"Everything that Putin touches, dies."
-- oligarch Leonid Nevzlin, renouncing his Russian citizenship to protest the war

"Goebbels would appreciate that my own father doesn't believe me [that Ukraine is being bombed]."
-- Kyiv restaurant owner Misha Katsurin, re phone call to his father in Russia

"I think he's changed. It's a very sad thing for the world. He's very much changed."
-- Trump on Putin, yesterday

"My father would have called up and said, 'Vladimir, don't even think about it. Don't even try us. I'm telling you it's not going to work out very well for you.'"
-- Eric Trump

"There were many more tanks than I've ever seen. They're gonna keep peace all right."
-- Trump, on the invasion of Ukraine

"Don't forget. Ukraine hated me. They were after me in the election. They wanted Hillary Clinton to win."
-- Trump, 2019

"NATO is obsolete."
-- Trump, 2015

"It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson."
-- March 3rd directive to state media outlets from Russian Dept. of Information and Telecommunications Support

"The United States is training migratory birds to migrate from Ukraine to Russia and distribute bacteriological weapons."
-- Russian Defense Ministry

"Remember that Zelensky a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies."
-- Rep. Madison Cawthorn

"[Trump] really admired Putin and I saw that firsthand...I think he was afraid of him. I think the man intimidated him. Because he's a scary man, frankly. I also think he admired him greatly. I think he wanted to be able to kill whoever spoke out against him. He loved the dictators. He loved the people who could kill anyone, including the press."
-- Trump WH press secretary Stephanie Grisham

"The safety of civilians is the priority of our armed forces."
-- Russian state TV

"We are not planning to attack other countries. We didn't attack Ukraine in the first place."
-- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

"The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military. Much of that budget was stolen and spent on mega-yachts in Cyprus. But as a military advisor you cannot report that to the President. So they reported lies to him instead. Potemkin military!"
-- former Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev, on the Russian Army's poor performance in Ukraine

"Do you think Americans care about f***ing Ukraine?"
-- Trump's Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, two years ago

"Fake news."
-- Putin, on invasion reports

"[Russia] will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine."
-- Putin

"What [Russia] is doing in [Ukraine] is slaughtering innocent children, women, and men for its own gain. It's definitely not 'fighting Nazism.' Shame on anyone who's falling for this. (Sadly, we're kinda experts on Nazism.)"
-- statement by German embassy in South Africa