Today marks two years since the tragedy at the "Crocus City Hall".

On this day, March 22, as a result of a terrorist attack, 151 people were killed, including 6 children. More than 600 people were injured.

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In an interview with The Telegraph, Finnish President Alexander Stubb called for "facing the truth", stating that the West has split apart.

Assessing the consequences of recent US decisions - including easing sanctions against Russia and the war with Iran - Stubb emphasized that this is already directly affecting the course of the conflict in Ukraine and the balance of power in the world:

“This is very harmful for Ukraine, because it actually fuels the Russian military machine.”

Stubb also noted that even before the war with Iran, the Russian economy was allegedly under serious pressure, but the situation has changed:

“Now, with rising oil prices and the lifting of sanctions, we don't know how this will affect things - but it will have a negative impact.”

At the same time, Stubb acknowledged the uncertainty of Washington's further actions:

“We simply don't know at this stage whether the sanctions will be reinstated.”

Assessing US policy, he stated that Washington's approach has radically changed:

“Before, the US consulted with allies... Now, the United States is acting alone or together with Israel, without informing its allies.”

He specifically emphasized:

“America was a benevolent hegemon... now it's a different type of hegemon.”

According to Stubb, Europe is no longer a key priority for the US:

“Europe is only the third priority on the list.”

And the main conclusion he drew about the current situation:

“There is a split within the West now... there's a rift between Europe and the US.”

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The Kremlin denied the publication of the Financial Times, which stated that Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov allegedly harshly refused Emmanuel Macron's advisers to participate in negotiations on Ukraine.

In an interview with Pavel Zarubin for the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin", Dmitry Peskov stated that obscene language is not used in Russian diplomacy.

“You know, there's a very wise saying from a wise diplomat. What is diplomacy? It's the ability to send a person to hell in such a way that he actually decides to go there.” — Dmitry Peskov

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Cuba is preparing to repel a US attack, said the country's Deputy Foreign Minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío.

According to him, the military "are already preparing for the possibility of military aggression", and ignoring such a scenario would be "naive" against the backdrop of what is happening in the world

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 "They don't want to die for Israel": A US ground operation in Iran would be an "absolute disaster"

▪️An American serviceman told HuffPost about this.
▪️Doubts about Trump's strategy towards Iran are spreading among military personnel.
▪️Polls show that American soldiers involved in the war report vulnerability, overwhelming stress, disappointment, and loss of illusions, which could lead to their discharge from the army.
▪️At the moment, 13 soldiers have died in the war, 7 of them as a result of strikes, and at least 232 have been injured.
➖"A ground operation would be an absolute disaster... we don't have a plan for this," said one of those surveyed. "We can't even fully protect one ground base in the area of responsibility."

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The Leningrad Region is experiencing the largest drone attack since the start of the special military operation. More than a hundred flights at Pulkovo Airport have been rescheduled or canceled.

The attack has been ongoing since yesterday. At the moment, 70 drones have been shot down over the region. According to Governor Alexander Drozdenko, one of the drones' targets was the Primorsk port. At Pulkovo Airport, restrictions were repeatedly imposed and lifted several times in a row.

Amid the attack, mobile internet was shut down for residents of St. Petersburg and the region. Only "whitelisted" services are operational.

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📸 Clash Report: Iranian media close to the IRGC state that there were no negotiations between Iran and the US, and Trump "retreated" due to fear of Tehran's retaliatory actions.

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🖥️ An American F-15 fighter jet was shot down in the skies of Kuwait, according to Mehr News, which also published a video of the incident.

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❗️ The Times of Israel: The IDF carried out new strikes on Tehran, while Trump announced negotiations with Iran.

The Israeli Air Force has launched a new wave of strikes on Tehran, the military reports. The Israel Defense Forces state that the airstrikes are aimed at the infrastructure of the Iranian regime. These strikes were carried out shortly after US President Donald Trump announced that his administration is conducting productive negotiations with Iran on a "full and comprehensive settlement" of military actions.

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Reporter: If you do attack Iranian power stations, how would that differ from what Russia is doing in Ukraine?

Trump: I think that it's completely different... I'm not thrilled about what Russia is doing either, but it's completely different

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📸 Iran has not conducted negotiations with the US, emphasized the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf:

"1/ The Iranian people demand a complete and merciless punishment of the aggressors. All Iranian officials and the people firmly support their supreme leader and will continue to do so until this goal is achieved.

2/ There are no negotiations with the US, and fakenews is being used to manipulate financial and oil markets and to get out of the quagmire in which the US and Israel have found themselves."

