Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 159

23:31

The head of the military administration of Krivoy Rog, Oleksandr Vilkul, announced that the Russian military had shot down a minibus with civilians who were trying to leave the village of Staroselye for the territory controlled by Ukraine. According to him, this happened near the village of Dolgovoe - the Russian military fired an anti-tank guided missile at them.

Two people died, five were evacuated to a hospital in Krivoy Rog, Vilkul said.

22:45

US President Joe Biden signed another (17th since August 2021) decree on the allocation of military equipment to Ukraine from the Pentagon's stocks.

As part of this $550 million aid package, Ukraine will receive, among other things, additional ammunition for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and 75,000 rounds for 155mm guns.

22:13

State Duma deputy from United Russia Roman Teryushkov wrote a denunciation of the blogger and president of the KraSava football club Yevgeny Savin.

“He talked about 2 articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” Teryushkov wrote in his telegram under a scanned response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The letter from the police said that the videos on Savin's channel, indicated by Teryushkov, fall under the article about "discrediting" the army and under the article about "fake" about it. The results of the check were submitted to the Investigative Committee for a decision to initiate a criminal case.

on his channel In April, Savin published a video in which he himself opposed the war and gave the floor to Ukrainian football players. After the publication of this issue, Savin left Russia.

21:32

According to the preliminary conclusions of experts, the attack on the colony in Yelenovka was delivered by a thermobaric weapon, “which is used by the aggressor country,” told Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin reporters. This is confirmed by the information that the pre-trial investigation bodies are now working on under the guidance of prosecutors, he said.

21:06

Russia is ready to hand over the bodies of Ukrainian prisoners of war who died in Yelenovka, but only after the end of the investigation, said Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets . At the same time, the Russian side did not specify to him how long it would take for the investigation.

Earlier on Monday, the UN confirmed that they were considering requests to investigate the deaths of prisoners in Yelenovka, received from Russia and Ukraine.

20:52

The new Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, ordered to check the employees of the department from the front-line regions of the country for collaborationism, reports . TSN

Kostin said that in recent months a message of suspicion was sent to five prosecutors and three civil servants, more than 600 prosecutors who crossed the border are being checked. Employees of all law enforcement agencies and local government officials will be checked.

20:21

The publication of the press service of French President Emmanuel Macron, following his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, refers to the “massacre perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in Yelenovka.”

Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine accused Russia of deliberately shelling a colony where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept. The Russian military, in turn, blame Ukraine for the shelling.

Macron assured Zelensky of his determination not to let these war crimes go unpunished.

19:15

Starting today, Ukrposhta ceases to operate in the occupied territories of the country, announced . its general director Igor Smelyansky

This means, among other things, the cessation of issuing pensions and accepting payments for utilities.

Smelyansky explained that the threat to the lives of employees is too great, there is a danger of robberies by "a collection of thieves and a gang of beggars," as he described the Russian military and various pro-Russian formations. He also stated that the occupying authorities do not allow Ukrposhta to deliver pensions and are trying to blackmail pensioners through the issue of pensions in order to get their votes in the upcoming "referenda".

18:05

The Russian military, who decided to terminate the contract with the Ministry of Defense and ended up behind bars in the self-proclaimed LNR because of this, turned to the Investigative Committee, lawyer Pavel Chikov reports . We are talking about about 140 military personnel.

They are asking to conduct an audit and to prosecute the commanders who have exceeded their official powers.

According to the soldiers, their belongings and documents were taken away from them, they are kept “in a room with barred windows and an iron door” without basic amenities. No charges were brought against them.

16:46

Ukraine can and will return the territories occupied by Russia by military means, said Alexei Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. “First, the destruction of the occupiers, then diplomacy. The only language the rashists understand,” he tweeted.

16:34

Ukraine has received new batches of long-range weapons, said Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov . Namely, four more installations of the American MLRS HIMARS and its analogue MARS II from Germany.

Earlier on Monday, the Russian military announced the destruction of two HIMARS installations, this time in Kharkiv. In total, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has already chalked up six destroyed Hymars, but no indisputable confirmation of this has been provided. The Ukrainian side denies the loss of these systems.

The head of the Armed Forces Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Adam Smith, recently told Radio Liberty that Western countries intend to provide Ukraine with 25-30 units of such MLRS. In addition to American HIMARS and German MARS II, British M270 systems were reported to have arrived in Ukraine.

16:02

Since February 24, 44 people in Russia have been under criminal cases of vandalism for an anti-war protest, according to the Network Freedoms project.

11 of them are prosecuted for damaging the letter Z. Of the 44 people, six are in custody.

“The most common profession for the defendants is artists,” Network Freedoms notes.

15:32

A resident of the Moscow region was fined 30 thousand rubles for "discrediting" the army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to shouting.

