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MOSCOW IN FLAMES as Putin Pushes to "Surrender"—Ukraine HITS Russia's Capital with Surprising STRIKE

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MOSCOW IN FLAMES as Putin Pushes to "Surrender"—Ukraine HITS Russia's Capital with Surprising STRIKE

Ukraine has inflicted significant damage on Russia through a series of drone strikes targeting key logistics hubs, particularly Wildberries warehouses, which are vital for both civilian supply chains and military operations. The attacks have destroyed hundreds of thousands of square meters of warehouse space—equivalent to dozens of soccer fields—disrupting the Russian economy and causing massive losses for businesses and sellers. Wildberries, a dominant e-commerce platform, has effectively disclaimed liability for losses, leaving many small merchants bankrupt. This economic collapse has triggered a historic stock market freefall, the worst since 1997, and accelerated the exodus of billions in wealth by Russian oligarchs who fear state confiscation. These movements are driven by rising instability and the perception that Putin’s regime is increasingly authoritarian and dangerous. Compounding the crisis, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Koshinov, who worked closely with Putin in the early 2000s, has issued a stark warning about the ruling elite’s fear and the growing instability within Russia. He describes Putin as narcissistic, focused on personal power, and indifferent to national welfare, while highlighting the threat of Ukrainian assassination squads targeting high-level Russian officials. These developments signal a deepening crisis in Russia’s military, economic, and political stability, with both civilians and elites increasingly fearing for their safety and future. The situation reflects a broader shift: Ukraine’s asymmetric warfare is not only militarily effective but also psychologically and economically destabilizing for Russia.

