Putin is losing control of Russia and he’s not ready for what’s about to come.
Ordinary Russians are waking up to the fact that their lives are falling apart because of a war he chose to start and to head off a revolution, Putin is doing exactly what every dictator in history has done when the walls start to close in.
He’s taking it out on civilians, defenseless Ukrainian civilians.
But you see this kind something has changed.
Ukraine is now answering back.
Three straight nights of it and by the end of this video you will see exactly why Russia will be feeling that answer for a very long time.
First though, let me show you how Russians themselves are reacting because I promise you you’re probably never seen a footage like this coming out of Moscow.
This is a woman in Moscow explaining that she cannot fill up her car in a country with the second largest gas reserves on earth.
She can’t even use the internet because everything is blocked by Putin and she cannot even navigate to places she wants to go to because GPS doesn’t work because Putin is scared of Ukrainian drones.
All of it downstream of a war that never needed to happen.
Take a look at this clip.
>> I just wasted a whole day in Moscow.
I’m sitting right here and now my time is literally ticking.
I just have all my appointments, all my plans [ __ ] up for today because of the [ __ ] GPS.
I seriously don’t [ __ ] understand how anyone can live here.
I am just so upset.
A taxi is a 5-minute drive 1200 and even then I order one.
[ __ ] doesn’t show up and walking to it takes 15 minutes.
Is this even normal? I seriously don’t get it guys.
Why the [ __ ] live here right now? And I really can’t wait until I fly the [ __ ] out of here.
>> Why do people even live here? That’s a real question residents are now asking in Moscow, the largest city in Europe.
Nobody saw this coming, including Putin himself, when he started this war 4 years ago.
You see, all this time he had one domestic priority.
His goal was to keep this war away from the elites in Moscow and St.
Petersburg.
Whatever happened at the front lines, he did not care.
He wanted to keep the capital comfortable.
Well, now the walls are cracking and the timing could not be worse for him because things at the front are also cracking at this exact moment.
Russia actually lost ground for the second straight month in June.
The army that’s supposed to be grinding forward is actually losing the initiative.
Now, to be fair, the data does show that Russia is gaining ground in some places, but it’s losing ground in other places.
So, if you combine all this up, basically gains minus losses, Russia as a whole is actually losing ground compared to what it started with at the start of the month.
According to this report, Russia ended up losing around 40 square kilometers.
That’s a little bit smaller than the size of Manhattan.
But important to keep in mind that Putin is burning through 35,000 Russian soldiers a month.
That’s the casualty rate that Russia has been suffering for a very long time.
And recruitment cannot refill the ranks fast enough because soldiers are dying off so quickly.
So, what does that tell us? He’s losing so many people, more than a thousand a day, all the while losing ground on the front lines.
This is just not working out in his favor.
Now, a normal leader would probably look at this math and negotiate, but Putin looked at this and he did something else.
And this is something he’s been doing every single time in this war.
Every time he loses at the front, every time there’s trouble back at home, he reaches for the same trick.
Distract the Russian public with a major strike on Ukrainian military.
He calls it a military strike, but in reality, the missiles are landing on apartment buildings.
That’s exactly what happened on July 2nd, just few days ago.
This was one of the most horrific nights Ukrainian cities have ever seen in this entire war.
Russia launched around 500 drones and around 70 missiles of different types.
These missiles included Iskander missiles, KH-101, Calibers, guided aviation bombs, anything you can imagine.
Now, Ukraine actually did a pretty impressive job stopping the drones.
The problem were the ballistic missiles.
Ukraine simply doesn’t have enough air defenses to stop them all.
And the bulk of those missiles, about 28 of them, were aimed directly at Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, mostly at residential buildings.
Here’s President Zelensky talking about this.
The response to the aftermath of Russia’s strike is still ongoing in Kyiv.
First responders are clearing the rubble, searching for people, and providing assistance.
Damage has been reported at more than 20 sites across the city, most of them ordinary residential buildings.
