Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 151

19:12

In Moscow, activists laid flowers at the "Wall of Sorrow" - a monument to the victims of Stalin's repressions in the park at the intersection of Sakharov Avenue and the Garden Ring. "This is a protest for the freedom of all political prisoners and against the war that Vladimir Putin unleashed with his own hand," explained the organizers of the action . One of the girls had a poster in her hands with the inscription "We must save the world not with blood, but with friendship and love."

Soon, activists of the pro-Kremlin movements SERB and NOD appeared at the memorial, and a dispute about a “special operation” ensued. Then the police arrived at the square and began to arrest. According to OVD-info, seven people were detained at the rally, including one SERB member. At the moment, everyone, except for the minor Maxim Lypkan, has been released, he was sent to the temporary detention center for minors in Otradnoye. According to Activatika , he became ill there and had to call an ambulance.

17:49

In less than a month, Poland collected 22.5 million zlotys (about 5 million euros) for the Turkish Bayraktar strike drone for the Ukrainian army. This was announced by the organizer of the campaign, Polish journalist Slavomir Serakovsky. More than 200 thousand people took part in the action. During the gathering, the journalist noted that famous people supported the campaign, including Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, Ukrainian singer Jamala, Polish supermodel Anya Rubik, Belarusian politician Pavel Latushko and others.

Earlier, the collection of money for "bayraktar" for the Armed Forces of Ukraine was held in Lithuania. On July 7, the Lithuanians handed over the drone to the Ukrainian army.

13:58

Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich published photos of the destruction caused by yesterday's and morning's shelling of the city. A school was destroyed in the Ship District, private houses and high-rise buildings were damaged. Five people are injured.

12:18

Belarusian Ales Chaychits said that Stepan Bandera's grave was desecrated in Munich yesterday.

12:01

The Politico edition told the details of the death of two Americans in the Donbass, which became known yesterday. Luke "Skywalker" Lyutsyshyn and Brian Young fought as part of the Ukrainian Terodefense unit based in the Seversk region. According to their commander, Ruslan Miroshnichenko, on July 18, the Americans fell into a tank ambush. Together with them, Canadian Emile-Antoine Roy-Sirois and Swedish citizen Edward Selander Patrignani were killed.

11:35

According to the head of the Donetsk region Pavel Kirilenko, in the Ukrainian-controlled Konstantinovka and Bakhmut, Russian shelling destroyed two more schools at night.

From the self-proclaimed LNR and DNR late on Saturday evening and at night, there were reports of shelling of Gorlovka, Krasny Luch and Donetsk. In Gorlovka, explosions damaged the workshops of the Mashzavod, Donetsk publics reported in Krasny Luch about the shelling of the city with incendiary ammunition, and the hotel of the same name was damaged .

10:36

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed that Russia had attacked the port of Odessa on Saturday. The missiles “destroyed a military infrastructure facility,” Zakharova said, responding to the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the impossibility of dialogue with Russia after such shelling. According to Zakharova, the Russian military sent a “Ukrainian military boat to the address beloved by the Kyiv regime” with a “precision strike”.

Updated at 13:29. Later, the Saturday shelling of Odessa was confirmed by the Russian military department. According to Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, a Ukrainian warship in the dock and a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles were destroyed on the territory of the shipyard.

10:34

Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has demanded that the website of NO magazine, a Novaya Gazeta project, be blocked just a week after it was launched. Roskomnadzor has already begun to restrict access to the site. According to the editors of NO, which received yesterday a letter from the RKN, the reason for blocking the publication was the "discredit" of the Russian army. What exactly it was, the regulator did not explain.

10:16

Ukraine's allies intend to provide it with 25-30 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), told Radio Liberty. Adam Smith, head of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee,

According to him, we are talking about American HIMARS systems, as well as some MLRS from the UK and other countries. “Assembling and providing 50 or 60 installations will be difficult, but we want to reach the figure of 25 or 30 and provide as many artillery and missiles for these systems as possible,” Smith said, commenting on the words of Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. Earlier, he said that Ukraine needs 50-60 for a successful defense, and 100 HIMARS installations and its British counterpart M270 for an offensive.

Since receiving the first HIMARS sets a month ago, the Ukrainian army has managed to destroy a large number of Russian ammunition depots with their help. This made it possible to compensate for the Russian advantage in artillery and possibly delayed a new offensive by Russian forces. This week it was reported about the delivery of four more HIMARS units to Ukraine. Now their number at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will reach 16. In addition, on July 15, Reznikov announced that the first batch of M270 MLRS had arrived in Ukraine. The Russian military has already twice announced the destruction of the Hymars, but no indisputable evidence of this has been provided.

9:32

On Saturday evening, the Permian police disrupted the concert of Anacondaz. She is included in the unspoken stop list of performers with an anti-war position. Previously, their concerts were canceled in Moscow and Yekaterinburg . In Perm, Anacondaz tried to circumvent the ban by performing without a name. However, shortly after the performance began, three dozen police officers arrived at the concert venue. The musicians managed to perform only a few songs. In the near future, Anacondaz has announced concerts in Moscow, Ryazan and Murmansk.

Results of the 150th day of the war

On Saturday morning, the Ukrainian military reported a new Russian shelling of Odessa. This happened less than a day after the signing in Istanbul of agreements on the export of grain, including from the port of Odessa. According to the Ukrainian command, two "Caliber" managed to shoot down, two more fell in the port, a fire started. The granaries were not damaged.

The missile attack was condemned by the UN, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and some Western diplomats. Many of them expressed doubts about the negotiability of the Russian Federation. Russian officials have not yet commented on the situation, but Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Russian colleagues assured him over the phone that they had nothing to do with the shelling. Ukraine intends to continue preparations for the export of agricultural products.

In the rest of Ukraine, rocket attacks and artillery duels between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops continued. Russia fired more than a dozen missiles at the Kropyvnytskyi district of the Kirovograd region. At least three people died there, and the military airfield and railway infrastructure were damaged. The Armed Forces of Ukraine targeted the bridge across the Ingulets River, continuing to isolate the Russian group in Kherson. Explosions were also reported in the evening in pro-Russian-controlled Horlivka.

The occupying authorities create election commissions in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to hold referendums on joining the Russian Federation.

Global Internet services — Google, YouTube, Viber and Facebook — continue to be blocked in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Infographics of Kholod about what and where have already been blocked.

Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky accused VGTRK correspondent Oleksandr Sladkov of knocking down a man to death in the occupied territory of the Luhansk region. Sladkov denies the allegations.

Cover photo: Alex Chan Tsz Yuk / SOPA Images / ZUMA Press Wire / Scanpix