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moscow has descended into darkness and i mean that literally and figuratively over the last few days ukraine has sent more than 2 000 drones towards the russian capital and the result is something vladimir putin genuinely did not expect to see on his own skyline russian politicians are now openly speaking out against him some are even fleeing the country and russian oligarchs are now moving billions of dollars in wealth out of russia at a scale that has now triggered a stock market collapse that russia has not seen since 1997. on top of all this ukrainian assassination squads are quietly operating inside of russia and finishing missions that kremlin cannot prevent so putin is living scared in his bunker he's not even getting any good news from the front lines russia is losing jets and aircrafts at a rate that the kremlin cannot explain and just recently an entire battalion of russian soldiers just walked into a ukrainian trap and had no choice but to surrender on the spot so in this video i want to walk you through what is actually happening right now the drones the oligarchs fleeing the country the stock market crash and of course former russian prime minister publicly warning the world about putin this is a guy who actually worked with putin while he was president from 2000 to 2004. and now he's warning about putin and where he's taking russia as you guys know my name is sam and you're watching business basics i really want to cover this russian prime minister story because this is the most shocking story i have heard in quite a while but before that we do have to cover the biggest story coming out of moscow and it has to do with drones the moscow skyline well it's not looking pretty unless you're a ukrainian and if we want to understand why oligarchs are panicking why they are packing their bags we have to know the answer to that question let's get started let's get started understand what happened in last few days so the thing you're seeing on your screen right now is the moscow skyline two nights ago the same thing happened yesterday night too in three days ukraine has destroyed moscow two times that's just insane to say i doubt putin was expecting this when he started this war and this is what moscow looked like if you got out at the airport take a look now you would think this is a natural phenomenon but it's not it's a ukrainian drone strike and it's still going as you guys are watching this so we'll break it down strike by strike let's look at the first one and this is what ukraine destroyed in the first strike that happened on july 18th first they destroyed a wild berries logistics hub now wild berries is kinda like russian amazon but it's much more important than that they destroyed a hub in tamboy region and they destroyed an oil depot in moscow region then another wild berries warehouse in moscow region and of course this is not including shadow fleet vessels that ukraine is hitting in the black sea and azov sea now some of you guys might be confused as to why is ukraine attacking russian amazon and this is something we'll get into because it has created a lot of controversy a lot of russian supporters are saying that ukraine is now targeting civilian businesses just because they want to make russia feel the pain well that's not exactly accurate but before we get into that let me show you the clips that are coming out of this strike because then you'll understand exactly what kind of firepower ukraine has put behind this strike and then we can talk about why ukraine believes this to be such an important strike so here are the clips we want to react to we got a new setup we're going to have new reactions so this is the moment on july 18th when the first strike against the warehouse took place take a look that's the ukrainian girl we have other angles now this was a massive warehouse if you guys have seen an amazon warehouse well it was bigger than like normal amazon warehouses you see here in the united states and pretty much all the equipment or what would you call it all the merchandise inside the warehouse was destroyed so that's something we'll cover in just a second because that's creating a huge economic problem not just for wildberries but a big portion of the russian society now as i mentioned earlier first strike took place against two wild berry warehouses on july 18th so roughly three days ago and then another strike took place just yesterday at a different wild berries warehouse or logistical hubs i think the names are interchangeable but take a look last night it was a very active night in moscow because from just one apartment you could see everything ukraine was doing in three different places take a look something's blazing over there and there's something over there near domo de dovo too so let's talk about the controversy with these strikes because many russians and russian supporters of course are saying that ukraine is now just targeting civilian infrastructure going after civilian targets inside of russia which is a war crime but in reality that's not entirely true because wild berry is not just an online storefront that you know russians use just to buy their groceries it has very deep ties with the russian military take a look at this screenshot from a wild berry website what do you see here this is a screenshot of what is currently being sold on wild berries systems for dropping bombs from grenades military grade gear drone components combat equipment all of it for purchase and all of it that russians are actually purchasing and sending it to the front lines anyone any volunteer or anyone who wants to help the troops on the front lines they're going to have to go to the front lines and they're going to have to go to the front lines and they're going to have to go to the front lines they can buy this stuff from wild berry and just send it over help out the troops on the front line that doesn't really seem like civilian but don't just believe me after all i'm just some pro-ukrainian guy right let's listen to pro-russian war bloggers and what are they saying about this strike here's a message from a pro-russian war blogger saying a huge amount of military and dual-use goods are sold on wild berry volunteers often buy related and essential supplies there for combat operations so strikes on the warehouse will also deal a serious blow to frontline logistics and volunteer movement this is the result now i do want to spend a little bit of time talking about the legality of this strike in case someone wants to debate with you whether this was legal or not i don't know why you'd be debating someone who's supporting the russian side but nonetheless under international law that admission alone basically proves that wild berry was a legitimate military target ukraine does not need to prove