The United Nations Independent Commission investigating human rights abuses in Iran released a statement on March 4 condemning the US and Israeli war on Iran. The commission said the US and Israeli strikes, followed by Iranian retaliatory strikes across the Middle East, contravened the UN Charter. The charter "prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state," the statement said.

Negotiations to end the Russian-Ukrainian war with the participation of Moscow, Kyiv and Washington have been suspended due to the war in the Middle East, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said. According to him, Ukrainian representatives continue to communicate “virtually on a daily basis” with US representatives. “Currently, due to the situation around Iran, there are still no necessary signals for a trilateral meeting.

Ukraine will send its military to Middle Eastern countries to help them fight Iranian drone attacks, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said. After a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, Zelensky said that he spoke with partners in Europe and the United States, and also held talks with the leaders of the UAE, Qatar, Jordan and Bahrain.

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that it would be more profitable for Russia to stop gas supplies to Europe right now than to wait for European countries to completely abandon Russian gas. Putin stated this in a conversation with propagandist Pavel Zarubin, the Kremlin reported on March 4. “They plan in a month... to introduce restrictions on the purchase of Russian gas, including liquefied gas, and a year later - in 2027 - even further restrictions, up to a complete ban.

Electricity was lost in all provinces of Iraq, the state agency Ina reported, citing the country's Ministry of Energy. The reasons for the blackout are being clarified. It is unknown whether the shutdown is related to the US and Israeli war with Iran. Iraqi authorities have begun investigations and restoration work at power plants and transmission lines. Users of the social network X publish videos that show that some buildings and houses still have electricity.

The Lefortovo court in Moscow arrested former municipal deputy from the Yabloko party Galina Filchenko, OVD-Info reports, citing her lawyers. Filchenko’s arrest became known earlier on March 4. Before this, as Mash reported , her home was searched. Filchenko has been charged under articles on participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and seizure of power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

We present rare evidence of life during the war and the broken Internet AFP / Scanpix / LETA Tehran. March 2, 2026 From the very first days of the new war in the Persian Gulf, missile attacks from Israel and the United States were aimed at strategic targets in Iran, including those located directly in cities.

The Israeli army launched a massive attack on the military complex in Tehran, where the headquarters of “all Iranian security agencies” are located.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he had decided to satisfy Hungary’s request and release two Hungarians who fought for Ukraine from Russian captivity. He said this at a meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjatro in Moscow on March 4. According to Putin, the captured Hungarians had dual citizenship - both Hungary and Ukraine. The President of the Russian Federation claims that they were forcibly mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

This is an advertisement for a drone assembly plant in Tatarstan. Children starred in it. They showed how “Shaheds” are assembled. They pay up to one and a half million rubles for publishing such videos. The special economic zone ( SEZ ) “Alabuga” in Tatarstan and the college “Alabuga Polytech” launched an advertising campaign with the participation of teenagers who tell how they make money by assembling kamikaze drones “Shahed”.

Lawyer Mikhail Benyash will have his Lithuanian residence permit returned, which was taken away from him because of two trips to Belarus to meet his little son. According to the “Word to Defense” project, this decision was made by the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania.

Apple introduced the MacBook Neo on March 4, its cheapest laptop. Prices start at $599, but education customers will be able to purchase it for a discounted price of $499. By comparison, the MacBook Air starts at $1,099 and the Pro model starts at $1,699. Apple The base $599 MacBook Neo has 256 gigabytes of internal storage but no Touch ID. The $699 model has twice the storage capacity at 512 gigabytes and includes Touch ID.

A court in the Irkutsk region placed the head of the city of Bodaibo, Alexei Botvin, under house arrest in the case of a major utility accident that left the settlement without heat in 40-degree frost. In Bodaibo, at the end of January, due to freezing of a water pipeline, the work of boiler houses was stopped, which is why 196 houses and two schools were left without heating and water supply.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation refused to issue a distribution certificate for the film “Nuremberg,” filmed by American director James Vanderbilt. According to the company World Pictures, which distributes the film, in justifying the refusal, the Ministry of Culture referred to the rules of the Procedure for issuing a distribution certificate for a film - namely, subparagraph “h” of paragraph 19.

89-year-old Tamara Manturova, the mother of Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, finances the defense industry and receives billions of rubles in the form of debt repayments with interest, according to an investigation by Important Stories. The publication obtained data on the cash transactions of the Sfera group of companies. It unites and finances several defense enterprises, which mainly produce components and avionics for helicopters and aircraft.