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Zelenskyy Strikes Deep Inside Russia as Trump Moves to Limit Ukraine

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Ukraine President Zelenskyy striking 6,000 KM deep inside Russia as Trump tries to reduce Zelenskyy's military capabilities. Remember to subscribe to ALL the...

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All hell is breaking loose as the Trump CIA meeting in Moscow that took place...

Zelensky was ready to go.

Ukraine's president launched his biggest sabotage mission yet against Russia, striking hard at the Amr gas chemical complex.

Six thousand kilometers from Ukraine, this joint venture between Russia and China that cost at least $11 billion.

It took seven years to build it to its current state, this factory, and Zelensky apparently launched this sabotage mission. I will show you this in a moment this as we are learning that it seems the reason why the Trump regime sent its CIA to Moscow was to beg Putin for help to enforce the threats by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant of Economic Day against Iran. Russia obviously is allied with Iran, China is allied with Iran. Earlier yesterday, Wang Yi of China, China's foreign minister told the Trump regime,

China will not support your economic day against Iran at all. China has Iran's back and China will do anything necessary to defend Iran and defend itself against Donald Trump's economic day with Bessant. So apparently the Trump regime went and sent John Ratcliffe the CIA director aboard this US Air Force C-17.

You may be saying, why the C-17 military plane versus a Gulf Stream Force, some other plane?

Well, the Trump regime was terrified that this plane would be shot down. That's a common theme with the Trump regime, right? He hides in catering containers, and apparently you had Ratcliffe the CIA director was in Moscow for less than two hours. Putin basically laughed him out and said, why would we work with you? Why would we help you at all?

We're allied with Iran.

No, you've never been weaker.

You're out of weapons. We're not going to join economic day against Iran. Get the hell out of here. That's what we are hearing right now. But Zelensky was prepared.

He had his own plan. But I don't want to make this sound like this is just Zelensky striking hard. Zelensky's doing what he's got to do, but I want to remind everybody as well. This is shaping up to be a very difficult winter for Zelensky and Ukraine. As the US has deprived Ukraine of the patriot interceptors or interceptor licenses, it needs

so badly. So Zelensky is doing whatever he can in this race of time trying to strike as many facilities in Russia as possible. The wild berry facilities, logistical centers, the ozone logistical centers that we've been talking about Russia as now demanding.

They've decreed.

They've put a law that if you run a logistical center, you need to have anti-drow technology

installed on the roof because Ukraine's been so successful in striking these logistical centers. I want you to take a look right here at this massive explosion and fire that hit Russia's am your gas chemical plot complex during the commissioning work ahead of its planned launch. Unworker died 19 people were hospitalized and at least 104 others received medical treatment.

The blast occurred around an auxiliary section of the pyrolysis unit. The exact cause is under investigation, but it obviously seems to be a sabotage operation.

What you need to know about this complex as well, $10 to $11 billion to build this

Amher gas complex, it's a joint venture between Russia's sidebure and China's Sino-Pek 60% Russia, 40% China designed to produce about 2.7 million tons of polyethylene and polypropylene annually. It was set to become Russia's largest base polymer plant and one of the world's largest petrochemical complexes of its kind as I note 6,000 kilometers deep in Russia and

they're appeared to be that sabotage operation. We have other footage of it right here. I'll show you what it looked like as people were near that facility, let's play it. And we have more footage over here showing the aftermath of the massive explosion right

There at that petrochemical facility, let's play this clip as well.

Now as I noted, Zelensky is in this race for time before the winter to try to cause

as much disruption as much pain within Russia as possible after Russia's invasion of Ukraine

to try to get the population of Russia against this catastrophic war, Donald Trump taps Zelensky along all throughout the month of July, promising Zelensky Patriots, promising Zelensky Patriot Interceptor Licenses, if he wasn't going to provide the Patriots and not only did Donald Trump not provide the license, Trump even refused to show up at Ukraine's

independence day yesterday where most of Ukraine's allies showed up or sent a designate

there was also in the United Nations, the Security Council, allies of Ukraine made a joint statement together dozens of countries calling for an end to this catastrophic war in Ukraine by Russia, the US refused to take part in it as well. I find it fascinating and interesting that there were people like John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, he was going to show up to Moscow and be like, hey Putin, cut it out man, don't

you realize that this Trump regime is a Putin bootlicking regime, don't you see all of the data points?

What would make you believe that they were going there to deliver a tough message?

Donald Trump spoke with Putin on July 4th on America's 250th birthday 90 minutes on the phone together, what do you think they were talking about for 90 minutes? Donald Trump met Putin in freaking Alaska, what do you think was going down there? Come on, people, let's use our common sense, so as I know, Zelensky and this race for time, let me show you the moment and FPVs firepoint one strike drones that are being used

with you by Ukraine with great success, here it is hitting the ozone logistics hub in Taewub Dagestan play this clip, another strike right here in the morning, a drone attack on the Azan logistics hub in the Taewub industrial park Dagestan play this clip. And you can see Russian soldiers over here firing coyotically at an incoming drone with the salt rifles from the middle of a crowd during the attack on the Azan logistics facility

play this clip. So you have that another wild berry facility hit by Ukraine again, a reminder, the wild berries logistics facility, the Azan logistics hub, these are logistics hubs that Ukraine says are being used by Russia in the war against it, wild berries is like the Amazon

of Russia, you see these photos, I mean it literally looks right out of hell, right?

