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00:00:01Donetsk has been the key battleground of the war in Ukraine for years.
00:00:052026 was the year it would fall, Russia declared.
00:00:08Just like 2025 and 2024 and 2023.
00:00:12And you get the picture.
00:00:13With the collapse of its spring and summer offensives,
00:00:15Russia has already seen its forces get bogged down in the Donetsk quagmire,
00:00:19but it never saw what Ukraine would do next.
00:00:22A symphony of destruction has been unleashed.
00:00:25Operation Vivaldi has been launched,
00:00:27and it has already resulted in Ukraine scoring some of its biggest victories of the war in years.
00:00:31There's more to come.
00:00:33Season one of four is completed, and it's already devastated Russia.
00:00:37On September 15th, the commander of Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps,
00:00:41Brigadier General Andriy Beletsky,
00:00:43officially revealed that Ukraine has launched an offensive operation
00:00:46in the Donetsk region with two key goals.
00:00:48Dismantle the infiltrators and push Russian logistics so far back
00:00:52that they can't serve Putin's Donetsk forces.
00:00:55The operation, which has been codenamed Vivaldi,
00:00:58is already well underway and achieving results.
00:01:01But Beletsky also wisely pointed out that what's still to come
00:01:03is being kept top secret so that Russia has no chance of countering it.
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00:01:18Keeping things relatively vague, Beletsky said in a video address,
00:01:22In recent weeks, there has been talk regarding the retreat of Russian troops
00:01:26in the Donetsk sector and the elimination of the so-called Liman salient.
00:01:29Settlements that have come under the control of Ukraine's defense forces are being named,
00:01:33and military maps are being updated.
00:01:36In other words, we're going to be learning more from official sources very soon.
00:01:39But as you'll soon discover, there's plenty that we can see from open sources and battlefield maps
00:01:44that show us what Ukraine has pulled off in the Liman direction.
00:01:48Beletsky also provided some numbers, stating,
00:01:50In the information silence mode, the units eliminated the enemy's infiltration centers
00:01:55and cleared 75 square kilometers.
00:01:57Another 10 square kilometers were liberated.
00:01:59A devastating blow was dealt to the combat capability
00:02:02of the 20th and 25th armies of the Russian Federation.
00:02:06These would be huge results on their own,
00:02:08but they're only the start of something much bigger.
00:02:11Officially, this is all that Ukraine has said.
00:02:13Unofficially, we're seeing chaos in the Russian ranks,
00:02:16all being caused by Operation Vivaldi.
00:02:18We mentioned the two goals of that operation a moment ago.
00:02:22Dealing with Russia's infiltrators is one of those goals.
00:02:25Since 2025, Russia has shifted its approach.
00:02:28It now relies on small infiltration units to gain ground,
00:02:31rather than the large mechanized assaults it used in the past.
00:02:35Part of the reason is that so much Russian equipment has been destroyed by Ukraine,
00:02:39that these assaults aren't even possible anymore.
00:02:41However, Russia's main problem is the massive drone-infested kill zones Ukraine has created,
00:02:46which make any large troop movement an easy target.
00:02:49In 2026, Russia has adapted its tactics by using drones to secure safe corridors for its infiltrators,
00:02:56allowing them to push deeper behind Ukrainian lines.
00:02:58The new tactic needed to be countered.
00:03:01Operation Vivaldi is dismantling this approach, Bilecki says,
00:03:04as Ukraine has launched countless search-and-strike missions that have eliminated Russian infiltration pockets
00:03:09in places like Yurova, Novoselivka, Kurovy-yar, and Oleksandrivka.
00:03:14Now we're seeing the same thing happen in Donetsk, particularly in Serednaya,
00:03:18the liberation of which Bilecki claims is part of a shaping preparatory phase for what's to come.
00:03:24These attacks on infiltration units have been combined with the logistics pushback,
00:03:28forcing Russian supplies so far back that they're practically useless to Russia's infiltrators.
00:03:33While a host of Ukrainian units, including the 60th and 125th Mechanized Brigades,
00:03:39the 3rd Assault Brigade, the 66th Mechanized Brigade,
00:03:42the Kraken Special Forces Unit,
00:03:44and elements of Ukrainian special operations and military intelligence focused on the infiltrators,
00:03:49Ukraine's drone operators were letting their mid-range drones fly.
00:03:53Those drones have been striking Russian supply routes and fuel infrastructure
00:03:56and have been so effective that they've forced the supply of fuel and lubricants
00:04:00for the Russian military to move back out of Ukraine and into the Russian region of Voronezh.
00:04:05This is Ukraine's logistics lockdown program in action.
00:04:09Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhailo Fedorov said
00:04:12the enemy will no longer feel safe even far from the line of combat when this program was launched.
00:04:17Operation Vivaldi is proving him right.
00:04:20According to Beletsky, the first phase of this operation has resulted in Russia losing around 1,500 personnel,
00:04:26along with 12,000 drones and hundreds of units of equipment.
00:04:30But that isn't the real headline here.
00:04:32To see how impactful Operation Vivaldi has already been,
00:04:36we need to head to a very specific region of the Donetsk Front,
00:04:39a region that Beletsky himself mentioned, Liman.
00:04:42If there is one region where the effects of Operation Vivaldi are being felt more than any other,
00:04:46it's Liman.
00:04:47Open-source analysts have already been reporting on the complete deterioration
00:04:51of Russia's position in that sector.
00:04:54Near Liman, Russia has been slowly growing a battlefield salient
00:04:57that it was hoping would allow it to flank parts of the Donetsk Fortress Belt
00:05:00that Russia needs to topple in order to claim Donetsk and, by extension, seize the Donbas.
00:05:06But Ukraine hasn't simply allowed that salient to grow.
00:05:09Over the past four months leading into September, it's launched counterattack after counterattack
00:05:14to cut this salient off, leaving the Russian infiltrators inside surrounded
00:05:18and setting up for everything that Ukraine wants to achieve in Donetsk moving forward.
00:05:22And now, the salient is officially cut off.
00:05:26Military analyst Clement Milan exposed this, with battlefield maps to prove it on September 8th,
00:05:32revealing that Ukraine had liberated 200 square kilometers of territory in the Liman direction.
00:05:36UNN added more, noting that the destruction of the salient has also enabled Ukraine
00:05:41to push Russia's forces back to the Zerebets River.
00:05:44Keep that river in mind, because we'll be coming back to it.
00:05:47For Russia, the crushing of this salient is an absolute disaster.
00:05:50There are already reports circulating among Russia's military bloggers
00:05:54that Russia has suffered much larger losses in that salient than even Ukraine has reported,
00:05:58and that Ukraine is starting to push farther than the salient itself.
00:06:01The Zerebets River may have already been crossed, leading to Ukraine contesting occupied settlements
00:06:06on the other side.
00:06:07If that's the case, this would mean up to two years of Russian progress has been crushed
00:06:11in the space of about four months of Ukrainian counterattacks.
00:06:15There are also reports that Ukraine is in control of the settlement of Ivanovka,
00:06:19and is now contesting Terny, which is across the river.
00:06:22Russia's military bloggers are panicking.
00:06:24Now they're being forced to acknowledge major setbacks that had previously gone under-reported
00:06:29by this key part of the Russian propaganda machine.
00:06:32Ukraine has practically broken what military commander Valery Shirayev calls a
00:06:36very old defensive line in Liman, which has led to Russian forces being effectively encircled.
00:06:42This is largely an operational encirclement, but a tight one.
00:06:45Russian soldiers are still holding out in many settlements in the Shandrigalovo area,
00:06:49and their supplies are only available by air, Shirayev said, hinting at the effectiveness
00:06:54of Operation Vivaldi on Russia's logistics in the process.
00:06:57Other military bloggers are discussing a worsening tactical situation near Liman,
00:07:02which a blogger named Raibar attributes to an inaccurate assessment of the situation,
00:07:07being fed to Putin by his generals, which has resulted in Russia failing to adapt to Ukraine's
00:07:12counterattacks.
00:07:13Parallels are already being drawn to Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region.
00:07:16Russia claimed to have occupied that city in late 2025, only for Ukraine to immediately
00:07:22prove Russia wrong, and then go on to launch a counteroffensive that destroyed the infiltration
00:07:26units in the city, effectively fully liberating it.
00:07:30Russia now faces a major problem in Liman.
00:07:32Does it divert resources to plug the gaps that Ukraine has created?
00:07:36If it does, Russia's forces elsewhere are weakened, creating opportunities for more counterattacks.
00:07:41Or does the Kremlin keep things as they are and hope that the deteriorating front lines somehow hold?
00:07:46That would be a bad idea too, and the reason why comes down to the Zerebets River we asked you
00:07:51to keep in mind.
00:07:52Before we explain more and dig deeper into why Operation Vivaldi has its name and what it may aim to
00:07:57achieve next,
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00:08:10If Russia has indeed been pushed back to the Zerebets River, and potentially beyond,
00:08:14then its problems extend much deeper than Lima.
00:08:16There are already reports, including a UA Wire article dated September 11th,
00:08:21that Ukraine has already crossed the river.
