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00:00The way this worked, by the way, is that there were a number of these big trucks like these kind of 18 wheelers you may see in the United States or so,
00:07or, you know, sometimes there's these big boxes on the back of the of a big hauling truck.
00:12And that's what a lot of these were. And I think Gary has a few images of some of those trucks.
00:17What they did is they drove them into certain areas inside of Russia and then they parked them by near a near one of the air bases.
00:25Now, what's being reported so far, interestingly enough, is that the guys who were driving were simply contract drivers.
00:31They had no idea what they were hauling. They didn't even know what was going on.
00:35Apparently, at least in one case, they were told park in this certain location and someone would come meet you or something like that.
00:41Then from apparently somewhere in Ukraine, maybe in Kiev, remotely through satellite links, then the drones were activated,
00:49which in like all likelihood could either mean that they had some kind of redundant link to be able to link to a drone operator from somewhere else through a satellite,
01:00or they had some kind of A.I. configuration to where all they had to do was launch the drones and then the drone itself,
01:06because they had done such reconnaissance and they knew where the bombers were located,
01:11that it went up and then it was able to identify where it was and then it would go and attack the planes.
01:15So either way you want to talk, it was amazingly spectacular.
01:20Interesting also, at least there are some anecdotal reports coming out of Russia,
01:24that in some of the places, some of the people, the Russian people actually saw these trucks and recognized what was going on,
01:32climbed up on the trucks and started destroying the drones before they even got out.
01:39And so that, yeah, that's one of the trucks right there.
01:41That's what I'm talking about, these kind of trucks.
01:43And so you see there, there was a drone literally coming out of the top of it right there.
01:46So you can see how, you know, how these things were launched.
01:50Apparently that was going on all over the place.
01:51These things take off to go in toward their targets, et cetera.
01:55And you can see the smoke in the background from that video image right there.
01:59There were, so far as what's being reported by the Russian media,
02:03there were five air bases that were attacked in this manner.
02:07One at Murmansk, one at Irkutsk, one at Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur.
02:15The Russians said that the attacks were repulsed at three of the bases, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur region.
02:24Those were apparently did not have any targets struck.
02:27You can see that map on the screen right there where a lot of these were.
02:31Literally, these things are all over the map in Russia.
02:33I mean, you're talking thousands of miles, thousands of miles from the front lines.
02:38So that's how a lot of these happen.
02:41Now, you see that in the middle of the screen there where it says Irkutsk.
02:45What we, evidence is so far is coming at this, at least on one of the targets there,
02:51that there was a truck that went inside Russia, and then it was loaded up and prepared inside Russia.
02:59So apparently when the truck itself came across the border, it was not loaded up.
03:03But then, obviously then, because of this 18-month preparation,
03:07apparently the Ukraine side was able to stockpile some of the drones themselves,
03:13the facilities that needed to do it, because they put this basically on the top of those trucks that you saw a minute ago.
03:18So even inside the truck, you wouldn't see anything.
03:21But apparently up in the roof, there was an image or a cavern where all the drones.
03:27I don't know if we have any of those screenshots.
03:30I've seen a number of pictures where you could see how those drones were actually launched in there,
03:35so that once the tops of those trucks opened up, then they were able to fly out like that.
03:39So any way you want to look at it, this was a pretty remarkable operation.
03:43But at the end, we're getting into the issue here of what is the significance of it.
03:48Now, many in Russia are calling this their Pearl Harbor moment,
03:52because they view this as this, you know, you came out of nowhere, you hit us with all this stuff.
03:58And because, like I said a minute earlier, don't want to forget this,
04:02in addition to the airfields that were hit, because that's what's getting all the main prints in the Western media especially,
04:08but there were also two separate rail incidents in the southern part of Russia, not too far from the –
04:15well, one was in the Bryonsk area.
04:17That's one right there that you see.
04:20The other one was in the Korsk area.
04:22And in this particular one here, as I understand it, the train was going down the track,
04:28and the bridge fell on top of it, which derailed it.
04:32And at the moment, they said there were seven people killed and quite a number of others wounded.
04:37Now, bear in mind, this was a passenger train.
04:40This was not a military train.
04:42And so that's one of the things that certainly is making the Russian side really angry
04:47and why they're calling this a Pearl Harbor moment.
04:49They're saying this wasn't even a military train, a military transport.
04:52It was just a civilian passenger.
04:54So the bridge was clearly timed to drop so that it fell on top of the train as it came through.
