The head of the UN Human Rights Department, Michelle Bachelet, said that indiscriminate blows, which are alleged, inflicts Russia in the course of hostilities in Ukraine, are prohibited by international humanitarian legislation and can “be military crimes”, cites its words CNN. At a meeting of the UN Council for Human Rights in Geneva on Wednesday, Bachelet said that its investigators study 24 cases of Russia's application of cassette ammunition.

A resident of Nizhny Novgorod Lyudmila Kudryavtseva published on social networks an appeal to the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church, supporting the "special operation" in Ukraine. "Stop talking criminal bloodthirsty sermons!" - The author of the letter requires, inviting the church figures not to hide the truth about Ukrainian events or at least shut up. In the comments on the letter - exclusively gratitude for the right words.

Volunteers and mercenaries in Ukraine and in the world. How to distinguish some from others?

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, over the past year, flew fourteen times to the United Arab Emirates, where he spent time on a private villa, Ukrainian Pravda reports with reference to the services that track the aircraft, as well as citing social networks of people from Kadyrov’s entourage. The publication claims that the villa, on which the head of Chechnya is resting, is located on the artificially erected island of Palm Jumeira. The cost of its rent per day is about 3 thousand dollars.

American intelligence believes that advisers to Russian President Vladimir Putin hide the truth from him about the real situation during the fighting in Ukraine. This was written by Associated Press with reference to the representative of the US administration, who talked with journalists on anonymity. According to the representative of the administration, in particular, from Putin hide information about the participation of military service soldiers and cases of their death.

US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that, according to Washington, in the course of more than a month of the war, more than 10 thousand Russian military were killed in Ukraine. In an interview with the “present,” Nuland called Russian losses “incredible”, noting that, despite this, “Russia has not yet fully understood how strong the Ukrainian army”. Nuland did not say about specific sources of their assessment. Earlier, sources in American intelligence called similar numbers.

Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko, who was Vladimir Putin’s confidant in the election, received a reward from his hands, performed at the opening of the Olympics in Sochi and even took a picture with the flag of Novorossiya, along with one of the separatist leaders Oleg Tsarev (later she disavowed this gesture, saying that she did not know about the meaning of the symbol) condemned the war with Ukraine - more than a month after the Russian invasion of this country.

When will this war end? Will it be limited to Ukraine? Will Vladimir Putin decide to resort to his Ultima Ratio , which do not have guns, but atomic bombs in modern kings? No one will answer these questions now. But today we must think about how the post -war world will look. For what is happening now is a desperate attempt by different political players to maintain the space that arose after the Second World War. And first of all, the space is mental.

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"He just went to serve for a year in order to give this duty to his homeland. For a year, and not for life." Daniil Vorobyov is a Russian military soldier sent to fight to Ukraine and was captured there. Mom and girl are waiting for him at home. They are trying to get at least some information from the authorities, apply to the military prosecutor’s office, the FSB, and criminal investigation, but to no avail.

"The North Korea is already quite a bit." The former mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman was found guilty of discrediting the Russian army and fined 100 thousand rubles. He discussed the meaning of the letters Z and V.

The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) reported that she detained 60 supporters of the radical group M.K.U in 23 regions of Russia. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the Center for Public Relations of the FSB. The department did not reveal the names of the detainees. It is reported that searches were carried out in their homes. Smooth -bore civilian hunting weapons and ammunition, as well as homemade firearms and cold weapons, were seized.

Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov Yesterday's explosions in the Belgorod region occurred due to a fire in a warehouse of ammunition. This was announced by the head of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov, emphasizing, however, that this information was not officially confirmed. “We are waiting for the official message of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation,” the governor wrote in Telegram.

In the negotiations in Istanbul, on March 29, Ukraine "essentially" agreed with the "fundamental requirements" of Russia. This was stated on Wednesday by the head of the Russian delegation at negotiations on the world, assistant to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky. According to Medinsky, the Ukrainian side for the first time announced her readiness to negotiate with Russia.