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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran

16 Apr 2025 3 2

James David Vance

Inserted 1 hour ago

“Since there are the negotiations I won't prejudge them, but we do feel optimistic that we can hopefully bring this war, this very brutal war, to a close.”

US Vice President

18 Apr 2025 4 2

Marco Rubio

Inserted 1 hour ago

“We need to figure out here now, within a matter of days, whether this is doable in the short term, because if it's not, then I think we're just going to move on. If it's not possible, if we're so far apart that this is not going to happen, then I think the president is probably at a point where he's going to say, 'well, we're done'.”

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U.S. Secretary of State

18 Apr 2025 2 1

Phillips O’Brien

Inserted 1 hour ago

“They can certainly keep Ukraine in the fight. A lot of it depends on what the US does. We have to be careful about that. If the US actually moves to fully backing Russia and provides Russia with a significant amount of intelligence and support, that will be really a problem for Ukraine and Europe. But assuming, say, the US just pulls out and washes its hands of it, Europe has the resources to keep Ukraine going. It would require mobilisation, effort, a significant amount of commitment on Europe's part. So far, they've not, I think, shown the united will to do that, but they certainly could do it if they wanted to. They have the money. They have the technological know-how. They even have the military equipment to make a significant difference.”

Professor of Strategic Studies at St Andrews University

18 Apr 2025 7 3

Nguyen Khac Giang

Inserted 1 day ago

“Hanoi is being careful not to signal a tilt too far toward Beijing, especially in areas that could displease the Trump administration. Ultimately, Hanoi is still hedging between the world's two great powers. But as the geopolitical climate hardens, the space to do so is rapidly shrinking.”

Analyst at Singapore’s ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute

17 Apr 2025 3 2

Lynn Kuok

Inserted 1 day ago

“Chinese officials have quietly conveyed that the way the U.S. treats its longstanding allies and partners in Europe is a sign of what's to come for Southeast Asia. With Trump's steep, sweeping tariffs across the region, that message needs no reinforcement.”

Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution

17 Apr 2025 5 4

Christopher Beddor

Inserted 1 day ago

“It [tariff of 145% on all Chinese goods] makes a fairly bad situation worse. The economy has been grinding through one deflationary shock for several years now, and there is another shock that is imminent. The trade war is going to leave some sort of hole in the economy.”

Deputy China research director at Gavekal Dragonomics

17 Apr 2025 3 4

Jerome Powell

Inserted 1 day ago

“We may find ourselves in the challenging scenario in which our dual-mandate goals are in tension. If that were to occur, we would consider how far the economy is from each goal, and the potentially different time horizons over which those respective gaps would be anticipated to close.”

Federal Reserve Chair

16 Apr 2025 2 2

Kristalina Georgieva

Inserted 1 day ago

“Our new growth projections will include notable markdowns, but not recession. We will also see markups to the inflation forecasts for some countries. Ultimately, trade is like water. When countries put up obstacles in the form of tariff and non-tariff barriers, the flow diverts. Some sectors in some countries may be flooded by cheap imports; others may see shortages. Trade goes on, but disruptions incur costs.”

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

17 Apr 2025 7 2

Oleksandr Syrskyi

Inserted 1 day ago

“The enemy has not changed its plans to drive Ukrainian Armed Forces units beyond the borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and reach the administrative borders of these regions. However, the enemy's plan remains unfulfilled. We are continuing our defensive operations while also conducting counteroffensive actions, and we have seen some success. Over the past few weeks, we have liberated around 16 square kilometres of territory near Udachne, Kotlyne and Shevchenko. I thank the Ukrainian soldiers for their courage, resilience and professionalism.”

Ukraine’s commander of ground forces

17 Apr 2025 8 4

Oleksiy Neizhpapa

Inserted 2 days ago

“Ukraine has won on the sea and now has a complete advantage. That is, it does not allow the enemy near its coasts and it ensures civilian navigation. But the enemy has the ability, has weapons that can hit civilian objects, civilian ships directly in ports or at sea. So, of course, the danger remains.”

Head of the Ukrainian Navy

08 Apr 2025 5 3

Sergey Lavrov

Inserted 2 days ago

“As a civilization-state, Russia has consistently upheld the belief that reliance on enduring values common to all major world religions and cultures along with respect for the unique identities of all nations and their right to sovereign development is key to building a fairer multipolar world order, which, in turn, creates more favorable external conditions for Russia's development and, of course, for all nations that share such an approach. More and more people worldwide not only sympathize with our country and seek to understand our way of life but also specifically perceive Russia as a guardian and defender of these traditional values, with such sentiments observed even in Western nations.”

