Russia Escalates Strikes on Ukrainian Civilian and Economic Infrastructure

All hell is breaking loose as Russia was able to launch a massive drone attack and missile attack striking U.S. connected factories in Ukraine, specifically in the Kyiv Oblast region. You're seeing right here Russian drones attacking a McDonald's logistical warehouse right here. And it turned out these Russian drones very intentionally struck this U.S. McDonald's connected warehouse. There was an initial strike at 3 a.m. and then another one during the day. You can see this McDonald's logistical warehouse right here burning down. It was utterly destroyed. Then Putin turned his attention to office buildings in Kyiv. I'm going to show you this in slow motion and then I'll show you in a little bit footage of what it looked like outside of this office building. But this was the moment that a Russian UAV hit a business center in Kyiv. It's like a five story, six story building and you can see right there. The moment that UAV struck right into the center of that building. So there was at least four individuals who were killed as a result of that strike that you just observed right there, including at least one child. There was seven injuries that number is expected to increase as well. In addition, we're seeing other warehouses hit hard by Putin. This is the Sushia warehouse with all its stock and packaging in the warehouse. That was completely destroyed as a result of the Russian strike in Kyiv. So you had that McDonald's logistical warehouse. Then next to it, you had a Sushia warehouse. Now Sushia is a well-known Ukrainian chain of Japanese restaurants right there and you'll see that it is utterly destroyed. Zelinsky gave an interview and he said this is part of the hybrid warfare that the CIA said was going to happen that Russia specifically targeting these foreign owned warehouses in addition to hitting, of course, office complexes in Kyiv and other infrastructure, not just in Kyiv but in Sipresia. In Odessa, we've seen lots of other areas in Ukraine and Russia is escalating. A New York Times article that came out yesterday has been saying what we've been saying now every single day it seems from the past years at this point. But this winter is going to be the most difficult time probably since the start of the war for Ukraine. Donald Trump taps Zelinsky along saying that he would give him interceptors and then never gave the interceptors, never gave interceptor licenses. Putin is a massive stockpile of ballistic missiles and Putin's new drones are faster. These jet-powered drones are far more advanced than before and the New York Times article talks about how since Putin and Zelinsky had this stalemate on the battlefield, they're now just blowing each other cities up basically. And that's the next phase of this escalation. Zelinsky gave an interview and said after meeting with USCIA Director John Ratcliffe, the intelligence services of the United States, Europe and Ukraine, share the assessment of Russia's ongoing hybrid attacks on European arms production sites, and logistics hubs in Ukraine, and in the region, as well as the Kremlin's covert mobilization. Zelinsky announced that he's willing to work with other countries and try to have as much resilience as possible as they head into this winter. Now Putin's envoy, Carill Demetriov was in New York. You can see right here Demetriov arriving in his hotel, apparently, while all of these strikes are taking place, you have Demetriov meeting with Kushner and Whitcoff in Manhattan. You see Demetriov getting into his hotel. We also learned that Finland and Sweden had to scramble fighter jets together for the first time to help identify Russian military aircraft in international air space over the Gulf of Finland. It was actually a Finnish F-18 Hornet and a Swedish JAS 39 Gripen intercepting a Russian transport aircraft and warplanes as part of deeper defense cooperation between those two NATO members. I think implication also is that NATO's Article 4, Article 5 is not really able to be invoked anymore because the Trump regime's attack on NATO. So you basically have the equivalent of it, but just nations within NATO, so you have Finland and Sweden cooperating with each other. When we talked about Canada and Norway working with each other in France, while Donald Trump is out there bringing Xi Jinping into light, you see Trump created a closet room for Xi Jinping, where he had a shrine to Xi. Xi, this is how much we respect you, look at all of these photos of me and you, it's very weird, but Zelensky is not just sitting back and taking it. This is like a war of attrition, if you will. Russia is blowing up all of Ukraine infrastructure and buildings. Zelensky is striking hard within Russia. I mean, just look in the past 24 hours, at least six Ukrainian attack drones hit the Russia Eskara electronic plant, which is a key manufacturer. The texture of components of Russian missile systems, including the K-H59 and the pan-seer. Let's play this clip. Now you'll see over here footage of a Ukrainian attack drone slamming into Russia's perm oil refinery. That perm oil refinery continues to burn. It's one of the sixth largest refineries in all of Russia, and the fact that perm is down is also a massive blow. We talked about the Moscow refineries that were hit by Zelensky last weekend. We'll see what this weekend holds as well. I'll show you right here what it looked like as the Russian attack of this income business center in Kiev. I'll show you what this looked like. It's really devastating. Let's play it. More of the strikes right here. You can see for yourself Russia once again bringing death to Kiev. You can see what