As her son fights for besieged Mariupol, this Ukrainian mother refuses to give up hope Evgeniy Maloletka / AP / Scanpix / LETA A Ukrainian soldier in Mariupol. March 12, 2022. War has completely changed the lives of millions of Ukrainians. While some fight for their country’s freedom, millions have been forced to flee abroad as refugees. Others remain in their homes, struggling to survive in wartime conditions and waiting to reunite with their loved ones.

The organizers of the Russian group "Lyube" concerts in Germany in May 2022 have cancelled the group's performances in German cities, the Berlin publication BZ reports, citing the words of the organizers. The scientific community Urania in Berlin, where one of the Lube concerts was supposed to take place on May 12, informed the publication that it would not allow the group to perform.

Netizens discovered a website with a map showing more than 58,000 addresses used by customers of the Yandex.Food delivery service. The site is based on a database of Yandex.Food users, the leak of which the Yandex company itself reported on March 1. The map presented on the site contains 58,370 addresses, including more than 18,000 in Moscow and the Moscow region.

Russian troops fired at a psychiatric hospital and research institute. Terborne volunteers are preparing for battles. Odessa - to the siege The war is 27 days. The shelling continues-in Nikolaev, the building of the City Psychiatric Hospital was hit, in Kyiv-the Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences. It became known that the photojournalist Maxim Levin disappeared near Kiev, the last time he got in touch on March 13 . Medusa collected the main photos of this day. Carefully!

Jeanne Agalakova worked for more than 20 years on Channel One - but quit after the start of the war. Now she came up with a speech against propaganda Joel Saget / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Since 1999, Russian journalist Zhanna Agalakova worked on Channel One: first leading news, then a special correspondent in Paris, New York and European countries. After the start of the war of Russia with Ukraine, Agalakova quit the television channel.

The main thing from the report of the "Russian BBC service" Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The 300,000th city of Kherson in the south of Ukraine from the second of March has been under the control of Russian troops. The city does not have enough food and medicine, and local residents regularly conduct rallies, demanding from the Russian military to leave it. The Russian BBC Service released a large report from Kherson. Here is his retelling. From food in the city - only chicken and vegetables.

In recent weeks, the company secretly took out employees from Russia Hannah McKay / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Google employees fear that the company’s activities in Russia will be prohibited, including because of the YouTube video hosting, which “has become a serious source of tension in relations with the government” of Russia, Bloomberg writes , referring to the words of anonymous sources. The reason for the ban in Russia can be, among other things, YouTube actions last week.

Perhaps because of the war you did not carefully monitor this political process. The main thing is what happened there On March 22, the Lefortovo court of Moscow sentenced Alexei Navalny to nine years in a maximum security colony in the case of fraud and disrespect for the court. The process was not in Moscow, but in a colony in the Vladimir region, where Navalny has been serving a sentence in the Yves Rocher case since last year.

Photos and videos Pavel Dear, a photographer from Kharkov, who worked with a documentary and archival photography before the war and shot the architecture of his hometown. Now Pavel works as a volunteer, but continues to document what is happening in Kharkov. In early March, he began to remove the metro stations, where people are hiding from shelling, in one of the remote areas of the city.

The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against journalist Alexander Nevzorov under the article on disseminating fakes about the Russian army. According to the investigation, Nevzorov "published deliberately false information about the deliberate shelling of a maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol by the Russian Armed Forces." The journalist posted this information on Instagram on March 9 and on YouTube on March 19.

A survivor of the siege of Mariupol tells the story of his family’s escape Evgeniy Maloletka / AP / Scanpix / LETA Mariupol residents in a bomb shelter. March 6, 2022. Mariupol has been under siege for more than three weeks. More than 200,000 civilians remain trapped in the city, despite repeated attempts at evacuations. According to the Ukrainian authorities , around 20,000 Mariupol residents managed to flee through a humanitarian corridor on March 15.

to the State Duma A group of deputies and senators from United Russia has submitted a bill that gives the participants in the "special operation" of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine the status of combat veterans. The proposed document completely repeats the bill , which was presented by the Russian Ministry of Defense at the end of February.

The German concern Siemens has suspended the contract with the Russian Railways for the supply of new high-speed Sapsan electric trains, said Russian Railways CEO Oleg Belozerov. “We were notified that at the moment the contract is suspended for the purchase,” he said, speaking during the “Open Dialogue” in the Federation Council. In 2021, according to Belozerov, Russian Railways acquired three new Sapsan rolling stock. Now they are undergoing certification.

The Sumy region of Ukraine has been defending from the Russian army for almost a month - although it is located right on the border. Its head Dmitry Zhivitsky told Medusa how she succeeds The head of the Sumy region Dmitry Zhivitsky. Ukrainian sociological portal The Sumy region of Ukraine borders at once by several Russian regions - with the Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod - and lies in the way of the Russian army towards Kyiv.

The Moscow Mayor's Office allocated 7 billion rubles to provide targeted social assistance to city residents. It is reported by TASS. Help will be available to people who find themselves "in a difficult life situation caused by emergencies, the loss of a breadwinner, the loss of a job, or a decrease in the income of families with children below the subsistence level." The decision to allocate money is part of a package of measures to support citizens “under sanctions pressure.”