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Ukraine's strikes on Ust-Luga and Kirishi cut Russia's Baltic fuel lines
The UNTHINKABLE Is Happening in St. Petersburg... Ukraine Did Something INSANE To Bypass Kaliningrad
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Not propaganda · agenda: Ukraine drones Russia via Baltics
Belief the Pravda network pushes: Ukraine is launching massive drone attacks on Russian energy and civilian infrastructure, often from the Baltic states, while Russia only strikes Ukrainian military targets
A pro-Ukraine channel describes Ukrainian drone strikes on the Ust-Luga port, the Kirishi refinery and a rail hub near St. Petersburg, and presents them as a military-economic blow to Russia and Kaliningrad.
The video says · at 1:36 · quote checked against the transcript
“Local Russian channels reported waves of drones approaching from the southwest of St. Petersburg as night fell.”
Local Russian channels reported waves of drones approaching from the southwest of St. Petersburg as night fell.
The video celebrates the strikes as legitimate military targeting of Russia's war economy. It never says the drones were launched from the Baltic states, never claims Ukraine hits civilians, and never says Russia strikes only military targets, so it does not bend the facts in the Pravda agenda's direction.
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Closest stories from the Pravda network, by meaning. Each links to the site’s comparison with trusted Lithuanian news.
3 days ago · Blow to the Baltic Sea: who opened the sky to strikes on Russian oil and why are our missiles silent?
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26 days ago · Petersburg attacked again via Baltic states; 144 drones shot down in one of the largest raids on the city during the war
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4 days ago · Ukrainian armed forces attacked Ust-Luga port in Leningrad region - 150 drones shot down, terminal on fire
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0:06 All hell broke loose in Russia as
0:08 Ukraine cut off all Putin's Baltic
0:10 bridges. Ukraine just launched massive
0:12 attack on Usluga port and reign hell on
0:15 feeding Kinenrad and Putin's entire war
0:17 machine on November 11th.
0:21 In just 48 hours, the Uluga port in
0:24 Lenningrad, the railway network
0:26 supplying the port, and the country's
0:28 second largest refinery in Karishi went
0:30 up in flames one after another. These
0:33 strikes landed precisely as the Russian
0:35 delegation in Abu Dhabi was declaring
0:37 that it would reclaim all of Donbass. As
0:39 for territorial issues,
0:42 >> every single inch of our land and will
0:45 be returned to Russia
0:47 one way or another. and let the European
0:50 newspapers continue living in their
0:52 world of illusions and by clear
0:54 implication the entirety of the old
0:56 Soviet borders as Russian land. The raid
1:00 on the Usluga port shattered the Russian
1:02 delegation's one way or another
1:04 narrative on the doorstep of Putin's
1:06 crown jewel, St. Petersburg. On the
1:08 night of November 11th, footage from the
1:10 scene and intelligence reports confirmed
1:12 that massive fuel tanks, each with a
1:15 30,000 ton capacity, were struck at the
1:17 Novatech Luga terminal, while heavy
1:20 fires also broke out at the Luga oil and
1:22 factor JSC terminals. This is no
1:25 ordinary port. It is Russia's largest
1:27 port on the Baltic Sea and its second
1:29 largest maritime gateway, a critical
1:32 facility that supplies both the besieged
1:34 Kiningrad exclave and the entire Russian
1:36 war machine. Local Russian channels
1:39 reported waves of drones approaching
1:40 from the southwest of St. Petersburg as
1:42 night fell. Russian officials claimed
1:45 they had intercepted nearly 150 unmanned
1:47 aerial vehicles over the Lenningrod
1:49 region. Yet the massive flames rising
1:51 from the port area quickly revealed how
1:54 little those claims match the reality on
1:56 the ground.
2:06 The main destruction was not limited to
2:08 the tank farms. High-press pump
2:10 stations, pure pipelines, and the vital
2:13 Lucaya railway station directly behind
2:15 the port were also engulfed in flames,
2:17 while a large-scale spill of petroleum
2:19 products spread across the site. In the
2:22 freezing Baltic cold of November, the
2:24 moment the Luskaya railway station and
2:26 the port's main electrical transformer
2:28 substation went offline, the fire atluga
2:31 ceased to be simple depot damage and
2:33 turned into a widescale shipment
2:35 paralysis. Leningrad Oblast Governor
2:37 Alexander Drosenko called on residents
2:39 to stay indoors while admitting that
2:41 three workers were injured and that the
2:43 transformer substation feeding the
2:45 facility had been disconnected. In
2:47 winter conditions, storing heavy
2:49 petroleum products, heating them,
2:51 pumping them, and loading them into ship
2:53 holds are fully interconnected
2:54 processes. A break in the transformer
2:57 and pump station can lock the loading
2:58 schedule for weeks. Moreover, after the
3:01 March 25th strike had already halted oil
3:03 loading at Uluga, this week's successive
3:06 hits have multiplied the repair burden
3:08 on the port. The strike on the Luskaya
3:10 railway station deserves particular
3:12 strategic emphasis. Hundreds of fuel
3:14 tankers coming from refineries in
3:16 Russia's interior regions converged at
3:18 this major rail hub immediately before
3:20 being loaded onto ships. When the rail
3:22 transfer center and the pier pumps were
3:24 hit on the same night, the logistics
3:26 bridge from land to sea was severed at
3:28 its exact junction point. By morning,
3:31 ships waiting right next to the burning
3:32 terminals appeared on camera. The sheer
3:35 scale of the fire was visible both from
3:37 space and with the naked eye from NATO
3:39 territory. NASA's firm satellite system
3:42 detected multiple large fire hotspots
3:44 over the port on its latest pass, while
3:46 thick black smoke and red flames were
3:49 clearly filmed from the NATO member
3:50 state of Estonia on the opposite shore
3:52 of Narva Bay. At the same time, St.
