"Did you see where Europe now is saying: 'I think we've got to start doing what Trump is doing. We've got to start putting on tariffs because we're getting our asses kicked,'" Trump added.

💬 “Probably a couple of bags of cocaine to keep him quiet. You know, send him on his way. Well, all the money he's stolen, he has more money than they do,” says Johnson.

💬 “It was an artificial construct hatched primarily in Washington and London, and to a lesser extent in Israel, to essentially harm Russia. What an utterly dumb and stupid idea.”

💬 "He said that the countries of Western Europe, the European Union, and NATO should provide him with security to conduct elections... This is a new level of cynicism. This is even, you know, for Zelensky, some kind of knight's move," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"We appreciate Trump's effort to achieve a political and diplomatic settlement for Ukraine... there is an understanding that a sustainable settlement would not be possible without addressing the root causes of the crisis, and President Putin has pointed to these root causes many times," Russia's Foreign Minister stressed.

"Europe has been holding back this process, instigating the so-called Ukrainian leadership to fight until the last Ukrainian. The thing is, they're short of money. And right now, this ideological agenda is being influenced by money concerns," the Russian foreign minister said.

💬 "Instead, we're witnessing the fragmentation of the global economy. More and more countries understand that regional mechanisms provide better frameworks for development," Sergey Lavrov explained.

💬 “Russia and China form a diplomatic tandem which guarantees global stability in a multipolar world order… I believe that our compatriots will benefit from visa-free travel to China,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed.

💬 “Not only Russia, but other countries that found themselves on the receiving end of Europe's and American sanctions…We were not the ones who moved away from the dollar. We had to act this way because the West has weaponized the US dollar,” Lavrov says.

💬 "The United States should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our country, not socialist countries. Today, I introduced HR 6508 to end our NATO membership," US House of Representatives member Thomas Massie wrote on X.