In the day's other headlines, Senate Republicans are requesting a billion dollars to fund security improvements for President Trump's White House ballroom.

The money is attached to a broader measure they hope to pass this month aimed at funding ICE and Border Patrol.

Republicans have been pushing for the financing after a man was charged with trying to assassinate President Trump at a dinner late last month.

It's not clear exactly how the $1 billion would be used, but it is more than double the $400 million to build the ballroom,

which the president said would be privately funded.

Ukrainian President Vlodemir Zelensky says his forces are observing a temporary truce

tonight.

Earlier, Russia announced its own ceasefire for Friday and Saturday for Victory Day

celebrations, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany and World War II.

But both sides are accusing the other of last-minute attacks.

In Ukraine, authorities say Russian strikes killed at least 22 people

and wounded dozens more as Moscow targets the country's power grid. President Zelensky

says the attacks prove what he calls Moscow's utter cynicism.

A one-day ceasefire, but killing our people beforehand is, to put it mildly, simply not fair.

Dead, wounded, adults, children.

I'm sorry, but after all this to say, let's have a 24-hour ceasefire, that is not serious.

Russia today released video showing Ukrainian drones striking the city of Cheboksari east of Moscow.

Russia says three people were injured. Ukraine says it was targeting military sites.

In central China, authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion at a fireworks plant in Hunan province that killed at least 26 people and injured dozens more.

I witness video caught the sound of popping fireworks and smoke rising from the site yesterday.

China State Broadcaster says investigators believe the blast started in a workshop where fireworks

are made and packaged and that at least one company official has been detained.

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