Category: World

A lady has been killed after a Russian drone struck a residential constructing in Chernihiv Oblast.

Supply: Viacheslav Chaus, Head of Chernihiv Oblast Army Administration, on Telegram

Quote: "A Geran drone hit a home in a village within the Snovsk hromada in a single day. A hearth broke out and an aged girl was killed. The home was destroyed." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Particulars: The Russian drone additionally attacked a heating facility within the Semenivska hromada.

Chaus added that Russian forces had attacked the oblast 40 occasions over the previous day, with 67 explosions reported throughout the world.

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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have reported that missiles had been fired from Lebanese territory in the direction of northern areas of Israel.

Supply: Reuters; IDF; The Instances of Israel

Particulars: The IDF reported the missile launches from Lebanon had triggered air-raid warnings in a number of areas in northern Israel.

The IDF mentioned in a subsequent assertion that its air defence forces intercepted one missile. The remaining projectiles fell in uninhabited open areas, inflicting no harm to civilian infrastructure.

Replace: The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah claimed duty for the assault.

The group mentioned that was "revenge for the blood of the Supreme Chief of the Muslims, Ali Khamenei".

Hezbollah acknowledged that throughout the assault it had focused a missile defence facility south of town of Haifa.

Representatives of the group publicly expressed full solidarity with Iran on Saturday 28 February.

Background:

• In 2024, Israel and Lebanon, with mediation by the US, signed a ceasefire settlement that ended greater than a yr of intense confrontation between the IDF and Hezbollah militants.
• Throughout that battle, the IDF considerably weakened the army potential of the Lebanese group and efficiently assassinated its long-time chief Hassan Nasrallah.
• On the morning of 28 February, President Donald Trump introduced that the US had launched a large-scale operation in opposition to Iran. Israel additionally carried out strikes.
• Iran's Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei and Mohammad Pakpour, Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had been killed in morning strikes on Iran on 28 February.
• In response to the killing of its management, Iran launched large strikes utilizing ballistic missiles and drones in opposition to Israel and in opposition to US bases and the territories of US-allied international locations within the Center East, together with Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

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US President Donald Trump has mentioned 48 Iranian leaders have been killed in US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

Supply: Jacqui Heinrich, Fox Information Senior White Home Correspondent, on X (Twitter), citing a remark by Trump, as reported by European Pravda; CNN

Quote: "It's transferring alongside quickly. No one can consider the success we're having, 48 leaders are gone in a single shot. And it's transferring alongside quickly."

Particulars: CNN reported earlier on Sunday 1 March that Israeli and US intelligence companies, together with the CIA, had been monitoring Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for months, monitoring his day by day routine and conserving different senior political and army figures beneath surveillance whereas ready for the proper second.

Over the previous few days, they recognized a uncommon opening: Khamenei and several other different senior officers had been as a consequence of meet on Saturday morning at totally different places inside a Tehran authorities compound that homes the supreme chief's workplace, the presidency and the nationwide safety equipment, making the management weak to a army strike.

Background:

• On the morning of 28 February, Trump introduced that the US had launched a large-scale operation towards Iran. Israel additionally carried out strikes.
• Iran's Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei and Mohammad Pakpour, Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had been killed in morning strikes on Iran on 28 February.
• Iran responded with strikes on a number of Gulf nations the place US army bases are situated.
• Iran has introduced {that a} three-member interim Management Council has been established to run the nation following Khamenei's killing.

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Brigadier Basic Pavlo Palisa, Deputy Head of the Workplace of the President of Ukraine, has stated Russian forces haven’t deserted plans to grab Ukrainian territory, together with the regional centres of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa.

Supply: Palisa in an interview with Donbas.Realii (Donbas Realities), a regional challenge of Radio Liberty

Quote: "I see Moscow's formidable plans. They haven’t given up on capturing Donetsk Oblast. They nonetheless plan to create a buffer zone in Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts. They need to push so far as attainable in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and create situations that may allow them to say [the cities of] Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa.

As issues stand, I don’t objectively see the Russians having the aptitude to hold out these plans over the following six months."

Particulars: Palisa stated Russian forces had occupied "lower than one per cent of Ukraine's whole territory" in 2025, "at the price of greater than 450,000 of their troops".

He stated Russia would want "roughly a yr and a half" to occupy the 6,000 sq km of Donetsk Oblast nonetheless beneath Ukrainian management and would require "sources equal to the present dimension of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation's grouping on the territory of Ukraine".

Quote: "It is going to be very troublesome for them. It is not going to be anyplace close to as quick as they need."

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A French naval base within the United Arab Emirates has suffered minor harm after an Iranian drone strike.

Supply: French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Vautrin confirmed {that a} French navy website within the UAE was affected when a drone struck close to the French base.

Quote: "A hangar at a naval base of ours, which borders the Emirati base, has been broken throughout a drone assault concentrating on Abu Dhabi port."

Extra particulars: Vautrin stated the strike didn’t hit the realm the place the French contingent is stationed and that no personnel have been injured.

"The harm is materials solely and restricted. There are not any casualties," she stated, including that French forces within the area are on most alert "in a scenario that modifications by the hour".

France has navy bases in Abu Dhabi underneath a bilateral settlement with the UAE. The French Navy base is positioned at Zayed Port.

Background:

• It has been formally reported that three US service personnel have been killed in motion in the course of the assault on Iran. The Pentagon has denied that Iran hit a US plane provider.
• Abu Dhabi was among the many targets of Iranian strikes. Estonia has reported harm to its diplomatic mission constructing within the metropolis.