05:00In the other occasion, in the other place in the Korsk area, apparently the – yeah, that's the other one there.
05:06The train was on the bridge, and the bridge was taken out while the train was going across it.
05:12I actually don't have any knowledge at this point.
05:14I haven't been able to research it to find out did that – was that a military train,
05:18or was it also a passenger train?
05:19That I'm not sure about.
05:21I'll have to check into that.
05:22Hopefully, we can get that to you in the morning.
05:25But this – these damage here, these are causing some problems for the Russians at the front.
05:30This is one of the successes that the Ukraine side has had because a lot of these rail lines here
05:35are used to reinforce the Russians on their offensive, especially in the Sumy area
05:40and along the northern front, partially also in the Kharkiv area where the Russians are attacking in there.
05:48But listen, you've got to understand, again, just before I came on air here,
05:51I was looking at some of the Russian media, and there's already images of people,
05:55some just regular people helping out, the officials, they're already starting to clear the rubble,
06:01and they're going to try and repair these bridges.
06:05And, you know, especially when you get into wartime, folks, when you're motivated,
06:09you may recall during World War II, you know, especially in the Germans,
06:13we kept bombing bridges all the time, or in Vietnam we would bomb bridges,
06:16Korea we would bomb bridges, knock them out, and then they would figure out how to get them up
06:20within days to have them function.
06:22You know, you don't have to get it perfect like you will in a civilian time here,
06:25but if they need to, they can get this stuff repaired rather rapidly.
06:28So I think this is going to be a temporary success for the Ukraine side.
06:32It may slow down the Russians, but, of course, they have plenty of logistics already on the front line there,
06:37so it's not going to run out, and there are alternative means.
06:40But it's going to make it a lot more complicated in the south there.
06:43But all this together has made a lot of Russians angry.
06:47Some of the anger, I'll point out, is actually at the Russians themselves.
06:51I've seen a lot of comments on some of the Russian social media
06:54that they've said, hey, props to the Ukraine side.
06:57They caught us with their pants down.
06:59We were not prepared for this.
07:01The sophistication that was involved with both with technologically with how the system operated,
07:05the secrecy that it got in there, nobody was able to talk about it,
07:09and it had significant damage to our bomber forces in the north.
07:14So, you know, they give props to that.
07:16Then some of the anger is turned toward the Russians because they're saying,
07:19how could we not be ready for this?
07:21We know that the danger of drones, we know that this is possible.
07:24And for many times, there's been long-range drones struck throughout Russia.
07:28So this is not the first time that a deep strike inside Russia has been successful.
07:33There have been, you may recall, several months ago, we showed you there was actually a whole series
07:37of oil facilities and oil refineries inside Russia that were hit by drones that got through.
07:42So you would think, especially your strategic nuclear bomber force,
07:47that you recognize that that's a high-value target for the enemy because a lot of these are also,
07:52it's not just nuclear weapons they fire.
07:54They're also firing a lot of these long-range weapons and cruise missiles that have been firing into Ukraine.
07:58So they know that that's going to be a high-priority target.
08:02And a lot of the questions are, I think, pretty valid.
08:05You know, why didn't you have, you know, drone defenses set up?
08:08Why don't you have the netting that you may see on some of the front lines here?
08:12I've shown you and talked to you about how some of the logistic lines that actually both sides use now,
08:18they have these literally massive nets, fishing nets or other kinds of nets,
08:23that they will almost have a tunnel of in the resupply locations in the tactical area
08:28so that the FPV drones can't fly through and hit the trucks.
08:31Or if they do, they blow up in the netting, not on the truck here.
08:34And people are asking, why didn't you do that with our bomber forces?
08:38Now, apparently, all the news isn't bad from the Russian side because, at least from what they're claiming,
08:42three of the airfields that were attacked did not succeed.
08:45So they were able to stop some of those from hitting.
08:48So it's not all bad, but, you know, the Russians aren't happy about that.
08:51But the rest of the Russian anger, the majority of it, is actually focused on the Ukraine side.
08:59Because they said, okay, in some of the op-eds that I saw, or one of the op-eds that I saw just before we came on air here,
09:06has said, this is it.
09:08We shouldn't even do any diplomas anymore.
09:10We've reached out a hand that we've been willing to consider a diplomatic into this,
09:15that he didn't use the term, but the ones I use, ugly terms.
09:18But it's a negotiated settlement that would end the fighting.
09:21And instead, Ukraine does this.
