1,899 deaths officially confirmed The Russian service of the BBC is compiling a list of names of Russian servicemen who died in Ukraine. Now it has 1899 people. The Ministry of Defense reported losses on March 25 - then, according to official figures, 1,351 servicemen were among the dead. The first BBC casualty study was published on 6 April. But the trends outlined then are confirmed now. So, about 189% of the dead are officers. However.

They will visit Chisinau and Tiraspol The OSCE reported on the visit of the Special Representative of the Organization of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office from Poland for the Transnistrian settlement process, Ambassador Thomas Mayer-Harting. Together with him, Ambassador-at-Large Artur Dmochovsky will visit Chisinau and Tiraspol. They plan to study the state of affairs after the recent events in Transnistria.

At the same time, Ukrainian resistance brings losses to Russian troops. The British Ministry of Defense has published the latest intelligence data. According to intelligence agencies, the battle for Donbass remains the main strategic direction for Russia to achieve its stated goal of securing control over the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. In these areas, the fighting was especially heavy around Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, with attempts to advance south from Izyum towards Slavyansk.

Buryatia ranks second in the number of military deaths in Ukraine. Funerals take place almost every day. In Ulan-Ude they are buried from the Lukodrome sports complex. In the second part of the building, children practice archery. “People of Baikal” attended a farewell ceremony for fallen soldiers. The Lukodrome was built a year ago. The yellow roof and facade, lined with white and blue tiles, can be seen from afar - against the backdrop of rickety wooden barracks with outdoor toilets.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev spoke about this Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the country supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine. But the principles of international law must be fair for all countries, the president added, reports . Interfax-Azerbaijan At the same time, Aliyev stressed that he does not deny that Azerbaijan has good relations with Russia. But the principles of international law should in no case be distorted by reason of political superiority.

Exception from the registry occurred for the first time Today, for the first time, the Ministry of Justice excluded two people from the register of media outlets performing the function of a foreign agent. They were the lawyer Arkady Lyubarev and the coordinator of the Samara branch of the movement "Voice" * Lyudmila Kuzmina. This decision was made by the Ministry of Justice on the basis of applications for exclusion, as well as documents received from authorized state authorities.

He was convicted of taking bribes for 8 years The Moscow District Court of Tver confirmed the parole of ex-Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev, reports Interfax . He will remain in the colony until the decision has entered into force. How did the case of the ex-minister develop? Alexey Ulyukaev served as Minister of Economic Development of Russia in 2013-2016. On December 15, 2017, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow found him guilty of taking bribes.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the strikes on Kyiv during the visit of the UN Secretary General, Putin held a meeting of the Security Council on shelling in the regions bordering Ukraine Last night, during a visit to Kiev by UN Secretary General António Guterres, there was shelling in Kiev. Five rockets destroyed including a residential building, according to the BBC. 10 people were injured, Radio Liberty journalist Vera Girich died .

Earlier, several members of the mission were detained in the LDNR The OSCE announced that the special monitoring mission in Ukraine is about to close. There will be no more international observers in the country. OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau and OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid announced that the OSCE would take immediate steps to close the mission in Ukraine. Such actions were introduced after Russia did not renew the accreditation of the mission.

Analyzing the events of the war in Ukraine, which is accompanied by the death of civilian people, the shelling of cars with those who are trying to get out of the besieged cities, executions and looting, the historian Ilya Venyavkin tries to understand how it became possible, where such cruelty came from and what kind of people do all this.

António Guterres has previously completed a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky There were explosions in Kyiv on the evening of April 28. Five rockets flew into the city during a visit by UN Secretary General António Guterres. Prior to that, he visited Irpin, Bucha and Borodianka. Literally an hour before the strikes, Guterres criticized the UN Security Council, which was unable to prevent the Russian offensive with the help of existing tools.

China plans to use the experience of Russia for the Taiwan crisis Reuters writes that in China, despite the vague, non-public position on the conflict in Ukraine, Chinese strategists are closely monitoring the situation. They can use the acquired skills of Russia's "resistance to the Western information war" to suppress the Taiwan conflict.

This assessment was given to the publication by the US government. According to the US government, writes The Washington Post, Russian intelligence was behind the attack on the Nobel Prize winner and editor of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov. He was splashed with paint on the train before leaving Moscow for Samara on 7 April. The American intelligence services came to the conclusion that Russian intelligence was behind the attack.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the strikes on Kyiv during the visit of the UN Secretary General, Putin held a meeting of the Security Council on shelling in the regions bordering Ukraine Last night, during a visit to Kiev by UN Secretary General António Guterres, there was shelling in Kiev. Five rockets destroyed including a residential building, according to the BBC. 10 people were injured, Radio Liberty journalist Vera Girich died .