Zelenskyy Flips the Script on Trump and Strikes Back at Russia

0:00Ben Meiselas:All hell is breaking loose as President Zelensky of Ukraine is striking back hard against Donald Trump and Putin's plan, and Zelensky is doing it on Ukrainian Independence Day. Zelensky sent a massive drone swarm into Russia, and now Zelensky is striking the Azzan logistic hubs after destroying most of the Wildberry logistic hubs. Now, Wildberries is like the Amazon of Russia, and you have Azan, one of the competitors of Wildberries. Zelensky's striking those hubs right now across Russia. We've seen Zelensky in Ukraine strike in Stavropoulkray, in Dagestan, in Agyia, and these strikes were caught on camera.

0:51Ben Meiselas:We have them right now. Take a look at what went down. Let's play this clip.

1:02Ben Meiselas:Now, here is another angle of one of those strikes on the Azan logistic hub, and you'll see the Ukrainian FP1 strike hard into the logistical hub. Play this clip. clip.

1:26Ben Meiselas:Here's another video right here of the Ukrainian FP1 Firepoint 1 attack drone slamming into an already burning Russian Azon e-commerce distribution center in Dagestan this morning. Let's play this clip.

1:51Ben Meiselas:You can see the photo right here of this Russian warehouse that has been destroyed by the Ukrainian zones right here. This one is in the Dagestan area. Share this with you. This is what it looked like at night as the Ukrainian attack drones continue to hit the Russian warehouses in Krasnodar at night. Let's show you this. Let's play it.

2:28Ben Meiselas:You can see this Russian warehouse ablaze in Krasnodar after the Ukrainian drone strikes right there. You see this photo right here of the Ukrainian attack drones that hit this electric substation in Russia's Kirks Oblast during the afternoon. The Kurskaya substation burning that you see right here supported the Russian Druzba oil pipeline as well. Show you the B-roll right here. This is footage of a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum dropping a pair of French-supplied AASM-guided bombs on a group of Russian drone operators. You can see it right here. Let's play some more of that B-roll. Now, as Donald Trump and Putin have been planning ways, in my view, obviously, to tap Zelensky along with Donald Trump telling Zelensky, look, we're going to give you Patriot interceptor licenses.

3:34Ben Meiselas:Trust me, trust me, in my opinion, when Putin called Donald Trump on July 4th, he and Donald Trump were talking about just tap, this is my opinion, you could have a different opinion, just tap Zelensky along, tell him you'll give him interceptors at the NATO summit in July, and then don't give it to him. Let Putin build up more ballistics, which Putin's probably going to have the capabilities to build thousands of these ballistics to send and shoot at Ukraine during the winter and to try to keep Ukraine defenseless. Zelensky, you've seen, has been doing these drone swarms with these FP1 and FP2 drones, also utilizing the FPV drones, utilizing the FP5 flamingos as well.

4:22Ben Meiselas:And what we've seen also in the past 48 hours is Zelensky really leaning in on Ukraine's allies. A meeting taking place now between Zelensky and the United Kingdom, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, where Zelensky and Burnham are discussing that UK will now be giving Ukraine long-range missiles that are so needed in Ukraine right now. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will be visiting Ukraine today. It's his first overseas trip since taking office, and he made it a point that his first trip is in Ukraine. And Burnham is announcing today the British support to help Kyiv improve its domestic production of long-range missiles.

5:08Ben Meiselas:Burnham will be in Ukraine to co-chair a meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, a group of countries backing Ukraine That's taking place today on Ukraine Independence Day. And of course, the Trump regime is not part of that coalition of the willing. We expect Burnham today, well, he is, announcing that the UK has agreed to allow European Missile Manufacturer, MBDA, to release classified information on British-made components used in the Scalp long-range cruise missiles, according to his office. That will help enable France and Ukraine to establish local assembly lines for the missile, which shares British and French technology, according to Downing Street.