09:23And so they're saying, all right, when we meet together in Istanbul,
09:26and by the way, both parties have gone.
09:28And the Umarov is leading the delegation from the Ukraine side.
09:32Apparently, he's already on set.
09:34Madinsky is leading the Russian delegation.
09:37He's actually, Gary actually has some video of him on set.
09:40So, you see there, he's on set, and of course, the first question everybody's going to be asking him,
09:58because that's where all the Western cameras are, is what do you think about these strikes,
10:01and what are you going to do?
10:02And he's basically waving them off, and we'll talk about that tomorrow.
10:06He mentioned a memorandum there.
10:07There has been some debate going back and forth and aggravation on the two sides.
10:12Russia said because of the first meeting they had in Istanbul between the two sides a couple of weeks ago,
10:18they agreed that they would give each side a memorandum that listed basically a term sheet.
10:23This is our entry-level terms for what we want.
10:26This is what the Ukraine side would give, and then they said they would exchange them.
10:30Well, for some reason, and I don't know if it was agreed to or not, and Russia changed it,
10:33but the Ukraine side believed that Russia would give it to them before the meeting.
10:38But Russia said, and they were clear about this before, they said,
10:41we will give you the memorandum at the meeting.
10:43That's the point in their view of the working-level meeting,
10:46whereas apparently the Ukraine side already gave their call sheet to at least the United States,
10:52and Russia hasn't given it to anyone, and Modensky still hasn't.
10:55The media that I looked at just before coming on air again,
10:58they reiterated that they're not sharing that with anyone.
11:01It's not even in the Russian media, they're not sharing what it is,
11:03but I don't think it's very hard to figure out what it is,
11:06because Russia's been pretty consistent in what they've been looking for from the outset.
11:10Now, the question's going to be, what is going to happen as a result of this?
11:13How will all of these actions impact what the negotiating teams are going to say?
11:18Potentially, one reason they aren't saying anything about the memorandum now
11:21is because maybe they'll change it before tomorrow,
11:24because one of the things the Russians have been saying of late
11:27is that what was going to be in this memorandum
11:30is going to be the harshest terms that there's been offered to date,
11:34with the caveat that if these diplomatic offers aren't taken,
11:39then the next time, if there is a next time, it's going to be worse.
11:43Now, you saw, if you watched our shows last week,
11:46and again, we ask you to subscribe to our channel if you're new to us here,
11:50because you get stuff like this as it's breaking.
11:53We give you this kind of information here that, frankly,
11:56almost no other Western outlets are producing,
11:59and we do this all the time.
12:01We've got the great team here with Gary Villapiano behind the camera
12:04and in the research department.
12:07And what they have said is that what Medvedev said
12:10in one of our shows last week is this is the last chance.
12:13He said that he was interviewed, not interviewed,
12:15but he was given a speech in front of a legal forum,
12:19and he said this is the last chance for peace right here.
12:22You had Nabinzia, Ambassador Nabinzia,
12:25at the United Nations Security Council just a few days ago,
12:28said that this is it.
12:30This is the chance for negotiated settlement.
12:32And if we don't get our terms at the negotiated settlement,
12:36then it's going to be won on the battlefield.
12:38He just straight up said it.
12:40That's not an interpretation.
12:41That's not what he kind of meant.
12:43He expressly said we will win on the battlefield.
12:46So we already knew where Russia's head was heading into this.
12:49So then you've got to think about the Ukraine side.
12:52If they're doing any kind of rational cost analysis,
12:56cost-benefit analysis,
12:58looking at the balance of power between the two sides,
13:01who's got the most manpower, ammunition, aircraft, air defense,
13:07intelligence, all those things,
13:09then obviously it's off the chart.
13:11Russia's way up in the top.
13:13Ukraine's way down on the bottom.
13:14Anyone can do this kind of an assessment if you have any intelligence at all.
13:18It doesn't take heart.
13:19So if you know where the Russians are diplomatically heading into this,
13:24then what would be the benefit to you to have this high-profile strike
13:30on the eve of the next direct discussions?
13:34I mean, is there some kind of, I don't know, psychosis or just detachment from reality
13:43that, like that analyst on France 24 there,
13:47where you think that this is going to send a message
13:49that is going to make the Russians back down?
13:52I mean, that would be irrational, especially for anybody in Ukraine.
13:55Nobody knows the Russians better than the Ukrainians,
13:58certainly better than anybody in the West.
14:00I mean, they were part of the Soviet Union together.