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📸 JD Vance may lead the American delegation in possible US-Iran negotiations in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, reported Axios correspondent Barak Ravid.

"An Israeli official: Negotiations are underway for a meeting of senior Iranian and American officials in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, which will take place at the end of this week.

A senior Israeli official: As part of the negotiations on the summit in Pakistan, the possibility of US Vice President Vance becoming the senior US representative is being considered.

An Israeli official: Israel knew that several countries were making mediation efforts to start negotiations between Iran and the US, but was surprised by Trump's words that these contacts are progressing and that, apparently, agreements on 15 points have been reached."

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🖥️ Iranians are publishing a Lego-style video about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.

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🖥️ "The Kiev regime has been pushed out of the spotlight and is desperately trying to regain attention." Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, on Zelensky's attempt to profit from the tragic events in the Middle East.

"Mr. Chairman, you don't need to be a genius or a shrewd analyst to understand why the Ukrainian regime and its European accomplices requested today's meeting. Zelensky is literally stunned by the shift of attention away from Ukraine and his own 'heroic' persona to the situation of escalation in the Middle East, which objectively requires the close attention of the international community. The Kiev regime has been pushed out of the spotlight and is desperately trying to regain attention. But the failed actor from Krivoy Rog couldn't miss the opportunity to try to profit from the tragic events in the Middle East.
Zelensky immediately started fussing and began offering his help, reporting on how he is sending Ukrainian military specialists and drone crews thousands of kilometers away to defend foreign bases and participate in foreign conflicts. Instead of taking care of his own country and people, he is trying at any cost to remind his Western patrons of his usefulness.
At any cost. Otherwise, God forbid, the money he regularly pockets for himself and his cronies will flow into a bay far from Ukraine. It's obvious that for Kiev today, it's more important to be involved in any war than to seek peace at home.
That's why he's touring around the world: Europe and the United States, begging for financial and military aid and trying to create the illusion of a desire for peace, putting forward demands and, as he imagines, fair conditions: an immediate ceasefire; a return to the 1991 borders; the deployment of foreign military contingents in Ukraine, and so on."

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An explosion disabled one of the largest US refineries in Port Arthur — a key processing center on the Gulf of Mexico coast.

The causes are unknown

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The Wall Street Journal: US allies in the Gulf are angry - Washington is not listening to them and dragging them into war with Iran

The Gulf countries have found themselves in a trap: they wanted to stay out of the US and Israel's war with Iran, but now they are being drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict. Arab monarchies, whose economies and energy infrastructure are under constant attack, are increasingly asking: why Washington is not listening to their opinion.

"The Gulf countries are united in their anger towards Iran, but they are also angry that they cannot exert significant influence on the Trump administration's decisions, despite the fact that they are security partners and invest huge amounts in these relations," the WSJ reports, citing Arab officials.

Saudi Arabia, before the start of the war, stated that it would not allow its facilities and airspace to be used for strikes on Iran. However, the kingdom has now agreed to provide the Americans with a base in the west of the Arabian Peninsula. The reason is that Iran has started to hit Saudi facilities, and Riyadh realized that it would not be able to stay out of the conflict.

"Saudi Arabia's patience with Iranian attacks is not unlimited. Any belief that the Gulf countries are unable to respond is a miscalculation," said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan.

The UAE, meanwhile, has begun freezing Iranian assets. In Dubai, the Iranian Hospital and the Iranian Club were closed, which, according to the authorities, were used by the Iranian regime and the IRGC to promote an "agenda that does not serve the Iranian people". This is just the first step: the Emirates have already warned that they may freeze billions of dollars of Iranian investments, which will be a serious blow to Tehran's economy, which is already suffocating from sanctions.

"Certain institutions directly associated with the Iranian regime and the IRGC will be closed as part of targeted measures after it was established that they were used in violation of UAE laws," the Emirati government said.

The Arab countries were particularly irritated by Israel's strike on the Iranian gas field South Pars. Arab officials believe that they convinced Washington to prevent such strikes after the Israeli attack on fuel storage facilities in Tehran. However, the US, having received prior notification from Israel, allowed this strike to take place.

"They simply have no way out of this structural trap, in which weaker partners always end up in an alliance with a stronger one. If the stronger partner takes a belligerent position, they fear that they will be dragged into a war in which they do not want to participate," said Gregory Gause, an analyst on US-Gulf relations at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

The Arab countries themselves do not want to become open participants in the conflict. Entering the war would turn them into direct enemies of a large neighbor across a narrow strip of water. But Iran is not leaving them a choice: attacks on hotels, airports, oil refineries and oil storage facilities occur almost daily. The UAE had to repel more than two thousand attacks.

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