IPSEs IN THE LAST 24H
  • Steve Witkoff
    Steve Witkoff “The meeting was positive, upbeat, constructive. Everybody was there to get to the right outcome.” 21 hours ago
  • Marco Rubio
    Marco Rubio “Ending the war in Ukraine could unlock the door for incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians geopolitically on issues of common interest and, frankly, economically on issues that hopefully will be good for the world and also improve our relations in the long term.” 21 hours ago
  • Sergey Lavrov
    Sergey Lavrov “We explained today that the deployment of any troops, any armed forces from NATO countries but under other flags, either the European Union or national flags, changes nothing in this context. For us, of course, this is unacceptable.” 21 hours ago
  • Marco Rubio
    Marco Rubio “Russia and the United States have agreed to restore their embassies in Moscow and Washington to previous staffing levels to facilitate continued diplomatic engagement. We will need active work of diplomatic missions capable of functioning normally to be able to continue these contacts.” 21 hours ago
  • Jana Puglierin
    Jana Puglierin “February 2022 destroyed our faith in a collective security order with Russia and showed us the dark side of our fundamental dependence on Russia and China in critical areas. February 2025 shows us that the Americans no longer feel responsible for European security - and that their interests are fundamentally different from ours.” 21 hours ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “Ukraine, Europe in a broad sense - and this includes the European Union, Turkiye, and the UK - should be involved in conversations and the development of the necessary security guarantees with America regarding the fate of our part of the world.” 21 hours ago
  • Mariia Mezentseva
    Mariia Mezentseva “It's not yet very clear how this negotiating table will look. But defence and justice must be at the forefront of any solution to end the war, and the US, Europe and Ukraine must be on board. It's not Russia who can dictate the rules because they are the invaders. It has to be absolutely [reversed].” 21 hours ago
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“The call with Mr. Trump made Mr. Putin's repeated doubling down on the Ukraine war look like a successful bet in a casino. Russia absorbed huge losses in Ukraine, gambling that, eventually, the global paradigm would change and the West would tire of supporting the country. This change has happened, and now it is unclear how this bet will play out in the future.”

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Analyst of Russian politics based in Moscow
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“Putin's patience has paid off. Many high-level figures within Russia's diplomatic and security circles were increasingly frustrated with the initial statements and approaches of Trump and his team on Ukraine. Trump's 'plans' appeared not just unacceptable but outright hostile…. Nevertheless, Putin chose patience, working steadily to ingratiate himself with Trump - being accommodating, showing flexibility, and projecting a willingness to compromise. Now, he has secured the first step: the launch of substantial negotiations. I'm highly skeptical about the prospects of these talks. Trump wants a cease-fire and some kind of arrangement that would sideline the Ukraine issue for a while. But his vision still differs radically from Putin's. For Putin, a real solution means a Ukraine that is 'friendly' to Russia - deprived of military capability, has a rewritten constitution, and guarantees non-membership in NATO. Make no mistake - Putin is fully prepared for these talks to fail. From the Kremlin's perspective, there is nothing the West can do that would reverse Russia's territorial gains and prevent Ukraine's collapse in the long run.”

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Founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik
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“In the emerging realities, it is no longer possible to talk about strategic stability in its classical bilateral context, or else we may plunge into another illusion. There have appeared many actors on the international arena that influence the global missile lineup of forces. It is not ruled out that in the current conditions of confrontation with the West, with its policy of inflicting strategic damage on Russia, we may face the need for moving away from restrictions on nuclear and missile arsenals in favor of their quantitative and qualitative increase.”

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Russian Foreign Ministry’s special ambassador
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“Until 2020, Lukashenko could manoeuvre and play Russia against the West, but now when Belarus' status is close to that of Russia's satellite, this North Korea-style election ties the Belarusian leader to the Kremlin even stronger, shortening the leash.”

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Belarus expert with the Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Center
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“The principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, no matter how powerful. Borders must not be moved by force. This principle applies to every country, whether in the East or the West. In talks with our European partners, there is an uneasiness regarding recent statements from the US. It is clear: We must stand together.”

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Chancellor of Germany
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“Russia is not yet ready to abandon the region, valuing its use for exerting military and political pressure over Moldova. Russia's desire for leverage grew more acute in October when Moldovan voters narrowly endorsed changing the Constitution to lock the country's exit from Moscow's sphere of influence, aligning more closely with the West. But Russia's readiness to let Transnistria freeze without gas or its major source of revenue - the sale of electricity to Moldova from a gas-powered power station - suggested that the region was in serious trouble. The whole model in Transnistria relies on free Russian gas. No free Russian gas, the whole thing collapses. But I don't think Russia will let this happen soon. It still needs them.”

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Former deputy prime minister of Moldova who was responsible for trying to reintegrate Transnistria
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“The Kremlin clearly has its eye on the parliamentary elections. Sandu's ruling party is not as well placed for this as they were for the presidential elections and the EU referendum, so it's enough for Russia to add a bit of pressure and they can actually push them to an area where they're going to lose the election. Moldova can buy gas in advance and have it delivered from the European market, but at much higher prices than it paid Gazprom. So, I'm guessing the Russian strategy is make them spend all their budget [on energy] instead of spending it on anything related to economic development in general, spend it to get through the winter. And then as the elections approach, they're going to have even higher inflation, even higher prices than they do already, which is pretty high. Without sufficient aid from the West, that's absolutely a strategy that can work.”

