the law is adopted under special measures, the state customer will be able to conclude an agreement with a single supplier for the purchase of goods, works, services necessary for state defense and the formation of a stock of components, raw materials, materials and semi-finished products from him.
The explanatory note to the bill says that in the conditions of military operations and, in particular, "special operations" in Ukraine, the need for the repair of military equipment and the provision of material and technical means is increasing, which means that it is necessary to "temporarily concentrate efforts in certain sectors of the economy."
The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia denies that employees of the Ukrainian Azov regiment, who surrendered, were placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. this Earlier, TASS reported , citing a law enforcement source.
The Security Service of Ukraine announced the detention of an assistant to the People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada on suspicion of treason. He was sent to jail.
“Being a Russian agent, he carried out reconnaissance and subversive activities in the authorities. The official was recruited by an employee of the 9th Directorate of the 5th Service of the FSB, Yuri Vodolazky ("Ukrainian Truth" also allows the spelling Vodolazhsky. - Note "Cold") during a trip to Moscow. Subsequently, he handed over the agent for “communication” to his leader, Dmitry Zubarev, ”says the Ukrainian special service.
According to the SBU, since 2017, the deputy’s assistant has been transmitting data on international cooperation, domestic policy, strengthening the border with Russia, and military operations in eastern Ukraine. For cooperation, the suspect received from 1.5 to 4 thousand dollars a month, and to collect data, he used a wide range of personal acquaintances and his status as an assistant to a deputy, according to the intelligence service.
Ukrayinska Pravda clarifies that the detainee is an assistant-consultant to the people's deputy from the ruling Servant of the People party Yuriy Zdebsky. In the video of the SBU, the detainee says that he passed on information about Ukrainian politics and operations in Donbass, assistance to Ukraine from the United States, as well as information that was sent to the post office of the Verkhovna Rada.
Zdebsky told Suspilna Novyny that his assistant did not have access to state secrets and, being the secretary of the working group on border activities, worked with open data. The MP called the detention of his assistant a "moral shock".
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin signed a decree on naming the territory near the British Embassy "LNR Square", the Moscow agency reports with reference to the mayor's press service.
We are talking about a section along the Smolenskaya embankment between Protochny Lane and the exit to Novy Arbat Street, the press service specified.
Earlier, the city authorities called the area in front of the US Embassy "DPR Square".
The Central Election Commission of Russia will hold a seminar in Rostov-on-Don for employees of the election commissions of the self-proclaimed DNR and LNR to help them "in restoring their electoral systems," Kommersant writes , citing a source close to the leadership of the CEC. Two interlocutors close to the administration of the President of Russia also spoke about the seminar.
A source in the CEC specified that a seminar-meeting should be held on the eve of a single voting day with the participation of chairmen of regional election commissions.
“Considering that colleagues from the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics have turned to the CEC of Russia with a request for assistance in restoring their electoral systems, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation has invited representatives of the electoral committees of the DPR and LPR to take part in this seminar,” the source said.
The seminar is going to discuss "the use of modern technologies in the course of election campaigns, the existing standards of the electoral system of the Russian Federation and their implementation, as well as ways to most effectively restore the viability of the electoral systems" of the DPR and LPR.
Kommersant's source in the Central Election Commission called this a routine work within the framework of international cooperation between election commissions and recalled that recently the Russian Central Election Commission held meetings with delegations from Belarus, Iran, South Africa and the African Union.
In the Kharkiv region, an 81-year-old resident of the village of Kutuzovka died during shelling yesterday, reports . the head of the region, Oleg Sinegubov,
Over the past 24 hours, Kharkivsky, Chuguevsky, Bogodukhovsky and Izyumsky districts were shelled, and tonight the Russian military launched a missile attack on another educational institution in Kharkov, this time in the Saltovsky district, Sinegubov claims.
He added that there were battles on the line of confrontation in the Kharkiv direction, and in the Izyum region, the Russian military tried to attack and fired at the positions of the Ukrainian military.
The authorities of the Kursk and Bryansk regions reported new attacks on the border areas. In both cases, no one was hurt.
According to the head of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, this morning the village of Zernovo, Suzemsky district, was fired from artillery from Ukraine.
At the same time, the settlements of the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region were shelled. According to the governor of Kursk, Roman Starovoit, in the village of Popovo-Lezhachi, windows were broken in some houses and facades were damaged, and there is no electricity there and in the village of Tetkino.
The Prime Minister of Ukraine estimated the cost of rebuilding Ukraine after the destruction during the war at $750 billion. The authorities expect to make the confiscated assets of Russia and Russian businessmen the main source of funding for restoration work.
In the Kherson region, ex-FSB officer and former deputy chairman of the government of the Kaliningrad region Sergey Eliseev was appointed head of the occupation government.
Metropolitan John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol called for prayers for “an end to the bloodshed on Ukrainian soil” after the shelling of Belgorod, in which several people were killed.
Relatives of prisoners from two St. Petersburg colonies claim that they came to the institutions to recruit convicts to be sent to fight in Ukraine.
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