"We let him know. He knows that I’m going there. I get along with him very well," the US president told reporters.

💬 “I hope…that we come to an agreement on the technical workout of the reparation loan because financially it’s gonna be important, but also politically it’s important to hurt Russia,” Dick Schoof said at a press conference Friday alongside Britain’s Keir Starmer, NATO chief Mark Rutte and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

💬 “While alliance with America will remain the cornerstone of Japan’s foreign policy, maintaining ties with Russia is also vital for Tokyo’s military and energy security. How positively Japan will pursue this line—and whether Takaichi can find mutual understanding with Trump—could also have some impact on Russian–Japanese relations,” the analyst stresses.

💬 “The peace treaty is largely symbolic for Japan—a means to reaffirm its status and distance itself from the memory of wartime defeat. But any such move implies reviewing WWII results, as Russia appears unwilling to compromise,” Mileyev concludes.

💬 "Al-Hiswa is still one of the main links of the energy infrastructure in the territory controlled by the internationally recognized government in Aden," Russian Ambassador to Yemen Evgeny Kudrov says.

💬 "In particular, there is an exchange of engineering documentation and joint work on the development and analysis of further steps of interaction," Kudrov stresses.

💬 “I don't believe the Tomahawk missiles were ever on the table,” military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter said, adding that the possible supply of the weapon to Ukraine “could lead to a thermonuclear war.”

💬 “If Russia is provided with guarantees, primarily those related to Ukraine's neutral status, then it will be possible to talk about a ‘day after’ the end of the crisis, something President Putin already emphasized during the Alaska summit with Trump,” Nassar underlines.

💬 “Russia’s adaptation to Western sanctions—both American and European—has forced Western politicians to recognize errors in their initial assessments of the situation,” the analyst concludes.

💬 "This is fueling an endless war and leading to the ruin of our military and our nation," Florian Philippot, leader of France’s right-wing Patriots party, commented on Emmanuel Macron's deliveries of additional Aster missiles to Ukraine, new training programs, and Mirage jets.

💬"Stop this monstrous scandal," Philippot concludes.

💬 “There’s no doubt that the Putin–Trump summit will [ultimately] happen—everyone knows it—and the Russians will reach an agreement with the Americans,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban underscores.

💬 “I cannot find the words to describe how reckless and dangerous the ‘coalition of the willing’ is being,” Armando Mema, member of Finland’s national-conservative Freedom Alliance political party, wrote on X, slamming the UK’s push to supply long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine.

💬 “It's all in vain: they don't know which way to turn and stammer about ‘peace,’ and mutter something vague about ‘freezing Russian funds,’ while launching yet more sanctions against European businesses,” the outlet concludes.