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Director of the GlobalFocus Center, a Bucharest-based think tank
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“Like other accolades that I have received lately, speak not so much to my actions over the past 14 months - the normal opposition of a sentient human to a genocide - but rather to the silence of the many, particularly in the West, who should have spoken and acted against Israeli crimes and have chosen not to. I wonder how they [those who had not spoken out] manage to sleep at night.”

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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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“We are growing more and more concerned about what we are hearing from the West lately. The West - Brussels, London, Paris, Washington are starting to float the idea of a ceasefire as a means to give a respite to Ukraine and hence grant themselves a possibility to flood Ukraine with advanced long-range weapons again. Of course, this is not a path to peace. It looks like Western leaders are doing Zelensky's bidding, giving in to all of his whims. Their position has been: not a word about Ukraine without Ukraine. But that they have been discussing Russia under the 'Zelensky formula' without Russia for more than two years doesn't seem to bother anyone.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
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“In general, the doctrine is uncomplicated, clear, and transparent. We have explicitly outlined everything, I believe. Therefore, we urge our colleagues, especially those in the West, to read it carefully, without taking pieces out of context or misrepresenting them. Everything is clearly and precisely presented.”

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Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
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“If such a decision has indeed been formulated and communicated to the Kiev regime, then, of course, this is a qualitatively new round of escalation of tensions and a qualitatively new situation in terms of the involvement of the United States in this conflict. We are proceeding from this. Russia's position should be absolutely clear to everyone. These signals have been received by the collective West. And they were voiced by the president in St. Petersburg.”

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Kremlin spokesman
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“Trade and economic cooperation [between Russia and African countries] is developing. We have reached an all-time record in trade - $24.5 billion - and the figure clearly does not reflect the potential that we have yet to unlock, and, despite artificial hurdles being imposed by the collective West, we continue to improve business support mechanisms, find effective logistical solutions and embrace new instruments for mutual settlements that are free from any negative external interference.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
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“A Trump presidency is likely to prod Europe in to taking its own security more seriously, unable to depend on US support. While this might seem to be a downside for Moscow, in fact it is regarded positively. First of all, despite some overheated rhetoric in the West, Russia does not seem to have plans for a direct military confrontation with Nato. Secondly, the more spent on defence, the more pressure, it hopes, on those funds earmarked for Ukraine. Finally, rearmament is a slow process, and Putin's belief that democracies are inherently incapable of seeing beyond the electoral cycle or the day's news means that he presumes any such plans will never be brought fully to fruition.”

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Senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
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“The comprehensive strategic partnership treaty between Russia and North Korea reflects the geopolitical reality when the West is flooding the Asia-Pacific region with arms. The need to conclude this agreement emerged for two reasons. First of all, this is a new nature of relations between Russia and North Korea which have shaped over the past several years. The second reason is a new geopolitical situation which has emerged after 2022 as well as those processes that are unfolding in Northeast Asia today, around the Korean Peninsula. These processes are above all related to the policy promoted by the US and its allies in the region, which involves flooding this region with weapons, deploying new cutting-edge systems there, including with a nuclear component, and forming new military and political alliances.”

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
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“We call on Europe to realise that North Korean troops are now waging an aggressive war in Europe against a sovereign European state. This proves once again that while the West is afraid and hesitates, Russia is acting and going for escalation.”

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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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“Beijing must find a balance between supporting Moscow and not angering the West. Chinese President Xi Jinping might for his own sake ignore the whole thing. Xi has built a personal relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and he cannot see Putin fail. At the same time, Xi cannot anger the Europeans and Americans when his country's economy is struggling. So he's not going to say anything publicly about this [North Korean troops sent to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war].”

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Senior fellow for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on global issues at Georgetown University
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“After Mr. Sinwar's death Iranian leaders could go one of three ways. They could ignore Israel's recent string of military victories and focus on rebuilding their proxy forces. They could seek a broader rapprochement with the West, similar to the one that many American officials thought could emerge from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and Western powers, a deal that former President Donald J. Trump abandoned. That killed any last hope of a larger understanding. Or they could decide that the only true protection from a resurgent Israel is revising the nuclear doctrine, and trying to turn its stockpile of enriched uranium into actual weapons.”

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Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University
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“The world is currently going through a multipolar moment. This process is a natural part of power rebalancing, which reflects objective changes in the world economy, finance and geopolitics. The West waited longer than the others, yet it has also started to realize that this process is irreversible.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
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“A reassessment of nuclear capabilities was necessary in the face of encirclement by hostile powers. Russia does not want to use nuclear weapons, understanding the seriousness of the consequences of a conflict with the use of such weapons. However, at present, our country is forced to respond to the growing threats directed against us. The West continues to pump Ukraine with weapons, including F-16 fighters and long-range missiles like [US-made] ATACMS. Moreover, NATO is developing its infrastructure around the borders of Russia: new units are being created in Finland. Although Russia is trying to avoid the use of nuclear weapons, Moscow is forced to demonstrate that it is ready to defend integrity and sovereignty by any possible means.”

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Moscow-based founder of the Center for International Interaction and Cooperation
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“The view in Iran is that the West is, at best, unwilling to restrain Israel, and at worst, has a direct hand in the escalation. The latest Iranian operation against Israel, therefore, certainly is accompanied by a message that Biden should act to draw a line under things.”

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Iran analyst and editor at the independent news site Amwaj.media
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