Syria

"The promised 6 billion euros -- they [Brussels] did not release. Now they say they will allocate 1 billion euros. Who are you lying to?”

"Obviously, Erdogan threw all his forces [at Idlib], of course on the orders of the Americans. There is no doubt about that."

“We are not going to fight against anyone. We are going to create conditions so that nobody wants to fight against us.”

“Turkish servicemen inside the combat units of terrorist groups came under fire from the Syrian military on February 27 near the town of Behun. According to the data submitted by Turkey to the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, there were no Turkish soldiers near Behun.”

“Here, the escalation in Syria. I agree: These are very painful events and troubled days. First the Russian officers were killed, then the Turkish servicemen. Here, right now, many accuse Russia and the Syrian ‘regime’ of all sins – supposedly they ‘violate’, attack, bomb civilian objects and so forth.”

“John Taylor Holmes, a retired major general who served as a director of special forces, was on a panel of experts which heard testimony from one of the whistleblowers, identified as ‘Alex.’ ”

“Turkey struck over 50 targets in retaliation and killed 76 Syrian soldiers.”

“You will be judged by God, then you will know what kind of a man he was. Haj Qassem Soleimani, he was a man who prayed all night and fasted all day. He only fights in a place where the enemies of God and humans are, he never lifted his hand against any Muslim, he never lifted a weapon in the face of any Muslim.”

“A video of a US TOW anti-tank missile being fired at a Syrian armed forces T-62 tank has emerged on social media; the decades-old military hardware was left virtually unscathed.”

“Sources informed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that a fight broke out between Russian soldiers and American ones, as both parties were present in the same area.”

“The Americans are using ISIS as a scarecrow. At the same time they are feeding ISIS, encourage them, protect ISIS leaders and help them move from one area to another.”

“The president cannot make decisions regarding such companies (private military companies); it is simply impossible.”