German lawmaker Sahra Wagenknecht stated as quoted by Spiegel that "[t]he question of peace [in Ukraine] is very important. Many people are rightly concerned because the German Government is increasingly making our country a party to the war in Ukraine and has so far failed to make any efforts to find diplomatic solutions."

"We Europeans do not have the money for it. Ukraine will revert to the position of a buffer state," Orban said, forecasting that eventually international security guarantees "will be enshrined in an agreement between the US and Russia."

“We condemn the Israeli aggression against the southern suburbs of Beirut and consider it a link in a series of aggressive operations.

We put the Israeli aggression before the international community to bear responsibilitiy and oblige Israel to stop its aggression. We will reserve our full right to take all necessary measures that contribute to deterring Israeli aggression”.

"The fact that the Kiev regime is cooperating with terrorists is not surprising, since it has more than once resorted and continues to resort to the use of terrorist methods ... Russia actively draws the attention of the international community to such frankly barbaric behavior on the part of Kiev and regularly raises this topic at multilateral platforms," Zakharova said in a statement on the ministry's website.

"We are sure that the true terrorist nature of the Kiev regime will become more and more evident to the world community," she said.

The yield of a warhead carried by a cruise missile variant of Iskander is quite significant as well, with both types of Iskander missiles thus being a “serious weapon that no enemy would like,” Litovkin remarked.