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  • Andrei Soldatov
    Andrei Soldatov “The problem is to actually be able to prevent terrorist attacks, you need to have a really good and efficient system of intelligence sharing and intelligence gathering. Trust is needed inside the home agency and with agencies of other countries, as is good coordination. That's where you have problems.” 1 hour ago
  • Dmitry Peskov
    Dmitry Peskov “All war crimes [committed] by the Kyiv regime are thoroughly documented. We were well aware of these crimes. And, of course, we will make sure that those behind these crimes are duly punished.” 1 hour ago
  • Timothy Snyder
    Timothy Snyder “The terrorists' car was stopped near Bryansk, which is in western Russia, and so vaguely near Ukraine, which means that the four Tajiks in a Renault were intending to cross the Ukrainian border, which means that they had Ukrainian backers, which means that it was a Ukrainian operation, which means that the Americans were behind it. The reasoning here leaves something to be desired. And the series of associations rests on no factual basis.” 1 hour ago
  • Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin “We have no aggressive intentions towards these states. The idea that we will attack some other country - Poland, the Baltic States, and the Czechs are also being scared - is complete nonsense. It's just drivel. If they supply F-16s, and they are talking about this and are apparently training pilots, this will not change the situation on the battlefield. And we will destroy the aircraft just as we destroy today tanks, armoured vehicles and other equipment, including multiple rocket launchers. Of course, if they will be used from airfields in third countries, they become for us legitimate targets, wherever they might be located.” 1 hour ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “Bolstering Ukraine's air defence and expediting the delivery of F-16s to Ukraine are vital tasks. There are no rational explanations for why Patriots, which are plentiful around the world, are still not covering the skies of Kharkiv and other cities.” 20 hours ago
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“The problem is to actually be able to prevent terrorist attacks, you need to have a really good and efficient system of intelligence sharing and intelligence gathering. Trust is needed inside the home agency and with agencies of other countries, as is good coordination. That's where you have problems.”

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Expert on Russian intelligence
28 Mar 2024 3 1
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“All war crimes [committed] by the Kyiv regime are thoroughly documented. We were well aware of these crimes. And, of course, we will make sure that those behind these crimes are duly punished.”

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Kremlin spokesman
28 Mar 2024 1 1
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“The terrorists' car was stopped near Bryansk, which is in western Russia, and so vaguely near Ukraine, which means that the four Tajiks in a Renault were intending to cross the Ukrainian border, which means that they had Ukrainian backers, which means that it was a Ukrainian operation, which means that the Americans were behind it. The reasoning here leaves something to be desired. And the series of associations rests on no factual basis.”

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Levin Professor of History at Yale
28 Mar 2024 5 1
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“We have no aggressive intentions towards these states. The idea that we will attack some other country - Poland, the Baltic States, and the Czechs are also being scared - is complete nonsense. It's just drivel. If they supply F-16s, and they are talking about this and are apparently training pilots, this will not change the situation on the battlefield. And we will destroy the aircraft just as we destroy today tanks, armoured vehicles and other equipment, including multiple rocket launchers. Of course, if they will be used from airfields in third countries, they become for us legitimate targets, wherever they might be located.”

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President of Russia
27 Mar 2024 5 4
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“Bolstering Ukraine's air defence and expediting the delivery of F-16s to Ukraine are vital tasks. There are no rational explanations for why Patriots, which are plentiful around the world, are still not covering the skies of Kharkiv and other cities.”

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President of Ukraine
27 Mar 2024 4 3
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“Reducing gang violence by replacing it with state violence cannot be a success. The Salvadoran government had adopted disproportionate measures, denying, minimising and concealing human rights violations. Bukele had created a false illusion that he had found the magic formula to solve the very complex problems of violence and criminality in a seemingly simple way. The international community must respond in a robust, articulate and forceful manner, condemning any model of public security that is based on human rights violations.”

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Amnesty’s Americas director
27 Mar 2024 6 3
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“China is building a first-class business environment that is market oriented. In traditional areas like trade and new ones such as climate change and artificial intelligence, China and the United States should become boosters for each other's development, not obstructions on each other.”

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President of the People's Republic of China
27 Mar 2024 5 2
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“I thought the US decision in the Security Council was a very, very bad move. The worst part about it was that it encouraged Hamas to take a hard line and to believe that international pressure will prevent Israel from freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas. It [the cancellation of a planned visit to Washington by Israeli top aides] was a message first and foremost to Hamas: 'Don't bet on this pressure, it's not going to work'. I hope they got the message.”

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Prime Minister of Israel
27 Mar 2024 5 3
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“Gaza is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe, and the situation is getting even worse. And we need immediate increases in assistance to avert famine, and our work to open a temporary humanitarian corridor by sea will help, but the key is still expanding aid deliveries by land.”