00:08:23Russian military bloggers, including Boris Rozhyn, are reporting that Ukraine is also bringing extra soldiers into the fight
00:08:29to solidify its push past the river.
00:08:31The enemy has crossed the Zerebets River and bringing reserves into battle.
00:08:35Fighting is going on for control of Zerechna, around Ivanovka and Kolodetsy.
00:08:39There are clashes along the Red Kodob-Navoa line.
00:08:42The enemy is sending new assault groups into Liman and building up its forces, Rozhyn declares.
00:08:46And remember this comes from a Russian blogger, precisely the type of person,
00:08:50whose interests are served by talking up Russian successes and downplaying Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi,
00:08:56which has already become too big for Russians to ignore.
00:08:59For Russia, this Zerebets River situation is a major problem.
00:09:02Ukraine has held its positions on the left side of the river for most of the way,
00:09:06which forced Russian forces to cross the river further north,
00:09:09though its forces could head back south to attack Ukraine's fortifications.
00:09:12This means that Russia has only ever had one point of attack,
00:09:16as it hasn't been able to double up with forces from the east or northeast.
00:09:19But now it looks like Ukraine has managed to cut through the Russian forces
00:09:22and has moved forward right to the banks of the river, where they've established themselves.
00:09:27Russia's problem now is that these positions on the left of the river are filled with hills,
00:09:31which give Ukraine high ground that it can defend and, as the Russian line crumbles,
00:09:35sets up opportunities for Ukraine to cross the Zerebets River and push Russia even further back.
00:09:40All of this might feel like it's coming out of nowhere.
00:09:43Every mainstream report tells us that Russia is slowly pushing deeper into Donetsk.
00:09:47But the reality is that Ukraine has been setting up Operation Vivaldi for a long time,
00:09:52and there's much more to come.
00:09:53We can head all the way back to October 2022 to see when Ukraine initially liberated Liman
00:09:59after Russia had claimed the annexation of Donetsk and even set up a sham referendum to
00:10:04prove that the people wanted Russian occupation.
00:10:06That liberation of Liman was intended to enable Ukraine to push further east.
00:10:11However, Russia consolidated its defenses over the winter of 2022 and into 23,
00:10:15setting the stage for a slow pushback over the next two years.
00:10:19It's this pushback that allowed Russia to inch back into the Liman sector
00:10:22and also, ultimately, set the stage for the creation of the salient that we mentioned earlier.
00:10:27Operation Vivaldi hadn't been created at this point.
00:10:30But in the summer of 2024, a major change occurred.
00:10:34Ukraine transferred its 3rd Assault Brigade, led by Biletsky, to the Donetsk sector
00:10:38and gave it the job of holding a much larger sector of the front lines
00:10:41than most other brigades were tasked with holding.
00:10:44By February 2025, the 3rd Assault Brigade had been morphed into Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps,
00:10:49giving Biletsky even more responsibility.
00:10:51Still, Russia pushed. Pressure on Liman remained high through 2025 and into 26, leading to the creation of the salient.
00:10:58Still, the transfer of Biletsky and his soldiers to the region set the stage for the first phase of Operation
00:11:03Vivaldi.
00:11:04Sometime around late May, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty reports,
00:11:08Ukraine quietly moved soldiers, mostly taken from the 3rd Army Corps,
00:11:12about 50 kilometers north of the fortress belt city of Slovyansk.
00:11:16Those soldiers were tasked with attacking the salient, pushing north out of Liman,
00:11:20as well as south towards the settlements of Nova, Ritkodub and Katerinivka.
00:11:24These elite and battle-hardened soldiers did just that.
00:11:27A four-month offensive had been triggered, leading to what we see today.
00:11:31The first phase of Operation Vivaldi has been completed.
00:11:35Russia's salient is shattered, and by multiple accounts,
00:11:38Ukraine is now pushing to the Zerebets River and beyond.
00:11:40This was no overnight success.
00:11:42It was the result of literally years of setup and work,
00:11:45resulting in a four-month campaign that has eliminated key Russian gains made over the last couple of years.
00:11:51Pressure has now been relieved on Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, and Russia's plans to encircle as much of the fortress belt
00:11:57as possible lie in ruins.
00:11:59Russia now has to deal with a situation where it could have been thrown back by up to three years
00:12:04in its operational planning for the Donetsk region,
00:12:06and its lost critical positions that Ukraine will now be actively fortifying as it moves on to the next stage.
00:12:12What will that next stage be? Well, that's the big question.
00:12:16The name Vivaldi hasn't been chosen for this operation because it sounds nice.
00:12:19There is a bigger reason behind it, as Bilecki explains.
00:12:23Our operation is called Vivaldi, and Vivaldi, as is known, has four seasons, and this is only the first one,
00:12:29he declares.
00:12:30In other words, everything that we've just discussed is just one part of a much larger operation being planned in
00:12:35the Donetsk region.
00:12:36However, Ukraine is playing its cards very close to its chest.
00:12:40The first season was so successful in part because Russia had no idea it was coming.
00:12:44Ukraine didn't announce the transfer of the 3rd Army Corps soldiers to the Lehman sector, for instance.
00:12:50Ukraine just did it, and Russia felt the after effects.
00:12:52So, what will come during the second, third, and fourth seasons is being kept under wraps.
00:12:57But we can speculate, and there are some signs of what's to come from the battlefield.
00:13:01Russian military bloggers are already reporting that positions in Yampil are extremely shaky and being placed under pressure.
00:13:08Now, that could be part of the first phase of Operation Vivaldi, or we could be seeing the start of
00:13:12the second season.
00:13:13Either way, losing Yampil would mean that all of the northern region of Donetsk that Russia has occupied becomes exposed
00:13:19to Ukrainian drone and artillery strikes.
00:13:22Perhaps setting the stage for further liberations of territory, making it even harder for Russia to continue its push against
00:13:28the fortress belt.
00:13:29In fact, United24 media reports that Russia may have already lost positions in northeastern Yampil, though that hasn't been confirmed
00:13:36yet.
00:13:36Beyond that, the push to the Zerebets River may be part of the second season of Operation Vivaldi, Euromiden Press
00:13:42suggests.
00:13:43However, that hasn't been confirmed, with Beletsky not even mentioning the river as a strategic objective of the operation.
00:13:48All we really know for sure is that there is more to come, and we're likely not going to know
00:13:52precisely what Ukraine considers to be the next part of this operation until it's announced by Ukraine itself.
00:13:57For now, what we're seeing is a push by Ukraine that is so hard that Russia is struggling to establish
00:14:02new defenses that it can use to stem the tide.
00:14:05Territory in Donetsk, specifically in Liman, is being liberated faster than Russia can re-secure it, meaning that Ukraine has
00:14:12all of the battlefield momentum in that sector right now.
00:14:15Operation Vivaldi is the reason why.
00:14:17Now Russia has to try to figure out a way to counter Ukraine's brilliant operation.
00:14:21That's going to be hard to do for a simple reason.
00:14:24Putin seems to be living in a delusional la-la land created by his own commanders, meaning he may have
00:14:29no idea that any of this is happening.
00:14:31For evidence of that, we look to a claim that Putin made on September 1st.
00:14:34According to Russia's leader, Russian forces had captured 14 settlements in August, including the city of Svirtahirsk, which Putin claims
00:14:41fell at the end of the month.
00:14:43Svirtahirsk is important.
00:14:45The city, which is in northern Donetsk, would be able to serve as a staging point for Russian assaults in
00:14:49the direction of the fortress belt, if Russia could hold it.
00:14:52It also lies on the route to Liman, meaning the city could help Russia claim Liman if it's occupied.
00:14:57Only there's a problem.
00:14:58Putin was wrong.
00:14:59Russia doesn't hold Svirtahirsk.
00:15:01In fact, it's not even close to taking the city.
00:15:04Take off your clown noses, Bilecki declared in his response to Putin's grand claim, as he revealed that Ukraine's 60th
00:15:10Mechanized Brigade retains full control over Svirtahirsk.
00:15:14And to prove the point, the video that Bilecki used to deliver this revelation was shot in the city center,
00:15:20with the holy assumption Svirtahirsk-Lavra landmark visible in the background.
00:15:24We don't know about you, but we feel it's unlikely that Russian occupiers would allow a lethal Ukrainian commander into
00:15:30the center of a city that they hold for a video shoot.
00:15:33Something is clearly fishy here.
00:15:35Putin may have been simply lying about Svirtahirsk.
00:15:37That's a possibility.
00:15:38It's rare that a word of truth escapes Putin's lips, as his entire life has been dedicated to manipulating situations
00:15:44to his own advantage.
00:15:46However, this particular lie wouldn't have been in service of anything other than making it seem as though Russia is
00:15:51in a stronger position than it is.
00:15:52Rather, there's something else going on here.
00:15:54In this instance, Putin may have thought that he was telling the truth.
00:15:57Why?
00:15:58His battlefield commanders are lying to him.
00:16:01And specifically, they're misleading Putin about the amount of ground that Russia holds in the Liman Sector.
00:16:06Perhaps even up to the point where Putin has no idea that Operation Vivaldi has destroyed the Liman Salient.
