In the first days of April, the world shuddered with horror and anger, seeing the terrible footage of the consequences of the Russian occupation. Quiet resort towns near Kyiv were held hostage by an army of marauders and maniacs for practically a month. Arriving on a foreign land, Putin’s soldiers immediately began to exterminate the civilian population.

A lot of memes were made on social networks about Russian soldiers who dug in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and in its most radioactive part – the famous Red Forest.

According to survivors, the Ukrainian military claims that atrocities in Irpen, Gostomel and Bucha were committed by Russian soldiers, mainly of Mongoloid origin – Buryats, Tuvans, Yakuts. Ruslan Gabbasov, a historian and one of the leaders of the public organization Bashkortostan, banned in Russia last year, shared this in his Telegram channel.

Farit Zakiyev, head of the All-Tatar Public Center (The Tatar Social Center), left Russia after the war with Ukraine started as a sign of anti-war protest. 

“I do not accept this war at all, because I am a man of that generation who studied with Ukrainians at the university and worked at the plant. The war with the Ukrainians is absolutely unacceptable to me, ” he said in an interview to Idel.Realii.

The main pro-Kremlin propaganda website, RIA Novosti, published an article about what the Russian Federation wants to do with Ukraine. Among other things, the Russian occupiers want to re-educate the Ukrainian people, set up strict censorship in politics, culture and education. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has already said that the article will serve as one of the evidence for the upcoming tribunal against Russian war criminals.

3 hours of recordings from the online camera of the courier service in Mozyr (Belarus), through which Russian marauders were sending things that were stolen from Ukrainians, was published in the Telegram channel by the Belaruski Gayun project.

The population in Russia decreased by 1.2 million people or by 0.83%. This happened due to a sharp death rate increase while slowing down the influx of migrants. In the country as a whole, in 2021 the number of deaths exceeded the number of births by 1.7 times, RIA Novosti reports in its study of the demographic rating of Russian regions. One of the main reasons is the coronavirus epidemic.

“Putin’s infantryman” Ramzan Kadyrov decided to keep up with the President of the Russian Federation and also promote himself by helping the families of those killed in Ukraine.

Russian Sberbank began to open the safe deposit boxes of “enemies of the people and renegades who dared to go abroad in difficult times for the Motherland.” This was announced on the Facebook page of Andrey Shipilov, a Russian journalist, who evacuated from the Russian Federation early.

Vladimir Putin announced that the families of the servicemen killed in Ukraine will receive statutory insurance benefits and a lump sum of 7 million 421 thousand roubles, a monthly monetary compensation for each family member of the deceased and that an additional 5 million roubles will be paid to each family.

Among numerous spoils of war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured the manual discussing the methods used by the political commissar.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting a mopping-up operation in Kyiv Oblast. In the liberated suburbs of Kyiv (Bucha, Irpin, and others) mass graves of civilians tortured by the invaders are found. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation resorted to “scorched earth” tactics in their retreat.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has arrived in Senegal on a working visit, Idel.Realii reports.

In an interview the head of State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin stated: “The State Duma is keeping this issue on the agenda. All those paid by the State, therefore – by the people, and betraying them should leave managing positions in state cultural, educational, healthcare and other institutions. It’s disrespectful towards our soldiers and officers, protecting our country. We will make sure to task Ministers with this issue and insist on personnel changes”.

In his interview to Euractiv, the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan Timur Suleimenov stated that Kazakhstan respected the territorial integrity of Ukraine, did not recognize Crimea as part of Russia and had no intention to assist Russia in avoiding Western sanctions.