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US Secretary of Defense
26 Mar 2024 6 4
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“They [terrorists] could not enter Belarus in any way. They understood that. And so they turned around and went to the section of the Ukrainian-Russian border. As soon as the heads of state received information from special services that the car transporting the terrorists was moving towards Bryansk, an agreement was reached that Belarus would block its section of the alleged criminal movement, while Russia would block its own.”

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President of Belarus
26 Mar 2024 4 1
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“I think what is slowly developing is global isolation and condemnation for Israel, it's developing into a situation where it could become a pariah state. Go back to apartheid in South Africa - that country was eventually suspended from the United Nations, for 20 years it wasn't even let to take part in UN activities. And I think it's that sort of isolation and global disdain that Israel might be facing, and it's exactly that that this weekend the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Prime Minister Netanyahu of when he talked about the possible Rafah offensive.”

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Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor
26 Mar 2024 5 2
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“You can't do everything. You dial up the pressure on the locals and sometimes you don't get the intelligence you need on a potential terrorist attack. That's where they failed. It's possible they're overextended dealing with the war in Ukraine and dealing with political opposition. This one slipped through the cracks.”

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Former senior CIA operations officer who served as the agency’s Moscow station chief
25 Mar 2024 2 1
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“So will Russians blame Putin for failing to avert the tragedy? Collective psychology is notoriously unpredictable. Some may, but it is unlikely that anything would come of it. Even without this attack, it has been clear to the Russian population that the period of stability, security and economic growth that Putin has been lauded for is long over. War is literally at the door with Ukrainian forces conducting incursions into Russian territory, sending drones to strike oil refineries and destroying Russian battleships in the Black Sea.”

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Freelance journalist based in Riga
25 Mar 2024 8 3
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“We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries. This atrocity may be just a link in a whole series of attempts by those who have been at war with our country since 2014 with the hands of the neo-Nazi Kyiv regime. Of course, it is necessary to answer the question, 'Why after committing the crime the terrorists tried to go to Ukraine?' Who was waiting for them there?”

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President of Russia
25 Mar 2024 3 2
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“Haiti's borders are porous to all manner of contraband, including illegal firearms and ammunition. A combination of political and economic elite, gangs and private security companies are procuring weapons from a variety of sources and bringing them into the country on clandestine flights, packed into shipping freight, and carried by mules across the land border. With criminal gangs controlling key access and distribution points across the country - including ports, warehouses, and roads - they are able to move product with impunity.”

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Co-founder of the Igarape Institute, a Brazil-based think tank
25 Mar 2024 5 3
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“Our relationship with the US has always been one of partners, but not of a patron state. This is not the first time that an Israeli government has been required to make decisions contrary to the US government's position. Israel will not stop its war on Gaza until Hamas is destroyed and all of its captives held there are returned.”

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Finance Minister of Israel
25 Mar 2024 6 3
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“It is harmful to these efforts because it gives Hamas terrorists hope to get a ceasefire without releasing the hostages. All members of the council … should have voted against this shameless resolution. The resolution says that taking civilians is in violation of international law. Yet on the other hand, despite the fact that you know Hamas won't listen to your calls and release the hostages, you demand a ceasefire. Take a moment and think about this moral contradiction.”

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Israel Ambassador to the United Nations
25 Mar 2024 3 2
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“I would like to thank all the council members for their flexibility and the constructive way that allowed us today to adopt this long-awaited resolution. [A] resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in order to put an end to the massacres that unfortunately are still ongoing over the five months. This bloodbath has continued for far too long.”

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Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations
25 Mar 2024 5 1
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“The investigation is underway. So far, no versions have been put forward at all. Unfortunately, our world shows that no city, no country can be completely immune from the threat of terrorism. Special services worked tirelessly to defend Russia. The fight against terrorism is an ongoing process that requires full-scale international cooperation. But you can see that now in this most acute confrontational period, such cooperation is not being fully carried out in any way.”

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Kremlin spokesman
25 Mar 2024 1 1
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“Russian security personnel have been trained to look at specific, politically important 'threats,'. Due to resource/time/manpower constraints this means that they have less capacity to look at and prevent actual threats.”

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Fellow with the Eurasia Program at the U.S.-based Foreign Policy Research Institute
24 Mar 2024 (approx) 1 1
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“Zelenskyy himself said that Russia has won the winter, and I think the momentum has shifted to the Russian forces on the ground at least. Adviivka is proof of that. The big question now is whether there is something brewing in probably the month of May once the mud starts to dry in that area of Ukraine. So we will have to wait and see. The Russians will be doing their absolute best to camouflage any kind of troop build-up if a spring offensive is on the cards.”