14:02They've been fighting in one form or another since 2014, et cetera.
14:05So there shouldn't be any doubt about what the Russians believe
14:09and what they think and what they're capable of.
14:13Look, you just got to say it.
14:15I can't get into anybody's mind.
14:17I don't have any access to behind the scenes of anybody anywhere.
14:21But just looking at this situation here,
14:23because of the knowns, the things that we know about,
14:27what Russia is overtly saying,
14:29and what we can physically count with the balance of power, et cetera,
14:33that if you were willing, if you wanted to have peace,
14:37if you wanted the war to come to an end and you knew you couldn't win militarily,
14:41then you would calm things down.
14:44Remember, all these strikes, by the way, that President Trump talked about,
14:46he was so angry about last week, coming from Russia against Kiev.
14:50Well, he either wasn't aware or, I don't know, just disregarded.
14:55I don't know, but those drone strikes were going back and forth between the capitals.
14:59Both sides were doing it for many, many days in a row.
15:02There was hundreds going in one direction, hundreds going in the other.
15:05The war was ongoing.
15:08If you want to end the war and you realize now after closing in on three and a half years of fighting
15:15that you can't even stop Russia and there's no chance that you could ever push them back,
15:19so then you want to say, all right, well, what's the best we can get out of this?
15:22Let's get a negotiated settlement, keep as much terrain as we can,
15:25and preserve as much of our own freedom and independence as we can
15:30so that we can rebuild and have some sort of a life.
15:33That's what a rational person would do.
15:36But if you didn't want the war to come to an end,
15:39if you actually wanted it to continue on,
15:42then in light of the known balance of power imbalance between the two,
15:47then you would do some kind of a high-profile thing
15:50that would be intended to spawn a bigger reaction on the Russian side.
15:56And look, the evidence is there.
16:00The strikes did happen.
16:02They were planned for a long time.
16:04They were clearly connected with those two train strikes on top of it.
16:09And look, I think that it's pretty clear that the Russians are not going to take this line down
16:14because they have the power to do something about it.
16:18And I think that what may come out is that this meeting tomorrow,
16:25I think it's not out of the realm of the possibility that instead of giving them a memorandum,
16:31they may give them an ultimatum.
16:33They may say, this is your final chance here.
16:35You either submit to the terms on this sheet or the next thing is going to be,
16:40we're going to have a meeting at the presidential palace in Kiev
16:42and we're going to physically show up with our army.
16:45That's what could happen.
16:46It's entirely within the character of Russia to do that.
16:50They have done it before.
16:53In the Second World War, there came a point.
16:55I think I perceive and I calculate that it was really the Battle of Kursk in 1943
17:00which tipped the scales irrevocably against the Germans.
17:04At that point, from that point forward, there was no going back.
17:08And then you had the Potsdam Congress and the allies altogether,
17:13it wasn't just the West because it included the Soviet Union at that time.
17:15They said, now we're just going on to build full victory.
17:18That's all there's going to be.
17:19We're just going to go for unreserved surrender for the German side.
17:26That's what they're going to go after here.
17:28And then they did.
17:28And then they went all the way through and the Battle of Vagration
17:31was kind of the last throw to it.
17:35And there's many in Russia who want exactly that kind of strategy now.
17:41So if the West and Ukraine were actually trying to get this done
17:47to where they wanted to say, hey, we want the war to continue
17:51because maybe in the mind of some, and we've had some on our show who speculate
17:55that there are those in Europe that actually want to drag this out
18:00because they don't want to have the Trump version where there's a negotiated settlement
18:04and the war gets off the table and, you know, the two sides settle
18:07and basically Russia wins, they don't want that.
18:09So they wanted to drag out the war until Trump leaves
18:13and then hope that they get a Democrat on the other side,
18:15that it'll go back to the Biden way.
18:17That's what is, according to some sources that we've had on our show here,
18:21say about the European side.
18:24If that's what they think, and if Zelensky is in league with that,
18:29and they think, yeah, that's the best case,
18:30all we've got to do is just stay alive.
18:32We just have to avoid defeat, and then later on,
18:37I don't think there'll be a later on, folks,
18:41because there's no evidence that President Trump is going to say,
18:45yeah, I'm going to go ahead and go in, I'm going to facilitate that.
18:48Because for that to happen, Trump has to reverse course and say,
18:52all right, I'm going to support Ukraine.
18:55We're going to go back to the Biden era at times
18:56because that's what you'd have to have.
18:58You'd have to have all the ammunition that we can provide.
