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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“[Russia and China] jointly work to create a more just and democratic multipolar world order, which should be based on the central role of the U.N., its Security Council, international law, and the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter.”
Read more...The United Nations condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as violation of its Charter and the International Criminal Court (ICC) has accused Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes. -
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran’s Supreme Leader
“In fact, it is the U.S. that waged the Ukraine war.”
Read more...Washington’s efforts to stop Moscow's invasion are well-documented, no matter how Putin allies try to spin the brutal Ukraine invasion. -
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Russian Embassy in the U.S.
“Russia has been consistently following the democratic path, taking into account its own historical experience and traditions.”
Read more...Moscow long ago diverged from the “path” of democracy, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine only accelerating the country’s authoritarian descent. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Kremlin spokesman
“Washington and European capitals … are overwhelmed with the desire not to allow under any pretext to get on track to a peaceful settlement, they won’t allow Kyiv to even think about it.”
Read more...Kirby did not say that a peace settlement is unacceptable; he was talking about an immediate cease-fire. -
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Wang Wenbin
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson
“The crux of how the Korean Peninsula situation gets to where it is today is clear. The main reason is that the parties concerned have refused to respond to the denuclearization measures taken by the DPRK…”
Read more...The agreement collapsed because of North Korea’s secret enrichment of uranium for its nuclear weapons program, in violation of the Agreed Framework. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“We relied not just on the Russian-speaking population there [in Ukraine] – the whole country is Russian-speaking, as a matter of fact.”
Read more...One-third to one-half of Ukrainians speak Russian at home, and about 9.9%-19% consider Russian their native language. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“[N]o international judicial bodies … bothered to pay attention to the destruction of civilian infrastructure, to the killings of civilians that Ukrainian nationalists staged in Donbass.”
Read more...Moscow brushes over the fact that it launched a war in eastern Ukraine in 2014 to deflect from charges that it has committed war crimes since invading in February 2022. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
“This was an example of more than just political arrogance, extreme ignorance and blasphemy.”
Read more...The U.S. ambassador to Norway accurately compared the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine to the 1940 German invasion of Norway.
