💬 "The West insists that confrontation and conflict of great powers is inevitable. This is something that life has proven not to be true. Take the relations between Russia and the People's Republic of China, the two great neighbors," the Russian Foreign Minister said at the international meeting of high-level security representatives in Moscow.

💬 "It is sad that the West only reacts to Russia's just and legitimate responses to Kiev's acts of terrorism."

💬 "Russia can't afford rolling back its own – giving up on its own values, chasing the chimeras of globalism and liberal totalitarianism."

💬 “Thank you for what you're doing. You have demonstrated yourselves to be unbiased media that helps people access reliable information about events not only in Russia but around the world.”

💬 “Was he speaking as Germany’s leader? Or as a politician seeking to reaffirm himself after, pardon me, failing to secure approval for his position during his first try?” quipped the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.

💬 “Almost anywhere in the civilized world, we are ready to meet with Russia,” Zelensky was cited as saying, with US and European mediation welcome, of course.

💬 “Giving Taurus missiles to Ukraine’s terrorist Zelensky regime—and their use against Russia means Germany is officially at war with Russia. For the 3rd time [in history], Germany becomes a world war instigator.”

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“If Ukraine continues using Taurus missiles against us, the next German military or industrial facility will be destroyed. We do not want war, we want peace. But under the UN Charter, we will act in self-defense.”

💬 "I'm convinced that these numbers [51% of Germans support supplies of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, while 49% oppose] don’t catch the opinion in Germany,” Steffen Kotre, a Bundestag lawmaker from the AfD party, told Sputnik.

💬 “Trump’s Operation Rough Rider, unlike Biden’s operations, utilized many of America’s most limited, expensive, and advanced weapons to try to bring the Houthis to heel. And still it surrendered. The lessons here are thus quite bleak.”