All Hell Breaks Loose as Zelenskyy Strikes Hard in Russia

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2:15Ben Meiselas:There they go. All hell is breaking loose once again as Ukraine, President Zelensky unleashed a massive drone swarm against Russian ships, against Russian infrastructure. Let me show you just what went down. In fact, this was the biggest strike yet against Russian ships. 28 Russian ships were targeted and successfully hit by Ukraine with a combination of their FP1 and FP2 drones. Get this, in the past six days, there have been 76 ships belonging to Russia that have been successfully targeted by Ukraine. You can take a look right here at the video that was just recently released by Zelensky, by the Ukraine defense forces.

3:07Ben Meiselas:Take a look right here. You can see as they count off each of the ships that was hit in the Sea of Azov, which effectively has been shut down, almost a Strait of Hormuz situation, if you will, in the Sea of Azov at this stage where a lot of Russian wheat and grain and other produce is shipped there. And Ukraine has again successfully targeted ship after ship. You can see in the video footage right there. I'll show you right now some FP2 drone footage right here. These are Ukrainian FP2s striking a Russian base on the Donetsk region as well. You can see that right here. Let me share with you this view from the shore of one of the targeted Russian ships right here.

3:57Ben Meiselas:Here's one of the tankers hit by Ukrainian drones in the Sea of Azov. Take a look over here. Now let me just show you what these drones look like as they are coming from the sky and they are smashing into Russian infrastructure, smashing into the Russian ships, smashing into refineries. I do want to note as well, Ukraine has also been using these unmanned vessels in the water as well. And then a little bit I'm going to show you in this video, some of the Russian strikes as well, because as I note, all hell is breaking loose. But let me show you the moment of the FP1, FP2 drone strikes on this Russian seaport right here.

4:42Ben Meiselas:Let's play it.

5:13Ben Meiselas:and now i will share with you what you're seeing right now as locals from the coast of the sea of azov right here are seeing these ukrainian drones strike the russian tankers what a image right here can you imagine people walking right there on the coast and this is what they're seeing this is becoming kind of normal in Russia right now here play this clip I'll show you this as well fires at the Russian port of Taganrog right here share with you some b-roll of this Russian port looks like some of the infrastructure there of course being successfully targeted by Ukraine. You go over there from the port of Tagnarok to the Ilsky refinery in Russia's Krasnodar region over here.

6:16Ben Meiselas:I just want you to think about this because we've been showing you how Ukraine has been targeting some of these refineries that hold some of the biggest refineries in Russia. This plant over here I'm about to show you play the b-roll processes around 6.6 million tons of oil per year it's export oriented and sits near uh some key black sea routes had to the special care sawn cat for aggregating and pointing this out you know and in terms of some of the black sea routes by novarisk by tubes by tommen you can see right over here let me share with you what it looks like as a russian mobile air defense group servicemen with a machine gun runs away the moment a ram 2 strike drone approaches share the b-roll right here you're going to see this drone as well striking a russia russian armored vehicle all the way on the arabat spot over here it's about 122 kilometers from the front line Over here, you'll see Ukraine hitting the Azov optical mechanical plant in the Rostov region.

7:29Ben Meiselas:This is a Russian defense industry site. This plant produces electronics, optics, thermal imaging systems, and seeker components used in Russian precision weapons, missiles, anti-tank systems, military vehicles. take a look right here at the Upsenka checkpoint on the border of the Rostov region this checkpoint has now been closed for at least a day I'll show you this footage right here from the port of Azov right here you can see for yourself we don't need to do b-roll we can actually just play this clip right here

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9:44Ben Meiselas:Now, separately, Russia has been attacking Kyiv with ballistic missiles. It should be noted that coming out of NATO, Donald Trump did at least say, we'll see what actually takes place, but he said that he would give the license to Ukraine to produce interceptors. as Donald Trump has got the United States in this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran with Netanyahu, which as you know, is escalating. The US has run low on its own munitions. Also, I think Trump has maliciously held Patriot interceptors from Zelensky. Zelensky can shoot down the Shahids given by Iran to Russia. They could shoot down some of the cruise missiles, but the ballistics, you need the Patriot interceptors.

10:29Ben Meiselas:And Trump has not delivered it to ukraine has not delivered it to europe to deliver to ukraine and so um ukraine's like let just give us the license like let us make it ourselves where we just let just give us the technology we'll we'll do it if the us can't do it um but you know we'll we'll wait to see if that gets delivered so overnight russia attacked kiev's uh to kiev and the civilian areas strikes and fires occurred in several districts of the city and the solomon's district and probsky district and others i'll run you through some of the b-roll right here so you can see what's happening in kiev you can see what's happening in karshan as you have drones and missiles from russia striking there as well photos from zapresia airstrikes lots of people injured in ukraine and zapresia you can see this site over there russia also hit the port infrastructure in odessa uh two truck drivers were killed two more injured um and uh you know so so so russia's striking there as well russia has also begun targeting gas stations in the kiev region uh we're seeing over there now one of the things coming out of this nato summit wall street journal did an article about it as donald trump increasingly believes that the tide of the battle is turning in ukraine is now launching this successful counteroffensive, at least according to lots of sources, but these sources often lie about a lot of things.

