Svetlana Prokopyeva After a year of the war, it became clear that tomorrow it would not end. I stopped grabbing, barely waking up, by the phone in the hope of seeing this news . But even a year later, I cannot understand how we got into it. As we allowed the President to appropriate our will and our name to create evil, an unusable, seemingly, in the 21st century.

The funeral of the Russian military The number of the murdered Russian participants in the war in Ukraine a year after the February invasion exceeded the official losses of the Soviet Union in the war in Afghanistan over 9 years. This follows from the updated data of the Mediazone monitoring and the Russian BBC Russian service.

Andrey Medvedev The former commander of the Vagner PMC, Andrei Medvedev, who escaped from Russia to Norway, was arrested in Oslo. According to the New Gazeta, he fought at the bar and applied violence to the police. The publication refers to a court order, which states that Medvedev had a fight at the bar on the night of February 21-22, after which he resisted the police and struck the employees. With whom and for what reason Medvedev was fighting, it is unknown.

A year ago, the Russian army began an aggressive invasion of Ukraine with several directions: in the north - from the territory of Belarus, in the east - from the so -called "LPR" and "DPR" and in the south - from the annexed Crimea. Vladimir Putin called this a "special military operation", the main tasks of which are "demilitarization" and "denazification" of Ukraine.

Anti -war action in Moscow, February 24, 2022 After the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities forbade their citizens to call the war “war”. Now any anti -war performances are in the brutal way. During the year of the war, the security forces detained about 20 thousand people in Russia, who dared in one form or another for anti -war statements and actions. About 450 criminal cases were instituted against them and amounted to 25 thousand protocols.

Anton Starikov Putin began his war on February 24, the day after the day of the defender of the Fatherland. Many probably asked themselves the question, why not a day a day? From the point of view of “patriotic” logic, it would be directly symbolic. But who, besides narrow specialists, will figure out what is in the head of this person. Living in Russia, I never considered the day of the defender of the Fatherland to my holiday. At least from conscious age, when he began to reflect.

Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg At the metro "Gostiny Dvor" in St. Petersburg, the man shot at OMON employee. The policeman was hospitalized with a wound in the stomach, attacked by detained, reports Fontanka. According to the publication, they shot the buckshot from the circumcision. According to Fontanka, a 43-year-old warrant officer, the driver of OMON BASTION, was wounded in the stomach. He is in the hospital in serious condition.

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, Archive photo China urged the parties to the military conflict in Ukraine to respect the sovereignty of all countries, stop hostilities, "abandon the mentality of the Cold War" and start negotiations. The document is published on the website of the China Foreign Ministry. There is no paragraph on the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territories occupied in Ukraine there.

Over the year of the war, more than 10 thousand resources were added to the register of prohibited sites against Ukraine in Russia, which allegedly “discredited” the army and distributed “military fakes”. In just a year, for various reasons, almost 250 thousand resources were blocked. This is stated in a joint study by Ooni (Open Observatorp of Network Interference) and the RoskomSvoboda project.

Promotion in support of Ukraine in St. Petersburg, February 24, 2023 On February 24, promotions are held throughout Russia, dedicated to the anniversary of the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine. People arrange spontaneous memorials and go to single pickets. From the cities there are reports of the first detentions. In St. Petersburg, the police detained at least 15 people who tried to lay flowers to the monument to Taras Shevchenko.