All hell is breaking loose as Russia has been raining down ballistic missiles on Kyiv. Let me show you what took place moments ago. Let's play this clip.
Here's another angle of some direct hits by Russian ballistic missiles in Kyiv. Let's play it.
Now with the ballistic missile alert sounding throughout Kyiv, you have a lot of residents now living in the underground metro area. Let me show you what it looks like right now in Kyiv. Let's play this clip.
Here is another angle of the metro station where people are sleeping in the metro stations, or they're sleeping in underground garages in order to try to avoid these deadly ballistic missile strikes one after the other. Here, play this clip.
Now I'll show you what it looked like earlier in the day in Odessa. This is a Russian Shahed drone attacking a civilian convoy of vehicles on the Odessa highway. The vehicles were heading towards the borders of Europe, according to local media. Let me show you what that looked like right here. Let's play this clip.
Now we're getting some information about the specific type of ballistics and cruise missiles, and also drones that have been used by Russia in this strike. In a moment, I'll show you how Zelensky has responded, striking in Moscow, striking in other areas in Russia.
So here's what we want to talk about though now. The following missiles and ballistics and cruise missiles and drones were launched by Russia: 6 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 6 Kh-23 ballistic missiles, 4 Onik-M supersonic cruise missiles, 7 Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles. So 20 missiles in total, and dozens and dozens of Shahed drones and Geran-4 and Geran-5 drones. You can see over here the missile flight routes. That, uh, Russia was using when they were sending off these ballistic missiles striking Kyiv.
They also struck Zaporizhzhia. A 47-year-old man was killed. I'll show you what the scenes looked like outside of Zaporizhzhia. And also Russia hit Sumy near a shopping center, one person killed. Show you this video footage, uh, play it.
Now President Zelensky of Ukraine posted the following video message We've got updated intel on Russia's preparations for a massive strike. I ask you please to take care of yourselves and respond to missile threat alerts. Ukrainian services and our Air Force are ready to respond as much as our defense allow, and a lot depends on our partners, every country in the world that has the defensive capabilities we need and can provide them to us. It's very important that there be the political will to do this, particularly in the United States and Europe. And just as Zelensky was saying that, we learned about this meeting by Trump political operatives and Russian operatives as well.
The 2 top Trump advisors, James Blair and Kris LaCivita, traveled to Bosnia's Republika Srpska to provide election advice to its Russian-aligned government while also simultaneously leading Republican efforts for the US midterms. The pair were reportedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each through a Washington law firm. Republika Srpska, led politically by Milorad Dodik's Nationalist Party has cultivated close ties with Putin while also courting Trump and his allies. Trump-linked lobbyists and operatives have received more than $4 million from Republika Srpska's government since early 2025. And Donald Trump was asked if he's going to be speaking with Putin soon about a number of topics, including the fact that another individual seems to have died of the plague in Serbia— sorry, in Siberia— at a lab that was taking— a biolab there in Siberia.
Here's what Donald Trump says he has a call with Putin very soon. Let's play this clip. Mr. President, on the plague in Russia, have you spoken with President Putin? I have a call scheduled. When is that call scheduled for?
Very soon. What are your intelligence agencies saying about the Russian plague? So far, we're in very deep discussions. We'll be able to report about it probably tomorrow. Mr. President, when did you decide that— Now, the US State Department has issued a level 4 travel advisory for Americans to not to Russia after mnemonic plague death stare.
Quote, US citizens currently in Russia should depart immediately. US citizens planning to travel to Russia are again strongly advised to not to travel to Russia. Going back to Zelensky's statements here for a moment, I find the language that he used notable. He says we're going to defend ourselves as much as our defenses allow. And what he means by that is Ukraine doesn't have interceptors, doesn't have the PAC-3s, doesn't have the THAAD interceptors.
The Trump regime promised it to Ukraine, never gave it, never gave interceptor licenses that were promised to Zelensky. And then the Geran-4 and Geran-5 drones by Russia are these highly advanced jet-powered or jet-fueled drones, much harder to shoot down. Ukraine used to be able to shoot down these Shahed drones at a 90% interception rate. And right now, they can only knock down these Geran-4 new Russian drones at about a 51% interception rate. And then the Geran-5s, a much less interception rate.
We're talking probably 30%, 20%. Maybe even less, because those Geran-5s are almost more of a cruise missile than a drone. Also, we've learned that Iran has been asking Russia for those Geran-4 and Geran-5, which is interesting because Russia used to be using all of the Iranian Shaheds. Then they used the Shahed base to upgrade to Geran-4. And so it's basically an upgraded Shahed.
And we do know that a major meeting will be taking place between Russia and Iran in the coming days. Russia's President Putin and Iranian President Dr. Pashinyan will be meeting Friday on the sidelines of the CIS summit. That's the Council of the Head of State Commonwealth of Independent States. The CIS is a regional organization of former Soviet republics formed in 1991 that coordinates political, economic, security, and cultural cooperation. Iran has been invited as like an honorary guest.
