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Ukraine Strikes Russian Data Centers as Trump’s Diesel Deal Faces Bipartisan Backlash

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Ukraine Strikes Russian Data Centers as Trump’s Diesel Deal Faces Bipartisan Backlash

Ukrainian drone strikes have significantly disrupted Russia’s digital infrastructure, particularly targeting Yandex data centers in cities like Vladimir and Kazan, causing widespread outages in critical services such as internet search, finance, and navigation. These attacks have led to a dramatic drop in Russian bot traffic, signaling deep digital instability. In response, Russia has launched retaliatory strikes on vital energy facilities, including the Kharkiv TPP-5 power plant, directly contradicting claims by Donald Trump of an energy ceasefire. Trump’s assertions about a ceasefire are widely disputed, with both Ukraine and Russia denying the talks, and evidence suggesting the attacks were a direct reaction. Meanwhile, Russia is reportedly relying on Iranian diesel to replace destroyed domestic supplies, with Iranian tankers seen in Russian territory. This fuels concerns about energy diplomacy being manipulated to benefit Russia and Iran. Additionally, intelligence reports indicate Russia targets defense executives to deter arms supply to Ukraine. The U.S. has also condemned the Trump administration for violating laws banning Russian oil imports and for failing to certify peace, raising legal and ethical concerns. Wise is highlighted as a reliable alternative for global money management through transparent, low-cost currency transfers. Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the situation underscores the evolving nature of digital warfare and energy politics in the Ukraine conflict. A new book, “WTF America,” is being released to address these complex realities and call for democratic accountability.

