Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 139

00:14

The pro-Russian agency "Luganskinformtsentr" reports that several explosions have taken place in Lugansk.

RT reports that air defense is working in the city.

23:02

The border village of Belaya Berezka in the Bryansk region was fired from Ukraine, said the governor of the region Alexander Bogomaz.

According to him, about 18 mortar shells were fired at the village. There are no casualties or casualties among the civilian population, Bogomaz added.

22:13

21:37

The reason for the criminal case against politician Ilya Yashin was his live broadcast on YouTube on April 7, in which he spoke about the killings of civilians in Bucha, reports OVD-Info . Project lawyer Mikhail Biryukov represents the interests of Yashin.

"OVD-Info" clarifies that the case was initiated under clause "d" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code - the spread of "fake" stories about the Russian army based on political hatred. According to this composition threatens from five to ten years in a colony.

20:28

Rescuers have already pulled out 45 bodies of the dead from under the rubble of a destroyed high-rise building in Chasovoy Yar, the State Emergency Service reports.

20:19

A resident of Murom was fined for leaving a note "The killer of women and children" on someone else's car, on which the letter Z was pasted, the press reports service of the Murom City Court . The woman also drew an inverted Z on the note.

The court found the woman guilty of "discrediting" the Russian army and fined her 30,000 rubles. She herself pleaded guilty, and in her explanations she wrote that “she knows that this letter in the modern sense is a symbol of a special military operation.”

19:39

The Moscow mayor's office refused to give the deputy the addresses of bomb shelters, since this information is classified as a state secret, follows from the response of Deputy Mayor Pyotr Biryukov to Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Stupin.

The MP was wondering if there were air raid shelters in areas southeast of Moscow, since state media were actively reporting that Russia could use nuclear weapons, and the reaction to this could be a nuclear strike on Moscow.

“In these areas, there are protective structures of civil defense. Generalized information about the addresses of the ZS GO, their number, readiness to receive the sheltered are reflected in the annual reports on the state of civil defense in the city of Moscow, which, in accordance with the requirements of the regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, are classified as information constituting a state secret, ”the deputy mayor said in a response.

The deputy promised to apply to the prosecutor's office so that the department would check the legitimacy of the mayor's office's position.

19:19

Politician Ilya Yashin was charged with spreading fake news about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), lawyer Vadim Prokhorov wrote on his Facebook page.

“Now the investigator called me - a search is beginning at his house. I’m going to the place, ”the lawyer writes.

The case was initiated by the main department of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

At the end of June, Yashin was arrested for 15 days in an administrative case of disobedience to the police; as the lawyer specified to Mediazone, the politician was to be released on the night of July 13.

In April, another politician, Vladimir Kara-Murza, was first arrested for 15 days under an article of disobedience, and while in a special detention center, was opened a case of "fake news" against him. Now he is in jail.

19:16

187 residents of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region sought medical help after yesterday's strike on the city, told TASS. Vladimir Leontiev, head of the occupation administration of the Kakhovka district,

Also, according to him , 271 people reported damage or destruction of their homes.

According to the occupying authorities, the night before, the Ukrainian military attacked Novaya Kakhovka, resulting in an explosion in warehouses with mineral fertilizers. Ukrainian authorities claim that the attack was on a Russian ammunition depot.

18:56

Thirty percent of participants in a closed-ended VTsIOM poll commissioned by the Russian presidential administration in late June said that "the fighting in Ukraine must be stopped as soon as possible," writes Meduza, who obtained the results of the poll . The presentation with the same figures was seen by a source close to the AP.

Meduza elaborates that respondents were asked the following question: “Some people say that the fighting in Ukraine needs to be stopped as soon as possible. Others believe that the fighting should not be stopped now. Which point of view is closer to you - the first or the second. 57% of respondents agreed with the second position - the war must be continued. 13% found it difficult to answer the question.

It is not known how many people were interviewed.

The same poll showed that in the 18-24 age group, 56% were in favor of ending the war, and 19% were in favor of continuing. In the group aged 25-34, 43% are in favor of ending the war and 41% are in favor of continuing it.

“In general, the older the respondents, the more they support the war. For example, among respondents over 60 years old, 72% of respondents were in favor of continuing the invasion, ”the newspaper notes.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, 40% of respondents were against the war, and 48% were in favor of its continuation. In other Russian cities with a million population, 62% of respondents supported the continuation of the war.

Of the “active Internet users”, 47% were against the war, and 35% were in favor of its continuation. At the same time, among the surveyed TV viewers, 22% are against and 68% are in favor.

In June, VTsIOM reported on the results of an open poll, indicating that 72% of Russians “rather support the decision to conduct a special operation,” while 17% “rather do not support it.”

18:35

The death toll from a strike on a high-rise building in the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region has increased to 43 people, according to the regional department of the State Emergency Service.

Debris clearing has not yet been completed.

18:11

The Pechora District Court of the Pskov Region fined Lyubov Zhiltsova, a 61-year-old mathematics teacher and district deputy, 30,000 rubles for a photo with a “No to War” poster, reports . Sever.Realii

The court recognized this as "discrediting" the Russian army.

