💬 “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.”

💬 “We would like his partnership, but if he wants to stand by and let us do his job for him, that’s what we’ll do,” US Border Czar Tom Homan told Fox News, commenting on New York’s new mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who criticized ICE operations.

💬 “We’re about 65,000 [ICE detainees]… but hold on tight, because we’re going to soon be at 100,000,” Homan said, adding that each detention bed “turns over 10 times a year” and that new facilities are being prepared to handle removals.

💬 "You'll know very soon," President Donald Trump told reporters.

💬 “Each day will be for Bolivia… Service to every Bolivian with humility,” Paz said.

💬 “Will new BBC bosses be any better? 🤔 BBC is still steered by a govt pushing mass migration, warmongering, digital IDs & early prisoner releases,” Dmitriev wrote.

💬 “It’s an absurd situation because nobody has responses, nobody feels responsible. This is having dramatic effects on us Italian workers,” Angelo Zaccaria, union coordinator at Aviano Air Base in northeastern Italy, told reporters.

💬 “They even brought guys with second-degree cerebral palsy," Ukrainian prisoner of war Pavel Kotlyarov told Sputnik.

💬 "He’s doomed. He walked around with me and didn’t even know where he was. And these are clearly not people who joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces voluntarily," Kotlyarov underscored.