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00:01The UK is surrounded by submarines.
00:04That's the devastating assessment delivered by a member of the UK Parliament who adds that Russia is trying to do
00:10something sinister in the UK's waters.
00:13Undersea cables are the key, kilometres of them all vulnerable to Russian attack.
00:19So the questions have to be asked, what's really happening and what is the UK doing to counter the biggest
00:25naval threat it's faced in modern times?
00:29Michelle Scroggam, who is the Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furnace, as well as the chair of the AUKUS
00:34All-Party Parliamentary Group, made her claim in a September 15th piece for the iPaper, and she came with numbers
00:41to back it up.
00:42According to Scroggam, the past year has seen the Royal Navy get called out 116 times for shadow Russian warships,
00:51merchant vessels and in some cases, submarines in and around the UK's waters.
00:55All told, she adds, the UK has been forced to track 61 of Russia's warships in a single year, and
01:02it's also had dealings with submarines.
01:04The Telegraph has similar numbers, repeating the claim of 116 Royal Navy activations, though claiming the number of vessels tracked
01:12amounts to almost 90, rather than the 61 that Scroggam mentions.
01:16What all of this means is that the UK's Navy is being called into action, on average, about twice per
01:22week, all due to an escalating Russian threat in its waters.
01:26Surrounded by submarines may be a touch hyperbolic, but it's no lie to say that Russia's entire Navy has become
01:32a threat to the UK, and submarines are perhaps the deadliest aspect of that threat.
01:37Surface vessels can be seen and tracked with relative ease, however submarines operating deep under the waves are much harder
01:44to track in the first instance, and far more difficult to corral once they've been discovered.
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02:01Moves have to be made, Scroggam argues. After all, Russia has built one of the world's largest and most impressive
02:08submarine fleets for precisely this type of purpose.
02:11Scroggam herself reveals the basics.
02:14Russia operates one of the world's largest and most modern submarine fleets, featuring more than two dozen nuclear-powered attack
02:22boats, which has grown steadily more active in the seas around us, she says.
02:26As she points to the Yasin-M as Russia's newest and most dangerous class of submarines.
02:32Designed to be the quietest sub in the Russian arsenal, the Yasin-M carries Caliber cruise missiles, which Russia uses
02:38constantly against Ukraine,
02:40and which the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance reports are capable of carrying nuclear warheads up to a weight of 450
02:47kilograms.
02:48With a range of up to 2,500 kilometers, these missiles could be launched from practically anywhere in the waters
02:56surrounding the UK and still strike targets all over the kingdom.
03:00But that new submarine is just the most recent threat. There are many more.
03:04In its examination of Russia's submarine capabilities, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, or NTI, says that Russia has an estimated 64
03:12submarines in its fleet, making it one of the largest undersea fleets in the world.
03:18Of those 64 submarines, 16 are nuclear-powered and capable of firing ballistic missiles, making them key to Russia's nuclear
03:26and strategic deterrence.
03:27The NTI notes that right now, Russia's submarines present their greatest threat to Ukraine.
03:33However, there are concerns that they could be used to strike vital infrastructure in the North Atlantic, including unconfirmed reports
03:40that Russia used its submarines to attack the Nord Stream pipeline and cause significant damage.
03:46That gives us a little clue as to why Russia is sending its submarines and warships to the UK.
03:51It isn't just about having the ability to launch missiles that can strike UK territory.
03:56The national interest also labels Russia's submarine fleet as one of the world's most powerful, noting that it's also among
04:03the most diverse.
04:04Those submarines provide Russia with the ability to monitor both the Pacific and Atlantic regions.
04:09The outlet notes, and beyond the latest class that Scrogan mentions, Russia has several others, ranging from nuclear-powered submarines
04:17to louder, but no less dangerous, diesel-powered submarines.
04:20The size of the submarine force alone suggests that Russia will pose a serious undersea challenge to the US and
04:26NATO, never mind just the UK, and that fleet is growing further.
04:31On top of its crude submarines, Russia is also starting to build uncrewed submersibles, along with other uncrewed vessels.
04:38In a March report, the Center for Maritime Strategy said that Russia has created an entire underwater surveillance network named
04:45Harmony, which has seen Russia deploy surface drones, robots that can scan and navigate the seabed,
04:52and deep-diving underwater vehicles that are capable of seabed mapping, protecting Russian infrastructure, and most worryingly for the UK,
04:59carrying out sabotage so deep that it's difficult to spot until it happens.
05:04Some of Russia's undersea vehicles have also entered serial production, including the Galtel and Klaverson 1P3, suggesting that Russia is
05:13scaling up an underwater fleet that can be operated remotely and is capable of doing damage without putting crews at
05:19risk.
05:20So Russia clearly represents a danger to any nation with its submarine fleet. But why the UK?
05:27Scrogram claims that it's the UK that is being surrounded by Russian submarines and warships, so there has to be
05:32a reason, as well as a goal, that those submarines are trying to achieve.
05:36The reason is clear to anybody who has been following the news recently.
05:40Tensions between the UK and Russia have been rising, with Russia escalating to make outright threats against the UK, seemingly
05:47triggered by the UK deciding to share confidential information about storm shadow missiles with Ukraine.
05:52Russia has claimed that the UK is playing with fire as it threatens a military response, potentially targeting the UK's
06:00drone factories.
06:01Even before that, the UK has been a massive thorn in Russia's side since the moment that Putin invaded Ukraine.
06:07The UK has committed over $33 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
06:12It's also formed a 100-year partnership, covering everything from economic to defensive ventures, which sends an obvious message to
06:20the Kremlin that the UK believes Ukraine will win the war and exist for decades to come.
06:25The UK is also one of the spearhead nations of the coalition of the willing, which is a collection of
06:30more than 30 nations that have committed to forming a peacekeeping force inside Ukraine that will be put into place
06:36when the war with Russia ends.
06:38To say that Russia doesn't like the UK is an understatement.
06:42Russia sees the UK as one of Ukraine's most prominent and vocal supporters, so it wants to do everything that
06:48it can do to diminish that support and minimize the impact the UK has on its invasion of Ukraine.
