"He was among the leaders who laid the fundamental cornerstone for this resistance," reads the official statement.

💬 "I am very concerned about the US military buildup in the Caribbean, and I intend to speak with Trump about it," Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, commenting on the possibility of an armed conflict between the US and Venezuela.

"ABC & NBC… are a virtual arm of the Democrat Party. NO EXPANSION OF THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS. If anything, make them SMALLER!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"NATO is now obsolete, so the time has come for it to be dissolved," Mike Lee wrote on X.

"I think once there’s an invasion of Venezuela… you’ll see a splintering and a fracturing of the movement," he told CBS News.

💬 “Overall, given the corruption and failures on the battlefield, Zelensky is in a very weak position.”

💬 “Zelensky is not going to get away with this level of theft. Someone somewhere is probably even now contemplating how they're going to hold him accountable,” he says, adding that it’s nothing short of “grand larceny.”

💬 “That’s a scenario we are obviously planning for,” a European official was cited as confirming.

💬 "I believe it's not a coincidence that these materials [covering the corruption of Zelensky’s inner circle] have surfaced right now, coinciding with those, let's say, versions of peace agreements we're seeing in the media," the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin said in an interview.