Lifenews journalists in captivity and by plane on the way to Grozny. Photo from Instagram Kadyrov Employees of the Lifenews television channel Operator Marat Saichenko and journalist Oleg Sidyakin, arrested on May 18 near Kramatorsky, were released and flew to Grozny on Sunday night. This was announced on his Instagram by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. “Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko to free! The plane with them headed from Kyiv to Grozny!” Wrote Kadyrov.

Andrey Mironov in the Sakharov Center. Photo by Dmitry Borko In the village of Andreevka, under Slavyanskoye, the Italian photojournalist Andrea Rockelli and his translator Andrei Mironov were killed, RIA Novosti reports. The wound was received by the French Stringer William Roglon from the Wostok Press agency. On Saturday evening, journalists, Mironov and their driver fell under mortar shelling, reports Le Monde from the words of Roglon. They left the car and lay in a cuvette.

Wojciech Yaruzelsky. Photo from Solidarnosc.free.fr In Warsaw, at the age of 90, General Wojciech Yaruzelsky, the last head of the communist Poland and the last of the surviving leaders of the socialist in Eastern Europe, died. It is reported by Gazeta Wyborcza. Recently, Yaruzelsky was in the neurological department of the hospital of the Military Medical Institute. There, in early May, he transferred a stroke, after which he did not come to consciousness.

Photo from the FB page Petro Poroshenko Billionaire Petro Poroshenko wins in the first round of the presidential election in Ukraine. About 54 percent of voters voted for him. Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko received about 13 percent. The third place was taken by the leader of the Radical Party Oleg Lyashko - about 9 percent. The leader of Freedom Oleg Tyagnibok received a little more than 1 percent of the vote, the head of the Right Sector Dmitry Yarosh - less than one percent.

Hugh Williamson. Photo: hrw.org Armed militants in eastern Ukraine terrorize employees of district election commissions, the Human Rights Watch international human rights organization said . The police, which is legally obliged to ensure their protection, does not intervene, and in some cases assisted the attackers. “Violence by rebels in eastern Ukraine has become out of control,” said HRW director in East Europe and Central Asia Hugh Williamson.