06:52With Russia's reason for targeting the UK established, we come to the purpose of surrounding the UK with submarines and
06:59warships.
07:00That purpose isn't to put the UK within the range of the Russian fleet's weapons.
07:04That's a nice little side benefit.
07:06What Russia wants to do is to present a constant threat to something that the UK needs to keep the
07:11entire country running.
07:13The vast network of undersea cables that are essential for communications, internet usage and practically every aspect of modern UK
07:20society.
07:21If Russia targets those cables, it poses a serious threat to the UK.
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07:37Scrogan points to the UK's undersea cable network as Russia's primary target, and she explains why.
07:43Beneath the North Atlantic lie 60 fibre optic cables carrying an estimated 99% of Britain's internet traffic, along with
07:52pipelines and power interconnectors that bring much of our energy ashore, she reveals.
07:56In other words, this vast undersea network is what keeps the UK running.
08:01Communications, internet, energy, all vital to the running of a modern country and more pressingly, the operations of a modern
08:08military.
08:09Over the last few years, Russia has been working hard to map undersea cables, not just around the UK, but
08:14across all of Europe.
08:15As far back as November 2025, Sky News reporter Michael Drummond was pointing out that these cables connect the UK
08:22to the rest of Europe, with many of them being located in the English Channel.
08:25Drummond also pointed out that at least one Russian spy ship, named the Yantar, has been spotted and shepherded away
08:32by the Royal Navy several times, including an event in early 2025, when the Yantar had to be shadowed by
08:39the HMS Somerset, as it made its way through the channel.
08:42And that's just one of the ships that the UK can see.
08:45Under the waves, there may well be submarines working to map undersea cables.
08:49Drummond claims that Russia already has a pretty good idea of where most of the important cables are due to
08:54these efforts.
08:55And that knowledge sets the stage for sabotage attacks, ranging from dragging anchors over those cables to deploying submersibles to
09:02sabotage them.
09:04Russia is practicing these types of attacks, and in some cases, it's already pulling them off.
09:09Veraniya Khodrian, who is the head of strategy at EuroAtlas, tells UK outlet LBC that her organization has been warning
09:16about the threat that Russia poses to the UK's undersea infrastructure for several years, adding that an incident earlier in
09:222026, which saw the UK and Norway deploy into high north waters to disrupt a Russian submarine operation, is a
09:29perfect example of what she's talking about.
09:31We'll dig deeper into that operation in a moment, but the point of it all is that Russia is engaging
09:36in grey zone warfare across Europe, and the UK's critical infrastructure is a prime target.
09:42Especially in places like the seabed, where there is little visibility, and the network of infrastructure is so vast that
09:47persistent monitoring is extremely difficult, Khodrian says.
09:50Though that incident didn't amount to any real damage and was more likely a practice run for Russia, the Kremlin
09:57has already achieved success elsewhere.
09:59The China Strategy Risks Institute examined 12 suspected undersea cable sabotage attempts between January 2021 and April 25, noting that
10:10of the 10 that involved identified vessels, eight could be linked to either Russia or China based on flags or
10:16ownership.
10:17So this concept of Russia attacking undersea infrastructure isn't some far-flung theory, it's actively happening as we speak, and
10:24according to Scrogram, the UK is Russia's next target.
10:28If Russia is allowed to follow through on its plans, it could devastate the UK.
10:33Imagine one day that the internet just completely disappears. This isn't a minor outage. It lasts for days or even
10:39weeks, all because some undersea cables have been severed.
10:42You wouldn't even be able to send an email. Anything you have stored in the cloud becomes inaccessible.
10:48Practically every business and governmental organization is forced into panic mode, as the web has been integrated into every aspect
10:54of modern living.
10:55As for the military, any comms that involve the internet are shut down, which frankly is going to be most
11:00of them.
11:01Telecommunications outside of the internet would also be a risk as smartphones and other mobile devices go offline.
11:07This is an internet shutdown used as a weapon of war, and the impact would be devastating.
11:12If we focus solely on the economic impact, London Loves Tech says that even a 24-hour shutdown would cost
11:19the UK's economy about $2.1 billion.
11:22Russia would only need to shut the UK down for a little over two weeks, and it would essentially do
11:27the equivalent of the UK's total Ukraine aid budget to the country's economy.
11:32Backup systems could help. Landlines could offer telephone communications, though they're becoming rarer in the UK.
11:37In 2024, the number of UK households with landlines dropped to below 50%, hitting 47%, as most are happy to
11:45use their smartphones rather than rely on analog communications.
11:49Satellite internet could provide some relief, especially for a military that is dealing with a massive comms issue.
11:54But switching to satellites when cable-based internet was used before takes time, which Russia could exploit to follow up
12:01with other attacks.
12:02What we're seeing as Russia surrounds the UK with submarines and warships is the foundation being laid for attacks that
12:08could cripple the UK.
12:09And even if the impact is temporary, it would be enough to give Russia a clear advantage in any conflict
12:15that arises between the two.
12:16And so we come to the big question, what is the UK doing about all of this?
12:21For one, the Royal Navy is actively stepping up its patrols as a preemptive measure to help it spot Russia's
12:27sneaky vessels faster.
12:28Those patrols have risen by 25%, national security news reported on August 12th, noting that British warships and helicopters spent
12:3721 days out of 31 in July monitoring Russian vessels in the UK waters and the North Atlantic.
12:43This is an important step. If the UK shows the Kremlin that it's watching constantly, then it becomes harder for
12:49Russia to pull off the sort of cable attack that could plunge the UK into darkness.
12:53We also mentioned an incident in the high north involving the UK and Norway.
12:57That incident happened in April and involved the UK deploying warships and aircraft alongside Norway and with assistance from the
13:05US to track and monitor undersea naval units deployed by Russia's main directorate of deep sea research or GUGI.
13:12The UK sent the Type 23 frigate HMS St Albans alongside Merlin helicopters and RFA Tidespring to confront Russian submersibles.
13:22It was later revealed that GUGI may have been practicing the deployment of a top secret weapon that would allow
13:28it to sabotage undersea cables without leaving any evidence behind.