that every box inside of this warehouse was a military box or something that contained ammunition they only need to prove that this location or this logistics hub was supporting military activities it was supporting military logistics and if they know that well guess what under international law it makes it a legitimate target that's the legal argument but now let's talk about the moral argument on the moral side there's a piece of context that many people are forgetting for last four years maybe even five years russia has been targeting ukrainian warehousing in the last four or five years russia has been targeting ukrainian warehouses ukrainian online retailers ukrainian logistic companies anything you can imagine and every single time the russian excuse is the same they say hey this company this location this warehouse well they were working with the ukrainian military they were helping ukrainian military activities and that's why they were legitimate targets that's what russia was saying all this time after their own strikes and guess what now ukraine is just giving them a taste of their own medicine and all of a sudden russians don't like the taste of their own medicine because they're now complaining about war crimes when in reality this thing could not be further from the war crime and guess what on top of this being a tactical blow to russian activities on the front lines this is also causing domestic problems domestic economic problems for a lot of russians and let me explain what i mean take a listen to this clip this is a russian merchant explaining specific details that were buried inside wild berry contracts a contract that wild berry changed just 10 days before this strike almost like they knew something was coming and they wanted to just wash their hands away from all the liabilities so now russian merchants are getting screwed take a listen just landed in the wonderful city of sochi and i'm already getting news that a wild berries warehouse got blown to pieces not just one several of them i log into wb partners and what do i see my inventory is at zero then i get another message saying that wild berries will not reimburse sellers for any lost goods if anything happens to them through the company's fault we lost eight hundred thousand rubles on just one product in the one product page and we had around 30 of those pages i'm really curious about what you're supposed to do in situations like this and the best part wild berries basically said nope sorry get lost it's completely up sometimes i think i'd be better off not doing business at all or doing it somewhere else at the same time wild berries is buying space projects buying whales in the pacific ocean but they can't compensate their own sellers for these losses awesome just great thanks wild berries just go yourselves just close your platform now doesn't matter how much my mom wishes i'm actually not a lawyer and i sure as hell don't understand russian law but nonetheless here's a good report explaining exactly the impact this strike is going to have on russians who sell on wild berries russians who have invested millions of rubles in running their business which had products stored at this location or these locations. Take a look at this report. The destruction by Ukrainian drones of two Wildberries massive warehouses near Moscow is a huge disaster for the Russian economy which will inflict far more damage than the headline 1.2 billion dollar loss of stock. Here's why. While Wildberry the company can absorb the loss of two of its biggest warehouses it will not need to compensate sellers as it has very recently disclaimed responsibility for losses caused by enemy action. The impact of strike on the wider economy will be significant and as I mentioned just a minute ago they changed the contract 10 days ago. Talk about the timing. But nonetheless Wildberries is frequently called the Russian Amazon but it has a far more dominant role in the Russian economy than Amazon does in western economies. Since it was founded in 2004 it has become one of the most structurally important companies in the Russian economy. Wildberries and its rival Ozon control the economy. Wildberries control 77 percent of Russia's e-commerce market with Wildberries controlling 45 percent alone. Ukraine's drone attack have struck at the heart of company success its huge warehouses. In Electrostall attack on Saturday Wildberries may have lost 350,000 square meters of logistics capacity. Now human mind cannot actually comprehend 350,000 square meters but that's roughly like 50 soccer fields since World Cup just ended. Hopefully you guys can visualize soccer fields. Well that's roughly roughly what was destroyed in this just one location. There are two others. This location alone accounted for anywhere from 7 to 15 percent of its all warehouse space. So the whole company's warehouse space was destroyed in one strike. Add in another 200,000 meters at a different location and of course this report came out on July 19th. So a day before the second strike took place yesterday and that strike also destroyed another warehouse which had another few hundred thousand square meters in warehouse capacity. Likely some of it being destroyed not all of it. This means hundreds of millions of individual items are likely to have been destroyed in that tax causing huge losses for traders likely putting many out of businesses. Billions more rubles in sales and income taxes are likely to be lost to the state as a result of this strike. The effects on Russian military logistics are also likely to be severe. Wildberries and ozone have become key channels for dual use materials and non-lethal supplies for soldiers at the front. This includes drones, spare parts, and a number of other parts including night vision equipment, boots, uniform generators, and so on. It will also take a long time for the company to recover. After its warehouse near St. Petersburg was destroyed by a fire in January 2024, rebuilding took one and a half years. The destruction this time is more severe and more widespread. Now of course it's important to remember that targeting these warehouses will not end the war but it will make it harder for Russians to continue fighting and most certainly it will increase popular discontent and boost an already widespread desire to end the fighting quickly and guess what talking about the bankruptcies Russian bankruptcies have been going up already because of the economic situation because of inflation and because of you know the new taxes that Putin is introducing and this attack is actually resulting in people publicly admitting that they have to declare bankruptcy because of what just took place. I'm just crying looking brilliant this means that well everything's gone look I run a business I'm a small business owner yeah well I've been trying