00:16:12That's according to the Telegraph, which suggests that Putin's commanders are so scared of delivering the news of failure to
00:16:17their leader that they would rather lie about territory captures to save themselves.
00:16:20Leaving Putin and his Kremlin cronies completely in the dark about what's really happening in Donetsk.
00:16:26That changes everything for Russia.
00:16:28Putin's commanders are now asking for the deadline to capture Donetsk to be pushed back to March 31st, 2027.
00:16:34After it was already pushed back to the end of 2026.
00:16:38Putin will be asking himself why.
00:16:40Those same commanders are telling him that Russia is winning.
00:16:43Why would they need more time?
00:16:44The answer that he doesn't know is that it's Ukraine that's making all of the big moves in Donetsk.
00:16:48Operation Vivaldi is underway.
00:16:50Putin doesn't even know about it.
00:16:52And if he does, he thinks that it's failing because he's only getting information from military commanders who are lying
00:16:57out of self-interest rather than telling their leader the truth.
00:17:00This is only good news for Ukraine.
00:17:02When Putin knows so little that he's claiming victories that never happened, it also means that the Kremlin won't adjust
00:17:08its tactics or try to counter anything that Ukraine is doing in any meaningful way.
00:17:12There will be no surprises for Ukraine, but Russia is going to have to face a whole lot of surprises
00:17:17as Season 1 of Operation Vivaldi moves into Season 2 and beyond.
00:17:22Russia will only be able to react.
00:17:23It can shuffle troops around to plug gaps, but Ukraine will be able to manipulate where those troops go and
00:17:29exploit new gaps as they appear.
00:17:31Donetsk is where the stage is being set for the end of the Ukraine war.
00:17:35Only it's Ukraine that's going to end the war, not Russia.
00:17:38The UK is playing with fire.
00:17:41That was the chilling warning delivered by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at the end of August.
00:17:48After the news broke, the UK was going to provide sensitive information relating to storm shadow missiles to Ukraine.
00:17:55To some, that might have seemed like an empty threat.
00:17:58Russia has made plenty of threats it doesn't follow through on after all.
00:18:01But Russia was serious.
00:18:03And on September 13th, it almost pulled off a deadly strike.
00:18:08Russia just tried to kill the UK's former prime minister, crossing an unforgivable line in the process.
00:18:14The war between Russia and the UK is kicking off.
00:18:18On September 13th, the news broke that Russia had pulled off a terrifying strike against a train that was travelling
00:18:24near the border between Ukraine and Poland.
00:18:26The attack was part of several on a night where Russia once again escalated its targeting of trains operated by
00:18:33Ukraine's leading rail company Ukazaliznitsya.
00:18:36Fortunately, the strike wasn't successful in the sense that Russia failed to inflict any casualties, the Kyiv Post reports.
00:18:43That, frankly, is a shock.
00:18:44Russia had struck the passenger train using a jet-powered drone, and it's reported that there were 206 passengers on
00:18:51board.
00:18:51The lack of casualties can be credited to Ukazaliznitsya, which has a special monitoring team that saw the drone was
00:18:59incoming, enabling it to warn the crew and evacuate passengers before the Russian drone hit its target.
00:19:04But here's the twist.
00:19:05The train that Russia struck may not have been the Kremlin's intended target.
00:19:09That train was travelling on a line that is often used by diplomatic trains to transport important individuals from Poland
00:19:15into Ukraine.
00:19:16And just moments before Russia's jet-powered drone struck, one of these diplomatic trains had used that very line, and
00:19:23it was carrying a former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
00:19:27We're going to dig a whole lot deeper into what is looking like an assassination attempt against the former UK
00:19:32leader.
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00:19:46In the most shocking news to emerge from this whole incident, Johnson, along with several European national security advisors, including
00:19:53the UK's own Jonathan Powell,
00:19:55had only just passed along the same line that Russia hit as they travelled back from a conference held in
00:20:00Kyiv.
00:20:01We don't have exact timings, however, it's emerging that Johnson's train, or perhaps a train carrying other diplomats, was the
00:20:07intended target of the attack.
00:20:09In a statement published in the wake of the strike, Ukazal Itznitsya made that claim.
00:20:14It's entirely possible that the Russian drone's intended target was the diplomatic train, which departed the station earlier than scheduled
00:20:20after timetables were adjusted in real time because of the constant threat of Russian strikes, the company said in the
00:20:26statement.
00:20:26There are some important details here, especially if you're wondering how Russia could have mistimed its strike if Johnson was
00:20:32the target.
00:20:33The former UK Prime Minister's train had left the Yehudin station Russia targeted earlier than anticipated.
00:20:39Russia wouldn't have known about this shift.
00:20:41It would have known that Johnson was in the area, along with other diplomats, making Yehudin a clear target.
00:20:46The mention of the constant threat of Russian strikes also suggests that there might have been some intelligence doing the
00:20:51rounds, leading to the timetable switch-ups.
00:20:54Nothing else has been revealed about that intelligence, assuming it existed, but there was clearly some sort of forewarning.
00:21:00There would be no reason to change timings for Johnson's train otherwise.
00:21:04Johnson is furious, and he's not the only one.
00:21:07In a statement published on X, Johnson expressed his disbelief that Russia would try to do what it's just done.
00:21:12I don't know what warp logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this
00:21:18morning.
00:21:18What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring
00:21:23every day, even on civilian railways, Johnson roared.
00:21:27Taking attention away from the fact that his own life was in danger, Johnson went on to point out that
00:21:31Russia's strikes have killed 1,700 Yehudin staff members during the war, and he made the renewed plea for the
00:21:39UK and Europe to get their acts together and give Ukraine what it needs.
00:21:42When are we going to give them the air defenses they need? Why won't we unfreeze Putin's cash and give
00:21:47it to Ukraine?
00:21:48There is more than 140 billion euros in a Belgian bank account and about 10 billion pounds in London.
00:21:53Britain could show a lead, Johnson asked.
00:21:56It's a good question, but as Johnson raged against Russia and scolded the West for not doing enough, other diplomats
00:22:02had their own messages.
00:22:03You see, it wasn't just the UK's former Prime Minister who was traveling along the line that Russia struck on
00:22:07September 13th.
00:22:09We mentioned a conference in Kyiv. Johnson was not the only attendee.
00:22:12There were others who could have just as easily become victims of Russia's drone if circumstances had been different.
00:22:18Among them was former Swedish Prime Minister Karl Bilt, who appears to have been on the same train as Johnson,
00:22:23and he recounted his own experience while sharing footage of the evacuation.
00:22:27This wasn't our train, but the one just minutes after us by the Polish border crossing.
00:22:32It was evacuated as the Russian drone approached and no one was hurt. Very good safety system.
00:22:37Our train just had an evacuation warning but could proceed to Dorohusk.
00:22:41The Russian attacks against Ukraine are intensifying, Bilt declared on X.
00:22:45Ex-CIA chief David Petraeus was also in Yehodin station at the time of the strike, though he appears to
00:22:51have been taking a different train.
00:22:52Labelling the Russian attack as terrifying, Petraeus condemned the strike as the act of a truly barbaric leader trying to
00:22:59terrorize Ukrainian civilians.
00:23:02The picture is getting clearer.
00:23:03The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has verified 16,874 deaths of Ukrainian civilians, along
00:23:11with 51,273 injuries as of July 31st.
00:23:16So it's not as though Russia is hesitant to strike civilians.
00:23:19But in this attack, the Kremlin wanted to take out some more prominent targets.
00:23:23Johnson was among them, and there are reasons why, as tensions are flaring between the UK and Russia.
00:23:28We'll be getting to that.
00:23:30First, you might expect Russia to make some grand statement in the wake of this latest strike.
00:23:34And the Kremlin made a statement, alright.
00:23:36However, it was muted, likely intentionally so, to not give away the true purpose of the attack.
00:23:41As the Independent reports, all Russia's defense ministry said in the aftermath of the attack was that it had targeted
00:23:47infrastructure that facilitates the movement of military cargo from Western Europe into Ukraine.
00:23:52Technically that's true, but the timing reveals everything, as do the actual targets.
00:23:57Russia hit a passenger train.
00:23:59It wanted to hit a diplomatic train.
00:24:02There was no cargo involved in this strike, so the Russian statement looks weak.
00:24:05If we take what seems like an assassination attempt out of the picture for a moment, what we saw on
00:24:11September 13th was a continuation of the escalation of Russia's strikes against Ukrainian rail.
00:24:16Johnson hinted at that on X when he noted the 1,700 dead Ukuzalitsnitsya workers.
00:24:22And the day before this strike, Russia hit railway infrastructure in Fastiv, which is in the Kyiv region, and the
00:24:27western city of Lutsk.
00:24:29As with the September 13th strike, passengers were evacuated before Russia's drones arrived, meaning there were no casualties.
00:24:35The same goes for train employees.
00:24:37Still, there is clearly a coordinated effort to cripple Ukraine's rail services happening here.
00:24:42Russian forces had previously struck four passenger trains in northern and eastern Ukraine between September 8th and 9th, injuring 20
00:24:50and killing three.