13:32The nature of this weapon hasn't been revealed, meaning it could be something as simple as a mechanical grabber through
13:38to some sort of electronic warfare device designed to disrupt those cables.
13:41In this instance, the UK managed to chase Russia away, but it took a three country effort and the cost
13:47of deployment to make it happen.
13:49What this incident reveals is that Scrogram is right about Russian submarines operating in the waters that impact the UK.
13:55In her article, she added that the UK is doing more besides these types of deployments to keep Russia at
14:00bay.
14:01Specifically, she mentions AUKUS.
14:03The partnership between the US, UK and Australia involves building a new class of nuclear-powered submarines from which all
14:10three can benefit.
14:11The program began in 2021, and as Scrogram points out, its value is not confined to peacetime deterrence.
14:18Were conflict to reach NATO's eastern flank, the defense of Europe would depend on keeping the sea lanes of the
14:22North Atlantic open for Allied reinforcements,
14:25and on hunting Russian submarines that could launch missiles at Britain or its allies.
14:29However, we can't be too quick to assume that AUKUS will be able to solve every problem that the UK
14:34has with Russia's submarines.
14:35For one thing, there is red tape in the UK that is holding up the purchase of new submarines.
14:40In a September 12 report, The Telegraph revealed that the UK government has delayed the building of the new attack
14:45submarines until 2028, likely as a budgetary measure.
14:49Given the immediacy of the problem that Scrogram discusses in her iPaper piece, that seems like a strange decision.
14:55Still, AUKUS is pressing ahead.
14:57The UK's defense investment plan, which was published in the summer, has revealed that Rolls-Royce will be building the
15:03complete nuclear propulsion units for the submarines being designed as part of AUKUS.
15:07It's also anticipated that the first of these submarines will enter the Royal Navy at some point in the late
15:122030s.
15:13For some, that might seem like too long to wait.
15:16A decade or more for this project to come to fruition is worrying when it's clear that Russia is actively
15:21doing sinister things in and around the UK waters right now.
15:25But the UK is far from defenseless on the submarine front, even as it waits for AUKUS to bear fruit.
15:31The Royal Navy operates a fleet of six astute-class nuclear-powered submarines, though it's rare for all of them
15:37to be operational at the same time.
15:39Still, these subs are among the quietest that any European country has and, due to being nuclear-powered, they have
15:45almost unlimited range.
15:47The subs need to be replenished with food and supplies every 90 days, but beyond that, they're an excellent choice
15:52if the UK feels the need to start shadowing Russian submarines that it detects in its territory.
15:57The partnership between the UK and Norway is also deepening.
16:01In August 2025, Norway signed a $13.3 billion deal to have the UK build several Type 26 frigates, which
16:09are anti-submarine warships.
16:10For the UK, this is almost as good as building those warships for itself, as the High North incident shows
16:16that the UK and Norway are actively working together to confront the Russian threat.
16:20Scrogram also notes that the UK is working alongside Japan and Italy on something called the Global Combat Air Programme,
16:27which exists to develop the next generation of combat aircraft that the UK will use.
16:32What all of this shows us is that steps are being put in place to counter the Russian threat.
16:36And in taking these steps, the UK is also building up its industrial base, perhaps setting up for the strengthening
16:42of its own fleet in the future.
16:44But then, that's the problem. In the future.
16:47The UK is still playing catch-up. In the present, Russia still has a much larger submarine fleet.
16:52Russia is also actively engaging in the very types of activities that these future programmes are designed to protect the
16:59UK against.
16:59And though the UK is extremely active in monitoring Russia's naval activities, it would only take one or two of
17:06the many warships or submarines to slip through the net and undersea cables could be cut.
17:11We've always known that Russia is engaged in shady activity.
17:15That's been the case since the Cold War era, when networks of Russian spies operated all over the world.
17:21Not a lot has changed. With the former KGB Hawk at its helm, Russia is as active in the assassination
17:28game as it has ever been.
17:30But it has just been caught in a shocking announcement.
17:33The US has just revealed the identities of five people whom it accuses of operating a secretive assassination network.
17:41Charges have been filed. Russia's assassins have been exposed.
17:45But this is a story that is only just getting started, and you're about to find out why.
17:50We'll start with the basics. On September 16th, the news broke that federal prosecutors in the US had accused five
17:57men of being a part of a network of spies and assassins who were working together to kill Russian dissidents
18:03both in the US and abroad.
18:05The five men are the ringleaders of the network, with their collective goal being to surveil potential targets and then
18:11recruit would-be assassins to take out those targets.
18:14The charges are varied. All five of the men are charged with conspiracy to finance terrorism, which carries a maximum
18:21sentence of 20 years in prison.
18:23Other charges include conspiracy to commit murder for hire, which can result in multiple punishments, including fines of up to
18:31$250,000.
18:32And prison sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years, depending on whether personal injury was caused as a result of
18:39the conspiracy.
18:40This is huge. The US has just uncovered an assassination ring operating on its own territory, and it isn't happy.
18:48And before we go on, we just want to remind you that we're real people producing researched and fact-checked
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19:01don't publish publicly.
19:03Speaking about the charges, Attorney General Todd Blanche declared,
19:06It's our job to stop America's adversaries from unleashing violence and terror on American soil.
19:11And that's precisely what we're doing thanks to the work of the FBI and our Justice Department prosecutors.
19:17The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, added,
19:20As alleged in the indictment, this plot exposes the lengths to which our adversaries will go to silence its critics
19:27and illustrates the grave threat transnational repression poses to the lives and freedoms of all who challenge authoritarian regimes.
19:35There are plenty of other comments made by prominent US figures, but the gist is clear.
19:39The US won't tolerate anybody, least of all Russia, attempting to carry out terrorist activities on American soil.
19:46In the space of a single indictment, the relationship between the US and Russia has been set back tremendously.
19:53Putin will be seething.
19:55He thought he could play the US like a fiddle as he tried to manipulate his way into a stronger
20:00bargaining position for peace talks with Ukraine.
20:03This isn't the case anymore.
20:04Russia's activities have been exposed, and the US is not happy about it.
20:10Here's what we know about the plot so far.
20:12Three of the defendants are members of Russia's intelligence services.