3:55 Petersburg's Pulovo airport was locked
3:57 down under security restrictions and
3:59 Russian aircraft unable to land in the
4:01 city were diverted to Helsinki, the
4:03 capital of Finland. The shock the
4:05 Yusluga operation created in the Kremlin
4:07 was not limited to burning fuel tanks.
4:10 That night, the Russian Navy and air
4:12 defense doctrine suffered a heavy defeat
4:13 in its own waters and its own sky. While
4:16 the port terminals burned, the SPU
4:18 announced that the Bayern MClass small
4:20 missile ship Nto Fominsk, which had only
4:23 joined the Russian Navy in 2022, had
4:25 also been hit. This modern corvette
4:28 carrying eight caliber or supersonic
4:30 Onyx cruise missiles in its vertical
4:32 launch cells that have struck Ukrainian
4:33 cities was reduced to prey in the
4:36 supposedly safe Baltic waters thousands
4:38 of kilometers from the Black Sea. The
4:41 most shameful military destruction of
4:43 the night from Moscow, however, did not
4:45 come from Ukrainian drones, but from
4:47 Russian air defense batteries that in
4:49 panic slaughtered their own air force.
4:52 Faced with dozens of UAVs flowing at
4:54 different altitudes over St. Petersburg
4:56 and Luga. At midnight, the Russian radar
4:58 network became overloaded and friend or
5:01 foe identification systems collapsed. In
5:03 Smolinsk, an apartment in a multi-story
5:06 building where Russian military drone
5:07 operators were hiding was hit by a
5:10 precision strike from a drone. In those
5:12 chaotic minutes, Russian aircraft that
5:14 took off to hunt the drones became
5:16 targets for their own missile batteries
5:17 on the ground. Initial field reports
5:20 pointed to two of Russia's most
5:21 expensive crown jewels, the KA52
5:25 alligator attack helicopters, whose
5:26 numbers have fallen below 25, and one
5:29 MI8 being down by friendly fire. The
5:32 clarified Russian aviation loss list
5:34 revealed an even more shattering
5:36 picture. One crude KA52 attack
5:39 helicopter, one crude MI8 military
5:41 helicopter, and one crude supersonic
5:44 MIG31 interceptor. Three Russian
5:46 aircraft in total were shot down and all
5:49 seven elite airmen from the three crews
5:51 were killed. The fighter bomber channel
5:54 considered the voice of Russian military
5:55 aviation could not hide its shock and
5:58 confirm the heavy loss with the message
6:00 defending the skies of St. Petersburg
6:02 today cost us very very dearly. Eternal
6:07 Flight brothers trying to stop Ukrainian
6:09 drones worth tens of thousands of
6:11 dollars while losing the Baltic oil port
6:13 and destroying strategic platforms worth
6:16 tens of millions such as the KA52 and
6:18 Mig 31 along with seven trained pilots
6:21 using its own missiles points to a
6:23 doctrinal collapse in which defense has
6:26 become far more destructive than the
6:27 attack itself for Russia. In an army
6:30 that destroyed three of its own air
6:31 crews with its own missiles behind the
6:33 front line in a single night, the
6:35 heaviest psychological collapse since
6:37 operation spiderweb has begun. In fact,
6:40 the command chaos that erupted in the
6:42 skies of Lenenrad was not a momentary
6:44 accident. This pattern of helplessness
6:46 that has become a chronic habit in
6:48 Russian air defense had been captured on
6:50 camera 48 hours earlier. On the night of
6:52 November 9th, leaked footage clearly
6:55 showed Russian S400 air defense systems
6:57 firing missiles in succession at long
7:00 range Ukrainian drones approaching the
7:01 Motov factory,
7:10 which produces solid fuel for Iscandera
7:12 ballistic missiles near St. Petersburg.
7:14 Yet the drones broke through the wall of
7:16 fire, struck the facility one after
7:18 another, and an emergency power outage
7:21 immediately followed in the area.
7:23 Russian air defense units reporting,
7:24 "One piece was shot down, but not by us.
7:26 The heavy one was shot down,"
7:28 >> and whose uniform patches still suggest
7:30 they believe they are defending the
7:31 Soviet Union were completely paralyzed
7:34 in the face of 21st century autonomous
7:36 drone warfare. The S400 impetence in
7:39 front of the Morizo factory was a clear
7:41 harbinger of what would happen at Luga
7:44 because the first stage of Ukraine's
7:45 northwestern energy pinser had begun at
7:47 Kirishi exactly 48 hours before Usluga.
7:51 Looking at the night of November 9th,
7:53 the two-stage plan of the Ukrainian
7:55 general staff, first choking fuel
7:57 production and then immediately cutting
7:59 the export and railway valve stands out
8:01 in full clarity. That night, long range
8:05 Ukrainian UAVs carried out successive
8:07 dives on the Kinev or Kirishenefint
8:11 industrial zone in the city of Kirishi
8:13 in the Lenningrad Oblast, the second
8:15 largest oil refinery in Russia with an
8:18 annual capacity exceeding 20 million
8:20 metric tonses. Panoramic fire footage
8:23 from the field and open- source analysis
8:25 show that the blow at Kittyishi did not
8:27 land on ordinary fuel tanks, but
8:29 directly on the distillation towers
8:31 considered the brain of the refinery. In
8:34 the attack, heavy damage occurred to the
8:36 ABT2, AT1, and AT6 primary crude oil
8:40 processing units at the Kdishi facility.
8:43 Crude oil arriving via pipelines cannot
8:45 be used in any armored vehicle, ship, or
8:48 fighter jet until it is processed. The
8:50 towers that boiled this crude at high
8:52 temperature and separated into diesel
8:54 fuel, aviation kerosene, and gasoline
8:57 are precisely these primary units. In a
9:00 country struggling with the supply of
9:01 high-pressure valves and special alloy
9:03 equipment due to western sanctions,
9:05 striking these towers sets the stage for
9:07 monthsl long production losses rather
9:10 than a few days of disruption.
9:12 Immediately one day after Kadishi was
9:15 hit on the evening of November 10th, the
9:17 sound of jet powered drones over
9:19 Smolinsk revealed that this energy
9:21 pinser was extending to the Bellarusian
9:23 border and the western corridor.
