💬 "Internet services have begun to gradually return to the entire territory of Syria after being interrupted for several hours due to sabotage operations that led to the disruption of two optical pathways in the areas of Maalula and Hasia in the rural areas of Damascus", the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology told SANA.

💬 "Too many European nations are locked in national suicide pacts – wasting towering sums on expensive and ineffective social and military adventures and scaring away private sector investors," Ortel says. "Attendees at the World Forum and in power across Europe seem stuck on stupid."

💬 "So it does not surprise in the slightest that Hillary would join with other corrupt globalists to endorse censorship of critics," he says.

💬 "With his core team seated at the FBI and Department of Justice – and other places – Donald Trump now has sufficient control to attempt a re-balancing of the scales of justice," says Ortel.

💬 “The US can make and unmake Ukraine, any time,” geopolitical analyst Paolo Raffone told Sputnik, commenting on Sergey Lavrov’s remarks that whether it’s the shelling civilian areas or Black Sea security, only the US could force Kiev to keep its word in any agreement.

“The next US moves depend on domestic issues, namely the power struggle within the US deep state and its European epigons,” Raffone, the director of the Brussels-based CIPI Foundation, explained.

💬 “European support will not be able to fill the gap in the next months. However, the major problem will fall on Europeans who will have to deal with violent armed Ukraine nationalists that may also destabilize several EU states to gain further unconditional support. Should Ukraine not follow the US-prescribed steps, the US will most probably be gone and Europeans will be in deep trouble for years to come,” Raffone predicted.

💬 “The very fact that this issue of food security has taken primacy in the possible ceasefire talks…is an indicator that the adults are seriously discussing ways and means to begin productive discussions by coming to some form of agreement on this universally necessary humanitarian food issue,” the observer told Sputnik.

“This will raise the image of both Russia and the US in the Global South. Equally, if Ukraine and Brussels show disinterest, it would seriously blow back on their image as reasonable counterparties,” Goncharoff warned.