20:15They include a father and son duo, Yuri and Kirill Kramiev, as well as a Cuban national named Oemis Romagoza
20:23Deruthi.
20:24Yuri is also referred to as Colonel Yuri, is 63 years old and has a long history of participating in
20:31recruitment of individuals to commit murder.
20:32His son appears to be a rotten chip off the old block and is currently an officer in the Federal
20:38Security Service of Russia, or FSB.
20:41As for Oemis Romagoza Deruthi, he is a member of the Cuban diaspora, the US Justice Department alleges.
20:47These are Cubans who live outside of their home island.
20:50Right now, Deruthi lives in Russia, though he is known to coordinate attacks for Russian intelligence.
20:55It's also interesting that there is a Cuban national involved.
20:58It was only in May that the US claimed that both Russia and China were expanding their spy operations in
21:04Cuba,
21:05with both increasing the number of agents they have operating in the Republic, as well as upgrading their electronic surveillance
21:10facilities.
21:11American intelligence has identified 18 known signals intelligence sites operated by these two countries in Cuba,
21:18and it's very possible that Russia, at least, has created some sort of recruitment pipeline,
21:23leading to Cuban nationals becoming part of the Russian intelligence services.
21:27These three men, along with the other two we're about to reveal, have been operating in the US since at
21:32least 2024,
21:34and are part of what the US Justice Department calls the RIS network.
21:38The network is one of several arms of Russia's intelligence apparatus focused on carrying out external attacks up to and
21:45including murder.
21:46One of its chief aims is to locate and kill Russian dissidents and defectors, with a particular focus on allies
21:53of Ukraine.
21:53The RIS network has reportedly attempted to recruit individuals from all over the US to carry out surveillance operations and
22:00orchestrate assassination attempts.
22:03These three men appear to have been the ringleaders of the operation.
22:07The other two work more actively on the ground.
22:10Yidel Delgado Suarez is accused of working as a recruiter for the shadowy network,
22:15with his job being to find people in the US who are willing to carry out surveillance and murder in
22:20return for money.
22:21Finally, the fifth defendant, Angel Eduardo Castro, aged 22, is accused of actively recruiting a would-be assassin,
22:29who was tasked with killing a Russian dissident believed to be living in Washington DC.
22:33That dissident hasn't been named by the US.
22:36Beyond people that Russia wants to have wiped off the map,
22:39this network has also been trying to recruit people who are willing to surveil and potentially sabotage military infrastructure in
22:46Europe.
22:46That opens up all sorts of interesting avenues.
22:50It's no secret that Europe is dealing with a major hybrid warfare problem related to Russia right now.
22:55Drones, some armed with explosives, were discovered at Leipzig airport throughout August.
23:00August alone saw several European countries record attacks,
23:04including a major fire at a warehouse owned by defense firm Emco in Bulgaria,
23:09and an attempted arson attack against a drone facility owned by Ukraine in Slovakia.
23:15That's just a tiny sample of several years of attempted and sometimes successful sabotage efforts in Europe,
23:21which the BBC says are mostly being carried out by sabotage for hire.
23:26Could this network of five men in the US have been responsible for some of these attacks?
23:30It's possible, though the US isn't providing any specifics in these cases.
23:35That isn't to say there are no specifics related to the charges.
23:38According to the Guardian, at least one person the network hired named US Resident One in the indictment,
23:44was sent the details of two locations associated with the targeted victim,
23:49along with receiving explicit instructions on how to conduct surveillance.
23:53That would-be murderer was promised between 1,000 and 1,500 to conduct the surveillance work.
23:59After providing the photographs the network wanted,
24:02this same person was then offered $40,000 to make the target disappear.
24:07However, that offer was rejected, perhaps because the individual saw their opportunity to make a quick buck,
24:13quickly devolve into something that would have put them at incredible risk,
24:16while leaving the Russian spies free to continue their operations.
24:20The New York Times adds that this particular plot involved the use of voice messages,
24:25and that the resident in question was a Venezuelan citizen living in Brooklyn,
24:29who said that he was willing to take the picks, but not do the other stuff.
24:34Suarez, who appears to have been the go-between for the citizen and Yuri Kremeyev,
24:39then asked the citizen if he knew anybody who wants to do construction.
24:43That appears to have been a code word.
24:45Construction seems to have been a running theme in these messages,
24:48as another saw the Russian network ask if somebody was willing to
24:51measure a plot of land and provide measurements.
24:55Something similar happened in Lithuania in June 2025.
24:59There, the younger Kremeyev was accused of meeting an American at the border between Russia and Estonia,
25:04where he offered $200 to this person to take photographs of a specific address
25:09in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.
25:11That American was then put in touch with the elder Kremeyev,
25:15who asked the individual to kill somebody at the address who was
25:18telling the media and common people that the Russians are the aggressors.
25:23Several methods were suggested, including stabbing the victim,
25:27or more brutally, throwing a bottle of gasoline at them.
25:30As in Brooklyn, the recruit refused, only to be offered a simpler job of setting fire to facilities in NATO
25:37countries that are helping Ukraine.
25:39The scale of this work is truly astounding.
25:42The five men accused clearly ran a global operation and were actively travelling all over the US and Europe
25:48to recruit people to their cause.
25:50It's debatable how successful these recruitment efforts were.
25:54In both of the cases we've shared, the recruit was willing to take photos,
25:58but bulked at the idea of actually killing people on behalf of Russia.
26:01But these are just the incidents we know about.
26:04The big question is how many of this network's plots end up being successful.
26:08The FBI wants to know the answers, and it will want to get to those answers as soon as possible.
26:13So, interviews are going to be scheduled with the men who have been charged, right?
26:17Here's where we see the twist in the tale.
26:19But before we reveal what that twist is, this is a reminder that you're watching The Military Show.
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26:32The twist is this.
26:34You may have noticed that we've used the words charged and accused throughout this video.
26:39However, we haven't used the word arrested.
26:41That's because all of the five men that the US just exposed are still at large.
26:46None of them have been caught,
26:47though the FBI claims that it has disrupted their wider plot.
26:51Presumably that means that all five have now escaped the US, likely heading back to Russia.