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Russian Foreign Minister

16 Apr 2025 3 1

Marion Ramstein

Inserted 2 days ago

“They have nothing but the clothes they're wearing, nothing to eat, nothing to drink. Many were in shock. They spoke of so many killings and corpses.”

Emergency field coordinator for Doctors Without Borders

16 Apr 2025 (approx) 3 2

Alan M. Garber

Inserted 2 days ago

“No government - regardless of which party is in power - should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

President of Harvard University

14 Apr 2025 0 2

Rush Doshi

Inserted 2 days ago

“What is the Trump administration's grand strategy for China? They don't have a grand strategy yet. They have a range of disconnected tactics. I remain hopeful that Mr. Trump could reach deals with Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan and the European Union that would allow them to confront Chinese trade practices together, attract allied investment in U.S. industry and increase security ties. If you are up against someone big, you need to get bigger scale - and that's why we need our allies to be with us.”

One of America's leading China strategists, now at the Council of Foreign Relations and Georgetown University

15 Apr 2025 8 2

Mark Rutte

Inserted 3 days ago

“Ukraine's people have endured so much - not least Russia's Palm Sunday attack on Sumy. NATO support is unwavering. We will continue to help Ukraine so it can defend today and deter future aggression, ensuring a just and lasting peace.”

Secretary General of NATO

15 Apr 2025 6 2

Anastassia Fedyk

Inserted 3 days ago

“I think it's [rising Treasury yields] a pretty serious indicator of concern. It's not necessarily the case that investors expect the US government to be unable to repay its debts in the near term, but investors are facing a lot of uncertainty with regards to the direction of the US economy. There is still a lot of uncertainty, and the market situation is quite fragile. What will happen at the end of the 90-day pause? How will the trade war with China evolve? For bonds specifically, China is the second-largest foreign holder of US government debt, so one potential escalation could see China strategically unloading some of those positions.”

Assistant professor of finance at the Haas School of Business of University of California Berkeley

15 Apr 2025 9 3

Nguyen Khac Giang

Inserted 3 days ago

“The trip to Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia is all about how China can really insulate itself against the tariffs from Trump. Since Xi became the president in 2013, he has only visited Vietnam twice. But the intensification of the trade war has put Vietnam in a very precarious situation given the impression in the U.S. that Vietnam is serving as a backdoor for Chinese goods.”

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Analyst at Singapore’s ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute

14 Apr 2025 9 5

Xi Jinping

Inserted 4 days ago

“There are no winners in a trade war, or a tariff war. Our two countries [China and Vietnam] should resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment.”

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President of the People's Republic of China

14 Apr 2025 5 4

James Litinsky

Inserted 4 days ago

“Drones and robotics are widely considered the future of warfare, and based on everything we are seeing, the critical inputs for our future supply chain are shut down.”

Executive chairman and chief executive of MP Materials

14 Apr 2025 5 3

Michael McCaul

Inserted 4 days ago

“While Ukraine has accepted President Trump's ceasefire proposal, Putin continues to show he is more interested in bloodshed than in peace. Targeting innocent civilians as they gather to worship on Palm Sunday is beyond the pale.”

Republican Congressman, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

13 Apr 2025 10 3

Kaja Kallas

Inserted 4 days ago

“All those who want the killing to stop should put the maximum pressure possible on Russia to agree to a peace plan. We have to put the pressure, the maximum pressure, on Russia to really end this war, because it takes two to want peace.”

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

14 Apr 2025 3 3

Friedrich Merz

Inserted 4 days ago

“This is the height of [Putin's] perfidy. It was a deliberate and calculated war crime.”

Germany’s conservative Chancellor-in-waiting

14 Apr 2025 6 3

Donald Trump

Inserted 4 days ago

“I think it was terrible. And I was told they made a mistake. But I think it's a horrible thing. I think the whole war is a horrible thing.”

President of the United States

13 Apr 2025 4 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 4 days ago

“But please, before any kind of decisions, any kind of forms of negotiations, come to see people, civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children destroyed or dead. You will understand what Putin did.”

President of Ukraine

13 Apr 2025 4 3

Vali R. Nasr

Inserted 4 days ago

“The Iranians came prepared for more than an icebreaker, but with the expectation to break the logjam with the U.S., and most important, to hear directly what is the real U.S. bottom line. If it's no weapon, then they can negotiate on levels of enrichment, inspections and so on. But Iran does not want to get into a situation where it cannot deliver and risk more sanctions and war. What Iran wants is pretty clear - credible sanction relief and a deal that sticks.”

Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

13 Apr 2025 7 3

Simon Johnson

Inserted 4 days ago

“What the market really didn't like was the random crazy math of the tariffs. It seemed like they didn't know what they were doing and didn't care. It's a whole new level of madness.”

Nobel laureate economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

13 Apr 2025 4 3

Julian Evans-Pritchard

Inserted 5 days ago

“The fact that the Chinese authorities had repeatedly matched U.S. tariff hikes suggested that they were in no rush to negotiate. A partial rollback of tariffs still seems likely at some point. But it is hard to envisage a meaningful reset in the U.S.-China relationship.”

Head of China economics for the research firm Capital Economics

13 Apr 2025 6 5

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 5 days ago

“Everyone knows it is Russia alone that wants this war. Today it is clear that Russia alone wants to continue with it, showing its scorn for human life, international law and diplomatic efforts made by President Trump.”

President of France

13 Apr 2025 5 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 5 days ago

“It is crucial that the world does not stay silent or indifferent. Russian strikes deserve nothing but condemnation. There must be pressure on Russia to end the war and guarantee security for people. Talks have never stopped ballistic missiles and bombs. What's needed is an attitude toward Russia that a terrorist deserves.”

President of Ukraine

13 Apr 2025 5 3

Sasha Havlicek

Inserted 5 days ago

“If, in fact, we are witnessing a total ideological shift of America away from its post-World War II role as guarantor of the international order and an alignment with Putin and other authoritarian nationalists against the old allies that constituted the liberal world order there couldn't be anything more dramatic than that.”

Chief executive of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue

12 Apr 2025 (approx) 8 3

Dana Stroul

Inserted 5 days ago

“The president really doesn't want to use the military here. Similar to how other recent presidents dealt with Iran, Mr. Trump appears to have considered what a military campaign would look like, and what it could actually accomplish, and opt to try the diplomatic track first. Mr. Trump is planning to visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as soon as next month. What he is hearing from all Arab leaders he's talking to is that they do not want more war.”

Senior Fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Formerly the Pentagon's top Middle East policy official

12 Apr 2025 10 3

Elliott Abrams

Inserted 5 days ago

“They have an opportunity to tie Israel and the United States in knots by getting into negotiations in which they dupe Witkoff into thinking that negotiations will produce a lot. And so the negotiations start, which holds Israel off, and they continue, and they continue. A new deal could be reached pretty quickly - but Iran would most likely commit to little more than what it agreed to in the 2015 accord. Such an outcome would irritate Israel.”

Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations U.S. think tank

12 Apr 2025 5 4

Richard A. Mojica

Inserted 6 days ago

“Companies are scrambling to mitigate their tariff exposure, particularly those with supply chains involving China. But there are only a few levers they can pull.”

Customs lawyer at Miller & Chevalier

12 Apr 2025 5 2

David Autor

Inserted 6 days ago

“It's one of the largest own-goals in diplomacy and economics and trade that I think we've ever done.”

M.I.T. economist

12 Apr 2025 3 3

Joseph Torigian

Inserted 1 week ago

“Xi has spent his whole career hardening the country for precisely this moment. He likely believes that the Chinese political system is superior to the American one because it has greater cohesion and discipline. He probably thinks the Chinese people will sacrifice for a mission of national rejuvenation. The Chinese population may not be in a sacrificial mood after Covid. The economy has struggled to rebound. I doubt very much that Xi Jinping is blind to that problem. Even if you think you have a strong repressive capacity to hurt doubters and a jingoistic story to rally supporters, economic dislocations are still dangerous because you never know how bad they will get and whether they will turn into something worse.”

Associate professor at American University in Washington who studies elite politics in China

11 Apr 2025 6 5

Xi Jinping

Inserted 1 week ago

“There will be no winners in a tariff war, and going against the world will only isolate oneself. For more than 70 years, China has always relied on self-reliance and hard work for development. It has never relied on anyone's gifts and is unafraid of any unreasonable suppression.”

President of the People's Republic of China

11 Apr 2025 3 4

David Kramer

Inserted 1 week ago

“The fact that he [Steve Witkoff] lacks the context and history of how Russians negotiate and deal with the American side is, I think, a problem. Putin says nice things to him, gives him a portrait of the president, talks about going to church and praying for his friend (Trump). Those are pretty old KGB tactics. And Witkoff, I don't think, has the awareness to understand what is going on there.”

Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute

10 Apr 2025 7 2

John Healey

Inserted 1 week ago

“I'm pleased to say that Minister Pistorius and I together have co-hosted it today. 51 nations and partners involved in the contact group from Europe, across Indo-Pacific and South America. The new pledges of military aid announced today through the UDCG total over 21 billion euros. From the UK we will spend 4.5 billion pounds this year in military support for Ukraine, our highest ever level and today I'm announcing 350 million pounds to surge that support into the hands of Ukraine's frontline fighters. That's a package that includes radar systems, anti-tank mines and hundreds and thousands of new drones.”

Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom

11 Apr 2025 7 3

Donald Trump

Inserted 1 week ago

“You have to have flexibility. I could say, here's a wall and I'm gonna go through that wall. I'm gonna go through it no matter what. Keep going and you can't go through the wall. Sometimes you have to be able to go under the wall, around the wall, or over the wall. These guys know that better than anybody, right? You got to go around them sometimes, you're not gonna go through them.”

President of the United States

09 Apr 2025 1 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“We continue to clarify all the circumstances of the involvement of Chinese citizens in the Russian occupation contingent. It is obvious that these are not isolated cases, but a systemic Russian operation, including on the territory and under the jurisdiction of China, aimed at recruiting citizens of that country for war. We must do everything necessary to ensure that Russia has no such opportunities to draw others into and prolong this war.”

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President of Ukraine

10 Apr 2025 4 3

Kent Jones

Inserted 1 week ago

“If Trump wants to argue that their tariffs on US goods are too high, or they are manipulating their currency values, or they are dumping, or they are using clandestine internal tax systems and regulations to disadvantage US exports, he could document these practices and use US trade laws to justify administrative trade restrictions to correct them.”

Professor emeritus of economics at Babson College, who specialises in trade policy

10 Apr 2025 3 2

Sophia Busch

Inserted 1 week ago

“The shift from the Trump administration offers a little bit of a clue of its priorities in its tariff policy. You can see the administration is releasing some pressure on markets, releasing some of the pressure on US businesses, so that it can keep the pressure on China high, with possibly the ultimate goal of getting Beijing to the negotiating table for better terms of trade. However, it may be difficult to reach that goal. I think if the current pattern stands, China will continue to retaliate until there starts to be some kind of progress. We've seen Beijing is very comfortable and has plenty of practice with these kind of coercive economic tools beyond just tariffs. You're looking at US companies getting blacklisted, import bans on US agriculture products like poultry and sorghum. I think Beijing is perfectly comfortable and will continue increasing this kind of pressure on the US until there's some kind of give, or at least a willingness to step back down.”

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Assistant director at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center

09 Apr 2025 10 2

Boris Pistorius

Inserted 1 week ago

“There is a new unpredictability in our transatlantic relations. The United States keep up their commitment to NATO, but they quite rightly demand a stronger European contribution in the alliance. We will do this together with our European partners and NATO allies, and we will have to provide significantly more leadership as we go along.”

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Minister of Defence of Germany

09 Apr 2025 5 4

Wang Yuesheng

Inserted 1 week ago

“The impact on China is mainly that Chinese products have nowhere to go. That will ravage export-oriented companies making things like furniture, clothing, toys and home appliances along China's eastern seaboard, which largely exist to serve American consumers. These companies will be hit very hard.”

Director of the Institute of International Economics at Peking University

09 Apr 2025 5 3

Scott Kennedy

Inserted 1 week ago

“Trump has never gone into a back-alley brawl where the other side is willing to brawl and use the same kind of tactics as him. For China, this is about their sovereignty. This is about the Communist Party's hold on power. For Trump, it might just be a political campaign.”

Senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

09 Apr 2025 3 3

Kristen Saloomey

Inserted 1 week ago

“We're seeing businesses like Walmart readjust their profit predictions for the year, lowering their expectations, and investors responding in kind by selling stocks. Apple, the maker of the iPhone that does a lot of business with China, their stocks continue to be lower. US auto manufacturers are also seeing declines in their shares. Broadly speaking, the market is now about 19 percent lower than its record highs. Analysts are comparing it with the beginning of the pandemic when the market had its last serious rout.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from New York City

09 Apr 2025 6 3

Sanam Vakil

Inserted 1 week ago

“I definitely think Netanyahu is trying to take advantage of what he thinks is increased room to maneuver. The prime minister appeared emboldened by Mr. Trump's silence in the face of the escalating Israeli attacks inside Gaza after a cease-fire that lasted just two months.”