00:24:51The Independent also reports that Russia targeted another train, this time in Volin, on September 13th, though nobody was injured
00:24:58in this attack.
00:25:00Along with trains, Russia is also targeting gas stations, border crossings and railway depots, seemingly to make it harder for
00:25:06Ukrainians to move around in their own country.
00:25:09A new Russian tactic is emerging.
00:25:12But what happened on September 13th may have been one of the biggest blunders Putin has made in the war
00:25:17so far.
00:25:17The UK has been put on alert, and rightfully so.
00:25:20However, another nation has also come down hard on Russia.
00:25:24Poland is p***ed.
00:25:26And it should be.
00:25:27Many of these attacks are taking place along the border it shares with Ukraine, meaning there is a distinct risk
00:25:31of Russian drones entering Polish territory.
00:25:34We're going to explore what all of this means for Poland and the UK in a moment.
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00:25:50Poland's reaction tells the story of a nation that is increasingly worried about what all of Russia's actions mean for
00:25:56its national security.
00:25:57In the wake of the September 13th train attack, Poland scrambled its security chiefs for an emergency meeting.
00:26:02Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with intelligence chiefs and military officials as he warned that the Russian escalation is no
00:26:09longer a theory.
00:26:10It's becoming a reality, as an increasingly unhinged Putin is ordering strikes that are right on the edge of Polish
00:26:17territory.
00:26:18The coming weeks and months will be a period of very intense activity on the Russian side, and unfortunately, we
00:26:24cannot rule out that this escalation will also affect our territory, Tusk declared.
00:26:28Indeed, Poland is no stranger to Russian aerial threats.
00:26:32It was only as recently as the end of July that a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed the border
00:26:37from Ukraine, crash landing about 90 kilometers deep into Polish territory.
00:26:42Warnings have since been issued by Poland, though there is yet to be any direct retaliation for Russia's actions.
00:26:48Metzer reports that Poland has stated that the strike on the Yehudin station will only strengthen support for Ukraine, not
00:26:53just in Poland, but the rest of Europe.
00:26:56Given that intimidation is the point of many of these strikes, that's something Putin won't want to hear.
00:27:00If Putin believes this will weaken our resolve, he's mistaken.
00:27:03On the contrary, the attack strengthens the political arguments in Poland and Europe.
00:27:08Russia is acting irresponsibly and aggressively, and we must be prepared to deter it, declared Polish Foreign Minister Radislav Sikorsky,
00:27:15as he held a joint briefing with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrzej Sibir in Kyiv.
00:27:19Before the attack, Sikorsky made some waves by letting Russia know exactly what would happen if Putin was stupid enough
00:27:25to get into a tangle with NATO.
00:27:27If Russia attacked us and we took our gloves off, I think we would defeat Russia quite quickly.
00:27:32We have overwhelming superiority over Russia in air power.
00:27:35General, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's something like 2,500 aircraft, Sikorsky said at the Yalta European strategy
00:27:41meeting in Kyiv on September 12th.
00:27:44He highlighted Ukraine's long-range campaign against Russian oil refining, claiming that NATO could do in six weeks what Ukraine
00:27:50had done in six months,
00:27:51all due to having immense air power.
00:27:53Maybe Putin took this personally.
00:27:55Knowing that Sikorsky is right, Russia's leader may have launched a drone strike that appeared to target a former UK
00:28:00Prime Minister to deliver a message to Poland.
00:28:03Sibir certainly seems to think this might be the case.
00:28:06He is warned that Russia's train strike should serve as a direct warning to all of Ukraine's allies,
00:28:11noting that Putin is now knocking directly on the doors of the EU and NATO.
00:28:16Sibir called on the EU and NATO to throw the full weight of their sanctions at the Kremlin, including full
00:28:21trade embargoes and sanctions on Putin's military-industrial complex.
00:28:25That, he argues, would be the best way for both to show Putin that the barbarism he uses as a
00:28:29scare tactic isn't working.
00:28:31And then there's the UK.
00:28:33Beyond Ukraine and Poland, both of which have obvious concerns about Russia's attack,
00:28:37it's the UK that will be paying very close attention.
00:28:40There was nothing random about what Russia did on September 13th.
00:28:43A very prominent public figure in the UK appears to have been targeted and could well have been struck if
00:28:49not for the changing of a timetable and the excellent work of Ukraine's leading rail company.
00:28:53What we're seeing here is much bigger than an isolated incident.
00:28:56It's the latest in a series of aggressive moves that Russia has been making toward the UK, indicating that a
00:29:02new war is brewing.
00:29:04Putin and his cronies have hinted that something like this could be coming for a while.
00:29:08We mentioned Zakharova's comments right at the beginning of the video. The words playing with fire have been mentioned.
00:29:14Zakharova backed those words by claiming that Russia has repeatedly warned the UK that any military equipment and installations could
00:29:21become targets if the UK continues to support Ukraine.
00:29:25Apparently, English politicians have now been added to the list, who propose that the British leadership once again carefully analyse
00:29:31the situation
00:29:32and immediately, in the most resolute and unequivocal manner, abandon the hostile aggressive line, Zakharova said at the time.
00:29:39Nothing has changed in terms of the UK's support.
00:29:42Putin has also hinted at strikes against the UK in the recent past.
00:29:45In a one-line response to a question about whether Russia would look to strike military facilities in the UK,
00:29:50Putin said,
00:29:51that's a secret, a military secret.
00:29:54On top of all of that, a map has been doing the rounds showing 34 different locations that Russia could
00:29:59strike in the UK following those vague threats against military sites.
00:30:03None of this is coincidental.
00:30:05Russia wants the UK to know that Putin is plotting something big.
00:30:09The assassination attempt against Johnson, assuming that's what we've just seen, may have failed.
00:30:14But it's also not the only tangible evidence we see that, for all intents and purposes, Russia appears to consider
00:30:20itself at war with the UK.
00:30:22The evidence is stacking up.
00:30:24Head back to April, when we saw the UK and Norway disrupt a Russian training exercise that involved Russia using
00:30:30submersibles to track and sever undersea cables.
00:30:33We saw something similar in August, when the Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels as they passed through
00:30:39UK waters.
00:30:40Russia is trying to present a threat to the UK cable network that hosts 119 cables, enabling $17 trillion of
00:30:48trade to pass every single day.
00:30:50As former Royal Navy Commodore John Aitken puts it,
00:30:53the seabed is becoming a battlefield in a way that we haven't seen before.
00:30:57Russia is already fighting against the UK on that battlefield.
00:31:00It should also be pointed out that Russia is waging a daily hybrid war against the UK,
00:31:04employing covert tactics that offer plausible deniability to do as much damage to the UK as possible.
00:31:10The September 13th train strike is the most obvious attack against the UK we've seen so far.
00:31:15But long before that, Russia has been targeting hospitals, infrastructure and businesses all over the UK, often with cyber attacks.
00:31:22That was the case when a company named Synovis, which provides pathology services to National Health Service hospitals in London,
00:31:29was hit with a ransomware attack in June 2024 that took systems offline.
00:31:35That attack caused over $44 million in damage and disrupted treatments for 11,000 patients.
00:31:40And it's just one of many examples.
00:31:42Just as it's fighting the UK on the seabed, Russia is at war with the UK in the online realm.
00:31:47And now we see this. A direct attack on a train line that just moments before had been used by
00:31:53a former UK leader.
00:31:55Russia is clearly escalating its campaign against the UK.
00:31:59There is a war happening and it's not clear how prepared the UK is to fight it.
00:32:03There has been talk, of course.
00:32:04Back in January, former UK Prime Minister Sakiya Starmer declared that the UK needs to be ready for war,
00:32:10though he didn't introduce any concrete steps that would enable that readiness.
00:32:14Sky News reported at the time.
00:32:15We may be seeing hints of some steps being created now, though.
00:32:19Back in July, the UK government urged the public to start taking small but important steps to secure water, power
00:32:25and phone signals,
00:32:26for use in cases of national crises, weather emergencies and, crucially, cyber attacks.
00:32:31The advice was general and didn't go much further than encouraging some stockpiling.
00:32:35But the advice came on the back of a warning to ministers that the UK isn't prepared for a major
00:32:40shock to its supply chains,
00:32:41such as what would happen during a war with Russia.
00:32:44The UK likely still isn't prepared.
00:32:46At least, the public isn't.
00:32:48A warning to buy a few bottles of water isn't the sort of disaster preparedness that is going to get
00:32:52anybody ready for what the Kremlin seems to be brewing.
00:32:55Something more concrete was revealed on September 8th.
00:32:58The UK is now planning a major drill that would allow it to mobilise an army of 95,000 veterans.
00:33:03The drill, which is due to take place in 2027, will see reservists called into action on a scale we
00:33:09haven't seen for a long time, says Armed Forces Minister Louise Sander Jones.
00:33:14Details of the drill haven't been shared, though it seems likely that it will serve as a test of veterans'
00:33:19ability to be called upon and suitably equipped in the event of a national emergency.
00:33:23So, moves are being made.
00:33:25But the obvious question has to be asked, is this enough?
00:33:28It's very clear at this point that Russia is escalating.
