Residents of Yoshkar-Ola , Izhevsk , Kirov , St. Petersburg and Moscow brought flowers to spontaneous memorials in memory of the victims of the massive shelling of Ukrainian cities by the invaders on the night of April 28. In Moscow, while trying to lay flowers at the monument to Lesya Ukrainka, security forces detained Yulia Petrova. The girl was then released from the police department without drawing up a report. On April 27–28, Russian strikes killed 28 civilians, seven of them children.

In the Canadian province of Quebec, a court sentenced 61-year-old Stephen LaRouche to eight years in prison for seven videos of child porn generated by artificial intelligence and possession of “hundreds of thousands of files” with the same content. The videos were created using deepfake technology, which allows you to synthesize the voice and appearance of any person.

In occupied Sevastopol, a fire broke out at a fuel storage facility early in the morning. The first reports of the explosion appeared on local telegram channels at five in the morning. According to a Krym.Realii correspondent, shooting was heard in the area of ​​the oil depot at about two in the morning. The “governor” of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev , said that the fire occurred due to a drone hit.

At least two people died due to Russian shelling of Ukraine on April 28, and another 12 civilians were injured. Russia shelled the Kherson, Donetsk, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine, the administrations of these regions reported today. Also on April 29, search and rescue operations ended after the Russian shelling of the city of Uman, Cherkasy region on the night of April 28. A total of 23 people died, including six children, said the head of the administration, Igor Taburets.

On the night of April 23, Armenian police broke into the Yerevan techno club "Poligraph". Security forces beat up workers and visitors to the club, searched them, and later took some to the police station “against their will.” After this, the city authorities closed Polygraph, and the club launched a Defend Dance petition demanding support in the fight against repression.

The Seversky City Court of Tomsk fined 65-year-old human rights activist Marina Novikova one million rubles for article about “fakes” about the Russian army. TV2 reports this with reference to her husband Alexander Gavrik. The defense will appeal the verdict. In her last word at the trial, Novikova asked that she be given a real sentence, since she would not be able to pay even the minimum fine.

On April 28, the Governor of the US state of Montana, Greg Gianforte, signed a law banning gender-affirming therapy for minors. The law restricts transgender teens' access to hormone therapy or puberty blockers. On April 26, the GOP-majority House banned its member, transgender activist Zoe Zephyr, from debating this and other bills until the end of the legislative session in May.

Zarema Musaeva’s lawyers, Alexander Savin and Alexander Nemov, announced falsification of evidence in her case, reports Team Against Torture. During the hearing in the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny, they petitioned to exclude from the evidence in the case the results of the examination, which revealed traces of the victim’s blood under the woman’s nails. According to them, the sample for the study was obtained in violation of the criminal procedure law.