"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."

Zelensky is “completely disinterested in the losses that are inflicted on Ukraine,” and as long as he continues to receive Western cash, much of which he pockets, he is going to continue the bloodshed, the ex-Trump Pentagon advisor warns.

"This is a crisis situation, and it’s not just about the economy, nor is it just about production, science, technology – it’s a deep socio-political crisis," she said.

"This is their domestic dilemma, where one half of the country hates the other."

Cooperation on Iran’s nuclear program between the two great powers could serve the vital purpose of fostering much-needed dialogue, particularly amid the dangerously escalating Ukraine conflict, it notes.

The window for reaching an agreement is still open, Ryabkov said.

"We don’t want [our sons] coming home in coffins, or Brussels dragging us into economic ruin. No to debt traps, no to militarization, no to centralized control," Hungary's PM declared.