Iranian Guards navy has new highly explosive missiles, state media say:

"Justice is served: Indian Army on striking terror camps in Pakistan, PoK under Operation Sindoor"— Indian Army on the Operation Sindoor, which targeted terror camps in Pakistan.

"A good chess player thinks several moves ahead. What he does not do is predict those moves to his opponent."— Oleksii Makeiev, Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, regarding the secrecy of arms deliveries.

"Yemen will not back down from continuing its support operations for the Palestinian people until the Israeli aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted."— The Houthi-controlled armed forces in Yemen said in a statement that the US’ 'aggression' against Yemen would 'only lead to further targeting, engagement, and confrontation.'

The United States needs to be able to 'blind' Chinese forces—in broad terms, to disable Beijing’s burgeoning conventional precision-strike capabilities before they can inflict significant damage on U.S. forces.— U.S. Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, in response to questions from the Senate Committee on Armed Services in February 2024.

"We knew quite a lot of the frequencies that they used. We would write it down in Morse code and then we had to change it into letters so it could be sent on the teleprinter to Melbourne."— Gwenda Garde discusses her experiences as a telegraphist during World War II.

"We probably broke all records of other countries for reload speed, and we are ready to keep doing it constantly to defend our country, as long as we have the missiles."— Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Kyrylo Peretyatko spoke in a video about the impressive performance of the NASAMS system.

If Taurus missiles are used against infrastructure targets in Russia, it will be considered Germany's direct participation in hostilities on the side of the Kyiv regime, with all consequences for Germany that arise from this.— Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, regarding the potential delivery of Taurus cruise missiles from Germany to Ukraine.

"Now that we are soon to possess large surface warships and submarines which cannot be anchored at the existing facilities for mooring warships, the construction of a naval base for running the latest large warships has become a pressing task."— Kim Jong Un during an inspection of the site for a new naval port.

"I am not convinced that Putin will respond positively to weakness and peace offerings; he must eventually recognize the hopelessness of this war - for that, we must help Ukraine."— Friedrich Merz, likely future Chancellor, in the ARD program "Caren Miosga".

"Iran does not want to do this, but ... it will have no choice."— Ali Larijani, adviser to Iran's supreme leader, regarding the need to acquire a nuclear weapon if attacked.

The region's governor, Roman Busargin, said the strike was the largest to date in the region.— Roman Busargin, Governor of the region, regarding the attack on the Engels-2 military base.