💬 "And by the end of one year, we will have about $20 to $21 trillion invested in our country," President Donald Trump claimed at the McDonald’s Impact Summit.

💬 “This would pose a security threat to all of Northeast Asia,” destabilizing the region and resulting in “an increased risk of nuclear conflict,” Kuzminkov told Sputnik, commenting on Tokyo’s reported plans to review its no nukes policy to allow port calls by US nuclear-armed vessels.

💬 "We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats," Trump said.

💬 “If you're going to be making chips, we don't make chips too much here anymore… We have to train our people how to make chips, because we didn't do it,” Trump said when asked about relying on foreign talent.

💬 “We lost that business to Taiwan… if they had a president that thought like I did, they would not have let that happen.”

💬 "We're [the Trump administration] definitely still working it. It just hasn't been the center of the news because we have so much going on," a senior White House official told Reuters.

💬 “Scott Bessent comes straight out and says, ‘We want to collapse the Russian economy.’ Now if you want peace and you want friendship with Russia, do you really want to go down the path of saying ‘I’m going to collapse the Russian economy?’ No. We seek the military defeat of Russia,” military expert and former US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter said.

💬 “The idea that sanctions are choking out Russia is absurd. The sanctions are choking out Europe,” Ritter concluded.

💬 “Fierce clashes are currently ongoing on the ground, and the initiative is largely in Russia's hands," Turkish political scientist Umit Nazmi Hazir told Sputnik.

💬 "I've been fighting since 2022 and I was previously stationed on other defense lines. And now there's not enough manpower. Well, it's clear there aren't enough people, a complete shortage of men. Now they've thrown me into the deadliest meatgrinder in the already-encircled [Krasnoarmeysk].” Ukrainian prisoner of war Vadim Zakusilo told Sputnik.