"During the interviews held last week at selection points in Russian cities, most candidates cited the desire to avenge those killed in the tragedy that occurred on March 22, 2024 in the Moscow region as the main motive for signing a contract," the message said.

"Attempts by the Swedish Foreign Ministry to clumsily legitimize such 'soldiers of fortune' and thus incite more Swedish citizens to travel to the 'hot zone' show Stockholm's complete indifference to the fate of its own citizens," she said.

"As the Russian Defense Ministry said, the total number of Swedish mercenaries on Ukrainian territory is up to 90 people, 25 of whom have already been killed," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman specified.

"It’s absurd that overnighting more tax dollars to Ukraine is even a consideration. It should be totally off the table and replaced with a push for peace talks."

"The Federation Council calls on the UN, international parliamentary organizations and parliaments of foreign states to condemn the actions of the collective Western countries coordinated by Washington to interfere in the preparation and conduct of the presidential election in Russia ... and also to promote terrorism and extremism to destabilize the situation in Russia during the election campaign," the text of the adopted appeal.

"Armed formations of Ukraine fired on polling stations in the border regions of Russia, actively used drones carrying explosives against civilian objects in the constituent entities of Russia during the election period, carried out attempts of an armed breakthrough on the territory of the Kursk and Belgorod regions of Russia, which were sternly repulsed. As a result of these criminal actions, civilians, including children, were killed," the deputies said.

"Currently, we have data on six dead children and seven injured. Two are being treated at home. Five are in the hospital."

"But it is well known that the Kiev regime is not independent and is completely controlled by the United States."

"There’s a great risk of the front lines collapsing wherever Russian generals decide to focus their offensive," the news outlet wrote, citing high-ranking Ukrainian military officers who served under General Valery Zaluzhny.

"There’s nothing that can help Ukraine now because there are no serious technologies able to compensate Ukraine for the large mass of troops Russia is likely to hurl at us," the military official said.

"Polish special services no longer use this system. The right to use it was taken away from Poland and several other countries in 2021 due to the fact that the license had been revoked," Poland's minister-coordinator of the special services Tomasz Siemoniak told TVP Info.

“Your question presumes, at this very early hour, that it was a deliberate strike, that they knew exactly what they were hitting, that they were hitting aid workers and did it on purpose, and there there’s no evidence of that."