US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said that the United States has sent 10,000 interceptor drones to the Middle East, which were combat tested during Russia's war with Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on March 13. The U.S. deployed Merops drones within five days of the U.S. and Israel going to war with Iran on Feb. 28, up to March 4, Driscoll said. The artificial intelligence-enabled Merops drones were developed by Project Eagle, the defense venture of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

The US Department of Defense is additionally transferring marines and several warships to the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported on March 13, citing three US officials. According to them, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth approved the request from US Central Command, which is responsible for US troops in the Middle East. The command asked to send a rapid response landing group, which usually consists of several ships and five thousand Marines, writes WSJ.

The High Qualification Board of Judges (HQJC) stripped the chairman of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal, Sergei Sedov, and the judge of the same court, Boris Steshan, of their judge status, RBC reported on March 13, citing sources. As the publication notes, the last high-profile case that Boris Steshan considered was the dispute between Sberbank and the FIT company, the developer of the PayQR payment service.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced that Cuban representatives have begun negotiations with US authorities. He announced this at a televised press conference, The Wall Street Journal reported on March 13.

Authorities are talking about the spread of a dangerous disease. Farmers block roads and complain to Putin Siberian Express Police in the village of Kozikha, Ordynsky district, Novosibirsk region. Village residents tried to block the road, protesting against the removal of animals to a cattle burial ground. March 9, 2026 In the Novosibirsk region, five people were detained after protests by farmers against the mass slaughter of livestock, the Agency reports .

Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed 773 people since March 2. This data was provided by the Lebanese Ministry of Health. Another 1,933 people were injured, according to authorities, including 103 children. As The Times of Israel notes, the Lebanese government does not differentiate between civilians and Hezbollah fighters in its statistics. Lebanon is embroiled in a major new war in the Middle East after Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, began shelling Israel.

The artist was correctly identified back in 2008 as Robin Gunningham. But now his name is David Jones Metin Aktas / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Drawing by Banksy in the village of Gorenka, Kyiv region, November 19, 2022 Reuters has released an investigation by Simon Gardner, James Pearson and Blake Morrison into the identity of Banksy, an anonymous street artist whose mystery the media have been trying to unravel for decades.

The US Department of Defense and National Security Council significantly underestimated Tehran's willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz when planning a war against Iran, several people familiar with the matter told CNN. The channel's interlocutors argue that the Donald Trump administration did not fully appreciate the potential economic consequences of military actions, which led to what some officials are now calling a “worst-case scenario” for the United States.

Join the stream! Where: on our YouTube channel. When: March 16 at 15:00 Moscow time On March 15 in Los Angeles (on the night of the 16th Moscow time) the 98th Academy Awards ceremony will be held. The film “Sinners” has the most nominations – it is competing for statuettes in 16 categories at once. Also competing for the Oscar in the Best Documentary Film category is the film “Mr. Nobody vs. Putin,” about war propaganda among schoolchildren in the Ural city of Karabash.

The main points from The Insider's investigation At the end of 2022, a new top-secret intelligence unit was created in Russia, the purpose of which was, among other things, to kill and kidnap opponents of the Russian government abroad, The Insider found out . Journalists found out where it is based, who runs it and who finances it.

France and Italy are holding talks with Iran about opening the Strait of Hormuz, through which a quarter of the world's oil supplies pass, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. According to them, European countries have begun negotiations with Tehran, seeking to conclude a deal that guarantees the safe passage of their ships through the Strait of Hormuz. The two sources said it was unclear whether Iran was willing to negotiate on the issue.

The Investigative Committee reported on March 11 that it had opened a criminal case regarding the desecration of the memorial to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the village of Strelkovka, Kaluga Region. The department said that “an unidentified person poured paint on the monument.” The Zhukov Museum published photographs showing blue paint on the pedestal of the monument and in the snow near the memorial.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included political scientist and writer Nina Khrushcheva in the register of “foreign agents”. Khrushchev is the great-granddaughter of the former First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev. She has lived in the USA since 1991. Khrushchev condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Z-activists wrote denunciations about her.

One thousand four hundred and seventy-nine day. A bill was introduced to the Verkhovna Rada prohibiting TCC employees from forcibly catching people on the streets Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

A system of “white lists”—websites accessible during mobile Internet outages—has been launched in Moscow. This was reported by Kommersant’s sources in the telecom market. One of the publication’s interlocutors noted that the “white lists” are still partially working, since base stations are still turned off in some areas of the city. The same information was confirmed to Forbes journalists by a source close to the Ministry of Digital Development.