Everything you need to know early in the morning of April 17
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Germany turned off its last three nuclear power plants and said goodbye to a peaceful atom; In Finland, on the contrary, the largest atomic reactor in Europe was commissioned . Who is right here will tell time. News so far:
- On Easter night, Russia fired at several Ukrainian churches; In the Zaporizhzhya region, two teenagers became victims of shelling. The number of victims of the missile strike on Slavyansk increased to 15.
- 130 people returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity. Russia did not comment on the exchange.
- Two explosions occurred on Saturday in Kazan; On Monday night in Belgorod, an electrical substation was burning - probably after a drone strike.
- Poland and Hungary banned the import of Ukrainian grain, the European Commission criticized this decision. Today, Ukrainian-Polish negotiations on this issue will be held.
- In Sudan, there are battles between warring power structures; On Sunday, a short truce was announced to withdraw a civilian population from the fighting zone.

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Military reports
On the night of Easter Sunday, several churches in Ukraine fell under the shelling: damage received a city church in Nikopol of the Dnipropetrovsk region and a church in the village of Kamyshev, Zaporizhzhya region. During the shelling of the village of Snigirevka, the Nikolaev region, two teenagers born in 2005 were killed . The number of victims of missile strikes on Slavyansk inflicted on Friday increased to 15 people; 24 people were injured, more than 50 residential buildings were injured , including about 30 apartment buildings. Here are photographs from Slavyansk - including the one that has already been called “removal from the cross”.
On Sunday, 130 military returned from Russian captivity to Ukraine. Russia officially did not comment on the exchange - only Kadyrov said that on Saturday to Grozny, five Chechen troops returned with whom he did not meet, because "the Chechen warrior should not be captured." He called on the released to return to the front - they do not rehabilitate them. Here is a report from the rehabilitation center in the Kiev region, where psychologists work with the Ukrainian military, but the story of the work of the specialized rehabilitation center of Vaivari in Jurmala, where more than 150 patients from Ukraine are accepted monthly.
The representative of the Air Force of Ukraine Yuri Ignat said in an interview that Ukraine would receive the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system after Easter; The fact that he stood on combat duty, citizens, according to Ignat, are recognized after the first Russian plane is shot down. Financial Times publishes great material about the difficulties that the Ukrainian counterattack will encounter - the extreme rarely successful breakthrough of enemy defense without dominance in the air is separately noted. However, there are always chances.
War, view from Russia
- On Saturday, the inhabitants of Kazan reported two explosions in the area of the tank training ground, large pillars of smoke were visible from the southern part of the city and suburbs. In the Ministry of Emergencies, however, they did not know anything about this. Last fall, at the tank training ground was a prefabricated point of mobilized for the war with Ukraine. On Saturday, the Governor of the Belgorod Region announced the shelling of the village of New Tavolzhanka (there are victims) - it is located across the border from the Ukrainian Volchansk, which the Russian army subjected to fire on Friday.
- Representatives of the so -called “DPR” said that as a result of shelling from the “Grads” of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, a woman died on an Easter night, seven more people were injured. As Pasha in Donetsk noted exactly, we do not know, but in the occupied Melitopol on the occasion of the Orthodox holiday on the street screen showed the speech of the military-propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed two weeks ago. He explained the meaning of Easter as follows: “Once we will die, and one day we will resurrect, this is good news. Our commanders will resurrect with us: Motorola, Clooney, Voha, Dad, all the rest.” When this interpretation of the gospel was recorded, it is unknown.
- On Monday night in Belgorod, according to the governor of the region, there was a “fire at two civilian facilities”. One of these objects is an electrical substation; The operation of the power grid was broken. Local telegram channels reported that the cause of the fire was a drone of drone, but the governor did not say anything about the drone. How much the abolition of mass events on May 1 and 9 in the border regions is related to security issues, Russian political analyst Andrei Kolesnikov explains here .
- On the night of Saturday, references to his reasoning appeared in the telegram channels related to the telegram channels on how to end the war. The owner of the Wagner PMC proposed to declare the goals of the war in Ukraine achieved and stop it, because the “deep state” is not located to a long war, and the Ukrainian offensive can lead to a breakthrough of the front, after which the “deep people” may rebel. The leadership of the Russian army is clearly not prepared for such a development of events: British military intelligence writes about the return of Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, commander of the Russian Airborne Forces and respecting the army, and the American Institute for the Study of War, notes signs of preparation for active mobilization in the occupied territories of Ukraine. On Sunday evening, Putin accepted the Minister of Defense of China Lee Lee to the Kremlin. To what they have agreed, of course, it is not reported, but the American Institute for the Study of the War believe that checking the combat readiness of the Pacific Fleet, conducted on Friday, was timed to this visit.
- The court in Rostov-on-Don will consider the criminal case against five residents of occupied Melitopol-men detained in April are accused of organizing a “terrorist underground” in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhya region. The military court in Moscow received the case of three Ukrainians accused of preparing the undermining of the bus station in Lipetsk “under the control of the“ Right Sector ””.
International Echo of War
- The court in Croatia denied five natives of Chechnya in the status of political refugees and the provision of international protection. Among the reasons for the flight from Russia, the Chechens indicated, among other things, the reluctance to participate in the war in Ukraine. Lawyers called the court decision biased.