Director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the London-based Chatham House

08 Apr 2025 6 1

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff

Inserted 1 week ago

“Our military conducted warning broadcasts and warning shots after about 10 North Korean soldiers crossed the military demarcation line (MDL) in the eastern area of the demilitarized zone (DMZ). We are closely monitoring the movements of the North Korean military and taking necessary measures in accordance with operational procedures.”

Statement from the South Korean military

08 Apr 2025 7 1

Trita Parsi

Inserted 1 week ago

“If Mr. Trump seeks to dismantle the Iranian nuclear program Libya-style, in addition to closing down Iran's missile program and Tehran's relations with its regional partners, then diplomacy will most likely be dead on arrival. But if Mr. Trump's strategy is centered on achieving a verification-based deal that prevents an Iranian bomb - his only red line - then there is reason to be optimistic about upcoming talks.”

Iran expert at the Quincy Institute

08 Apr 2025 6 3

Kenneth S. Rogoff

Inserted 1 week ago

“Trump has not articulated where we're going and it's hard to find anyone who's not a paid publicist for him who thinks this is a good idea.”

Former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund - Professor at Harvard University

08 Apr 2025 4 2

Bart De Wever

Inserted 1 week ago

“We will deliver two F-16s for spare parts this year and certainly deliver two fighter planes next year. We hope to do more but we are depending on the delivery of the F-35. There is no delay in Belgium but the F-35 has delays. Once the F-35 arrives, the F-16 leaves, it's as simple as that.”

Prime Minister of Belgium

08 Apr 2025 3 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“Russia's involvement of China, along with other countries, whether directly or indirectly, in this war in Europe is a clear signal that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin intends to do anything but end the war.”

President of Ukraine

08 Apr 2025 6 3

Dmitry Peskov

Inserted 1 week ago

“President Putin indeed supports the idea of a ceasefire, but before that, a number of questions need to be answered. These questions are hanging in the air, and so far, no one has provided any answers. The questions requiring answers are linked to the lack of control of the Kyiv regime and the inability of the Kyiv regime to control the actions of a number of extremist nationalist units that simply do not obey Kyiv. This is also connected to Kyiv's continued plans for militarisation and so on. Therefore, all these aspects remain on the agenda. And while we share the idea that a ceasefire must happen as soon as possible, we must ensure our interests and clarify the issues I have mentioned.”

Kremlin spokesman

07 Apr 2025 5 3

Carlos Casanova

Inserted 1 week ago

“Friday was a public holiday in Hong Kong, so what we are seeing is the reaction to Trump's tariffs and China's retaliation. So it's a double whammy. To put this into context, previous retaliatory measures targeted less than 1 percent of China's total imports. The magnitude of the last measures is unprecedented. We're in uncharted territory.”

Senior economist for Asia at UBP in Hong Kong

07 Apr 2025 5 1

Eswar Prasad

Inserted 1 week ago

“It will not be the end of free trade, but it is certainly a retreat from unfettered free trade, which is the way the world seemed to be going. Logically, this would be a time when the rest of the world bands together to promote free trade among themselves. The reality is, it's going to be every country for itself.”

Professor of trade policy at Cornell University

06 Apr 2025 2 1

Bill Ackman

Inserted 1 week ago

“Why wouldn't a pause make sense? The risk of not doing so is that the massive increase in uncertainty drives the economy into a recession, potentially a severe one.”

American hedge fund manager

05 Apr 2025 3 3

Keir Starmer

Inserted 1 week ago

“The world as we knew it has gone. Old assumptions can no longer be taken for granted.”

UK Prime Minister

06 Apr 2025 3 4

Mélanie Joly

Inserted 1 week ago

“We know that the relationship will never be the same again. That's my message to Europeans: The relationship with the U.S. will never be the same. We buy more from the U.S. than the U.K., France, China and Japan combined. When you treat your best client the way we've been treated … it means that you want, fundamentally, to change the way you're operating.”

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Foreign Minister of Canada

04 Apr 2025 3 1

Mark Rutte

Inserted 1 week ago

“I know there has been some tough language. I know that there have been allies, for example, this side of the pond being worried about the long-term commitment of the U.S. to NATO. The Americans have stated again and again, 'We are committed to NATO. We are committed to Article 5'.”

