Airstrike

We can’t compare me and Putin. He’s aggressor. He occupied us. He killed adults and children, his soldiers. He’s a terrorist. And that’s why I hope that President Trump will be very clear with this position.

— Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian President, remarks on NBC’s Meet the Press cited in The Globe and Mail article, condemning Putin and calling for a clear stance from Trump.

If the United States will officially take the side of Russia, of course if these two countries will be together, of course we will not prevail and we will not be able to stand.

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an NBC Meet the Press interview; he warned that US siding with Russia could prevent Ukraine from prevailing.

All he's doing is making the world oil price higher. Well, I think that's a disgrace.

— Donald Trump, speaking to Newsmax after Ukraine struck a Rosneft refinery southeast of Moscow; the remark relates to Ukraine’s strikes on Russian energy facilities.

There is, at the head of the United States, someone who is either a useful idiot or an agent of the destruction of European strength and freedom.

— Raphaël Glucksmann, French presidential candidate, declared on Tuesday