Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 134

23:51

The head of the legal department of the Free Buryatia Foundation, Andrei Rinchino, referring to one of the military, said that 17 soldiers from Tuva were being held in the Luhansk region, who refused to continue fighting in Ukraine and filed reports on the termination of contracts. It is reported by Mediazona.

The military man, with whom the lawyer spoke, told him that the soldiers returned from the zone of active hostilities in Luhansk about three weeks ago and then filed reports because they no longer want to fight. Some of the contractors were then returned to Russia, but others were ordered to wait, and a week later they were sent to the front line altogether.

“We went, although we did not have any equipment,” military lawyer Andrey Rinchino quotes the words. On the way, the car with the military from Tuva broke down, and they were left on the side of the road - when their colleagues did not pick them up, the soldiers went to Luhansk Pervomaisk, from where they were going to leave the bus station for Moscow. However, they were detained by the police of the Russian army.

According to the lawyer, the employees' passports and military IDs were taken away, then they were sent to the commandant's office in Alchevsk in the Luhansk region and locked in a certain room. Rinchino noted that among those detained were military men whose contracts had expired.

The lawyer also told in more detail about the military man, from whom he learned about the incident - he was blown up by a grenade and partially lost his hearing, but he was also not returned to Russia.

23:30

The Russian military released from captivity 16-year-old Vladislav Buryak, the son of the head of the Zaporozhye regional administration Oleg Buryak, they write "Grati" with reference to the official himself.

He did not say under what conditions his son, who spent almost three months in captivity, was released.

The teenager was detained on April 8 at a Russian checkpoint when he was trying to evacuate from the occupied Melitopol.

“Vlad sat in the back seat and looked at the phone. The Russian military man said to him: why are you filming me? Eventually, they started taking the phone away. Vlad is 16 years old, he began to show character, he said something like: my personal property, why are you taking it away? - told about the detention of his son. Oleg Buryak

The military found a video of interrogations of Russian prisoners on the teenager’s phone, after which they let him out of the car and left him at the post for verification. As a result, they found out that his father was a Ukrainian official and detained the young man.

Oleg Buryak said in May that during a month in captivity, the teenager managed to call him only once and his mother again.

22:46

The Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow has fined Pussy Riot member Lucy Stein 50,000 rubles under an article about “discrediting” the Russian army, writes Mediazona.

The reason for the fine was her tweet , in which she wrote that the Russian military "came to bomb other people's cities and kill people", and commented on the video, in which, presumably, the Ukrainian military shot the legs of captured Russians.

In the spring, Stein left Russia, although at that time the term of restriction of freedom on the “sanitary case” had not yet ended for a tweet about a rally in support of Alexei Navalny in January 2021. After that, she was wanted.

20:53

Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the idea to equate the military self-proclaimed DPR and LPR with Russian military personnel, reports RIA Novosti . What this might mean in practice is still unclear.

Sergei Mironov, leader of the Just Russia - For Truth party, spoke about this idea at Putin's meeting with the heads of the State Duma factions.

Also at today's meeting, Putin, speaking about Western countries and the war in Ukraine, said : "Everyone should know that we, by and large, have not started anything seriously yet."

19:54

Ilya Krasilshchik, a journalist and former CEO of Yandex.Lavka, has been put on the wanted list, it follows from the search base of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. attention to this . drew Human rights activist Pavel Chikov

Back in April, the telegram channels Baza and Beware, Novosti reported that a criminal case had been opened against Dyer for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army because of an Instagram post about the killings of civilians in Ukrainian Bucha.

A month later, the Dyer reported that he had received official confirmation from the Investigative Committee that a case had been initiated against him.

Now the journalist is outside of Russia. In early June, he launched a new media and service "Support Service" for victims of the war in Ukraine.

19:11

In Kharkov, three people were injured during the shelling of one of the districts of the city this afternoon, said the head of the region Oleg Sinegubov.

