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Russia’s latest massive missile and drone strike on Ukraine may be only a taster of a far bigger blow aimed at the energy grid this winter. Alexander breaks down the Gerbera reconnaissance drones over Kiev, the confirmed Dobropillia cauldron, the growing threat to Zaporozhye city, and why Trump blames Zelensky and Putin for the diesel crisis while CIA Director Ratcliffe meets Zelensky in Dublin. Is Ukraine heading into its hardest winter yet, and what did Ratcliffe tell Zelensky before he meets Trump?

Episode 2026
00:00:00 Intro and Bloomberg's winter warning for Ukraine
00:01:59 Massive Russian strike as a taster for a bigger blow
00:03:37 Gerbera reconnaissance drones over Kiev and western Ukraine
00:05:05 Russian satellite buildup and the Rassvet system
00:07:00 Why the Defense Ministry stayed quiet on missiles
00:10:59 Zircon, Onyx, Iskander and small cruise missiles
00:13:57 Kremenchug refinery and Kiev targets hit
00:16:03 Ukraine's steel and metallurgy industry goes offline
00:17:45 Odessa, pontoon bridges and regional blackouts
00:21:39 Comparing Ukraine's Moscow drone strike
00:28:20 Trump blames Kiev and Moscow for the diesel shortage
00:35:31 Larry Johnson on the real cause of the diesel crisis
00:38:50 Why Trump tunes out Putin's briefings
00:42:48 Zelensky meets CIA Director Ratcliffe in Dublin
00:52:16 Ukraine's air defense crisis
00:55:47 Coming US export bans on diesel and LNG
00:59:31 Houthi strike called off and France's fuel crisis
01:04:26 Kharkov cauldron and the battle for Veliky Burluk
01:11:19 Druzhkovka, Kramatorsk and the Dobropillia cauldron
01:19:32 Zaporozhye city under threat this winter

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Russia's parliamentary election has confirmed Putin's political dominance just as Moscow's air defenses crushed Ukraine's largest ever drone and missile strike on the Russian capital. Alexander breaks down why the Kremlin emerges stronger while Germany's Merz becomes a dead man walking after catastrophic CDU losses, and traces how Ukraine's collapsing Kharkov front and a hundred fifty million dollar failed strike are fueling growing panic across Europe. With the drone offensive faltering and the battlefield turning further against Kiev, how much longer can the West's strategy hold together?

Episode 2025
00:00:00 Introduction two elections in Germany and Russia
00:01:32 Mecklenburg Vorpommern results AfD 38 percent CDU below 5 percent
00:04:47 Comparing Mecklenburg to the Saxony Anhalt landslide
00:10:13 Berlin results Die Linke wins CDU crashes AfD doubles to 16 percent
00:16:04 Crisis of Germany's old political class SPD and CDU
00:18:56 Merz's hysterical response and dead man walking status
00:22:45 CDU succession scramble between Soder and Wust
00:26:46 Germany as EU linchpin and a possible shift on Russia
00:32:18 Russia's election orderly voting amid Western claims of manipulation
00:35:02 United Russia gains as opposition parties hold steady
00:37:48 New People party underperforms no support for liberalism in Russia
00:41:13 Putin emerges stronger as war veterans enter the Duma
00:47:39 Turning to the war Moscow's biggest drone strike results
00:50:38 Russian defense ministry claims a total intercept success
00:52:00 The staggering true cost of Ukraine's drone offensive
01:03:59 Kharkov cauldron nears collapse and Velikiy Burluk encirclement
01:06:16 Biletsky's Liman offensive stalls into a meat grinder
01:10:33 Dobropillya advances continue for Russian forces
01:13:02 Zelensky Trump call and pressure over refinery strikes
01:14:51 Trump nears a US diesel export ban
01:21:57 European panic deepens as Ukraine's strategy collapses

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Russia's Duma election concludes as Ukraine launches a two thousand drone strike on Moscow that inflicts minimal real damage. Alexander breaks down why the Kharkov cauldron is collapsing, why a massive Russian retaliatory strike is now certain, and why Ukraine's own economy is quietly being destroyed. Is Oreshnik about to fly again, and can Zelensky's government survive what comes next?

