Photo: Getty Images The Pentagon has officially announced the resignation of US Army Chief of Staff Randy George, one of the most senior generals in the US Army. This is not the first reshuffle in the country’s military leadership: experts interviewed by The Insider call these large-scale personnel changes in the department a break in the long-standing tradition that proclaimed the idea of ​​​​independence of the army from politicians.

The US Army has received notification of a “downed plane” in the Middle East, the Associated Press reports , citing a Pentagon email. Until now, it was not known whether the American F-15E fighter was shot down by Iran or crashed for another reason. The agency also writes, citing one American and one Israeli official, that one of the F-15E fighter crew members was rescued. This was previously reported by CBS News with reference to an American official.

The James Webb Space Telescope examined the atmosphere of exoplanet TOI-5205b, a Jupiter-sized gas giant orbiting a red dwarf star much smaller than the Sun. It turned out that the planet’s atmosphere is extremely poor in heavy elements, but its interior is saturated with them, which contradicts the ideas about gas giants. The results of the study were published in The Astronomical Journal.

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Jassem Mohammed al-Budaiwi called on the UN Security Council to “authorize all necessary measures” to immediately stop Iran’s “unprovoked attacks” on the Gulf countries. He made this statement on April 2 at a briefing at the UN headquarters in New York on cooperation between the UN and the GCC.

American entrepreneur Elon Musk, on the eve of the initial public offering of shares of his company SpaceX, requires representatives of banks, law firms, auditors and other company consultants to buy subscriptions to his Grok chatbot. This was reported by The New York Times, citing 4 sources familiar with the situation. According to three of them, some banks have agreed to spend tens of millions of dollars on the chatbot and have already begun to integrate it into their IT systems.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on second-tier states to unite against the dominance of the United States and China. He made this call during an Asian tour, during which he visited South Korea and Japan, Bloomberg reports . A key reason for the visit was the issue of maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz, since the war in Iran has closed it to commercial shipping, through which about a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied gas exports are carried out in normal times.

Another American combat aircraft, an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft, crashed in the Persian Gulf on Friday. Two American officials spoke to The New York Times on condition of anonymity. The pilot was safely rescued. The plane crashed near the Strait of Hormuz around the same time that a US Air Force F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran, the same sources said. Details of the A-10 crash — its exact location and circumstances — were not released by officials.

In essence, in 2012, with his decrees, Putin imposed new spending obligations on the regions, but did not provide them with the opportunity to receive additional profits, either from their own tax revenues or from the federal authorities. The regions solved this problem in the simplest way from the point of view of arithmetic: if the average salary of teachers should increase, but funds for paying them are not added, then staff must be reduced.

In March 2026, several regions of the Russian Federation took additional measures designed to attract more volunteers to the war in Ukraine. The Insider analyzed relevant documents published on the legal information portal. Payments for "headhunters" Thus, in the Murmansk region they doubled the payment for recruiters - people who bring new contract soldiers to military registration and enlistment offices.

For the third time in the last two weeks, displaced people from the Kursk border region held a rally on Red Square in Kursk. The action took place on April 2, as reported by the Telegram channel “The Kursk Nightingale is making a cozy nest” and the publication “Ashes”. It is alleged that a man came out to the displaced people, who first introduced himself as an employee of the regional administration, and later stated that he worked as an electrician.

The incident happened at 6:26 Moscow time near the Bryandino station in the Cherdaklinsky district: seven cars left the tracks, Russian Railways reported. According to the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, the derailment occurred on the second track at the 953rd kilometer. Information about the incident was received by emergency services at 7:30 local time (6:30 Moscow time). Update 10:50. The reason for the train derailment may be a broken rail, RT claims, citing a source.

The container ship CMA CGM Kribi ( IMO : 9694543) of the French company was able to cross the Strait of Hormuz, navigation in which was virtually blocked since the outbreak of war in the region. This is the first known case of a ship associated with Western European countries leaving the Persian Gulf in the past month, Bloomberg writes . The ship, sailing under the Maltese flag, left the port of Gangut, which is located on the UAE coast between Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

In today's summary: In the Sumy direction, the Russian “military correspondent” denies the seizure of Malaya Korchakovka by the Russian Armed Forces north of Sumy In the Konstantinovka direction, fighters of the Russian Armed Forces are still unsuccessfully trying to penetrate the center of Konstantinovka In the Pokrovsk direction, the Ukrainian military is advancing in the “gray zone” in the area of ​​the Dobropolsky ledge As a result of a Russian raid on the Kyiv region, a veterinary clinic

The icons “Our Lady of Vladimir” and “Our Lady of the Don” from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery will be transferred for free use to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The information that was previously reported by the media was confirmed by the museum itself. The handover of the icons will take place on April 4. They will be exhibited in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

A new March poll by the Levada Center recorded record low support for the war with Ukraine: only 24% of Russians want it to continue - half as much as in the first weeks of the invasion in the spring of 2022, when there were about half.