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Zelenskyy Warns Russia’s New Drones Could Threaten Europe

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Zelenskyy Warns Russia’s New Drones Could Threaten Europe

Russia has launched a massive wave of 277 drones—including jet-powered Garen-4 and Garen-5 models—against Ukraine in the past 24 hours, targeting civilian and critical infrastructure in cities like Kyiv, Odessa, and Donetsk. These attacks have resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries, with multiple strikes on schools, kindergartens, and residential areas, prompting President Zelensky to warn that the war is escalating into a broader European crisis. The Ukrainian defense interception rate for these advanced drones is critically low at around 51%, and the Garen-5 cruise missiles are nearly unstoppable without high-end interceptors. Russia is deploying drones with real-time autonomous navigation and high-precision targeting, which significantly increase their lethality. Zelensky emphasizes that without urgent, enforceable U.S. sanctions—particularly those championed by Congress—the situation will only deteriorate. Trump has failed to implement these sanctions, undermining international pressure and appearing weak, while falsely blaming Ukraine's strikes on oil shortages. Meanwhile, allegations surface of U.S. diplomatic interference in Romania, with Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle linked to the collapse of a government that resisted U.S. gas pricing policies. The war’s escalation, combined with Russia’s growing drone arsenal and U.S. inaction, signals a dangerous and worsening conflict with potential regional spillover.