19:00A replacement for almost all the howitzers,
19:04many more than 31 M1 tanks,
19:06and then a whole bunch more striker vehicles
19:08and Bradley fighting vehicles, all kinds of things.
19:12You'd have to go back to large-scale investment,
19:15and obviously air defense missiles, Patriots, et cetera.
19:18All those things would have to go back in
19:19to even theoretically be able to say,
19:22we're going to go on to fighting for more than four years
19:25to try to get to another one.
19:27And Trump shows no evidence that he's willing to do that.
19:29You saw the Secretary of State and Senate testimony about a week and a half ago.
19:34He said, hey, folks, we don't have those kind of air defense capacities.
19:37We don't have any more patriots to give, and we're not going to.
19:41So there shouldn't be any delusion on that side.
19:44But again, I'm just telling you, I'm just assessing what we see,
19:48what we can count and what we know.
19:49And the evidence is really starting to look like that there is some delusion
19:55so far detached from reality that they are willing to take steps
20:00to make sure that Russia doesn't achieve a ceasefire,
20:03that Russia doesn't end up.
20:06So we're just going to have to wait and see how this unfolds.
20:11But, you know, I think some of the next thing here is that we're going to find out
20:16what President Putin decides to do.
20:19I mean, we'll see maybe as early as tomorrow about this diplomacy thing,
20:22whether there's an ultimatum given or not.
20:24And then many are saying, hey, well, there's a reason why Russia tested
20:28that Oresnik missile several months ago,
20:30and they've been producing them quite a lot in between now and then.
20:33And so some say that that may be the next time,
20:36because since these strategic targets were hit in Russia
20:39and they were big and painful,
20:41that there's going to be a big and painful strike in retaliation.
20:44Some are suggesting it won't be a tit-for-tat,
20:46which is kind of common in the Russian viewpoint,
20:49where they have done that diplomatically a lot,
20:51but that it will be like a 3X for a 1X.
20:54So whatever happened to the Russian side because of this Ukrainian attack
20:59could be threefold in retaliation on some big, important strategic target.
21:04And lest people think and buy into some of these Western commentators
21:08that the Russian side hasn't done a lot of these things because they can't.
21:12They haven't advanced any faster and farther than they have because they can't.
21:16All the targets that they've attacked, that's the best they can do.
21:19There is a lot of evidence to suggest that these are very carefully calculated decisions
21:24on the Russian side to minimize casualties on the Ukraine side,
21:28to maximize military significant strikes, but they have left things out,
21:33like the power ministries in Kiev.
21:36They have not taken out the SBU,
21:38and I think that's one of the more likely probabilities for targets
21:41because they took such bold credit for it.
21:44The presidential palace, the Rakov Narada, their parliament building,
21:48all those things have not been touched.
21:50I think the SBU was hit once a minor, but no real damage
21:53and certainly no sustained activities.
21:55And then there are other things too, intelligence services, et cetera.
21:58There's a lot of targets that could be gone after inside Kiev within their command structure
22:03and their headquarters that they haven't done yet.
22:05All those things could happen as a result of this.
22:08And, of course, from what we've seen anyway from this Oreshnik,
22:11it doesn't matter whether we're talking about patriot systems, THAAD, anything.
22:15We can't knock those things down.
22:17They're just coming in too fast, and they may even have maneuverable warheads, et cetera.
22:22And if that happens, folks, I mean, just probably, I think we can count on something big is going to come.
22:28I just, I think there's too much anger on the Russian side.
22:32There's been too many of them, even at the highest levels, thinking that they've been too patient.
22:36And then with this big kind of in-your-face strike here and something that will definitely hurt,
22:41Russia does have a big bomber fleet, but, man, you can't lose.
22:43Even if the lower number is rotten, it's 20 or 30 bombers and other military aircraft,
22:51that is a painful hit, one-day hit, tally.
22:54It's big.
22:55But the question is, how much more can the Russian side take without amping things up
23:00and expanding their target set?
23:03And I think that's what we're going to end up seeing.
23:06We'll wait and see how it goes out there.
23:08Again, just to kind of recap here, there has been significant attacks by the Ukraine side into Russia.
23:16The two delegations are in Istanbul right now.
23:19There will be scheduled meetings tomorrow.
23:21A lot of people are going to be watching.
23:23President Putin is meeting with the security officials in the Kremlin as we speak.
23:29So far, no statements have been made.
23:31We will definitely keep you up to date on all of this.
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