00:33:32It may have just tried to kill Boris Johnson, and it's clearly conducting a hybrid war against the UK that
00:33:37has only intensified since the Ukraine invasion was launched.
00:33:40The UK needs to elevate its reaction to all of this if Russia is to take it seriously as a
00:33:45threat.
00:33:45Right now, the Kremlin seems to be happy with this escalation.
00:33:49The UK, Poland and Ukraine were all affected by the September 13th train strike.
00:33:54However, we will have to wait and see what, if any, response comes from the UK in the aftermath.
00:34:00The war in Ukraine has been a conflict of world firsts.
00:34:03Ukraine's ingenuity, both tactically and in terms of weapons development, has enabled it to score the types of kills that
00:34:10seem like they're pulled out of a movie, but they are reality.
00:34:14Ukraine's drones are doing things that nobody ever saw coming, and they've done it again.
00:34:19Twice.
00:34:20Nothing like this has ever happened before, as Ukraine has scored two historic world first kills that have transformed how
00:34:26it will approach the war forever.
00:34:27We first head to the Black Sea, in a telegram post published by the Ukrainian Navy.
00:34:33The naval forces, in coordination with the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, GUR, conducted a successful operation in the Black Sea
00:34:41and destroyed a Russian uncrewed surface vessel.
00:34:44The target was detected by GUR units.
00:34:47The Ukrainian Navy's Sargan 3000 uncrewed surface vessel, equipped with a 12.7mm Protector RWS, remote weapons station, successfully destroyed
00:34:56it, the Navy said.
00:34:58A video, lasting about 80 seconds, accompanied the post, and it shows the view from Ukraine's maritime drone as it
00:35:04fires on Russia's sea drone over and over.
00:35:06Eventually, the damage done is too much. Russia's drones end up being torn to pieces, left dead in the water
00:35:13by a brutal display of firepower.
00:35:15What we've just seen in that footage is the first time that an uncrewed surface vessel, or USV, has been
00:35:21used to sink another USV.
00:35:23The Protector turned destroyer, leaving Russia's drone boat sinking stern first below the waves.
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00:35:40Ukraine needed a special kind of USV to get this particular job done, and the Sargan 3000 perfectly fit the
00:35:47bill.
00:35:47First unveiled by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in April, the Sargan 3000 is a multipurpose platform that had already been
00:35:56tested and entered full service by the time Zelensky revealed it.
00:36:00Army Inform's report at the time noted that the USV was extremely maneuverable and able to perform strike missions.
00:36:07In September, we got all of the proof that we would ever need that this was the case. The specs
00:36:12tell more of the story.
00:36:13The Sargan 3000 has an operational range of 1,600 kilometers, meaning it's more than capable of covering practically all
00:36:21of the Black Sea and even parts of the Sea of Azov.
00:36:24It's fast too, able to reach a top speed of up to 55 knots.
00:36:28The drone can be equipped with a payload weighing up to 450 kilograms, which is ideal for when Ukraine needs
00:36:34it to carry out kamikaze strikes against larger surface vessels.
00:36:38But that's not what we saw on September 12th.
00:36:40That footage showed us that the adaptable Sargan 3000 can also be loaded with remotely controlled weapons that are capable
00:36:47of shredding through much smaller targets without Ukraine having to waste one of its USVs in a kamikaze strike.
00:36:53In this, we see the evolution of the Sargan 3000. What was once designed to be a kamikaze weapon has
00:37:00become something much more.
00:37:01The drone is now capable of connecting to Ukraine's Delta situational awareness system, allowing it to feed real-time footage
00:37:09back into the system.
00:37:10It also features multi-channel control capabilities, including redundant satellite communication terminals that make it extremely difficult to jam using
00:37:19electronic warfare.
00:37:21Throw an optical navigation system and an autonomous inertial navigation system into the mix, and you get a USV that
00:37:27is loaded with electronic warfare countermeasures.
00:37:30Ukraine has developed several versions of the Sargan 3000.
00:37:33Beyond the kamikaze and machine gun loaded versions of the drone, there are variants that can carry rockets, electronic warfare
00:37:40equipment, and even serve as a mothership for FPV drones.
00:37:44The drone also highlights how well Ukraine is cooperating with its allies.
00:37:48The protector gun that was used to score this world first kill is made by Kongsberg, which is a Norwegian
00:37:54defense company.
00:37:55The Sargan 3000 hasn't been operating for long. Its first publicly revealed combat engagement was in July, when Ukraine's Navy
00:38:03used a Sargan 3000 to launch an attack on an FSB border guard ship named the Izumrud, which was stationed
00:38:10at the Black Sea Fleet's base in Novorossiysk.
00:38:12This was a revenge strike. The Izumrud was involved in a November 2018 attack against Ukrainian ships in the Kerch
00:38:20Strait.
00:38:20It took Ukraine eight years, but it finally retaliated using its remarkable USV, leaving behind a damaged ship with dead
00:38:28and wounded on board.
00:38:30Ukraine didn't confirm if it used the Sargan 3000 as a kamikaze weapon or as a platform for other weapons
00:38:35to launch its attack, but it doesn't matter.
00:38:38The outcome is that a Russian ship went down.
00:38:40And now, just a few months later, Ukraine is pulling off world firsts by taking out a Russian USV with
00:38:46a maritime drone of its own.
00:38:48This brilliant Black Sea strike was preceded by Ukraine pulling off another world first just a few months before the
00:38:54downing of a Russian KA-52 helicopter back in March.
00:38:58Now, that alone isn't a world first. According to Global Military, Russia had lost 42 of its KA-52s in
00:39:04Ukraine by September 1st, so it's not as though Ukraine has no experience in dealing with this type of chopper.
00:39:10And indeed, when you listen to the initial reports, this particular kill would have seemed like just another day at
00:39:15the office for Ukraine.
00:39:17Drone operators from Ukraine's Kizaki Vsot unit, which is part of the 1st Battalion of the 59th Brigade, destroyed a
00:39:24KA-52 attack chopper, marking the second time that unit had taken out a helicopter with a drone.
00:39:29Impressive, yes, but where's the world first? The footage tells the full story.
00:39:34The kill scored on the KA-52 may have amounted to the second time this unit destroyed a Russian helicopter,
00:39:40but it's the very first time this or any other unit has managed to take out a KA-52 using
00:39:45a fiber optic FPV drone.
00:39:47It's never been done before. Not one of the 42 other KA-52s that Russia has lost was destroyed with
00:39:53this type of drone, and we can see the basics of how the unit pulled this attack off in first
00:39:58person.
00:39:59The drone shot all of the footage we need to see as it launched its attack.
00:40:02In a 15 second video, we see an attempt to hit a KA-52 that fails, as the helicopter is
00:40:08just out of reach of the drone, which is tethered by its fiber optic cable.
00:40:11What seems like a failed mission transforms in a heartbeat as a second KA-52 approaches the drone.
00:40:18This chopper is in range, and the drone operator shifts their device just slightly to the right.
00:40:23The Russian pilot never saw it coming.
00:40:25The last shot we see is of the KA-52 colliding with the fiber optic drone.
00:40:30Perhaps that's not enough evidence for you that Ukraine pulled off something special here.
00:40:34The KA-52 could have brushed past the drone or escaped relatively unscathed.
00:40:39The first-person footage doesn't even descend into static as is usually the case for these types of strikes, marking
00:40:45the moment the drone explodes.
00:40:46But there is more evidence.
00:40:48Published by Xcelenova Plus, a follow-up video shot by a reconnaissance drone sent to the scene, showcases the aftermath.
00:40:55We see the smoking wreckage of the Russian chopper, providing all of the evidence that the Kremlin needs to see.
00:41:00Ukraine just pulled off the seemingly impossible.
00:41:03It killed one of Russia's primary attack helicopters using a drone attached to a fiber optic cape.
00:41:09More information has made the rounds since the footage of the kill was shared online.
00:41:13We now know, thanks to Defense Express, that the world-first strike occurred somewhere in the region surrounding the village
00:41:19of Nadezhzhinka,
00:41:20which is in the Pokrovsk direction of the Donetsk Oblast.
00:41:23What's interesting about this site is that it was over five kilometers away from the front lines at the time
00:41:28of the attack.
00:41:28That doesn't necessarily mean that Ukraine's drone operators were working inside enemy territory.
00:41:34Rather, it suggests that the Russian chopper was hit closer to the front, likely as it attempted to return to
00:41:39occupied territory,
00:41:40and its plummeting flight path took it a few kilometers away from the location of the strike before it crash
00:41:46-landed near Nadezhzhinka.
00:41:48What all of this means is that Ukraine just destroyed a $16 million helicopter using an FPV drone that cost
00:41:54a minute fraction of that amount.
00:41:56And it's not just the chopper that was killed. Photographs are doing the rounds on social media showing that the
00:42:01pilot and the navigator of the Ka-52 were also killed in the strike.
00:42:05That's more value lost for Russia.
00:42:08Two experienced pilots have gone down with their helicopter, meaning the Kremlin now has several gaps to fill in the
00:42:13Pokrovsk region.
00:42:15Those pilots didn't die alongside their helicopter.