According to preliminary data, the shelling was carried out by multiple launch rocket systems.

18:45

The prosecutor at the debate in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow requested 7 years in prison for the municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district Alexei Gorinov, who at a meeting of the council of deputies said that it was necessary to stop the war in Ukraine and withdraw Russian troops from there, writes Mediazona

Gorinov is charged under the article on the spread of "fakes" about the Russian army (paragraphs "a", "b", "e" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). According to Mediazona , the indictment says that Gorinov and the head of the district, Elena Kotenochkina, then “discredited” the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The reason for the persecution was the discussion of the competition of children's drawings, which Gorinov proposed to cancel because of its inappropriateness during the war. The council meeting, like others, was broadcast on the county's YouTube channel.

Kotenochkina left Russia before her arrest.

18:17

18:01

Mass grave sites in the occupied village of Stary Krym near Mariupol have doubled, journalists from the Schemes project (Radio Liberty) write, citing images from the Planet Labs satellite.

According to journalists, on June 29, the satellite filmed equipment used to dig trenches in a cemetery near the village. According to the Mariupol City Council, there may be more than 15,000 dead in mass graves.

According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, the appearance of new graves is explained by the fact that Russian forces began to dismantle the rubble of multi-storey buildings destroyed by shelling, and in the village of Stary Krym, the cemetery with mass graves closest to the city.

16:41

The head of the Yakimanka municipal district and the deputy head of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, Andrey Morev, were fined 50,000 rubles in an administrative case about “discrediting” the Russian army, the politician himself said in his Telegram channel.

After the hearing, Morev was detained at the exit of the court building and taken to the Yakimanka police station. According to the politician, the reason was a sticker on his car - he did not specify what is depicted on it, and claims that he does not know who pasted it.

“They want to bring me under 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (demonstration of prohibited symbols) and remove me from the elections,” said Morev . “I wrote a statement myself against the hooligans who ruined my car.” He was released from the police department - the politician did not specify whether a protocol was drawn up against him in the end.

In the event of prosecution under this article, the politician will not be able to run for a year, and therefore participate in municipal elections in Moscow this year. The reason for such protocols may be images of swastikas or symbols of supporters of the politician Alexei Navalny, whose structures were previously recognized by the courts as prohibited, and his Smart Voting project.

Protocols under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses have already been drawn up for several potential opposition candidates in the upcoming elections.

15:43

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported that Turkey let the Russian ship "Zhibek Zholy" carrying grain from occupied Berdyansk, despite a request to arrest the ship and cargo.

“The Ukrainian side accepted this information with deep disappointment and appeals to the Turkish side with an urgent request to investigate this situation and provide an exhaustive response to the requests of the relevant authorities of Ukraine, as well as to prevent similar cases in the future by all means,” the ministry said in a statement.

Also, the Foreign Ministry said that they had summoned the Turkish ambassador to Kyiv.

On June 30, the occupation authorities of Berdyansk reported that the local port had resumed work and the first cargo ship had left.

15:02

One person died from a missile attack on the center of Kramatorsk, six more were injured, writes Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk regional administration.

According to him, the blow fell on six buildings, including a hotel and a residential high-rise building. The number of dead and injured is not final.

14:45

Boris Johnson has stepped down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. He said that the country would continue to support Ukraine. ⁠

Johnson has been one of the most active politicians in support of Ukraine since the beginning of the war. He was the first of the leaders of the G7 to visit Ukraine during the war - the first time he did this on April 9, after which he visited Kyiv in June.

At the beginning of the war, Johnson released a video message to the Russians, in which he said in Russian: "I do not believe that this is a war on your behalf." Later, in April, he issued another appeal in which he said that the Russians deserve to know the truth. “Your president is accused of war crimes. But I do not believe that he is acting on your behalf,” he said, also in Russian.

In terms of support to Ukraine, the UK ranks second after the United States.

14:21

According to OVD -Info, there have been 16,334 arrests in Russia since the beginning of the war for an anti-war position.