The man was detained due to the fact that in the Moscow metro carriage "in the presence of a significant number of passengers" he shouted out phrases that "discredit" the Russian army. What exactly these phrases are - the police do not specify.

15:22

The Ryazan military prosecutor's office recognized as unlawful the seal "Prone to betrayal, lies and deceit", which in the military unit was put on the military ID of the soldier Zakhar Kukarenko, who refused to go to war. about this . writes His lawyer Maxim Grebenyuk

The prosecutor's office made a presentation to the commander of the military unit, in which Kukarenko was stamped. Because of her, he could not get a job in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

14:48

Another 16 ships with Ukrainian grain are waiting to be sent to the ports of the Odessa region, said the deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko. They have been blocked since the beginning of the war.

Tymoshenko confirmed that today the vessel RAZONI with 26,000 tons of corn left the port of Odessa. “RAZONI, under the flag of Sierra Leone, is heading to the port of Tripoli, Lebanon. The ship will move along the corridor, the safety of which was confirmed by the UN and Turkey," he wrote. According to Tymoshenko, the unblocking of ports is at least one billion dollars in foreign exchange earnings for the Ukrainian economy.

Today, CNN Türk announced the departure of the first vessel with food from the port of Odessa since the beginning of the war. The Russian Defense Ministry also confirmed that RAZONI had left the port.

14:25

Volunteers from the Chuvash battalion "Atal" appealed to the head of Chuvashia and the state council of the republic with a demand to pay 200 thousand rubles promised for participation in the war. About this with reference to the blogger Yuri Shakeev writes the publication 7x7.

According to them, the military commissar promised them 200,000 rubles for each volunteer, as well as a daily allowance of 2,000 rubles. “However, we are these Finnish. funds have not been seen so far, ”the military writes. More than 40 military men signed the letter.

7x7 indicates that the deputy of the state council of the republic, Alexander Andreev, sent a request to the Chuvash authorities.

13:58

Heineken expects to sell its Russian business by the end of 2022.

The company's filings say Heineken continues to receive regulatory approval to complete the deal. “We expect to close it in the second half of 2022,” the report says.

Heineken announced its withdrawal from the Russian market in March.

13:11

According to the head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration, Valentin Reznichenko, the Russian military carried out more than 60 strikes from “grads” on the city of Marganets and the Krasnogrigorievsk community during the night.

According to him, the strikes hit residential areas. Eight houses were damaged in Marganets. Two women were wounded, one of them was hospitalized in serious condition.

12:20

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on the attacks on Kharkov.

“A missile attack on the Ukrainian Energy Machines plant in Kharkiv destroyed 2 American HIMARS installations and 53 Ukrainian nationalists and foreign mercenaries,” the ministry said in a statement.

The head of the Kharkiv regional administration this morning reported that as a result of the shelling of the city, one person was killed, another was injured.

11:49

The Russian military this night again fired at the city of Nikolaev, the head of regional administration Vitaly Kim writes. Three people were injured.

According to Kim, as a result of the shelling, a humanitarian train with medicines and food burned down and the emergency room of one of the hospitals was damaged.

Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich published photos with the consequences of the shelling.

10:55

A new service called "film product" will appear in Russian cinemas of foreign film studios leaving. It will consist of a Russian film and "foreign video materials". This is reported by Vedomosti.

Alexei Vasyasin, CEO of Cinema Park and Formula Kino, said that the first film product will include the Russian Koschey. The Beginning (Steam Engine Studio) and Minions: Gruvitation by Universal Pictures (UPI). According to him, the "film product" can include "any film by a foreign studio that has left Russia."

Universal Pictures left Russia in March, and Minions: Gruvitation was not officially released in the country. Where exactly the cinemas will take foreign films without a license, included in the "film product", Vasyasin did not specify.

9:31

The first ship with grain left the port of Odessa, TASS reports with reference to CNN Türk.

9:25

The Russian military shelled Kharkiv this morning, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the regional administration, . A 72-year-old man died, a 30-year-old man was injured.

Also during the day, one person died in the Bogodukhovsky district of the Kharkiv region - this is a 54-year-old man.

9:01

Yesterday, three people died in the Donetsk region, 16 were injured, according to the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko.

The death toll in Mariupol and Volnovakha is still impossible to determine.

Results of the 158th day of the war

As a result of the shelling of Nikolaev, the owner of the agricultural company "Nibulon" Aleksey Vadatursky, who was one of the top 100 richest people in Ukraine, was killed.

In the Kyiv region, the bodies of 1,348 civilians who died during the temporary occupation by the Russian military were found and identified.

The Russian authorities reported about the shelling of Sevastopol from the Ukrainian side. Six people were injured, the celebration of the Day of the Navy was canceled in the city.

In Lebanon, a ship was arrested with flour, which Russia allegedly took out of Ukraine.

Cover photo: Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor's Office