to run a business for years four years of trying to make money and I coped with all sorts of shit this year I closed my physical shop I moved back to my old hometown I moved away from Moscow I survived a load of cash flow gaps tax debts absolutely everything my seasonal stock was stuck at customs for a month and a half right in season and what now the warehouse is on fire where I've got a load of stock worth millions and 10 days ago wild berries brought out new terms and naturally forced us all to sign them stating that drone strikes are not coming covered by insurance naturally they won't pay anyone a penny unbelievable amount of square meters that have burnt to the fucking ground naturally they'll tell us all that none of the stock survived I don't know what I'm going to do sell the car my flat I don't know shit I am so fucking done with this now this brings us back to the story that I promised at the start of the video the wealthiest people in Russia are watching all this and quietly moving their money out because they can see what's happening and they can see what Putin will do next because of all the issues that we are covering Putin is going to come after money that other people have because he needs the funding to continue the war and that's why they're moving it out now before we talk about that though there is something important I need to cover the one thing I have never liked about YouTube is when creators say please support the channel but they don't really give anything back in return I've done this so I know it's wrong and I always felt that it's backwards that's exactly why we built basics insider if you become a member you're not just supporting our channel you actually get something valuable in return every single day we upload exclusive videos that don't appear here on YouTube because honestly we just 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exchange index which tracks 46 of Russia's largest publicly traded companies dropped nine percent this week to 1900 points that is the lowest index has traded since October 2022 in fact since beginning of April this year the Russian stock market has plunged nearly 30 percent and here's the number that puts it in perspective Russian equities so Russian stocks are now trading at roughly the same nominal levels that they were trading at in the summer of 2016 almost a decade of market gains just gone so if you're a Russian investor you're probably not feeling too happy so I guess it comes down to kind of makes sense that oligarchs and elites are moving money out of the country but that's just making the situation worse because they're pulling money out of the stock market and putting it in a different country here's the Bloomberg report on that several of Russia's richest people including some close to President Vladimir Putin have moved billions of dollars abroad in the past year after growing concerned about the country's economy and government budget high profile asset seizures have intensified fears among the members of the Russian elite that the state could confiscate their wealth or that they may lose their fortunes this is according to six wealthy Russians and other people who are familiar with the thinking of several of countries billionaires now if you've been watching our videos you know this is something Putin has already been doing over the last year he has confiscated roughly 60 billion dollars in wealth from private Russian citizens and that's why other people are looking at this and they're like wait the economy is going down he's already stealing money from other billionaires he's probably gonna come for me next so he's slowly moving the money away from the country and in a second I'll actually show you the former Russian Prime Minister is talking about it and this is a guy who has actually worked with Putin personally for four years and then he opposed Putin but before that let's follow the money let's look at where these oligarchs are actually parking their fortunes according to Bloomberg's sources Russian billionaires portfolios have heavily shifted over the past year towards gold cryptocurrency foreign properties and private investment funds particularly private equity funds based in the Gulf states now that last detail is actually worth pausing on because there is a growing speculation here in the United States that there are some Russian and Chinese billionaires who are parking their capital in Western private equity companies and Venture capital funds without those funds fully disclosing where they're getting that money from and that is a little bit complicated because some of these private equity companies and Venture funds are investing in companies and Industries that are National Security related that are sensitive in terms of National Security so the fact that we don't exactly know where they are getting their money from and I don't even know if this is particularly illegal I'm sure it's not illegal if these big companies are doing it but the fact that they could be investing in companies that we don't want a Chinese billionaire knowing about or a Russian billionaire knowing about does raise some questions now of course that's a topic for a different video so we'll talk about that later but if that's something you're interested in maybe something you want to look deeper into coming back to Russian outflows though the situation has become so severe that there's a pro-Kremlin think tank that that supports Kremlin, meaning it's pro-Kremlin, is now, that think tank is now Of a banking crisis that could happen in Russia and it's important because you know Like if someone who's pro Kremlin is saying that you kind of have to believe that maybe this is a lot more serious Than you would think now We actually have a video from a Russian woman who went to a bank to take out her money And I don't mean to judge a book by her cover, but she did not seem like she was a billionaire She was just some normal Russian lady And she was not allowed to take her money out that means the banking crisis could be coming sooner than many people realize Take a look at this clip those of you with money and savings have you had a surprise from the bank yet a Friend of mine put 20 million into a savings account received a monthly income and then decided to withdraw the funds and the bank says to him How about you give us proof of where this money came from? But he can't prove it because the income was undeclared Now this all brings us to the former Russian Prime Minister and comments that he recently made his name is Mikhail Koshinov in the year 2000 when Vladimir Putin won his first presidential election Kasinov this guy was appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Federation He served in that position for four years. So pretty much all of Putin's first term as president. He watched Putin. He