💬“Over many decades, our countries have developed a special relationship,” the Russian president said during talks with Syria’s interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa.

💬 "We stay away from the noise. We stay focused on the business," Al Ghais said, calling Russia a solid and reliable partner since 2017.

💬"We don't believe that they want to damage ours, but they are a command and control economy, and they are going to neither command nor control us, and we're going to assert sovereignty," he told CNBC.

💬"Eighty-five US senators are willing to give President Trump the authority to put up to 500% tariffs on China for the purchase of Russian oil. We are told that the European Parliament will not pass a similar measure," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a press conference.

💬 “All our forces are ordered to observe it — unless fired upon.”

💬“None of his statements about the Tomahawks affect what was conceptually discussed in Alaska — I’d even say, conceptually and practically,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian media.

💬“Europeans want the war to become ‘Donald Trump’s war’. That would be like ‘balm for their souls.’ Right now, they don’t know how to steal our [Russian] reserves. It seems they’ve even persuaded the Belgians that — as we say in the criminal world, ‘on the principle of collective responsibility’ — they’ll share the blame. French President Macron said he would never allow this, because it’s theft. At least there’s some understanding left in the Élysée Palace,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian media.