Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 146

Russian military shelled Kramatorsk and damaged residential buildings. One person was killed, six were injured.

23:32

23:26

The occupation administration of the Kherson region reported an attempt to set fire to the passport office.

The administration claims that employees of the Russian Guard “prevented a terrorist attack” in Kherson: “Soldiers ensuring the security of the facility detained a man who intended to set fire to the building using a Molotov cocktail.”

Russian passports have been issued in the occupied territory of the Kherson region since June.

22:14

Today, the Russian military shelled the Sumy region nine times, two people were wounded, said the head of the regional administration Dmitry Zhivitsky.

21:59

A protocol was drawn up against deputy Leonid Vasyukevich about “discrediting” the army, Kommersant writes . In May, he spoke at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of Primorye with a demand to withdraw troops from Ukraine.

On July 20, the Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok will begin to consider an administrative case about “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Primorye from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vasyukevich said that a report was drawn up against him because of a speech at which he condemned the war in Ukraine. “I do not agree with such conclusions, I will insist on an acquittal. My words did not discredit the armed forces,” the deputy said.

In May, at a meeting of the legislative assembly, Vasyukevich read an appeal from a group of four deputies to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding the immediate withdrawal of troops from Ukraine. They tried to interrupt his speech, but Vasyukevich managed to read out the demand. “We understand that if our country does not stop the military operation, there will be even more orphans in our country,” the deputy said, among other things.

Deputy Gennady Shulga, who supported Vasyukevich, as well as Vasyukevich himself, were expelled from the Communist Party faction.

19:58

As a result of the shelling of the center of Kramatorsk, one person was killed and six were injured. The Donetsk regional administration reports this.

According to preliminary information, the Russian military fired aircraft missiles at the city. Ten high-rise buildings were damaged.

18:49

A resident of Gostomel, Kiev region, Yuri, using geolocation, found out that his AirPods headphones are in Ulyanovsk. He told Mediazona about this.

On the morning of February 24, at the very beginning of the war, Yuri (his last name is not given) and his family left Gostomel. In the residential complex “On Proreznoy” in Gostomel, where Yuri has an apartment, according to him, lived Russian military personnel and about 30 Ukrainians who remained at home.

In mid-April, after the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kyiv region, Yuri returned to his apartment in Gostomel. According to him, the Russian military “rummaged through everything, looked into every little box,” and also stole two laptops, headphones, VR glasses, bathroom scales, PlayStation, alcohol, coffee beans, a portable speaker, flash cards, batteries from children’s toys and dishes “They even took my wife’s womanizer. For what?" - says Yuri.

According to him, the missing AirPods were discovered in Ulyanovsk, on Festivalny Boulevard, 13, where a nine-story residential building is located. Headphone geolocation has not been updated since June 10.

Yuri asked his parents living in Crimea to write a statement to the police. “The response was a refusal to initiate a criminal case, saying, ‘the case was on the territory of another state, so it is impossible to establish the circumstances,’” he said.

17:39

Today, the Russian military shelled the Dnepropetrovsk region twice, reports the head of the regional administration Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, there were no injuries or deaths.

In Nikopol, a recreation center came under fire. In Zelenodolsk, a tractor brigade was damaged; agricultural equipment and premises were damaged.

15:59

A criminal case has been opened in Moscow over anti-war inscriptions left with a felt-tip pen in the area of ​​the Timiryazevskaya metro station, OVD-Info reports .

With a search in this case, which was opened under an article of vandalism, they came to Muscovite Nikita Kamensky, said his lawyer Alan Kachmazov. The Muscovite was interrogated as a suspect.

Kamensky’s wife clarified that he was detained on July 8, and the search took place on July 12. In addition, administrative protocols were drawn up against him for “discrediting” the Russian army and petty hooliganism.

15:51

In Belgorod, the Oktyabrsky District Court fined Tatyana Novikova, a former employee of Belgorod State University, for comments on social networks about the war in Ukraine, Interfax reports .

Novikova was fined 30 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army.

In July, after anti-war statements on social networks, she was fired from the university, where she taught at the department of Russian language and Russian literature.

13:42

The head of the Donetsk region, Pavel Kirilenko, reports shelling of the center of Kramatorsk, which resulted in the death of at least one person.

According to preliminary information, the shelling was carried out by aircraft missiles. A fire started in a residential building.

This morning, the mayor of Kramatorsk, Alexander Goncharenko , reported on missile attacks on enterprises in the city.

12:45

The bodies of dead military personnel were exchanged in the Zaporozhye region, according to the Ministry for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine and a member of the occupation administration of the region, Vladimir Rogov .

Each side handed over 45 dead to the other.

12:34

The Verkhovna Rada dismissed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov, who was previously removed from office by President Vladimir Zelensky, Ukrinform reports .