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We've seen a massive decline in bot traffic, those Russian bots that infiltrate all of the American, European, and international social media platforms. We've seen a dramatic decline since the Yandex facilities have been hit. We'll talk a little bit about that in a moment as well. But as you probably recall by now yesterday morning, Donald Trump announced that there was an energy ceasefire between Zelensky and Putin. Donald Trump blied and claimed he spoke with Zelensky and Putin and they agreed to an energy ceasefire. Zelensky said I've never spoken to him about that. That's news to me, but we welcome it. We in Ukraine will stop striking Russian refineries if Russia stops striking the power grid here in Ukraine. Ukraine doesn't have pretty much any refineries, but they have all of these power grids that Russia is striking. So it doesn't make sense to do a refinery for refineries ceasefire and makes sense that Russia doesn't strike the energy in Ukraine. Ukraine doesn't strike the refineries in Russia. Then Putin and the Duma in Russia said we never heard about this either. Maybe this is just some Trump market manipulation play. Later US officials leaked to Barack Reved over at Axios that it's a refinery for refinery deal, not an energy ceasefire to which again, Zelensky's like we're agreeable to an energy ceasefire. We just never heard about it. I think Trump's making it up and to which Putin responded by striking a massive energy facility in Karkiv and so yesterday we saw the TPP-5 in Karkiv. That's a major combined heat and power plant near the Podverky village on the outskirts of Karkiv. This is critical to powering Ukraine's like second largest city and Russian drones attacked it over and over again right after Donald Trump announced the energy ceasefire making it very clear that Russia was not agreeable to it. And Zelensky said I'll agree to it but it's got to be energy-wide and let's make it clear that Putin agrees to it as well. Donald Trump then started posting photos of Mike Tyson and Kid Rock and you know, Trump's a freaking lunatic. I mean he's a deranged sex predator sicko lunatic right and so you know he starts doing whatever the hell he's doing and Zelensky's like bet. Okay, okay. We'll hit Yandex. We'll hit Yandex. So Ukrainian drone strikes have now knocked out multiple Yandex data centers and they did it a few days leading up to yesterday as well. Crippling services across Russia. The Vladimir facility was hit yesterday on Sunday following earlier attacks on Sasevo, that was October 8th. Collega on October 9th it caused fires and widespread outages. Yandex's own fintech chief confirmed ongoing payment and balance check problems while bot traffic from the company's infrastructure dropped sharply. And there's you know, it's like Google in this for Russia. They have like Yandex search and Yandex maps and Yandex fintech and Yandex browser and Yandex music and Yandex market and lots of these services were all down causing mass disruptions throughout Russian. Russian bot traffic plummeted so much. Cloud flare reported that bot traffic from the Yandex network dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded over the past two weeks. Now there is one, two, three, four, five, six other Yandex facilities which are clearly going to be on Zelensky's radar quite literally to strike. And then there are a total of 16 massive data centers throughout Russia, not just Yandex but others including the biggest one is in Moscow, the Rossalcom data center. So there's about 13 more data centers to go six more belonging to Yandex. And just as we saw Ukraine striking the wildberry logistical centers one by one and taking most of them out, taking out 51% of the diesel refineries throughout Russia. Now they're turning their attention to the data centers. It's very surgical. What Zelensky is doing now. May I share with you what the strikes at the Yandex data center in Vladimir looked like? I may. Let me show it to you right here. Here's what it looked like and you'll see. I mean this is a very, very intense scene from Vladimir. Here, play this clip. [Music] Then one of Ukraine's UAVs, likely not by choice, hit a power line causing power supply disruptions across the Vladimir region. Here play this clip. [Music] And as I noted before, you had that TPP thermal power plant with all of the central heating that supplied to Karkeev. That was under attack by Russian Putin yesterday but also in Karkeev as well. Russian forces bombed a residential neighborhood striking a supermarket and killing numerous people. At least three people lost their lives and that number is expected to increase. Let me show you what went down here. Play this clip. Yeah, and it was hell on the outskirts of Karkeev. Take a look what I'll show you what you just saw from another angle right here. Let's play this clip. Now I'll show you the moment that Russian drones struck the Karkeev TPP-5 which in theory would violate the so-called energy ceasefire although Trump didn't speak to Putin or as a lady. How embarrassing. The guy just lies about the biggest things. He lies about everything the smallest things the biggest things Everything out of his mouth is a lie, but the Trump regime now says no, no, no, it's just a refinery for refinery deal really because Ukraine Doesn't have Refineries, so it's easy for Russia to say we're not going to strike the non-existent refineries in Ukraine Ukraine has the power plants that they don't want Russia to strike. I mean, do you see just how like to see flight They think we're all stupid. That's the thing like there may be the maggot dummies who still go to I call them dummies I don't know what you call them cult members who go to the Trump events. You see the people behind him in Tennessee But I watch him. I'm like, dude, who are you? How are you real freaking people? I mean, he's the Trumps literally saying to them. I'll say the dumbest things and yo lap. Oh, y'all don't. I mean, right like who are these idiots? It's ridiculous I digress This is Russia striking that TPP the power plant that they that provides the heat and energy To Karkeev here play this clip right here That was a linsky confirmed that The recent strikes by Russia over 200 Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid and 17 on energy sites in the past week alone Killing 150 Ukrainians injuring more than 700 That's a serious serious stuff right there Keeve is in an absolute blackout right now. No water either. This is the scene from Keeve because The power grid continues to be hit by Russia play this clip Now I'll show you this harrowing scene right here as a Ukrainian soldier survives a Russian kamikaze drone crashing just one meter away Watch for yourself. He survives this when I watch this though. I got chills here play this clip Other important data points for us to discuss now Russia has said that 135 Russian staff are now back at Iran's Bouchier nuclear plant Up from 30 who stayed after the February evacuation This comes from Russia's Rosatom company Rosatom evacuated 600 staff when the U.S. Israeli strikes on Iran began in late February So their staff back up the Bouchier nuclear plant in Iran is a joint venture between Russia and Iran and Russia has said it will be investing tens of billions of dollars into more nuclear plants in Iran They're not this