9:25 Monitoring channels reporting successive
9:27 explosions and advancing jet powered
9:29 drones in the Smolinsk region on the
9:30 evening of November 10th appears
9:32 extremely significant from a
9:34 geostrategic perspective.
9:47 Because the Smolinsk line is both the
9:49 main transit gateway from Russia's
9:50 interior regions to the Bellarusian
9:52 border and to the military economic fuel
9:55 balance of the Lucashenko regime and the
9:57 key junction of the western railway and
9:59 pipeline network feeding the St.
10:01 Petersburg and Baltic line. When the
10:03 production loss at Kirishi, the pressure
10:05 on the Smolansk Bellarus Transit, and
10:07 the burning of the Lushkaya railway
10:09 station near St. Petersburg are
10:11 combined, the fuel heading northwest is
10:13 cut from three directions. Diesel and
10:16 gasoline produced at Kirishi, normally
10:18 flowed by railway tankers to the
10:20 Lushkaya railway station. From there to
10:22 the Luga Piers, and southwest to the
10:25 Bellarusian border corridor. Now when
10:27 both the refinery's primary towers, the
10:30 railway transfer hub and the sea
10:32 terminal are struck within the same 48
10:34 hour window, the fuel flow towards St.
10:36 Petersburg, the Bellarusian border and
10:39 Kinenrad from land, rail and sea will
10:42 simultaneously enter a bottleneck.
10:44 Cutting land, rail, and sea fuel lines
10:47 in this way, is sounding the alarm bells
10:49 in the middle of the approaching
10:50 freezing winter for the 1 million people
10:52 living in the Kinenrad region, which is
10:55 completely cut off from the Russian
10:57 mainland on the southern shore of the
10:58 Baltic Sea. To understand why this
11:00 picture created a cold shower effect in
11:03 the Kremlin, it is first necessary to
11:05 look closely at what the port and
11:06 refinery network around St. Petersburg
11:09 means for Baltic geography. The US Luga
11:11 project into which Putin invested
11:13 billions of dollars for 20 years so as
11:16 not to remain dependent on the Baltic
11:18 states has today become Russia's most
11:20 fragile bottleneck in a Baltic Sea that
11:22 has turned into a NATO lake. When the
11:25 Soviet Union collapsed, deep water ports
11:27 such as Ria, Talin, Vincepills, and
11:30 Cipeda remained within the borders of
11:32 independent states and Moscow
11:34 aggressively built Luga 110 km west of
11:38 St. Petersburg to overcome the shallow
11:41 water and capacity constraints of the
11:42 old Soviet ports. However, with Finland
11:45 and Sweden's accession to NATO, the
11:47 Baltic Sea has effectively become an
11:50 allied inland sea, and the entirety of
11:52 Russia's northwestern maritime trade has
11:55 been squeezed into the narrow entrance
11:57 of the Gulf of Finland. While the St.
11:59 Petersburg metropolis, Pulkovo airport
12:02 and the Lenenrad military district on
12:04 the NATO border draw their fuel from
12:06 Karishi. The export ships piercing
12:08 western sanctions have also been
12:10 condemned to Luga as their sole exit
12:13 gate. The heaviest bill of this
12:14 geopolitical squeeze appears to have
12:17 landed at the door of the Russian
12:18 exclave of Kolinenrad surrounded by NATO
12:21 territory between Poland and Lithuania.
12:24 Kinenrad, which hosts the Iscander
12:26 missiles Russia has placed in the heart
12:28 of Europe and the headquarters of the
12:29 Baltic fleet, does not have its own
12:32 large-scale oil refinery. Because the
12:34 land and railway line coming via
12:36 Smolansk and Bellarus and passing
12:38 through Lithuanian territory is
12:40 restricted by the European Union's
12:42 strict transit quotas, the main lifeline
12:45 that keeps the military garrison and the
12:47 1 million civilian population in
12:49 Kolinrad alive relies on the open sea
12:52 ferry and tanker line operating between
12:54 Luga and Baltisque. When Kirishi
12:57 refinery, Kolinrad's main diesel source
13:00 and the shipment port of Luga burned at
13:02 the same time, the 1 million people in
13:05 the region entered an energy pinser that
13:07 will directly hit daily life. In an
13:10 isolated region, cutting diesel does not
13:12 only mean private cars waiting in
13:14 station cues. Diesel is also the basic
13:17 fuel for urban public transport, trucks
13:19 carrying food to markets, backup
13:21 generators in hospitals and transformer
13:23 stations, and winter logistics. The
13:26 moment the Kremlin redirects its
13:28 narrowed fuel stocks to military bases
13:30 and warships in Kinenrod, price
13:32 increases, supply delays, and fuel
13:35 ration pressure become inevitable in the
13:37 civilian market. Just as the strategic
13:39 isolation Crimea experienced when the
13:41 Kirch bridge was hit is now being
13:43 repeated on Kinenrad in the Baltic. This
13:46 fuel shortage emerging on the
13:48 northwestern Russia and Kiningrad line
13:50 is also putting direct pressure on the
13:52 southwestern Bellarusian border and the
13:55 Alexander Lucenko administration like
13:57 falling dominoes. As refinery production
14:00 falls in the Russian domestic market and
14:02 the western military district, the
14:04 Moscow administration tends to demand
14:06 more gasoline and diesel from
14:08 Bellarusian refineries such as Mosier
14:10 and Naftan to close the gap. Yet, the
14:13 Smolinsk transit hit by jet powered
14:15 Ukrainian drones on the evening of
14:17 November 10th is the main junction of
14:20 railway and pipeline trade between
14:21 Russia and Bellarus.
