What happened after the entry of Russian troops into Ukraine.

Day 52
News and announcements April 16 (c) Kommersant
21:32. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the budget of Ukraine loses €7 billion every month.
21:06. Volodymyr Zelensky believes that he will need more than one meeting with the Russian leadership to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
20:59. Ukrainian forces lost up to 3,000 dead and about 10,000 wounded during the fighting, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with CNN. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, only the irretrievable losses of the Ukrainian side amount to 23,367 people.
20:37. UK to continue supplying arms to Ukraine, including armored vehicles - Prime Minister's Office.
20:30. The wife of the Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, Oksana Marchenko, said that her husband agrees to the exchange and extradition to the Russian Federation if Kiev and Moscow reach an appropriate agreement. Marchenko asked President Putin to help with the exchange.
19:49. Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Evmenov met in Sevastopol with the crew of the Moskva missile cruiser, which sank this week. The officers, midshipmen and sailors of the cruiser will continue to serve in the navy, the commander-in-chief said.
19:14. The court in Lvov sent Medvedchuk under arrest without the possibility of making a bail - the publication "Strana" (Ukraine).
19:10. Zelensky says that Kyiv is ready to exchange Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, but there has been no response from Moscow yet.
18:54. Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the agreement with the Russian Federation may consist of two documents. "One of them should relate to security guarantees for Ukraine, the other - directly to its relations with the Russian Federation," the president said in an interview with Ukrainian online media.
18:50. The Czech Foreign Ministry will not respond to the Russian note on the inadmissibility of providing third countries with weapons of Soviet origin - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Jan Lipavsky.
18:42. The destruction of the Ukrainian military in Mariupol will put an end to negotiations with the Russian Federation, President Zelensky said. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian side announced its readiness to release all Ukrainian soldiers through humanitarian corridors and guaranteed the lives of nationalists who laid down their arms, but the Ukrainian side refused this proposal.
18:35. Since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, the German Federal Police have officially registered 350,649 Ukrainian refugees in the country, but their real number is likely to be much higher, according to the German Interior Ministry.
18:16. Chess.com , one of the world's most popular chess websites, has removed the flags of Russia and Belarus from broadcasts of FIDE tournaments and prize events. The site does not plan to block visitors from these countries, but does not currently accept subscription fees for additional services from Russia and Belarus.
17:40. French President Emmanuel Macron said he is considering establishing a ministerial post to address the problem of reducing the country's dependence on fossil energy resources - BFMTV channel.
17:17. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to create a special system that will allow people who do not meet the definition of a refugee in Japanese law to enter the country. It is supposed to introduce the concept of "quasi-refugee", which will allow to accept people who are forced to leave the territories where hostilities are taking place, in particular, Ukraine - Kyodo agency.
16:53. Iraq has come under pressure to increase its oil output, the country's oil minister, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, said. However, he did not specify from whom this pressure came.
16:50. In St. Petersburg, the deputy commander of the 8th Army, Major General Vladimir Frolov, who died during the Russian military special operation in Ukraine - Fontanka, was buried with reference to the press service of the St. Petersburg administration.
16:46. The application of the Sbermegamarket marketplace is not available for download and update in the Google Play app store, a company representative said.
16:14. Britain will continue to support Ukraine, despite the ban on entry into Russia for Prime Minister Johnson and key government members - the British Foreign Office.
16:03. Ukrainian banks hold $6.8 billion belonging to Russian and Belarusian companies, said the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yevgeny Enin. Earlier, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Kyiv would nationalize all Russian property in Ukraine in order to compensate for the country's losses from the Russian special operation.
15:55. The Lithuanian authorities decided, despite the fifth package of EU sanctions that came into force on Saturday, to let trucks with goods stuck in Lithuanian territory because of queues cross the border. Vygantas Paigozinas, Deputy Director of the Lithuanian Customs Department, announced this on the air of the national radio.
15:46. The mayor of Lvov, Andriy Sadovoy, said that the city plans to rename three dozen streets named after famous Russian figures. Previously, more than twenty streets were renamed in Ivano-Frankivsk.
15:40. WithBurbank and Alfa Bank have begun the process of selling their banks in Kazakhstan. Almost all major Russian players with banking assets in Kazakhstan, including Sberbank, VTB and Alfa-Bank, were under US and EU sanctions.
15:28. From Sunday, Italian ports will be closed to Russian ships, and the ban will also apply to ships that have changed flags after February 24.
15:17. French cosmetics firm L'Occitane has announced that it is closing all offline and online stores in Russia.
15:04. The Czech Republic received a diplomatic note from Russia regarding the transfer of Soviet-made military equipment by the republic to other states - Czech News Agency.