There was also damage to an ambulance station, a research institute, a hotel, and businesses.
Now, as I’m recording this on July 4th, at least 30 people are confirmed killed with more than 90 injured.
Those numbers are likely going to go up because this was a massive attack.
Now, the Kremlin’s version, and this is actually coming from Kremlin spokesperson Peskov, he’s saying that Russia only struck military sites and that Putin himself actually knew about this attack and approved it before it happened.
Now, unfortunately, we know this is a lie because we have video evidence proving otherwise.
And the other half, Putin knowing about this in advance, well, that I kind of believe and we’ll talk about that in just a second.
But first, let’s debunk the lie that the Kremlin is pushing.
Here’s the aftermath of an apartment building that Russia hit.
Take a look.
>> Ще одне місце влучання.
>> Another strike site, a residential building and its courtyard.
These ruins you see are all that’s left of a children’s playground.
In fact, it’s hard to even recognize that this pile of twisted metal was once a playground where children were playing just yesterday evening.
>> Then on the same night in a different city in Zaporizhzhia, Russia hit another residential building and took out a swimming pool.
Luckily, we have footage from the CCTV camera.
Take a look.
And then yesterday Putin went on television and celebrated the strike.
He told the world essentially that he ordered the strike, it targeted Ukraine’s defense industry, and more strikes like these are coming.
Watch.
>> I order that the massive coordinated strikes on Ukraine’s defense industry infrastructure and the facilities supporting its operation be continued.
>> And this brings us to what we’ve been saying on this channel for a very long time.
Yes, Ukraine cannot stop every single ballistic missile that Russia fires, but that doesn’t mean this is the Ukraine of 2022.
When it comes to drones and even domestically built ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s capabilities have leapfrogged that of Russia’s.
And that is exactly what Ukraine reached for next.
The revenge actually started the very same night and it ran for 3 days, right through July 4th.
Russia will not be able to recover from this quickly.
Take a look at what I mean.
First, Ukraine’s unmanned system forces announced that their drones disabled 12 electric substations across Russian-occupied territory inside of Ukraine.
Most of these strikes landed in occupied Crimea, where Ukraine has been methodically working over military infrastructure for weeks now, and Russia has produced no answer to it at all.
This round, the operation spread wider though, into occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk.
This was definitely a major blow for Russian forces trying to hold on to this territory.
But, let’s be honest here, because this happened at the very same night, and I’m sure the operation had many moving parts that were planned way before Russia actually attacked Kyiv.
So, in reality, we cannot really call this revenge.
Fair point.
But, what happened over the next two nights was exactly revenge, no questions about it.
The very next night, Ukrainian drones went after Russian fighter jets, the same jets that were used in this attack that Russia carried out on July 2nd.
Take a look.
For the second time this week, Ukrainian security service has struck Russian aircraft at Saki Airfield and launched strikes on Hvardiiske Airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Seven aircraft storage hangars were hit at the Saki, which housed Su-30SM, Su-30, and Su-24 fighter jets and frontline bombers.
According to preliminary information, at least seven aircraft were destroyed or damaged.
Two hangars were also hit at the other airfield, which housed Shahed drones and aviation equipment.
Both these military airfields are one of the key airbases of Russian occupation forces in Crimea.
Russian tactical aircraft regularly take off from here, carrying out missile and bomb strikes on territory of Ukraine and supporting actions of Russian group in the southern direction.
This is the old strategy that armies use all the time.
Don’t chase the arrow, go after the archer.
And that’s exactly what Ukraine is doing by going after airfields and fighter jets.
Instead of going after ballistic missiles, which Ukraine has a harder time doing, they’re going after jets that are firing the ballistic missiles.
But, they’re not just stopping there.
They’re now also going after places which are manufacturing the arrows, aka ballistic missiles.
But, before we talk about that factory strike, let me show you the lights going out in Russia.
Because this is something Putin was not expecting.
Take a look.
A Ukrainian missile strike on the Russian city of Belgorod knocked out power and water across the city.
And the footage is genuinely something else.
