Chronicle of the war with Ukraine. Day 160

On the morning of August 2, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced the beginning of the mandatory evacuation from Donbass. The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Azov regiment with a terrorist organization and banned it in the country. The United States also imposed sanctions against Alina Kabaeva, Vladimir Saldo and Konstantin Ivashchenko. It became known the name of another deceased sailor from the cruiser "Moscow" - his name is Yegor Shkrebets. The first ship with Ukrainian grain arrived in Istanbul.

23:19

Two -thirds of the inhabitants of the Donetsk region left the region for the whole time from the beginning of the war, said the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko. He thinks that in the near future even more residents will leave the region.

On July 30, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk announced that mandatory evacuation began from the Donetsk region. According to her, due to the destroyed gas pipelines in winter it will be impossible to heat the region.

22:40

The only departure from the Kherson region was blocked by the controlled territory, wrote the adviser to the head of the Kherson administration Sergey Hlan on Facebook. He said that because of the rains, the road through Vasilyevka was washed away.

22:25

The first ship with Ukrainian grain arrived in Istanbul, the Turkish Ministry of Defense reports . He will be inspected tomorrow.

The day before, the ship left the port of Odessa under the flag of Sierra Leone. He is lucky 26 thousand tons of corn in the port of Tripoli in Lebanon. The dry cargo will move along the corridor, the safety of which is ensured by the UN and Turkey.

To observe the withdrawal of ships from Ukraine in Istanbul, a coordination center appeared, which includes representatives of Turkey, Rosi, Ukraine and the UN.

22:09

On the territory of the military facility in the Lviv region, two explosions occurred in the Chervonograd district, said Governor Maxim Kozitsky. There is no information about victims.

Earlier, Russia has released eight cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea across Ukraine. Seven of them were shot down by the air defense. One of the missiles was struck by the anti-aircraft missile system in the Lviv region.

21:50

Dmitry Shkrebets is the father of the sailor-carrier of Yegor Shkrabz, who was missing on the Moscow cruiser, said he received a certificate of death of his son. A few months since the death of the cruiser, the sailor was considered missing.

The death certificate was dated July 27, but according to Dmitry Shkrabz, he received it only on August 1.

So far, the Ministry of Defense officially recognized the death of only one sailor - the senior midshipman Ivan Vakhrushev, despite the fact that the families of military personnel from the Moscow cruiser reported dozens of missing people.

21:18

The ex-deputy of Julia Galyamina was appointed a course of psycho-correction from the psychologist FSIN. They also want to extend her for a month, due to her failure to appear for registration. The court session will be held on September 5 in the Koptevsky District Court of Moscow.

Since 2020, Galyamina was serving a conditional term for repeated violation of rallies. The ex-deputy did not marry the FSIN twice, and in March 2022 she was arrested for 30 days for anti-war agitation.

Galyamin was deprived of the mandate of the deputy due to a conditional term.

21:14

A rock concert will be held at the Azovstal destroyed plant, the press service of the Mariupol City Council reports . The Ukrainian authorities believe that Russia is trying to distract residents from real problems with such events.

20:59

The Russian military is taken to Genichesk instead of rotation in Crimea, said Sergey Hlan, deputy of the Kherson Regional Council, on the air of the Ukrainian channel Espreso.TV. The military is placed on the bases of the Arabat Rika, where they give a rest for several weeks and again sent to battle.

The command fears that they will run away if they are allowed to go to the Crimea, says Hlan.

20:15

The Tomsk journalist and politician Alexei Shitik opened a criminal case of "fakes" about the military. He left Russia back in 2018.

According to Shitik, investigators found “false information” about victims among the civilian population of Ukraine and crimes in Buch in his posts. On August 1, FSB officers came to a search of his parents.

In 2017, Shitik ran for mayors of Asino from the Yabloko party, but lost due to the pressure of local authorities. They began to threaten him, so he left Russia.

19:35

The United States has expanded sanctions lists against Russia. The athlete Alina Kabaeva, the head of the pro -Russian “administration” of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, his deputy Kirill Khremosov, the pro -Russian “mayor” of Mariupol Konstantin Ivashchenko, fell under the sanctions.

Billionaires Andrei Guryev with his son, Andrei Melnichenko, Alexander Ponomarenko, Dmitry Pumpyansky, Viktor Rashnikov were still on the list.

Also, the Skolkovo Foundation, the Skolteh Institute, the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant and others fell into the sanctions lists.

In addition, the United States introduce visa restrictions on 893 officials of the Russian Federation.

19:22

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that it could not legalize same -sex marriages. This is due to the fact that during a military or emergency one, one cannot change the constitution. However, the president turned to the prime minister to consider the issue of legalizing same -sex marriages.

Previously, the petition with this requirement gained more than 25 thousand signatures. This is enough for the president to consider it.

18:57

The head of the Kherson Regional Administration will be the ex-director of the Ukrainian State Center of Radio Frequencies Yaroslav Yanushevich, said Taras Melnichuk, representative of the Cabinet in the Verkhovna Rada.