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All hell is breaking loose, and Ukraine's President Zelensky is issuing a dire warning after 277 drones were targeting Ukraine, launched by Russia in the past 24 hours. Zelensky's warning is that the drone interceptors that were previously effective against the older Shahedrones used by Russia are not working like they used to against these new faster jet-fueled Garen-4s, and of course the Garen-5s used by Russia, those cruise missiles, really can't be stopped, only 51% is the interception rate. Zelensky's also warning that if Donald Trump doesn't implement the sanctions package that was passed by Congress in the past two weeks, it requires implementation that this already existentally difficult winter for Ukraine is only going to get more difficult, and it's not going to stop at Ukraine, that this war could spread to the rest of Europe very soon. Let's take a look at what's happened over the past 24 hours in this catastrophic war in Ukraine by Russia, and we'll talk about the Russian strikes in Ukraine, we'll talk about Ukraine strikes in Russia, one of those strikes very close to the Belarus border, we'll show you what went down over there, and Donald Trump promised he was going to end this war in 24 hours after the election. This war is getting far more deadly, far more catastrophic also. Donald Trump is blaming all of the world's oil crises and shortages on this catastrophic war right now and saying, "That's what's the main driver of diesel and gas surging, nothing to do with the catastrophic war in Iran." By the way, that's not true, but in any event, you, Donald, said you would end the war in 24 hours in Ukraine with your magic words, more lies. So, in the past 24 hours, 277 drone attacks launched by Russia against Ukraine with these jet-powered drones, these Garenfores, also the Garen-5 cruise missiles we saw were used by Russia. In Kiev, we saw repeated drone strikes. There were multiple people injured and killed. In Sumi, we saw two to three people killed in Karkeev and Zepresia, about seven people killed combined in Odessa. Ukraine, there was a mass strike on port and civilian infrastructure there in Donetsk, there was three killed, five injured. And then in the Denee provost, Oblast, two killed, six injured, anywhere from about on the low end, eight, probably more like 14, 15 Ukrainians killed, and about 50 to 57 injured. Then Ukraine's strikes, there was an oil refinery in Krasnodar-Kry, and Azov optical mechanical plant still on fire from the strike a few days back. In the Krasnodar region, Russian authorities claims Ukrainian drones killed three people, and then in the occupied area in Zepresia, Ukrainian drones were led to kill one civilian and two others, potentially over there. So let me show you what went down. This video has just surface of what appears to be a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian logistics truck right by the Russia Belarus border, but obviously in the Krasnaya Common Russia area. Take a look for yourself of what went down here. Let's play this clip. Now I'll show you a Russian Garen-5 cruise missile entering into an uncontrolled spin-mid flight. And I think I'm looking at it right now. It looks to be a five, but you know the Garen-4 is the drone, the five is the cruise. You tell me what you think this is, but in any event, take a look at what just took place. Let's play it. And now I'll show you this footage right here of a Ukrainian Air Force MIG-29 Fulcrum, scoring a gun kill with its 30-60-60 drone. With its 30-millimeter auto cannon on a Russian Shaheed Attack drone over Odessa. You can see this for yourself. Now it's also notable some of the technological advancements that we're seeing in the Russian military. The Russian military is now capable of acquiring real-time high quality BDA of its strikes with these Garen-type cruise missiles in downtown Kiev. In the footage below, we can see the moment of a Russian strike with a Garen-5 cruise missile on the Incom Business Center located in the Solominski District of the Ukrainian capital. The attack is monitored from a Russian UAV, possibly Gerbera-type equipped with an HD camera. You can see that over there. Also, the Russians have begun using a new modification of the Garen-5 jet UAV, which has received an autonomous optical navigation system and a modified fuselage design. UAV is equipped with an optoelectronic correction system that allows it to navigate using images of the Earth's surface. That's why you're seeing these more lethal strikes. The Garen-5, the Garen-4 are very difficult. The Garen-5, you really can't strike down at all unless you have Patriot or Fat Interceptors, which Solominski doesn't have. And then the Garen-4 drones, these jet-fueled Shaheed upgrades basically, 51% Interception Rate. I think it's actually less than that. You can see right here in Kiev and the Von Hardar region right there. You can see for yourself what the strikes look like there. We've got the footage that I played at the outset as well from the Stolini Chi Market, where one of these Garen-4s looked like it struck. Two dead ten-injure there. I'll show you over here more strikes in Kiev. See what this looks like, more strikes over here as well. Here's the message from Solinsky and the warning. Today alone and in Kiev alone, Russian jet-powered drones, vanquished, killed two kindergarteners and two schools. An ordinary residential building, an auto repair shop, several warehouses and communications facilities. Anywhere in the world, this choice of targets would be called one word terrorism. Russia has no military objective whatsoever in doing this, Solinsky says. It is purely an attempt to break people and inflict as much harm as possible in our society. Tragically, there are people killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Dozens of people were injured overall since yesterday. The Russians have used 277 attack drones of various types. 155 of them jet-powered among the damaged sites is also a building used as the residents of the Saudi Arabian ambassador. In the Danipro region, a sports school is among the damaged facilities. In the Sumi region, the building of a regional children's home is damaged. If Russia were truly preparing for any real steps towards de-escalation, as it claims, particularly to the American negotiators, this wave of Shaheed terror would not be happening. And we need to take a sober view of the situation. Russia knows how to send the kind of encouraging diplomatic signals that the world simply wants to hear, and knows how to send such signals in order to delay tough steps by the world in response to the war. In America, the important Lindsey Graham sanctions and tariff law has already reached the implementation stage. It is a law that can change a lot for the better or fully implemented. This law needs to be implemented, and everyone in the world can see that there is every reason to apply it and a clear purpose for doing so. We are counting on effective decisions from the world and stronger pressure from our partners so that Russia sees that manipulating diplomatic signals will not allow it to keep winning more and more time for war and terror. And it's important that our partners in the G7 and G20 all also take a principled stance. Well, I don't think that Donald Trump is going to be implementing these sanctions. I think that is pretty clear. As I've said before, Donald Trump is obligated under the Constitution to take care of that laws are faithfully executed, but our Constitution is based on good faith and taking care of that law gets implemented by the executive. Donald Trump is not going to do that. So he just views it as a piece of paper and he has not implemented the sanctions, which was one of the reasons that I said what's really the point of it? He's not going to ever implement it. And it also sends a message to the world that he's weak and he's pathetic and he will not actually