Vano Shlamov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta in Georgia continues protests against the law on "foreign regents" , which is under consideration in parliament. On April 20, a female march was held in Tbilisi, in which hundreds of women took part. The march participants, in particular, carried a poster with the inscription "This law was adopted in Russia." The bill on “foreign agents” was the first reading of April 17.

The lower house of the American Parliament supported a bill to finance aid to Israel. 366 congressmen voted “for”, 58 votes were cast against, CNN reports. The document provides for the allocation of $26 billion for these purposes, including $4 billion for the Iron Dome and David's Sling missile defense systems and $9.3 billion for humanitarian needs. The Israel aid bill is part of a package of documents that the US House of Representatives considered on January 20.

Update: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked members of the House of Representatives from both parties and the Speaker of Congress for approving the “vitally important” bill. Members of the lower house of the US Congress approved a bill on the allocation of military assistance to Ukraine. 311 congressmen voted in support of the bill, 112 votes were cast against. The approved document provides for the allocation of almost $61 billion.

The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that would allow frozen Russian assets to be used to help Ukraine, impose new sanctions on Iran and block TikTok, CNN reports. 360 congressmen voted “for”, 58 votes were cast against. This is one of the bills Congress is considering on April 20th. House members are also voting on military aid bills for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

Evgeny Nikolsky, who ran for the Tver City Duma, admitted to killing his wife. “Yes, I did it. I’m not going to deny it and will take the deserved punishment. With my head held high, because I did everything right,” Nikolsky wrote on his VKontakte page.

Update: The number of people injured as a result of the shelling of Odessa has increased to eight people, including two children, Suspilne reports . On the afternoon of April 20, Russian troops launched a missile strike on Odessa, said the head of the regional administration, Oleg Kiper. Due to the shelling, a fire broke out in a private residential sector, Kiper wrote in his Telegram channel.

In an interview with Brazilian media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called statements that "everything is bad on the front and the initiative is in the hands of the Russians" "Russian narratives." "This is not true," Zelensky emphasized. The Ukrainian president said that “the Russians have weapons” and more of them than the Ukrainian military. “This is such a difficult moment right now,” he acknowledged.

The Tomsk court decided to expel rapper Platina (real name Robert Plaudis), who is a citizen of Latvia, from Russia, writes “7x7 - Horizontal Russia”. The performer was detained on April 19 during a concert at the Face club in Tomsk. During the rapper's performance, SOBR soldiers of the Russian Guard and plainclothes operatives climbed onto the stage, took Platinum and took him away.

The former head of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, sentenced to nine and a half years in the case of an “extremist organization,” was transferred to Perm. “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,” Chanysheva’s husband Almaz Gatin told RusNews. Liliya Chanysheva has been in custody since November 2021.

Residents of houses adjacent to the dam in the area of ​​the Kirov Bridge in Kurgan need to urgently evacuate, the government of the Kurgan region announced on April 20. “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 regional government said in a statement, as quoted by Interfax .

Tesla has announced a recall of all Cybertruck electric pickup trucks due to the risk of a sticky gas pedal. When significant force is applied, the accelerator pedal pad may become dislodged and the pedal may become stuck in the interior trim, according to a recall notice issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). As CNN notes, the danger of the Cybertruck’s pedal “sticking” was previously discussed on social networks and on specialized forums.

The head of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that on the afternoon of April 20, “the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Shebekinsky urban district, came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.” “A pregnant woman who was walking along the street at the time of the shelling was seriously wounded by a shell fragment,” the head of the region wrote in his Telegram channel. Doctors were unable to save the woman and her unborn child, Gladkov said.

In the Gaysinsky district of the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine, on the night of April 20, criminals opened fire on police officers who stopped their car for inspection. 20-year-old policeman Maxim Zaretsky was killed and his partner was wounded. The attackers managed to escape. Two military men have been put on the wanted list on suspicion of attacking police officers: Valery and Vitaly Vasilake, born in 1972 and 1998 (presumably father and son).

Deputy Prime Minister of the Trans-Baikal Territory Marat Mirkhaidarov, who in January 2024 announced that he had signed a contract to serve in the army and was going to fight in Ukraine, was planning to return. In an interview with Chita.ru, Mirkhaidarov said that his contract ends at the end of May - beginning of June. According to Mirkhaidarov, he is not going to renew it and will return back. Where would I be without my native Transbaikalia? After all, Transbaikalia is for love!

Seven hundred eighty -sixth day of the war. Photos Every day since the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Medusa editors choose the main military pictures taken the day before. These photos contain scenes of cruelty, violence and death, but most of them are not placed under a special dick, which usually the editors hide similar images. In a series of these materials, we try to document the war as it is. 786th day of the war.