14:59. Of the eight residents of the Bryansk region who were injured in the shelling by Ukraine, five people remain in hospitals, two are in serious condition - the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
14:37. Russians will be able to credit their accounts in foreign banks with rubles and convert them into a currency - the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
14:35. The Russian Foreign Ministry expects that the British leadership will not delay responding to Medvedchuk's wife's request for a possible exchange of her husband for British prisoners.
13:53. Putin and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman discussed the oil market and the situation in Ukraine by phone and agreed to continue contacts.
13:42. Putin signed a law allowing the purchase of preferred shares of Russian banks at the expense of the NWF.
13:40. Putin signed a law on the delisting of Russian companies from foreign exchanges.
13:37. A resident of Elista was detained on suspicion of publishing false information about the number of deaths and details of a special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine on his Telegram channel, the investigative department of the ICR for Kalmykia reports.
13:27. Viktor Medvedchuk's wife, Oksana Marchenko, has approached the relatives of Britons Aiden Eslin and Sean Pinner, who were taken prisoner in Mariupol, with a proposal to ask Prime Minister Johnson to exchange them for her husband.
13:22. Putin signed a law amending legislation to support customers and participants in public procurement in the face of sanctions pressure.
12:58. Putin signed a law on penalties for publicly identifying the USSR and Nazi Germany or denying the decisive role of the Soviet people in its defeat: for citizens - up to 5 thousand rubles. or arrest up to 15 days, for legal entities - a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles.
12:45. The Belarusian authorities are preparing a new package of measures to support the country's economy in the face of Western sanctions pressure, said Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko.
12:43. In connection with the entry into force of the fifth package of EU sanctions, Romania has banned ships under the Russian flag from entering its ports since April 17.
12:34. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened four criminal cases on the facts of desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Germany.
12:33. Sanctions imposed by the West against Russian businessmen have become a drama for the international trade in works of art - the representative of the auction house Christie's.
12:30. The Duma faction of the United Russia party appealed to Roskomnadzor with a request to block the faction's fake website, according to ER, it is registered in the United States.
12:25. Key members of the British government and a number of political figures of the United Kingdom are denied entry to the Russian Federation. The Russian "stop list" included Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss, Defense Minister Ben Wallace, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, ex-Prime Minister Theresa May and others - a total of 13 people. This decision was made "in connection with the unprecedented hostile actions of the British government, expressed, in particular, in the imposition of sanctions against senior officials of the Russian Federation." The list may be expanded in the near future - Russian Foreign Ministry.
11:47. The anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the West have not yet brought the desired effect, Estonian Defense Minister Kalle Laanet said in an interview with Handelsblatt.
11:43. Hans-Joachim Frei, German director, artistic director of the Sirius Science and Art Park and the Talent and Success Foundation, has decided to stay in Russia.
11:23. Gross domestic product of Ukraine may fall by 30-50% in 2022 - Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko.
11:19. German gymnastic clubs have decided to terminate contracts with Russian athletes due to the difficult political situation - Olympic champion Artur Dalaloyan, who played last season for the Schwabisch Gmund-Wetzgau club.
11:17. The head of the Ministry of Justice of Germany, Marco Buschman, does not consider the supply of heavy weapons to Kiev "entry into the war."
11:13. Wolfgang Steiger, general secretary of the Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Union, called for expanding the use of gas fields in Germany to reduce energy dependence on Russia.
11:09. Ukrainian authorities plan to evacuate civilians on Saturday along nine agreed humanitarian corridors - Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk.
11:07. Seychelles confirmed that they will not impose sanctions against Russia bypassing the UN, the resumption of direct flights is currently being discussed - Russian Embassy. Seychelles is located in Indyth ocean and are one of the popular holiday destinations for tourists from many countries.
10:59. Moscow does not rule out that, following Russia, the West will try to exclude other countries from the UNHRC and turn the council into a “club of real democracies” – the Russian Foreign Ministry.
10:51 am. Russia remained in the status of an observer at the UN Human Rights Council - the Russian Foreign Ministry.
9:54. The US Embassy in Yerevan admitted that it is cooperating with Armenian banks on anti-Russian sanctions - the Hraparak (Square) newspaper, citing a written response from the diplomatic mission.
9:51. Business activity in Europe is reduced due to the holidays, gas supplies from Russia are also reduced. The application for pumping Russian gas to Europe as of April 16 is 57.2 million cubic meters. m against 70 million cubic meters. m a day earlier - data from the GTS Operator of Ukraine.
9:48. The Cabinet of Ministers will allocate 439 million rubles to the regions. for the accommodation of evacuated residents of Donbass. The main recipients of funds will be the Rostov, Voronezh and Kursk regions.