do with the Congress. Regardless of what your view is, I think it's an undeniable fact he's weak. New sanctions packages are being prepared. Good luck with those being implemented. And then Zelensky further says, next year, Russia plans to spend $12 billion on the production of jet-powered drones and loitering munitions. Of course, this is not only about Ukraine. Ukraine's interception rate for jet-powered shaheads is now 55%. In September, the Russians launched more than 2,730 jet-powered shaheads and more than 1,500 were shot down or suppressed. Unfortunately, a significant share still reached their targets. But step by step, we in Ukraine will build up our defenses to a level no lower than what we already had against a regular shaheads, more than 90% of which get down. So originally, it was 90% than these new jet-fueled. It's 51%, I think it's actually less than that. Other notable developments that we need to point out. U.S. Ambassador to Greece and former fiancee of Don Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly admitted in an interview for a Greek publication that the U.S. was behind the collapse of the Romanian government because of its refusal to purchase U.S. gas at above market prices. And I'll get into some of the links to Russia here in a moment. The U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, close to Trump allegedly stated that the U.S. was involved in the dismissal of the Bollajon government, the former prime minister of Romania, according to the Wall Street Journal. Quote, "We can do this to any country we want. We can do this in Greece too." Bollajon opposed the vertical gas corridor strongly promoted by the U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Don Jr.'s ex-girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle. Now, here's video that shows Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. Ambassador to Greece and former fiancee of Donald Trump, Jr., meeting privately with the leaders of Romania's Social Democratic Party on March 31st in a Bucharest Hotel. Just six days later, the social Democrats allied with the pro-Russian extremist from AUR, um, fill a filed emotion that collapsed the Bollajon Romanian government, which strongly opposed purchasing U.S. gas at above market prices in a Wall Street Journal article yesterday, sources present a meeting between a Greek minister and Guilfoyle stating that she bragged about having collapsed the Romanian government for its refusal to buy U.S. gas warning the U.S. can do this to whoever they want to do it to, and it's notable that you have that link right there between the AUR, uh, Russian, uh, uh, more Russian sympathetic party that ultimately took down the Romanian government. Now, Donald Trump yesterday was saying that the main reason for the surge in diesel and gas is because of what's happening in Ukraine right now and Ukraine strikes in Russia, targeting refineries there. Yes, well, first off, it's because your catastrophic war in Iran is the main reason, but certainly what's happening in the escalation in Ukraine and Russian is certainly adding to the higher diesel prices, for sure, but you promised that you would solve this in 2024. That's what you told voters. So I'm not sure why you think this somehow helps your argument. To me, it shows that not only did you start the catastrophic war in Iran, but you lied to everybody when you said you'd be able to stop the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Here's what Trump said. You can listen for yourself. The big problem is the refineries in Russia are being blown up. This isn't really a Middle Eastern problem. This is more of a Russia problem that Ukraine and Russia are going at it, and Ukraine is blowing up diesel refineries in Russia because they do a lot of the refining. So this one's an interesting one indeed, and I spoke to President Zelensky. I said, you got to take it easier in the refineries as much. He said, well, we'll probably do that. And then similarly, you had the Trump bootleckers like Magna Republican Congress member Van Orden. He was saying this yesterday, you can see for yourself, let's play this clip. Yeah, in your constituents, as we talked about, there are a lot of our farmers and a lot of our paying the price for the Iran war. I mean, diesel prices in Wisconsin are more than a dollar compared to just last month congressman. And more than three dollars compared to this time last year, are you okay with your constituents eating the cost from this war? Well, Monty, it's much more nuanced than that. You got to remember, there's a massive spike in diesel prices as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine due to Joe Biden's strategic weakness. We have multiple blue states that have shut down refineries across the country. We have multiple blue states of shut refineries down across the country. That's leading to an increase in this also. And there's just, thank God, the diesel plant refineries just reopened in Illinois. We've had two of our refineries and then they'd west shut down recently, one just opened again. That's leading to a spike in these. And then finally, there's another event that has a major red flags. Donald Trump's former lawyer, Alina Haba, who represented him in the E. Jean Carroll case, which resulted in a defamation verdict against Donald Trump for over $85 or $90 million. And she, I guess, was also pretending to be the United States attorney in New Jersey for a period of time in this regime. Well, she just married a Turkish billionaire, Turan Milden, a trust fund 29 year old. They had a $10 million wedding. But take a look at this. There was somebody there named Ali Abdallah Zeez, who manages a lot of Russian, Beloruzian, and Chechen MMA fighters, including Komsmat Chameyev, who is close to Kad Yirov. Albad Zeez was an FBI informant until the bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. But then you have photos of him next to Cash Patel, the FBI director on the far right, who's apparently okay with all of this, as we know about Don Jr's wedding, as well, where funded by a Russian oligarch, or partially funded by a Russian oligarch. So, can Tina's for counterintelligence against the United States as Michael Weiss puts it right there. Let me know what you think, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching, everybody. Before you go, our book WTF America is available for pre-order now. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Russia has launched 277 drones, including 155 jet-powered Garen-4 and Garen-5 drones, against Ukraine in the past 24 hours, with a low interception rate of 51% for the Garen-4 and near-impossibility for the Garen-5 cruise missiles.
  2. Ukrainian cities like Kyiv, Odessa, and Donetsk have suffered multiple drone strikes, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries, including attacks on schools, kindergartens, and civilian infrastructure.
  3. President Zelensky warns that the war is escalating into a broader European conflict and that without strong international sanctions, Ukraine’s already difficult winter will worsen.
  4. The U.S. sanctions package passed by Congress, including those led by Lindsey Graham, remain unimplemented under Donald Trump, who is seen as weak and unwilling to enforce them.
  5. Russia is deploying advanced, autonomous Garen-5 drones with real-time navigation and high-precision targeting, enabling deadly strikes on critical urban areas.
  6. U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle is accused of involvement in the collapse of Romania’s government over gas pricing, linking U.S. foreign policy to geopolitical coercion.
  7. Trump falsely claims the oil crisis is caused by Ukraine-Russia strikes, ignoring that the root cause is broader global supply issues and U.S. energy policy failures.
  8. Russia is planning to spend $12 billion next year on jet-powered drones and loitering munitions, signaling a sustained and worsening asymmetric threat.

