The US House of Representatives passed a bill to allocate $61 billion in military aid to Ukraine, CNN said online. 311 congressmen voted in favor and 112 voted against. “Democrats applauded and waved Ukrainian flags during the voting,” journalists report. The package must now be approved by President Joe Biden. Of the $99 billion package, $61 is intended for Ukraine. The United States will be able to transfer ATACMS long-range missiles to Kiev.

The Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk decided to expel rapper Platina (Robert Plaudis) from Russia. This was reported by the SHOT telegram channel and Rossiyskaya Gazeta . Platinum is a citizen of Latvia. He was detained the day before, on April 19, in Tomsk during a concert.

The authorities of the Kurgan region called for an urgent evacuation of residents of the regional capital, whose houses are adjacent to the Kirov Bridge area. This is reported on the regional government website. “There is a threat of flooding. Evacuation is underway. Take children, elderly and disabled relatives and pets. Collect your things, documents, medicines and leave the danger zone,” the message says.

The former head of Navalny's headquarters in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, was transported from Bashkortostan to the Perm region. Her husband Almaz Gatin told RusNews about this. “Tonight my wife was taken to IK-28 Berezniki, Perm Territory. Route: pre-trial detention center-3 Chelyabinsk, pre-trial detention center-5 Yekaterinburg, pre-trial detention center-5 Perm,” said the husband of the oppositionist.

In the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Belgorod Region, a shell fragment killed a pregnant woman. This was announced by the head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, the woman was wounded on the street and died in a hospital in the city of Shchebekino. Three more people were injured as a result of Ukrainian shelling. The head of the Ukrainian region, Oleg Sinegubov, reported about the Russian shelling of Volchansk, Kharkov region. A 50-year-old and an 83-year-old man died there.

The poet Artem Kamardin, sentenced to seven years in prison, is being held in an overcrowded cell in Moscow's Butyrka Detention Center No. 2. Human rights activist Vladimir Vasilenko, who visited him, reported this. According to Vasilenko, the premises are designed for 22 people, but there are 25 prisoners there. In addition, Kamardin’s cell has broken windows and constant cold. The defender also writes about the deterioration of the poet’s health - he is tormented by pain in his back and head.

In Balashikha, near Moscow, a killer shot and killed a 61-year-old man. This was reported by the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the department, the murder occurred around eight in the morning on Sverdlov Street. Telegram channels “Pulse of Moscow” , SHOT and Mash published videos from outdoor surveillance cameras. His footage shows how a man dressed in black clothes was waiting for the victim in advance.

Ukrainian drones attacked eight regions of Russia, the Ministry of Defense reports . The department claims that air defense forces shot down 50 drones over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Tula, Smolensk, Ryazan, Kaluga and Moscow regions. In the village of Poroz, Belgorod region, according to local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, two people died - a woman who had a fractured femur, and a man caring for her.