Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Anna Malyar said that the Ukrainian army is actively advancing in several directions in the south of the country. She announced this in her telegram channel on the evening of June 16. “Practically in all areas and directions where our units are advancing in the south, they have tactical success. Gradually moving forward. As of now, [troops have advanced] up to two kilometers in each direction.

Journalists at the BBC and Mediazona have recorded the names of more than 25,000 Russian combatants killed in Ukraine. The typical KIA soldier isn’t who he used to be.

Electricity went out in many districts of Sevastopol on the evening of June 16, reported local telegram channels . According to these data , the light disappeared in half of the city. At the same time, the light was turned off in Alushta, they write channels, The head of the annexed Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that, according to preliminary information, the power went out after the automation at the Sevastopol substation turned off.

Moscow City Duma deputy Sergei Mitrokhin has refused to participate in the Moscow mayoral elections. He announced this at a conference of the Moscow branch of Yabloko, according to a statement from the party's press service. Mitrokhin stated that he was ready to participate in the elections “exclusively with an anti-militaristic agenda,” but, in his opinion, a candidate with such a position would not be allowed to participate in the election campaign.

Former American military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who exposed the scale of the US participation in the war in Vietnam, died at the age of 92 from pancreatic cancer. This was announced on Twitter by his son Robert Ellsberg. Wally Fong / AP / Scanpix / Leta Daniel Ellsberg, 1973 In March, Daniel Ellsberg said that he was diagnosed with inoperative pancreatic cancer and, according to the forecast of doctors, he had to live from three to six months.

As the war rages on, Russian officials’ alcohol consumption is reaching new heights How do members of Russia’s bureaucratic apparatus deal with the stress of waging a war? With their remedy of choice — alcohol. The independent outlet Verstka recently published a report about the drinking habits of Russia’s government officials, including their preferred type of vodka and whether Putin himself drinks at all. Meduza in English is publishing an abridged translation of the story.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared the economist, former deputy head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergey Aleksashenko, director Vitaly Mansky, politician Lev Shlosberg, journalists Svetlana Prokopiev and Yulia Paramonova, the information portal Vesma and the Free Yakutia Foundation as “foreign agents”. This was reported on the website of the ministry.

In the first months of the invasion-a 21-year-old contractor. Now-a 34-year-old former prisoner. The main thing from the research "BBC" and "Mediazons" Oleksandr Ratushniak / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The dead Russian soldier in the Donetsk region.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the strikes of Russian troops on Kiev on the day of the visit of African leaders, in his opinion, indicate that Russian President Vladimir Putin "absolutely" does not control his army or is "inadequate." Zelensky said this at a press conference in Kyiv.

The press secretary of the President of the Czech Republic, Marketa Rzhekhakova, commented on the statement of the head of the republic that European intelligence services need to “closer” monitor Russians living in Western countries.

The human rights project Perviy Otdel has released videos showing employees of Correctional Colony No. 5 in Mordovia allegedly torturing former police officer Yevgeny Chistov, who was convicted of treason. In a video filmed in 2021, the colony officers wring Chistov’s hands and hit him several times, after which loud screams and sounds of blows are heard. At the end of the video, the convict is dragged into the cell by force. Attention. The videos below show scenes of brutality and violence.

Two women from Transbaikalia told the journalists Siberia. Realities "how they buried their sons who died in the war Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Wreath on the grave of the Wagner PMC mercenary Evgenia Prosvirkin and Elena Tikhanovskaya - the mothers of Russian soldiers who recruited in Wagner's PMC and were killed in a war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine. Women told reporters the publication Siberia. Realities "how they buried their children.

He opposed the war. After the detention he was tortured Page Anatoly Berezikova in VKontakte On June 14, activist Anatoly Berezikov died in a special-reception in Rostov-on-Don, who since mid-May did not leave administrative arrest-new protocols were drawn up for him over and over again. After his death, the special reception said that he had committed suicide. His lawyer Irina Hak suggests that Berezikov died during torture.

Explains Maxim Samorukov (Carnegie Politika) Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta rally in honor of the annexation of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions on Red Square. September 30, 2022 After a year and a half of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which has not yet reached any of its declared goals, it may seem that Vladimir Putin should at least doubt the aggressive method of solving foreign policy issues.

The administration of St Petersburg State University has issued expulsion orders for seven students who studied with historian Mikhail Belousov, who was fired for criticizing the war in Ukraine. publication about this the Bumaga Three sources at the faculty told the Lightning human rights project. , and the students themselves told According to the interlocutors of Paper, orders for expulsion came to seven out of ten students who were checked by the ethical commission.