Russia always fights like this
Good morning!
Russian travel companies launch three-day trips to Uzbekistan for issuing Visa and Mastercard bank cards; iPhone caravans to Ulaanbaatar are also probably just around the corner. The rest is like this:
- Russia announced a “drastic” reduction in activity in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions – and withdrew a small number of troops. The shelling of Kyiv has returned.
- The building of the regional administration of Nikolaev was destroyed by a missile strike – 12 people were killed, more than 30 were injured. The strike on the airfield in the Khmelnytsky region destroyed the stocks of fuel and lubricants.
- The Russian ruble has strengthened significantly against the dollar, but carrots and cabbage are getting more expensive.
- Roskomnadzor admits the “blocking quality” of prohibited consumption, requires Wikipedia to remove an article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and draws up protocols in Google.
Negotiations in Turkey
In the Stambul took place between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations – the results inspire restrained optimism. Russia more does not require “denazification” of Ukraine, and Ukraine (1) agreement on a non-bloc and non-nuclear status with the expected signing of security guarantees compared to Article 5 of NATO from the major world powers, (2) Russia does not proceed with Ukraine’s accession to the EU, (3) questions Crimea and Donbass are discussed unsettled (the decision on Crimea is frozen for 15 years, Donbass is discussed in direct negotiations between Putin and Zelensky). Russia announced a “drastic” reduction in activity in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions. Ramzan Kadyrov is very rebuilt.
Special belief that Russia is bogged down near Kiev (here is a report about the liberation of the village of Lukyanovka in the Kiev region – the Ukrainian invaders not only knocked out foreign citizens, but also captured three tanks), so that military activity there is already “dramatically delayed”. On Wednesday night, despite the peace-loving statements of Russia, the shelling of Kyiv returned. According to the PentagonRussia withdraws only a small part of the troops from Kyiv, but does not withdraw, but according to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russia simply rotates and regroups its forces. On distrust of Russia declared in the evening video message of the President of Ukraine; here former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk justifies his distrust of Ukraine. Leaders of the US, UK, France, Germany and Italy warned Western countries from losing vigilance, and Boris Johnson separately statedthat Moscow does not believe, and the supply of weapons to Kiev may be available.
Frontal summaries
Russia has focused on its activity in the Donbass (about this bluntly stated returned from media oblivion, Defense Minister Shoigu), so she profitable the release of units from the Kiev and Chernigov concentrations. Moreover, Chernihiv actually Russian army. Here’s the story 15-year-old Andrei from Chernihiv: after their private house was destroyed by the military, they most likely evacuated from the city, but the car in which they left was blown up by a mine – his mother burned to death in front of him.
Tuesday morning Russia inflicted high-precision missile attack on the regional administration in Nikolaev – 12 people were killed, more than 30 were injured. The head of the region Vitaly Kim, whose positive, encouraging blog very popular in Ukraine, he said that the Russians said hello to this rocket: it hit the fourth floor, where his office is located. Here the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich tells about his arrival in Nikolaev, and here – a report by Elena Kostyuchenko from Nikolaev, who “Novaya Gazeta” deleted from its website after the exclusion of Roskomnadzor.
On Tuesday, Russian troops struck at the airfield near the town of Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnytsky region. Complete neutralization of stocks of fuels and lubricants.
The story of the fighters of the battalion “Azov” cases of use in captivity The Russian army did not find understanding among the fighters themselves: they published video of himself at large – as they create, in Kharkov. One of these fighters is the author of a football chant about Putin.
About the arrival in the Donbass, on the capture of which the Russian army is going, here tells head of the Donetsk military administration Pavel Kirilenko. There is more and more evidence of what happened in Mariupol during the worst days of air raids (first, second, third). According to preliminary data, about five thousand people died in the city, at least 200 of them were children. The fate of Mariupol discussed in a telephone conversation – the ninth since the start of the war – Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron. Putin said that “the nationalists must surrender their weapons” and Macron presented him with a plan for an international humanitarian mission that Putin could “think about”.
According to Kadyrov, it is usually impossible to take items, near Mariupol sign injured Ruslan Geremeev, the alleged organizer of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Ibid injured Izvestia correspondent Rodion Severyanov. Chapter with the same name “DPR” going introduce your “republican” into Russia, when Russian troops recapture the entire territory of the Donetsk region.
Late Tuesday evening the government of the Belgorod region allocated about an explosion in a temporary prisoner-of-war town near the Ukrainian border; strangely, Ukraine was not blamed for the explosion.
What’s next?
Here are the predictions director of the research center New Geopolitics Research Network Mikhail Samus: reporting a large increase in casualties and the failure of the initial war plan, he is armed that Russia always fights this way Russia can resort to the last “trump card”, that is, use chemical or nuclear weapons.
Forecasts by Vladimir Pastukhov concern not only the outcome of the war, but also the future of Russia: he expects the fall of Putin in the interval from several months to several years, he does not believe in world aspects between Russia and Ukraine, but believes in some kind of unstable spatial analysis, within Russia he snatches some Coupon to sell it for internal advertising as a landmark victory (but does not have an audience for this victory, will not satisfy).
