News The Insider March 7, 2026 Photo: Consequences of the attack on the port in Konarak, Iran, March 1, 2026 / Bloomberg / Vantor After a week of war in the Middle East, dozens of cities in different countries came under fire. Together with the Vox Harbor project, which analyzes messages on Telegram, The Insider studied many messages from Iranians - residents of various cities in the south and southeast of the country that were hit by attacks - and provides eyewitness accounts.

The United States is pressuring the Sri Lankan government to prevent the repatriation of survivors of the sinking of the Iranian warship IRIS Dena, which was sunk by a US submarine on March 4. According to Reuters, this follows from an internal cable from the US State Department. The agency clarifies that this requirement applies not only to the rescued crew members of IRIS Dena, but also to the crew of another Iranian ship, IRIS Bushehr.

Earlier on Saturday morning, airport operations were temporarily suspended. A message about this appeared on the airport's official Twitter account at approximately 11:38 local time (10:38 Moscow time). Then this was explained by the need to ensure the safety of passengers.

The head of the American Ministry of Finance, Scott Bessent, admitted that the United States may continue to lift restrictions on Russian oil. He stated this on Fox Business. “We can lift sanctions on the supply of other Russian oil. There are hundreds of millions of barrels of regulated oil at sea, and by essentially lifting sanctions on them, the Treasury could create a supply glut. We are studying this issue,” Bessent said (quoted by Reuters ).

US President Donald Trump said that Washington has officially recognized the current government of Venezuela and has entered into an agreement with Caracas on cooperation in the sale of Venezuelan gold. He said this at the Shield of America summit in Florida. “I am pleased to announce that this week we officially recognized the government of Venezuela. We actually recognized it from a legal point of view. We also just concluded a historic agreement on gold.

In Kharkov, the death toll as a result of a Russian missile attack on a residential building has risen to ten people. Among them are a 13-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy. Another 16 people were injured. This was reported by the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations. According to rescuers, the blow hit a five-story residential building in the Kievsky district of the city.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has prepared a bill on the procedure and timing for payment of the technology fee for electronic devices from September 1, 2026. TASS reports this. It is planned that the collection will become an incentive for localizing production within Russia. “The introduction of the fee will occur in stages, which will allow the business community to adapt, and the regulator to create the correct mechanism for further implementation.

Politics Victoria Ponomareva March 7, 2026 According to open sources, the deaths of more than 200 thousand Russian military personnel have been confirmed in Ukraine, and the influx of new contract soldiers by the beginning of the fifth year of the war had noticeably decreased . There are clearly not enough people at the front, and the Ministry of Defense has launched a campaign to recruit students into the Russian army. It was deployed in more than 80 universities across the country.

US President Donald Trump announced the creation of a regional coalition to fight drug cartels and transnational criminal groups. He signed the corresponding proclamation at the Shield of America summit in Miami. According to a document published on the White House website, the coalition, called the American Coalition Against the Cartels, will unite military personnel and representatives of 17 countries in the region.

Iran will no longer launch strikes on neighboring states, provided that strikes are also not carried out from their territory. This was stated by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the local Mehr agency reports . According to Pezeshkian, this decision was approved by Iran's Interim Governing Council. He leads the country after the death of Ali Khamenei. The Iranian president also apologized to neighboring countries for the attacks on their territories.

The Russian Embassy in Sweden reported that the majority of the crew members of the bulk carrier Caffa, detained by Swedish authorities off the country's southern coast, are Russian citizens. According to the diplomatic mission, ten of the 11 crew members have Russian citizenship. The embassy said it is in contact with the competent Swedish authorities. They also noted that the Swedish side assures that the situation on board the ship is calm.

Iran fired 119 missiles and drones into Jordan over the past week. This was stated by a representative of the country's armed forces at a joint briefing of the army and security services, the state-run Jordan News Agency reports . According to the Jordanian military, we are talking about 60 missiles and 59 drones that were aimed at targets inside the country. Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 108 targets, but failed to intercept 11 missiles and drones.

The cargo ship Caffa ( IMO : 9143611), en route to St. Petersburg, was detained off the southern coast of Sweden, the country's coast guard reported . It was allegedly going under a false flag. Previously, Caffa was accused of transporting grain from Sevastopol to the Syrian port of Tartus. The ship was detained the previous afternoon, at approximately four o'clock local time, in Swedish territorial waters.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that on the night of March 7, Israeli aircraft carried out a series of attacks on military infrastructure in Tehran. According to the Israeli military, one of the main targets was the air defense control center of the air force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced an attack on the oil tanker Louise P (IMO: 9749336) in the Persian Gulf. This was reported by the Iranian Fars agency. The IRGC claims that the ship, flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, was hit by an attack drone and was “one of the assets of terrorist America.” There is no independent confirmation of this information yet.