“Not everything planned was completed. There were also miscalculations, the reasons for which should be analyzed separately. At the same time, it should be remembered that it is difficult to change a system in a few years that has been under the influence of a strong and insidious enemy with unlimited resources for decades,” Bakanov said in his address in connection with his resignation.

Later, the Rada also voted for the dismissal of Irina Venediktova from the post of Prosecutor General.

Ivan Bakanov became the head of the SBU in the spring of 2019, and Venediktova headed the Prosecutor General’s Office in the spring of 2020. The day before yesterday Zelensky removed them from their posts. The president explained this decision by the fact that many people suspected of treason and collaboration since the beginning of the war turned out to be Ukrainian security forces and prosecutors.

Updated at 1:13 p.m. Added information about Venediktova's resignation.

11:28

Another border village in the Bryansk region was shelled this morning from the Ukrainian side, writes regional governor Alexander Bogomaz in his Telegram channel.

According to him, the village of Lomakovka was shelled from artillery. No one was hurt, but there was external damage to objects at the automobile checkpoint in the village, and one of the shells exploded near a power line, which left Lomakovka without electricity.

Before this, the governor said that at about 5 a.m. the village of Novye Yurkovichi was shelled. There were no casualties there either.

10:53

The number of people killed as a result of the shelling of Vinnitsa on July 14 increased to 25 people.

Today, neurologist Natalya Falshtinskaya, who was seeing patients at the Neuromed clinic during the attacks, died in the hospital,” said the head of the region, Sergei Borzov.

The woman is survived by three children.

“Cold” told the story of Irina Dmitrieva and her four-year-old daughter Lisa, who died during the shelling of Vinnitsa.

10:45

The head of the Bryansk region spoke about a new shelling of a border village.

10:14

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon on the wanted list, as follows from the search database .

In March, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Gordon under articles about “fakes” about the Russian army, inciting hatred and calls for unleashing an aggressive war.

09:50

The Prosecutor General's Office of the unrecognized DPR claims that the Mariupol Drama Theater, in which civilians were hiding, was blown up from the inside, and at the site of the explosion the remains of only 14 dead were found, RIA Novosti reports . Ukrainian authorities and journalists insist that there were hundreds of dead and that the strike was carried out by Russian aircraft.

The head of the investigation department of the DPR Prosecutor General's Office, Alexey Kutsurubenko, assures that civilians left the theater before the explosion and only Ukrainian soldiers were inside, who had set up firing positions there.

He also says that when clearing the rubble, “not a single destructive element, not a single part or element of an aerial bomb or any other ammunition” was found, and the building was blown up from the inside by a “shellless explosive device.”

Ukrainian authorities previously reported 300 dead. The Associated Press in its investigation concluded that about 600 people were killed, and in total there were approximately 1,200 people in the building at the time of the strike. Several witnesses to the strike told the AP they heard military aircraft in the area of ​​the theater. Munitions experts also say the scale of the destruction points to the use of a 500-kilogram bomb from a Russian military aircraft.

Mariupol is now occupied by the Russian military. There was no information about the participation of independent specialists in the investigation of the strike directly in the city and the removal of rubble.

09:33

A five-month-old child was injured as a result of night shelling in the Odessa region, reports the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

In total, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 353 children have been killed and more than 676 children have been injured.

09:30

Over the past 24 hours in the Kharkov region, five civilians were injured and a 75-year-old man died, said the head of the region Oleg Sinegubov.

The settlements of the Kharkov, Bogodukhovsky, Chuguevsky and Izyumsky districts of the region were under shelling.

09:00

The Russian military fired up to 40 rockets at Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region that night, says the head of the region, Valentin Reznichenko.

There is destruction at two industrial enterprises, and fires have started there due to explosions. Operational Command “South” clarifies that one of the strikes was carried out on a warehouse with fuels and lubricants of a private enterprise. Several private homes and electrical networks were also damaged.

According to the head of the Dnepropetrovsk region, no one was injured. At the same time, the Ukrainian military reports one wounded civilian.

Yesterday Reznichenko said that more than 60 shells were fired at the city overnight.

08:42

In the Odessa region, as a result of a night shelling of a village, six people were injured, including a child, Suspilne Odessa reports with reference to the operational command “South”.

According to the Ukrainian military, the Russian army fired seven Kalibr-type cruise missiles from the Black Sea. The Ukrainians managed to shoot down only one missile.

As a result of the shelling, three private houses caught fire, and a school and a community center were also damaged.

Results of the 145th day of the war

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky explained the removal of the Prosecutor General and the head of the SBU by the large number of cases of treason and collaboration in which Ukrainian security forces and prosecutors are suspected.

Human rights activist Pavel Chikov said that more than 200 people in Russia are suspected or accused in criminal cases due to anti-war protests.

In Yekaterinburg, activist Nadezhda Sayfutdinova took the stage at a United Russia rally in support of the “special operation” and began chanting “No to war.” She was detained, and the department drew up a report against her about “discrediting” the Russian army.

H&M is finally leaving Russia.

Cover photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix