Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting of the Security Council that he regards the Iranian drone attack on Nakhichevan as a terrorist attack against Azerbaijan. He added that the target of the Iranian drones that fell in Nakhichevan were civilian objects, TASS reports . Aliyev noted that Tehran must give explanations and apologize to the Azerbaijani side for the attack by Iranian UAVs on Nakhichevan.

The explosion occurred on a tanker anchored off the coast of Kuwait in the Persian Gulf, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Office (UKMTO) said , citing the captain. According to him, he saw and heard a powerful explosion from the port side, and then noticed how a small vessel left the area of ​​​​the incident. UKMTO did not name the tanker, saying only that it was located 30 nautical miles (55 km) southeast of the Mubarak al-Kabir area in Kuwait.

News The Insider March 5, 2026 The XIV Winter Paralympic Games will start tomorrow in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The organizers call them the largest in history in terms of the number of participants: about 600 athletes from more than 50 countries are expected. For the first time, the competition program included a mixed doubles wheelchair curling tournament.

The Moscow City Court sentenced blogger Arsen Markaryan to 4 years and 6 months in a general regime colony in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism. As SotaVision reports from the courtroom, the verdict also provides for a ban on administering resources on the Internet for a period of 4 years. The prosecutor's office requested 6 years 10 months in prison for Markaryan. The defendant pleaded guilty, the case was considered in a special manner, the trial lasted one day.

The North Atlantic Alliance is not involved in a war in the Middle East, says NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. At the same time, he said, the allies are taking a “comprehensive approach” to protect alliance members, including fighting terrorism. “Obviously, this is a campaign waged by the United States and Israel. And we see many allies providing key supporting support.

China has instructed major oil refining companies to suspend exports of diesel fuel and gasoline. This decision was made against the backdrop of an escalation of the conflict in the Persian Gulf, which disrupted oil supplies from one of the largest producing regions in the world. Bloomberg writes about this. Despite efforts to diversify its hydrocarbon sources, China still gets nearly half of its oil imports from the Gulf, including virtually all of its supplies from Iran.

Iran has officially acknowledged the loss of the frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean and accused the United States of destroying it. This was stated by the country's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. He noted that the ship was attacked by an American submarine in international waters. “The United States committed an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles off the coast of Iran. The frigate Dena, a guest of the Indian Navy, carrying almost 130 sailors, was attacked without warning,” Araghchi said.

On the night of March 5, the Ukrainian Navy, together with the Special Operations Forces, attacked the Russian military at the Sivash drilling rig in the Black Sea - at the Golitsyn gas field - and for the first time hit a Russian helicopter on this offshore platform using a drone. This was reported by the press service of the fleet. According to the Navy, Russia used the platform as an observation point, communications relay, and to deploy electronic warfare and short-range air defense systems.

News The Insider March 5, 2026 Two tankers carrying Russian oil bound for East Asia have changed their route to India, Bloomberg has found . According to monitoring services, in total the Odune and Matari vessels are carrying almost 1.5 million barrels of Urals oil. One of them arrived the day before at the Indian port of Paradip on the east coast of the country, in the Bay of Bengal, the second - to the port of Vadinar in the Arabian Sea.

Finland intends to lift the legal ban on the import of nuclear weapons. The country's Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen announced this at a press conference on Thursday evening, Yle reports . According to him, the current ban, introduced back in the 1980s, has lost its relevance. The legislation, as Häkkänen emphasized, does not meet the needs of Finland as a NATO member, and complete bans of this kind are rare among other countries of the alliance.

POLITICS Marianna Belenkaya 5 March 2026 When Donald Trump’s newly created “Board of Peace” met for the first time on Feb. 19, the main focus was the future of the Gaza Strip. However, no breakthrough was made on that issue (nor, seemingly, on any other). In the end, Trump’s grand plans for the embattled enclave are colliding with realities on the ground: Hamas has no intention of laying down its arms, and Israel has no plans to withdraw.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at a meeting of the eleventh ambassadorial round table in Moscow, said that Russia “did not even see” security guarantees for Ukraine from Western countries, he was quoted by TASS. “We proceed from the fact that we not only did not approve of these guarantees, we did not see them,” he said.

“In 2009, we joined forces with Natalia Malyamina and began working as one team and one brand. I knew Natalia from our work together in EPAM’s St. Petersburg office. She left shortly after I did and founded her own law firm in Moscow. At the time of the merger, she had eight or nine lawyers, and we had 12 to 15. I do not remember the exact figures, but I do not think that matters much. We were merging specifically with Natalia,” another partner, Khristofor Ivanyan, explained in a 2017 interview.

The Meshchansky District Court rejected the claim filed by former Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Timur Ivanov, demanding permission to go to war in Ukraine. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow. Ivanov filed a lawsuit against the capital's Military Commissariat, which refused to conclude a contract for Ivanov.

The tanker Sonangol Namibe (IMO 9325049) was allegedly holed by an explosion while anchored near the port of Khor al-Zubair in Iraq, Reuters reported , citing a representative of the shipping company Sonangol Marine Services. On the night of March 5, an unknown small vessel approached the tanker. “A small boat approached the port side of the tanker and shortly thereafter there was a loud explosion.