Episode 2024
00:00:00 Duma election day update
00:00:42 Ukraine launches massive Moscow strike
00:02:20 The real purpose behind the strike
00:05:54 Breaking down the cost of 2000 drones
00:08:13 Moscow refinery and residential hits
00:10:22 Cost to repair versus cost to strike
00:12:18 Elections unaffected by the strike
00:14:40 Geran drones versus Ukrainian drones
00:20:37 Ammunition costs more than the drones
00:26:30 Ukraine budget crisis from the drone war
00:29:44 Russian counterstrike does more damage
00:30:28 Origins of the Rasvet satellite system
00:34:41 Rasvet coverage over Ukraine confirmed
00:41:45 Massive Russian retaliation expected
00:45:05 Financial Times admits the economic plan
00:51:00 Kharkov cauldron traps Ukrainian troops
00:56:11 Russian advances near Dobropillya
01:04:20 Turnout numbers and European war panic
01:11:45 US bombers scramble toward Yemen
01:17:34 Saudi Arabia, China, and sanctions fallout

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Alexander breaks down Russia's fastest advance of the year, the Kremlin's claim that Ukraine's Lyman counteroffensive has failed, and Zelensky's own admission that Ukraine's budget deficit has reached cosmic dimensions. Alexander also unpacks why Trump, Witkoff and Kushner all failed to talk Putin into stopping, and what Putin's new military spending priorities reveal about where this war is headed next. Is the collapse on Ukraine's front lines now unstoppable?

Episode 2023
00:00:00 Back in London and todays front line update
00:00:29 Russia accelerates its offensive pace
00:01:58 Russian defense ministry breaks silence on Lyman
00:02:39 The full Russian bulletin on territory captured
00:04:36 Zaporizhzhia offensive widens toward the city
00:06:35 Combat confirmed in central Orikhiv
00:07:07 Street fighting reaches central Dobropillya
00:08:14 Azov brigade thrown into the fight
00:11:22 Mapping the collapse across the whole front
00:14:03 Kharkov cauldrons fragment and clear
00:18:10 Weighing the evidence for the Lyman offensive
00:22:30 Colonel Popov on the Russian lure tactic
00:29:09 Orikhiv in crisis as Zaporizhzhia city looms
00:33:55 Tusk admits Ukraine is losing 27000 men a month
00:39:08 Kotelia the Contemplator on Russian doctrine
00:42:52 Russias intensifying missile and drone campaign
00:46:09 Zelensky admits a cosmic budget deficit
00:50:49 Ratcliffe Witkoff and Kushner fail in Moscow
00:54:54 The Lindsey Graham sanctions act as pressure
01:10:14 Putin sets new military spending priorities

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Alexander breaks down Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's stunning admission that Ukraine is losing 27000 men killed and wounded every single month, a number that lines up with Vladimir Putin's own estimate and directly contradicts Zelensky. Alexander also covers how Russia is closing a trap around Ukraine's garrison in Orikhiv, why the Zatoka bridge and hundreds of locomotives are now out of action, and why a looming US diesel export ban could deliver a dreadful winter to Europe. How much longer can Kyiv hide the true scale of its losses?

Episode 2022
00:00:00 Mercouris opens with a travel note before today's program
00:01:31 Tusk admits Ukraine is losing 27000 a month
00:02:16 The number lines up with Putin and contradicts Zelensky's own claims
00:03:27 Why Tusk may have revealed this ahead of his trip to Kyiv
00:06:38 Mercouris doubts this is a sudden spike in losses
00:09:59 How the 27000 figure matches a source Mercouris trusted a year ago
00:11:35 Ukraine's manpower crisis and tightening conscription in Kyiv and Lviv
00:14:46 The Silsky and Fedorov clash over drones versus conscription
00:16:48 Fedorov's drone offensive failed to deliver and drained the budget
00:23:16 Ukraine's growing reliance on foreign mercenaries from Latin America
00:29:18 The Russian drone and missile offensive intensifies and becomes routine
00:31:54 Why Mercouris calls the Geran 5 a cruise missile rather than a drone
00:42:58 Ukraine admits the Zatoka bridge is badly damaged and closed
00:47:25 Up to 500 Ukrainian locomotives destroyed
00:48:07 Russian Duma elections underway as the economy stays stable
00:59:58 Growing skepticism as the Lyman counteroffensive stalls
01:05:08 Russia closes the trap around the Ukrainian garrison in Orikhiv
01:14:56 Russians retake Zoloti Kolodyazi as southern Donbas defenses collapse
01:24:36 Kushner's odd account of Putin's Donbas timeline
01:27:47 A looming US diesel export ban threatens a dreadful winter for Europe

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Russia unleashed one of its most powerful missile and drone strikes yet on Ukraine overnight, hitting Kiev, Odessa and Zaporizhzhia while wiping out key bridges and leaving Ukraine's air defense in near total collapse. Alexander breaks down why China and India are openly defying the new US sanctions bill, why Volodymyr Zelensky just sanctioned his own former spokeswoman for suggesting peace talks, and what the stalled Ukrainian offensive near Lyman really means for the war.