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Secretary General of NATO

04 Apr 2025 4 1

Tommaso Della Longa

Inserted 1 week ago

“Clearly marked ambulances with the lights on came clearly under attack, and of course this is totally unacceptable. We keep repeating the message for 18 months now. It's not only a moral obligation, it's a legal obligation for everyone to respect and protect, in any circumstances, civilians and humanitarian workers. Sadly, this has not happened. During Israel's war 30 Palestine Red Crescent Society workers have been killed in Gaza, but also in the occupied West Bank. In Gaza, independent investigators must be allowed full access on what happened two Sundays ago. Impunity in any place breeds impunity in every place all around the world.”

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Spokesman for International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies

05 Apr 2025 8 2

Alexander Savchuk

Inserted 1 week ago

“The losses of Ukrainian armed formations totaled 430 servicemen, a Leopard tank, seven vehicles and six artillery pieces, including two Western-made ones. An electronic warfare station was destroyed. The Battlegroup Center continues to advance deep into the enemy's defenses and liberated the settlement of Uspenovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. We inflicted damage on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, ranger, airborne assault brigades, and an unmanned systems brigade of the assault regiment of the Ukrainian armed forces in the areas of Zverevo, Novy Ekonomichesky, Bogdanovka, Yelizavetovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Kotlino, Lenino, Udachny and Alekseyevka.”

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Battlegroup Center’s press center chief

05 Apr 2025 17 3

Margus Tsahkna

Inserted 1 week ago

“Let's be honest: to be divided, you need two big parties. With Hungary, we have a very weak country that is part of Putin's team, not part of our European team. Hungary currently has the ability to block unanimous decisions, including those on European foreign and security policy. However, Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union allows a member state to be deprived of its voting rights if its membership endangers the security of Europe and other members. This is exactly what Orbán is doing. The possibility of invoking Article 7 is getting closer and closer.”

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia

05 Apr 2025 7 3

Kirill Dmitriev

Inserted 1 week ago

“We see absolutely clearly that the administration of President Trump, unlike President Biden, is committed to resolving issues. They are extremely respectful, they understand Russia's position, they ask a lot of questions, they find compromises. This is the creative spirit that has been set.”

CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund

03 Apr 2025 6 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“A Russian missile struck an ordinary city, directly hitting a street in an area with residential buildings. Preliminary reports suggest it was a ballistic missile strike. As of now, 14 fatalities have been confirmed, including six children. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Russian strikes occur every day. People die every day. There is only one reason why this continues: Russia doesn't want a ceasefire, and we see it. The whole world sees it. Each missile, every attack drone proves that Russia seeks only war.”

President of Ukraine

04 Apr 2025 6 3

Marco Rubio

Inserted 1 week ago

“Their economies are not crashing. Their markets are reacting to a dramatic change in the global order in terms of trade. The markets will adjust.”

U.S. Secretary of State

04 Apr 2025 5 2

Alexander Stubb

Inserted 1 week ago

“April 20 would be a good time for a full ceasefire without any conditions … because a deadline is needed, because it is Easter and because President Donald Trump will have been in office for three months.”

President of Finland

03 Apr 2025 7 4

Maximilian Hess

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The inflationary impact of Trump's tariffs will be felt sooner rather than later, even as some of his team are scrambling to claim there will be negotiations on lowering some of the tariffs. This is because importers and distributors will have to reassess the profitability of the goods they are ordering now. Supply chains may well be further disrupted by countermeasures from the countries affected.”

Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

03 Apr 2025 8 2

Jay Timmons

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The stakes for manufacturers could not be higher. Many manufacturers in the United States already operate with thin margins. The high costs of new tariffs threaten investment, jobs, supply chains and, in turn, America's ability to outcompete other nations and lead as the pre-eminent manufacturing superpower.”

President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers

03 Apr 2025 7 3

Nick Marro

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“China is likely going to release some type of retaliation against the US … while Japan has said it will also consider some type of retaliatory duties, we expect US agriculture to be mainly in the crosshairs there. That said, a lot of other Asian markets aren't really in a position to retaliate. Places like Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, they have been hit with higher tariffs, but the size of their economy, their dependence on external trade, and the importance of the US as a source of final demand will really constrain their ability to adopt a hawkish attitude here.”

Principal economist for Asia at the Economist Intelligence Unit

03 Apr 2025 11 2

Dario Perkins

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Most countries will favour other policy levers over retaliatory tariffs. I think that central banks will ease monetary policy [by lowering interest rates to try and boost growth]. Global trade will be a lot weaker and international supply chains will be shortened. The multilateral era is dying.”

