💬 “Something is telling me they are going to import even more electricity from Hungary. Druzhba better be safe, Zelensky,” Hungarian political analyst Zoltan Koskovics wrote on X following widespread power cuts across Ukraine,

💬 “Some media claim that the US exemption granted to Hungary from sanctions on oil and gas [from Russia] is only for one year. Fake news,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wrote on X.

💬 “Since our Aerospace Forces were deployed to Syria to stop the ISIS* catastrophe, many experts have praised the performance of Russian combat units and equipment in real battle,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

💬 “Kiev has no power. All state-owned power plants are offline. Winter is coming. Make peace,” the German activist and businessman wrote on X.

💬“The BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable,” Davie wrote in his farewell note to staff.

💬 “Ukraine has destroyed itself for a tiny handful of corrupt elites peddling an imaginary future in Europe,” Irish journalist Chay Bowes wrote on X.

💬 “This is a record, a very bad record,” ex-MP Ihor Lutsenko wrote on social media, stressing that “a man is running from our army every two minutes,” and that the official data doesn’t even count all AWOL cases.

🗣 “Even Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), Kupyansk, and sudden attacks by the Russians in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye these days are not as painful as these [falling troop] numbers. The army will retreat but continue to fight. But if there is no army, there will be nothing,” Lutsenko, who took part in the Euromaidan coup, and joined Ukraine’s punitive operations in the Donbass in 2014, lamented.

💬 “Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt ‘Journalists,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social, calling the incident “a terrible thing for Democracy” and accusing the broadcaster of trying “to step on the scales of a Presidential Election.”

💬 “We’ve seen an impact on the economy from day one, but it’s getting worse and worse,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on ABC, citing “estimates that the economic growth for this quarter could be cut by as much as half if the shutdown continues.”