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Efence and security analyst at the University of Bath
24 Mar 2024 3 1
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“The success by the Afghan Taliban didn't change the degree of threat that the Islamic State Khorasan posed in Afghanistan. It simply forced the Islamic State to shift its military tactics.”

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Director of research at the Khorasan Diary, a research platform based in Islamabad
24 Mar 2024 4 1
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“ISIS-K has long been motivated by the logic of outbidding in its attacks. It seeks to outperform rival jihadis by carrying out more audacious attacks to distinguish its jihadi brand and assert leadership of the global jihadi vanguard.”

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Senior expert on South Asia security at the U.S. Institute of Peace
24 Mar 2024 5 1
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“It seems kind of unbelievable that Russian security services missed this. Clearly, it was an intelligence failure for this to happen in such a prominent venue right on the beltway of Moscow, and to have such a serious death toll despite those small number of terrorists that appear to have actually perpetrated the act. The Russians may choose to link this [terrorist attack] to their war against the collective West and hold the U.S. and its Ukrainian proxies - as they might call them - ultimately responsible. I wouldn't be at all surprised. If they decide to emphasize the U.S. and Ukraine link, then I think we can anticipate very harsh measures at home in the wake of this intelligence failure.”

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Former U.S. envoy to Moscow, analyst at the Atlantic Council
23 Mar 2024 5 2
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“We are counting here on cooperation with all countries that genuinely share our pain and are ready, in their deeds, to truly unite our efforts in the fight against the common enemy of international terrorism. The main thing now is to prevent those who were behind this bloody massacre from committing new crimes.”

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President of Russia
23 Mar 2024 2 2
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“ISIS-K has been fixated on Russia for the past two years. ISIS-K accuses the Kremlin of having Muslim blood in its hands, referencing Moscow's interventions in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Syria.”

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Senior research fellow at the US-based Soufan Centre
23 Mar 2024 4 2
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“Here from this crossing, we see the heartbreak and heartlessness of it all. A long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation on the other. That is more than tragic. It is a moral outrage.”

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Secretary-general of the United Nations
23 Mar 2024 4 2
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“They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border. All the perpetrators, organisers and those who ordered this crime will be justly and inevitably punished. Whoever they are, whoever is guiding them. We will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this strike against Russia, against our people.”

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President of Russia
23 Mar 2024 3 1
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“The Friday attack showed complete impotence of Russia's special services, national guard and the entire law enforcement system. Where are the helicopters for speedy deployment to critical sites in the metropolitan conditions of Moscow? Where are the armed vehicles? Where are these pumped-up stern guys from [promotional] videos? We know where they are - burned down with their vehicles on the roads of the Kyiv region, sitting in underground holes near Donetsk or patrolling the Luhansk region … not where the real danger is but there the crazy president decided to wage a war.”

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Research Fellow at Bremen University
23 Mar 2024 1 1
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“Very probably, Russian special services knew about [the attack] beforehand, and, possibly, they directed it pursuing political goals - to possibly discredit Ukraine, justify a new wave of mobilisation and tighten the screws in general. One just has to ask a question - who will benefit? I'm somewhat doubtful that ISIL has any serious interests in Russia. Putin, on the other hand, does gain from the attack. To become a victim of ISIL is to trigger sympathies worldwide. This is some sort of a public relations [trick] to improve [Russia's] international reputation. So, there's a whole bunch of benefits for Putin's regime. Of course, that cost the lives of his citizens - that he spits on.”

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Head of Central Asia Due Diligence, a think tank in London
23 Mar 2024 4 1
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“The intelligence services are focused on political investigation and intimidation of citizens. They do not fulfill their direct responsibility to protect society from real threats. The March 22 attack at the Crocus City Hall looks like a grandiose failure on the part of the state. Fantastic amounts of money are spent on 'security,' but in reality, this security is not provided.”

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Russian political observer
22 Mar 2024 4 2
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“More and more fighters of different nationalities - mainly Congolese, Ugandans, and Tanzanians, but also Kenyans and South Africans - are streaming into Cabo Delgado. There is only one solution: an increased international cooperation between security forces.”

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Mozambican security expert
22 Mar 2024 7 2
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“On the resolution, which got very strong support, but then was cynically vetoed by Russia and China, I think we were trying to show the international community a sense of urgency about getting a ceasefire.”

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U.S. Secretary of State
22 Mar 2024 5 2
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“I told him [Antony Blinken] that I hope we will do it with the support of the US, but if we have to - we will do it alone [sending troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah].”

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Prime Minister of Israel
22 Mar 2024 5 2
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“We are not intimidated by Russia. And we think this is fair, that the revenues of those foreign assets will be used for Ukraine because they are victim of this aggression launched by Russia.”

