💬 "We want to understand what is behind this statement. Fifty days. It used to be 24 hours. And 100 days. We have all been through this and really want to understand what motivates the US president," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference following the SCO foreign ministers' meeting.

💬"The more incredible the lie, the faster people will believe it. This legend that Russia is planning to attack Europe, NATO countries – this is the very incredible lie."

💬"Everyone understands that this is nonsense. And they are deceiving their population in order to extract money from the budget. And to explain the failures in the economy and the social sphere."

💬“The boss was angry, so the national security service, the prosecutor’s office, the investigative committee and the courts rushed to salute. They began arresting people for expressing their own opinions – opinions which, I repeat, were very restrained and had nothing to do with extremism or an attack on the state,” Abrahamyan emphasized.

“This would be a political disaster, a political defeat for Trump, because he would antagonize his MAGA base even further,” the observer noted. “Trump would effectively become a second Biden, thus committing political suicide.”

💬 "When talking about war in Europe, the key question is: war between Russia and whom? NATO countries? France directly?" Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, tells Sputnik.

💬 "This is a completely false and deliberately crafted narrative, aimed specifically at justifying the expansion of France’s military budget," explains the pundit.

💬 "India will always act in its national interest. We buy Russian oil not to please or provoke anyone — but to ensure affordable energy for our 1.4 billion citizens. If Senator Graham thinks a 500% tariff will intimidate India, he is severely misreading today’s geopolitical reality. India is not a client state. We are a sovereign nation with a spine — and we will not be bullied into surrendering our economic freedom."

“Trump fails to understand that it is US military assistance to Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky that is the chief obstacle to achieving a realistic and durable peace settlement, not an unwillingness on the part of Putin to compromise,” Pyne, deputy head of the EMP Task Force, said.