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00:01It was meant to be safe.
00:02Even as Ukraine developed drones that could fly deeper into Russia than ever thought possible,
00:07this one target was meant to be so far out of reach that Ukraine could never hit it.
00:12But once again, everything Russia thought it knew has been turned on its head,
00:17and a key gas plant is on fire because of it.
00:21This wasn't any old strike by Ukraine.
00:23It was a world record breaker for a drone attack, an epic, near 3,000-kilometer strike
00:31that has made history, and proven once and for all, that there is nowhere safe in Russia anymore.
00:37On September 9th, news broke that Ukraine had carried out the single deepest strike into Russian territory
00:42since Putin launched his brutal invasion four and a half years ago.
00:47Ukraine's drones traveled a staggering 2,800 kilometers beyond the country's border
00:52to reach the city of Novyurungoy, which is home to one of Russia's most important gas plants
00:58that account for 80% of the country's total gas extraction.
01:02Ukraine is proud of this one, and it should be.
01:04In the wake of the strike, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
01:08took to Telegram to explain what it had just pulled off.
01:11On September 9th, 2026, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine
01:14hit the Novyurungoy gas condensate processing plant in Novyurungoy,
01:19Yamalo Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation, the General Staff declared.
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01:35All records have been shattered.
01:37What we're seeing here is the incremental increase in the strike range of Ukraine's best drones.
01:42It's not so long ago that Ukraine set its previous record, which at the time was remarkable in its own
01:47right.
01:48That record came as the result of a strike against an oil refinery in Omsk, which is in Siberia.
01:54That attack saw Ukraine's drones travel just shy of 2,500 kilometers from the border on July 6th,
02:00meaning 300 kilometers of range has been added to Ukraine's strike potential in the last two months.
02:06There may be a lot more coming too, but we'll be getting to that.
02:09Before we do, here's what we know about the strike so far.
02:12The city of Novyurungoy is in Siberia, like the Omsk refinery that was subject to Ukraine's previous record-breaking strike,
02:19which shows us that Ukraine has developed its drones to the point where Russia's Far East is now a legitimate
02:24target.
02:24As we mentioned, the Yamalo-Nenets region, where the strike took place, is considered Russia's unofficial gas capital,
02:31due to its role in Russian gas production.
02:34And the specific facility Ukraine hit was a condensate treatment plant that has an annual capacity of around 19.5
02:41million tons of raw materials.
02:43This was no small target.
02:44Ukraine didn't fire a little test shot before it started attacking plants that could do some serious damage to Russia.
02:50With this strike, Ukraine went for Russia's gas jugular and hit its mark.
02:54Ukraine's general staff explains a little more, noting that the plant is key in the production of several gas-
02:59and oil-based products,
03:01many of which either directly meet the needs of Russia's armed forces or are sold by Russia to generate money
03:06needed to fund the war.
03:08It produces stabilized gas condensate, petroleum fractions, diesel fuel, and other petroleum products, the Ukrainian military pointed out.
03:15Its products are used, among other purposes, to meet the needs of the Russian armed forces, the general staff declared.
03:21But beyond that, Ukraine isn't saying much more.
03:23It's busy assessing the true scale of the damage done before it reveals just how effective this new breed of
03:29long-range drone was.
03:30However, footage has already started emerging that offers hints about what Ukraine did.
03:35Some of the footage comes from the Excellenova Plus telegram channel, which has a long history of sharing videos shot
03:41from the ground in the aftermath of Ukraine's strikes.
03:44In a September 9th telegram post, the channel shared two videos, both showing a fire shooting up into the air.
03:50It seems that gas has been ignited and it's burning constantly, though it's difficult to tell much more from the
03:56videos.
03:57Even if Ukraine has triggered just this fire and caused no other damage, an important message has been sent.
04:03A facility that was meant to be well out of Ukraine's range has officially become a target.
04:07Russia isn't trying to hide it either.
04:10In what may be the most telling sign of Ukraine's success, regional authorities are already reporting on the damage.
04:15And some are trying to twist what happened to paint Ukraine as a terrorist nation that is attacking poor little
04:20Russia for no reason.
04:21Yamal-Nenet's autonomous Okru governor, Dmitry Artiukov, took the telegram following Ukraine's strike, stating,
04:29Today, a drone attack on one of the industrial facilities in Novyurungoy was repelled.
04:34As a result of the fall of UAV debris, a fire broke out.
04:37Emergency services specialists are working at the scene.
04:40The most important thing, there are no dead or injured.
04:43The size and nature of the damage are established.
04:45There it is, the old drone debris excuse.
