They [#Southeast Asian countries] see us as balancing and stabilizing factor standing up to extra-regional countries headed by U.S, pushing their military infrastructure. They are pushing for militarization of East Asia and Asian Pacific, introducing nuclear deterrence elements as part of AUKUS. #Washington made agreement with South #Korea on joint nuclear deterrence

If this rather risky project [deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons] is brought to Southeast Asia, no one will benefit and risks will only increase - Lavrov stresses.

We are noting statements about plans to deploy long-range weapons in #Germany by 2026, time to target our locations will be about 10 minutes, these missiles may be bearing nuclear warheads

If these plans are put into action, we will consider ourselves free from moratorium we took upon ourselves on deployment of small and intermediate range missiles. We're seeing similar systems being developed, we will ensure mirror action is taken to deploy similar systems to counter actions by U.S. and satellites in Europe and other parts of the world - #Putin.

Russia doesn’t care who will lead the U.S, Trump or Harris, nothing changes for the better for Russia

Talk about possibility of negotiations with Moscow is tactical ploy by Kiev and West, looking for a break, since Russia has advantage in Special Operation, and in fact, Kiev's regime is not doing anything real for negotiations - Patrushev adds.

Figure of U.S. President is nothing more than decoration behind which deep state operates, so even a garden scarecrow can sit in White House

Before Biden, no American president had ever been such a laughing stock in eyes of citizens of his country and whole world. This once again proves figure of formal leader of America is just decoration, nothing more than a screen

Brainless, irresponsible politicians, who at the same time have ability to use nuclear weapons, finance aggressive Kiev neo-Nazi regime, obsessed with ambitions of world domination, are a very serious threat to both Russia and the whole world - Medvedev adds.