In May, the same court closed the case, considering that there was no offense in Zhiltsova's actions. However, in June the regional court overturned this decision and sent the case back for a new trial.

“I could not be silent, I was burning. We have always said that the events of 1941-1945 should not be repeated. Grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought for world peace, so that blood would never be shed again. When schoolchildren had conflicts, I always told them: "Dear comrades, we differ from animals in that we can agree on any issue." And now? People are dying, guns are firing, but we are told that this is not a war. How is that?" her The teacher explained position.

18:01

Three Astrakhan residents were killed during the shelling of a volunteer center in the Shakhtyorsky district of the Donetsk region, controlled by pro-Russian forces, said the governor of the Astrakhan region, Igor Babushkin.

“The guys were there on a peaceful mission and were engaged in the distribution of humanitarian aid,” Babushkin writes on his channel.

As a result of the shelling, 11 people were also injured, and search work is underway on four.

17:31

As a result of today's shelling of the Industrial and Nemyshlyansky districts of Kharkiv, five people were injured, said the head of the Kharkiv region Oleg Sinegubov.

All victims are in a state of moderate severity.

17:19

A complaint to the Investigative Committee against the Moscow municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov, who condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was written by Phillip Lasota, Master of Financial Engineering at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, writes Mediazona. explained his actions The HSE graduate by saying that “two great-grandfathers fought” with him.

The verdict, published by the deputy's supporters, provides a retelling of the testimony of Lasota, who was a prosecution witness in the case. During interrogation in court, he said that he decided to complain about the deputy after seeing a video of a meeting of the council of deputies, at which Gorinov proposed to cancel the competition of children's drawings because of its inappropriateness during the war in Ukraine, because of which children die every day.

“After watching this video, he independently filed statements through the Internet reception at the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, because this video offended him, hurt him, he felt injustice, he had two great-grandfathers who fought against fascism, and therefore he believes that it is wrong to name the country that fought and is fighting against fascism, ”the verdict says.

Last week, a court sentenced Gorinov to seven years in prison for calling the events in Ukraine a war and talking about the deaths of children because of the war.

16:01

In April-June, the number of advertisements on Russian federal TV channels decreased by a quarter, RBC reports , citing specialists from the Rodnaya Speech advertising group.

The number of advertisers on the air of 25 federal channels and TV networks decreased by 25%. 229 advertisers who were present on television last year left the air, they were replaced by 120 new ones.

Many multinational companies that were customers of television advertising left Russia due to the war in Ukraine and sanctions.

15:52

The Russian military shelled the Industrial district of Kharkov, said the head of the Kharkov regional administration Oleg Sinegubov.

are reported Four casualties . They were hospitalized with moderate injuries.

15:47

From under the rubble of a residential five-story building in the city of Chasov Yar, 38 bodies of the dead were recovered, reports the department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine for the Donetsk region . Among the dead was a nine-year-old boy.

Debris clearing is still ongoing.

15:38

Activist and documentary filmmaker Vsevolod Korolyov was charged with “fake news” about the Russian army (paragraph “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by Network Freedom.

In St. Petersburg this morning, searches were carried out at Korolyov's place, after which he was taken to the department of the investigative committee. The investigator intends to ask the court for a measure of restraint in the form of detention.

According to the investigation, Korolev, using VKontakte, spread "false information" about the actions of the Russian military in Borodianka, Bucha and Donetsk.

"Network Freedoms" note that this is the seventieth criminal case under the article about "fakes" about the army.

15:21

Russians standing at the labor exchange are offered to conclude a contract and go to war in Ukraine, they write Important Stories.

This was reported to journalists by a person registered at the employment center in Tatarstan, his name is not known. According to him, eight more people were summoned to the employment center along with him and informally offered to conclude a contract and sign a non-disclosure paper.

“An aged man is sitting in the office and pushing me a piece of paper - an agreement on non-disclosure of military secrets: I must sign that I will not tell (about the conversation) and that it was explained to me what the consequences will be. I began to ask what the consequences are, whether criminal liability is envisaged. “The FSB is doing this, and we are just issuing warnings,” the man said. And then he said that “it’s no use talking to me at all,” and removed this piece of paper - he allowed me not to sign, ”said the interlocutor of the journalists.

In a conversation, the center’s employees said that the salary would be about 300 thousand, and the battalion was a reserve and would be stationed on Russian territory near the border with Ukraine, but “maybe sometimes you have to go to the territory of Ukraine.”

In the employment center, "Important Stories" was told that the contract can only be concluded through the military registration and enlistment office.

14:47

The National Police of Ukraine is investigating more than 900 cases of collaborationism.

“Among the most common manifestations of such activities are assistance to the Russian army, the dissemination of Russian propaganda, voluntary participation in the occupation “authorities,” the ministry said in a statement.

163 people have already been prosecuted. Most of the suspects are in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

13:58

Ukrainian intelligence reported the release of five Ukrainians from Russian captivity.

Among them - one military man, a former policeman and three civilians. They managed to be released “during a special operation” on the territory of the Kherson region occupied by the Russian military.