They'll be participating, uh, in these sidelines. But folks, um, Zelensky is not just sitting back and taking it. I mean, Ukraine striking back pretty hard as well, although let's be clear, Kyiv is under a massive bombardment. But take a Right here of the massive fire reported in the Russian Black Sea port city of Sochi, uh, during the evening. Local channels report that a ship exploded in the port area over there.
I'll show you more footage of what it looks like. Indeed, very apocalyptic. Let me take a look. I'll just keep on showing some more B-roll there. And we are learning this as well, uh, there does— there did appear to be, uh, more strikes off the coast of a NATO member yet again.
So 2 days ago, we reported how a tanker or a large vessel that was carrying Ukrainian grain was struck off the coast of Romania. No invocation of Article 4 or 5 of NATO, even though Romania is a NATO member, and it was in NATO's economic zone. And yesterday morning, 2 commercial ships were hit by drones off Bulgaria, sinking one in the first reported attack on shipping in Bulgaria's economic zone. The Togo-flagged Alpha Watten sank about 70 nautical miles off Bulgaria with its crew still missing. The second vessel, Abel caught fire, and its 18 crew were rescued, some injured.
The origin of the drones remain unknown officially, although I think it's pretty clear that it's Russian drones. But no one wants to say that because then you would have to invoke Article 4 and 5. And I think there's a lot of questions about how Article 4 and 5 could be invoked when the United States, one of the main members, if not the main member of NATO, seems to be more interested in attacking NATO and sending political operatives to help Putin and trying to do deals with Putin for like Lukoil, like the Russian oil company international assets, than anything else. Posted, our intelligence and special services are now working to establish all available information about yet another attack in the Black Sea targeting civilian vessels. 2 civilian vessels were attacked in Bulgarian waters.
One sank while the other sustained significant damage. And they believe, as Zelensky believes it's part of Russia's effort. I made this little map here. This is where the blue X is, where a vessel was struck off the coast of Romania in its economic zone in the Black Sea. Look at Bulgaria, where 2 tankers were struck, believed to be by Russian drones, although Russia isn't saying that they did it.
And where this is what is being referred to as the so-called hybrid warfare that we're seeing. Another video here of residents of Kyiv sheltering in underground metro stations following Zelensky's warning. Let me show you You what this looks like over here. Let's play it.
Now I'll show you this graph, the monthly missile and drone strikes on Ukraine and Russia since the beginning of 2022. The main increase has been observed since the beginning of 2026. You can see Ukraine increasing its drone strikes deep in Russia. You can see Russia significantly more drone strikes in Ukraine. But take a look right over here.
I mean, you really see the acceleration during the Trump regime presidency. And then over the past year, you've seen that accelerate. And one of the reasons I attribute to that as well, not just is Donald Trump's weakness, but I think that Donald Trump has created a permission structure for just all-out catastrophic war on civilian infrastructure. The way Donald Trump handled the catastrophic war in Iran and the United States lost to Iran, but Trump blowing up bridges and civilian infrastructure and slaughtering little children, uh, Donald Trump, uh, taking over Venezuela and stealing its resources, even though the people of Venezuela are still suffering. Frankly, there's not more resources that are being extracted than before, but Trump is, I want that.
I want that. He has a Qatari bank account where some of this money's being funneled. He claims that there's a 65 billion barrel oil deal that may be hypothetically happening sometime in the future, but we don't believe that's— you can't extract that Venezuelan viscous, sour, dense oil for a very long period of time. It wouldn't even go into our strategic strategic petroleum reserves. And a lot of American oil companies don't want to do business over there.
It's why the Trump regime had to create its own Trump State Oil Company within the Pentagon to do a deal with one of these, you know, Venezuelan oligarch types who's responsible for all those power outages there. Just the level of corruption is just next level. We're getting more footage as well over here. What are we looking at over here? Ukrainian drones attacking Moscow's oil refinery, a big one too.
Russia's Volderskaya LPD. Yes, a major storage and distribution hub supplying jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline for the Russian capital. You can see it over here as the facility burns. And I'll show you just another angle of the Ukrainian drones attacking that Moscow oil refinery. You can see it for yourself.
Let's play that clip right here. Let's play it.
Yeah, so a lot of developments happening. And by the way, uh, in the— that very first image that I showed you, that first video, um, those are North Korean ballistic missiles, uh, that are striking down on Kyiv. And that's part of North Korea's alliance with Russia. Um, I should note that yesterday Donald Trump was giving one of his deranged speeches at the naval shipyard in Baltimore where they want to build Trump battleships and these massive nuclear submarines and everything. And it's It's just like, you know, wasting our taxpayer dollars on things when it's obvious the war of the future is being fought today with these ballistics and these Gherin-4s and these cruise missiles.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the escalating Russia-Ukraine war as Russia launches a massive ballistic missile barrage and Ukraine strikes back. Meiselas breaks down Zelensky’s warning, the latest attacks at sea, and the wider consequences as the conflict grows more dangerous.
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