I mean, what these photos look like, I'll show you over here in the wild berries in Codofsk here play this clip, also satellite images of the perm refinery as a result of the attacks more than 80% of the primary oil refining capacity was disabled in Deneepro, you can see right here the primary processing capacity being disabled in these various facilities over here, you can see for yourself, you can see some of these ships being hit by Ukraine

right here, this is the crew of the bread fan bulk carrier filming a Ukrainian drone attack on the vessel near Novariysk, show you a Ukrainian FPV ambush on a Russian soldier carrying FPV

drones right here, and then I thought a very powerful thing that took place on Ukrainian

independence day, they did a drone parade, Zelensky says over the years of war you crane built almost entirely a new defense industry modern technology, here is the drone parade

That they did powerful stuff play this clip, Zuhodolo, Vodoyo, Nebo, Dande Vo...

my story is your Parvago, and here's another part of the drone parade you can see, some of the drones in the sky here play this clip, Zuhodolo Shoslavkist, Zeta, Shoslavkist, Storium, and Vodoyo, and Pokayukreina Ruchetsia, Vodela, Nesdolanda, Zena Shomitsi.

That's what Zelensky said, Ukraine is doing everything to move the war into the sky, there you

no longer have to compete in the number of soldiers, you can rely on technology drones and missiles, but as I note, at the outset Ukraine is facing a lot of difficulty as well, Zelensky made a big blunder, I think, when he fired the defense secretary Fedorob, who's also a very ambitious guy, Fedorob is very close with Elon Musk and some of the tech bros here in the United States, but very close to Elon Musk, and Fedorob has no doubt presidential ambitions in Ukraine,

he's popular amongst the young Ukrainians as well, and he is growing into a contender to challenge

Zelensky, and the question that I have, and it's just a question, I don't have the answer,

but I want to flag the issue, is how close is Musk in this decision making, and Musk and Trump's decision not to allow Zelensky to use, Starlink to strike the ballistic launchers in Russia, are there links here, I don't know the answer, I will tell you when I don't know the answer, I won't pretend I do, but I will flag that issue of the Musk Fedorob connection. Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorob says Ukraine is gradually slowly losing the war against Russia,

and has only months to make major strategic changes, he blames weak governance, corruption, and a failure to deploy military technology effectively, saying Ukraine still has every chance to win, but lacks an overall plan, technologies exist already, which could completely stop the Russians, he said, arguing keyvis failing to apply them at scale, Fedorob was one of the main architects

of Ukraine's drone first approach, but the older old guard in Ukraine commander and chief who's now

been fired as well, pushed to get rid of Fedorob, and so Fedorob was fired, Zelensky made a big mistake, lots of protests, Zelensky then fired the old commander in chief, and now you have this situation. Ukraine's Minister of Defense, former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorob said, "I would definitely start by thanking Elon Musk for what he already helped our country with, by switching off Russia's starlings when he allowed to switch on starlings,

over the temporarily occupied territories, lots of companies from Elon Musk's orbit help us, Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Google, and they will be investing in our victory, and we need to stay in touch with them regardless of my position, and I need to stay in touch with them for my country is his statement. Now, I do want to share this with you. This was part of the speech that UK's Prime Minister Andy Burnham gave on Ukraine's Independence Day in Kiev. I thought it was

powerful to play this clip." Despite Russia's outrageous threats to my country, we will continue

our support for Ukraine's defense. I know you need more help to protect your skies and your civilians. I know how hard the winters have been, and it needs to be ready this year when the night

straw in. That's why later today, I will take up the reigns of the coalition of the willing,

alongside President Macron and Chancellor Merds. I am determined that we will work together to deliver the support you need, Mr. President, stronger than ever. That means not just air defense, but stopping Russia launching their missiles

in the first place. With sanctions that cut off their military supply chains,

With support to destroy missiles before they are launched against Ukrainian c...

and with help for Ukraine to develop new technologies and deepen our industrial cooperation.

This is the moment to keep up the pressure on Russia.

The moment to squeeze their ability to fund this illegal war. This is how we will speed up their realization of something we all know already that Russia cannot win this war. That the cry for sovereignty and independence 35 years ago is stronger today than ever,

and it will never be silenced. You are asking for nothing more than the chance to live your

lives in peace to build a better future for yourselves and for your children. To hold your own future in your own hands. This is your right. This is what you deserve. We will be with you all the way until that day comes. Thank you, Slovakia Ukraine! Now contrast that to what former Vice President Mike Pence said yesterday, essentially begging South Korea to give its interceptors to Zelensky, recognizing how dire it is that

Zelensky doesn't have interceptors. The problem is Donald Trump has praised Kim Jong-un of North Korea.

Trump has removed the last U.S. supercarrier George Washington from the Pacific, and Trump continues to kiss the boots of Kim Jong-un leaving South Korea very exposed right now. And so South Korea, their President Lee recently met with Wanyi, China's foreign minister, and so U.S. has lost its security umbrella in Asia and lost its deterrence.

So the hard part is, if your South Korea, are you going to give up your weapons?

When you feel vulnerable and Kim Jong-un is doing ballistic missile tests, while Donald Trump's posting weird memes like he's dating him, play this clip. Right now, President Lee in South Korea could transfer the interceptors that they manufacture directly into the region, whether it's the Middle East, send them to Europe or send them to the Ukraine. And I'm really calling on President Lee in the Republic of Korea to do just that.

Remember, North Korean soldiers and North Korean arms are shipping westward into this fight. They're going in to fight on European soil to try and redraw international lines by force in conjunction

with the Russian war machine. I think this is a real moment where South Korea can step up

as send those interceptors that they manufacture, that they may not be as good as patriot missiles,

but I'm told on good authority, they're close. And then I finally want to share this with you as

well, because this really touched my heart and to think about where we are right now in 2026 versus where we are in 2021. This was Ukraine independent today, 2021, and you can see Zelensky literally looks like a different person. Like you can see how this war has aged him because again, this is only five years ago. This video I'm about to show you or so. Let's play it. [Music]

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