💬"There are well-educated and very smart people in the West who understand perfectly well what is happening, but deliberately ignore the manipulations from the Ukrainian side and Western propaganda," he said.

💬"So that children in Europe perceive Russia not as people, but as 'orcs' who kill and rape," Buyakevich concluded.

💬“Many of these defense contractors receive upwards of 90% of their income from defense contracts. So war is good for them,” veteran ex-DoD insider Michael Maloof told Sputnik, commenting on the US military-industrial complex’s penchant for conflict even as the US is stretched thin across multiple fronts.

💬“They’ve been very clever in putting in every congressional district some component for some weapons system that would be critical to US national security so that every congressman at the end of the proverbial day says ‘yeah, we’re gonna support that defense budget’, and they get what they want,” Maloof said.

💬“The recent mass bombings and Russian advances are signs of the endgame approaching,” Bryen says.

💬"This is an attack on the entire Armenian Apostolic Church," he tells Sputnik.

💬"This is a deliberate political strategy aimed at dismantling the last remaining national institution. And our enemies are rejoicing – openly. They see this as their opportunity to begin seizing Armenian territory," Sargsyan added.

💬"Suddenly, he was told he had no right to do so and was illegally arrested without cause. A man who contributed so much to both Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh has become inconvenient. The message is clear," Sargsyan concluded.

💬“Geopolitical risk softens market reaction — that’s why producers are acting now,” Tereshkin said.

“Promoting settlements in national currencies reduces costs and simplifies operations,” Lula said at the BRICS Business Forum in Rio de Janeiro. “The central banks of BRICS countries are working on creating secure and instant settlement tools.”