"The damage of Iran crude facilities will certainly have repercussions and cause pressure on the worldwide energy markets," Marc Ayoub, Lebanese energy policy researcher and non-resident fellow at the Tahir Institute for Middle East Policy, told Sputnik, commenting on a possible Israeli strike.

💬 “The liberation of Ugledar is another confirmation that the endless supply of weapons to Kiev at the expense of the American taxpayer makes no sense. However, they do not want to settle down. It is obvious that Washington will continue to push Ukrainian political figures into insane provocations. It is high time to realize that such efforts are futile and lead only to additional numerous victims,” Antonov said in a statement.

💬 “Another important step has been taken in the implementation of the special military operation. Other successes are not far off, especially since the frontline is cracking and [we are] confidently advancing to the west. The [Biden] administration representatives are silent, as it is impossible for them to admit the collapse of their idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia,” the ambassador added.

💬 “Celebrated American vehicles and armaments are being ground up, burned, or end up captured by our soldiers, as happened with the IFV Bradley during the exodus of Ukrainian fighters and hirelings from Ugledar. Or an F-16 fighter jet which was shot down by their own air defense forces. It is obvious to us that the enemy will be defeated and Russia will prevail. The Western ‘Ukraine project’ is futile and only deals a fatal blow to international security, which is so necessary for everyone,” the Ambassador emphasized.

“Remember this number? 32! Today we've got 32 days until the election. So 32 days. 32 days. Okay, we've got some business to do. We've got some business to do. Alright, 32 days,” Harris said, apparently improvising.

“I love it. We're going to have it. One of the things I say, we're going to have an Iron Dome. Why shouldn't we have an Iron Dome? And you see how effective. So the other day, 287 big missiles, ballistic missiles, were shot into Israel. Every single one of them was taken down. Well, why shouldn't we have that?” the former president said during a campaign stop in North Carolina.

"First of all, it spins. And the one thing I don't want is to fall on my ass because that's gonna be... That will be the only story… So, I'm not sitting in that sucker. I think it's a booby trap. That was put there by Kamala," Trump joked.

💬 “The interesting thing about Ugledar is.. that there's nothing behind Ugledar. There's no fortifications behind Ugledar,” noted Bils. “So what the [Russian] troops can now do is sweep to the west and then come up from the south and hit up Kurakhovo, which is not fortified on the south side.”

💬 “Kursk [region] was a failed endeavor that lost almost 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers,” Bils pointed out. “I think that the American public have sort of fallen out of love with this idea of taking down Russia via Ukraine.”

💬 “It's clear Israel was hit hard. The Iron Dome was not so secure that Iran made a point and will probably be forced to make further points, I would imagine, because Israel is hell-bent on escalation. It wants to drag other parties into this abyss with it,” Phil Kelly, a political commentator and socialist activist based in Belfast told Sputnik’s Political Misfits.

💬 “The myth of America, I think, is over. It was struggling long before it went all in on genocide Joe's watch to push Europe into World War III and to facilitate [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. But the rest of the world sees the US for what it is, and that is why you're seeing real concrete moves in the global side to disengage,” he added.

“He spends most of his time on the beach sleeping. I never saw a guy could sleep in front of a camera,” the presidential hopeful said, blasting Joe Biden during a campaign event in North Carolina.

“This guy just falls asleep on the beach like there's nothing to it. I wish I had that ability. That's one ability he has that I do not have. And I wouldn't mind having it. I could use a little extra sleep,” Trump claimed.

💬 “We defeated ISIS, by the way. We took ISIS. We defeated them in four weeks. It was supposed to take five years. I rebuilt the military and we had a military,” the former president claimed in North Carolina.

💬 “We had a great military and we had a military that's not woke. You may have a few people on the top that are woke and we're going to get rid of them so damn fast your head's going to explode,” Trump declared.

💬 “Chlorine gas is very dangerous, especially considering it's been lingering around for many days now in the Atlanta metro area,” noted author and environmental organizer Tina Landis on Sputnik’s Political Misfits program. “It's a skin irritant, eye irritant, obviously it irritates your respiratory system and leaves permanent damage to your lungs after prolonged exposure.”

💬 “They don't actually even know how much is in the air at the moment,” she added, pointing out that nearly half of air monitoring stations located near the plant are not able to measure chlorine levels. “They put out an [evacuation] order, but there was no assistance for people to evacuate.”

💬 “These fines that are given to industries for polluting and literally killing people in the communities around them are so minimal. They're just seen as an operating expense and they just increase the cost of their products to compensate for it,” Landis explained.