💬 "We shared with our friends in Beijing our hopes that the upcoming round of negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul — if the Ukrainian side participates, if they agree to come — will bring more concrete and tangible agreements," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Sputnik on the sidelines of the "Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era" conference.

💬 “No problem, we handled it. Our delegation includes people who speak a variety of languages. Just in case, two of them are fluent in Japanese,” Medinsky was quoted as saying.

💬 “Hundreds of drones clearly directed by NATO communications guidance systems,” the host of The Alex Jones Show said in a video posted on X, commenting on the recent terrorist attacks on Russian airfields.

💬 “NATO started this war — they overthrew Ukraine’s government, they did all of it. And they brag about it, for God’s sake,” the political commentator emphasized.

💬 “This administration is incapable, as currently configured, of creating the conditions for a successful negotiation to peace,” former US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter told Danny Haiphong, commenting on Trump’s daily flip-flops on the Ukraine crisis.

💬 “What’s important to Russia, though, is to keep the dialogue between Russia and the United States ongoing — to let Trump walk away from the peace process as a futile effort, but to keep the dialogue between the United States and Russia ongoing,” the analyst explained.