Episode 2021
00:00:00 Massive Russian Missile And Drone Strike Overnight
00:01:37 Kiev Zaporizhzhia Odessa And Black Sea Ports Hit
00:03:09 Ships Smuggling Weapons Into Odessa Attacked
00:05:56 Zatoka And Mayaki Bridges Knocked Out
00:09:14 Warehouses Data Center And Drone Storage Destroyed
00:10:24 Energy Grid Still Spared Bigger Campaign Coming
00:11:40 Rasvet Satellite System Speculation
00:15:24 Russian Strike Tempo Accelerating Every Few Days
00:17:40 Ukrainian Air Defense In Total Collapse
00:22:10 Greece Refuses To Hand Over Air Defense Missiles
00:26:48 Did Diplomacy Delay Russias Offensive
00:37:07 Ukraine Strikes Rostov Air Base
00:41:18 Yaroslavl Refinery Hit Trump Blames Ukraine For Diesel Crisis
00:47:07 Russian Strikes Gut Ukraine Warehouses And Locomotives
00:53:12 Ukraine Demands Another 50 Billion Euros
00:55:44 Zelensky Sanctions Critic Julia Mendel
01:05:55 Sanctions Bill Passes China And India Defy It
01:15:28 Front Line Update Dorop Kharkov Lyman And Russian Elections

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Russia has struck the Zatoka Bridge linking Odessa to Romania while grinding forward at Orikhiv and closing the Dobropillya cauldron on Sloviansk. Alexander breaks down the disputed Lyman counteroffensive claims, the mounting pressure on Ukraine's budget and why 78 percent of Germans now want Friedrich Merz to resign. With the CDU plotting his ouster and Russia's new jet powered drones going unanswered, is the war entering its most decisive phase yet?

Episode 2020
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:06 Russian drone and missile strikes resume on Kiev
00:01:40 Reports the Zatoka Bridge to Romania has been destroyed
00:04:37 Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia drop sharply
00:07:56 Russian recon drones signal a major strike is coming
00:09:24 Orikhiv nears total collapse under Russian assault
00:16:16 Russians storm Dobropillya to encircle Sloviansk
00:20:08 Azov commander Prokopenko's troubled battlefield history
00:22:15 Rybar reports Ukrainian collapse in northeastern Kharkiv
00:23:29 Ukraine claims a counteroffensive breakthrough near Lyman
00:29:12 Mercouris questions the scale of Ukraine's Lyman claims
00:36:17 Biletsky's Azov offensive looks politically motivated
00:49:28 Russia's jet powered Geran drones have no Western answer
00:53:29 Russia mass produces the new Dan T cruise missile
00:59:56 Ukraine admits it can no longer fund its own budget
01:00:56 Belgian court ruling shakes frozen Russian asset seizure plans
01:08:05 Poll finds 78 percent of Germans want Merz to resign
01:10:26 CDU faces collapse in the Mecklenburg Vorpommern election
01:18:27 Middle East turmoil deepens the global energy crisis
01:24:41 Congress pushes bone crushing Russia sanctions bill

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Alexander reports that Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from Orekhov, a collapse that could open the road toward Zaporizhzhia just hours after Donald Trump falsely claimed Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an energy ceasefire. Alexander walks through the denials from Moscow and Kiev, the deepening corruption scandals splitting the Ukrainian leadership, and a European Union suddenly divided over sanctions. With Kiev's military and political position eroding on multiple fronts at once, how much longer can the current Ukrainian leadership hold everything together?

