Description:
Russia unleashed one of its most powerful missile and drone strikes yet on Ukraine overnight, hitting Kiev, Odessa and Zaporizhzhia while wiping out key bridges and leaving Ukraine's air defense in near total collapse.
Alexander Mercouris on why China and India are openly defying the new US sanctions bill, why Volodymyr Zelensky just sanctioned his own former spokeswoman for suggesting peace talks, and what the stalled Ukrainian offensive near Lyman really means for the war.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Massive Russian Missile And Drone Strike Overnight
00:01:37 Kiev Zaporizhzhia Odessa And Black Sea Ports Hit
00:03:09 Ships Smuggling Weapons Into Odessa Attacked
00:05:56 Zatoka And Mayaki Bridges Knocked Out
00:09:14 Warehouses Data Center And Drone Storage Destroyed
00:10:24 Energy Grid Still Spared Bigger Campaign Coming
00:11:40 Rasvet Satellite System Speculation
00:15:24 Russian Strike Tempo Accelerating Every Few Days
00:17:40 Ukrainian Air Defense In Total Collapse
00:22:10 Greece Refuses To Hand Over Air Defense Missiles
00:26:48 Did Diplomacy Delay Russias Offensive
00:37:07 Ukraine Strikes Rostov Air Base
00:41:18 Yaroslavl Refinery Hit Trump Blames Ukraine For Diesel Crisis
00:47:07 Russian Strikes Gut Ukraine Warehouses And Locomotives
00:53:12 Ukraine Demands Another 50 Billion Euros
00:55:44 Zelensky Sanctions Critic Julia Mendel
01:05:55 Sanctions Bill Passes China And India Defy It
01:15:28 Front Line Update Dorop Kharkov Lyman And Russian Elections