isn't like some secret Kodasil that I found they're saying it out loud Russia Basically admits publicly and we all know this they provide Iran with the technology to destroy U.S. military bases and kill American service members they provide Iran with Weapons Iran provides Russia with weapons. It's literally called the Shahid. It's an Iranian weapon. I think it's very clear Iran Wants that Garen-4 Garen-5 Russian jet power technology that was based off of the Shahid Like you do realize that it's like the U.S. It's like you think of Senkom. It's like how is Senkom so dumb? Okay guys Sure you have blockaded the Strait of Hormuz you did a double blockade Iran controls the straightover moves then you blockaded it Like you do realize there are other land routes that Iran can get out its oil like you do realize that there's ways to Circumvent this blockade on land. It's called land It may not be as convenient as through the water, but it's called land And here's what a lot of people are saying because Russian diesel And the diesel refineries in Russia have been struck so much by Zalinsky and there is really not a diesel surplus In Russia because of all the ukrainian strikes 51% of the diesel refineries are offline It's possible that the diesel fuel Russia is now exporting to the United States may have originated in Iran Russia has been importing most of the diesel it needs from Iran And in September thousands of Iranian tanker trucks were spotted in various regions of Russia including Ryazhan carrying Iranian diesel Russia may be buying Iranian diesel and reselling it to the United States If so, Trump's attempt to lower US energy prices and deceive American voters Is putting money into the hands of Russia and Iran's Islamic Republic Islamic regime But it's not going to lower energy prices because it's not that much diesel That's what I keep on saying It is two to three million barrels of oil One of those tankers one VLCC Carries about two million barrels the VLCC is a very large crude carrier In other ships that Iran keeps on striking one of them carries two million barrels So this big deal that Donald Trump says is basically one ship Maybe he's to say it's two ships You know it's like he's bragging about the potash deal He's bragging about half the amount of soybeans being bought by China And he's bragging about two ships because these people are all losers They're losers and this is just basic stuff And again, I'm not speaking in a political way, Democrat, Republican, independent I'm just speaking about the most basic freaking facts imaginable So in addition to what I just described Russia doing It was also reported how all of these European intelligence Community leaders are agreeing that Russia's plan also in this autumn and winter Is to assassinate Lots of defense contractor and defense company executives And so one of Russia's plans This is what they're saying is so like the CEOs and the VPs And the the top level execs at defense manufacturers Are on a hit list for Russia to send people and to kill them And to scare them into not To resigning or not manufacturing weapons that can find their way into Ukraine as well We also learned over the weekend at the financial times For this report, Christopher Miller does a really good job reporting on this He's been in Ukraine for a long time That the Trump regime is threatening to stop the pearl procurement system That provides Ukraine with weapons In order to press key to halt its deep strikes On the Russian energy infrastructure According to officials in Europe who got phone calls From the Trump regime threatening them Pearl P-U-R-L That stands for prioritized Ukraine requirements list It's the NATO-coordinated mechanism That allows European allies and partner countries such as Canada To pull money and buy U.S. made weapons and equipment From American stockpiles from Ukraine You know when Donald Trump regs I sell it to them, we don't give it to them, we sell them That's through the pearl program But Trump would never give it to the pearl program anyway So Trump threatening We're gonna withhold weapons from Pearl Is basically what he was doing anyway So Ukraine is used to that And Europe is used to that And what Zelinsky needs most of all Because they make a lot of the flamingo drones And FP drones, the firepoint, all that in Ukraine They need the interceptors and the interceptor license And the interceptor license or the interceptor license To stop the Russian ballistics And that's what the Trump regime is withholding Few other points we should make Seven U.S Senators from bipartisan delegation Democrats and Republicans Put forward a letter Saying that the Trump regime clearly broke the 2022 law The ban Russian importation of oil act of 2022 They also, the Trump regime also violated a law of Trump signed into law in 2017 Which requires a certification if you do a deal with Russia. You have to certify it and show Congress for Congress as approval. And then the 2022 banning the importation of Russian diesel or oil act also requires a certification by the commander in chief that Russia no longer poses a threat to Ukraine or NATO and that there's peace. And obviously that wasn't provided. As I've said before, sadly, the United States Supreme Court gave Donald Trump absolute immunity. It's absolutely ridiculous that they did that. I mean, it's heinous and it's one of the things that led to this. This fascist right wing led Supreme Court. But Besson doesn't have absolute immunity, who else Mark Wayne Mullin, Department of Homeland Security Secretary, doesn't have absolute immunity. And so if they effectuate this and Bessons already given a license to Russia and removed sanctions and violation of the law, that's criminal. In my opinion, Mark Wayne Mullin oversees customs and border patrol. If they bring in the Russian diesel off the tankers, in my opinion, that's criminal. And anyone who's involved, including the custom border patrol people, in my view, it's a clear cut racketeering case, criminal racketeering, Rico, criminal enterprise case. Right? Because they're all acting in concert to violate the 2022 ban Russian importation act in the 2017 certification act. So there you have it. This is how we have to do it. We got to break it down just. I know it's 20 minutes, but we got to go peace by peace, receipt by receipt. Calmly show you what's happening. WTF America is the book coming out with this book with my brothers. The book's coming out the way ahead of this hell and back to democracy. The first page is dedicated to you for the might of Smitey and everyone else who wakes up checks the news and can't help thinking WTF, get the hardcover, get the ebook or get the audio, but do the pre-order. I mean, it's out next week. Corporate news is basically banning us from promoting the book on their networks. I didn't want to go on corporate news anyway, but support the book if you can. I know it's difficult economic times. It's dedicated to you. I think it's very timely. It's not about the election. It's about these broader ideas, how we get out of this hell. All right. Thanks for watching. Appreciate you. Thanks for everything. Breaking news right now, my brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all? It comes out officially this October, but you can pre-order your copy today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description below.