14:24 Moscow's inability to protect its own
14:26 refineries and its loading of Minsk's
14:28 fuel reserves is dragging the already
14:30 fragile Lucenko administration into a
14:33 difficult squeeze between its own
14:35 domestic needs and the Kremlin's
14:37 military de
14:42 to the peers of Luga looks less like a
14:44 momentary retaliation and more like a
14:47 calculated engineering plan aimed at
14:49 drying the fuel arteries of the Russian
14:51 war machine because the macro data
14:53 reflect ed from the field point exactly
14:55 to this cumulative destruction. The
14:57 comprehensive report published by the
14:59 international news agency Reuters
15:01 revealed with concrete figures the
15:02 capacity loss that Moscow has tried to
15:04 hide with censorship. Ukrainian drone
15:07 operations that intensified again from
15:09 the end of October disabled 30% of
15:11 Russia's total refining capacity by
15:13 striking processing power of
15:15 approximately 300,000 metric tonses per
15:18 day. After pausing refinery strikes in
15:20 the first part of October in
15:21 anticipation of a possible energy
15:23 ceasefire, Ukraine targeted nine major
15:26 facilities in 10 days starting from
15:28 October 30th after Russia continued to
15:30 bomb Ukraine's electricity grid. Direct
15:33 material damage accumulating at 15 major
15:35 refineries exceeding $23.2 2 billion is
15:39 dragging the Kremlin's economic
15:40 management into a difficult choice
15:42 between fuel for the army at the front,
15:44 diesel exports feeding the war budget,
15:46 and the 140 million strong domestic
15:49 market. As the Kremlin tries to protect
15:51 the front and export revenue, it passes
15:53 the bill to the Russian driver. The
15:55 first reflection of this is gasoline
15:57 sales restrictions reappearing in
15:59 various Russian regions. Re-emerging
16:01 gasoline sales restrictions and station
16:03 cues in various Russian regions are
16:05 directly fueling kitchen inflation for
16:07 the civilian population by increasing
16:09 transportation costs. While refineries
16:11 are melting inside, outside the shadow
16:14 fleet of more than 670 tankers that
16:16 carries Putin's entire war budget on its
16:19 back is also entering both a physical
16:21 and legal pinser at the Baltic exit. The
16:24 aging shadow fleet tankers that bypass
16:26 western sanctions by carrying cheap
16:28 Russian oil to refineries in China and
16:30 India were drawing the backbone of their
16:32 Baltic loading from Luga. While leaked
16:34 Russian captain correspondents had
16:36 already documented the unease of crews
16:38 on these ships struggling with technical
16:40 failures. Now the terminals exploding
16:42 right next to the ships at Usluga and
16:44 the struck NTON corvette are pushing
16:47 marine insurance premiums higher.
16:49 Moreover, European countries such as
16:51 France and Italy beginning to inspect
16:53 these tankers on the open sea with their
16:54 naval forces is further tightening the
16:57 Kremlin's foreign currency tap. Thus,
16:59 buyers in Beijing and New Delhi gain a
17:01 leverage to demand higher price
17:03 discounts from Moscow in the face of
17:05 delayed Baltic shipments and rising
17:07 insurance risk. In other words, every
17:09 tank burning at Usluga melts the net war
17:11 revenue reaching the Kremlin twice.
17:14 Beyond the military and economic tables,
17:16 there is also a deep sociological layer
17:18 of shock rising over the 9th to 11th
17:21 November Leningrad operation. St.
17:23 Petersburg is not an ordinary Russian
17:25 city. It is the imperial capital where
17:27 Vladimir Putin was born and raised,
17:30 where he built his political career and
17:31 where the security elite that runs the
17:33 Kremlin has taken root. The Kremlin,
17:36 which for years dumped the cost of the
17:37 war onto the backs of poor provincial
17:39 towns and kept the St. Petersburg elite
17:41 away from the conflict can no longer
17:44 protect the illusion created by its own
17:46 television propaganda. While the Abu
17:48 Dhabi talks were ongoing, an interview
17:50 recorded on the streets of Russia
17:52 strikingly showed how state propaganda
17:54 has dragged society into a reality
17:56 rupture. A Russian woman who had already
17:58 lost one of her brothers in Russia's
18:00 invasion of Ukraine and was worried
18:02 about her other two brothers at the
18:03 front could still say to the cameras,
18:05 "There will be no peace agreement
18:07 because the Ukrainians support the war.
18:09 The Russians support peace.
18:12 >> Well, the people there don't have that
18:14 kind of mindset and not like that. Well,
18:17 how can I tell you that they are for
18:19 war? We are for peace. They are for war.
18:22 Therefore, there will be no agreement.
18:23 There will be no common legislation.
18:25 While our guys will hold out, the
18:27 victory will be behind us. Only this
18:29 way. There's no other way.
18:31 >> Yet, the locking down of the population
18:32 in their homes in St. Petersburg, the
18:34 diversion of planes to NATO member
18:36 Finland, and the reign of Russian
18:38 aircraft from its own air defense
18:40 shattered this wall of untouchability,
18:42 the successive shelter and stay-at-home
18:44 warnings from the government, the power
18:46 cuts at Morazoff and Luga, and the fires
18:48 watched from the Estonian border
18:50 document that the war has now entered
18:52 Putin's own home directly. The Leningrad
18:55 region, which includes Putin's own
18:57 birthplace, has been targeted three
18:59 times in the last 30 days, with the
19:01 attacks on October 18th proving
19:03 particularly destructive.
19:18 All hell broke loose in St. Petersburg
19:20 on the night of October 18th as Ukraine
19:22 launched one of its largest and most
19:24 extensive retaliatory strikes against
19:26 Putin's homeland. And this colossal
19:29 attack just shut down ports, massive oil
19:31 terminals, and that famous bridge as
19:33 known Putin's crown jewel.
19:39 As the streets echoed with the sirens of
19:42 security forces, the massive metropolis
19:44 of 5.6 6 million people was plunged into
19:47 a night of screams, fires, and pitch
19:50 black darkness.
20:01 >> The first and most symbolic strike that
20:03 exploded in the skies over St.
20:04 Petersburg tonight struck directly the
20:07 massive cable stayed suspension bridge
20:09 spanning the Corabelli passage.