26:56We can only speculate about this situation.
26:58Perhaps the RIS network became aware of the FBI's investigation into its activities
27:03before the net could be closed around them, giving them a chance to escape.
27:06Or it's possible that the FBI has only learned key information after the men had already left,
27:11leaving them unable to make arrests.
27:14Either way, all five men have escaped punishment for their actions, at least when it comes to US prison sentences.
27:21However, none will be able to enter the US again without risking arrest.
27:25That's a small victory, albeit not the full victory the FBI would have preferred.
27:29The five men will be severely limited in their utility to Russia from now on.
27:33We can assume all necessary identifying information has been passed on to America's partners in Europe,
27:38which means the would-be assassins are going to have a very hard time operating on any soil other than
27:43their own from now on.
27:45Alarm bells will be ringing throughout the Kremlin.
27:48Putin's inner circle will be panicking, and questions are going to be asked about how much the US truly knows.
27:54After all, this is just what the US Justice Department has revealed publicly.
27:57For all anybody knows, the US has a lot more names than the five that it's just burned,
28:02and it may be investigating similar plots and networks as we speak.
28:05But if Russia is panicking, it's trying its best not to show any of that panic outwardly.
28:11The Russian embassy in the US has yet to comment on the case, which is a tried and true Russian
28:16tactic.
28:16When you're caught with your hand in the cookie jar, simply don't say anything and pretend it never happened.
28:21That same embassy has long been a part of the general Russian narrative,
28:25which has involved consistent rejections of any accusations that Russia is orchestrating assassination attempts on foreign soil.
28:32But this time, the embassy isn't saying anything.
28:34Perhaps it knows that the evidence is stacked to a level that it can't be denied,
28:38so it's staying quiet instead of saying anything that could make the situation worse.
28:43Outside of the US, Russia is providing a little bit more of a response, but it's not revealing much.
28:48Putin has deployed his favorite mouthpiece, Dmitry Peskov, to comment on America's accusations.
28:54His statement is essentially that the US hasn't provided any evidence for its claims,
28:59as though America is just going to tell Russia exactly what it's found and how.
29:02Until we've heard and seen any convincing evidence and arguments based on something tangible,
29:08we do not consider it necessary to comment on these reports," Peskov declared.
29:12So basically, no comment with more words attached.
29:15Notably, Peskov didn't say, we didn't do it.
29:18An admission by omission, perhaps.
29:21While Russia is trying to keep quiet and pretend that it had nothing to do with this network of spies,
29:25saboteurs, and would-be assassins, the rest of the world will be looking at America's revelations
29:30and seeing that they fit with a pattern of accusations against Russia that spans many years.
29:35As NBC points out, this is far from the first time that Russia has been accused of using intelligence operatives
29:41to attempt to orchestrate assassinations on foreign soil.
29:44There are literal decades of accusations we could pull from to demonstrate this,
29:49but we'll use a couple that have been made since Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
29:53In July 2024, the news broke that US intelligence had revealed a Russian plot to kill Armin Papirga,
30:01who is the CEO of Germany's largest arms company, Rheinmetall.
30:05Of course, Peskov was on hand to deny that such a plot existed, stating,
30:09It's all presented in the style of another fake story, so such reports cannot be taken seriously.
30:15How ironic, coming from the mouth of somebody who is a key part of Russia spreading fake stories all over
30:20the world,
30:20Rheinmetall itself kept relatively quiet, stating that it doesn't comment on matters of corporate security.
30:27And German political figures, though angry, tended to shy away from direct accusations against Russia.
30:32One of the key exceptions was Annalena Baerbock, who was then Germany's foreign minister.
30:37In view of latest reports on Rheinmetall, this is what we have actually been communicating more and more clearly in
30:42recent months.
30:43Russia is waging a hybrid war of aggression, she said during a NATO summit in the US.
30:48Fast forward almost two years, and the news broke that ten people had been arrested in both Moldova and Ukraine,
30:54under accusations of conspiring to kill prominent Ukrainians on orders from Russia.
30:59In a February 20th report, Pravda revealed that seven of the accused were operating in Russia, with the other three
31:04in Moldova.
31:05We saw a similar pattern here. Russia pays to have people assassinated.
31:10As the Office of the Prosecutor General in Ukraine said,
31:12The members of the organized group assigned their roles clearly, planned the methods of each murder,
31:18prepared the instruments used in the crimes and thought out escape routes.
31:21The Russian side promised the assassins up to $100,000 for each murder.
31:25The amount depended on prominence and influence of the potential victim.
31:29There are other examples.
31:31Just in August, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the authorities had arrested an individual in Poland
31:36who was planning the murder of a US citizen of Ukrainian origin in Warsaw.
31:40On and on it goes.
31:42There is a clear pattern here.
31:45Rather than doing the dirty work directly, Russia's intelligence services are operating all over Europe and the US,
31:50hiring people to do their bidding.
31:52Not all of these would-be assassins are especially talented.
31:56In a March incident, TVP World reported that members of a supposedly elite Russian hit squad had been caught in
32:02the act.
32:02This squad is named Center 795 and is believed to be responsible for a nerve agent attack that happened in
32:092018 in the UK.
32:11That's yet another instance of Russian assassination attempts carried out on foreign soil.
32:15The group totals about 500 officers pulled from Russia's military intelligence agencies.
32:20However, the group ran into a strange problem as it tried to hire foreign assassins.
32:25Linguistic incompatibility.
32:27The solution these assassins came up with was to use Google Translate to communicate with one another.
32:32Google is a US company.
32:34Its servers are based in America and the FBI can access those servers without requiring a surveillance warrant.
32:40You can probably guess what happened next.
32:43Investigators were able to intercept every instruction and report related to the group's assassination plots,
32:48all of which were timestamped courtesy of Google.
32:51As the insider puts it in its report,
32:54it was, as a source close to the investigation later noted,
32:57even better than a wiretap because it arrived transcribed.
33:01Russia had just been rumbled and it's far from the first time.
33:04As for what happens next,
33:06we'd love to tell you that the US is on the verge of catching the five men it's named on
33:09its federal indictment.
