Putin

“Our opponents expected that we would retreat or surrender,” Putin declared. "This will not happen, as we often say in such cases."

"Responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable," Biden told a Washington crowd in April 2022. "We will keep raising the economic cost and ratchet up the pain for Putin and further increase Russia's economic isolation."

Wagner is fully financed by the Russian government, according to President Putin.

U.S. intelligence agencies had alerted top military and administration officials as early as Wednesday about a potential military assault against prominent Russian defense authorities, plotted by Prigozhin.

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"The pattern here is clear," said Kennedy. "Not only is the administration deceiving the American people about the motives for this costly and tragic war, but by continually escalating it they put the whole world at risk of nuclear conflagration."

"Hopefully it won’t be too late!"

Russia provides about a third of the U.S.'s supply of enriched uranium.

Zakharova outlined the possibility of Russia reinstating the New START treaty, given the right conditions.

Worry over the risk of unexploded ordnance causing civilian casualties.