20:20 Part of the Western Expressway, this 620
20:23 m long, eight-lane bridge connecting
20:25 White Island and Vasilvski Island is the
20:27 main artery linking the cities north and
20:30 south. The timing was no coincidence.
20:33 For weeks, Russia has been taking
20:35 advantage of Ukraine's restricted
20:37 Starlink access to level Kiev civilian
20:39 infrastructure with ballistic missiles
20:41 and has been attempting to destroy
20:43 strategic bridges over the Neper. The
20:45 Kiev administration, however, did not
20:47 back down even under the most difficult
20:50 conditions.
20:50 >> Dear friends, we are under attack right
20:53 now and we can hear really powerful
20:55 explosions right here. Sasha just called
20:58 and said that on Lininski they've been
21:00 hearing explosions for an hour and it's
21:02 pretty uncomfortable to put it mildly.
21:05 We only just started hearing them.
21:07 >> On the contrary, by targeting the most
21:09 prestigious bridge in Putin's hometown,
21:11 it directed its retaliation straight
21:13 into the Kremlin's backyard.
21:21 Oh yes.
21:25 However, the breaking of this chain was
21:27 no ordinary damage. We'll soon discuss
21:30 the immense cost that will bring down
21:32 all of Russia's Baltic architecture.
21:41 As the bridge shook, the Petersburg oil
21:43 terminal and the Ruchi fuel depot
21:46 located a few kilometers away were
21:48 struck in quick succession. This is not
21:50 just a simple fuel station. It is the
21:52 St. Petersburg Grand Port and Russia's
21:55 largest export hub for refined products
21:57 on the Baltic Sea. Footage recorded by
22:00 sailors at the pier and port residents
22:02 shows flames engulfing the sky and
22:04 describes the scene as almost like a
22:06 pearl harbor in the port.
22:12 The damage wasn't limited to the main
22:14 terminal. The Ruchi facility, the city's
22:17 largest fuel depot with a capacity of
22:19 73,900
22:21 cub m, also went up in flames. A video
22:25 recorded by Russian workers on the pier
22:27 and shared uncensored captured the shock
22:29 and helplessness at the scene.
22:39 Yeah, boys.
22:42 >> As the foreign currency lifeline Moscow
22:44 relies on to finance the war goes up in
22:46 flames, we'll soon get to the real
22:48 crisis this massive fire has sparked
22:50 behind the Kremlin's closed doors.
22:55 At the same time, the second wave of the
22:57 attack struck the city's energy and
22:59 communications backbone. The 330 kov
23:02 voltnaya electrical substation in the
23:05 Leningrad region was targeted.
23:13 >> An explosion at the substation lit up
23:15 the night sky with massive electrical
23:17 arcs. Right next to this substation was
23:20 the original high-capacity main data
23:22 center of Russian social media giant
23:25 Vikontacte in Novaserfka. According to
23:28 reports, this critical facility, which
23:30 housed approximately 20,000 of the
23:33 platform's 60,000 servers nationwide,
23:35 sustained direct damage.
23:45 >> VK went down. A fire broke out at Ozon's
23:49 logistics facilities. Trams came to a
23:51 halt on the tracks due to a power
23:53 outage. and internet and hot water
23:55 outages were reported across large parts
23:57 of the city.
24:18 The massive ozone facility, the region's
24:21 busiest e-commerce distribution center,
24:23 could not be brought under control even
24:25 the next day following the fire that
24:27 began at night and was completely
24:29 reduced to ashes. The economic severity
24:31 of the situation was highlighted by the
24:34 outcry of a Russian business owner.
24:38 Well, that's it. One less warehouse. St.
24:41 Petersburg Ozone. And what has Ozone
24:43 recently stopped doing? Paying out
24:45 insurance claims. Just in time, as they
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25:16 >> The most striking irony of the
25:18 situation, however, was hidden in a
25:20 video of an apartment building that
25:22 surfaced on social media. While
25:24 anti-aircraft guns tore through the sky
25:26 and drones buzzed outside, a Russian
25:29 citizen inside continued to snore
25:31 nonchulently, laying bare just how
25:33 helplessly the public had grown
25:35 accustomed to this nightmare.
25:50 Air surveillance data from the field
25:52 confirms the scale of the attack.
25:54 Russian sources report that
25:55 approximately 520 drones were detected
25:58 that night and that Ukraine fired at
26:00 least 17 FP5 Flamingo cruise missiles.
26:05 In fact, some Russian monitoring
26:06 channels and independent sources claimed
26:09 that the attack was carried out with
26:10 over 1,000 drones stretching from St.
26:13 Petersburg to Belgarod and Moscow. While
26:16 the shores of St. Petersburg were under
26:18 smoke, the eyes of international
26:20 diplomacy were on the negotiation table
26:22 set up in the capital of the United Arab
26:24 Emirates, Abu Dhabi. Although Ukrainian
26:27 and Russian delegations came together
26:29 under the mediation of the United
26:30 States, no result in the name of peace
26:33 emerged from that table. Again, the fact
26:35 that it is necessary to create a new
26:37 comprehensive and fair security system
26:39 in Europe has been raised by Russia more
26:41 than once, both in 2008 when we proposed
26:44 the corresponding European security
26:45 project and in 2021 when we sent the
26:48 corresponding documents to NATO in the
26:49 United States and to European countries.
26:51 In fact, the real intention in this
26:53 Russian negotiation theater was revealed
26:55 when the head of the Russian delegation,
26:57 Vladimir Madinsky, stepped out of the
26:59 meeting room and immediately dropped all
27:01 diplomatic masks, openly exposing the
27:04 Kremlin's true face, targeting the old
27:06 Soviet geography before the cameras.
27:09 Every single inch of our land will be
27:12 returned to Russia
27:14 one way or another. And let the European
27:19 world of illusions.