The assessment is based on data received by OVD-Info, as well as reports from the media and social networks. This number includes arrests at anti-war protests and after actions, as well as arrests for anti-war symbols and posts.

14:06

The mayor of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Oleksandr Goncharenko, spoke about the airstrike in the central part of the city. According to him, there are victims.

13:59

A resident of the village of Kievskoye, Krasnodar Territory, Yuri Osokin, was arrested for 15 days. At work, he wore a helmet with the inscription "No war" and a pacifist and left anti-war inscriptions on the walls instead of pro-war ones. About this "OVD-Info" reports with reference to his niece.

Last night, Osokin was detained at work and taken away, for a long time there was no contact with him. Today it became known that the court in Krymsk arrested him under the article on petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

12:59

Sources in law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti about the prevention of a "series of terrorist attacks" in Kherson.

“Terrorists from the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine planned to carry out terrorist acts against the Russian military, as well as one of the leaders of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region,” the agency quotes an anonymous source and indicates that the names of the perpetrators and customers are known.

12:23

The operational command "South" of Ukraine announced the installation of the flag of Ukraine on the island of Serpents, as well as the cleansing of the island.

“The destruction of about 30 units of enemy equipment was confirmed, abandoned ammunition and solid ruins were found, as a familiar trace of the“ Russian world ”,” the says . message

In turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense provided its own version: the department said that that night the Ukrainian military attempted to “symbolically deliver the flag to Zmeiny Island”: “At about 5 am, several Ukrainian servicemen landed on the island from a motor boat, who took pictures with the flag. The aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces immediately launched a strike with high-precision missiles on Zmeiny Island, as a result of which part of the Ukrainian military personnel was destroyed. The rest of the military allegedly fled in the direction of the village of Primorskoye, Odessa region.

On June 30, the Russian Defense Ministry announced its withdrawal from Zmeiny Island as a "goodwill gesture." The island was under the control of the Russian military from the first day of the war. The Ukrainian army regularly attacked him, including on the day of the announcement of the withdrawal of the Russian military from Zmiinoye.

Also today, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian military “involved in the special operation to protect Donbass” will be given the opportunity to relax, receive letters and parcels from home, reports . TASS

10:55

9:43

Two people died in the Kharkiv region over the past day, according to the head of the regional administration Oleg Sinegubov. Another person has been hospitalized.

According to him, one person died in Kharkiv, and another in the Kharkiv region.

9:31

The Russian military is conscripting local residents in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, says Serhiy Gaidai, head of the Lugansk regional administration.

"How does this happen? A man is invited to work, for example, in a water utility, and a few days later he receives a summons instead of the first money. He is called by the “new homeland”,” he writes.

According to Gaidai, Russian troops have not yet reached the border of the region.

9:15

Over the past day, due to shelling by the Russian military, seven civilians in the Donetsk region were killed, writes the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko. Two more people were injured.

The headquarters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic's territorial defense reports seven dead and thirty wounded from shelling by the Ukrainian military over the past 24 hours.

Results of the 133rd day of the war

The head of the Donetsk regional administration Pavel Kirilenko called for the evacuation of more than 350 thousand residents of the region. According to him, this is necessary to save lives and to ensure that the Ukrainian army has the opportunity to defend cities from the onset of the Russian military.

The State Duma adopted a law that equates going over to the side of the enemy during an armed conflict with treason and introduces criminal penalties for "calling for activities directed against the security of the state."

Officers of the FSB of Russia detained two residents of the occupied Kherson, Andrei Serezhenka and Oleg Pronko, on suspicion of participating in the organization of the explosion of the car of the head of the department for the execution of punishments in the Kherson region, Yevgeny Sobolev.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow fined Novaya Gazeta 300,000 rubles in an administrative case on the dissemination of fake news in the media.

Cover photo: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy / Ukrinform / ddp / Vida Press