"It is a vehicle for increasing spending for the military... They are asking for too much money," he told CBS News.

"Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false," US media reported, citing the former president.

💬 "It is no longer a secret that the UK is the main source of global crises, a provocateur and instigator of wars. London organizes coups d'etat, weakens not only its geopolitical opponents but also its closest allies, sets nations against each other and does not allow the bloody conflicts it has unleashed to be resolved," a FSB representative said.

💬 "The most stunning thing is when the enemy is eliminated by your actions. And you understand perfectly well that by destroying one enemy, you save at least two of your comrades’ lives," Moisey, a legendary drone commander and two-time 'Order of Courage' recipient, told Sputnik.

💬 “It’s untenable,” Seth Bernstein, CEO of $780bn asset manager AllianceBernstein, was cited as saying.

💬 “It was the Kiev regime that gave the order to blow up the train—this is state-level terrorism”, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stressed.

💬 "I met people from Mali, from Burkina Faso – essential – from Afghanistan, from Venezuela. And we're all, all of us, Global South," Escobar told Sputnik.

💬 “In 2024, Russia was the largest foreign investor in Iran,” Kazem Jalali, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to Moscow, said, as quoted by the embassy's press service.

Russian investments in gas projects within Iran are expected to reach $8 billion in the future—$5 billion of which are tied to specific commitments, with agreements on the remaining contracts expected soon.