In addition, last week Israel announced a strike on the Taleghan nuclear complex near Tehran. The IDF report claimed that the Iranian regime was working on “critical capabilities in nuclear weapons development” here. Over the weekend, media also reported that the UAE had joined the attack on Iran by striking a desalination plant.

News The Insider March 13, 2026 Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo: Marco Cappelletti Russia will return to the Venice Biennale for the first time since the start of a full-scale war against Ukraine.

Trump told a rally in Kentucky how he chose the name for the military operation against Iran - “Operation Epic Fury.” According to him, at one of the meetings he was given a list of about 20 options - and the president admitted that he began to fall asleep reading them until he came across the right one: “They gave me about 20 titles, and I was like, I’m falling asleep! I didn't like any of them. Then I see: “Epic rage.” I say: I like this name! I love this name!

In Vladivostok, they decided to remove the monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn from Korabelnaya Embankment at the request of the leadership of the Pacific Fleet, which considered the sculpture “not suitable for the theme of memorials and monuments” on the embankment. It will be moved to the city square, which local residents call “inconspicuous.” The publication “Rise” reports this. The author of the monument, sculptor Pyotr Chegodaev, told Rise that the decision was not discussed with him.

The Pentagon is sending a Marine expeditionary force and additional warships to the Middle East in response to escalating Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing three US officials. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized a request from Central Command to deploy part of the amphibious assault force with its assigned Marine Expeditionary Battalion. Such a force usually includes several warships and about 5,000 Marines.

News The Insider 13 March 2026 Russia appears set to return to the Venice Biennale for the first time since the start of its full-scale war against Ukraine. The Biennale’s Russia-friendly president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, characterized the decision as “a real truce” involving “foreign policy.” The move has sparked protest from Kyiv, sharp criticism from the European Commission, and petitions on social media.

Investor Alexander Galitsky said that his venture fund Almaz Capital has never financed the production of weapons, including for Ukraine. The businessman's statement is published by RBC.

Center 795, which emerged after the start of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine and comprises elite units from the GRU and FSB, was established as a top-secret and fully autonomous entity designed to carry out the most critical operations, ranging from military missions in Ukraine to political assassinations and abductions abroad. The Insider has managed to identify all of the center’s key leaders and sponsors, determine its location, and pinpoint its main areas of activity.

The Hong Kong company Woeroon Electronic Resource Ltd sent to Russia over two years more than 25 thousand parcels with European goods prohibited for export worth about $28 million - such data is contained in a report by the American Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, published in February 2026, as cited by Le Monde. The study is based on Russian customs statistics for 2022–2024 and analysis of debris found on Ukrainian battlefields.

News The Insider March 13, 2026 #Military report In today's summary: In the Sumy direction, for the first time in a long time, the Russian Armed Forces managed to advance in the zone north of Sumy On the Seversky ledge, Russian troops are taking measures to secure the flanks of a future attack on Slavyansk The Russian Ministry of Defense reports a Ukrainian attack on a medical facility in the Donetsk region and claims the death of eight doctors “Spy Dossier” - in the Mariupol area, an ammunition

The price of Brent oil on March 12 rose by 10.4% to $101.59 per barrel, then decreased slightly amid reports and the release of oil reserves. Earlier, Iranian authorities said that the world should prepare for a price of $200 per barrel.

Despite U.S. sanctions, Russia’s largest investment project in the Arctic, the Baimskoye deposit in Chukotka, turns out to be linked to Kazakh billionaires, according to a report by the independent outlet Arctida . The publication traced how ownership of the mining and processing plant, valued at more than 1 trillion rubles ($12.5 billion), has changed in recent years.

The decision to allow the aggressor state back into the cultural space has provoked discontent both in Ukraine and among Kyiv’s allies. After the press release was published, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy Tetyana Berezhna called on the organizers of the Venice Biennale to reverse the decision. Soon afterward, members of the platform of Russian democratic forces at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe joined the demand.

The Russian gas carrier Arctic Metagaz (IMO: 9243148), which was hit by a Ukrainian drone on March 3, is drifting in the Mediterranean between Italy and Malta without a crew. Italian authorities are weighing various options for dealing with the ship, with the preferred solution being for Russia-based LLC SMP Techmanagement, which operates the vessel, to hire a specialized company to tow it to a safe location, Reuters reported earlier today. “The situation is under control.

The Chinese Drug Administration has granted Neuracle Technology its first-ever approval to sell a brain implant to customers. It is designed for adults who are partially paralyzed as a result of spinal cord injury. A BCI implant is a brain-computer interface that is surgically implanted in or near the brain to directly read and stimulate neural signals. It converts the brain's electrical activity into commands for external computers.