Daily Updates on Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Two top-10 records were set today as Russian equipment losses surged again. Russia lost 597 vehicles and fuel tanks, while 16 unmanned ground vehicles were also taken off the battlefield—putting both categories among the highest daily totals recorded. The broader trend is just as striking: virtually all of Russia’s biggest vehicle-loss days are now clustered in the summer of 2026.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Two Top-10 Records Set Today

0:13 420 Ukrainian Drones Head Toward Russia

1:09 Ukraine Hits Russia’s Rocket-Fuel Plant

2:10 Four Russian Drone Facilities Targeted

3:12 Russia’s Overnight Attack on Ukraine

4:17 Russia Builds 10 New Drone Bases

4:59 Russia Targets Ukraine’s Gas Supply

5:58 Russian Battlefield Losses Surge

6:17 The First Top-10 Loss Number

7:40 The Second Top-10 Loss Number

8:15 Is the Battlefield Heating Up?

8:52 Ukrainian Brigade Destroys 43 Russian Assets

9:34 Ukraine Hunts Drones With Drones

10:00 Ground Robots Are Changing the Battlefield

10:20 Russia’s Fake Forest Camouflage

11:23 Your Comments Changed My Reporting

13:02 A Better Global Measure Than Football Fields

13:54 Ukraine Fundraiser Update

16:20 Thank You for the Feedback

HASHTAGS

#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWar #Drones #MilitaryAnalysis #ProfessorGerdes

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

Fundraisers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTs6amkGUg and Here is the direct link to the Ukraine Support Bridge: https://ukrainesupportbridge.com/ - Ukrainian Refugee M's Room and Board is covered for this year. It is not for the rest of her time at CSU. I will be pushing on the other fundraisers for now, but if you still wish to give to make that whole (Aprox 48K total), here is the direct link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ms-journey-at-charleston-southern-university?attribution_id=sl:2708fb35-6c96-49b9-a5f9-6b7567483de6&lang=en_US&ts=1786462653&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp30-treatment-3&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

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🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

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***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

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Ukraine didn’t simply throw drones at Moscow and hope some survived. The emerging picture is much more deliberate: decoys first, indirect routes, attacks from multiple directions, flight paths designed to avoid mobile defense teams, and concentrated waves against defended sectors until two routes finally broke through.

Russia claims it destroyed 822 drones across the wider attack, while other reporting cited in the video suggests roughly 500 were launched in the main operation and at least 600 may have been directed toward Moscow. Whatever the final numbers prove to be, the more important story is how the attack was structured. Decoys appear to have drawn Russian defenses first. The main strike drones then approached Moscow indirectly, exploiting regional boundaries and attacking from several directions. Two breakthrough routes succeeded, and the Wildberries warehouse complex was hit despite the enormous concentration of Russian air defenses around the capital. The rest of today’s update looks at the expanding Ukrainian deep-strike campaign, British-made drones now reportedly being used inside Russia, another NATO interception over Romania, North Korean labor supporting Russia’s economy, Russian propaganda narratives, and what Anne Applebaum and Sarah Paine say about the deeper political system Putin has built.

0:00 How Ukraine Got Through Moscow’s Defenses

2:06 Decoys, Saturation and the Two Breakthrough Routes

4:34 Wildberries Under Cyber and Drone Pressure

5:05 Russia, Ukraine and the Battle Over Books

8:15 Kyiv Protests and the Fedorov Question

8:40 British Drones Strike Deep Inside Russia

9:11 NATO Shoots Down Another Drone Over Romania

11:47 North Korean Labor Flows Into Russia

14:02 Applebaum: Putin’s Mafia-State Business Model

17:28 U.S., Russia and the Propaganda Battle

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

#Ukraine #Russia #Moscow #UkraineWar #DroneWar

Here is the fundraisers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTs6amkGUg and Here is the direct link to the Ukraine Support Bridge: https://ukrainesupportbridge.com/

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🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

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*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

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🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

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🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

#UKRAINE #UKRAINERUSSIAWAR #UKRAINEWAR

Why the Spirit of Anchorage Failed for Putin

Russia, Ukraine, and the Collapse of the Anchorage Summit

Putin’s War After Anchorage: Pressure, Missiles, and No Deal

Europe Rearms as Russia’s Ukraine Strategy Stalls

I assess the failed Anchorage Summit one year later, Russia’s demands over Donetsk, Ukraine’s air-defense shortages, Turkish arms supplies, Polish rearmament, European diplomacy, Russian military logistics, and the debate over the US dollar’s reserve-currency role.