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President of the European Council
22 Mar 2024 5 5
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“To whom is the demand for compliance with obligations under international law [addressed to?] … Who is preventing the use of all available routes to the Gaza Strip? Who does not respect deconfliction and notification mechanisms? We know the answers to these questions … Why then were the relevant demands in this resolution not clearly addressed to the occupying power, not even once?”

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Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations
22 Mar 2024 4 2
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“We are at war. Indeed, it started as a special military operation but as soon as a clique was formed and the collective West joined in on Ukraine's side, it turned into war for us. I am convinced of that. Everyone should understand this to summon up inner strength.”

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Kremlin spokesman
22 Mar 2024 4 3
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“We choked the weapons supply, we failed to provide enough air defence, and now we ask Ukrainians to sit on their hands while cruise missiles land on their families. Such mistakes are setting the course of the entire century. And there is no justification for any of this.”

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Lithuania's foreign minister
22 Mar 2024 7 2
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“Russia continues its brutal attacks against Ukraine's population with overnight drone and missile bombing of energy infrastructures, killing and wounding dozens, jeopardizing the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. This must stop! All responsible will be held to account.”

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
22 Mar 2024 3 3
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“After the start of operation of the new facilities, the volume of production actually increased by almost 2.5 times. If we talk about the manufacture of artillery ammunition, the volume of production of components for this ammunition has been increased almost 22 times; 75 percent of components are being restored.”

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Russian Defence Minister
21 Mar 2024 2 2
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“Every day and every night there is such terror. The world's unity can stop it when it helps us with air defence systems. Now we need this defence here in Ukraine.”

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President of Ukraine
21 Mar 2024 3 1
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“Today the council goes much further than in previous months. European leaders are asking for a sustainable ceasefire, certainly asking also for the freedom of hostages, but showing a strong concern for the situation of the people in Gaza, which is unacceptable. They are starving. So I hope that the council will send a strong message to Israel: stop blocking, stop preventing the food to come into Gaza and take care of the civilians. Certainly Israel has the right to defend, [but] not to revenge.”

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
21 Mar 2024 3 3
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“Ukraine needs even more support. And you need it now. Time in Ukraine is not measured in days, weeks or months. It is measured in human lives. While the world may have been overly optimistic in 2023, we should not make the same mistake becoming overly pessimistic in 2024.”

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Chair of the NATO Military Committee
21 Mar 2024 1 2
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“The second reason for our meeting today is that the Commission has just paid to Ukraine a first tranche of EUR 4.5 billion from the Facility. It is the very first time that there is a disbursement now. This payment, in the form of a bridge financing, is crucial to help you maintain the functioning of the state in this very difficult moment. In April, once Ukraine fulfils the conditions we agreed upon, we will make a second disbursement of the bridge financing of EUR 1.5 billion. So today is a good day for Ukraine. Funds are flowing to meet urgent needs. And the country has laid a solid foundation for the EU's support, right up until the end of 2027.”

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President of the European Commission
20 Mar 2024 4 2
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“Israel's latest attack on al-Shifa Hospital has shown that, rather than eliminating Hamas, Israel is attempting to eliminate anything that walks or breathes in Gaza. Palestinians have been displaced from their homes to schools, hospitals and other protected facilities that have nonetheless come under attack. What's more no distinction is being made between the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and the government officers simply carrying out their duties. Anyone who works for a ministry under Hamas and their relatives is considered punishable by killing. As long as the US and other allies, who have warned against a military operation in Rafah, take no action to back their words, Israel will do as it pleases. In a change of tactic, the US is now being used as a scapegoat by Netanyahu for any future failures in eliminating Hamas in Gaza. “America is now being blamed for not committing to Israel's self-defence [in Rafah] and causing it to fail.”

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Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera
20 Mar 2024 5 4
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“Several factors contributed to achieving this surreal result: the intense brainwashing through Russian state media that channel the Kremlin's toxic propaganda; vote-buying through the expansion of the welfare state and various social benefits on the eve of the election; and ballot stuffing and rigging through the opaque early voting and electronic voting systems.”

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Freelance journalist based in Riga
19 Mar 2024 3 4
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“It is important to hold a referendum now because it is a historic occasion, awaited for three decades. The European Union member states are more open than ever, we have the necessary political will for this step, and our citizens want to be part of the EU.”

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President of Moldova
19 Mar 2024 2 2
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“The World Meteorological Organization community is sounding the Red Alert to the world. What we witnessed in 2023, especially with the unprecedented ocean warmth, glacier retreat and Antarctic sea ice loss, is cause for particular concern. Ocean heat is particularly concerning because it is almost irreversible. The trend is really very worrying and that is because of the characteristics of water that keep heat content for longer than the atmosphere.”

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Secretary General of World Meteorological Organization
19 Mar 2024 5 4
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“Putin is… planning to mobilise more men, once the election is over. Among other things, he has banned the exit of fighting-age men from the country and banned the antiwar candidate, Boris Nadezhdin, from standing in the election, for fear he may generate opposition to the war effort. Putin appears to have concluded that further mobilisation is essential to press home Russia's advantage on the battlefield and that this is what he will do.”

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Lecturer at Cambridge University's Centre for Geopolitics
18 Mar 2024 5 2
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“This is a record figure. The turnout is a record - an unprecedented 77.44 percent. This has never happened in the history of the new Russia. We proved to ourselves that we are an independent nation … and in the face of the West we showed that we are united. We are proud of this.”

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Russia electoral chief
18 Mar 2024 1 3
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“No matter who or how much they want to intimidate us, no matter who or how much they want to suppress us, our will, our consciousness - no one has ever succeeded in anything like this in history. It has not worked now and will not work in the future. Never.”

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President of Russia
18 Mar 2024 0 3
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“We have huge debts, we have no money for hospitals, we have no money for our farmers, we have no money for pensions, we have no money for our public services, but we are happy to invest billions in NATO. We are crazy. NATO controls every country like a slave. Yet, as a union, NATO should have disappeared with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. North Atlantic Alliance managed to continue its existence because the United States can always find or invent a threat. And they chose Russia as the enemy. I think by 2030, the enemies will be Russia and China. But France should not participate in this game.”

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French Politician
17 Mar 2024 5 2
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“Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships capable of truly helping them fight against terrorism. Also, the government of Niger forcefully denounces the condescending attitude accompanied by the threat of retaliation from the head of the American delegation towards the Nigerien government and people. The status and presence of U.S. troops in Niger are illegal and violated constitutional and democratic rules because it was unilaterally imposed on the African nation in 2012. Niger is not aware of the number of U.S. civilian and military personnel on its soil or the amount of equipment deployed and, according to the agreement, the U.S. military had no obligation to respond to any request for help against militants. In light of all the above, the government of Niger, revokes with immediate effect the agreement concerning the status of United States military personnel and civilian employees of the American Department of Defense on the territory of the Republic of Niger.”

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Spokesperson for the Nigerien military junta
16 Mar 2024 2 4
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“Cherizier likes to compare himself to historical figures like South Africa's Nelson Mandela or Cuba's longtime President Fidel Castro. And he likes to say that he's essentially a revolutionary … and he's going to redistribute wealth. While Cherizier has distributed some food and resources to people in areas under the control of his G9 gang, that's hardly a vision of the future or some sort of revolutionary [act]. It's more that he [Cherizier] wants to control his turf. Those who have suffered the most from the continued gang violence in the Haitian capital are the very, very poor people in the major slums. Something like over 200,000 Haitians had to leave their houses. They had to move into really very poorly equipped camps. You have, in other words, a situation where the people who are suffering the most are the very poor, the very people that Barbecue says he wants to help.”

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Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia
16 Mar 2024 6 3
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“The deep split within the totalitarian reality is manifested through the way Putin fanatically clings to the necessity of extending his endless cadences through 'election' while fully neutering the very essence of competition and open ending. In Russia, they consider elections as the most prestigious way to legitimise power. But totalitarian reality doesn't generate any prestige. It only generates fear and submissiveness.”

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Vice president of the Association of Political Psychologists, a group in Kyiv
16 Mar 2024 4 2
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“There are two scenarios. Either the West will go in the direction of a complete conflict with Russia, or with the help of the USA and China, some kind of truce will be established, which would mean a huge relief for the world. If they enter into [a] conflict, I'm afraid nobody will gain anything from it. A potential conflict could have more casualties than the Second World War, which is unimaginable for the 21st century. We are small and insignificant in that sense, but in any case, it will affect Serbia. We have to be ready for either solution, and we will find out within 100 days.”

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Serbian president
16 Mar 2024 5 3
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“The low turnout of Putin's electorate could play in favour of the opposition's plan, but only if the anti-Putin electorate mobilises to show up at polling stations. One of the main obstacles to that is the perception among many antiwar Russian citizens that the election is just a spectacle and there is no sense in participating in it. If this reluctance to vote is overcome, then, we may well witness a protest vote significant enough to dent Putin's legitimacy claims, which could dampen the war fervour and plant a seed of doubt in the political elite.”

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Former Russian diplomat
15 Mar 2024 3 2
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“We're not going to recognise the decisions that CARICOM takes. I'm going to say to the traditional politicians that are sitting down with CARICOM, since they went with their families abroad, we who stayed in Haiti have to take the decisions. It's not just people with guns who've damaged the country but the politicians too. Now our fight will enter another phase - to overthrow the whole system, the system that is five percent of people who control 95 percent of the country's wealth. The presence of Kenyans in Haiti will be an irony because the same people who gave weapons to people in poor neighbourhoods to rise up against the former government, then lost control of those armed groups, are now appealing to a foreign force to save things. It is a mission that's failed in advance - it's a shame that William Ruto has to go in that direction.”

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Haitian gang leader
15 Mar 2024 4 2
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“If we want to defend Hungary's freedom and sovereignty, we have no other choice but to occupy Brussels. We will march to Brussels and bring the change to the European Union ourselves.”

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Prime Minister of Hungary
15 Mar 2024 2 1
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“My impression is that there is momentum here - and my other accompanying sense is that it is in large part due to a boost in troops and technology that appears to be coming from Iran because the army can't get it from elsewhere. Many of the fighters battling the RSF are highly motivated Islamist forces seeking to reclaim Sudan. That ideological motivation counts for a lot next to those who are there for pay, as many RSF fighters are.”

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Expert on Sudan who has worked with various think tanks such as the International Crisis Group
15 Mar 2024 3 3
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“I wouldn't be super optimistic, because it's one thing to take over territory and it's quite another to hold on to territory. The military is still fighting from a significant disadvantage despite its recent victories. In cities like Khartoum the RSF is more mobile and able to hide in alleyways, homes and buildings to avoid the army's air strikes. In vast open regions like Darfur - which is mostly controlled by the RSF - army aircraft have a clearer view of targets but they are also clear targets for anti-aircraft weapons.”

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Expert on military-civilian relations in Sudan and a PhD candidate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies
15 Mar 2024 4 3
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“In the case of Burkina Faso, Russia is making significant diplomatic gains by repositioning itself in areas that have traditionally been Western strongholds. And the best part is, it can achieve this at a lower cost.”

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Burkinabe journalist currently in exile in France
15 Mar 2024 1 2
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“Burkina is becoming the laboratory of the post-Prigozhin Russian presence, where the dominant actor is the Russian state.”

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French researcher and expert in Russian information influence
15 Mar 2024 2 5
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“Domestically, Putin is poised to prioritise addressing Russia's demographic challenges, a longstanding focus of legislative efforts. On the foreign policy front, Russia is likely to persist in its opposition to what the Kremlin perceives as a unipolar global order dominated by the United States. On the Ukraine war front Putin is committed to continuing the war. From a military standpoint, there is little indication of a shift in the overarching strategy, although some refinements may be made regarding the roles of specific branches of the Russian armed forces, notably the Black Sea Fleet. Russian forces might adopt a gradual territorial expansion approach, particularly focusing on northern regions such as Kharkiv … and southern areas like Odesa.”

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Postdoctoral researcher in the War Studies Department at King’s College London
15 Mar 2024 6 3
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“If Russia were to win, the lives of French people would change. We would no longer have security in Europe.”

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President of France
14 Mar 2024 3 4
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“The Ukrainians are not running out of courage, they are running out of ammunition. NATO allies are not providing Ukraine with enough ammunition and that has consequences on the battlefield every day. It is one of the reasons why the Russians have been able to make some advance on the battlefield over the last weeks and months. It is an urgent need for allies to make the decisions necessary to step and provide more ammunition to Ukraine. That's my message to all capitals. We have the capacity, the economies, to be able to provide Ukraine what they need. This is a question of political will. To take the decisions and to prioritise support for Ukraine.”

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Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
14 Mar 2024 6 2
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“At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government. Netanyahu surrounded himself with far-right ministers and has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.”

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New York’s Senator and the Senate Majority Leader
14 Mar 2024 3 3
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“The South Korean-U.S. training is over, but the North's isn't over yet. They won't just stand still … they've been talking about war.”

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Analyst at Asan Institute for Policy Studies
14 Mar 2024 3 2
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“It's a very long road, but the immediate problem is the formation of the new government, the selection of a prime minister by the new government. Then the next consideration will be addressing the gang violence. Can you have negotiations with the gangs? If you can't have the negotiations with the gangs, will the Kenyans arrive on time and will they have the capacity to deal with them?”

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Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia
14 Mar 2024 3 2
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“We are not sure how much this dynamic will last. But they [the gangs] formed a joint alliance in September 2023, basically trying to respond to the possibility that a multinational security mission was going to be deployed to Haiti, and they wanted to prevent that. These are groups that increasingly think that the only way to retain not only their relevance but their existence is if they are able to at least manage some important degree of political power.”