worked with him I'm sure he was very close with Putin So that means he knows Putin better than most people in the world Especially people who are willing to give interviews then after Putin finished his second term as president He couldn't run again because of the Russian Constitution at the time So this guy actually Wanted to run for that position. He wanted to become the next president, but he was pushed out He was banned from running in the election So he set up the opposition party in Russia and then he continued opposing Putin for next 14 years until 2022 when Putin invaded Ukraine that's when he left the country for his own safety because he was Vocally publicly very against this invasion He was very against what Putin was doing and he saw what was happening to people who were speaking out against this Ukrainian invasion So he went to a different country And continued fighting his fight while he still connected inside of Russia as you can imagine He was moving in top of the top circles when he was inside of Russia So he knows Information that normal people may not have access to and this is what he's sharing about what Russian elites are feeling. Take a listen What are you hearing then? What are people? inside Russia You know, what are they telling you? Are they feeling? Hurt demoralized give us a sense of the mood fear fear total fear For all activists total fear. They cannot you know, just For criticizing the government you can you can get six eight or ten years or 25 For instance me just the iridium at me to the list of terrorists Hmm, I saw yeah and that's why just if I come back just that I will be sentenced for life because just they expecting just me to changing the government and and and the Lead this or something like this. Yeah, but fear also within the elites Mikhail same fear Fear people cannot escape they understand they're like a hostages all those ministers and in the lower level They serve Putin because just because they they have to survive but they're all Dreaming about stop the war because I understand that's already Finito human cost the human I can only imagine what some families and mothers now. This was one of the most interesting interviews I've heard in a long time So I definitely recommend you guys check it out It's only like 10 minutes long, so it's not super long. It's on CNN. Just look up CNN Russian PM or former Russian PM You'll find it on YouTube. But later in the interview. He also talks about what Putin is like in person What was this like in the early years of presidency and what is he like right now? Take a listen because this is definitely a very interesting analysis and they decided and put inside the just to close eyes and allow Not to criticize much President Bush on that and Putin believe that is a silent contract he interprets international law as he wanted but Simultaneously, he doesn't criticize and doesn't create problems for Bush for Iraq. How would you describe him right now? Now he's a real KGB guy before that my time Demonstrating to President Yeltsin demonstrated to me and my collaborators in Parliament when we all supported him just as a person devoted to democratic changes, but on a later stage he Lost this this He pretended to be democratic person and appeared to be now. She's a real real guy with this What's a wrong wrong vision? Narcissistic, you know brand ideas of Himself and of where he sees himself place in history. How do you think keep power? Keep personal power. That's the only reason keep personal power Just not setting up and use that Soviet Union. No not being a history not future of the country That's why sometimes people and then the West and leaders on the way sometimes making decision to understand Putin should understand that is that is not good for the country He's indifferent on this he's thinking about himself what we will today and maybe tomorrow not the day after now It's not just Russian elites that are fearful Putin himself is also fearful because there are Ukrainian assassination squads They're operating inside of Russia and they are very regularly carrying out successful missions just recently This is what they did. Take a look at the report. One of the architects of Russia's war has been demilitarized according to Ukrainian sources Andrei Tisarov a senior aircraft engine engineer at UEC Kuznev was eliminated in Samara UEC develops and services engines for Russia's tu-95 and tu-22 strategic bombers These are the same aircrafts responsible for launching Countless missile strikes against Ukrainian cities and civilians according to the reports the operation was carried out by the previously unknown Volunteer unit Budenovs detachments as the group stated every Russian war criminal everyone who enables the crimes of the Russian occupation army Will face justice wherever they are every Russian crime has been documented and attributed to those responsible Retribution is inevitable now. There's actually a footage of this assassination and it's very graphic So we're not gonna cover this on the channel. We're not gonna cover it anywhere. I regret I actually looked at the footage So I don't recommend you guys go out looking for it But nonetheless as I mentioned in our basics insider membership We have been providing exclusive analysis from veterans like Jack Farr as to what's happening on the front lines What's happening inside of Russia? So if you want to become a member you can do so by clicking the join button down below or by going to basics insider Com you support the channel, but not only that you get exclusive videos every Single day anyways, here's a snippet from our most recent analysis that we did with Chuck Farr. Take a listen a t90 tank. Yeah so This is one of Russia's better tanks. This is an early I don't think it's an M variant. You can see they're they're firing. You can see the commander at the top He's hanging out of the hatch They are, you know prowling around is gonna get another shot off here and now we're gonna have intro to anti-tank mines I don't think it's an M variant. I don't think it's an M variant. Okay, and you see that characteristic flash of fire on the floor of that tank is a carousel of Shells and Each shell has one or two bags of propellant powder. They're just in these like used to be silk It's now nylon. So you load the shell in and then you load the the it's not loose loose powder, but they're in those packages and It is a design flaw of all those Russian tanks back in the 50s they decided that they would be able to build smaller and Lower to the ground tanks if they got rid of the loader So there's only three people in the crew the vehicle commander the driver and the gunner in an American tank You don't you don't stand on the ammunition. It's behind you in a bustle and there's a blast door and every time you want to load it's a human being who takes