00:00 Anchorage Summit: One Year Later

03:11 Civilian Strikes and Turkey’s Arms Role

05:57 Recruitment Pressures and Olympic Restrictions

09:30 Europe’s Role in Russia-Ukraine Negotiations

12:59 The US Dollar Reserve Currency Debate

16:00 Pressure on Putin and the Road Ahead

#UkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWar #AnchorageSummit #Putin #Trump #EuropeanSecurity

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

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🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

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*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

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🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/ukraine-response/?utm_source=FY22UkraineResponseVanityURL&utm_medium=direct&utm_campaign=m_YUKR-22L3&utm_content=Ukraine-Response-Redirect%20%20

🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

#UKRAINE #UKRAINERUSSIAWAR #UKRAINEWAR

Russia’s Propaganda Meets Reality: Drones, Drafts and War Fatigue

Why Russians Are Turning Against a War They Once Ignored

Putin’s Reality Gap: Russian Voices Compare Him to Nicholas II

Russian Mobilization and Black Sea Strikes Expose War’s Domestic Cost

I examine Russian war fatigue, Ukrainian drone strikes on Black Sea infrastructure, new digital draft summons, Margarita Simonyan’s propaganda narrative, and Russian comparisons of Putin to Tsar Nicholas II as the costs of the war reach deeper inside Russia.

00:00 Simonyan, RT and the Fahrenheit 451 Narrative

03:08 Russia’s Winter Threats and Ukraine’s Response

05:02 Black Sea Strikes Bring the War Home

06:44 Digital Draft Summons and Mobilization Pressure

08:24 Putin, Propaganda and the Nicholas II Comparison

11:51 Russian Social Media Amid Wartime Damage

12:40 Ukraine Support and Closing Remarks

#RussiaUkraineWar #Putin #RussianPropaganda #RussianMobilization #UkraineWar #BlackSea

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🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

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*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

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🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

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🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

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Ukraine launched one of the largest overnight strike packages we have seen in some time, with roughly 480 drones reported heading into Russia and occupied Ukraine. But the biggest story may be the Flamingo cruise-missile strike on the Progress Rocket and Space Center in Samara, Russia’s sole facility for serial assembly of Soyuz-2 launch vehicles and a facility connected to Moscow’s attempt to develop its own satellite capability after Russian forces lost unauthorized access to Starlink. Ukraine also targeted Savasleyka Air Base, home to MiG-31K aircraft capable of launching Kinzhal missiles. In this update, I break down what was hit, why these targets matter, what we know about the damage, the extraordinary Russian effort to intercept the Flamingos, and what the attacks tell us about Ukraine’s expanding deep-strike strategy.

Chapters:

0:00 Russia Had a Very Bad Night

0:35 Flamingos Hit Russia’s Rocket Center

1:43 Why Russia Needs Its Own Starlink

2:58 Five Flamingos vs. Russia’s Air Defenses

4:19 Zelensky Confirms the Deep Strikes

5:42 Ukraine Targets the Kinzhal Launch Base

6:52 Stop the Missile Before It Launches

7:33 Russia Is Netting Its Ships

8:27 Russia’s Overnight Attack on Ukraine

9:07 Battlefield Losses and 480 Ukrainian Drones

10:48 Russia’s “Road of Life” Becomes a Kill Zone

11:22 Ukraine Reports 352 km² Liberated

12:16 A Very Ukrainian Battlefield Moment

13:12 Russia’s Growing Authoritarianism

14:45 Supporting Ukrainians Directly

16:21 What Japan’s 1945 Choice Says About Russia

#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #FlamingoMissile #Starlink #Putin

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

Here is the fundraisers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTs6amkGUg and Here is the direct link to the Ukraine Support Bridge: https://ukrainesupportbridge.com/

***** To support me as as I provide Ukraine war context: *****

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🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

https://a.co/iodWsUK

Amazon Shopping List for EU/UK

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Direct Link for Financial Giving via our 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible in the USA

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Link for Greg's 501(c)(3) EIN Information

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/ukraine-response/?utm_source=FY22UkraineResponseVanityURL&utm_medium=direct&utm_campaign=m_YUKR-22L3&utm_content=Ukraine-Response-Redirect%20%20

🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

#UKRAINE #UKRAINERUSSIAWAR #UKRAINEWAR

Russia may have just crossed a line that matters far more than another bad economic statistic. One of Russia’s best-known exiled economists says Putin is moving the country toward a harsh command economy—and the evidence is showing up in two places at once. The remaining anti-war political opposition is being pushed off the ballot, while Russia’s federal prison system is preparing to connect inmates directly with business and industrial production. That is the connection we need to understand tonight. Because authoritarian politics and economic control are not two separate Putin stories anymore. They are becoming one system. And if Igor Lipsits is right, Russia is moving toward something that looks less like a modern market economy and increasingly like a Gulag economy.