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Key Points:

  1. Wise offers transparent, fee-free global currency transfers with exchange rates matching those seen on Google, helping users avoid hidden fees.
  2. Ukrainian drone strikes have successfully targeted multiple Yandex data centers in Russia, disrupting key services like search, maps, and fintech.
  3. Bot traffic from Yandex infrastructure dropped sharply—down to 0.4%—after attacks, indicating widespread service outages and digital disruption.
  4. Russia responded to Ukrainian strikes by bombing critical energy facilities, including the TPP-5 power plant in Kharkiv, violating any claimed energy ceasefire.
  5. Donald Trump falsely claimed a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia over energy, but both sides deny the talks, and Russia retaliated with attacks.
  6. Russia is reportedly importing Iranian diesel to replace damaged Russian supplies, potentially enabling energy trade with Iran and undermining U.S. energy claims.
  7. European intelligence agencies warn Russia plans to assassinate defense executives to deter weapons supply to Ukraine.
  8. U.S. lawmakers and officials have criticized the Trump administration for violating key laws banning Russian oil imports and failing to certify peace with Russia.

Summary:

Ukrainian drone strikes have significantly disrupted Russia’s digital infrastructure, particularly targeting Yandex data centers in cities like Vladimir and Kazan, causing widespread outages in critical services such as internet search, finance, and navigation. These attacks have led to a dramatic drop in Russian bot traffic, signaling deep digital instability. In response, Russia has launched retaliatory strikes on vital energy facilities, including the Kharkiv TPP-5 power plant, directly contradicting claims by Donald Trump of an energy ceasefire.

Trump’s assertions about a ceasefire are widely disputed, with both Ukraine and Russia denying the talks, and evidence suggesting the attacks were a direct reaction. Meanwhile, Russia is reportedly relying on Iranian diesel to replace destroyed domestic supplies, with Iranian tankers seen in Russian territory. This fuels concerns about energy diplomacy being manipulated to benefit Russia and Iran.

Additionally, intelligence reports indicate Russia targets defense executives to deter arms supply to Ukraine. S. has also condemned the Trump administration for violating laws banning Russian oil imports and for failing to certify peace, raising legal and ethical concerns.

Wise is highlighted as a reliable alternative for global money management through transparent, low-cost currency transfers. Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the situation underscores the evolving nature of digital warfare and energy politics in the Ukraine conflict. A new book, “WTF America,” is being released to address these complex realities and call for democratic accountability.

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Wise is a platform that helps users send, spend, and receive money in over 40 currencies. It offers transparent exchange rates similar to what you'd see on Google, helping users avoid hidden fees and save money on international transfers.

Many providers claim no fees but often hide extra costs, especially in exchange rates. Wise provides fair, transparent rates, ensuring you get the best value and avoid unexpected charges.

Ukrainian drone strikes have targeted multiple Yandex data centers, including in Vladimir and Sasevo, causing widespread outages and disrupting key services like search, maps, and fintech platforms.

Bot traffic from Yandex's infrastructure dropped sharply, falling to just 0.4% of normal levels, indicating significant disruption to automated online activity across social media and international platforms.

Yes, Russia retaliated by attacking Ukraine’s power grid, including the TPP-5 thermal power plant near Karkiv, which supplies critical energy to the city, leading to blackouts and civilian casualties.

The Pearl Program (P-U-R-L) is a NATO-coordinated system that allows European allies to procure U.S. weapons for Ukraine. Reports indicate the Trump regime has threatened to withhold weapons from this program, putting pressure on Ukraine.

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