Ukrainian journalist Bohdan Bitik, who accompanied Corrado Zunino, a correspondent for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, died in the Kherson region. According to La Repubblica, journalists were ambushed by Russian snipers near the Antonovsky Bridge: “We passed three checkpoints, the Ukrainian military let us through without any problems. This was not a war zone. Then they hit us, I heard a hiss and saw Bogdan on the ground, he didn’t move, ”said the Italian journalist.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan canceled a number of planned events at which he was supposed to be present due to health problems. Erdogan wrote about this on his Twitter. On the eve of the president, it became bad during direct television. Erdogan said that at the insistence of doctors he will spend the day at home. He added that the Vice President of Turkey Fuat Oktai will replace it at the upcoming events.

Google updated its satellite images of Mariupol for the first time since 2021. The photos show destruction on a catastrophic scale. On April 25, Google Earth and Google Maps updated their satellite images of Mariupol. The previous satellite images were from June 2021, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Polish prosecutor’s office seized funds from Russia’s embassy and trade mission accounts, the Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev told RIA Novosti. The Russian ambassador said that “we received a notice from the prosecutor’s office that funds from the embassy and trade mission’s accounts at Santander bank were transferred to the account of the prosecutor’s office.” According to Andreev, Santander announced that it stopped cooperating with the Russian embassy and closed its accounts.

Russian prosecutors have requested a 12-year prison sentence for Lilia Chanysheva, a former regional coordinator for Alexey Navalny’s organization, another top associate of the jailed opposition politician said on Wednesday. Chanysheva led Team Navalny’s Ufa headquarters from 2017–2021. In November 2021, six months after the politician’s network of field offices was outlawed by the Russian authorities, she was arrested on charges of helping create an “extremist” organization.

An audio recording of a telephone conversation, presumably between Russian billionaire Roman Trotsenko , has appeared on the Internet, in which he criticizes the Russian government, as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin personally. The first to notice the recording was the project " Sistema ". According to journalists, Trotsenko's interlocutor could have been businessman Nikolai Matushevsky, and the conversation itself probably took place at the beginning of 2023.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Biden goes for a second term. Who is his competitors (except Trump)? And how will these elections affect the support of Ukraine of Ukraine? On April 25, US President Joe Biden announced that he intended to again participate in the elections in 2024. “Each generation has moments when they have to defend democracy. Defend your main freedoms. I believe that this is our moment, ”wrote a politician on Twitter. Now Bidena is 80 years old.

The Polish prosecutor's office seized money from the accounts of the embassy and the trade mission of Russia, the head of the Russian diplomatic mission, Sergei Andreev, told RIA Novosti. “We received a notification from the prosecutor's office that the funds from the accounts of the embassy and the trade representation in Santander bank were transferred to the accounts of the prosecutor's office,” the ambassador said.

Azovstal, a drama theater and other objects - before and after the Russian invasion Google Earth and Google Maps services on April 25 updated Mariupol satellite pictures. The previous time this happened before the Russian invasion - in June 2021. The pictures included in the update were taken at different times after the start of a full -scale war. So, in some areas of the city, fires are visible during battles, in others - the construction of new buildings by the occupation authorities.

President Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak reported that 44 people have returned to Ukraine as part of a prisoner exchange, including 36 privates and sergeants, six officers, and two civilians. Yermak said that the servicemen participated in the defense of Mariupol, Azovstal, and Kherson, as well as combat in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that 40 Russian servicemen returned to Russia. They will be sent to Moscow for treatment and rehabilitation.

The Southern District Military Court upheld the court's decision to arrest the head of the armored service, Colonel Alexander Denisov, who is accused of stealing engines for T-90 tanks, Kommersant reports. According to investigators, from November 2021 to April 2022, the colonel stole seven V-92S2 engines intended for installation on T-90 tanks. Investigators estimated the total amount of damage at 20.5 million rubles.

The state prosecution was requested for the former head of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Ufa Lilia Chanysheva 12 years in colony, said the director of the FBK Ivan Zhdanov. Lilia Chanysheva headed the Ufa headquarters of Navalny in 2017-2021. In November 2021, she was detained . Chanysheva became the first criminal case detained in the criminal case on the creation of an “extremist” community, which was excited against Alexei Navalny and his associates in the fall of 2021.

We tell in detail what this article is about - and how it was used by Russian propaganda Muhammed Enes Yildirim / Anadolu Agency / Abacapress / DDP Images / Vida Press Ukrainian artillers fired on the front line in Donetsk, April 24, 2023 The New York Times, one of the main American newspapers, published an article under the heading "Spring of Ukraine is associated with huge bets for the future of the war." It states that in case of failure of the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at

A MiG-31 fighter jet crashed in Russia’s Murmansk region, the Telegram channel Baza and Russian state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday. According to a source from the Russian authorities who spoke to TASS, one of the plane’s motors caught on fire during a routine flight, causing it to crash into a lake. “The pilots were likely catapulted out; eyewitnesses claim that they saw two parachuters in the area,” he said. A different source told Baza that the pilots were found alive in the area.

After the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine, many Western companies announced the suspension of their business in Russia, but only 20% of companies completely left the country, according to Important Stories. As journalists found out, from February 2022 to April 2023 in the Russian register of legal entities, the number of companies owned by persons from "unfriendly" countries (primarily the US, EU, UK) decreased by about 2.5 thousand.