💬 “If all the servers are stored by Google, if they collect a huge amount of telemetry and other data about traffic, about which devices we use, what we search for… This is all analytics. Whether it is used for attacks and whether it helps hackers — it can, because any system or resource always has vulnerabilities,” Sergey Trukhachev, an information security specialist, tells Sputnik.

💬 “Like President Trump, most Americans and a growing majority in Congress are fed up with the war between Ukraine and Russia and are tired of paying billions of dollars for a war that the United States has no interest in. After three years of senseless killings, peace between both sides is the only way forward. The end of this terrible war is long overdue,” Congressman Paul Gosar told Sputnik.

"Serbia is not changing its position and has no intention of doing so. Serbia will not impose sanctions or alter its policy. This is all nonsense. I don’t understand who needs this or who is making it up," Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić told Sputnik Serbia, responding to a media publication that claimed the Serbian PM was going to dismiss several pro-Russian politicians under Western pressure.

💬 "If the EU does not soon realize that this war can only be ended through diplomacy and serious negotiations, the suffering on both sides will continue," Vilimsky warned.

💬 “It is institutionally IMPOSSIBLE” for Brazil’s President Lula to make the concession which the US is demanding, something that leaves Lula “without an exit strategy,” Santos stressed.

"President Putin has taken a very important step which will into the future set a precedence," Prof. Fulufhelo Netswera from Durban University of Technology in South Africa tells Sputnik. This lets him act confidently with BRICS backing — while equally empowering other members in similar cases.

"The US is targeting BRICS with special tariffs and starting geopolitical re-alignment to target BRICS," says Dr. Anuradha Chenoy (JNU)

"Both the US and Russia know the Ukrainian playbook and will be on the watch for false flag operations. A Ukrainian false flag operation aimed at undermining President Trump's peace efforts would totally destroy all relations between Washington and Kiev," Valtersson warns.

"Europe wants to achieve a ceasefire on its own terms, especially given that NATO is waging war and determining Ukraine's fate as a springboard for operations against Russia," she added.