In this hard-hitting report, journalist Rachel Blevins 🎙️ exposes the mainstream media's biased narrative 📰 surrounding Ukraine’s recent drone and sabotage attacks on Russian territory 🇷🇺. From the underwater bombing of the Crimean Bridge 🌉 to coordinated railway explosions in Bryansk and Kursk 🚆🔥, Moscow is calling these actions acts of terrorism targeting innocent civilians.
Meanwhile, Western media outlets in the U.S. 🇺🇸 push headlines comparing the drone strike to “Russia’s Pearl Harbor” 🇺🇸⚓—ignoring the suffering of civilian victims and escalating tensions further. As Ukraine 🇺🇦 faces mounting pressure on the battlefield, these reckless strategies and Western approval risk pushing the conflict into dangerous new territory ⚠️🔥.
00:00It is June 3rd, 2025, and Kiev just carried out its third attack on the Crimean Bridge since 2022,
00:09as the regime is making it very clear to the world that if it can't win on the battlefield against Russia,
00:15well, then it's just going to turn to terrorizing Russian civilians,
00:20as we have seen multiple deadly attacks carried out this week alone.
00:25We've also seen the drone attack that took place across five Russian regions.
00:31It apparently took Kiev a year and a half to plan out.
00:35The media here in the West is really hyping this up, acting as if it is leading to some massive change in the war,
00:43but that's not what we're actually seeing on the battlefield.
00:46So here in today's video, we are going to take a look at all of the latest updates,
00:51along with some of those pesky media headlines that I really want to break down and give some context to
00:58so that you can be more aware of them whenever you see them out in the wild.
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01:28As we have the Russian Investigative Committee announcing on Tuesday that the recent acts of railway sabotage
01:35in Russia's Bryonsk and Kursk regions were terrorist attacks planned by Ukraine to cause maximum civilian casualties.
01:44Those attacks left seven people dead and over 100 injured, and it was even mentioned by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
01:52when he called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday ahead of the planned talks between Moscow and Kiev in Istanbul,
02:00and Rubio extended his sincere condolences over the railway attacks.
02:06Now, you may be wondering, has the Trump administration stepped in at all?
02:09Have they seen this and realized that it's gone too far?
02:13I mean, Trump himself talks about how he wants to put an end to this war.
02:18He wants to see an end to the dying, and yet here is Kiev expanding the war,
02:24targeting Russian civilians openly and only continuing to increase the dying and the number of civilians that are targeted.
02:31So wouldn't the Trump administration step in?
02:34Well, the answer so far is no.
02:36Instead, you have Trump in a position where he seems to be wanting to continually distance himself from all of this, right?
02:44He's just the third-party broker here.
02:47He's just here to try to get Moscow and Kiev to agree to get along.
02:51Don't worry about all of the weapons that the U.S. is sending to Kiev,
02:54the military intelligence that they are giving to Kiev, and so on and so forth.
03:00Like, no, no, just worry about the statements that Trump has made
03:03and the attempts that his administration is making to try to bring an end to this conflict.
03:09Except that the conflict keeps going on, and so do the attacks that Kiev is carrying out,
03:15again, targeting Russian civilians.
03:17As Ukraine's security service, the SBU, took to Telegram on Tuesday
03:22to declare that they had targeted the Crimean Bridge in a third attack.
03:27This time, they claimed to use 1,100 kilograms of explosives,
03:32which they said severely damaged the underwater pillars supporting the bridge.
03:37Now, as we've already seen this week, Kiev has a bit of a tendency to exaggerate
03:43when it comes to the effects and the impact of their attack,
03:46so it remains to be seen what the damage actually was here.
03:50We haven't heard much from Russia at all about this latest attack,
03:55but it is important to note that this is the third attack carried out by Kiev in recent years
04:01on this landmark bridge, which, of course, connects Crimea to the rest of Russia.
04:07That's part of why they don't like it.
04:09They can't get over the fact that the people of Crimea would want to be a part of Russia,
04:13and therefore, they have to terrorize those people in any way possible.
04:18Also important to note that the last two attacks, which were carried out in 2022 and 2023,
04:25both resulted in civilian casualties.
