Residents of southern Lebanon are leaving their homes en masse, with some forced to sleep in tents and cars. The country has almost no bomb shelters, leaving people with nowhere to hide from the shelling. At the same time, elsewhere in the country, life continues almost as normal: shops and offices remain open, and some residents are even returning from abroad.

According to the Israeli publication Newsru, on April 4, at a demonstration in the city of Jabla in western Syria, protesters “executed” an effigy of Netanyahu.

Russia's largest Baltic oil export ports, Ust-Luga and Primorsk, remain unable to receive and ship fuel for a second week after a series of Ukrainian drone strikes. This was reported by Reuters, citing industry sources. According to them, the attacks continued during the last two weeks of March and caused significant damage to the port infrastructure. At least five strikes were carried out in Ust-Luga alone in ten days.

The Pentagon reported on US losses since the start of the war against Iran. According to the department's data on April 3, 13 servicemen were killed and another 365 were injured. This was reported on the website of the US Department of War. The dead included 10 men and three women from the air force and army. Losses of American military equipment Six US military personnel were killed after a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed on March 13.

Milan, Venice, Bologna and Treviso airports have introduced refueling restrictions on commercial flights until April 9 due to limited fuel availability from operator Air BP Italia. EFE reports this. The restrictions apply to Jet A1 fuel, aviation kerosene used by civil aviation. The situation was revealed through an official notice to pilots (NOTAM), which stated that refueling for airlines contracted to Air BP Italia would be limited.

Durov also noted that a similar situation had previously developed in Iran: after the ban on Telegram, the authorities were counting on users switching to state messengers, but instead there was a massive proliferation of VPNs. He added that Russians are bypassing restrictions en masse by creating VPNs and proxies, and the Telegram team, he said, will continue to adapt to make the service's traffic increasingly difficult to detect and block.

The Russian Central Election Commission has actually moved to collecting voter data online, which “allows the lists to be made as accurate as possible.” Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova announced this at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 1.

From the beginning of 2026, in Germany, men aged 17 to 45 are required to obtain permission from the Bundeswehr career center if they plan to travel abroad for more than three months - be it for study, work or a long trip. The Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported this on April 3. The new requirement was introduced as part of amendments to the law on conscription, which came into force on January 1. Updated.

On April 4, Rosatom announced the evacuation of Russian specialists from the Bushehr nuclear power plant - this happened immediately after Iran informed the IAEA that a shell hit near the plant and killed one employee. The head of the state corporation, Alexey Likhachev, said that 198 people left for the Iranian-Armenian border. This is not the first evacuation of Russian employees from the Bushehr nuclear power plant amid military operations in the region.

On the night of April 4 in Tolyatti, Samara region of Russia, two chemical plants were hit as a result of a drone attack - Togliattikauchuk and KuibyshevAzot. The arrival locations were geolocalized by the Astra Telegram channel. Before this, residents of Tolyatti reported a large number of explosions and fire. Photos and videos are published by the Ukrainian Telegram channel Supernova+.

The publication “7x7” established the identity of one of the participants - Aziza Sadykova, who as of February 2026 served as the head of the Chernokurya territorial division. Z-blogger Sergei Kolyasnikov claims that administration employees - an accountant and a support worker - also participated in the recording.

The Russian intelligence network La Compagnie (also known as The Company) conducted an influence campaign in Argentina in 2024 to discredit President Javier Miley. This was reported by Le Figaro with reference to an investigation by an international consortium of journalists. According to the investigation, from June to October 2024, the network organized the publication of about 250 materials in more than 20 Argentine online media, and also distributed content on social networks.

Armenia will begin the procedure for leaving the CSTO and the Eurasian Economic Union if Russia increases gas prices. This was stated by the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan, his words are quoted by Interfax. “If they make such a decision, Armenia will make its decision and finally leave the CSTO, the EAEU,” - Simonyan said at a briefing for journalists.

In the background is Boris Epstein (second from right), in the foreground are Donald Trump (left) and Todd Blanche (right). Source: The New York Times/Bloomberg New and. O. US Attorney General Todd Blanche, like Pam Bondi, who was fired from this post, is a former lawyer for US President Donald Trump. He joined the Trump v. Stormy Daniels trial with little to no defense experience and then became one of its lead attorneys.

India has resumed oil imports from Iran for the first time since 2019 amid supply disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz due to the US-Israeli war against Iran. This was reported by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas of India. A statement published on the department's Twitter page said that Indian oil refining companies met their needs for raw materials, including through supplies from Iran.