Summary:

Russia has launched a massive wave of 277 drones—including jet-powered Garen-4 and Garen-5 models—against Ukraine in the past 24 hours, targeting civilian and critical infrastructure in cities like Kyiv, Odessa, and Donetsk. These attacks have resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries, with multiple strikes on schools, kindergartens, and residential areas, prompting President Zelensky to warn that the war is escalating into a broader European crisis. The Ukrainian defense interception rate for these advanced drones is critically low at around 51%, and the Garen-5 cruise missiles are nearly unstoppable without high-end interceptors.

Russia is deploying drones with real-time autonomous navigation and high-precision targeting, which significantly increase their lethality. S. sanctions—particularly those championed by Congress—the situation will only deteriorate.

Trump has failed to implement these sanctions, undermining international pressure and appearing weak, while falsely blaming Ukraine's strikes on oil shortages. S. S.

gas pricing policies. S. inaction, signals a dangerous and worsening conflict with potential regional spillover.

FAQs

Russia has launched 277 drone attacks in the past 24 hours, including jet-powered Garen-4 and Garen-5 drones. Ukraine's interception rate for these new drones is only 51%, with some estimates suggesting it's lower, making them a significant and growing threat.

Garen-5 cruise missiles are difficult to intercept and can navigate autonomously using optical systems. They can strike urban targets with precision, and Ukraine lacks effective defense systems like Patriot or THAAD to stop them.

Ukrainian forces have successfully defended against some attacks, including a MIG-29 fighter shooting down a Russian Shaheed drone over Odessa using its 30mm auto cannon.

Zelensky warns that if U.S. sanctions against Russia are not implemented, the already difficult winter for Ukraine will worsen, and the war could spread to other parts of Europe.

Yes, multiple strikes in cities like Kiev, Odessa, and Sumy have killed dozens of civilians, including children, and injured hundreds, with some attacks targeting schools and residential buildings.

Russia has no clear military objective; instead, the strikes appear designed to terrorize civilians and break public morale, which President Zelensky describes as a pattern of 'terrorism'.

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