The battles in the area of ​​the Bakhmut administration building continue, Russian troops did not capture the city, the representative of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey Cherevaty told Reuters. “Bakhmut is Ukrainian, they [Russians] did not capture anything and, to put it mildly, far from this,” Chervaty said. Late on Sunday evening, the owner of the PMC Wagner Evgeny Prigozhin announced that his mercenaries had taken Bakhmut.

Gazprom lost 20% of its production and almost half of its exports last year. This is the result of yet another monstrous mistake by the company: it essentially voluntarily abandoned its best market, cutting supplies to Europe several times over (later this was “officially formalized” by the explosion of the Nord Stream). And yet, in the year of the catastrophic decline, Gazprom remained profitable and paid a record five trillion rubles in taxes. How is this possible and what awaits the company?

The FSB began to withdraw a passport from high -ranking Russian officials and state -owned companies. There are also cases of confiscation of documents among former officials, some of whom did not even have access to secret information, writes Financial Times with reference to several sources “familiar with the question”. The purpose of these measures is to prevent the flight of officials and information leaks abroad.

The Russian Ministry of Defense did not publish information about how many people received a pension in 2022 in connection with disabilities or loss of the breadwinner. These data were supposed to appear on Sunday, April 2, on the website of the Federal Statistics Emiss. Information about the pensioners of the Ministry of Defense could show the scale of the losses of the Russian army for the year of the war. On April 2, the date of the next update has changed on the page - now it is April 2024.

On April 2, in St. Petersburg in the cafe Street Food Bar No. 1, which belongs to the founder of the PMC Wagner Evgeny Prigozhin, an explosion occurred during the “creative evening” of the “military commander” Vladlen Tatarsky (real name-Maxim Fomin). As a result of the explosion, Tatarsky died, another 32 people were injured. The authorities of St. Petersburg said that one million rubles would be paid to the family of the deceased Tatar.