27:21 Medinsky claimed that the Yaltta and
27:22 Potam security system established after
27:25 the Second World War was working poorly
27:27 and demanded a new division order in
27:29 Europe. Immediately afterward, he
27:31 exposed the entire plan. The phrase all
27:35 Russian lands coming from the mouth of
27:36 an ideologue who writes Putin's
27:38 historical thesis points not only to
27:40 Donbos, but directly to the borders of
27:42 the old Soviet Union. Ukraine is where
27:45 the abscess has burst.
27:47 So the entire body needs to be treated.
27:50 A band-aid won't be enough. This was the
27:52 central topic of the trilateral talks in
27:54 Abu Dhabi. Yet unlike the Yaltta power
27:56 of 1945, today's Kremlin is displaying a
27:59 heavy military weakness that allows the
28:02 fire atluga to be watched from Estonia
28:04 and causes its own aircraft to be shot
28:06 down over Leningrad at the same hours.
28:08 >> Turn to Russia one way or another.
28:13 Let European newspapers continue to live
28:15 in a world of their own illusions.
28:17 >> While the Russian representative in Abu
28:19 Dhabi was exposing his real intention
28:21 with the discourse of swallowing the
28:23 entire Soviet legacy, Ukraine striking
28:25 of Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg
28:27 and the Baltic oil bridges with a
28:29 shattering fire showed the whole world
28:31 that the real negotiation leverage is
28:33 written not in empty threats, but in
28:36 burning Russian terminals. Moscow is
28:38 saying a new security order into the
28:40 microphones in Abu Dhabi and wagging its
28:43 finger with we will take back every
28:45 inch. But 3,000 km to the north, the
28:48 black smoke rising from the Baltic coast
28:50 is speaking a completely different
28:52 truth. Not of a growing empire, but of a
28:55 war machine choking on its own arteries.
28:58 Luga, a severed export artery. Kirishi,
29:01 an extinguished diesel furnace. The
29:03 Smolinsk Bellarus line, a narrowing
29:05 railway throat. The 1 million population
29:08 Khenrad turning from a fist extended
29:10 into Europe into a glass jaw dependent
29:12 on its own mainland. Above them all, a
29:15 blinded sky that in panic shoots down
29:18 its own war plananes. Now only one much
29:21 sharper question remains. Will the
29:23 Kremlin, which cannot protect its own
29:25 leader hometown and has lost 30% of its
29:28 refining power, impose a new yaltta on
29:31 Europe? or will this front whose gas,
29:33 money, and time are running out break
29:35 from within under its own weight? No
29:38 answer came from the Abu Dhabi table.
29:40 But as the terminals on the Baltic coast
29:42 continue to burn, that answer is no
29:44 longer being written by Moscow's fake
29:46 maps, but by the fuel bridges Ukraine
29:48 has cut. How will an administration that
29:51 cannot even protect the ports, railways,
29:53 and second largest refinery in its own
29:55 leader hometown keep alive the promise
29:58 of security and stability it offered to
30:00 the Russian elite?
30:01 >> You have to keep your promise,
30:03 >> right?
30:16 Putin's most loyal ally, Alexander
30:18 Lucenko, has admitted that Russia has
30:21 lost this war right before the world's
30:23 eyes. On November 3rd, he took the stage
30:25 at a security conference in Minsk and in
30:28 a single sentence debunked the
30:30 sustainable war narrative the Kremlin
30:32 has been pedalling for 4 years.
30:45 An autocrat who has been in power for 30
30:47 years won't say Russia has been defeated
30:49 in front of the cameras. Lucenko did
30:52 something much more clever. He said that
30:54 Russia's material resources would be
30:56 enough for the whole world. And
30:57 immediately afterward, he pointed out
30:59 where the real breaking point lies.
31:02 Minds.
31:10 What he said was depleted wasn't oil or
31:12 ammunition. It was the will to carry on
31:15 this war. He was highlighting the
31:17 psychological defeat that has kept the
31:18 Putin regime afloat. This was the most
31:21 candid assessment from within of a war
31:23 that even if won on the map has been
31:25 lost in people's minds. And the timing
31:27 of this admission was a nightmare for
31:29 Moscow. A Russia that broke the war's
31:32 death toll record in October with over
31:34 54,000 casualties. A Russia that left
31:37 massive refineries from Crimea to
31:39 Siberia engulfed in flames and whose air
31:42 bridges were paralyzed. A population of
31:45 146 million mentally exhausted by
31:47 endless fuel lines and an economic
31:49 crisis on the home front while its army
31:51 was being ground down like meat in a
31:53 grinder on the battlefield. Putin was
31:55 now facing not just on the battlefield
31:57 but in the minds of his own people this
32:00 definitive defeat which had been
32:01 declared to the world by his closest
32:03 ally
32:11 five major facilities in five nights
32:13 from Riazan to Yoslav from Ktovo to Ufa
32:17 four major Russian refineries with a
32:19 combined capacity of 47 million metric
32:22 tons were taken offline one after for
32:24 another.
32:45 >> Later in the speech, Luc Shenko tried to
32:47 shift the blame elsewhere. Let's hear
32:50 that part in his own words. Everyone is
32:52 tired of this war and has finally begun
32:55 to understand, even this sentence does
32:58 two things at once. It acknowledges
33:00 exhaustion, that is defeat, but shifts
33:03 the blame onto Europe. He claims that
33:05 European leaders destroyed the peace
33:07 while noting that he was also at that
33:09 table. This is the classic reflex of the
33:12 losing side. Accept the outcome, but
33:14 shift the responsibility onto someone
33:16 else. The Kremlin's response to all this
33:18 was silence. The Russian state agency
33:21 dismissed the speech with a single line.
33:23 Lucenko believes the war will end in
33:26 peace, neither confirming nor denying
33:28 it. Moscow could not find a response to
33:31 a speech in which its closest ally
33:33 undermined its own narrative of victory.
