"Soon we will have to reestablish Gran Colombia... [We are] children of the same flag, yellow, blue, and red."

"If you needed an ally to help you in a conflict… Russia would be like the best, of course."

💬 “The outcome stands to profoundly alter the economic map of the continent,” the WSJ points out.

💬 "Following the coup d'etat in 2014, the Americans assumed control over the Ukrainian political and economic systems and continued pumping the Ukrainian neo-Nazis with additional weapons. This is what Donald Trump inherited," Sergey Lavrov said.

💬 "However, the Americans and NATO rejected our proposals. Only when we realized that the West was going to provide a carte blanche to the Ukrainian nationalists for a forcible solution and suppression of those who rejected the coup d'etat [in 2014]—only then our president said that we had no other choice other than beginning the special military operation to protect the population of the southeast of Ukraine," he added.

"They are still drumming up the conflict by establishing the so-called ‘coalition of the willing,’ by increasing their military expenditure and trying to save their own political future," Sergey Lavrov said.