One moment you can see the city skyline and then the hit happens and there’s blackness everywhere, from horizon to horizon.
Take a look.
Around the same time multiple Russian channels started reporting Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missiles flying deep inside of Russia.
Take a look at this flight path, by the way.
Take a look at how roundabout Ukrainian missiles are traveling to get to their target.
Of course, the target was the Votkinsk plant, which is a manufacturing facility that produces Oreshnik, the Yars, the Iskanders, and maybe some other ballistic missiles that Russia has been dropping on Ukrainian cities.
This was the factory that produces those arrows that we talked about.
Now, to me, before we get to the factory stuff, the path is interesting because this reminds me of something that happened last year at the G20 summit.
At the sidelines of that summit, US delegation and the Russian delegation had a meeting and during this meeting Russian foreign minister asked the US delegation to stop sharing air defense data, basically air defense routing data with Ukraine.
Russia was complaining that, “Hey, United States has been sharing all this data to Ukraine so they can find the path to avoid Russian air defenses and take down Russian refineries.
” This was in like August of last year.
And if you guys been following the news, you know that this is when Ukraine really started going after Russian refineries and they were like, “We could see those big booms happening almost every single week.
” A Russian refinery or a Russian oil depot was blowing up.
And Russia blamed the United States for this because Russia was saying, “Hey, you guys are sharing satellite data with Ukraine that’s making them easier to target our infrastructure.
” Now, I don’t exactly know if that’s still the case.
One thing is true that Ukraine doesn’t have the type of satellite access that the United States has, so it’s quite possible that US is still helping Ukraine take out Russian infrastructure, especially stuff that’s helping the Russian army.
And
this is why the path that this missile took is very interesting to me because clearly there’s a shorter path, a more direct path, but they purposefully flew this path because they knew it’d be harder for Russian air defenses to take it out.
So, definitely interesting.
But then again, that tag did not just stop there.
Ukraine also went after St.
Petersburg and destroyed Russia’s oil terminals in that city.
It’s a port city, so Russia uses it a lot to ship out oil.
But before we get to that attack, let’s take a quick break and look at some memes.
As you guys know, yesterday was 4th of July and I have some holiday memes for you first.
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Now, let’s start.
The first one is from a show that I’m sure some of you guys have seen.
It’s Parks and Rec.
Take a look.
The next one comes from the best show on this planet and I will not be taking any questions on that.
It is July 4th, 1776.
British are saying that, “Hey, just saying that you’re independent doesn’t make it true.
” This is when future president Thomas Jefferson says, “I didn’t say it, I declared it.
” Like Michael Scott.
Next meme, which basically explains the American spirit.
When someone ask you if you’re free for the Independence Day, you say, “I’m always free.
” And the last meme isn’t exactly a meme, but it’s a message and it’s a good one.
There’s nothing more American than supporting people who are fighting for their freedom, like people in Ukraine.
And on that note, Kyiv, a city that’s actually in the middle of an invasion, city that’s fighting off an invasion for Putin, well, they still celebrated with the United States.
Here’s the famous Motherland Monument in Kyiv lit up as an American flag for the 250th anniversary.
Take a look.
And then we also had President Zelensky put out a long message congratulating every single American.
Now, it is long.
You guys can pause and read the whole thing if you like, but I do want to read the first paragraph because it truly deserves to be read out loud.
Today marks the 250th anniversary of one of humanity’s brightest, strongest, and most influential dreams, the American dream of an independent, free, and prosperous nation that defends people’s freedom, faith, and the pursuit of happiness.
Ukraine celebrated with the United States the great milestone of 250 years.
At the same time, Ukraine was getting its payback on Russia.
So, let’s get back to the topic we were talking about.
Ukraine hit a major oil terminal in St.
Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city and Putin’s hometown, by the way, if you don’t know that.
In fact, St.
Petersburg is so far from Ukraine that the war was never actually supposed to touch the city.
And now it is touching the city, not in the way Putin likes.