11:59Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is more willing to provide some of these interceptors, the technology to Ukraine. And Trump perceives it now that he, before Trump said, I thought Putin was going to win, so I'm a Putin guy, but he's a Putin putlicker for other reasons. And now he goes, well, I think Zelensky may be in the lead, so now I'm going to go there. You know, and the thing is, that's why you just got to lead with your morals and values and principles and be a real leader, you know. And, you know, now here we are after Trump says on day one, I would get this resolved. Now he's finally coming around to the view that, wait a minute, Ukraine's counteroffensive looks successful.

12:35Ben Meiselas:Now, Zelensky posted the following video. He writes, Russia's gasoline crisis is deepening quite justly in response to Putin's reluctance to end this war. We have put forward proposals on how to bring peace closer. and we have support not only among our partners around the world, but also with Putin's own circle. They understand what is happening and that peace has no alternative. This sentiment in Russia will continue to grow. Today, I signed a decree establishing a special command within the armed forces of Ukraine, a command for long range, effectively global impact on Russia over this war.

13:10Ben Meiselas:And you know, we've been reporting here how Ukraine's been using these FP5s, right? Those the flamingos and other drones that have been able to reach significant distances as well. Some of the drones, the FP5s rather, are the ballistics, the FP1, FP2, long range. They've been able to reach 2 ,500, 3 ,000 kilometers and hit major refineries as well. He says, I signed this decree. This command must concentrate 100 % of available resources on degrading Russia's warfighting potential even more. The commander in charge of this direction will be strong and certainly highly experienced. And then Zelensky also writes, I'm preparing changes across our diplomatic efforts.

13:57Ben Meiselas:We need a new quality of engagement with Ukraine's partners to ensure the implementation of our agreements on weapons supplies. This agreement reached at the leader's level must be implemented much faster and in full. the U.S. and our agreement on licenses for the production of patriots, Europe and our work to develop Europe's own anti-ballistic capabilities, as well as other projects specifically on defensive cooperation. Also, the support packages for Ukraine that have been announced, but as of today, have not yet been delivered in full. In other words, Zelensky saying we need to change this up because we get promised all of these things.

14:33Ben Meiselas:There's a successful NATO summit. Good announcements happen, right? Announce Trump likes to do announcements, but then the delivery doesn't happen. So we're going to make sure that we get the things that we're being told we're getting with new diplomatic engagement. As I noted, Russia has been striking Kiev, 11 people, including a child injured in Kiev last night after some Russian attacks over there. Also, Russia struck Odessa, Sumy, Kharkiv, and the Cherniiv regions. Russia launched over 120 drones and 12 missiles, half of them ballistics. The ballistics can't be really shot down until Ukraine gets the interceptors that it needs.

15:15Ben Meiselas:I want to share with you what Sweden's Prime Minister Christensen had to say. Let's hear what he says. Well, the irony is that while Russia is certainly not winning the war against Ukraine right now, that's quite obvious. Ukraine is having spectacular successes. Russia is not at all managing this war as they anticipated in the beginning. And obviously, the irony is, of course, that what does Russia do that is unwilling to negotiate but not able to win? And I think we are all prepared for a lot of different options. Now I'll show you what President Stubb of Finland has to say. Play this clip. Yeah, I think there are two elements to it.

16:01The first one is that he's doing quite well in terms of long distance strikes, both drones and missiles. We're seeing Russian oil refineries being hit and 40 % of their refining capacity going down. But the other part of it is the way in which Ukraine defends itself. And there he's absolutely right. He needs more air defense. He needs more patriots because we're seeing over 100 civilian buildings being hit just the other night with civilians dying. So this is something that we Europeans and Americans need to work on. On the other hand, you have Russia's PR person, Putin's kind of press secretary,

16:43Ben Meiselas:Peskov. Here's what he says about nuclear weapons on the Weltwalk show. And he says that we will, if anything threatens the existence of Russia, nuclear weapons will be used. Here's what he says over there our nuclear doctrine so and it stipulates the conditions for the usage of nuclear weapons it's very bold it's very understandable and it's very simple if something endangers the the idea of existence of russian state then nuclear weapons will be used otherwise now No. Otherwise, no. It's very important to understand that. So the rest of the statements are speculations. And then he says, Russia is too big to start a third world war, he says.

17:41Ben Meiselas:When it was started against us, we fought to the end, which obviously is another threat right here. Here play this clip. Russia is too big and too responsible country to be an initiator of a third world war. United States knows the possible consequences of the war as well. Plus, we have relatively good dialogue. We are not good in our bilateral relations because they are stuck. They are on a zero level, bilateral relations. But despite that, we are clever enough to talk to each other.

18:32We are too big and too powerful in terms of mutual deterrence to be at war. But there is Europe.

18:46And there are lots of crazy things in the heads of European politicians. For example? That Russia should be defeated strategically. We have to spend more and more money for our defense. and trying to spend more and more money for our defense, they are trying to get closer with their military infrastructure to our borders. Will any country tolerate that? No. A country will take measures of precaution. We're going to do the same. We're going to ensure our security. But we will never start a third world war. a strategy. We never started. We never started. Remember the history. But when it was started against us, we responded till the end.

19:39Ben Meiselas:There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Just wanted to bring you that footage. Shout out Jay and Keeve. Shout out Kershan Kat. Shout out so many great open source intelligence accounts that have done a great job posting a lot of this stuff as well. Max 26, great work. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at MidasPlus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, ad-free episodes of our podcast, and more exclusive content only available at MidasPlus.com.

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