the round out turns around shams it into the breach and the u.s. Will Mostly use shells that look like big bullets. So the propellant is in a you know, it's in a big cartridge right so Brass in the back and pointy end in the front But this happens every day And you can see how mine dense it is, right? So the mistake here was crossing the road probably I'm saying that does that also tell us a little bit about how they treat soldiers Like how they value the soldiers life, I guess we're not having a blast or or blast room Yeah, well and not doing anything to correct it, you know, they have the t-14 armada now, but you know It's run in a couple of parades broken down in one there are probably less than 20 of them and They're not ready for prime time and they have a crew compartment with three people In it and it's totally isolated from the gun Everything is back aft of working, you know, push-button control Which is absolutely groovy unless you lose power and then you're in a video arcade and you're out of quarters. So Okay This is the one you were warning about Okay, see his red ID patches Yeah, okay. Go ahead. You might not be able to forget this one. yeah i don't think you're gonna be able to show that one man this is also a recent clip the last one was older the mines are still playing a big role yeah they they are and and very often you know the heavier lift drones will drop drop the drones or not even drop them in place them and you do things like you take the anti-tank mine and you get i'm serious paper mache and you put it on there in a blob and you throw some dirt and twigs and rocks on you know styrofoam rocks and but you'll hear me say this again i mean this is what happens to 95 percent of russian casualties happen just like that it's a drone not rifle fire indirect weapons mortars artillery it's drones it's all of those things together but if your mama gets a letter in russia saying you've been killed you went just like that yeah it is sad it is sad i mean war sucks yeah but these guys could end it just go home i mean they're complaining about it have you seen pesca was complaining about the war today yeah listen that right you know there's two entities that won't survive this war you know if they lose it ukraine can't lose it because they will be the ones that are going to be the ones that are going to be the ones that are going to be you know you can imagine russian mercy but the other thing that can't lose it is putin this was his idea this was his big city move man and he's eating it okay next one is the trench system fight or the fight in the trench so we've got again here we've got some you just roll it i guess we've got some english speakers in here uh there's another video where we've got all english speakers longer contact 2026 by the way yeah this is 2026 okay so you got contact uh that guy was actually doing the right thing you you don't you don't want to be on a wall you want to be a one foot off the wall because if a bullet hits it it doesn't bounce like a pool ball it'll it'll go down the wall it once it hits the wall it'll go down the wall about 10 inches off the wall i would have pulled in behind that uh beam a little bit and again i gotta say that look i i hate coming up with a monday morning quarterback and when guys are in you know i i hate doing it it's just i'll just give you the the pro tips so i believe this guy get was wounded in this and that i believe a bullet hit his helmet which tells me yeah you can see it hit the wall there so somebody was beating a headshot on him so they were they were down there yeah i'm trying to figure out where the bad guys are what's going on whoever made this tent this trench made it the right way but you know this is likely a ukrainian trench i i think it's a ukrainian trench the russians are trying to storm it yeah they got into it and here's here's a few things that i want to talk about here's a few things that i want to talk about here's a few things that i want to talk about here's a few things that i want to talk about here's a pro tip i don't i don't here's a pro tip i don't i don't play any of those first-person shooter games but never send a man play any of those first-person shooter games but never send a man where you can send a hand grenade where you can send a hand grenade where you can send a hand grenade okay and when in doubt the bad guys are all okay and when in doubt the bad guys are all okay and when in doubt the bad guys are all over there so you know you got a frag just over there so you know you got a frag just over there so you know you got a frag just let it go let them deal with it let it go let them deal with it let it go let them deal with it i appreciate it's good okay cool when you shot him you were out here one of the things i like about this sam one of the things i like about this sam one of the things i like about this sam is is is one of the hardest things to do in combat one of the hardest things to do in combat one of the hardest things to do in combat is know what's going on is know what's going on is know what's going on i mean you it isn't a video game you i mean you it isn't a video game you i mean you it isn't a video game you don't know where the bad guys are don't know where the bad guys are don't know where the bad guys are you know you know you know it's more like this than the movie it's more like this than the movie it's more like this than the movie so you're like okay what the hell is going so you're like okay what the hell is going so you're like okay what the hell is going on on on now we got a guy who's hurt now we got a guy who's hurt now we got a guy who's hurt we're not backed by billionaires we're not backed by billionaires we're not backed by billionaires corporations or political parties we corporations or political parties we corporations or political parties we don't get funding from anyone with an don't get funding from anyone with an don't get funding from anyone with an agenda everything you hear is made agenda everything you hear is made agenda everything you hear is made 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Ukraine has launched multiple drone strikes on Moscow, destroying key logistics hubs including Wildberries warehouses, which are critical for military supply chains and civilian commerce.
  2. These attacks have triggered a severe Russian stock market collapse—the longest decline since 1997—sparking mass wealth flight by oligarchs who fear state confiscation or personal retaliation.
  3. Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Koshinov warns of deepening fear and demoralization among both elites and activists, describing Vladimir Putin as narcissistic, self-centered, and increasingly authoritarian, with growing internal unrest and covert Ukrainian assassination operations targeting Russian military leaders.