Earlier, the position of Kherson governor was held by Gennady Lagut.

18:38

The Russian Foreign Ministry can break diplomatic relations from the United States if Russia is declared the country - a sponsor of terrorism, Maria Zakharova said .

In April, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on US President Joe Biden to include Russia in the list of countries of terrorism sponsors. Earlier, senators made the same request to the Secretary of State Anthony Biginen.

18:24

Since the beginning of the war, 403 people died in the Nikolaev region, more than a thousand were injured, according to the head of the regional administration Vitaly Kim.

According to him, the Nikolaev region is fired every day. So far, the administration is not planning forced evacuation of residents.

17:11

The court in absentia sentenced to nine years the colony of Russian Anton Korolev, who joined the Azov Regiment, writes RIA Novosti.

According to investigators, in March 2015, Korolev joined the Azov regiment. There he went through combat training. After that, he began to participate in battles in the Donbass.

In 2018, Korolev was put on the wanted list. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine refused to extradite a man.

Anton Korolev himself calls himself a volunteer and claims that he acquired combat skills before joining Azov.

15:55

In Tula, a criminal case on the “discredit” of the use of the army (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) was opened against a local resident of Andrei Pavlov, the Center for SOVA reports . Before that, he was fined under an administrative article on the “discredit” of the army.

In March, 38-year-old Pavlov was fined 40 thousand for attached the flag of Ukraine to the jacket, the tag with the Cossack Protest Banner (under Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The criminal case, as the center writes, was instituted due to publications on the Internet.

14:55

A resident of Bryansk was fined 35 thousand rubles for an “obscene word” on the installation of “grandmother with the flag of victory”. This is written by Bryansk News.

The protocol says that a man "in black paint applied the inscriptions of obscene content on the artistic installation" Grandmother with the flag of victory "located on the side wall of the house No. 50 on Kalinin Street in Bryansk." He was calculated on video surveillance cameras.

A protocol on the “discredit” of the army was drawn up for a man (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The court decision says that the installation with the grandmother is a “symbol of maintaining the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”.

He admitted that he inscribed, and also said that "he was negatively referred to as a military special operation, since there are a lot of people from both sides due to problems that should be solved by diplomatic means, not the military." The man also noted that he is negative about President Putin and is a pacifist.

13:54

A resident of Kandalaksha Sergey Fateev was arrested for 14 days per poster comparing Z and V with a swastika.

According to the Owl Center with reference to the court decision, Fateev “made and placed” a poster on the wall of one of the houses with the inscription “United Russia - Fascist Country” and “Z+V = (a symbol of Nazi swastika)”.

The Kandalaksha District Court of the Murmansk Region considered this the demonstration of Nazi symbols (part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

13:30

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Azov Regiment with a terrorist organization and banned it in Russia, RIA Novosti reports .

12:55

11:20

In Moscow shopping centers, H&M stores opened. They will sell the remains of goods.

Shops opened in the shopping center "Metropolis" and "Aviation", RBC reports . By the beginning of the work, dozens of people gathered near them.

H&M announced the suspension of work in Russia in early March. In July, it became known that the company is selling its Russian business.

11:11

Mandatory evacuation from Donbass began, said Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.

“The first train arrived in Kropyvnitsky this morning. Women, children, old people, many little mobility, ”she wrote.

On July 30, Vereshchuk said that the authorities plan to take out at least 200 thousand people from the Donetsk region. Mandatory evacuation is carried out due to the fact that the gas supply and power supply systems are destroyed and this winter the houses of local residents will not be heated.

10:57

According to the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kirill Tymoshenko, Ukraine returned to control 1054 settlements.

“There is a restoration of infrastructure in the disconed territories,” he wrote.

10:49

That night, the Russian military fired at Nikolaev again. There are no victims and victims.

According to the mayor of the city, Alexander Senkevich, two districts of the city fell under fire. Destroyed a student hostel. Two high -rise buildings and two food stores were damaged, windows are knocked out in the outpatient clinic and school.

According to the head of the Nikolaev regional administration, Vitaly Kim, other settlements of the region were also shelling. The victims and victims are not reported.

9:29

Over the past day, three people died in the Donetsk region, said the head of the regional administration Pavel Kirilenko. Three more people are injured.

Results of the 159th day of the war

The first food vessel from the beginning of the war came from the Odessa post yesterday. Another 16 vessels with Ukrainian grain are expected to be sent.

According to the estimates of the Network Freedom project, from February 24, 44 people in Russia were under criminal cases of vandalism for anti -war protests

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on strikes on Kharkov and the destruction of "2 American Himars and 53 Ukrainian Nationalists." The head of the regional administration said that as a result of the shelling of the city, one person died, another suffered.

Volunteers from the Chuvash battalion "Atal" turned to the head of Chuvashia and the State Council of the Republic with a demand to pay the promised for participation in the war of 200 thousand rubles.

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

Photo on the cover: Viacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters / Scanpix