0:00 Russia May Have Crossed a Line

0:54 The Economist Putin Turned Into an Enemy

2:13 “Russia Is Going Down the Path of North Korea”

2:30 Why Removing Yabloko Matters

3:21 Russia’s Command-Economy Turning Point

4:21 Everything Is Now “For the War”

4:58 The Return of Prison Labor

6:11 Why Putin Couldn’t Risk an Anti-War Vote

7:51 What Russia’s FSIN Actually Does

8:38 Prisoners Become an Economic Labor Pool

9:58 Putin’s Authoritarian System Takes Shape

13:35 Putin Is All In

13:46 The Economic Trap Putin Is Creating

15:05 How You Can Help Ukraine

#Putin #Russia #RussianEconomy #Ukraine #UkraineWar #PrisonLabor #Gulag #CommandEconomy #Yabloko #FSIN #RussianPolitics #PutinRussia #WarEconomy #RussiaUkraine #ProfessorGerdes

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

Here is the fundraisers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTs6amkGUg and Here is the direct link to the Ukraine Support Bridge: https://ukrainesupportbridge.com/

***** To support me as as I provide Ukraine war context: *****

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🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

https://a.co/iodWsUK

Amazon Shopping List for EU/UK

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Direct Link for Financial Giving via our 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible in the USA

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

Link for Greg's 501(c)(3) EIN Information

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/ukraine-response/?utm_source=FY22UkraineResponseVanityURL&utm_medium=direct&utm_campaign=m_YUKR-22L3&utm_content=Ukraine-Response-Redirect%20%20

🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

#UKRAINE #UKRAINERUSSIAWAR #UKRAINEWAR

Russia is sending an increasingly clear message about where the war goes from here.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow will not stop at the current line of contact and says Russia intends to use “much harsher” methods against the support sustaining Ukraine’s military. Meanwhile, Russia has rejected proposals to halt certain strikes and is openly signaling continued pressure against Ukraine.

The timing matters. UN monitors verified 437 Ukrainian civilians killed in July—the deadliest month since May 2022—while Russia launched 429 missiles, more than twice June’s total.

Ukraine is responding by rapidly developing new defenses, including jet-powered interceptor drones capable of speeds above 600 km/h.

In this video, I break down Lavrov’s statements, Russia’s escalating strike campaign, Ukraine’s response, pressure on Europe and NATO, Russian hybrid operations, and the larger question: what would actually have to happen before Moscow became serious about negotiating?

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Russia Signals There Will Be No Ceasefire

0:55 Ukraine’s Deadliest Month Since May 2022

1:30 Ukraine Tests Jet-Powered Interceptor Drones

2:26 Fedorov Protests and Operations in Occupied Ukraine

3:44 Major Gaps in Russia’s Shadow-Fleet Sanctions

4:36 Poland Debates Sending More Patriot Missiles

5:29 Russian Influence Operations Inside Poland

6:42 Belarus Trains Teenagers for War

7:45 Lavrov: Russia Will Not Stop

9:15 “Much Harsher” Methods Are Coming

10:14 What Putin May Be Trying to Accomplish

10:54 Russia Rejects Another Halt to Strikes

12:00 Russia Moves Against Its Pro-Peace Opposition

13:33 Russia’s Playbook—and China May Be Copying It

14:47 How Political Extremes Feed the Strategy

16:14 Tucker Carlson, Putin and the Populist Right

19:39 Why Russia Is Using Unusual Camouflage

20:38 What Would Make Russia Actually Negotiate?

21:07 Ukraine Support Update

#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWar #Lavrov #Zelenskyy #Putin #UkraineUpdate #NATO #ProfessorGerdes

Here is the fundraisers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTs6amkGUg and Here is the direct link to the Ukraine Support Bridge: https://ukrainesupportbridge.com/

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🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

https://a.co/iodWsUK

Amazon Shopping List for EU/UK

https://www.amazon.de/hz/wishlist/ls/...

