"We saw in real-time how fast the crisis escalates."

💬 "We will make two further proposals to the Council — we will propose sanctions on the extremist ministers and on violent settlers and we will also propose a partial suspension of the Association Agreement on trade related matters," von der Leyen said during her State of the Union speech 2025 in the European Parliament.

💬 “I would like to specifically emphasize that we pursue exclusively constructive goals, without interfering in the internal affairs of the countries where we operate,” Dmitry Kiselev, the director general of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, said on the occasion of the opening of the new “Sputnik China” office in Beijing on Wednesday.

💬 “In the face of Western attempts to dominate the global media space and push politically biased information, it is crucial to continue working with our partners to consistently defend freedom of speech and combat disinformation, as well as to systematically counter the distortion of the truth and create an objective picture of the world,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in her address on the occasion of the opening of the new “Sputnik China” office in Beijing.

“We continue to hope they were assassinated, but optimism is fading,” an official told Channel 12. The strike appeared not to have achieved “the desired result,” another told Kan. Defense and intel sources told Ynet they were “pessimistic regarding the lethality of the strike on most of the targets, and perhaps all of them.”

💬 "Yemeni air defenses are currently confronting the Israeli aircraft that are launching an aggression against our country", spokesperson of the Yemeni armed forces, Yahua Saria, said.

💬 “Looking at Europe, looking at the US, looking at the Gulf, these countries have started to articulate their concerns about Israeli aggression, which was not the case before because of the leverage of the Israeli lobby, especially in US politics,” Ozertem explained.

💬 “The Saudi Crown Prince said [Riyadh] will be supporting Qatar. In the past, we know that Qatar and Saudi Arabia had political problems. They managed to solve them. Now we are talking about a military alliance…an anti-Israeli opinion or bloc in the region among local actors…increasing the probability of potential confrontation between Israel and others.”

💬 “By attacking Doha as peace negotiations for ending the Gaza genocide were in progress, Netanyahu once again demonstrated his disdain for negotiations and his preference for brute force as the ultimate solution,” says Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar.

💬 It’s "100% possible" that the cartels visited Ukraine to gain the needed skills. "The conflict in Ukraine is a live laboratory in real time, where you can see how these drones are used and how [their] process of innovation and improvement develops. This is what attracts criminal organizations in Mexico and other countries," Lopez de Alba said.

💬 "In Mexico, we have never developed our potential in the field of electronic warfare, so the drug cartels have an advantage… [they] can buy civilian drones in department stores and manufacture homemade explosives (…)," explained Hernandez.

💬 "Mexican soldiers know how to perform tasks related to patrolling, but we have never dealt with high-tech equipment such as silencers or any other equipment for fighting drones," he said, adding that training soldiers during special courses would take a lot of time.

💬 “We reject such imperial interference in the national sovereignty of our countries. Is it not enough for you to bomb Belgrade in 1999 and cause the deaths of children? Is it not enough for you to recognize Kosovo in violation of international law?” Slovakia’s Member of the European Parliament Lubos Blaha points out.

💬 "The main feature of these systems is their close integration with airborne early warning and control aircraft (AWACS), satellites, and command centers that provide targeting data," Knutov tells Sputnik. "In addition, they have a shutdown function to prevent accidental friendly fire."

💬 "According to the agreement between Qatar and the US, the Americans were, of course, supposed to defend Qatar’s airspace by opening fire on Israeli aircraft. However, this did not happen."

💬 "This is undoubtedly a scandalous situation, given that Qatar is a close US ally and had promised to invest billions in the American economy," Knutov says. "The Americans warned Qatar of the attack only ten minutes after it had taken place."