Managing director at TS Lombard - a London-based financial research firm

03 Apr 2025 8 2

Donald Trump

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike. Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs. Foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories. And foreign scavengers have torn apart our once-beautiful American dream. April 2, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed. We will charge them approximately half of what they are - and have - been charging us. So, the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. I could have done that, I guess, but it would've been tough for a lot of countries. We didn't want to do that.”

President of the United States

02 Apr 2025 6 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“This is our starting point: the Ukrainian army must be strong enough, and on this foundation, the entire security architecture is built. A meeting will take place in just a few days - on Friday [April 4] - with representatives of our partner states -- these will be military representatives.”

President of Ukraine

02 Apr 2025 3 2

David Schultz

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“This election was viewed as a referendum on Donald Trump and of course, Elon Musk. The results suggest that the influence Trump and Musk wield over American society and voters is not as strong or as deep as one may think or as they may think.”

Professor of politics at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota

02 Apr 2025 8 2

Kaja Kallas

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I think it could be very good to set them a clear deadline when they [Russians] have to answer, what is their standing, and to really show some goodwill that they also want peace. It's clear that the Ukrainians want it.”

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

02 Apr 2025 4 2

Maria Shagina

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Russia's strategy is to stall the negotiations as long as possible to achieve its maximalist goals by nonmilitary means. At the same time, Moscow is wary of testing [US President Donald] Trump's patience. The ball is really in Trump's court on whether to believe that Russia is negotiating in good faith or ramp up pressure to force it to the negotiating table.”

Sanctions expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

01 Apr 2025 3 3

Alexandra Prokopenko

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Talks between Moscow and Washington in Saudi Arabia not only did not result in any breakthrough; they appear to have been an overall failure. The agreements do not look like a real prologue to peace.”

Fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin

01 Apr 2025 6 5

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Let me be clear: Europe did not start this confrontation. We think it is wrong. We have everything we need to protect our people and our prosperity. We have the largest Single Market in the world. We have the strength to negotiate. We have the power to push back. And the people of Europe should know: together we will always promote and defend our interests and values. And we will always stand up for Europe. This confrontation is in no one's interest. We will approach these negotiations from a position of strength. Europe holds a lot of cards: from trade to technology to the size of our market.”

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President of the European Commission

01 Apr 2025 6 3

Rim-Sarah Alouane

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“There is a risk that she will be seen as a martyr, as in the victim against the system. She and her party will weaponise this trial. Le Pen is a politician who has just been condemned by the justice system for a serious crime, and she's already using one of the main news networks to defend herself. We need to recentre the focus on what is at stake and not give Le Pen leverage to use this whole thing to solidify her position and her party's in the mainstream.”

French researcher with a PhD in public law

01 Apr 2025 3 3

Jordan Bardella

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Today, it's not just Marine Le Pen who is unfairly condemned: It's French democracy that is being executed.”

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Leader of the Rassemblement National (RN)

31 Mar 2025 2 3

Jimmy Gomez

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Trump officials can't help but lie. A tariff is a TAX on working families. Trump's dumb tariffs make everyday goods more expensive, no matter how his admin tries to twist it.”

Aje

American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 34th congressional district

31 Mar 2025 4 1

Masoud Pezeshkian

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Although the possibility of direct negotiations between the two sides has been rejected in this response, it has been emphasized that the path for indirect negotiations remains open.”

Iranian President

30 Mar 2025 3 3

Chris Gunness

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Myanmar's military government is using disproportionate and indiscriminate force against the very people who they say they are trying to assist. This is an utter abomination. Even as the earthquake was striking, junta jets were attacking targets in Sagaing, the very epicentre of the earthquake. There must be a no-fly zone imposed; we cannot see the junta using jets to bomb people. If we are going to have a proper aid operation, that needs to come to force.”

Aje

Director of the Myanmar Accountability Project

30 Mar 2025 5 2

Donald Trump

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia's fault - which it might not be - but if I think it was Russia's fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia.”

President of the United States

30 Mar 2025 5 2

Michael Kofman

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The battlefield impact was most visible in cases where Ukraine went after ammunition and [command and control]. Unfortunately, strike campaigns using ATACMS (tactical missile systems) and air-launched cruise missiles were often out of sequence with combat operations…. Long-range strikes were an important piece of the puzzle, affecting how Russian forces operate, but by themselves were not decisive. These weapons had shaping effects on enemy forces, but Ukraine was often not in a position to capitalize on them, and expectations that these would be game-changing weapons tended to exceed the impact observed.”