00:42:18According to Defense Express, they were able to escape the flaming wreckage of the chopper and they ran for several
00:42:23hundred meters, but they had no chance.
00:42:25Ukrainian FPV drones were on them almost from the moment they crawled out of their Ka-52 and those drones
00:42:31finished off the pilots as they attempted to hide in a small trench.
00:42:34Everybody in the Kremlin will be asking themselves the same question after seeing all of this footage.
00:42:40How?
00:42:41We reveal more in a moment.
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00:42:46If you haven't subscribed and enabled notifications yet, now's the perfect time to do both and then dive right back
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00:42:53How?
00:42:54Is the perfect question to ask about this strike.
00:42:56If there is a single type of drone in Ukraine's arsenal that isn't suited for taking out an attack helicopter,
00:43:02it's a fiber optic FPV drone.
00:43:04Not because these drones don't have the power needed.
00:43:06It doesn't take a huge amount of explosive to destroy a chopper in flight, especially if you target the rotors.
00:43:11It's all about range.
00:43:13Fiber optic drones are naturally limited in the amount of ground they can cover because they're tethered to their operator.
00:43:18We saw that in the footage of Ukraine's world first strike.
00:43:22The first of the two KA-52s managed to avoid destruction simply because Ukraine's drone did not have quite the
00:43:28range to reach it.
00:43:29Even so, it's not like Ukraine's drone operators have fiber optic FPV drones loitering in the skies, waiting for their
00:43:35chance to take down an attack helicopter.
00:43:37There was something more to this strike.
00:43:39It had to have been planned.
00:43:40As it turns out, there was a lot of planning involved in the strike.
00:43:43Over a month of it, in fact, as revealed by the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 59th Brigade,
00:43:49Major Maxim Boharchuk.
00:43:51Speaking to Army Inform in the wake of the strike being made public, he said,
00:43:55We monitored the work of enemy aircraft every day, followed their routes, where they enter, where they exit, where they
00:44:00launch, and generally the tactics of their actions.
00:44:03There was a lot more to it than that, however.
00:44:05Ukraine's drone operators had to compensate for the fact that the drones they were using couldn't compare to a KA
00:44:10-52 in terms of raw speed.
00:44:12To score a kill like this, a fiber optic drone has to be flown into the path of a chopper,
00:44:17forcing the collision rather than chasing the chopper down and taking it out.
00:44:20There must be both the skill of the pilot and the skill of those who guide and orient the pilot,
00:44:25where the helicopters are at a given time, and a certain luck factor, the Major said.
00:44:30Luck may have played a part, but skill, especially in the adaptation required to strike the second chopper after the
00:44:36first miss, was even more important.
00:44:37As vital was the type of drone that was used. You know it was a fiber optic FBV drone. The
00:44:43specifics are that it was a system named General Cheroshnaya Optics, which was officially codified in December 2025.
00:44:50Available in 10, 13, and 15-inch frames, these drones come with fiber optic spools ranging from 15 to 35
00:44:57kilometers in range.
00:44:59Those lengths show us that it's possible that Ukraine was flying its drones behind enemy lines, with its operators tucked
00:45:04back several kilometers behind the lines.
00:45:06Still, the target wasn't easy to strike. KF-52s are loaded with sensors that help them to see incoming projectiles.
00:45:14We've seen that much earlier in the war, when Ukraine was trying to use S-300 anti-air missiles to
00:45:19destroy these choppers.
00:45:20Though Ukraine eventually succeeded, the KF-52 was a hard target, because it could be set into a hover mode,
00:45:26essentially bringing it to a stop.
00:45:27For an S-300, that usually leads to a miss. The system's missiles are designed to hit moving targets,
00:45:34and they'll fly right past a chopper that is simply hovering.
00:45:37In the case of an incoming drone, a KF-52 should be able to detect the incoming projectile and shoot
00:45:43it out of the sky, or at least avoid it.
00:45:45But it didn't. Why?
00:45:47This is where the genius of using a fiber optic drone for this world first attack comes into play.
00:45:52Fiber optic drones don't emit anything across the electromagnetic spectrum. They don't need to.
00:45:57They're directly connected to their operators, so no additional signals are needed.
00:46:02You might be able to see where we're going with this.
00:46:04The Russian KF-52 pilots were completely oblivious to the drone that took them out,
00:46:08because their chopper's systems didn't pick anything up.
00:46:11By the time that Ukraine's drones flew into view, it was already too late.
00:46:15The strike was inevitable.
00:46:17Ukraine's tracking of KF-52's flight path set the stage for a first-of-its-kind attack.
00:46:22What we see in these two strikes is the emergence of a pattern.
00:46:26Ukraine's drones have become crucial to its strategy for dealing with Russia, that much is obvious and has been for
00:46:32years.
00:46:33However, the truly war-changing aspects of both of these successes are that they show us how Ukraine constantly adapts,
00:46:39finding new ways to use tools that were never designed to do what Ukraine uses them to do.
00:46:44A fiber optic drone isn't meant to take out an attack helicopter.
00:46:47These drones are meant to be used on the front, where they populate kill zones and are used to conduct
00:46:52strikes against troop gatherings and vehicles, stifling assaults in the process.
00:46:56But Ukraine found another use.
00:46:58Knowing that KF-52s can detect other types of drones, thus giving the chopper a chance to avoid those projectiles,
00:47:05Ukraine took a frontline weapon and transformed it into an undetectable chopper killer.
00:47:10In the case of the Sargan 3000 attack, we've seen the evolution in just a matter of months.
00:47:15What was once a kamikaze USV has been transformed into a modular platform that is capable of taking on all
00:47:22sorts of threats at sea using different means.
00:47:24Now, Russia's USVs have become targets.
00:47:27That's important for Ukraine.
00:47:29It's used a combination of USVs, missiles and aerial drones to negate the supposed naval advantage Russia had with its
00:47:35Black Sea fleet.
00:47:37Maintaining that advantage is the job now, and Russia is doing everything it can to reassert itself in the Black
00:47:42Sea.
00:47:43On August 26, Pravda reported that Russia's Navy is expected to receive 150 USVs in 2026, though that number could
00:47:51climb as high as 230 based on a Kremlin procurement order.
00:47:55Russia is trying to play catch up in the maritime drone arena.
00:47:59Ukraine just showed the Kremlin that it has a long way to go.
00:48:02Russia is deploying technology that Ukraine has had for years.
00:48:05And with the Sargan 3000, Ukraine has leveled up its USV game to the point where we're likely to see
00:48:10USV battles across the Black Sea become a regular part of the war, especially as Russia deploys more of its
00:48:17maritime drones.
00:48:17The stage has been set for the Black Sea to ignite into a new kind of battleground.
00:48:23As for Ukraine, it's just doing what it's been doing since the beginning of the conflict, executing moves that nobody
00:48:29ever saw coming.
00:48:30We've covered two of Ukraine's most recent world firsts in this video.
00:48:33There are many others.
00:48:35Heading all the way back to January 2025, Ukraine managed to take out a Russian Mi-8 helicopter using a
00:48:40Megura V-5 USV.
00:48:42That's the best of both worlds of the two stories we've shared.
00:48:45A chopper downed by a maritime drone or, more specifically, an Mi-8 taken out by an R-73 Sea
00:48:51Dragon missile fired by a Megura V-5, as reported by Jaynes at the time.
00:48:57More recently, we have seen Ukraine carry out a string of world firsts with its long-range drones, including an
00:49:03attack against Siberia's Omsk refinery in July that broke all records for a long-range drone strike.
00:49:09That record didn't stand for long.
00:49:11In September, Ukraine struck in Siberia again, this time pulling off its first attack against the Novi-Urungoy gas condensate
00:49:19treatment plant in a strike that saw its drones travel around 3,000 kilometers.
00:49:23We've seen Ukraine shoot down an Su-25 fighter jet using a Javelin anti-tank weapon, showing how Ukraine brilliantly
00:49:31repurposes weapons to suit its needs.
00:49:33A weapon that costs around $80,000 for a single shot took out a Soviet-era fighter jet that set
00:49:40Russia back about $11 million.
00:49:43Ukraine has also destroyed Ka-27 helicopters using FPV drones launched from USVs, as was the case in March, when
00:49:51Ukraine launched a strike against the Sivash drilling rig in the Black Sea, where it took out a Ka-27
00:49:57as it attempted to land.
00:49:59Over and over, we see the same pattern. Ukraine doing things that have never been done before.
00:50:04What we have here is a chronicle of how Ukraine has rewritten the rules of war, using drones and other
00:50:10weapons to transform how battles are fought on the ground, in the air, and at sea.
00:50:14Russia built a military designed to steamroll over opposition that fights the way that Russia expects it to fight.
00:50:21Ukraine took a different path. These incidents showcase how Ukraine has constantly overcome Russia by inventing new ways to destroy
00:50:28whatever Russia sends into its territory.
00:50:32Russia thought it was being clever. An operation carried out beneath the ocean's surface was supposed to allow the Kremlin
00:50:38to test a secret weapon designed to shatter undersea cable infrastructure.