Take a look at this aftermath clip.
Then we have another clip which tells us more than any battlefield map ever could.
A St.
Petersburg resident who’s close up to the strike basically describing what he’s seeing.
And he says it doesn’t feel real.
This is something he sees in movies and now he’s seeing with his own eyes and he just cannot believe it.
Take a listen.
>> I’ve never seen anything like this in real life.
It’s like a movie.
The fire looks unreal, like computer graphics, right? >> Now, as you guys know, a lot of this footage, the strikes, the aftermath, well, YouTube is not a fan of it.
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>> I think these are Russian soldiers that’s >> Yeah.
>> panicking around their drone.
>> Exactly.
And uh not to give some combat tips to the Russian soldiers, uh spread out, right? Don’t group together.
Keep apart.
But these guys are, you know, almost no military training.
See the one guy, he split.
>> [laughter] >> Right? The other guy just threw his rifle at the uh at the drone.
Uh you know, when you’ve got civilians, now these guys are have got all their kit on, right? That guy had his sleeping bag, he’s got his whole battle rattle on, and he’s moving in daylight.
Right? Which And this is what’s going to happen to every soldier moving across open terrain in daylight, you’re you’re going to get hit with a drone.
And the when you >> [clears throat] >> when you take people who are under-trained and you throw them into combat, when they are stressed, threatened, or they perceive some stimuli on the battlefield that may be fatal, they’ll group together.
Right? Cuz it’s basic human nature.
It’s lethal on the battlefield.
The only guy who lived through this was the dude who faded back and then hid himself.
That’s These guys should have just gone in different directions.
But, hey.
>> I think this is a North Korean troop.
>> Wow.
Well, again, the guy’s taking a shot.
Uh You know, the the I I have observed training uh for Ukrainian drone operators.
One of their exercises is they get a couple guys and they bring the drone in and the guys weave and bob and run around and twist and turn back and forth.
And that’s actually kind of effective.
It will at least delay the drone getting to you.
Uh but, we can see that these Russian soldiers, like why don’t they do that? Why don’t they drop their pack and start moving around? You know what? They’re at diminished physical capability.
They aren’t fed regularly.
They don’t get water.
They don’t get medical attention.
None of them has the sense to, you know, the seals wear lines of gear, right? Your first line of gear is basically your weapon and your pistol and your survival kit.
And your second line of gear is your radio, extra ammunition.
Third line of gear is that big heavy pack.
So, we are trained that if the [ __ ] hits the fan, you drop the heavy heavy stuff and keep your fighting stuff.
But, you know, this guy is waddling around like the sporting goods department at Walmart, right? He does He He He just they don’t have a chance.
Cuz they’re not trained.
>> Yeah.
>> And these guys are typical slice of life of random selection of Russian infantrymen, and we see how they do here.
The other thing is, hey, is it possible to knock a drone out of the sky with your rifle? Yeah, it is, if you know how to shoot.
>> No practice.
>> Right, no practice.
>> And do we know how big the blast radius is? It’s pretty small, right? So, if you get enough fire at >> Yeah, I would I would say if it’s a armor-piercing shape charge adequately configured, look, you’re you’re looking at a I don’t know, 50-ft blast radius.
I wouldn’t want to be within 50 ft of it.
>> Oh, that’s actually pretty big.
>> You know, that’s not the biggest thing, but it’s you know >> Yeah.
>> And look, so you’d probably be wounded at 50 ft, but that’s that’s we consider military blast radius where somebody’s going to get hurt.
You know, so the kill radius would probably be I don’t know, 10 ft, I would say.
So >> These are just $500 drones.
That’s what’s so insane.
>> That’s what’s insane, and you know the philosophical part of this isn’t lost on me.
There’s a human being being hunted down by a robot.
And right now there are generally, not always, there’s an operator in the loop.
Right? But there are capabilities that they have that that drone on patrol using algorithms will lock onto a heat source circle it and kill it.
No human in the loop.
So, you know that’s you know, that gives you pause, I think.
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