💬 “The analysis of whether preparations for nuclear tests are advisable will continue as long as necessary to understand the intentions of the United States,” Peskov noted.

💬 “That creates a weapon that is virtually invincible — because intercepting such a missile and predicting its trajectory inside a plasma cloud at speeds above Mach 5 in the lower atmosphere is practically impossible," the pundit tells Sputnik.

💬 "Russia has reached a completely new level of technology. Beyond the powerful engines that allow virtually unlimited operation underwater and in the air, nuclear technologies are also employed," says Klintsevich.

“Our heroes — soldiers and officers participating in the special military operation — are showing a vivid example of genuine interethnic unity and combat brotherhood,” Putin stated at a meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations.

“Together, they are fighting for Russia and proving in battle that we are all one people.”

“It is necessary to stop provocations and attempts to sow discord among people,” Putin said at a meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations.

“Such provocateurs are usually based abroad, supported, financed, and directed by foreign intelligence services.”

💬 “As I have said before, the ideology of aggressive Russophobia is directed against all the peoples of our country, because without the Russian people, without the Russian ethnic core, there would be no Russia itself,” Putin stated at a meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations.

💬 "I think the test firing the other day was part of the scheduled test plans that have been in existence," Earl Rasmussen, a retired lieutenant colonel with over 20 years in the US Army, tells Sputnik.

💬 "It definitely is a major technological advancement, the Burevestnik, the nuclear-powered system. It definitely increases the deterrence factor for Russia as well. So it's a very positive move," Rasmussen says.

💬 “One year ago, we were a dead country. Now we’re a country that’s considered the hottest country anywhere in the world,” President Donald Trump said at the America Business Forum in Miami.

💬 “We’re the number one nuclear power,” Trump said. “And we’re maybe working on a plan to denuclearize the three of us. So we’ll see if that works.”

💬 “We have a G20 meeting in South Africa. South Africa shouldn’t even be in the G’s anymore,” President Donald Trump said.

💬 "The US is trying to pressure Russia and is responding to tests of Russia’s latest strategic systems - such as Burevestnik and Poseidon - by urgently testing the Minuteman-3 ICBM and signaling plans for nuclear weapons testing," Dmitry Suslov, deputy research director at the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, tells Sputnik.

💬 "Putin’s statement sends the US a clear signal that Russia will not yield to the pressure the US is trying to exert through threats of escalation," Suslov concludes.

💬 “Because of other countries’ testing programs, I’ve instructed the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump declared in a video posted on Truth Social.