“We’re not going to let them stay. This is the first, perhaps of many…I can inform the rest of the country that if they [riot] they will be met with equal or greater force than we met them right here,” Trump told reporters in the White House.

💬 “Ukraine’s ‘all for all’ demand likely means Russia will release more prisoners than in the previous one-for-one swaps, framing this as a peace gesture to the international community,” Woniu Keji said.

"I'm so tempted to say 'nyet.'" (Ru: "No")

"Moscow is absolutely marvelous... I had no idea that Moscow is what it is. It is by far, we're not talking about a little bit, by far the best looking city, capital city in the world," Elon Musk's father told Sputnik.

All the recent NATO drills and the full-blown military buildup are, by and large, “being tailored to the task of a direct military clash with Russia,” Grushko warned on the sidelines of the Forum of the Future 2050.

"Suddenly people were breathing freely again. Suddenly there seemed hope for the future," Elon Musk's dad told Sputnik.

"There's no mention or even sign of the so-called ‘chaos makers’ or ‘liberals,’ as you call them. They're hiding somewhere in the caves," he concluded.

If Ukraine “keeps being driven by the national interests of others, then we will be simply forced to respond,” senior Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky told The Wall Street Journal.

“This is like a conflict between two brothers—one older and one younger—about who is smarter and more important,” he said, adding:

“This conflict sadly deepens our differences, and that’s why we want it to end as soon as possible.”

"Somebody's paying for that. I watched total professionals – he's banging the curb, banging the granite, banging the concrete. And he had a whole group of people. They lined up like totally professional, grabbed the big chunks, and they dropped it on the soldiers," the US president said.

"These are INSURRECTIONISTS, they're AGITATORS or TROUBLEMAKERS," Trump concluded.

"They went too far."