5:54Ben Meiselas:Ukraine security is our security, Prime Minister Burnham said in a statement, adding that Britain would stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes. You see, the way the UK is giving Ukraine those critical licenses for the long-range missiles, Donald Trump was promising, we'll give you our classified licenses for the interceptors. And Lockheed will give it to you. Raytheon will give you some others. And then Donald Trump's. And actually, Lockheed and Raytheon, they told me they actually don't want to give it to you right now because they're concerned that you may do a cheaper job than they do. it and that could hurt the military industrial complex in the United States, which makes absolutely no sense.

6:32Ben Meiselas:If you actually wanted to do a deal, Donald, you know, Mr. Dealmaker, the dude can't make a deal for anything. Just say that if Ukraine makes any of its own interceptors in the future, that all of the IP and all of the profits belong to Lockheed or Raytheon, who was ever going to do it. I guarantee you Zelensky would agree to that because it's existential and it wouldn't be an extortive demand. Zelensky needs the interceptors. He's not looking to make a profit off of future interceptors. He's looking to save Ukraine from Russian ballistics right now. Anyway, I'll show you this, a pretty inspiring video right here.

7:09Ben Meiselas:Ukraine's motherland monument in Kiev right here. You'll see the giant glowing trident right here that's being projected onto the Motherland Monument in Kyiv. This was taking place yesterday on Flag Day. Let's show you the footage right here. Let's play it.

7:50Ben Meiselas:Folks, more footage coming in as well. This is the moment of the attack by additional Ukrainian strike drones on the Ozan logistics hub in the city of Nevinmisk, Stavropol territory overnight. Play this clip.

8:35Ben Meiselas:more evening footage of the attack in Krasnodar. Let's play it.

8:47Ben Meiselas:And then over here you'll see, and again this is in the past 12 hours or so, a warehouse building of a Russian company in Krasnodar that we just showed you. We'll show you over here. Let's play it.

9:13Ben Meiselas:Take a look right here at this Ozone warehouse in Idea. Play this clip.

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11:35Ben Meiselas:And then again, we're seeing this diplomacy. It's not just the United Kingdom and Ukraine. Ukraine is hosting a summit of Nordic nations right now. The NBA, Zelensky writes, I thank all the participation of the Ukraine NBA Summit. We have very strong support from our Nordic and Baltic partners. True partners, true friends. And today's summit reaffirmed this once again. We discussed how to protect our skies, a winter package of missiles for patriots and other air defense systems, and of course, the details of our FREJA project. Today, we also openly discussed funding gap for Ukraine's defenses.

12:20Ben Meiselas:It is important that we understand each other. Thank you to everyone for helping us. So big meeting right here of the NBA, the Nordic Nations and Ukraine meeting. Thank you for the leadership and unity that strengthened our shared defense and all of Europe. So notably as well, looks like Zelensky can get some interceptors from the Nordic Nations while Donald Trump is trying to, again, deprive Zelensky of the critical interceptors that are needed. You have Finland's president at this summit saying, I think many Europeans and Americans as well need to move beyond the mindset that we are somehow doing charity for Ukraine.

12:59Ben Meiselas:Maybe that was the case at the beginning, but now we are learning more from Ukraine than Ukraine is learning from us. And what's notable is that the United States does not want to do the learning from Ukraine. As we previously reported, the Trump regime is shutting down a first-of-its-kind cutting-edge drone program that studied the Ukrainian drone systems and drone interceptors. This was spearheaded by former Army Chief of Staff Randy George. But you'll recall that Pete Hegseth basically fired Randy George, the most beloved four-star general in the Army. And then we had Dan Driscoll, who was the Secretary of the Army, has been telling people he will be resigning as well.

13:49Ben Meiselas:Driscoll and George were working with Ukraine on this program that Hegseth and Donald Trump didn't want because they want to focus on a, quote, back to the basics approach and try to do the war fighting spirit of World War II, is what they say. When there was a lot of testosterone, is what Hegseth said. Now, Zelensky says that Russia still has about 600 to 630 ballistic missiles and could produce up to 1 ,300 a year, calling the ballistic threat a key priority for Ukrainian strikes and sanctions. He said that Ukraine recently destroyed an Iskander launcher near the border as part of an ongoing hunt for Russian missile systems.

