Strike (attack)

It was a message from the American government to limit the speed at which Ukrainian drones could fly.

— Volodymyr Zelensky, in an NBC News Meet the Press interview

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.

I was attacked, pushed to the ground. Luckily I had my flak jacket and helmet, otherwise I probably wouldn’t even be here, because they just kept kicking me and kicking me.

— Heidi Levine, photojournalist for The Washington Post, speaking from a hospital bed after being attacked during the Abu Falah incident in the occupied West Bank.

The block [on attacking refineries] is out. We’re done

— Zelensky told the Financial Times in an interview in London.

If the answer centres on the spectacle of the explosion, the proposal is stronger as political theatre than as military strategy.

— Elijah Magnier, Brussels-based military expert, commenting on the MOAB discussion in Iran (Al Jazeera interview)

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

Russian attack with a ballistic missile on Kyiv. Again, no warning from our partners.

— Selenskyj (Facebook post)

We need a so-called Doomsday data vault,

— Valery Yermakov, deputy CEO of state-controlled Rostelecom, another major data centre operator, told a conference in Moscow.