33:10However, the fact that those men have been named without being in custody suggests that they've managed to get out
33:15of the country.
33:16Far more worrying for Russia is the impact these latest revelations will have on the relationship between the US and
33:23Russia.
33:23According to DW, a new round of trilateral talks could be on the verge of happening,
33:28with the US acting as the mediator between Ukraine and Russia.
33:31Those talks could begin as early as October, the outlet says,
33:35as confirmed by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov,
33:39who says Ukraine is actively preparing for October talks.
33:43There are similar signals coming out of Russia,
33:45as Peskov has claimed that Russia hasn't ruled out the possibility of such talks in the foreseeable future.
33:51Putin would have hoped that his envoys would work overtime to manipulate the US in these talks,
33:56potentially leading to an agreement far more favorable to Russia than it is to Ukraine.
34:00That isn't likely to happen now.
34:02America's mediation will be colored by the fact that a Russian assassin network operating on its own territory has just
34:08been revealed.
34:09The Kremlin isn't going to be able to talk itself out of this one.
34:12And that can only mean good things for Ukraine, as the relationship between Russia and the US continues to crumble.
34:18You would think that Russia would be used to humiliation by now.
34:23Embarrassment has become a way of life for a country that has failed to take Ukraine,
34:27despite supposedly being much stronger.
34:29And no one in Russia is more red-faced than Putin,
34:32who has watched as every promise he made fell by the wayside.
34:35Now there's even more humiliation to add to the pile.
34:38Coming by way of Sweden, there is something terrifying in Ukraine's skies that is stopping the Russian aerial assault in
34:44its tracks.
34:45It's an aircraft that Russia never expected to see, and frankly, still doesn't seem to be able to see.
34:51And it's flying in Ukraine right now, under Russian noses and seemingly impervious to any attempts to stop it.
34:57That aircraft is the Swedish ASC 890.
35:01And Russia doesn't seem to be able to do anything about it.
35:03Official confirmation has come from Ukraine's Ministry of Defense that the Swedish-supplied ASC 890 is in the skies of
35:10Ukraine.
35:11And better yet, it's been conducting combat missions over Ukraine since March 2026.
35:16And Russia didn't seem to know a thing about it.
35:18The aircraft, which is an Airborne Early Warning Control or AEW and C plane,
35:24is capable of linking up with several of Ukraine's Western-made fighter jets,
35:28including the F-16, Mirage 2000, and in the future, the Swedish Gripen.
35:33And it serves as both a target detector and an aerial coordinator
35:37that improves the effectiveness of all of those aerial platforms.
35:40In combination with the F-16, Mirage 2000, and Gripen,
35:44it forms the basis of a modern network-centric air combat system according to NATO standards,
35:50the Ministry declares.
35:51For Russia, this means that Ukraine's air defenses,
35:54and perhaps even its aerial attacking capabilities,
35:57have received a massive upgrade.
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36:13We had hints that the Swedish plane was in the skies
36:16several months before the Ministry of Defense delivered its confirmation.
36:19Back in March, United24 media reported that the aircraft
36:22appeared to be flying in Ukrainian airspace on March 20th,
36:25with this observation serving as the first public indication
36:28that Ukraine had deployed the platform.
36:30However, the Ministry stayed quiet,
36:32likely because Ukraine wanted a chance to really get to grips
36:35with what the ASC-890 could do before it went public,
36:38and let Russia know for sure that Ukraine now has AEW and C capabilities.
36:43A video also surfaced of the aircraft in flight,
36:46though it's unclear if it was taking part in an operation or a test flight at the time.
36:51The War Zone also reports that there had been rumors of a Ukrainian radar plane
36:55taking flight in the Lviv area in April 2025, using the call sign Welcome.
37:01And before that, an aircraft using the same call sign was recorded flying in Polish and Hungarian airspace,
37:06perhaps en route to Ukraine.
37:08It was never confirmed if this aircraft was an ASC-890,
37:12but in the wake of what we've seen since, it seems likely.
37:15Russia won't be happy to learn about this new radar plane taking the sky,
37:18and Putin will be fuming about the fact that Sweden has provided yet more tangible support for Ukraine,
37:24as it defends itself against the Russian invasion.
37:27But trumping all of this is the fact that the ASC-890 has been flying since March.
37:32Why is that so bad for Russia?
37:34Despite this plane being big, bulky and an obvious candidate for being taken out by air defenses,
37:39Russia hasn't been able to shoot it down and may not have even known that it was in the skies
37:43to begin with.
37:44As Euromiden Press points out in its report on Ukraine's latest revelation,
37:48the ASC-890 is far from a stealth aircraft.
37:51It can't be if it's going to serve its function as a radar early warning plane.
37:55These types of planes radiate electromagnetic energy,
37:59which should make them easy to locate for air defenses that have radars capable of seeing deep enough into their
38:04zone of operation.
38:05The ASC-890 is also relatively large and much slower than the fighter jets that it supports,
38:11so it's not like it can maneuver out of the way of an air defense missile if one locks on.
38:15Yet Russia hasn't been able to do a thing for six months.
38:18That could be because Russia wasn't looking for the ASC-890 over Ukraine, though that seems like a weak argument.
38:24That massive electromagnetic signal could have given the game away,
38:28assuming it had been spotted by radar systems that operate by scanning across a radius of airspace.
38:33What seems more likely is that Russia hasn't been able to shoot down Ukraine's Swedish aircraft
38:37because it doesn't have enough air defenses operating close enough to the front to spot it.
38:42Ukraine has made that happen.
38:44Over the last year or so, Ukraine has been shattering Russian air defenses in the occupied territories,
38:49opening up gaps that have been exploited for Ukraine's medium and long-range strikes.
38:54Ukraine reports that Russia has lost 1,609 anti-aircraft systems as of September 7th,
39:00four of which were destroyed on September 6th alone.
39:03Russia's air defense situation has gotten so bad that the Center for European Policy Analysis labelled it as
39:09threadbare in a June article pointing out that the increasing success of Ukraine's strikes in places like Moscow and St.
39:15Petersburg
39:16indicates that Putin is struggling to protect Russian territory.
39:19These regions are Russia's crown jewels.