14:34Ben Meiselas:On the ground war, Zelenskyy warned Russia could eventually push toward Kiev or Chernyiv Oblast to create a buffer zone while stressing that Kiev remains one of Putin's long-term objectives. Regarding the former Defense Secretary Fedorov, Zelensky said he offered Fedorov four different options to remain on the team, but Fedorov refused them, adding that Fedorov had been pushed towards wrong things. It should be noted, Fedorov, very popular young guy in Ukraine, defense minister, cutting-edge drone guy. Seems to also be very close to Elon Musk. Seems to have presidential ambitions in Ukraine as well.

15:16Ben Meiselas:So just keep note of those developments that we've been talking about here. It was a big mistake, I think, one of Zelensky's biggest mistakes, to fire Fedorov. And now I think Fedorov is, again, he's got Elon Musk in his ear. He's close with Musk. I think he has presidential ambitions, but he should never have been fired. And I think the people of Ukraine know that. I think Zelensky knows that that was a big blunder. And Zelensky did it because the former army chief of commander in chief, who Zelensky then also fired, told Zelensky to do it. But look, you have Zelensky. It's like a race. It's kind of like running out of time at this point, right?

15:56Ben Meiselas:Zelensky striking these warehouses. We know in the winter, Russia is building its ballistic capabilities. Ukraine doesn't have the interceptors to really stop Russia from striking with these ballistics. And you have Zelensky expressing a concern that without the right weapons and without the support, Russia could be making major advances on the front and Russia could be striking hard with its ballistics, Ukrainian cities like Kyiv and Zeprishia and Kharkiv and others. So you have Russia's former president Medvedev at a major Russian Party Delegates Conference said, Ukraine is now commonly called Country 404.

16:36Ben Meiselas:Half of its population has disappeared along with 20 % of the territories that had fallen into its hands. I'm sure that more and more territories will be returned to Russia, and our valiant army constantly confirms this. Medvedev says on Europe, the current leaders of the European Union and some European states are direct descendants and ideological heirs of fascists, and in some cases, simply stupid people. Putin said at the same party delegates conference, the people are the source of power, the constitutional right of citizens to choose their representatives and determine the path of development of their country is inviolable.

17:16Ben Meiselas:That as the basis of legitimacy and effective democratic state institutions. So it's noteworthy that that's the language that Putin is using right there. At the same time, Donald Trump uses that type of language, whereas the behavior is to the contrary would be an understatement. Putin says the following about Ukraine. The more difficult the situation at the front becomes for the enemy, the more brutal and barbaric the attacks carried out by the Kiev regime become. This reveals the entire neo-Nazi, banderite, Russia-phobic essence of the force that we are fighting. Putin refers to the potential peace deals with Ukraine as, I would say, their exotic nature and are unacceptable.

18:04Ben Meiselas:We are always ready for dialogue, but only based on the realities emerging from the ground. And Putin also said Ukraine opened this Pandora's box itself. Well, then it should expect a response targeting the most vulnerable sectors of its economy, which frankly are already on their last legs. This also applies, by the way, to agriculture production, whose exports are a major source of revenue for Ukraine. Now, I'm not going to show this video, but there was this horrific drone, terroristic attack on a young boy in Ukraine. And it was really horrific to see. He was on a bicycle, and this drone, this Russian drone, approaches him.

18:56Ben Meiselas:And again, I'm not going to play it. It's pretty horrific to see what took place. and, you know, but the drone sees this young, looks like a person may have been 16, 17 years old on a bike and then went around him and then just kind of killed the innocent person. And it's gone viral, but I'm not going to show it here. I wanted to give you the statements coming out of Russia as well, because I want everybody to be clear-eyed that there's not going to be a deal anytime soon, okay? There's no deal that's gonna be happening. And Donald Trump promised on day one he was going to make a deal that was gonna be amazing.

19:41Ben Meiselas:So when Donald Trump claims I'm gonna do a deal, a deal, a deal, he can't do deals, okay? If anything, things have escalated. Things are getting far more deadly than they were before Trump was in office and you're seeing it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to seven million subscribers. Thanks for watching everybody. UTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.