Military analyst

29 Mar 2025 7 3

James David Vance

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Let's be honest, this base, the surrounding area, is less secure than it was 30, 40, years ago, because some of our allies haven't kept up as China and Russia have taken greater and greater interest in Greenland, in this base, in the activities of the brave Americans right here. Denmark has not kept pace with military spending, and Denmark has not kept pace in devoting the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and from other nations. Our message to Denmark is very simple, you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful land mass, filled with incredible people.”

US Vice President

28 Mar 2025 6 3

Donald Trump

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“We have to have Greenland. It's not a question of 'Do you think we can do without it.' We can't.”

President of the United States

28 Mar 2025 1 1

Célia Belin

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“What has become increasingly clear is that Trump's team sees Europe as a parasitic freeloading ally and its liberal democracies as political and ideological adversaries. But this is so contradictory to everything the United States has stood for that we are bound to ask: Can America really tilt this way? Just as Mr. Trump appears determined to weaken checks and balances at home, he is seeking to replicate that externally, dispensing with any rules-based or values-based order. Anything that is a check on whatever he wants to do on whatever day, including Article 5, is something he may tear up. What counts in Trump world are power and interests. For Europe the choice may come down to this: Show teeth or give him what he wants.”

Head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign relations

28 Mar 2025 6 2

Michel Duclos

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The reconfiguration of the alliance demanded by Trump can feel more like the end of the alliance. There is no longer even the pretense of a relationship of equals.”

Special adviser to the Institut Montaigne, a research organization in Paris

28 Mar 2025 4 2

Alexander Kamyshin

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Now, one manufacturer can produce 4,000 such FPV drones per day. And that is just one manufacturer. There are more than 150 manufacturers in our country. Our capacity is to produce over 5 million FPV units per year.”

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Presidential advisor

28 Mar 2025 3 3

Lars Trier Mogensen

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“It's a tactical retreat - a repositioning to strike harder later. On the one hand, they de-escalated by not carrying out the full cultural mission and skipping the P.R. stunt. On the other hand, it's a symbolic escalation that the highest-ranking official is visiting Greenland, reinforcing Trump's message that it should become American.”

Political analyst based in Copenhagen

28 Mar 2025 5 2

Gilberto Teodoro

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“I would like to categorically state that what is at stake in our unilateral and bilateral activities is not merely the security of either the United States or the Philippines. We are facing a common threat, which is the overreach of the Communist Party of China.”

Secretary of National Defense of Philippines

28 Mar 2025 3 2

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Those who have not yet internalised the new situation in Lebanon received today another example of our determination. The equation has changed - what happened before the October 7 attacks will not be repeated. We will not allow shooting at our communities, not even a drizzle. We will continue to vigorously enforce the ceasefire, attack anywhere in Lebanon against any threat to the State of Israel, and ensure that all our residents in the north return to their homes safely.”

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Prime Minister of Israel

28 Mar 2025 4 2

Yossi Beilin

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The fact that Israel reacted in Beirut for the first time since the ceasefire is very relevant and consequential. This is the time and place for the Americans and the French to put an end to the current situation. Hezbollah is not Lebanon, but it is a militia that is independent and that is the difficulty we are facing here.”

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Former Minister of Religious Services of Israel

28 Mar 2025 6 2

Keith Kellog

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“I think what you have to do is get what I would call term sheets. What do the Ukrainians want? What do the Russians want? Then you kind of merge them and say, OK, what is going to work for both sides? Do you get to an agreeable situation? I think that's going to be the important step, is what do they both want? What do they both not want? And by the way, neither side is going to be totally satisfied, because both sides are not going to get totally what they want.”

US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia

26 Mar 2025 5 3

Sigrid de Vries

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“European automakers have been investing in the U.S. for decades, creating jobs, fostering economic growth in local communities, and generating massive tax revenue for the U.S. government. We urge President Trump to consider the negative impact of tariffs not only on global automakers but on U.S. domestic manufacturing as well.”

Director General of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)

27 Mar 2025 6 3

Robert Habeck

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“It must be clear that we will not back down. Strength and self-confidence are required.”

Germany’s economy minister

27 Mar 2025 4 3

Scott Bessent

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“We have handed over a completed document on economic partnership. It is currently being reviewed by the Ukrainians, and we hope that full discussions will begin next week and perhaps even signatures will be put in place.”

United States Secretary of the Treasury

26 Mar 2025 4 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Our target is clear. It is to achieve peace and to do this, we need to get Ukraine in the best possible place. There will be a reassurance force operating in Ukraine representing several countries. It is not Russia that can decide if a reassurance force can be stationed in Ukraine.”