Direct Link for Financial Giving via our 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible in the USA

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

Link for Greg's 501(c)(3) EIN Information

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/ukraine-response/?utm_source=FY22UkraineResponseVanityURL&utm_medium=direct&utm_campaign=m_YUKR-22L3&utm_content=Ukraine-Response-Redirect%20%20

🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

#UKRAINE #UKRAINERUSSIAWAR #UKRAINEWAR

Zelensky Says Ukraine Needs Patriot Missiles to Survive Winter

Putin’s Pressure Campaign: Ukraine, Japan, NATO and the Black Sea

What Ukraine’s Drone Success Against US Armor Means for NATO

Russia’s Escalation Signals From Ukraine to Japan’s Kuril Islands

I examine Zelensky’s warning that Ukraine has only 1% of needed Patriot interceptors, Russia’s Black Sea and Kuril Islands pressure, Russian intelligence activity in Europe, and what Ukrainian drone tactics revealed during US Army exercises in Germany.

00:00 Ukraine’s Patriot Interceptor Shortage

03:02 Black Sea Ceasefire Proposal and Russian Attacks

05:26 Russia, Shipping Threats and the Kuril Islands

11:26 Occupation, Propaganda and Pressure on Europe

14:03 Ukraine Aid, Poland and Starlink Risks

17:07 North Korea’s Overseas Workers and Iran Blockade Claims

19:04 Moral Clarity, Community Updates and Fundraisers

22:16 Closing Reflections

#UkraineWar #Zelensky #PatriotMissiles #Russia #NATO #BlackSea

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

Ukraine war update, Zelensky Patriot interceptors, PAC-3 missiles Ukraine, Ukraine air defense, Russia NATO threat, Black Sea ceasefire proposal, Russian shadow fleet, Kuril Islands dispute, Japan Russia relations, Russian intelligence Europe, Ukraine drone warfare, US Army Germany exercises, NATO drone tactics, Poland Starlink Ukraine, Ukraine aid Kiel Institute

Here is the fundraisers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTs6amkGUg and Here is the direct link to the Ukraine Support Bridge: https://ukrainesupportbridge.com/

***** To support me as as I provide Ukraine war context: *****

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorGerdesExplains

Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/professorgerdes

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YouTube Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/@Professor-Gerdes/membership

🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

https://a.co/iodWsUK

Amazon Shopping List for EU/UK

https://www.amazon.de/hz/wishlist/ls/...

Direct Link for Financial Giving via our 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible in the USA

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

Link for Greg's 501(c)(3) EIN Information

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/ukraine-response/?utm_source=FY22UkraineResponseVanityURL&utm_medium=direct&utm_campaign=m_YUKR-22L3&utm_content=Ukraine-Response-Redirect%20%20

🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

#UKRAINE #UKRAINERUSSIAWAR #UKRAINEWAR

In this video, I look at something potentially important happening inside Russia: not simply battlefield losses, but a change in the way Russians themselves are talking about the war.

Residents of Novorossiysk describe an unprecedented night of attacks and fear. One Russian woman openly asks what the point of the war is and says people are reaching the breaking point. Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov says the constituency that strongly favors continuing the war has shrunk dramatically and that many Russians now simply want a ceasefire. Then Russian military commentator Maxim Kalashnikov goes much further—questioning Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian civilian targets, calling the “special military operation” a war, describing it as a fiasco, and warning that Russia itself could face a severe systemic crisis.

And then there is Dmitry Medvedev, insisting that Russians who oppose the war simply have “problems with their brains.” The contrast is striking. The Kremlin is still selling the old message while more Russians—including some traditionally patriotic voices—are beginning to ask a very different question: what exactly has this war accomplished?

0:00 Russia’s tone is changing

0:25 Novorossiysk brings the war home

2:47 Russians begin questioning the war

4:41 Muratov: Russians increasingly want a ceasefire

6:16 Russian military commentator turns on the strategy

9:12 Why Russia’s war has reached a dead end

11:25 Medvedev attacks young Russians who oppose the war

13:40 What this shift inside Russia means

14:01 Three ways to directly help Ukrainians

17:07 One final Black Sea message

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #Novorossiysk #RussiaUkraineWar #BlackSeaFleet #Putin

Here is the fundraisers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTs6amkGUg and Here is the direct link to the Ukraine Support Bridge: https://ukrainesupportbridge.com/

***** To support me as as I provide Ukraine war context: *****

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorGerdesExplains

Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/professorgerdes

Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/professorgerdes

YouTube Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/@Professor-Gerdes/membership

🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

https://a.co/iodWsUK

Amazon Shopping List for EU/UK

https://www.amazon.de/hz/wishlist/ls/...

