Vladimir Zelensky held a large press conference in the Kiev metro. Here is a retelling of its main points Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta This is an approximate retelling of the answers of Vladimir Zelensky at a press conference in Kyiv. Its speech is not verbatim, most of the statements are edited. For convenience, we combined statements into thematic blocks that sounded at different points in the press conference. About missile shelling of Odessa These are our Easter days.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said during a press conference in Kyiv that eight people were killed and about 20 were injured as a result of rocket attacks on Odessa. These are our Easter days, amazing. Seven missiles arrived in Odessa today, seven missiles. We shot down two. <...> A rocket hit a multi-storey building. Eight people - for now, right at this moment - eight people died, 18 or 20 injured. <...> A three-month-old child was killed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv would stop negotiations with Russia if "pseudo-referendums" were held anywhere on Ukrainian territory. So he answered the question about the impending, according to the Ukrainian authorities, "referendum" on the proclamation of the "Kherson People's Republic" in the occupied Kherson region.

Türkiye has closed its airspace to Russian military and civilian aircraft flying to Syria. This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, reports The Daily Sabah. According to him, Turkey issued permits to Russia every three months and the latter expired by April. Since then, flights, according to the minister, have ceased. The reason for Turkey's decision not to renew the permit is not explained in The Daily Sabah's report.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the target of the missile attack on Odessa on April 23 was "a logistics terminal at a military airfield ... where a large batch of foreign weapons received from the United States and European countries was stored." According to the city authorities, two of the missiles fired at Odessa hit a military facility, and two hit residential buildings.

Subscribe to our YouTube on April 23, Russia inflicted a missile blow to Odessa. According to the city authorities, two out of six missiles fell into residential buildings, two more into a military facility and two were shot down by the air defense. According to preliminary data, six people were killed, including a three -month -old child, 18 people were injured.

How people leave their homes in cars. Photos Residents of Ukraine leave their homes - according to the Office of the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees, from February 24, about five million Ukrainians left the country (this is the largest stream of refugees in Europe since the Second World War). More than seven million, remaining in Ukraine, were forced to leave their settlements.

Chain of applications Victor Korotaev / Kommersant April 13th ↓ In the evening, representatives of the Ukrainian authorities announced an attack on the Moscow cruiser - the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation - the Neptune anti -ship missiles. As a result, the ship received “very serious damage”, a fire began.

Sergei Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, met in Donetsk with the leaders of the DPR and LPR, Interfax reports citing a source. “During the trip, he held meetings with the leaders of the DPR and LPR, at which issues of interaction with the republics of Donbass were discussed,” the source said.

In 1962, Marlene Dietrich sang the anti -war song "Where did all the flowers disappear?" Renata Litvinova in his short film repeats this question Director and actress Renata Litvinova published on her Utuub channel a short film "When will you finally understand?" In it, Litvinova under the song by Marlene Dietrich “Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind” (“Where did all the flowers disappear?”) The Russian translation of this song pronounces.

Odessa authorities reported that on the afternoon of April 23, the Russian military attacked the city with cruise missiles. According to the city authorities, two rockets hit military facilities, two - in residential buildings. Two more missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defense. As a result of the shelling, according to preliminary data, five people were killed and 18 were injured, said Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential office, . Among the dead was a three-month-old baby.

After the war in Ukraine began, the management of the Prosveshcheniye publishing house issued an unofficial order to minimize references to Ukraine and Kiev in Russian school textbooks. Three editors of the publishing house told Mediazona about this. This order was received on the first day of the war, February 24. The management's request to remove "incorrect" references to Ukraine was conveyed to the employees of "Prosveshchenie" at a "confidential" meeting, the publication's sources said.

“The Earth is blue, like an orange” - Irina Tsilyk’s painting about how shooting the film helps to escape from bombs and all -pervasive fear "Artdokfest" Medusa begins a series of publications on documentaries, which during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine become even more relevant and important. Every Saturday, film critic Anton Dolin will talk about one documentary tape; These will include both new films and released several years ago.

Photo Evgeny Feldman / "Medusa" in Riga at the Freedom Monument is a rally of the Russian Voice Against War , which unites the Russian -speaking inhabitants of Latvia. The goal of the action, according to the organizers, is to show that the inhabitants of Latvia, speaking Russian, do not identify themselves with the regime of Vladimir Putin, do not support the policy of violence and war in Ukraine, respect the sovereignty and culture of other states.

An interview with theater director Nikita Betekhtin. He is in Russia and fights with theaters who hang the symbol Z on their facade Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta building of the Moscow Theater Oleg Tabakov with a Z symbol on the facade. March 30, 2022 Since March 2022, symbols of support for Russian “special operations” in Ukraine have appeared on the facades and posts of Russian theaters.