- In Kazakhstan, ten criminal cases are being investigated on the fact of the participation of citizens of the country in the war in Ukraine. The accused faces from five to nine years of colony.
- The President of Ukraine signed two decree on the introduction of sanctions against Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian citizens and enterprises: the first introduces restrictions on 87 people, most of whom are athletes (and Ksenia Shoigu, who joined them as the president of the Federation of the Triatlon of Russia), was sent to the second against 351 individuals and 254 legal entities-mainly IT companies, including Yandex and Yandex and Yandex and VK.
- Poland and Hungary temporarily banned the import of Ukrainian grain, Bulgaria is also thinking about this. The European Commission called the decisions of Warsaw and Budapest unacceptable; Today, Ukraine will negotiate with Poland on this issue.
- Brazilian President Luis Inasiu Lula da Silva, on a visit to China, called on the United States and the European Union to stop "encourage war" and supply weapons to Ukraine. Lula’s peacekeeping aspirations are explained - in addition to indifference to the essence of the conflict - a strong dependence of Brazil on the supply of Russian mineral fertilizers.
- Conversation with the president of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association Elena Perepelinskaya, in which she explains the complex mechanism of the enforcement of decisions of international courts on compensation. According to Perepelinskaya, the Russian full -scale invasion of Ukraine has been distinguished by many countries to revise national legislation to facilitate the receipt of such compensation.
- About how the war changed the Russian-Latvian relations, read in an interview with the former Ambassador of Latvia to Moscow Maris Riverstins.
In Russia
- For the first time, Roskomnadzor drew up protocols on the “propaganda of LGBT” on two online cinema - Movix and PEERS.TV. They face a fine of up to 4 million rubles or suspension of activities for up to 90 days. What content Roskomnadzor did not like is not yet known.
- The soloist of the NAIV group Alexander Chacha, Ivanov at a concert in Moscow, was released in a T -shirt Masha Moskalev and spoke about the persecution of a schoolgirl and her father. The hall in response began to applaud and chant: “X*th war!”.
- The concert of the ShortParis group was canceled in Krasnodar. Five days ago, they were reported by the regional head of the Tsargrad movement Nikita Izyumov. Artemy Troitsky discusses about the blossomed in the violent color of the denunciation culture here .
- In Moscow, a criminal case was opened because of Tiktok with a burning of the Qur'an in the park, where they planned to build a mosque.
- The authorities of Ingushetia reported on the murder of four alleged attackers at the security forces in March and April.
Around the world
- In Sudan, a war unfolds between the regular army of the country and a militarized pro -government group of "rapid support forces" (RSF); Fights were also carried out at the Hartum Airport, which is why foreign airlines were injured. At least 56 civilians became victims of military operations, almost 600 people were injured. The country began to block the Internet. The UN World Food Program suspended work in Sudan after the death of three employees. On Sunday, a three -hour truce was announced to withdraw a civilian population from the fighting zone. The essence of the conflict is explained here : RSF, which has the status of a certain PMC, does not want to join the regular army, trying to preserve some privileges. The head of this very PMC has a connection with Russia.
- In Japan, during the speech of the prime minister of the country, Fumio Kisida, an explosion occurred in the city of Vakaiam. The prime minister was not injured, the attacker was detained, but they have not told anything about his motives yet. In July last year, the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died as a result of a similar attempt.
- In Dresden, due to the bomb of the Second World War, discovered during construction work in the western part of the city, about 15 thousand people evacuated . In the construction area, traffic was blocked, including the international railway line.
- In Iran, 10 military personnel were sentenced to various prison terms in connection with their role in the collapse of the Ukrainian passenger airliner in January 2020. The Air Defense Air Defense of the Islamic Revolution Corps allegedly was mistakenly shot down by the Ukrainian Airlines, heading from Tehran to Kyiv. There were 176 people aboard, mainly citizens of Iran and Canada, they all died. The Ukrainian was only the crew.
- In Belarus, nine defendants “TUT.BY cases” were pardoned , who were accused of complicity of non -payment of taxes. Earlier, the editor -in -chief and general director of TUT.BY sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Six links
- Myths. An excerpt from the book of historian Vladimir Petrukhin “Karelo-Finnish myths. From Kalevala and Bird-Demiurge to Chudi and Sami” (Publishing House of Mann, Ivanov and Ferber ”), dedicated to how the origin of the world and the creation of a person or a fragment from the book of Tatyana Muravyeva“ MIPHAS are described in the Finnish, Izhora and Karelian runes. Volga. From the wolf lord and the world tree to the cult of snakes and birds of happiness ”(Publishing House“ Mann, Ivanov and Ferber ”)-about evil spirits among the Mari.
- Emigration. A brief history of internal emigration from the French Revolution of 1830 to German anti -fascists and Soviet dissidents. Or a conversation with the Moscow artist Olga Kiriyenko, who abandoned Russian citizenship in Putin's open letter, which caused another wave of storms among the new Russian emigration.
- Theater. Conversation with director Boris Pavlovich, curator of the horizontal theater project “Forest. Bibikhin” - about how the theater philosophizes. Or a conversation with the playwright Polina Korotych about the practices of interaction between people and trees.
Sincerely yours,
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