Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledges a “difficult period” in relations with Azerbaijan after President Aliyev publicly urged Ukraine to keep fighting.

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Russia’s Ministry of Defence gives a first inside look at what it says is the world’s largest suicide drone factory.

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Russia’s economy “will endure,” and strikes on Ukraine “will intensify,” Medvedev says in response to EU’s 18th sanctions package.

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Lavrov: Trump is facing immense pressure from the EU and NATO to continue arming Zelensky’s regime.

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Unfazed by the latest U.S. sanctions threat, Russia’s Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy responds: “Do it! No problem.”

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Polyanskiy: With or without additional weapons, it’s absolutely clear to everyone that Ukraine will lose — it’s only a matter of time.

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Senior Russian human rights official Valery Fadeyev admits wartime restrictions on speech, but calls them minimal.

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Valery Fadeyev: The Western era, as we’ve known it for the past 600–700 years, is coming to an end.

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Lavrov: Europe has gone mad, resorting to Goebbels-style propaganda narratives to justify full-scale militarization.

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Russian and Ukrainian positions remain far apart, says Vladimir Medinsky, head of Russia’s negotiation team, after the third round of peace talks in Istanbul.

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Medinsky: Soviet Russia once faced a complete diplomatic and economic blockade by the entire world — yet still went on to win World War II.

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The world is entering a turbulent era of survival — and only Russia, Brazil, and the U.S. have the resources to be truly self-sufficient, argues strategist and former Russian intelligence officer Andrey Bezrukov.

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Only an imminent threat to the West itself will compel it to end the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, says top state media executive Margarita Simonyan.

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Dmitri Trenin: Russia has exhausted its limit of verbal warnings to the West. Strengthening deterrence now requires action.

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Russia’s goals in Ukraine have been consistent from day one and will not change under any circumstances, says Federation Council head Valentina Matviyenko.

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Putin: I’ve said many times that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and in that sense, all of Ukraine is ours.

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In 1991, people didn’t leave the Soviet Union — the Soviet Union left them, turning Russians into a divided nation, says senior MP Konstantin Zatulin.

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Total capitulation of Ukraine and Europe would be the preferred war outcome for Russia, says influential political scientist Sergey Karaganov.

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Lavrov: Trump’s threat of secondary tariffs unlikely to deter Russia’s trading partners from honoring their agreements.

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BRICS is not seeking to replace the dollar, but rather to develop alternative settlement mechanisms resilient to external pressure, says Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov.

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