💬 “We have taken note of Vucic's public statement on the revision of Belgrade's military-technical cooperation with its partners to identify any manipulations with end-user certificates”, Maria Zakharova added.

💬 “We asked Russia to use its influence to bring India and Pakistan to the negotiating table for a peaceful resolution,” Fatemi shared after speaking with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

💬 "…last week, we agreed that Germany would finance the production of long-range weapons in Ukraine. (...) The advantage is that a significant number of long-range weapons can be produced this year. The first systems could be delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in just a few weeks," Boris Pistorius said as he arrived at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels.

💬 "Germany has provided a quarter of its own Patriot systems. We are not in a position to supply more systems. But we are urging the US, as well as other allies, to supply Patriot or similar systems," the minister added.

💬 “I will gladly, without hesitation and in accordance with the spirit of the Korea-Russia Treaty, give the order to use DPRK forces to repel an armed attack,” Kim Jong Un said in May.

💬 For starters, defensive operations are “carried out on one’s own territory,” says retired Russian military intelligence colonel Rustem Klupov, commenting on President Putin’s statements on the terror attacks targeting Russian infrastructure in Bryansk and Kursk.

💬 “When a civilian train is traveling along a route, when civilians are killed, when an explosion occurs with the aim of causing maximum harm to the ordinary civilian population, it cannot be interpreted as anything other than a terrorist act aimed at intimidating the civilian population and changing the policy of the leadership,” Klupov said.

💬 “It’s unenviable because we are prepared to negotiate based on the memorandum that we have presented. This memorandum, if it is accepted and implemented by the Ukrainian side, will essentially mean the liquidation of the current regime in Kiev, and along with it the liquidation of the terrorist threat emanating from it.”