Summary:

Ukraine has inflicted significant damage on Russia through a series of drone strikes targeting key logistics hubs, particularly Wildberries warehouses, which are vital for both civilian supply chains and military operations. The attacks have destroyed hundreds of thousands of square meters of warehouse space—equivalent to dozens of soccer fields—disrupting the Russian economy and causing massive losses for businesses and sellers. Wildberries, a dominant e-commerce platform, has effectively disclaimed liability for losses, leaving many small merchants bankrupt.

This economic collapse has triggered a historic stock market freefall, the worst since 1997, and accelerated the exodus of billions in wealth by Russian oligarchs who fear state confiscation. These movements are driven by rising instability and the perception that Putin’s regime is increasingly authoritarian and dangerous. Compounding the crisis, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Koshinov, who worked closely with Putin in the early 2000s, has issued a stark warning about the ruling elite’s fear and the growing instability within Russia.

He describes Putin as narcissistic, focused on personal power, and indifferent to national welfare, while highlighting the threat of Ukrainian assassination squads targeting high-level Russian officials. These developments signal a deepening crisis in Russia’s military, economic, and political stability, with both civilians and elites increasingly fearing for their safety and future. The situation reflects a broader shift: Ukraine’s asymmetric warfare is not only militarily effective but also psychologically and economically destabilizing for Russia.

FAQs

Ukraine has launched multiple drone strikes on Moscow, destroying key logistics hubs and warehouses, including Wildberries facilities. This has created a visibly damaged skyline and disrupted critical infrastructure.

Wildberries sells military-grade equipment and dual-use supplies to Russian soldiers, including drones, spare parts, and night vision gear. Targeting these warehouses disrupts military logistics and undermines Russia’s war effort.

Under international law, the strike is considered legitimate because Wildberries is directly supporting military activities. Ukraine does not need to prove every item inside was military-grade; only that the location supports military operations.

Oligarchs are fleeing due to economic instability, fears of state confiscation of wealth, and Putin’s previous seizure of $60 billion in private assets. They believe their fortunes are at risk as the war worsens.

The Russian stock market has experienced its longest continuous decline since 1997, dropping nearly 30% since April. The Moscow exchange index fell to 1900 points, equivalent to pre-2016 levels.

Koshinov describes Putin as narcissistic and self-centered, focused on maintaining personal power rather than national interests. He claims the Russian elite and activists are now experiencing widespread fear and demoralization.

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