04:28So, well, again, we don't know the exact reports on this one.
04:31We're still kind of waiting to see what is released.
04:34The Crimean Bridge is a place that Kiev has attacked multiple times,
04:38where they have killed innocent civilians,
04:40and they have celebrated it for all of the world to see.
04:44And these kind of attacks are, of course, a major concern.
04:47They've got to be a major concern for Russia at this point,
04:50because, well, yes, it's clear that Kiev has no way to win on the battlefield against Russia.
04:58We're also watching them when it comes to the point where they start to lose on the battlefield,
05:03where they realize that they are losing in terms of manpower.
05:06They get desperate.
05:08They start to strike out, and they start to target the Russian civilian population.
05:13And we've seen drastic increases in those attacks in recent years,
05:18especially when you take into account the fact that NATO supports all of this.
05:22I mean, look at all of the Western countries, the U.S. and company,
05:26who turned to Ukraine, and they went from refusing any sort of long-range weapons,
05:31refusing to increase their lethal aid for Kiev because they were concerned about sparking a direct conflict with Moscow,
05:39to now you've got Germany's new chancellor talking about how the West has removed restrictions on the use of long-range weapons,
05:48which we, of course, know is the use by these Western countries.
05:52They want to act like it's Kiev that's carrying out these attacks.
05:55We know that it's not.
05:56So it is the West, it is NATO that is directly waging war on Russia and has been for a while now.
06:05And so that makes it incredibly concerning when you look at the fact that NATO doesn't care, right?
06:10They don't care about the killing of Ukrainian civilians or Russian civilians here.
06:15They're supporting all of it.
06:17And they're also supporting this latest drone attack that was carried out by Kiev on Sunday across five Russian regions.
06:25And the media coverage has been nonstop, as the Associated Press led with the headline,
06:31Ukraine's drone attack on Russian warplanes was a serious blow to the Kremlin's strategic arsenal,
06:38in which they said that the bold attack demonstrated Ukraine's capability to hit high-value targets anywhere in Russia,
06:47dealing a humiliating blow to the Kremlin and inflicting significant losses to Moscow's war machine.
06:54But then they go on in that same article to admit that Kiev's claims that it destroyed 40 Russian bombers cannot be independently verified.
07:04And that the footage that we've seen on social media only shows a couple of the bombers actually being hit.
07:10Plus this claim that, oh, Kiev can now hit Russia anywhere in the country, anywhere that they want to.
07:16It's like, yeah, I guess if you give them 18 months to plan out the operation that included over 100 drones, they say.
07:25So over 100 drones took them a year and a half to smuggle it into Russia.
07:30And then they only got a few bombers that maybe a couple destroyed, a few more damaged.
07:36And it's like, this certainly is not the result that we were promised, that we're being promised by the media right now as we speak.
07:45The Wall Street Journal also declared that Ukraine's stunning assault royals Russia's global military strategy,
07:54in which they described how much they know about Russia by listing its distant rivals as the U.S. and also China.
08:01And while I don't know that I would describe Russia and China as rivals or that I would think that Moscow was gearing up for some sort of attack on Beijing
08:10and all of a sudden Kiev came in and ruined its capability to do so,
08:15I'm also genuinely curious as to how this single attack had such an effect on Russia's military strategy, if any effect at all.
08:26I mean, we saw this with Kiev's Kursk incursion back last August, right?
08:32The media headlines, they were all over the place talking about,
08:36oh, we cannot believe that Kiev carried this out.
08:39What a brilliant, daring operation that just got under Russia's nose.
08:44And it's like, oh, they got over a border that wasn't heavily fortified
08:48and took a bunch of little hamlets and backwater towns that weren't heavily populated.
08:54If you want to claim that that's some sort of an accomplishment,
08:57that okay, how many men did Kiev lose in that overall incursion, in the overall operation?
09:03Which, yes, it stretched over the course of months because Russia let it stretch over the course of months
09:09because they did not just take all of their efforts and put it in the Kursk region.
09:14They knew they played the long game, which is what we're seeing them do now.
09:19And it's just such a reminder to me that so much of what Kiev does is about grabbing these headlines in the Western media.
