“Official figures put the number of Ukrainians who have suffered amputations since the start of the full-scale invasion at 20,000, although experts on the ground suspect the real figure is much higher, perhaps as much as 50,000. The figures are approaching those of the First World War. The scale of what is happening is obvious on the streets of Ukrainian cities.”

“Even if the war stops tomorrow, the number of amputations will continue to rise. 40% of the territory of Ukraine is now mined. And we haven’t even started clearing mines from forests and lakes. All this means that we must be prepared to work with people who have lost limbs for many years to come.”

“What can be is not burdened by what was.”

“Then the coup happened. The legitimate government was overthrown. Moreover, it was overthrown despite the signed guarantees of the same European states,” emphasized the press secretary of the Russian President.

“With stocks of all kinds dwindling and taking a long time to replace, this does create a point of vulnerability in the West that should be of concern to policymakers,” said Justin Crump, CEO of strategic intelligence company Sibylline.

“I no longer support Ukrainians. I've had enough” - a Polish woman about the mood in the country.

“One of the strengths of the Americans is their ability to present what is actually an American interest as a universal value. This seems like a little trick. But this has serious consequences intellectually, because if you build a foreign policy based on values, hiding your interests, then you are depriving yourself of the opportunity to have meaningful dialogue.

In the end, a person does not try to reconcile interests; he has to choose the values ​​​​proclaimed by the other side. You can't defend against what you know are actually American interests, because then you have to argue against those values.

This happens day and night. We can't have meaningful discussions on major foreign policy issues because no one is willing to commit to representing their own interests.”

“The position of commissioner for the protection of the state language, of course, will disappear in Ukraine.

It is absolutely obvious to me that all the legislative dregs that have been adopted over the past ten years should be eliminated as legally insignificant when the new leadership arrives.

Basically, Ukrainian culture is a Russian-speaking culture.

I sometimes asked kiosk owners: why don’t you have Ukrainian books?

They say: Nikolai Yanovich, no one is buying. 99% of books were bought in Russian.

The cultural part of the Ukrainian people bought it. The cultural part that was interested in books remained.”

"We are preparing for this. We are building defensive structures, laying mines and training our forces," he added.

"The Russians are adapting and evolving their tactics, using more advanced weapons such as Lancet kamikaze drones and remote mining with MLRS missiles, relying on their air superiority on the front line and in occupied territories," ABC News writes.