12:25

Since the beginning of the war, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has received 43 refusals to extradite from Europe, writes , citing the department. Kommersant

The interaction of the Prosecutor General's Office with most European countries on extradition issues has "virtually come to naught" since the beginning of the war. The extradition of the accused did not take place even in cases where the decision on it had already been made, and the only thing left to do was to put the accused on a plane. 43 refusals between March and May 2022, three times more than in the same period last year.

In most cases, the reasons for the refusal were the contradiction of extradition with the legal principles of that country or the lack of confidence in the observance of the rights of the requested persons. In the Czech Republic, the court explained the refusal to extradite the accused of theft by "a change in circumstances after Russia's invasion of Ukraine." In response to refusals to extradite, the Prosecutor General's Office accuses Europe of "deliberate politicization."

12:07

Suspects of beating a Russian military man with the letter Z on their clothes were detained in Crimea, said . Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of Crimea,

“Now law enforcement agencies are working with them,” he wrote. It is not yet clear what exactly the detainees are charged with.

The beating of a Russian military man by three young men became known yesterday. The authorities reported that the military was undergoing rehabilitation in a sanatorium in the city of Sudak in Crimea after being wounded in Ukraine. At the time of the beating, he was in civilian clothes with the letter Z.

Later, the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Crimea said that there were no people with identifying marks among the participants in the conflict and asked to verify the authenticity of the facts: “There were no identifying marks on clothes that could identify whether any of the participants in the incident belonged to the military personnel.”

Updated at 16:02. Added information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea.

11:55

The European Union has approved another package of financial assistance to Ukraine.

“The EU is stepping up financial support for Ukraine: ministers have just approved a loan of 1 billion euros,” wrote European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis.

11:03

The Lush cosmetics chain is leaving Russia — the owner of the brand has not been able to arrange supplies to the country, writes Kommersant with reference to retail real estate market consultants. A newspaper source close to Russia's Lush confirmed to reporters that the company is in the process of liquidation.

The network owner plans to temporarily keep only the online store and sell stock through it.

10:56

An activist from Nizhny Novgorod, Aleksey Podnebesny, was found guilty under an article about discrediting the army because he quoted the word "special operation", reports . SOTA

A court in Nizhny Novgorod fined the Celestial Empire 30,000 rubles under the article on discredit (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a post on VKontakte about the problems of urban water supply.

“Calculate how much one day of the “special operation” costs, I think it would be enough to equip all such houses in the city with hot water supply,” Podnebesny wrote.

The court considered that the quotation marks testify "to the ironic, opposite, disparaging meaning of this word."

10:09

The head of the occupation administration of Nova Kakhovka, Volodymyr Leontiev, spoke about at least seven dead civilians after the strike by the Ukrainian military, reports . Interfax

He claims that hundreds of civilian objects were damaged. “I can’t list everything – there are hundreds of objects. From churches to factories. The building of the plant, buildings serving the infrastructure of the hydroelectric power station, residential buildings, wholesale depots, shops, gas stations. Everything that is in a normal ordinary city, all this has suffered, ”Leontiev said. The analysis of the rubble, according to him, continues, under them there are a large number of people.

According to Ukraine, the blow was inflicted on the Russian ammunition depot.

9:43

This morning Nikolaev was subjected to rocket fire, 12 people were injured, writes the head of the Nikolaev regional administration Vitaly Kim.

According to him, the blows fell on two medical institutions and residential buildings. According to the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko, cluster munitions were used, a lyceum and a hospital were destroyed.

Updated at 10:50 and 10:55. The number of victims has been updated, Tymoshenko's information has been added.

9:09

The death toll from the strike on a residential five-story building in Chasovoy Yar has risen to 34, one of them is a boy of about nine years old. This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine for the Donetsk region. Work continues, from the rubble got nine victims.

Results of the 138th day of the war

The Ukrainian military attacked Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region, which is under the control of the Russian military. The occupation administration reported that a warehouse with saltpeter caught fire, there were victims, a hospital and residential buildings were damaged, Ukrainian troops were talking about the destruction of a warehouse with ammunition.

The Russian military attacked the town of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region. More than 30 people died due to a hit on a residential five-story building. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the “temporary deployment point of the 118th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” was destroyed, and “300 nationalists” were killed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree introducing a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for all citizens of Ukraine.

Roskomsvoboda calculated that 5,300 sites were blocked in Russia due to military censorship.

Yevgeny Yunakov, head of the Kharkiv village of Veliky Burluk, who collaborated with Russian forces, was killed when his car was blown up. The occupation administration called the incident a "planned terrorist attack" organized by "fascists who sit in the Ukrainian government."

Founder of Hromadske Radio and human rights activist Maxim Butkevich was captured by Russian soldiers near the cities of Zolote and Horske, Luhansk region, which are occupied by Russia. Since March, he served in the Ukrainian army.

Prosecutor of Yekaterinburg Svetlana Kuznetsova demands from the City Duma to deprive Aleksey Kholodarev of his deputy status for criticizing Russia's actions in Ukraine and "discrediting" the army.

Cover photo: Narciso Contreras / Anadolu Agency / ddp / Vida Press