Bucha resident Ilya Navalny, who died during the occupation of the city by Russian troops, turned out to be a distant relative of Russian politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported to the BBC Ukrainian service by their common relative, the head of the village of Novoye Zalesye, Pavel Navalny. "Yes, Ilya was a distant relative of Alexei, they have a common great-grandfather," said Pavel Navalny. According to the BBC, he is the politician's second cousin.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed in a video message following the 54th day of the war that Russia had started the battle for Donbass. Now we can state that the Russian troops have begun the battle for Donbass, for which they have been preparing for a long time. A very significant part of the entire Russian army is now concentrated for this offensive. No matter how many Russian soldiers are driven there, we will fight. We will defend ourselves. We will do this every day.

Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo and his girlfriend, Spanish model Georgina Rodriguez, have announced that one of their newborn children has died. In October, the Manchester United striker revealed that he and Rodriguez were expecting twins. Later it became known that the couple was expecting a boy and a girl. On April 18, they said that the daughter was born safely, but the boy did not survive.

Russian soldiers raped and murdered Ukrainian civilians in the village of Bohdanivka Writing left by Russian soldiers on a home in Bohdanivka. April 2022. Meduza The world continues to learn about the atrocities committed in Ukraine’s Kyiv region in the weeks before Russian troops retreated from the area in late March.

Search engines Yandex and Mail.ru (owned by VK) have removed the official websites of social networks Instagram and Facebook from their search results. The TASS agency has drawn attention to this. Now, when searching for the query “Instagram,” the Yandex search engine displays the warning “Some links are not available in the search results due to the requirements of Russian legislation” and a link to the amendments to the law on information adopted in 2017.

The Russian military killed and raped people in the village of Bogdanovka near Kiev. We know the name of one of the criminals Hello, THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT This is the Meduza mailing list, where we talk about the main events related to the war in Ukraine.

In early March, Ukrainian troops may have used cluster munitions when shelling the village of Gusarovka in the Kharkiv region, The New York Times reported. The publication's journalists visited Gusarovka and examined the remains of the shell - they came to the conclusion that it was a cluster munition for the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that on the morning of April 18, it launched a strike with “high-precision missiles” at the logistics center of Ukrainian troops in Lvov. According to the agency, there were “large consignments of foreign weapons received over the past six days ... from the United States and European countries.” According to the authorities of the Lvov region, seven people were killed and 11 injured, including a child, as a result of these rocket attacks.

Parents of Russian sailors aboard the Moskva leak information about their sons killed in Ukraine’s missile strike Russian Defense Ministry / AP / Scanpix / LETA According to a source close to the command of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, 37 crew members died aboard the Moskva — the warship that sank in the Black Sea last week, after it was hit by multiple Ukrainian cruise missiles.

Updated : On the evening of April 18, Andrey Zakharov reported that Tinkoff Bank had identified a disputed transaction related to the purchase of cryptocurrency, and had also revised its decision and unblocked the journalist's account. Tinkoff Bank has blocked the account of BBC Russian Service journalist Andrey Zakharov. Zakharov reported this on Twitter. The reasons for blocking the account at Tinkoff Bank were not explained to the journalist.

Died theater director Leonid Kheifets. He was 87 years old. This is reported by TASS with reference to the leadership of GITIS. As a director, Kheifets worked at the Soviet Army Theatre, the Maly Theatre, and the Vladimir Mayakovsky Theatre. Among his productions are My Poor Marat, Pavel I, Oginsky's Polonaise, All My Sons, Pygmalion, as well as the television plays Rudin, The Cliff, The Cherry Orchard.

There were about 500 people on the ship Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / AP / Scanpix / Leta 37 members of the crew of the sunken missile cruiser Moscow were killed, a source close to the command of the Black Sea Fleet told Medusa. According to him, on April 15, their bodies were taken to Sevastopol. Earlier, about 40 sailors were killed at Moscow, reported with reference to the mother of one of the surviving members of the crew “New Gazeta. Europe".

The Agency publication named another sailor who died on the sunken cruiser Moskva . This is senior sailor Vitaly Begersky. His cousin gave the name to journalists. “Begersky was on watch on the starboard side [of the cruiser], his body was not evacuated,” writes the Agency, citing a sailor friend. Representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry informed his aunt about Vitaly Begersky's death, according to the publication.

Russian President Vladimir Putin conferred the honorary name "Guards" to the 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation. The decree on this was published on the Kremlin website.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that due to the suspension or termination of the activities of foreign companies, about 200,000 residents of the city could lose their jobs. This is stated in his blog. Sobyanin recalled that last week the Moscow authorities approved a program to support workers who were at risk of being fired. First of all, it is intended for employees of foreign companies that have left the Russian market or suspended their work in Russia.