The Ukrainian army shelled the residential sector in Russian-occupied Tokmak, Zaporozhye region. This was reported by the Russian-appointed head of the region, Evgeny Balitsky. According to him, there are dead, including one child, as well as dozens of seriously wounded. Balitsky did not name their exact number. An official from the occupation administration of the region, Vladimir Rogov, in his telegram channel reports six dead and at least 20 injured.

St. Petersburg National Bolsheviks Artem Moroz and Ilya Stepanov reported being beaten at the 78th police department, where they were taken after an action against migrants. The telegram channel “Ordinary Tsarism” writes about this. What exactly the security forces did with Moroz and Stepanov is unknown.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the information and political publication Polit.Ru in Russia. The Roskomsvoboda project, which monitors blockages, drew attention to this. According to Roskomsvoboda, access was limited by a “mask”, that is, by blocking access to all domains and subdomains of Polit.Ru.

The Ministry of Justice added journalists Asya Kazantseva and Ilya Barabanov to the list of “foreign agents”.

On Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg, a tram crashed into a crowd of people crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing. The video of the accident was published by the city prosecutor's office. The department clarifies that the accident occurred at the intersection of Odoevsky and Nalichnaya streets. According to St. Petersburg police, three people were injured as a result of the accident.

The investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow Region, opened a criminal case against a man who doused a 16-year-old girl and a woman with a chemical liquid. This was reported by the press service of the regional department. The identity of the attacker has not been established. The security forces accuse him of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

Russia and Ukraine handed over the bodies of dead servicemen to each other. The Ukrainian headquarters for the treatment of prisoners reported the return of the bodies of 99 dead. State Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliev clarified to RBC that Russia has returned the bodies of 23 soldiers. Previously, in 2024, body swaps took place on March 29 , March 15 , February 16 and January 26 . The British newspaper Telegraph published a report from the February exchange.

The Ministry of Education published an order to change the school curriculum. From September 2025, the social studies course will begin only in ninth grade. Now the subject is studied from the sixth grade - one lesson per week. Due to social studies, the number of history lessons from fifth to eighth grade will increase - from two to three times a week. In ninth grade there will be two per week.

A programmer from Mordovia was detained at the Ozinki checkpoint in the Saratov region on the border with Kazakhstan. The regional border department of the FSB reported this to the publications Region 64 , Fourth Power and Vzglyad-Info . A case was opened against a man born in 1986, a “programmer for a foreign company”, who was traveling to Kazakhstan because of his messages in chat rooms, for justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, Sirojiddin Mukhriddin, condemned the use of torture against the probable perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. His words are quoted by the ASIA-Plus news agency.

Governor of the Murmansk region Andrei Chibis said that he was discharged from the hospital after being stabbed in Apatity. On April 4, after a meeting with residents of the city of Chibis, 42-year-old Russian Railways fitter Alexander Bydanov stabbed him in the stomach. The governor was operated on and transferred to intensive care. Bydanov was also wounded during his arrest - a National Guard member shot him in the leg.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in absentia against publicist Alexander Nevzorov for evading requirements for “foreign agents.” This was reported by Fontanka and Mash , without indicating the source of their data. The publications suggested that the pretext for persecution was the lack of markings on the status of “foreign agent” in Nevzorov’s posts (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code).

A car exploded in the Degunino district of Moscow, telegram channels 112 , Shot , and REN TV reported. The Investigative Committee said that the explosion occurred on Korovinskoye Highway and the owner of the car was injured. A criminal case has been opened, but under what article is not specified.

In Moscow, police broke into the home of Kyrgyz embassy adviser Manas Zholdoshbekov to check his documents, breaking into the apartment's lock. This was reported by the anonymous telegram channel “VChK-OGPU”. Member of the country's parliament Dastan Bekeshev confirmed this, citing Zholdoshbekov himself. According to the VChK-OGPU, this happened on April 8.

Orenburg Mayor Sergei Salmin announced the evacuation of residents of the southern outskirts of the city due to flooding. We are talking about areas near the intersection of Gagarin Avenue and Zagorodnoye Highway, which were flooded on the night of April 12. “Over the past 10 hours, the water level in the Urals has risen by 40 cm and is now 1143. These values ​​are dangerous,” the official wrote.