Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 149

23:03

In the Kherson region, the deputy head of the regional department of the Pension Fund, Sergei Barchuk, and his relatives were kidnapped, his cousin Nadezhda Dekhtyarenko claims.

Yesterday afternoon, she wrote that on July 18, unknown people with weapons searched Barchuk's place, after which her brother stopped communicating.

Today, Dekhtyarenko said that the Russian military detained her father Alexei Barchuk, aunt Lydia Podozerskaya, family friend Oleg Samotoy, and Artem Barchuk, the father of her kidnapped brother.

“My brother Serhiy Barchuk <…> saving the valuable private information of our citizens, at the request of the leadership [of the Pension Fund], hid computers in his house that are the property of the Pension Fund of Ukraine,” writes Dekhtyarenko. According to her, after that, Barchuk's relatives decided to move these computers to another place, but in the end they themselves were captured.

“The Russian invaders also stole my father’s private car. For the second day now, my loved ones have been kept in inhuman conditions without food or water. Communication with them is prohibited. There is one answer to all questions - threats with weapons, ”she says.

22:19

As a result of the shelling of Slavyansk, three people were injured, said the head of the Donetsk region Pavel Kirilenko.

Six residential five-story buildings and several private houses were damaged in the city.

17:44

Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement with Turkey and the UN on the export of grain from Ukrainian ports. The implementation of the agreement will be monitored by a joint coordination center.

Ukrayinska Pravda writes that the document refers to the preservation of Ukraine's control over the ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny.

Also, according to the publication, the agreement does not imply the easing of sanctions against Russia. At the same time, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says that restrictions on the export of agricultural products from Russia will be lifted.

17:26

The Anacondaz group announced the cancellation of today's concert in Yekaterinburg at the request of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. What exactly was the reason for this demand is unknown, but the performances of musicians known for their anti-war position have been canceled not for the first time.

The 66.ru edition writes that initially the Pauzern Picnic festival with the participation of the group was supposed to be held at the Teleclub, but yesterday e-ticket buyers received messages about its cancellation. Later, the organizers sent out letters with information about the new venue, but the performance was eventually canceled anyway - the police arrived at the scene.

An E1.ru source confirmed that the concert was canceled at the request of the Interior Ministry for Yekaterinburg. In addition, the organizers received a letter from the city administration.

“Due to the violation of the requirements of the current legislation, as well as the lack of coordination of the specifics of ensuring law and order during the event with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Yekaterinburg, the city administration, within its competence, does not coordinate the holding of the Pauzern Picnic event on July 22, 2022,” the mayor’s office said in a letter.

16:27

A resident of Kazan Zulfiya Sitdikova, who came to the concert of Oleg Gazmanov in a jacket with the inscription No War, was fined 40 thousand rubles, reports . Idel.Realii

Her lawyer, Rim Sabirov, clarified that the Novo-Savinovsky District Court found Sitdikova guilty of “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Sitdikova was detained at a concert timed to coincide with the Day of Russia on June 14 and released after a protocol was drawn up. On July 6, she was summoned to the police department to return her sweater, but in the end she was detained - this time a report of disobedience to the police was put on Sitdikova. The court then arrested the girl for five days.

Singer Oleg Gazmanov supports the war in Ukraine.

16:07

The FSB reported on the detention of a Russian who was allegedly going to fight on the side of Ukraine, TASS reports .

The press service of the FSB department for Crimea said that they detained a resident of St. Petersburg, who was going to illegally cross the border with Ukraine "to join an illegal armed formation on the territory of Ukraine." TASS reports that the detainee "maintained contact with militants of Ukrainian national formations and planned to join them to participate in illegal actions, including sabotage and terrorist activities" against Russian military and civilians.

15:57

Deputy Helga Pirogova, against whom a criminal case was opened today about “fake news” about the army, was summoned to the investigative committee on Monday, July 25, reports . OVD-Info

15:39

Pskov-based environmental activist Igor Batov was fined 30,000 rubles for “discrediting” the army because of an anti-war profile picture and a post on VKontakte. about this Writes "Pskov province".

On the avatar of Batov, the crossed-out word "War" is depicted. The post mentioned in the protocol contains a photograph of a military ID of a soldier who refused to participate in the war, and Batov’s comment: “I am now retired, but all my life I have been the head of large enterprises. I would take such a person to the staff, without even thinking about qualifications - this person is decent and honest. And that's the main thing."

13:58

Vyacheslav Prokofiev, deputy head of the administration of the Plyussky district of the Pskov region, was fired because he volunteered for the Donbass on his vacation. He himself spoke about this on social networks.

Prokofiev was offered a transition to positions that did not imply the admission of secrecy: the chief specialist of the committee on economic development and property relations of the administration for a quarter of the rate or the executive secretary of the commission for minors and the protection of their rights, also for a quarter of the rate.