00:50:42Russia wasn't ready to attack. Not yet. But it wanted to make sure that it could, when it wanted, and
00:50:48that those attacks could happen right under the collective noses of NATO's members.
00:50:52But something went wrong. Russia's submarines were trying something nasty. But NATO showed up and saw it all happening. The
00:50:59Kremlin has been exposed. However, the wider picture is that Russia's exercise exposes a key NATO vulnerability, meaning more needs
00:51:07to be done to ensure that Russia can't do damage in the future.
00:51:10We take you to Svalbard in the spring. Deep in the Arctic water surrounding this archipelago, which lies between Norway
00:51:17and the North Pole, Russian submarines were carrying out a training exercise.
00:51:22Aboard, they carried some sort of secret weapon, Reuters reports, and they were training to use that weapon to disable
00:51:28undersea cables, which are the backbone of global communication without leaving a trace.
00:51:33This is as Russian as an operation can get. What the Kremlin wants to be able to do with this
00:51:38secret weapon is create as much damage as possible, while giving itself the plausible deniability needed to argue against NATO
00:51:45escalation.
00:51:46It's sneaky. A dirty tactic pulled right out of Putin's KGB playbook. And in the spring, Russia's submarine crews were
00:51:53training to pull off this tactic perfectly.
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00:52:07Now, months later, we learned more details about the spring operation.
00:52:11It was carried out by Russia's Gugi Undersea Warfare Directorate, which is among the most secretive units in the Russian
00:52:17military.
00:52:18Gugi specializes in using deep-sea submersibles, not all of them crewed, to deploy destructive technology below the waves.
00:52:25That's what Gugi was training to do in the spring. And the choices of Svalbard was no coincidence.
00:52:31Beyond being close enough to Russia to enable a rapid withdrawal, as well as a full deployment, Svalbard is home
00:52:36to exactly the type of infrastructure that Russia wants to target.
00:52:40About 750 kilometers north of mainland Norway, it's part of NATO's waters, but located at enough of a distance that
00:52:47damage could theoretically be done before NATO can respond.
00:52:51Svalbard is also home to a pair of fiber optic cables, each running about 1,400 kilometers at depths of
00:52:57up to 2,700 meters, which connect the Svalbard archipelago to mainland Norway.
00:53:03Those cables are key to communication between Svalbard and Norway. Among the data they carry are communications from SvalSat,
00:53:11which is the world's largest commercial satellite ground station and is used by NASA to communicate with spacecraft and satellites.
00:53:17These cables cannot go down. But in the spring, Russia was training to one day take them out for good.
00:53:23It was all very sneaky, a dress rehearsal for something much worse to come in the future.
00:53:28And in the Kremlin's ideal world, Gugi and its submersibles would have carried out their training operation without NATO being
00:53:34any the wiser.
00:53:35But things didn't go to plan for Russia. If they had, we wouldn't be telling you about this operation because
00:53:41we wouldn't know that it had happened.
00:53:42Russia's secret training exercise was disrupted by the very NATO powers that it was supposed to hurt.
00:53:48As Russia's subs got to work, Norway and the UK knew that something was afoot.
00:53:52They created a joint operation with involvement by the US to track and confront the Russian vessels at sea.
00:53:58We don't know exactly what role the US played in this operation.
00:54:02It's likely that America provided intelligence, perhaps even being key to detecting that Russia's submersibles were in play.
00:54:08However, the UK and Norway did the lion's share of the work.
00:54:12They deployed vessels of their own, which disrupted the Russian exercise and ultimately prevented Gugi from completing its exercise.
00:54:19Russia was humiliated.
00:54:21Its crews left Svalbard soon after being discovered, Reuters reports, and its vessels were later reported to have returned to
00:54:28their base in Orlenia Guba.
00:54:29If all of this is sounding strangely familiar, there's a good reason why.
00:54:34Though we're getting more details about the Russian training exercise and the joint operation that stopped it now,
00:54:40all of this happened in the spring, April to be exact.
00:54:43And we can look to that month for vague reports from the time of a covert Russian operation that was
00:54:48foiled by UK and Norwegian forces.
00:54:50Those reports revealed that a trio of Russian submarines had been stopped in their tracks
00:54:54and that the UK had unleashed HMS St. Albans, which is a frigate, along with Merlin helicopters and the fuel
00:55:00tanker RFA Tidespring to track the Russian submersibles.
00:55:04At the time, the UK's former defence secretary, John Healy, only mentioned Norway by name as an ally in the
00:55:10operation.
00:55:11We've since found out that the US was also involved.
00:55:14Our armed forces left Russia in no doubt that they were being monitored, that their movements were not covert as
00:55:20President Putin planned,
00:55:21and that their attempted secret operation had been exposed.
00:55:24We watched them, we were able to track them, we dropped sonoboys to demonstrate to them that we were monitoring
00:55:29every hour of their operation,
00:55:31Healy said at the time.
00:55:33So, why are we covering this operation in September?
00:55:36Because new details have emerged.
00:55:38The alleged new weapon we touched on earlier is one of those new details,
00:55:42as is the fact that the NATO allies didn't stop at simply thwarting the Russian operation.
00:55:46After Russia's Akula-class submarine and pair of Gugi submersibles were caught in the act,
00:55:51officials from Norway and the UK took their findings and presented them to the Kremlin, according to Reuters.
00:55:57This was a very purposeful move.
00:55:59Just like that, two unnamed officials told Reuters,
00:56:02NATO showed Russia that it was aware of the new Russian technology,
00:56:06with the goal being to make Russia hesitate to use it in the future.
00:56:09After all, what use is a new secret weapon if the secret is out?
00:56:12Beyond that, NATO, the UK and the US haven't provided any comments on what was presented to the Kremlin,
00:56:18or about the spring operation, beyond what we already know.
00:56:22Norway's defense minister, Torres Sandvik, did offer a comment, stating,
00:56:26Through our joint operation, we sent a clear message to Russia that they cannot operate covertly.
00:56:31We've made it unequivocally clear to Russian authorities that any attempt to target our critical infrastructure
00:56:36will be detected and met with consequences, he said, before adding,
00:56:41It is in no one's interest to escalate tensions in the high north.
00:56:45That could be disputed.
00:56:46It certainly isn't in NATO's interest to see tensions rise,
00:56:50but that's exactly what Russia does want to see.
00:56:53More tension creates more possibility for division within NATO,
00:56:56as allies are left on edge by what Russia is doing.
00:56:59And there's one more thing to cover before we move on.
00:57:02What is Russia's secret weapon, and what does it do?
00:57:05Unfortunately, there are no clear answers to those questions coming from anybody at the moment,
00:57:09likely because NATO doesn't want to reveal how much it knows about Russia's secret weapon,
00:57:14beyond demonstrating that the alliance knows that the weapon exists.
00:57:17We know that the weapon is supposed to leave behind no ability to trace what it is or who used
00:57:22it.
00:57:22That would likely mean it isn't some form of undersea explosive,
00:57:26which would leave debris that could be tracked back to a perpetrator.
00:57:29Maritime executive notes that it's also unlikely that the new weapon has anything to do with physical cable cutting or
00:57:35anchor dragging,
00:57:36both of which can be traced back to a perpetrator,
00:57:38as the vessel involved will likely be tracked in the water, lingering around undersea cables.
00:57:43Beyond that, it's hard to speculate.
00:57:46Some sort of signal disruptor that can be deployed, used and then recovered, perhaps.
00:57:50Until the UK, Norway or the USA more, we're not going to know.
00:57:54So, let's move on to what we do know.
00:57:57Russia's spring training exercise was disrupted by several NATO allies coming together.
00:58:02However, it's not like that exercise was a one and done thing.
00:58:06It's more the tip of a massive iceberg,
00:58:08as what we're seeing here is the expansion of a Russian undersea strategy
00:58:12that's been formulating for decades and carries an immense amount of risk for NATO.
00:58:16To understand what all of this really means, we need to explore the importance of the undersea cables that Russia
00:58:22is targeting,
00:58:23and crucially, what NATO can do about Russia's plans.
00:58:26But before we do, this is a reminder that you're watching the military show.
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00:58:38Though the nature of Russia's spring exercise, particularly the use of a new secret weapon is new,
00:58:43the purpose behind it isn't.
00:58:45Russia has long presented a threat to NATO's undersea security through sabotage operations
00:58:50and the drifting of vessels over these cables.
00:58:53Reuters highlights this, noting that we've seen a marked increase in ships sailing slowly over undersea cables since at least
00:58:592023.
00:59:00These cables handle all sorts of roles.
00:59:03Many are used for communication, and others are used for power.
00:59:06What Russia appears to have been doing is carrying out something called drifting,
00:59:10where it sends vessels to the approximate locations of these cables.
00:59:14Armed with undersea scanning equipment, those vessels linger in one place for long enough for Russia to create what amounts
00:59:20to be an underwater map of the cable networks,
00:59:22which will enable attacks in the future.
00:59:24At least, that's the theory, and it's backed up by the sheer scale of these drifting incidents.
00:59:29In the North Sea alone, drifting rose by 52% in 2025, up to 13,079 drifting incidents recorded.
