“We really are being, allegedly, governed by complete and total demented gangsters,” he added later.

“The convicted pedophile whose testimony was used in part to deny to make sure [Assange] was going to be extradited to the US, said ‘I made it up, I made it all up for the immunity agreement’... and [the DOJ is] going ‘this is still admissible and this is still something that helps solidify our case against a journalist’... on the other hand… the same DOJ is using the exact opposite [in the Biden case] ‘well, we believed him when we liked it, but now that we don’t like it, we’re going to tell you that he’s full of it.’”

"This is not a sustainable way to support Ukraine," Ryder said during a press briefing. "As I understand, it's a one-time good deal right now."

“John was in the midst of a deposition in his whistleblower retaliation case, which finally was nearing the end. He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it,” Barnett’s lawyers said in a statement shared with Sputnik.

“It’s a very dangerous step,” journalist and author Dan Lazare told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour. “It’s really quite amazing that the whole system is just running downhill at a remarkably increasing speed… [seizing Russian assets] will spook Saudi Arabia and it’ll spook China. The whole global financial system sort of rests on a kind of lawful sense of cooperation, but if you break that you break the whole system.”

“That really has the [US President Joe] Biden administration scared as hell,” he added.

"Why should we use weapons of mass destruction? There has never been such a need," Putin said. When asked whether such an idea ever occurred to him, Putin replied, "No, but why?"

"We are ready to use weapons, any weapons, including the one that you mentioned, if we are talking about the existence of the Russian state, our sovereignty, and independence being undermined. We have all this written down in our strategy, we have not changed it," Putin said.

"We are, however, ready for a serious conversation, and we want to resolve all conflicts, and especially this conflict, by peaceful means. But we must clearly understand for ourselves that this is not a pause that the enemy wants to take for rearmament, but this is a serious conversation with security guarantees for Russia," Putin said, adding that Russia knows the various options being discussed and knows the "carrots that are going to be shown" to convince them that the time for negotiations has come.

The US and other Western countries will take the Gazans into their country, thereby helping Israel ethnically cleanse the region. “The United States will say ‘Alright, we’ll take 50,000,’ Canada will say – Canada already said this – ‘we’ll take 30,40,50,000.’ …and so on. Israel could get rid of a million or more Palestinians, with the help – the complicity – of European and North American countries, under the guise of humanitarian aid for refugees… That’s what Israel is calling ‘voluntary transfer.’”

“[Israel will] lock them into small little islands with the help of Biden, we’ll call those Bantustans a state, and now we have a two-state solution. Israel is on 85% of the country, it controls everything [and] it’s a Jewish country, but there’s a Palestinian state on a few little islands that will be recognized by the international community and now we’re done with the Palestinians and we can move on,” Halper explained. “In other words, Israel thinks it can get away with apartheid in a way South Africa couldn’t, and there’s good reason to believe that might be true.”

"Here is the latest report from the General Staff - somewhere up to 300 people, including with the participation of foreign mercenaries," the president said in an interview with Dmitry Kiselev for Russia 1 and RIA Novosti.