State of “internal translation”
Dollar for the first time in a month got down on the Moscow Exchange below 86 rubles. Why – explained here. Ordinary people should not be particularly pleased with this, because the large sale of currency in banks is prohibited, brokers are obliged to take interest from individuals, and on the black market the rate will be determined according to the laws of the black market.
FAS start antitrust investigation into a group of sugar producers, but at this point started to rise in price cabbage and carrots.
Taking advantage of the Russian care market for Western companies, enterprising people started filing Applications for the registration of foreign brands, though, remain hopeless.
Another forecast that the Russian economy will be by the end of the year, read here. Much will depend on the ability to trade in oil and gas. Cases of a lot of incomprehensible: consequences after the G7 countries disappearance pay for Russian gas in rubles, as Putin demands. Peskov said that if there were no rubles, there would be no gas. But the opposite is also true: if gas is not found on the European market, there will be neither rubles nor dollars. Reuters noticed gas consumption in Germany via the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, but what this means is still unclear.
Roskomnadzor announced checking the “quality” of blocking prohibited content, goal again from Wikipedia to remove the article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, result two conflicts with Google over the “false spread” of the war in Ukraine on YouTube. In response, VPN services AmneziaVPN, Proton and HighLoad VPN initiative free access to publications blocked in Russia and non-profit organizations.
Immune reactions to the war in Ukraine continue:
- Putin exclusive from the council under the Security Council of the Russian Federation of four scientists who did not support the war – including the grandson of the head of the USSR Foreign Ministry, Gromyko.
- Regarding the former mayor of Yekaterinburg, Evgeny Roizman showed three protocols for “discrediting” the Russian army and on order from them already fined one hundred thousand rubles in total.
- In St. Petersburg, Yevgeny Isaev, who doused himself with paint during an anti-war rally on Nevsky, fined for 45 thousand rubles and again detained.
- Court in Elista fined for 30 thousand rubles by the deputy chairman of the congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people, Aduchu Erdneev, who signed the anti-war letter.
- Two Tula ambulance paramedics send to jail in the case of vandalism due to anti-war inscriptions.
- Supreme Court of Tatarstan replaced candidate of biological sciences Andrei Boyarshinov in a pre-trial detention center in the case of “justifying terrorism” in a chat about an anti-war rally.
- In Omsk detained Deputy of the State Council Dmitry Petrenko, who expanded the “special operation”.
- In Moscow behind the inscription “No war” on the car detained Vera Bashmakova, editor of the scientific and production publication Biomolecule.
- In Buryatia for anti-war statements fired artistic director of the Bestuzhev Theater Sergey Levitsky (this is the main drama theater in the republic).
Director left Russia Kirill Serebrennikov and Kaliningrad activist Ivan Luzin (before that, he served 25 days for an anti-war action). Karelian historian of Stalinist repressions Yuri Dmitriev, sentenced to 15 years in prison, left the stage from the Petrozavodsk pre-trial detention center to a colony in the village of Nadvoitsy.
International
Russia you are watching 10 diplomats from the Baltic countries (four Lithuanian, three Latvian and three Estonian). Netherlands expel 17 Russian diplomats, Belgium – 21, Ireland – four, Czech Republic – one.
On the creation of the UN Security Council, dedicated to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, Permanent Representative Vasyl Nebenzya clarify to the world community that the West is importing weapons to Ukraine for checking and registering cars, as well as for DHL cars (apparently, now they will be specially shot). In addition, according to Nebenzya, the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine (in particular, in Mariupol) call not by war, bombing and shelling, but by Western sanctions imposed on Russia. In the same composition, Great Britain expanded readiness exclusion of a security guarantee under an agreement with Russia, representative of Ukraine rememberedthat the signing of any treaty not earlier than Russia withdraws Ukraine from its troops.
From Russia delete Polish clothing manufacturer LPP Group, which owns the brands Reserved, Cropp, House, Mohito and Sinsay. Johnson and Johnson suspend import of personal care products in Russia, due to supply problems will stop Decathlon. Chain of household goods OBI accommodation in the state of Zhirinovsky: Russian representatives say that stores will reopen soon, while the German leadership assures that they return closed. According to The New York Times, Nokia after leaving the Russian market painting SORM. Connection of people.
Seven links
- War is a natural reaction. Ukrainian women tellhow they survive the war with their children; citizens of the world with a Russian background describehow they react to the rising waves of Ukraine in Germany, the Czech Republic, Israel; foreign employees of the Republic of Tatarstan explain reasons for leaving.
- Literary. Poet Olga Sedakova tellswhat she is going through now, and remembers the past, when she already had to make choices in dark times. Or story Fazil Iskander about the Georgian-Abkhaz war (1992-1993).
- Japanese. 11 questions about Japanese culture. Or story orientalist Alexander Meshcheryakov about how Japan in the 1930s broke into a historical peak that almost ended in a national catastrophe.
Sincerely yours,
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