“Voenkor” of the Russian propaganda project Sputnik, participant in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, American Russell Bentley with the call sign Texas died in Donetsk. This was reported by the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel Margarita Simonyan, without disclosing the circumstances of his death. Russell Bentley was 64 years old. The chairman of the DPR Public Chamber, Alexander Kofman, also stated that Russell Bentley is dead.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kirill Budanov, claims that the Ukrainian military waited a week for an opportunity to shoot down a Russian Tu-22M3 bomber in Stavropol Krai. He told the BBC Ukrainian Service about this. "We waited a long time, prepared, and finally succeeded. The week was, so to speak, the 'ambush' itself. We waited for him to reach the required line," said the head of Ukrainian military intelligence.

Izvestia war correspondent Semyon Eremin died in the war in Ukraine, the publication’s website reported on the evening of April 19. The place and circumstances of his death are still unknown. Izvestia published Eremin's last report on April 17. It was published on the publication’s Telegram channel on the night of April 18. Where and when the video was filmed has not been disclosed.

The Russian government has increased the duty on beer imports from “unfriendly” countries by 2.5 times – from the current 0.04 euros to 0.1 euros per liter, Interfax reports, citing the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

A man, whose identity is still unknown, set himself on fire on April 19 near a courthouse in Manhattan, where jury selection was taking place in the criminal case of former US President Donald Trump, The New York Times reports. The man doused himself with liquid at about 13:35 local time (20:35 Moscow time) while standing in Colt Pond Park, across the street from the courthouse. This happened in a part of the park cordoned off for Trump supporters. It is unclear why the man took such a step.

Residents of Slovakia have collected more than two million euros to purchase shells for Ukraine, after the country's authorities refused to support the Czech Republic's initiative to raise funds and search for ammunition for Kyiv. According to the BBC, the amount was collected in less than two days.

They came to them thanks to the investigation of Christ Grozev about threats to the Russian economist in Argentina The organizer of the attack on Leonid Volkov was detained , Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on April 19. According to him, this is "a Belarusian working for Russians, who ordered the two Poles to the murder of the ally of Navalny." Also, Tusk said, two suspects in the attack were detained, these are Polish citizens.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed to allow investigators and interrogators to suspend transactions on bank accounts in “urgent” cases. Interfax reports this.

Russia gave the pavilion of Bolivia. The Israeli project is closed in protest. The Ukrainian exhibition depicts "correct" refugees Luc Castel / Getty Images The main project in the arsenal On April 20, the 60th Venetian Biennale opens. Its president was Pietrangelo Buttafuoko, the Italian right -wing publicist with a neo -fascist past, and the curator is the Brazilian Adriano Pedros, who supports migrants and decolonial movement. The theme of the forum is “Foreigners everywhere”.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement on border delimitation for the first time, the Armenian Foreign Ministry and Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev reported.

Major Chinese banks have effectively stopped accepting payments from Russia. Transaction problems began in late 2023, when the US expanded its secondary sanctions mechanism. After that, Russian companies had problems with dollar transfers to China, and in early 2024, Chinese banks began blocking yuan inflows as well.

Businessman and former head of government of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ruben Vardanyan, who has been under arrest in Baku since September last year, went on a hunger strike. This is stated in a statement from his family.

Updated . About an hour after the arrest, Platina was released . The Tomsk Region police reported that they had drawn up administrative protocols against the Latvian citizen under articles on violating entry rules into the Russian Federation, illegal labor activity, and refusing to undergo a medical examination for intoxication. The issue of drawing up a protocol under the article on drug propaganda is being decided.

Nadezhda Buyanova, a pediatrician from Moscow, who was charged with “fake news” about the army because of a complaint from a military widow, was charged in the final version, OVD-Info and TASS report, citing her lawyer Oscar Cherdzhiev. Buyanova is charged with spreading “fakes” about the army motivated by political, national or ideological hatred (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

In New Guinea, they did not understand him Andrew Caballero-Rynolds / AFP / Scanpix / Leta US President Joe Biden at the Military Memorial in Scranton, Pennsylvania. April 17, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden, during the election events on April 17, stated that his uncle Embus Finnegan, who died during the crash of the aircraft in New Gvine during the Second World War, could not be found due to cannibals.