33:35 Lucenko is no lover of democracy and
33:38 certainly not a pro-western leader. He
33:40 is merely a pragmatic autocrat who does
33:42 not want to bear the burden of a
33:44 crumbling system forever. This is the
33:46 desperate floundering of a trapped ally,
33:49 fearing at every moment that it will be
33:51 suffocated by the NATO ring. His words
33:53 were no exaggeration. They were a
33:55 dispassionate expression of a terrifying
33:58 state of panic, almost a prophecy. That
34:01 prophecy turned into a physical reality.
34:03 Prior to the strike on November 11th,
34:05 Ukraine had also launched intensive
34:08 attacks on the Lenenrad region on
34:09 November 9th and October 18th. Why then
34:13 are Ukrainian attacks intensifying
34:15 against this region which encompasses
34:17 Putin's hometown? By looking back at the
34:19 attacks of November 9th, we can gain a
34:21 clearer understanding of the nature of
34:23 Ukraine's engagement against Russia.
34:38 All hell broke loose as Ukraine launched
34:41 its most comprehensive and extensive
34:43 10-day wave of attacks against Russia,
34:46 reaching a breaking point on November
34:48 7th and extending as far as St.
34:50 Petersburg by the night of November 9th.
34:52 This operation turned a vast territory
34:55 from Crimea to Moscow, from Saratov to
34:58 Rostov into a living hell. Refineries,
35:01 missile launchpads, key military
35:03 factories, everything that fueled the
35:06 Russian army went up in flames. People
35:08 listening to sirens on their balconies,
35:11 those jolted awake in the middle of the
35:12 night, air defense systems striking
35:15 their own cities, and gas lines
35:17 stretching for kilometers. The next
35:18 morning, Moscow wanted to come to the
35:21 table with fire. That fire returned to
35:23 its own home. It was a deadly
35:25 retaliatory operation, one that struck
35:28 directly at the very lifeblood of Russia
35:30 in response to Putin's ruthless
35:32 ballistic terror unleashed on
35:34 kindergartens and bridges in Kev. As a
35:37 new negotiating table was being set up
35:39 in Abu Dhabi, the Kremlin arrived at
35:41 that table not with peace, but with
35:43 three waves of ruthless ballistic
35:45 missiles unleashed on Kev. The Kremlin
35:48 had announced that it had systematically
35:50 targeted bridges and the power grid as
35:52 military objectives. It sought to
35:54 condemn Keev to darkness, cold, and
35:57 logistical paralysis as winter set in.
35:59 However, there were plenty of similar
36:01 bridges within range of Ukrainian
36:03 missiles on Russian territory. Zoinski
36:06 did not back down despite all of Trump's
36:08 pressure to exercise restraint and
36:11 launch that massive retaliatory strike
36:13 that opened the gates of hell on Russia.
36:15 As a second wave was expected in Kev.
36:18 The first wave of retaliation struck Oro
36:21 with a massive roar within minutes on
36:23 the night of November 7th.
36:30 >> While Russian monitoring channels
36:32 frantically reported the approach of
36:33 flamingo missiles, the missiles sneaking
36:36 into the city at low altitude turned
36:38 into a massive fireball in the
36:40 industrial zone. In Orol, people were
36:43 jolted out of their beds by the sound of
36:45 an explosion at midnight. The young
36:47 woman's face in the footage captures the
36:49 moment when the war first stepped off
36:51 the screen and into their own homes.
36:54 Within minutes, the balconies were
36:56 packed. Russians listened to the sirens
36:58 in panic and anxiety, recording the fire
37:00 on the horizon with their phones. A
37:03 deadly dagger had already been plunged
37:05 into the heart of Russia.
37:11 The targeted site was the Proton
37:13 Electrottex factory. The Ukrainian
37:15 Ministry of Defense officially announced
37:17 that this critical facility had been
37:19 struck by Neptune cruise missiles. This
37:21 is no ordinary facility. It was the main
37:24 center producing the electronic control
37:26 systems for the Iscander ballistic
37:28 missiles and Pancier air defense systems
37:30 that rain down on Ke. These
37:32 militarygrade chips, which cannot be
37:34 imported due to the embargo, were
37:36 reduced to ashes at their source. This
37:39 is one of several locations where
37:40 sanctioned Russia produces the military
37:42 chips it cannot obtain from abroad, and
37:45 it was struck by storm shadow missiles
37:47 on October 23rd. The second strike was
37:49 aimed not at repair, but at destruction.
37:52 On the night of October 7th, during the
37:54 first wave, approximately 40 ballistic
37:57 and hypersonic missiles were launched at
37:59 the capital without warning. The targets
38:01 were not military. The northern bridge
38:04 over the Neeper was shattered. Power
38:06 lines were severed and hundreds of
38:08 thousands of people were left without
38:10 electricity. Several missiles hit the
38:12 northern bridge. The roaded, the trolley
38:15 bus contact line, and the power line
38:17 were damaged by the blast wave. Five
38:19 trucks were damaged in the parking lot.
38:23 Given the cost and difficulty of
38:24 intercepting the missile in flight,
38:26 Ukraine had shifted to a doctrine of
38:28 destroying the missile right on the
38:30 production line where it was made.
38:32 Ukraine also severed the other end of
38:34 the chain that same night. Two Iscander
38:36 launchers in Brians and the Pancier
38:38 systems protecting them were destroyed.
38:40 The production line manufacturing the
38:42 missiles and the launchers firing them
38:45 all were taken out of commission in a
38:46 single night. That night, the Russian
38:49 sky belonged to Ukraine. Ordinary people
38:52 were pointing out the FP1 attack drones
38:54 flying overhead to one another, trying
38:56 to guess where they were headed.
39:05 >> Even more tragically, civilian
39:07 neighborhoods were directly hit.
39:09 Buildings in the courtyard of a
39:11 kindergarten were reduced to rubble.