“The removal of me from my post is connected with the deprivation of security clearance, and this happened due to the fact that when I volunteered for the Donbass on my vacation, I did not inform the head of the district. I had good reasons for making such a decision, ”wrote Prokofiev.

On April 12, the fact that he had left for the Donbass became known from an NTV story. Fontanka, without naming a source, writes that “the local FSB service had questions,” and in June Prokofiev, who has access to state secrets, was fined a thousand rubles for not reporting his departure abroad.

12:22

against MP Helga Pirogova for “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). has been opened A criminal case

“It has been preliminary established that on July 15, 2022, Helga Pirogova, a deputy of the Council of Deputies of the city of Novosibirsk, published in one of the social networks, under the guise of a reliable message, deliberately false information containing data on the use of the Russian Armed Forces,” the investigation said.

"Taiga.Info" reported that Pirogova is now in her fourth month of pregnancy.

On July 15, the deputy commented on Twitter on Mediazona’s publication about volunteers in Ukraine: “It’s simply inexpressible, I want to revive them all, hit them hard on the cheeks and let them go back to the graves. And it’s in vain that they arranged such a luxurious funeral. ” She later deleted the tweet and apologized for it.

12:11

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on the destruction of the “temporary deployment point of the Black Hundred nationalist formation deployed in the building of school No. 23 in the city of Kramatorsk.” The department said that "up to three hundred nationalists" were killed.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported that after the shelling of the school, the bodies of three people were pulled out from under the rubble.

11:33

In the self-proclaimed DPR, Google was blocked due to “pressure from the West and Ukraine,” reports the head of the republic, Denis Pushilin.

According to him, Google "openly promotes terrorism and violence against all Russians and especially the population of Donbass on the orders of their handlers from the US government."

11:24

The head of the ICR, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to “immediately initiate a criminal case” after checking the comments of the deputy Helga Pirogova, under which article it was not reported.

Yesterday, a protocol was drawn up against Pirogova on the “discrediting” of the Russian army. According to her, the reason was a tweet about Russian volunteers who died in Ukraine: “It is simply inexpressible, I want to revive them all, hit them hard on the cheeks and let them go back to the graves. And it’s in vain that they arranged such a luxurious funeral. ” Pro-government deputies of Novosibirsk and the region complained about her for her statement, and the governor of the region promised an “assessment” by law enforcement agencies. Pirogova herself previously deleted the tweet and apologized for it.

10:59

Sister Magdalene from the Church of St. Louis of France said that the rector of the church, Father Vyacheslav Gorokhov, at the request of the police, wrote an explanatory note for them, not a statement, the reports Vot so project . It follows from the protocol that this was precisely the statement.

Yesterday it became known that pensioner Galina Borisova was charged with “discrediting” the army because she hung a note “No bellum” (“No war” in Latin) on the Russian flag in the Church of St. Louis of France. One of the nuns took it off. From the cameras, the police found out who exactly hung the note, and came to the rector Gorokhov. From the protocol (Holod has it) it follows that he wrote an application for a pensioner.

“I am the same sister nun who took off the note, tore it up and threw it away. But at least 50 people who had already gathered for mass could see her. By the evening of the same day, they came to the rector of the temple, Father Vyacheslav, on someone’s denunciation with an already open case, ”Sister Magdalena told reporters.

According to her, the police “seized the data from the cameras, rummaged through the trash and found a torn note, asked (Gorokhov. - approx. Kholod) to write an explanatory note, since the event took place in the temple in which he is the rector.”

Pensioner Borisova said yesterday that Gorokhov was "forced" to write a statement.

9:53

BBC Russian Service and Mediazona journalists have confirmed the deaths of 4,940 Russian soldiers since the start of the war in Ukraine. 852 of them are officers.

Over the past two weeks, more than 80 officers have died, including 10 colonels.

The collected data is not the exact number of losses of the Russian army, but only confirmed cases of military deaths. Journalists note that their list of casualties "may contain at least half as many names of the dead as actually buried in Russia."

9:24

Philip Morris, owner of the Marlboro and Parliament brands, plans to leave Russia by the end of the year, reports . Bloomberg

Results of the 148th day of the war

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office explained the ban on calling the Russian invasion of Ukraine a war by the fact that during the war the country declares mobilization and imposes a curfew.

As a result of the morning shelling of Kharkov, three people were killed. 23 people were injured.

The European Union imposed sanctions against actors Sergei Bezrukov and Vladimir Mashkov, State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov and head of the occupation administration of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky.

The Ukrainian "Energoatom" claims that the Russian military placed military equipment, explosives and weapons in one of the halls of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

A protocol was drawn up against the 72-year-old Muscovite Galina Borisova on the “discrediting” of the army. She attached a note "No bellum" ("No war" in Latin) to the Russian flag in the Church of St. Louis of France.

The death toll during the shelling of Vinnitsa has risen to 26 people. 20-year-old Olga Lysenko died in the hospital.

Cover photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix