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  • Karine Jean-Pierre
    Karine Jean-Pierre “Americans have the right to peacefully protest. Forcibly taking over a building is not peaceful.” 6 hours ago
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    Janet Yellen “Treasury has consistently warned that companies will face significant consequences for providing material support for Russia's war, and the U.S. is imposing them today on almost 300 targets.” 6 hours ago
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    Catherine Russell “Over 200 days of war have already killed or maimed tens of thousands of children in Gaza. For hundreds of thousands of children in the border city of Rafah, there is added fear of an escalated military operation that would bring catastrophe on top of catastrophe for children. Nearly all of the some 600,000 children now crammed into Rafah are either injured, sick, malnourished, traumatised or living with disabilities.” 6 hours ago
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    Eric Adams “We cannot allow what should be a lawful protest to turn into a violent spectacle that saves and serves no purpose. There's no place for acts of hate in our city. I want to continue to commend the professionalism of the police department and to thank Columbia University. It was a tough decision, we understood that. But with the very clear evidence of their observation and the clear evidence from our intelligence division, that they understood it was time to move and the action had to end and we brought it to a peaceful conclusion.” 15 hours ago
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    Sergei Shoigu “To maintain the required pace of the offensive … it is necessary to increase the volume and quality of weapons and military equipment supplied to the troops, primarily weapons.” 15 hours ago
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#mercenaries

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy

“Russia's weakness is obvious and that the longer Moscow keeps its troops and mercenaries in Ukraine, the more chaos it would invite back home. And the longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have for itself later.”

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President of Ukraine
24 Jun 2023 3 1
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Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei

“Today, the enemies' most important hope for striking a blow at the country is based on popular protests. They hope to turn the people against the Islamic establishment and the Islamic Republic through psychological work, activities on the internet and cyberspace ... and by spending money and recruiting mercenaries. But the enemies' calculation is as wrong as many earlier ones.”

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Iran’s Supreme Leader
04 Jun 2022 2 2
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Cristian Nitoiu
Cristian Nitoiu

“The presence of mercenaries can only muddy the military situation, as they are less likely to abide by the rules of conventional military structures. Both the Ukrainian and the Russian armies would have difficulty controlling the movement and actions of mercenary groups. The widespread presence of mercenaries also shows that both parties are preparing for a long, drawn-out military conflict, where urban and guerrilla tactics will play a key role. Ukraine is the loser here, as mercenaries operate with impunity and may engage in wide-scale destruction with little afterthought. Mercenaries pose a real danger of refusing to demobilise and blackmailing the Ukrainian government after the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow ends.”

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Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University London
23 Mar 2022 6 2
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Igor Konashenkov
Igor Konashenkov

“I wish to make an official statement that none of the mercenaries the West is sending to Ukraine to fight for the nationalist regime in Kiev can be considered as combatants in accordance with international humanitarian law or enjoy the status of prisoners of war. At best, they can expect to be prosecuted as criminals. We are urging all foreign citizens who may have plans to go and fight for Kiev's nationalist regime to think a dozen times before getting on the way.”

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Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman
03 Mar 2022 4 2
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Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Lavrov

“Kosovo and some other parts of the Western Balkans are becoming a hotbed of crime. There are terrorists, drug dealers. Mercenaries are recruited there for military conflicts ignited by the US, among others. There is information that militants from Kosovo, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are being recruited to knock Russia off balance, which includes sending them to Donbass [in eastern Ukraine].”

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Russian Foreign Minister
18 Feb 2022 8 2
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Saeed Imgheib
Saeed Imgheib

“Does Dbaiba, as the Minister of Defense and Prime Minister know that Tripoli is in danger? That the fuse of war in it is about to erupt, and that there are mourning tents that will be erected in its streets? The reason for the war is not an attack by Haftar's army, as he claimed and marketed previously, but because of his failed policies, his adherence to power, and the failure to fulfil his pledges. I ask God to protect our civilians in Tripoli and to take revenge on all those who are still paying the militias and mercenaries who terrorize the people at all times.”

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Member of the Libyan Parliament
21 Dec 2021 6 4
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Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith

“The Burhan-Hemeti [Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo] dynamic is weird. They are mutually treacherous. The Egyptians favour Burhan due to his training in Cairo. The rich, ruthless desert warrior Hemeti is more to Saudi and Emirati tastes. He delivered the mercenaries for the war in Yemen, and made more money out of it.”

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Editor of Africa Confidential
29 Oct 2021 10 5
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Reuf Bajrovic
Reuf Bajrovic

“Vucic [Aleksandar Vucic] is preparing to use military force in Kosovo and Bosnia when international circumstances change in his favour - such as when US troops withdraw from KFOR (the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo) or when Russia - Serbia's ally - decides to directly intervene in the region. Russia-trained mercenaries in Bosnia and Montenegro are an integral part of the Serbian military strategy for the region. It is a carbon copy of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's pre-invasion actions in Georgia and Ukraine. Vucic government officials have openly stated that Serbia will use military force in its neighbourhood, including a threat Vucic issued against NATO troops in Kosovo last week.”

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Co-chair of the US-Europe Alliance organisation
06 Oct 2021 13 6
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Mohamed Auajjar
Mohamed Auajjar

“All parties to the conflicts, including third states, foreign fighters and mercenaries, have violated international humanitarian law, in particular the principles of proportionality and distinction, and some have also committed war crimes. Civilians paid a heavy price during the 2019-2020 hostilities in Tripoli, as well as during other armed confrontations in the country since 2016. Airstrikes have killed dozens of families. The destruction of health-related facilities has impacted access to health care and anti-personnel mines left by mercenaries in residential areas have killed and maimed civilians.”

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Chair of the independent fact-finding mission on Libya commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council
04 Oct 2021 7 5
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Baba Dakono
Baba Dakono

“The presence of mercenaries, who by vocation do not obey any rule and convention, can be a source of unease. Involving mercenaries in the context of Mali can produce counterproductive effects and above all lead to an exacerbation of violence.”

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Political and security analyst based in Bamako
21 Sep 2021 1 3
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