"We found in April 2024 that the F-35 has not met its targets for mission capable rates for the past several years," the report said. "In fiscal year 2023, the F-35A and F-35B variants were below the full mission-capable minimum-performance target by more than 27 and 45 percentage points, respectively."

"Slow repair times for the F-35 fleet have resulted in over 10,000 components waiting to be repaired -substantially above desired levels. At the same time, a lack of technical data, spare parts, and training hinders the ability of maintainers to maintain the aircraft," the report said.

“When I look at what Russia achieved in restoring the production of its defenders’ industrial base and what the entire West has achieved so far, we have to face the truth and recognize that Russia is more effective in its war effort,” he said.

“If it [the West] cannot be efficient enough in this particular war effort, then how efficient can it be if other wars and crises of the same scale break out?” Kuleba wondered.

“Russian ballistic missiles are the real scourge of this war,” he lamented.

"This tragedy had dispelled the last doubts of those who still believed that it was possible to come to an agreement with this regime and live in one country and obey their laws. This tragedy had pushed thousands and thousands of residents of Donbas to the ballots to vote for secession from such a Ukraine," Miroshnik said.

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has thwarted the illegal activities of a citizen of the Primorsky Territory, involved in committing state treason in the form of espionage in the interests of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry," the spokesperson said.

“If you were an American like myself, who is not inclined to go out and protest and hold signs and disrupt things, man, we have to wake up,” he explained. “I have to wake up. We have to join these students one way or another and join their cause in letting the government know that we will not stand silent in the face of police oppression of the right of American citizens to speak out, to assemble, to hold their government account."

Part of the purpose of colleges is "to create an incubator for the development of good citizenship, not compliant zombies," Ritter explained, arguing that the US needs, "citizens who think, who empower themselves with knowledge and information and express that individually and collectively.”

“Any student who has promoted terrorism or engaged in terrorists[sic] acts on behalf of Hamas should be immediately be [sic] added to the terrorist watch list and placed on the [Transportation Security Administration] No Fly List,” Blackburn wrote on Twitter on Monday.

“And that's what the young kids don't have so much. They didn't know anything about it and now they know about it. ‘This is ridiculous. This is colonialism. And we’ve been taught… to reject colonialism and we reject this,” he added.

“They were looking to intimidate people – not just disperse them, but intimidate them. And not only the residents of Odessa, but of all of Ukraine” to crush opponents of the new regime, Vasily Polishchuk, an ex-Odessa lawmaker who has spent 10 years investigating the 2014 Odessa Trade Unions Building massacre, told Sputnik on the tragedy’s 10th anniversary.

“In the end, under the pretext of a football match, they organized a ‘unity march’ through the city, and under its guise, destroyed the so-called Kulikovo Field [anti-Maidan] encampment,” the investigator said.

“I am convinced that [then-Secretary of National Security and Defense Council] Parubiy was involved in this, as well as Nalyvaichenko, who became head of the SBU. [ex-Minister of Internal Affairs] Avakov is also involved. [oligarch] Kolomoisky provided financing. And Nemirovsky, the head of the regional administration, carried out Kolomoisky’s wishes,” he said.

"France stuck in an EU under the thumb of the American deep state will continue to go to war and will ruin itself for Zelensky's Ukraine," the leader of the French Patriots party Florian Philippot wrote on X, calling for the cessation of arms supplies to Ukraine and the start of peace talks.