Episode 2019
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:35 Ukrainian forces reportedly withdraw from Orikhiv
00:01:09 Rybar's account of the withdrawal
00:03:46 Villages north of Orikhiv fall, cutting the escape road
00:07:02 Why Orikhiv matters for the road to Zaporizhzhia and Crimea
00:11:49 Trump claims a Russia Ukraine energy truce
00:12:37 Skepticism sets in as Kyiv denies any agreement
00:15:13 Peskov's denial exposes Trump's claim
00:16:33 Ben Aris on Ukraine's unsustainable warehouse losses
00:23:39 Zelensky sanctions his own former spokeswoman Yulia Mendel
00:26:36 A deadly gunfight between Ukrainian intelligence services
00:28:23 The Kravchenko prosecutor general scandal and fake call centers
00:33:49 Mercouris on the real story behind Ukraine's turf wars
00:38:06 Europe splits over rolling over Russia sanctions
00:41:00 Petraeus says he witnessed the railway strike and found it terrifying
00:43:06 The hypocrisy behind coverage of the Krasnodar strikes
00:44:01 Debunking the myth of Putin's Italian palace

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Russia is preparing a massive missile and drone campaign to destroy what remains of Ukraine's energy grid, and Alexander explains why Putin personally ordered it ahead of winter. He breaks down the Russian breakthrough encircling Ukrainian troops in Kharkov region, the disputed claims of a Ukrainian counteroffensive near Lyman, and why Donald Trump is now blaming Volodymyr Zelensky for a diesel crisis that Washington's own intelligence agencies helped create. Is the war in Ukraine already lost, and how much longer can the collective west avoid admitting?

Episode 2018
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:20 US intelligence warns Russia is preparing strikes on Ukraine's energy grid
00:02:59 Putin confirms he ordered the strikes at the Bishkek SCO summit
00:04:33 Why Russia appears to be regrouping before the bigger campaign
00:06:40 Russian strikes continue hammering the Black Sea ports
00:09:07 Details on the huge overnight Geran drone strike west of Kiev
00:10:52 Clarifying the Western media coverage of the locomotive strike near Poland
00:16:59 Why Russia is working to sever the rail link between Kiev and the West
00:21:25 The Zatoka bridge campaign compared to the Crimea bridge
00:25:12 Russian forces encircle Ukrainian troops in Kharkov region
00:27:15 Russians push toward Veliki Burluk as the Kharkov cauldron collapses
00:30:57 Why the captured Kharkov territory gives Russia a base for future advances
00:31:48 Disputed claims of a Ukrainian counteroffensive near Lyman
00:36:12 Conflicting Russian and Ukrainian claims over the fighting there
00:42:27 Russian advances near Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia
00:46:50 Trump blames Zelensky for the diesel shortage he helped cause
00:53:03 How the drone offensive against Russian refineries was really planned
01:05:09 Sikorski, Eric Schmidt and the risk of direct NATO involvement
01:10:27 A rare admission from the western press that Ukraine may be losing

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Russia strikes a train carrying Western dignitaries fleeing Kiev as part of a deliberate strategy to cut the Ukrainian capital off from its Western backers. Alexander breaks down the modified Geran drone attack that shook Kiev's main railway station, Eric Schmidt's alarming new warning about Ukraine's collapsing position, and the harmony restored between Putin, Modi and Xi at the BRICS summit in Delhi. Is Kiev now too dangerous for the West to even visit?

Episode 2017
00:00:00 Russian strategy to isolate Kiev from the West
00:02:02 Massive Geran drone attack, nearly 1000 drones launched
00:02:36 Geran drones operate near Belarus using repeater stations
00:06:32 Evidence Geran 2 drones now modified with ground control
00:06:57 Russians strike locomotive of train carrying Western dignitaries
00:08:48 Travel to Kiev becoming increasingly unsafe for Western officials
00:11:30 Russians edging closer to shutting down the Kiev Poland railway
00:12:55 Return of the older Geran 2 drone explained
00:16:50 Ukraine's costly interceptor drone program becomes obsolete
00:27:15 Eric Schmidt's Washington Post op-ed on Ukraine's outlook
00:36:05 Pushback on the narrative that Russia cannot innovate
00:37:48 Kushner and Witkoff deliver Russia's withdrawal terms to Zelensky
00:39:55 Talk of October trilateral talks between Russia Ukraine and the US
00:44:31 Zelensky's delusional comments on Ukraine joining NATO
00:46:52 Putin warns European troops in Ukraine means war with Russia
00:47:39 Zelensky hopes to meet Putin at the G20 in Miami
00:59:19 Battlefield update, Russians retake ground near Dobropillya
01:04:43 Russian advances continue in Kharkov and Zaporizhzhia
01:13:58 BRICS summit in Delhi restores harmony between Putin Modi and Xi
01:26:52 German poll shows 78 percent want Chancellor Merz to resign

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