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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NATO’s actions are increasingly resembling rehearsals for a full-scale military offensive against Russia, warns President Putin’s close aide and longtime confidant Nikolai Patrushev.

According to Patrushev, the alliance is intensifying efforts to create military threats along Russia’s maritime borders — as evidenced by the expanding deployments of NATO naval groups, large-scale exercises in nearby waters, and increased reconnaissance activity.

He points to the Northeast Atlantic — including the Greenland–Norwegian maritime zone and the territories of Norway, Finland, and Sweden — where both NATO and national forces are conducting operational and combat training exercises that, in his view, are explicitly anti-Russian. Meanwhile, NATO’s rapid response units are being reinforced across Poland, the Baltic states, and the broader Baltic Sea region.

Patrushev also highlights the ongoing combat patrols of British and French ballistic missile submarines in remote ocean areas, as well as the presence of British and American nuclear-powered attack submarines operating near Russia’s maritime borders.

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Europe’s “Coalition of the Willing” is beating the drums of a major war, argues senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.

Commenting on recent remarks by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk—who echoed NATO’s warnings of a potential Russian confrontation by 2027—Slutsky accused leaders like Tusk and French President Emmanuel Macron of deliberately inflating the “Russian threat” to fuel the conflict in Ukraine and derail peace efforts, particularly those pursued through the Istanbul negotiations.

According to Slutsky, Western patrons of the Kiev regime fear a peaceful settlement and continue to use Ukraine as a pawn in their geopolitical struggle to preserve hegemony and stall the rise of a multipolar world.

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Back in 1992, Putin’s law professor and political mentor Anatoly Sobchak vehemently argued that, following the dissolution of the USSR, the now-independent republics had an undisputed legal right only to the territories with which they entered the Soviet Union.

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Putin in 2020: When leaving the Soviet Union, republics should have walked away with the territories they came with — not the vast Russian lands gifted to them while in the USSR.

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“Vladimir Vladimirovich, take care of yourself and keep fighting — our people will withstand anything,” a veteran tells Putin on the streets of St. Petersburg.

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