Chinese scientists conducted a successful test of a hydrogen bomb without the use of nuclear components, writes South China Morning Post with reference to an article published in March in Journal of ProjectIn, Rockkets, Missiles and Guidance.

Vladimir Putin did not give commands to extend the Easter truce, which would expire at midnight on April 21, TASS writes with reference to the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov. “There were no other teams,” Peskov answered the question of whether the truce will expire on the night of April 21 or can be extended.

Investigators of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow opened a criminal case on a particularly large-scale fraud against several top managers of the company, which supplied the Voronezh Aircraft Building Association ( VASO ) of Chinese instruments under the European guise, Kommersant writes with reference to sources.

Former bandits open the African American bar, and the Bluesman who performs there suddenly attracts white vampires with his game Landmark Media / Alamy / Vida Press “Sinners” (Sinners) - a new picture from the creator of the Black Panther, Ryan Kugler, came out in the world rental. In the plot, two twin brothers (both plays Michael B. Jordan), who first visited the military, and then gangsters, returned to their hometown in Mississippi to open a bar there.

The Pope Francis appeared in front of believers gathered in St. Peter Square in the Vatican, and turned to them with Easter speech. Francis himself blessed the audience and waved it from the balcony, and his Easter speech was read out by the archbishop of Diego Ravelli. In his speech, the Pope called for the “immediate cessation of fire in the gas sector, to the liberation of [Israeli] hostages and to access to humanitarian aid” for the inhabitants of Gaza.

Donald Trump is preparing “this week” to sign a decree that provides for the “radical restructuring” of the US State Department, including the closure of almost all “secondary” embassies and consulates in Africa, reports The New York Times with reference to a copy of the document.

VTB and Sber will be canceled by additional commissions when issuing a preferential mortgage in accordance with the requirements of Vladimir Putin, the heads of banks Andrei Kostin and Herman Gref said the correspondent of the Rossiya TV channel Pavel Zarubin. “We will cancel, but this will lead to the fact that the volume of issuing a mortgage will drop sharply. Banks cannot issue a mortgage at a loss, and it is unprofitable today. It was a way to hold the volume of mortgage loans, ”Gref said.

Interview with Kolya Stepanyan - veteran of the Second Karabakh War and the author of the autobiographical story “Where” about Armenian soldiers who fell into the enemy environment Kolya Stepanyan. Lina Golub Koly Stepanyan's debut book “Where” (Individuum Publishing House) is the story of a 22-year-old Moscow Armenian who, of ideological reasons, received Armenian citizenship and went to military service. And after three months he discovered himself in the Second Karabakh war .

But their experiments scare people - and this threatens the efforts of scientists to save the planet Brendan Kelaher / Southern Cross University experiment to whiten clouds in a large barrier rif 2024 became the hottest in the history of observations - the average global temperature first exceeded the pre -industrial level (1850–1900) by more than 1.5 ° C. It was precisely such a development of events that they previously promised to try to prevent countries of the Paris Agreement .

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine demanded an apology from the American television channel Fox News, which indicated the Mikhailovsky Zlatover Kathedral under the Titrum “Kyiv, Russia” in its broadcast of Easter services. “If it was a mistake, and not a deliberate political statement, then an apology and investigation should follow in relation to who made this mistake,” wrote the representative of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Georgy Tikhiy on the social network X.

Thousand one hundred and fifty second day. Zelensky claims that the truce announced by Putin is not respected. The Russian Ministry of Defense accuses the Armed Forces of Ukraine Roman Pilipey / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Ukrainian armored military vehicle near the front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region, April 19, 2025 Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air.

The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that, despite the Armed Forces of the Easter truck, announced by Vladimir Putin, attempts at attacks in the areas of the Sukhoi Balka and the Bogatyr in the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian military, according to the Russian military department, fired at the positions of the RF Armed Forces 444 times and inflicted 900 shocks of drones.

In Europe, they are discussing an option providing for the strengthening of support for the defense industry of Ukraine instead of sending weapons, writes The Washington Post with reference to an anonymous European official. According to the WP source, familiar with internal discussions, “more and more countries are looking at the model of injection of money into the defense industry of Ukraine,” since their own reserves of Europe were exhausted after several years of supply of weapons to Kyiv.

This is how the Ukrainians were met in Chernigov. Photos On April 19, Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that the exchange was carried out according to the 246 on 246 scheme. TASS said that “as a gesture of goodwill” Russia also handed over to Ukraine 31 wounded in exchange for 15 wounded Russian military, who needs urgent medical care.

South Korea will not “resist” the duties introduced by Donald Trump due to the country's historical duty to the United States, said the acting President Han Dock Su in an interview with the Financial Times. According to him, the United States played a "huge role" in "making Korea what it is now." “After the devastation of the Korean war, the United States provided us with help, technology, investment and security guarantees,” said Khan Dock Su.