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Senior adviser at the International Crisis Group
14 Mar 2024 1 2
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“As a result of the ill-considered provocative actions of even one or two EU or NATO member states, the Ukrainian crisis could absolutely go beyond its geographical borders, acquire a completely different scale and develop uncontrollably. Accordingly, the question today is how to avoid the risks of further escalation. They are obvious and frightening to all sensible people.”

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Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman
13 Mar 2024 3 5
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“No one wants Vladimir Putin to prevail. I'm of the opinion that he wouldn't stop at Ukraine … and go all through the way through Europe. There is a right and wrong there, a good versus evil in my view and Ukraine is the victim here.”

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US House of Representatives Speaker
13 Mar 2024 3 3
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“Even if you go to Rafah, you have lost the war. Despite all the massacres, Gaza's people will not surrender to you. The people of Gaza are still embracing the resistance. Who are you negotiating with if Hamas has been defeated? All Palestinian factions are unanimous in stopping the aggression, contrary to what is being reported that Hamas is obstructing the negotiations.”

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Secretary-General of Hezbollah
13 Mar 2024 4 2
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“In recent years, though the United States has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to U.S. national security, it has never stopped going after TikTok.”

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Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China
13 Mar 2024 2 2
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“Nevertheless, their [the raiders'] main goal, and I am sure of it, is to disrupt the presidential election in Russia, or at least somehow interfere with the normal process of expressing the will of the citizens. That's the first thing. The second is the information effect, which I have already mentioned. But the third is, if they succeed in getting some opportunity, some advantage, some bargaining chip in a possible future negotiation process: [they will say] we will give this back to you, but you will have to give that back to us.”

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President of Russia
13 Mar 2024 1 1
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“Barbecue has made vague demands of a more just and equitable system, but of course the irony of this whole situation is that the armed groups in the capital and around are creating the hell that people are living through. Barbecue claims to have united Port-au-Prince's notoriously quarrelsome gangs in a coalition called Viv Ansanm (Live Together). It is hard to verify that claim. But while so far no rival gang leader has denied it, any alliance is likely to be short-lived. These groups feud mercilessly with one another all the time. The gangs appear to have found a modus vivendi while they try to tear down the pillars of the state. To what end I'm not exactly clear.”

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Journalist, author and researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE)
12 Mar 2024 5 2
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“For the last the three years, the gangs started to gain autonomy. And now they are a power unto themselves. They are capable now of imposing certain conditions on the government itself. Those who created the gangs created a monster. And now the monster may not be totally in charge, but it has the capacity to block any kind of solution.”

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Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia
12 Mar 2024 1 2
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“We have realised that it is not enough to just wait for the Western Balkans to move closer to us. It is not enough to say that the door is open. We must also take responsibility, and support their path towards our union in any possible way... More progress has been achieved in just over a year than in over a decade. First, Bosnia and Herzegovina is now fully aligned with our foreign and security policy, which is crucial in these times of geopolitical turmoil. The country is showing that it can deliver on the membership criteria, and on its citizens' aspiration to be part of our family. The message coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina is clear. So our message must be clear too. The future of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies in our union.”

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President of the European Commission
12 Mar 2024 1 5
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“We were well prepared. We chose the most convenient border areas for the incursion and entered … Belgorod and Kursk oblasts of Russia. Now there are combat clashes, and developments are unfolding as we speak. Literally every half hour or hour, some new geographical names [of places reached] appear. We won't name them, as we are still in full control of the initiative. We are Russian citizens. We are going home to liberate our homeland from Putin's dictatorship.”

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Member of the Freedom of Russia Legion
12 Mar 2024 5 1
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“For Putin, a ceasefire would be a breath of fresh air. This would not be [peace] negotiations, but a way to restore the combat capability of the army and train young conscripts.”

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President of Ukraine
12 Mar 2024 4 4
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“We don't plan for our soldiers to take part in the war because the presence of Polish troops in Ukraine, even if it's for training purposes, would border on participation in the war.”

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Polish Defence Ministry
12 Mar 2024 3 3
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“There is definitely increasing heat between the prime minister and the president. But I think Biden is underlining a change of tone, not a change of policy. And that explains a bit why he sounds as if he's speaking from both sides of his mouth. On one hand, he talks about red lines, and on the other hand, he talks about continuing basically unconditional support. Biden administration made the mistake of making US support for Israel unconditional. But for more than five months now, Israel has gotten the support, the arms, and the money - but it has rejected the advice of the American president, and that's why he's getting a bit frustrated with the Israeli prime minister because he does not want to see - as he said - another 30,000 dead people in Gaza.”

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Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera
11 Mar 2024 4 2
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“Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli Authorities classify as 'for dual use'. The list includes basic and lifesaving items: from anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders and ventilators, to water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines and maternity kits.”