39:13 That same night, a hotel in Pava and
39:15 Kremanchuk was leveled and civilian
39:17 casualties were recorded. And those
39:20 drones before the revenge in oral had
39:22 even cooled turned into a dramatic
39:24 fiasco in Belgar, exposing the
39:27 helplessness of Russian air defense
39:29 systems. Russian batteries attempted to
39:31 shoot down Ukrainian drones approaching
39:33 the city right above tall residential
39:35 buildings. Falling debris and exploding
39:38 munitions struck civilian buildings
39:39 directly, and the flames spread to
39:42 neighboring homes. Russian air defense
39:44 had once again struck its own city and
39:46 the public's trust in the state was
39:48 shattered by its own missiles.
39:52 Hello everyone from Belgarod, not from
39:55 the region, directly from Belgarod.
40:00 >> How quickly the siren goes off. When I
40:03 open the window, explosions start right
40:05 somewhere nearby and the siren goes off
40:07 automatically.
40:12 This air defense fiasco would not be
40:14 confined to the border regions. It would
40:16 be the first sign of how strategic
40:18 cities like Saratov and Rostov would
40:20 turn into hell. The Saratov refinery
40:23 owned by Ross Neft and with an annual
40:25 capacity of 7 million metric tons was a
40:28 target. When Russian air defenses failed
40:30 to stop the drones, the massive facility
40:33 was engulfed in flames. Russians didn't
40:35 hide their panic on social media.
40:37 Footage of the burning refinery was
40:39 shared from every corner of Sodatov.
40:42 People rushed to their windows. They
40:44 recorded the moments of the explosions
40:45 from the streets and balconies. Some
40:48 watched the burning refinery in shock
40:50 and panic. In videos shared on social
40:52 media, Russians were horrified.
40:56 >> However, for some, war had become so
40:59 commonplace that they continued to snore
41:01 in the shadow of the flames.
41:08 By morning, the situation had become
41:10 much more dire. Black smoke was rising
41:13 into the sky from at least five
41:14 different points at the refinery. City
41:17 residents had begun carrying drone
41:18 detectors with them.
41:22 >> Saratov is one of Russia's oldest
41:24 refineries. This Roseneft facility
41:27 supplies diesel, jet fuel to the air
41:29 force and gasoline to the vulgar region
41:31 and has been struck for the fifth time
41:33 since May. Russia attempted to protect
41:35 critical units with steel nets and
41:37 scaffolding. The Ministry of Defense
41:40 claimed that 411 drones were shot down
41:43 that night. However, the math of
41:45 asymmetric warfare remained unchanged.
41:47 The nets were stretched. Hundreds of
41:49 drones were shot down, but the massive
41:52 refinery was still engulfed in flames.
41:54 Massive chaos erupted in Sarat following
41:57 the attack. Amid claims that the
41:59 refinery's capacity had dropped to 10%,
42:02 kilometer long lines formed at gas
42:04 stations, drivers were trapped in their
42:06 cars and outcries of I've had enough
42:09 echoed across social media. Saratov
42:12 wasn't the only one. The map was
42:14 shifting to rationing region by region.
42:16 In Carelia and Nijn Noarod, limits of 30
42:19 and 40 L were imposed on fuel sales. One
42:23 of the world's largest energy giants
42:25 couldn't even provide gasoline to its
42:27 own people at its own stations. Zalinsky
42:29 had announced around the same time that
42:31 the campaign would continue. Russia's
42:33 weakest point was exposed. Its air
42:36 defense couldn't protect the refinery,
42:38 and every burning facility signaled the
42:40 next strike, which would soon reach as
42:42 far as the Baltics.
42:44 This physical destruction also engulfed
42:47 Rosttov in the south in flames that same
42:49 night. An oil and polymer warehouse
42:52 right next to the Almas factory, which
42:54 produces specialized communication
42:55 equipment for the Russian military, was
42:58 reduced to ashes in a massive fire. The
43:01 videos revealed the horrific scale of
43:03 the fire. An area of 8,000 square meters
43:06 had been completely turned into a
43:08 hellish scene. This explosion in
43:10 Rosttov, the headquarters of the
43:12 southern military district, is directly
43:14 paralyzing the flow of supplies to the
43:16 front lines. The Kremlin governor
43:18 attempted to cover up the causes of the
43:20 incident. Ukrainian sources, however,
43:23 claimed it was friendly fire from a
43:25 panicked Russian air defense system. By
43:27 morning, Rosttov was completely engulfed
43:30 in toxic smoke. Under the black rain
43:33 falling from the sky, the people could
43:35 barely breathe and were on the verge of
43:37 revolt. Thus, the night of November 7th
43:40 turned into a night of fire for Russia.
43:42 warehouses in Rosttov, a refinery in
43:45 Saratov, Proton and Oral, and air
43:47 defense missiles striking their own
43:49 buildings in Belgar. Ukraine targeted
43:51 the fuel and factories that keep
43:53 Russia's war machine running all in one
43:56 night. There was a limit to the number
43:58 of fires the Kremlin could put out, and
44:00 Ukraine had long since learned that
44:02 limit. However, Ukraine's retaliation
44:04 did not stop there. The Kremlin, which
44:07 had struck a bridge in Kev, watched as
44:09 its own bridges were struck within 24
44:11 hours. On October 8th, a bridge over the
44:14 Muse River in the Rosttov region and a
44:16 substation in Sulin were struck from the
44:18 air and closed to traffic. Ukraine,
44:21 which has also targeted logistics
44:23 convoys in the war, destroyed a Russian
44:25 logistics vehicle on the R280 highway.
44:28 On the night of November 9th, the wave
44:30 reached Russia's far north in the
44:32 Lenningrad region. The Kirishi KF
44:35 refinery which supplies St. Petersburg
44:37 and has an annual capacity of 20 million
44:39 metric tonses was rocked by a series of
44:42 explosions. Kirishi is the fuel source
44:45 for St. Petersburg, a city of 5 million
44:47 and the Baltic export ports. When it
44:50 shuts down, the Northwest gasoline must
44:52 come either from Moscow or from abroad.
44:55 While the governor was forced to confirm
44:57 the attack, the fire spreading from the
44:59 Black Sea to the capital reached the
45:00 Baltic in
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