Military

“A Spanish fighter recently accidentally fired an air-to-air missile in Estonia. Thank God, it didn’t kill anyone. What if it fell on our soil rather than in Estonia? After all, it was very close."

“The Russian side stressed the unacceptability of the practice of making public unsubstantiated accusations, which runs counter to the norms of international dialogue.”

"According to observers, the elections were democratic and open."

“Don’t you think this is political paranoia?”

“I will not guess how the results of these elections will affect the future of our relations… We firmly know that the internal political perturbations in the United States directly affect Washington's relations with Moscow, and our relations, our contacts, our partnership on global security issues that many countries of the world are waiting for, have become hostage to these internal political squabbles in America.”

"On November 5, 2018, at about 10am on-duty airspace control aircraft spotted an unidentified air threat over the neutral waters of the Black Sea, which was approaching the airspace of the Russian Federation. An Su-27 fighter jet took off from the nearest airfield of the on-duty air defense unit. It approached the aircraft at a safe distance and identified it as an EP-3E Aries signals reconnaissance version of the US Navy. The fighter crew reported identification of the U.S. signals reconnaissance aircraft and escorted it away from the airspace of the Russian Federation in compliance with all security and safety requirements."

"The film distribution certificate for the film ‘Hunter Killer’ was not issued due to the lack of a mark on the delivery of the film for permanent storage in the Russian Gosfilmofond [state film archive].”

“Russia’s military budget has been decreasing, not increasing, year after year. You’d have thought NATO intelligence would have spotted that. Now compare Moscow’s military spending to NATO’s, which is almost a trillion dollars a year. It literally accounts for half the world’s military spending. I mean, there’s no competition here.”

“We love and are proud of President Vladimir Putin, because he is a friend of Palestine and not only Palestine, but all the people who are seeking freedom. President Putin succeeded in restoring Russia’s authority in the international arena and forced all to respect Russia.”

“#Russia’s 82nd humanitarian convoy delivers 700+ tonnes of supplies to the people of #Donetsk & #Lugansk, including food packages for children, medical equipment and first aid kits. All cargo underwent thorough customs inspection. #HelpingDonbass”

“@MoD_Russia (Russian Ministry of Defense): #WhiteHelmets have started filming their ‘CW usage evidence’, this time in Aleppo province. Containers with poison gas, most likely chlorine, delivered to the area by terrorist groups they support.”

“Alexander Hug is well informed. For four years he’s been working in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and in Ukraine as the head of the OSCE mission. They basically have open access to any place in the country. I’m not sure about western Ukraine, but here they have free access. They are fully informed. The statement he voiced today is confirmation of what we’ve been broadcasting from here for four years. The armed people here are the locals … But Kyiv naturally began screaming that it had been betrayed. The OSCE destroyed the fairytale that Ukrainian television has been broadcasting.”