Verdicts

"This is an open exercise and we invite or have already invited a huge number of observers. Please come and watch it."

“In an effort to compete with more technologically advanced forces, the U.S. Army is investing in new programs to develop autonomous drones and create a network of battlefield devices that communicate with each other… The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report that found the US Army has fallen behind other technologically advanced states after spending nearly two decades fighting technologically inferior adversaries in the Middle East.”

"An old acquaintance, a common past with the president definitely is not an indulgence."

“On April 13, the U.S. dropped a non-atomic bomb in the Achin district of the Afghan province of Nangarhar, known as the 'Mother of All Bombs' or MOAB. Following the incident, the citizens who survived are showing signs of horrible diseases.”

“Four times fewer Russian citizens are going to the European Criminal Court [sic]. Because today the European court doesn’t meet our ideas of justice. It takes a long time to consider things, selectively.”

“America is carrying out policies against Russia, against the nation’s leadership. They know I am one of those ready to give my life for Russia, and that I have a good army capable of attacking and defending. We will see who comes out on top.”

“The militia did not shoot down the Boeing [MH17]. I only had Igla and Strela anti-aircraft missiles.”

“The creation of such a state [‘Malorossiya’] is possible and likely inevitable, judging by what is happening in Ukraine.”

"[N]o one from the command ever met with [Viktor] Ageyev and couldn't have signed a contract with him...he signed the so-called contract...in Luhansk, where there have not been and are no active Russian servicemen."

“The conclusion [U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) report] reached is quite dangerous, however: ‘Moscow’s long-term goal is building a military prepared to expand the range of conflict from local war through regional conflict to a strategic conflict that will lead to a nuclear exchange.’ That is to say that Russia is deliberately provoking a nuclear war.”

“Racist posters in Kiev. Russian language equal to infection and bad IQ. Food for thought.”

“Russia has emerged stronger than ever after these three years of economic defense. It has now achieved the unprecedented role of a quadruple superpower: industrial superpower, agricultural superpower, military superpower and geopolitical superpower. Russia now has the world’s most self-sufficient and diversified economy… .”