- 61% of Canadians said they had started boycotting American companies.
- According to American officials, US President Donald Trump was angered not only by Zelensky’s meeting with Charles III, but also by Europe’s “lovely” reaction to the Ukrainian leader.
- Putin ordered the army to completely liberate the Kursk region from Ukrainian troops by May 9.
- US President Donald Trump announced the launch of a new immigration initiative – the “self-deportation” program. It involves providing financial assistance and plane tickets to immigrants who voluntarily agree to leave the US territory.
- US President Donald Trump extended the ban on Russian ships entering American ports for another year. This applies to all ships associated with Russia.
- On April 16, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on cooperation with the Council of Europe due to its condemnation of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The document was voted for by 105 countries, with 33 abstaining and 9 against. The United States was among the last to vote.
- Due to the trade war between the United States and China, beef exports to China have fallen sharply. Republican Congressman Jack Kimble has proposed moving beef exports to India. Where does the congressman’s knowledge that cows are considered sacred in India come from?
- Russian authorities are confiscating thousands of apartments from homeowners in occupied Mariupol who fled the city after a full-scale invasion began.
- The leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and the country’s current Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has officially renounced his other citizenships, which have drawn criticism from his political opponents. Carney was born in Canada but acquired Irish citizenship several decades ago through family ties. He obtained a British passport in 2018 while serving as governor of the Bank of England.
- Russian-born politician Daniel Sazonov will lead the Finnish city of Helsinki after his Coalition Party won the local elections. Sazonov was born in Helsinki to a family of Ingrians (a Finno-Ugric people living mainly in the Republic of Karelia, the Leningrad Oblast of Russia, and Estonia — ed.), who repatriated from the USSR to Finland in the early 1990s.
- American actor and director Sean Penn arrived in Ukraine and met with servicemen. The actor met with soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and recorded a video message against the background of a map of Ukraine with military chevrons: “This is Sean Penn, an American. And I want to say what I know for sure. Despite what politicians do, I believe in each of you and I am grateful to you for being the best example of who we all strive to be. You are not only protecting your country, you are actually protecting the whole world. And I know you will win.”
- The special tribunal in The Hague will investigate 20 Russian officials from a list compiled by Ukraine. The draft of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine is ready and awaits political approval. It is unofficially called the “tribunal for Putin,” and it will operate in The Hague.
- Harvard University on Monday, April 21, filed a lawsuit in the US federal court against the Donald Trump administration over its decision to freeze more than $2 billion in state funding for university programs.
- US President Donald Trump’s approval rating in American society has fallen to 42%. This is a record low since his election to the post of head of the White House.
- The Russian Academy of Sciences is preparing for the election of academicians and corresponding members, one of the candidates is former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov.
- The Primate of the Autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphany, on April 21, 2025, performed a requiem litany in the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral for the newly deceased Pope Francis, who has departed to the Lord. Together with His Beatitude, the Bishop prayed: Metropolitan Eustratius of Bila Tserkva, Archbishop Lavrenty of Luhansk and Starobilsk, Vicar of the Golden-Domed Monastery, Archbishop Agapit of Vyshgorod, Bishop Arseny of Boguslav, Vicar of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Bishop Avraamiy of Boryspil, all the venerable brethren of the monastery, and the metropolitan clergy.
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