The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said gasoline prices will rise by 260 yuan ($38.76) per tonne and diesel by 250 yuan ($37.27) per tonne, citing escalating US-Iran tensions as a key factor.

Ukraine is number one in drone technology in the world — in terms of quantity, quality, and pricing.

We built an industry like this in four years. This used to be almost entirely state-controlled.

Today, more than 80% is made up of private companies.

And war, you see, besides all the negatives, also brought some positives for the industry during these years.

Very often Ukraine is pushed toward different arrangements so that Russia can be satisfied that Ukraine will never be in NATO.

We don’t know whether Ukraine will be in NATO or not.

Of course, we will fight tooth and nail to secure the strongest possible security guarantees for Ukraine by the end of the war.

Because the main thing is to end the war and to have guarantees that this war will not begin again.

If a war ends on the same lines where it began, what price did the enemy pay? What would deter him from fighting again?

The dead don’t interest them. You can say, "We killed 50,000 terrorists in Gaza" — it doesn’t interest them.

They aren’t like us, where the sanctity of life has value.

In my view, the basic principle is this: if you start a war against me, if you win, you gain. If you lose, you lose territory.

If every country in Europe were willing to take 20,000 or 30,000 Gazans, this whole story would be over.

But there is European hypocrisy here, and of course Egyptian hypocrisy.

There are no countries willing to absorb them in large numbers.

Ultimately, two million Nazis who for generations have been educated in deep antisemitic hatred of Israel cannot live there.

Ukraine can provide no less security in the future than Europe provides Ukraine today — through our experience and military technologies.

Ukraine is not asking someone to allow it to become a member of the EU.

The EU understands the necessity of Ukraine being in the EU on equal terms, because Ukraine brings its own type of investment into the EU — investment into the security of the European Union.

I am glad that Ukraine’s status has changed: from being a country asking for help, to becoming equal partners.

Ukraine is capable of responding to Russia’s operations — any operation.

Russia knows that if they strike — and they are preparing to strike our energy system in winter — Russia will receive the same in return.

If they create blackouts for us, we will try to respond in a worthy way.

This is a very costly process for the Russian Federation. Of course, it is costly for Ukraine as well.

War is expensive, but Russia is losing a huge number of people, completely disproportionate, certainly compared with Ukrainian losses.

There is no army like Ukraine’s in Europe right now.

Of course, for now — Europe is developing and will receive information, technologies, and experience from us through partnership.

But there is no such army anywhere in Europe.

If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I would be okay with it. Japan does it. But they hire our people.

The big thing is they hire our people. In fact, they use our people.

People say he spies on us but we spy on him too. We are good at it also. We get along.

The fact we get along is a good thing. We do well with China now.

CDU is polling at just 6–8% with eight days to go, the party could miss the 5% threshold entirely and be locked out of the state parliament for the first time.

Lead candidate has distanced himself from Chancellor Merz, who was booed at his only campaign stop.

AfD leads at ~38%, with the race polarized into an SPD vs. AfD contest that's crushing the CDU in the middle.

This comes two weeks after AfD's 44% landslide in Saxony-Anhalt.