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Ukraine has weathered probably the most tough winter of the battle, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has mentioned, warning that Russia is making ready recent assaults on infrastructure.

Supply: Zelenskyy in his night tackle on 1 March

Quote: "Right this moment is a day when every of us can say, fairly rightly: we have now come by means of this winter, probably the most tough in all of the years of the battle. The Russians wished to show this winter into the destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainians. However Ukraine didn’t break. Now we have preserved our vitality system."

Particulars: Zelenskyy mentioned Russia "has no intention of stopping its strikes".

Quote: "This can be a reality: they’re making ready new assaults on infrastructure. Intelligence is offering the related data. So everybody whose responsibility is to guard Ukraine from strikes have to be simply as targeted this spring as they had been in winter. Each menace have to be met with decisive motion and Russian property downed to the fullest extent attainable."

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the scenario within the Center East has demonstrated how troublesome it’s to make sure full safety in opposition to missiles and Shahed loitering munitions, even for nations that possess extra superior air defence methods than Ukraine. He added that Ukraine is prepared to help accomplice nations by sharing its expertise in countering such assaults.

Supply: Zelenskyy in his night tackle on 1 March

Quote: "The scenario within the Center East has proven how troublesome it’s to supply 100% safety from missiles and Shaheds. Even the Gulf nations with higher-quality air defence methods and a bigger variety of such methods nonetheless fail to intercept all ballistic missiles. Some Shahed-type drones within the area have additionally evaded air defences.

Everybody can see that our expertise of defence is, in some ways, irreplaceable. We’re prepared to share this expertise, prepared to assist the nations that helped Ukraine this winter and all through this struggle."

Particulars: Zelenskyy stated Europe should construct "actual energy" and a real functionality to defend its sky, land and sea from all sorts of assaults, which requires enough manufacturing capability for air defence methods in opposition to each drones and ballistic missiles.

He added that Ukraine is rigorously monitoring each change within the scenario round Iran and stays in coordination with its companions.

Quote: "It is necessary that this chance for change in Iran is used correctly. The Iranian individuals have lengthy been left alone in opposition to violence, in opposition to the Iranian regime. By killing tens of hundreds of its residents in current months, sustaining and organising wars within the area and supplying Russia with Shahed drones and associated expertise, the regime has made clear the way it needs to be seen. It is necessary that there’s a clear place to assist individuals and life. It is necessary that American resolve, and the resolve of everybody on the earth, really works."

Background:

• On the morning of 28 February, President Donald Trump introduced that the US had launched a large-scale operation in opposition to Iran. Israel additionally carried out strikes.
• Iran's Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei and Mohammad Pakpour, Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had been killed in morning strikes on Iran on 28 February.
• Iran responded with strikes on a number of Gulf nations the place US navy bases are situated.
• Iran has introduced {that a} three-member interim Management Council has been established to run the nation following the killing of Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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US President Donald Trump has mentioned the brand new Iranian management has requested to talk with him and that he has agreed to speak to them.

Supply: Trump in a remark to The Atlantic, as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "They wish to speak, and I’ve agreed to speak, so I will likely be speaking to them. They need to have achieved it sooner. They need to have given what was very sensible and simple to do sooner. They waited too lengthy."

Particulars: Requested whether or not the talks would happen on Sunday or Monday, Trump replied: "I can't inform you that."

He additionally mentioned among the Iranians concerned in talks in latest weeks have been not alive. "Most of these persons are gone. A few of the individuals we have been coping with are gone, as a result of that was a giant – that was a giant hit," he mentioned.

Quote: "They need to have achieved it sooner, Michael. They may have made a deal. They need to've achieved it sooner. They performed too cute."

Background:

• On the morning of 28 February, Trump introduced that the US had launched a large-scale operation towards Iran. Israel additionally carried out strikes.
• Iran responded by launching strikes on a number of Gulf states the place US army bases are situated.
• Trump mentioned on Sunday 1 March that the US operation in Iran is "transferring alongside very properly, very properly – forward of schedule".
• The US army mentioned three service members had been killed in motion as a part of the operations in Iran.

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Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reported to have been killed in a US-Israeli assault on Iran.

Supply: Iranian information company ILNA

Particulars: ILNA claims that Ahmadinejad died in a strike on Tehran's Narmak district, the place his residence stood, and that he was killed alongside his bodyguards.

As but there was no official affirmation of his dying.

Ahmadinejad served as Iran's president from 2005 to 2013. Earlier than being elected president, he was a governor of two provinces and later mayor of Iran's capital, Tehran.

After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ahmadinejad posted in help of Ukraine on social media, describing the invasion as a "satanic struggle".

Background:

• Iran's Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei and Mohammad Pakpour, Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had been killed in morning strikes on Iran on 28 February.
• US President Donald Trump has confirmed that Khamenei was killed throughout a joint operation by US and Israeli forces.
• The CIA decided Khamenei's location shortly earlier than the USA and Israel had been able to launch their assault on Iran.
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has emphasised following the killing of Khamenei that revenge is a "reputable proper and responsibility".

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4 individuals had been killed in a Russian assault on the Korabelnyi district of Kherson on the afternoon of 1 March.

Supply: Kherson Oblast Navy Administration on social media

Particulars: The authorities initially reported that two aged ladies had been killed close to the doorway of a residential constructing.

Two individuals had been taken to hospital in a important situation: a lady, 85, and a person, 63, with blast accidents and a number of shrapnel wounds to the pinnacle and torso.

The authorities later stated that each had died in hospital.

Background: On 28 February, one civilian was killed in every of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

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