39:22If Putin can't even muster the air defenses needed to keep them safe,
39:26you can almost guarantee that frontline defenses in Ukraine are even further down his priority list.
39:32That is humiliation.
39:34The supposedly strong nation with the massive air defense network can't seem to stop an AEW and C aircraft
39:40that pumps out more than enough of the electromagnetic energy that makes it visible in the skies.
39:46Compounding the embarrassment for Russia is that it knows all too well how vulnerable these types of aircraft can be.
39:52After all, it's seen Ukraine take out several of Russia's equivalents of the ASC 890, aided by this very issue.
39:58Back in early June 2024, Ukraine shot down a pair of Russia's Beriev A-50 spy planes in the space
40:05of two months,
40:06the first going down on January 15th, followed by a second on February 23rd.
40:11The latter was hit somewhere between the Russian cities of Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don,
40:16suggesting that Ukraine was able to detect Russia's A-50s from a fair distance away.
40:21Euromiden Press brings up other examples, noting that Russia went to war with about seven of these planes.
40:26And besides the two destroyed in early 2024, Ukraine has also damaged one with a drone as it was on
40:31the ground in Belarus.
40:32Today, Russia's A-50s are deployed deeper into its own territory, out of the range of Ukrainian missiles,
40:38which naturally makes them far less useful for coordinating fighter jets.
40:43The planes Russia still has appear to be patrolling near the Volga River, where they keep an eye out for
40:47incoming cruise missiles.
40:49That's a clue as to why the ASC 890 is so valuable to Ukraine, but we'll get to that.
40:54The point we're making is that, for as important as the ASC 890 is to Ukraine, it's far from an
41:00invulnerable aircraft.
41:01Russia should, theoretically, be able to find it and destroy it, either in the skies or wherever Ukraine keeps it
41:07when it's not on a mission.
41:08But that hasn't happened.
41:10Russia doesn't even seem to have known that the ASC 890 was operational, and it certainly hasn't been able to
41:15target the plane.
41:17Coming back to Ukraine's announcement, it's been a long time coming.
41:20Ukraine's former defense minister, and now its Minister of Energy, Denis Shmial, announced back in August 2025 that Ukraine had
41:27received the first ASC 890 it's due to get from Sweden in an ex-post where he also revealed that
41:33Ukraine and Sweden were going to sign a joint manufacturing contract.
41:37Sweden confirmed the transfer, showing us that Ukraine had this aircraft for roughly seven months before the rumors started flying
41:44about its development, and about a year before the ASC 890 was officially confirmed to be flying over Ukraine.
41:51The transfer was made as part of the 16th and, to that date, the largest Swedish support package delivered to
41:57Ukraine.
41:57Valued at $1.25 billion, that package was focused on collective air defense, and just by existing, it showed that
42:05Putin's attempts to intimidate Sweden into withdrawing its support for Ukraine weren't working.
42:10Yet another humiliation for the Russian president.
42:12And now he knows that at least one ASC 890 is in the air, and it's helping Ukraine to counter
42:18Russia's main strategy as the invasion moves deeper into 2026 and beyond.
42:23But before we dig deeper into what the ASC 890 brings to Ukraine and why it's so important, this is
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42:42We've already touched on what makes the ASC 890 so special by revealing to you that it is an AEW
42:48and C aircraft loaded with radars that provide enhanced visibility.
42:51The basic specifications for the plane hinted its capabilities without really digging into them.
42:57The ASC 890 has a service ceiling of 7,620 meters, and it can stay in the air for up
43:03to seven hours before it needs refueling.
43:05Its top speed of 530 kilometers per hour isn't much to write home about when it comes to military aircraft,
43:11but speed isn't the point of the ASC 890.
43:15Capability combined with cost effectiveness is what really matters here.
43:19Army recognition points out that the ASC 890 specifications make it ideal for carrying out regional surveillance missions at a
43:25far lower cost than jet powered platforms.
43:28So Ukraine has a plane that is relatively cheap to run, but the real difference maker in the ASC 890
43:34has nothing to do with the plane itself.
43:35It's all about the radar, the ERII radar system.
43:40Officially designated as the PS 890, this radar system is called a True Force Multiplier by its manufacturer, Saab.
43:48And it's easy to see why.
43:49Based on active electronically scanned array or Acer technology, the ERII is an adjustable radar that can be tweaked to
43:57serve several purposes,
43:59including scanning over a wide area or more in-depth surveillance carried out over a smaller region.
44:05Capable of operating in all weather conditions due to its S-band technology, the ERII is precise and has a
44:11fast update rate,
44:13ensuring that all networked systems get the data that it generates as quickly as possible.
44:17The ERII can track targets up to 400 kilometers away when operating in favorable conditions,
44:23which may offer a hint as to why Russia hasn't been able to strike Ukraine's ASC 890 yet.
44:28The range its radar offers allows the plane to stay deep inside Ukraine while still being useful,
44:33which, when combined with Russia's air defense issues, makes it difficult to pin down.
44:38The ERII can also track a wide range of targets from fighter jets and other planes to cruise missiles, drones
44:44and even maritime targets.
44:45When installed into an ASC 890, this radar sits in a rectangular fairing located above the plane's fuselage.
44:52That's a departure from the spinning disks most people associate with radars.
44:57There's a reason for that.
44:58Spinning dishes create gaps as the switch between searching and tracking modes requires waiting for the dish to come back
45:04around.
45:04The ERII allows for much faster tracking, as its design allows for its beams to be steered electronically.
45:10What all of this means is that the ASC 890 provides Ukraine with something that it can't get from its
45:15ground radars – a top-down view of the battlefield at altitude.
45:19What this plane does is essentially put a radar thousands of meters into the sky, allowing incoming targets to be
45:25detected far earlier than they would be by a ground-based system that is limited by the Earth's curvature.
45:30With ground radars, anything over the system's horizon and beyond the curve is typically difficult to sight.
45:35The same goes for aerial radars, only that horizon extends massively.
45:38With all of the technical stuff out of the way, let's consider what this plane means for Ukraine operation.
45:44For one, the ASC 890 is officially the first AEW&C aircraft that Ukraine has ever operated.
