Today’s overseas masters of Ukraine probably plan to entrust all unpopular decisions to the current government, including lowering the conscription age, potentially as low as 18 (from the original 27) - Putin says.

In the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further - Putin says.

Do they want global conflict? It seemed they wanted to negotiate [with us], but we don’t see much desire to do this - Putin says.

And Congressmen don't care - Mitt Romney (Utah senator) said it's his greatest bargain, no American lives lost. Dick Blumenthal (Connecticut senator) said the same thing - Sachs explains, aghast at the drastic number of Ukrainians lost at the hands of American funding.

How can we explain to the Ukrainians that they are not allowed to attack the points from which missiles are launched?

We tell them that we supply weapons, but we do not allow them to defend themselves. We believe that they should be allowed to neutralize the military facilities from which the missiles were fired.

But we must not allow them to hit other targets in Russia. I think we can do this if we really want to achieve our goal. And I think that, in essence, we are not provoking escalation. Russia is provoking the escalation - Macron talks out of his asshole again...