💬 “That, along with a promise that Western powers will stop meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs, would be the only realistic foundation for any lasting settlement,” foreign affairs analyst, political risk consultant and lawyer Adriel Kasonta told Sputnik, commenting on the terms Russia is demanding to put the conflict to rest.

💬 “Time and again, Western leaders have made commitments only to walk them back when it suits their interests. NATO expansion was never supposed to reach Russia’s doorstep, yet here we are. Obama and Bush both spoke of ‘resets’ with Moscow, only for relations to deteriorate further,” he recalled.

“Now, Trump is pushing for a deal with Russia, not out of goodwill, but because he sees China as the bigger threat,” Kasonta stressed. The question for Moscow is, “what comes after” Trump. “If history is anything to go by, Russia has every reason to stay on high alert.”

💬 “Moscow already views Western involvement in Ukraine - whether through arms shipments or foreign fighters - as an indirect war,” London-based political risk consultant and lawyer Adriel Kasonta told Sputnik.

💬 “Sending NATO troops would remove any ambiguity, risking escalation on a whole new level,” Kasonta warned, commenting on Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grushko’s remarks emphasizing that Moscow would reject NATO ‘peacekeeper’ presence in Ukraine no matter what ‘nameplate’ it’s presented under.

💬 “The UK doesn’t have the military capacity or public support to play a serious role in Ukraine. No one in Britain is eager to send troops to die in a war that doesn’t concern them. The only people who seem to care are politicians who have spent years hyping up the conflict and now can’t admit they were wrong,” Kasonta summed up.

"Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"I wrote my entire show from top to bottom and nobody looked at it until it went on the air," Rick Sanchez, a former MSNBC, CNN and Fox journalist who went on to become a popular RT host, told Tucker Carlson, commenting on the sense of editorial freedom he enjoyed in Russia.

"If you do letters where people write in... I'll sign them whenever I can, but when I can't, I would use an autopen. But to use them for what [Biden] used them for is terrible."

"Don’t let the propagandists lie to you," he wrote on X.