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Head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA
11 Mar 2024 3 1
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“If you can actually control the economy, then you can probably move a little bit faster than other countries out there. But the West will have more sustaining power. The West is just starting their ramp-up of building the infrastructure to add in the munitions capability that is needed.”

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Deputy commander of US European Command
11 Mar 2024 3 4
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“It is quite understandable that he [the pope] spoke in favour of negotiations. Unfortunately, both the statements of the Pope and the repeated statements of other parties, including ours, have recently received absolutely harsh refusals.”

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Kremlin spokesman
11 Mar 2024 3 3
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“The families of the Israeli prisoners are not stupid. They know the Israeli army directly participated in operations that killed more than 10 captives. It also failed to free any of them, except for two who were not in the possession of resistance groups in exchange for money. Protests within Israeli society have escalated against the Netanyahu government due to its inability to return the captives; however, they are not enough to threaten the coalition government or overthrow it. However, if the protests are bolstered by the larger movement that was igniting the streets of Israel in the spring and summer of 2023, the equation may change.”

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Researcher at the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies – Madar
11 Mar 2024 3 1
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“All Israeli violations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem must also cease, and a political framework that leads to an end to the occupation must be reached. This framework must be based on a two-state solution, and this requires coordinating with Arab and regional powers as well as the international community, including the US and the European Union.”

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Member of Fatah’s Central Committee
10 Mar 2024 4 2
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“They see technology as the solution to every problem they're facing - economic, environmental, demographic, social. If they cannot make sufficient advances in this domain, it's going to be very difficult for them.”

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Researcher at the National Bureau of Asian Research who studies China's strategic thinking
10 Mar 2024 1 2
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“Portugal has entered the dynamic of many European democracies, in which the centre-right parties are being challenged by far-right parties.”

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Political scientist and researcher at Lisbon University
10 Mar 2024 2 2
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“Russia's army is currently attacking multiple places all along the more than 600-mile front line to probe Ukraine's defenses. Which of them will be prioritized, for example, in two days or next week, will depend on how well they succeed in pushing through our defense. Where they succeed in pushing through, they will deploy additional reserves to build on their success. This is their strategy.”

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Chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, a nongovernmental research group
09 Mar 2024 1 2
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“Russian forces seem to be attempting to push forward using small infantry assault groups, but are being decimated in the relatively open terrain west of Avdiivka.”

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Analyst from the Black Bird Group, which analyzes satellite imagery and social media content from the battlefield
09 Mar 2024 3 2
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“The capture of Avdiivka has not led to the collapse of Ukrainian lines, the possibility for the Russians to move onto open ground or even to make major gains. There's no decisive action or breakthrough.”

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Deputy director of the Institute for Strategic and Defense Studies, a French research center
09 Mar 2024 3 2
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“It is necessary to more vigorously push forward the work for making preparations for regular combat mobilization so that all the artillery sub-units can take the initiative with merciless and rapid strikes at the moment of their entry into an actual war.”

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Leader of North Korea
08 Mar 2024 3 2
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“The drill started with the power demonstration firing of the long-range artillery sub-units near the border who have put the enemy's capital in their striking range and fulfilled important military missions for war deterrence.”

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Statement by Korean Central News Agency
08 Mar 2024 2 2
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“Any ground assault on Rafah would incur massive loss of life and would heighten the risk of further atrocity crimes. This must not be allowed to happen.”

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Spokesperson for the U.N. Human Rights Office
08 Mar 2024 2 1
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“The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state.”

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UN high commissioner for human rights
08 Mar 2024 3 2
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“There is international pressure and it's growing, but particularly when the international pressure rises, we must close ranks, we need to stand together against the attempts to stop the war. The military would operate against Hamas all through the Gaza Strip including Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold. Whoever tells us not to act in Rafah is telling us to lose the war and that will not happen.”

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Prime Minister of Israel
07 Mar 2024 4 2
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“This round of talks has concluded with no substantial answer or solution for [a] ceasefire or pause in the fighting. It is worth mentioning that the Israelis themselves chose not to send their own delegation to Cairo for this round of talks because they were hoping to receive a list of names of all of the captives who are alive and currently being held in Gaza.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem
07 Mar 2024 3 2
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“I told (Putin) about the illegal actions of Moldova's authorities who are taking revenge on us for our civic positions and for standing by our national interests. Chisinau is taking away our rights step by step, limiting the budget, violating our legal rights provoking instability and destabilisation in Gagauzia and throughout the country. Putin promised to extend support to Gagauzia and the Gagauz people in upholding our legal rights, our authority and positions in the international arena.”

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Pro-Russian leader of Moldova's restive Gagauzia region
06 Mar 2024 5 2
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