Direct Link for Financial Giving via our 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible in the USA

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

Link for Greg's 501(c)(3) EIN Information

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/ukraine-response/?utm_source=FY22UkraineResponseVanityURL&utm_medium=direct&utm_campaign=m_YUKR-22L3&utm_content=Ukraine-Response-Redirect%20%20

🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

#UKRAINE #UKRAINERUSSIAWAR #UKRAINEWAR

In this video, I look at something potentially important happening inside Russia: not simply battlefield losses, but a change in the way Russians themselves are talking about the war.

Residents of Novorossiysk describe an unprecedented night of attacks and fear. One Russian woman openly asks what the point of the war is and says people are reaching the breaking point. Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov says the constituency that strongly favors continuing the war has shrunk dramatically and that many Russians now simply want a ceasefire. Then Russian military commentator Maxim Kalashnikov goes much further—questioning Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian civilian targets, calling the “special military operation” a war, describing it as a fiasco, and warning that Russia itself could face a severe systemic crisis.

And then there is Dmitry Medvedev, insisting that Russians who oppose the war simply have “problems with their brains.” The contrast is striking. The Kremlin is still selling the old message while more Russians—including some traditionally patriotic voices—are beginning to ask a very different question: what exactly has this war accomplished?

0:00 Russia’s tone is changing

0:25 Novorossiysk brings the war home

2:47 Russians begin questioning the war

4:41 Muratov: Russians increasingly want a ceasefire

6:16 Russian military commentator turns on the strategy

9:12 Why Russia’s war has reached a dead end

11:25 Medvedev attacks young Russians who oppose the war

13:40 What this shift inside Russia means

14:01 Three ways to directly help Ukrainians

17:07 One final Black Sea message

Facts over noise. Context over headlines. Truth over talking points. Principle over partisanship.

#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #Novorossiysk #RussiaUkraineWar #BlackSeaFleet #Putin

Here is the fundraisers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTs6amkGUg and Here is the direct link to the Ukraine Support Bridge: https://ukrainesupportbridge.com/

***** To support me as as I provide Ukraine war context: *****

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorGerdesExplains

Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/professorgerdes

Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/professorgerdes

YouTube Channel Membership: https://www.youtube.com/@Professor-Gerdes/membership

🇺🇸 Contact the White House to express your support for Ukraine

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

*****IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE DIRECT AID TO UKRAINE: *****

🇺🇦 I have partnered with Greg Terry for all donations to Ukraine. He has raised and delivered more than a quarter of a million dollars of aid to date. To directly support this effort of delivering necessary provisions to the front lines, click on these links (and then watch him give your donations to soldiers on the front lines on his channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GregTerryExperience

Amazon Shopping List USA/North America (Shop and send to UKRAINE AID c/o Bethel Life's Gift Registry Address)

https://a.co/iodWsUK

Amazon Shopping List for EU/UK

https://www.amazon.de/hz/wishlist/ls/...

Direct Link for Financial Giving via our 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible in the USA

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

Link for Greg's 501(c)(3) EIN Information

https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html

🇺🇸 Alternatively, you may choose to donate to Samaritan’s Purse:

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/ukraine-response/?utm_source=FY22UkraineResponseVanityURL&utm_medium=direct&utm_campaign=m_YUKR-22L3&utm_content=Ukraine-Response-Redirect%20%20

🇺🇦 If you wish to support the Ukrainian Army, give directly to United 24. Follow this link: https://u24.gov.ua/

***BUY SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE ***

🇺🇦 If you purchase from Saint Javelin with my link below, a cut of the proceeds will go directly to humanitarian aid for soldiers (bandages, tourniquets, etc.). I don't get the revenue. It goes to buy medical supplies from UnitewithUkraine.com. Use this link: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Gerdes

🇺🇸 This is the absolute CHEAPEST THING YOU CAN DO to support Ukraine (This is NOT MY SITE) https://amzn.to/4aPtwQr - Just support the war effort somehow.

🇺🇦 I wrote a book about Ukraine's president Zelenskyy which I have updated for the first 4-5 months of the war in Ukraine: It is free if you have Amazon Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 otherwise: https://amzn.to/3Q2wnyE

🇺🇦 If you cannot give or buy, you can like, share, and pray for the people of Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Please leave comments and tell me how I can help you gain more perspective. You can contact me @Dr_Gerdes on Twitter or email [email protected]

#UKRAINE #UKRAINERUSSIAWAR #UKRAINEWAR