this looked like. Now it should also be noted. While you have these warnings of potential, hybrid warfare in areas like Estonia or Lithuania or Romania, we've already seen Russian strikes tankers off the coast of Romania. We've seen Russian drones enter Poland and enter nearby countries as well. We've seen that in Romania. This is fascinating to me. Russian state news agency Ryan Novosti published a letter and later deleted it. It's an article, not a letter, threatening Lithuania with a short war and possible nuclear strikes. The article titled Russia faces another special military operation. It will be very short, referring to an invasion of Lithuania, discuss scenarios of missile attacks on Lithuania. The author Alexander Nosevich argued that Russia could use missiles with nuclear warheads instead of ground forces, claiming that a conflict in the Baltics would be quick due to geography. In Novosti removed the article seven hours or several hours after publication, later stating that did not reflect the editorial line editorial policy or state policy of Russia right there. Meanwhile, you have Zelinsky posting the following, so what he posted. We are responding to Russia's brutal strikes against life last night thanks to our long-range sanctions. Two oil refineries were hit in Perm and Nova Shankstinks. There were also hits on the Iskara, Iskra plant defense enterprise in Yulimnosk. And the occupiers now have two fewer radar stations. In the roast of region, I thank our warriors and every unit involved for their accuracy, for systematically limiting Russia's ability to kill. Glory to Ukraine is what he says. Play this clip. [BEEP] Then this video's gone viral as Zalinsky was leaving New York, a Russian reporter went up to him and said, "When are you going to Moscow? When are you going?" And Zalinsky responded, "I'll go and I'm on an effing missile. I'll go and I'm on an effing missile. Watch what he has to say here. Play this clip right here." Meanwhile, Peskov, who's Putin's press secretary, says, "So far there are no prerequisites for entering a peaceful negotiation track, although we, as the Russian side, remain open to peace talks, as of now, there are no concrete details regarding any summit meetings. Speaking of a Russian-American meeting, the president's readiness is there, as for meetings between Putin and Zalinsky, our position here is well known. Putin said that Zalinsky, if he wishes, can come to Moscow. All necessary security guarantees will be provided to him. He knows full well what decisions need to be made. And apparently, when Trump spoke to Zalinsky at the United Nations sidelines of the General Assembly General debate, Trump told Zalinsky to go to Moscow, and Zalinsky says, "No, I'm not going to Moscow." We can meet at a neutral location. I'll meet with Putin at the sidelines of the G20, if Putin's eventually going to come, but I'm not going to be there in Moscow. Meanwhile, you have on a bipartisan basis, basically all the members in the Senate of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, everybody from Wicker, the chair, to Senator Shaheen, the ranking member, the Democrat, and all everybody, sending a letter to Trump demanding answers about why he invited Putin to attend the G20. Why there's been no consultation with Congress about such a meeting, what the intent of that is. You'll recall that Congress passed a massive sanctions package against Russia, and Trump signed it into law, but it requires Trump to execute the law and apply the sanctions and apply the secondary sanctions. And as we've seen, even when it comes to Iran, right, who's the biggest trade partner of Iran? China. And Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet and made our military personnel, just like he did with Putin, bend down on their knees for Xi Jinping, and rolled out the red carpet. And so is Trump going to effectuate the law and the sanctions against Putin? Probably not. I'll share this video with you just coming in as well. This is the moment of the Russian strike on a Swedish paint factory, a Scarrow in Odessa. Right now you have the McDonald's warehouse. You have the Sushia warehouse, you have a data group warehouse, and then you have the Swedish, you all see what's happening, right? I mean, duh. We see what's happening here. I'll show you what that looked like. You can play it. Now, here's what Putin said in a speech yesterday. He said, "Russia began retaliating only after Ukraine started hitting what he describes as civilian targets, including wild berries and ozone warehouses." Remember the wild berries in the ozone? Those are those key logistical facilities. What is this? Why was this done? He says Russia then responded to each of these actions and claims those strikes were damaging enough that Kiev is now, again, raising the possibility of a ceasefire in several areas. That's how Putin's framing it. He's also mocking Estonia's Defense Minister over comments about a possible war with Russia saying, "The circus has left, but the clowns remain." Putin called the remarks, "By Estonia's Defense Minister completely nonsense and absolute rubbish, adding that Estonia's entire population is smaller than Russia's army." What Putin's also implicitly saying there as well is that NATO is not going to have your back one bit at this stage. And so, Sushia, Japan, you had the Swedish factory in Odessa, the McDonald's factory in Kiev. See what's happening, right? We'll keep you posted every step of the way. It's important that we cover this and show you the footage. I think it's one of the most important videos that we do here. And I try to do it every morning, okay? 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