“We did all the work of innovating drones as a weapon, but we did not scale this weapon fast enough on an industrial level for it to have a meaningful strategic effect. We were too slow.”

💬 "We shared with our friends in Beijing our hopes that the upcoming round of negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul — if the Ukrainian side participates, if they agree to come — will bring more concrete and tangible agreements," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Sputnik on the sidelines of the "Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era" conference.

💬 “No problem, we handled it. Our delegation includes people who speak a variety of languages. Just in case, two of them are fluent in Japanese,” Medinsky was quoted as saying.