00:59:37And it's not just waters that are important to Russia being mapped out either.
00:59:41Reuters say that China has been doing something in the waters close to its territory.
00:59:46In a March report, Reuters said Chinese government and university records have uncovered a trail of similar operations carried out
00:59:53in Pacific, Arctic and Indian waters over the last five years.
00:59:56These operations involved at least 42 research vessels, as China looks to gather as much information about underwater terrain as
01:00:03it can.
01:00:04The same outlet also notes that 2025 saw drifting activity in the South China Sea rise by 88%, with 18
01:00:12,401 drifting events recorded.
01:00:15Now, drifting isn't illegal, especially when carried out in international waters.
01:00:19And that's NATO's big problem, especially when it comes to Russia.
01:00:23The Kremlin can approve these operations, claiming that it wants to carry out deep-sea research.
01:00:28But what it's really doing is determining the locations of undersea cables that can be cut, causing severe problems for
01:00:34NATO in the event of a war.
01:00:36And cutting has been happening.
01:00:38Since October 2023, at least 11 cables have been damaged or outright sliced open in the Baltic region.
01:00:44The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists adds more, noting just how important these cables are.
01:00:50Almost 1.6 million kilometers of these cables have been laid, and they carry 97% of all intercontinental data
01:00:56flow, covering everything from data related to global financial systems to mission-critical information for militaries.
01:01:03In fact, these cables facilitate over 80% of America's military communication.
01:01:09And given how important the US is in the NATO ecosystem, that means the cables also account for a huge
01:01:14portion of European military communication.
01:01:17It's becoming increasingly clear why Russia is running secret exercises that revolve around these cables.
01:01:23They're vital for NATO.
01:01:24So vital that Forbes' Ariel Cohen has labelled undersea infrastructure a weak spot of America's national security.
01:01:31If Russia is able to cut enough of these cables, it could devastate the operations not just of the military,
01:01:37but of private companies including Google, Amazon and Meta.
01:01:40If those company services go down, the knock-on effects from social to economic would be incredibly disruptive.
01:01:46As Cohen points out,
01:01:47The ocean floor has quietly become one of the most contested battlegrounds on the planet.
01:01:52A dragged anchor doesn't trigger a NATO Article 5 response, and that's exactly why it works.
01:01:57This is what Russia banks on.
01:01:59It can do an immense amount of damage without triggering a full-blown war.
01:02:03That's why we're seeing the number of instances of drifting and sabotage rise.
01:02:07All of this has been predicted for a while, which makes it even more concerning.
01:02:10Back in July 2025, the Guardian wrote that undersea cable attacks backed by Russia and China were going to rise.
01:02:17And that's exactly what we saw by the end of the year, per Reuters figures.
01:02:21The same outlet adds that it's not just the lack of response such attacks trigger that's attractive to Russia.
01:02:26The deniability involved is also right up the Kremlin's alley.
01:02:30If a Russian anchor is dragged along the seabed and just happens to hit a cable,
01:02:34purposefully of course, Russia can simply hold its hands up and say,
01:02:37whoops, it was an accident.
01:02:39It's not our fault that there was a cable where one of our ships just so happened to drop anchor.
01:02:43We'll put it bluntly.
01:02:45The network of almost 600 fibre optic cables that run along the ocean floor
01:02:49is responsible for 99% of the internet's operation
01:02:53and $10 trillion of financial transactions every single day.
01:02:57If enough of them go down, the entire world is plunged into chaos.
01:03:00It may sound hyperbolic and Russia's plans will likely focus on cables most directly tied to NATO,
01:03:06but there is a very clear geopolitical crisis developing here.
01:03:09And when Russia is carrying out training exercises where it deploys secret weapons,
01:03:14even if it's caught doing it,
01:03:15then NATO has some very clear signals about Russia's plans,
01:03:18should the Kremlin decide to go to war with NATO.
01:03:21And even if a war isn't in the offing,
01:03:23these types of cable attacks can still cause major problems for NATO's allies
01:03:27while giving Russia that deniability we talked about.
01:03:30Enough to cause problems, but not enough to kickstart a conflict.
01:03:34That may be the balance that Putin wants to strike,
01:03:37and NATO needs to be more prepared than it's ever been before to deal with this issue.
01:03:41All of which brings us to the key questions.
01:03:43How is NATO dealing with this emerging Russian threat,
01:03:46and what can it do to improve what it's doing?
01:03:48As impressive as the joint operation carried out by the UK, US and Norway was,
01:03:53it was still a response, rather than a proactive defence.
01:03:55However, it was likely a response built on the back of effort being made to track Russian submarines,
01:04:01allowing for NATO assets to be sent to disrupt Russian plans in the first place.
01:04:05Back in August 2025, Newsweek revealed that NATO allies have kickstarted several projects
01:04:10to counter Russia's submarine threat.
01:04:12For instance, July 2025 saw NATO scientists set sail on the NRV Alliance,
01:04:18on which they headed around Svalbard and the Greenland Sea.
01:04:21Small boats were deployed from this main ship, which dropped buoys carrying hydrophones,
01:04:26which are microphones that record sound underwater.
01:04:28This was a test, as the signals being picked up by the hydrophones came from the NATO ship.
01:04:34However, it's this type of low-profile technology that could be used to pick up on the sounds
01:04:39made by submarines under the waves in the future.
01:04:42Other technology used for these submarine tracking purposes includes magnetic anomaly detectors,
01:04:47radars and infrared sensors, though acoustic sensors are the most effective,
01:04:52says the Royal United Services Institute think tank.
01:04:54These technologies are useful to NATO, but more must be done to counter Russia's underwater threat.
01:05:00What we typically see are operations carried out by NATO members, but not collectively by NATO itself.
01:05:06The UK's Atlantic Bastion is a good example.
01:05:09Announced in 2025, the program was called a world-leading response to the resurgence in Russian submarine and underwater activity,
01:05:16and it was kicked off by an investment of £15 million, approximately $19 million,
01:05:21attracting proposals to develop new anti-submarine sensor technology from companies all over the UK and Europe.
01:05:28Engelsberg Ideas adds that this project will incorporate the use of artificial intelligence
01:05:33and that it's eventually intended to cover the coasts of Western Europe and stretch to the eastern Greenland coast.
01:05:39However, the plan doesn't cover the possibility that Russia could exploit gaps south of Greenland,
01:05:44either for its sabotage operations or a more devastating nuclear strike from a submarine.
01:05:49And that ultimately is the point.
01:05:51Projects like Atlantic Bastion are important.
01:05:54But they're too often compartmentalised within NATO, helping to protect the alliance,
01:05:58but created and spearheaded by one or two nations.
01:06:01A cohesive plan is needed.
01:06:03The Baltic Sentry program shouldn't operate in isolation from Atlantic Bastion, for instance.
01:06:08They should both be part of a wider strategy to counter Russia's undersea plans.
01:06:13NATO may also need to start developing a fleet of specialised repair and inspection vessels,
01:06:18especially as most of what's available is privately owned, limited in number,
01:06:22and designed for peacetime operation, rather than a naval war zone.
01:06:26Within individual governments, War on the Rocks points out responsibility for undersea cable infrastructure
01:06:32is often split between multiple departments, creating yet more friction.
01:06:36And with much of the undersea cable network that exists being privately owned,
01:06:40there's also a transactional element to the protection of this vital infrastructure that needs to be overcome.
01:06:46Russia thrives in exploiting fractures.
01:06:48And in NATO's approach to undersea cables, it has plenty of fractures to take advantage of.
01:06:53Make no mistake about it, there will be more from Russia to come.
01:06:57What happened in the waters near Svalbard is just one example of how Russia has been expanding its underwater capabilities.
01:07:03The secret weapon exposed in that exercise is being joined by all sorts of plans.
01:07:08In May, United24 media reported on Russia developing a new project that will allow it to plant nuclear missiles on
01:07:14the Arctic Ocean seabed.
01:07:16A couple of months before, the Center for Maritime Strategy reported that Russia has also been expanding its underwater robotics
01:07:23capabilities,
01:07:24to the point where it's now able to field a mixture of surface and deep sea platforms that can carry
01:07:29out reconnaissance work and conduct operations on the seabed.
01:07:32Autonomous vehicles are in place along with unmanned submersibles and should all be causing alarm bells to ring around NATO.
01:07:39NATO members hit back in Svalbard. That's an encouraging sign.
01:07:43It shows that several members can cooperate to stop Russian undersea operations.
01:07:47But what we're seeing emerge here may be the site of a key conflict between Russia and NATO.
01:07:52Russia clearly thinks so. It's developing an undersea force to be reckoned with.
01:07:57NATO has to take this force seriously, using the Svalbard incident as the inspiration to develop a stronger, more cohesive
01:08:03and much wider framework for dealing with what Russia has planned.
01:08:07If nothing happens, the Kremlin will just keep prodding and poking NATO and its members.
01:08:12And if any evidence of that were needed, we only have to look at what happened at Leipzig Airport in
01:08:16August.
01:08:17Russia targeted European aviation logistics with drones, and Germany has responded.
01:08:22Revenge has been vowed, and you can find all about it by watching our video.
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