45:50That's huge, because it means that Ukraine is introducing new capabilities beyond its own advancements in drone warfare into the
45:56war with Russia.
45:57These types of aircraft not only offer enhanced visibility, as we've already covered, but by having them, Ukraine also takes
46:03a step closer to integrating itself into the NATO ecosystem.
46:07As NATO itself points out, AEW&C aircraft, which can also be called Airborne Warning and Control System or AWACS
46:15aircraft, offer eyes in the skies that benefit all NATO forces.
46:20Communications, air surveillance, battlefield management, and aerial command and control are all made possible by planes like the ASC 890.
46:28NATO has a lot of these aircraft operating at any given time to support air policing, airspace management, and counter
46:34-terrorism missions.
46:35In the long term, Ukraine's exposure to the ASC 890 means it also gains a better understanding of these types
46:41of aircraft,
46:42which makes it easier for Ukraine to slot into the NATO defense ecosystem should the time come when Ukraine is
46:48able to join the NATO allies.
46:50Even if that time doesn't come, Ukraine can still use the experience it's gaining to make itself a useful partner
46:55to NATO.
46:56One caveat to all of this before we move on.
46:58Though the ASC 890 is the first AEW&C aircraft that Ukraine has ever operated as part of its own
47:04military,
47:05the nation wasn't completely bereft of experience with these types of aircraft before the arrival of Sweden's plane.
47:10During the Soviet era, Ukraine was the technological heartland and manufacturing base that Russia used to build much of its
47:17equipment.
47:17Ukraine was responsible for building Soviet Antonov AN-71, which flew from the Sviatoshin factory airfield in 1985.
47:25A prototype of this airframe logged 362 flights, so it's safe to say that it worked.
47:29It might have even become one of Ukraine's key aircraft were it not for a combination of funding issues,
47:35technical challenges and the collapse of the Soviet Union, ensuring that it never reached full production.
47:40Still, what this means is that Ukraine already had some knowledge of AEW&C before the ASC 890 arrived.
47:46Now it's building on that knowledge with an aircraft that is already used by Sweden and now NATO.
47:51What we've covered so far is why the ASC 890 could be valuable to Ukraine's future.
47:57But what about right now?
47:59Sweden's plane provides Ukraine with the capability that it's never had before,
48:03which is the ability to gain a top-down view across a wider area of its own airspace.
48:07That matters because it means that the ASC 890 is able to provide valuable support to Ukraine's Western fighter jets,
48:14especially when they're engaged in the one thing that Ukraine really needs them for right now,
48:18defending against Russia's aerial bombardments.
48:20As we've moved deeper into 2026,
48:23Russia has spent most of the summer and spring utterly failing to make the advances on the ground that Putin
48:27demanded.
48:28Russia has started to rely more heavily than ever before on aerial assaults.
48:33We can see that in the numbers.
48:34According to the Kyiv Independent, Russia has fired at least 1,858 missiles at Ukraine between January 1st and August
48:4227th.
48:43That's on top of tens of thousands of drones, some of which are now jet-powered, making them difficult for
48:49Ukraine's own drone interceptors to stop.
48:51Russia's use of missiles also accelerated to reach record levels in July, with 474 fired.
48:58August, or at least the first 27 days, saw a slowdown to 195 missiles.
49:03However, this slowdown also came as Ukraine started to run out of the missile interceptors it needed to stop Russia's
49:08missiles in their tracks,
49:10suggesting that Russia now feels it can achieve the same results that it did before, only with fewer missiles.
49:15The BBC adds that the volume of air raid alerts in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv is now at an
49:19all-time high,
49:21as people are being forced to head into shelters up to 13 times per day as Russia fires barrages of
49:27aerial projectiles.
49:28Ukraine needs anything and everything that it can add to its layered air defences to blunt Russia's attacks,
49:33and the ASC 890 fits the bill.
49:35Not because it's an aircraft capable of shooting down drones and missiles,
49:39but because it's one of the best in the world at tracking those projectiles long before they reach their targets.
49:43What we're seeing Ukraine do now is use its ASC 890 as an aerial radar,
49:48triggering the deployment of fighter jets that can shoot down at least the most dangerous of Russia's cruise missiles and
49:53drones as early as possible in their flights.
49:56Ukraine has to be careful.
49:58The lack of stealth and speed in the ASC 890 means that it can't be allowed to stray too close
50:03to the front.
50:03But as long as it's in the skies and protecting cities with its radar capabilities,
50:07Ukraine has a valuable asset on its hands.
50:10As for Sweden, it continues to support Ukraine no matter what the Kremlin says.
50:14Swedish intelligence already believes that Russia is going to remain a threat to its neighbours long after Putin is gone,
50:20which frames all of the support that Sweden now offers to Ukraine.
50:24Sweden wants to stave off that threat and ensuring that Ukraine can defend itself and fight back against Russia is
50:29the best way to do that.
50:30Ever since the bumper military aid package that saw the ASC 890 arrive in Ukraine in the first place,
50:36Sweden has dedicated even more money to Ukraine's cause.
50:39In February, the country pledged an additional $1.4 billion in military aid as part of a package that included
50:45air defense supplies,
50:46long-range missiles, drones and ammo.
50:49Another smaller package of $28 million was committed toward the end of August,
50:53with half of that money to be dedicated to the purchase of US weapons.
50:57Sweden isn't backing down.
50:59Sending one of its best reconnaissance planes to Ukraine was evidence enough of that,
51:03and there has been plenty more to follow ever since.
51:06For Ukraine, the ASC 890 is a key air defense asset,
51:09could serve as an offensive asset if the opportunity presents itself,
51:13and allows for further integration into the NATO fold.
51:16But for Sweden, this plane is a message to Putin.
51:19Ukraine will receive support until Russia finally retreats in failure.
51:23At times, Sweden has even sent weapons that it thought were obsolete into Ukraine,
51:27only for Ukraine to show the world how to use them.
51:30Such was the case when Sweden gifted its entire stock of PBV-302 armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine.
51:36Those vehicles are now doing some amazing things in Ukraine.
51:39You can find out what by watching our video.
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