"We’ve seen the censorship that happens in every single country around the world, including... Europe, the US, Brazil. Pavel’s arrest takes another social media platform off the list of those who want to censor, those who want power."

"[EU social media regulator boss] Thierry [Breton], sent out a letter to Elon [Musk] before the Trump interview, urging him not to conduct the interview. That’s an interview by an American businessman and an American former president, and they've got the EU sending out a letter warning them on what content they talk about on the platform."

“That’s essentially factual information used with malicious intention. Please let me know how the hell can someone determine whether something is malinformation or not. If you post something that’s factual but criticizes the incumbent governments, is that something that can be censored?”

“The F-16 failure, and expectations of future failures, helps slow down and reduces willingness to send more F-16s to Ukraine... and F-16 losses because they do capture the public imagination are more part of the political narrative of ‘end the war soon before our investors begin to doubt that the landscape of post-war Ukraine will be profitable for them,’” the former analyst for the US Department of Defense and retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

“However, if Kiev wishes to receive more high-end equipment and technology, and even US authorization for deep strikes into Russia -- it must avoid any blame for ongoing losses on its own military, or the combat/logistical/strategic superiority of Russia,” Kwiatkowski stated.

“All honest observers inside and outside this conflict know that Ukraine is fighting with an assortment of equipment that is older, from Soviet era and Vietnam era equipment, often technologically incompatible, operated by people often unfamiliar with these systems, and in a battle-space that is haphazard and not well logistically supported,” she concluded.