Margarita Simonyan

"We need to be ready for this war, which is inevitable, and which, of course, will start from Ukraine. For this, we need a Stalinist program of mobilization in order to sew up, sew up, sew up these vulnerabilities quickly, quickly. Because I dont want us to be too enamored of our capabilities."

"This can only end with an immediate threat that is voiced and presented, a threat of a nuclear confrontation."

"It will be a war of infrastructure, and in this sphere, we have many vulnerabilities."

"A button is pushed, and suddenly the lights go out in Voronezh. The pipes freeze and there is no heating. Then, from the other side, a button is pushed, and the lights go out in Harlem, or in Florida."

"So that it is understood, yes, in a hot war, we would defeat Ukraine in two days. What is there to defeat? My god, its Ukraine. We suppress their firing points, as we discussed during the commercial, and then we wont even have to bomb their unfortunate cities. God forbid that it ever come to that."

"It is the most difficult and the toughest because it is the first war in our history in which we have no allies at all."