09:27And if that's their goal, then it works for them, right?
09:30We have plenty of headlines talking about how great and how inspirational Kiev is
09:37and what an impact it has on Russia, except when you get into reading these articles,
09:41they never really tell you what the actual impact that is supposed to have on Russia.
09:46You also had Reuters with satellite images of Russia's Balea airfield in Siberia.
09:52And they interviewed experts who noted that while the images showed multiple bombers
09:58that had been destroyed or damaged in the attacks,
10:02that there was no way to verify Ukraine's claim of 40 bombers being completely destroyed.
10:07You also have USA Today hyping up the claim they say is being made by some Russian military bloggers
10:14that this attack was Russia's Pearl Harbor,
10:18as if this somehow equates to Japan's 1941 attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii
10:25that was Washington's reason for entering World War II.
10:28And if it was the case that this attack was somehow Russia's Pearl Harbor,
10:33then I would be extremely concerned if I were the West right now.
10:37But instead, look, you got all of your headlines.
10:41They can keep this going for a week.
10:43Maybe they'll get two weeks out of it, depending on what else happens in the world.
10:47But beyond that, we have to look at the question of,
10:51okay, is this some sort of new capability?
10:53Is this something that Kiev can recreate?
10:57And the answer seems to be no.
11:00From everything that we're seeing, obviously, now we know how the SBU carried out this attack.
11:05We know that Russia is going to do everything in its power to combat any future iterations of an attack like this.
11:13And while we are in a position of being concerned about future sabotage, right,
11:19future things that Ukraine could try to do to target the Russian civilian population,
11:23that's been a major concern for a while now.
11:26And I think that it will continue to be a concern,
11:29especially as you see the Kiev regime continue to get more and more desperate.
11:34Well, we also have to look at just how much of an impact this attack actually had.
11:41And I want to bring up a post from friend of the show, Brian Burletic, of the new Atlas,
11:46as he specifically noted on X that an operation that took 18 months to put together
11:52and is not capable of being replicated, which is why the SBU exposed how it was done,
11:59does not constitute a new effective capability.
12:02It constitutes a stunt conducted by the U.S. and its Ukrainian proxies,
12:07specifically because they don't have the capability of turning the tide of the war.
12:12He also made an important point when it comes to the claim that Kiev is putting out there
12:17that they destroyed 40 Russian bombers, or around 34% of Russia's cruise missile carriers.
12:25And he specifically noted that even if that's the case,
12:28Russia still possesses a three-to-one artillery advantage.
12:32A drone advantage, a cruise missile advantage still,
12:36and ballistic missile advantage, a glide bomb advantage,
12:40and most importantly, a growing manpower advantage.
12:44So in other words, when you look at the drone attack that was carried out on Sunday,
12:48when you look at the latest acts of railway sabotage,
12:52when you look at this latest attack on the Crimean Bridge,
12:55does any of it have any impact on the current situation on the front lines?
13:01Well, the short answer there is no.
13:03As reports noted on Tuesday,
13:05the Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region,
13:10after Zelensky warned last week that Russia had amassed around 50,000 troops on the border,
13:16following Putin's latest announcement that Moscow plans to create a buffer zone.
13:20And these advances are expected to continue,
13:23especially as we get into the summer and especially as Russia continues to wear down Kiev's military.
13:31That is what this is all about at the end of the day.
13:34And because that is their eventual goal,
13:37then you can also expect that these attacks of sabotage,
13:41these attacks targeting the civilian population in Russia,
13:45that they will continue to escalate.
13:47And you can expect on top of that,
13:49that NATO will be all for it,
13:51because it gives them headlines to run in the media to keep the public distracted.
13:57Because instead of talking about,
13:59oh, Ukraine lost this territory,
14:01or oh, Russian forces are advancing here,
14:04now the media gets to talk about this latest drone attack,
14:07and they get to blow it out of proportion.
14:09They get to quote the figures that Kiev provides,
14:13and then they get to quietly, later on in the article,
14:16admit to their readers that all of those claims cannot be independently verified.
14:22And that's something everyone should be talking about.
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