04:47Even when yet another of its facilities are on fire, Russia still tries to act as though it has a
04:53perfect air defense record against Ukraine's drones
04:56and that any damage done is caused by debris that just so happens to strike exactly what Ukraine wanted to
05:01hit.
05:02We think it might be about time for Russia to reposition its air defenses, given how often this happens.
05:07Artem Zoga, who is the presidential envoy of the Russian Federation to the Ural Federal District, also confirmed the strike
05:13on telegram,
05:14trotted out the drone debris excuse and added a little extra wrinkle to the Russian response.
05:19The criminal Kiev regime has, for the first time, attacked the Arctic region of the Ural Federal District.
05:25As a result of debris from a drone falling on the territory, a fire broke out at a fuel and
05:29energy complex facility in the Yamalo-Nanets Autonomous District, Zoga declared.
05:34Criminal Kiev regime.
05:35That's the narrative that Russia is spinning as Ukraine's long-range strikes become more frequent and damaging.
05:41The hypocrisy is on show for all to see.
05:43Russia has spent over four and a half years attacking Ukrainian energy facilities and killing civilians.
05:49As of July 31, 16,874 Ukrainians have died, and another 51,273 have been injured as a result of
05:59Russian strikes, per the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
06:03And now we have Russian authority figures trying to claim that Kiev is a criminal regime that is attacking Russia's
06:10civilian infrastructure,
06:11even though it was Russia that set the stage for this sort of thing in the first place,
06:14and that the gas plant Ukraine hit is clearly part of the massive Russian war machine.
06:19It's a blatant bending of the truth to serve Russia's narrative needs.
06:23So, a pretty standard response from Russia now we think about it.
06:26Don't underestimate the importance of this strike.
06:29While the new distance record is massive, and rightfully grabs all of the headlines,
06:33there are a lot more reasons why Ukraine's latest attack matters.
06:37From the region Ukraine struck, to what it means for Russian gas, and right through to the weapon that Ukraine
06:42used,
06:42this is all bad news for Russia.
06:44But before we explain more, this is a reminder that you're watching the military show.
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06:59When we told you that Novy-Urungoy is the heartland of the Russian gas industry,
07:03we weren't overstating anything.
07:04The reason why this region is responsible for about 80% of Russia's total gas extraction
07:08is that it's home to one of the world's largest reserves of natural gas.
07:13According to the war zone, Novy-Urungoy was believed to have 26.5 trillion cubic meters of gas reserves as
07:19of 2020,
07:20which is enough gas to cover global demand for more than six full years.
07:24In other words, that's billions of dollars of gas sitting on Russian land,
07:28and the facility that Ukraine struck is responsible for processing that gas into products that can actually be used.
07:34For Russia, that makes Novy-Urungoy a cash cow, as well as a part of its military machine.
07:39Yes, some of what the facility Ukraine struck produces goes to the military,
07:43but a lot more is sold to keep the money rolling in.
07:46Russia's natural gas industry, though perhaps not quite the money spinner that its oil industry has proven to be,
07:51is still responsible for driving billions of dollars of revenue that is taxed by the Kremlin to fund Putin's war.
07:57According to Statista, Russia's gas industry had an export value of about $168 billion between February 24, 2022,
08:06and June 18, 2024, which works out to just a touch shy of $67 billion per year.
08:12The plant that Ukraine struck is part of a wider oil and gas industry that the Oxford Institute for Energy
08:17Studies says
08:18contributes between 30 and 50 percent of Russia's total federal budget every year,
08:24showcasing just how critical these types of fossil fuels, and the products made using them, are to the Russian war
08:29machine.
08:30The first half of 2026 saw Russia spend 44 percent of this budget on its military,
08:36amounting to about $125 billion per defense blog.
08:39If up to half of that money is coming from taxing oil and gas revenue,
08:44it suddenly becomes very obvious why claims of Ukraine having a criminal regime
08:48that is carrying out terrorist attacks with these kinds of strikes don't hold water.
08:53Russia needs the money it gets from oil and gas to fund its war.
08:56Ukraine is taking that money out of commission.
08:59There's an extra part of this story to consider before we move on.
09:03Hitting one of Russia's most important gas plants is already a big enough win for Ukraine.
09:07However, that plant also happens to be in relatively close proximity to another major Russian project
09:12that could soon be a target, the Yamal Liquified Natural Gas, or LNG, site.
09:18That's according to the Kyiv Independent, which points out the facility that Ukraine hit is about 600 kilometers away from
09:24the site,
09:24which is located on Russia's Arctic Yamal Peninsula.
09:28The project is massive.
09:29It accounts for about 60 percent of Yamal's total LNG exports,
09:33most of which flow into the European Union, highlighting a clear gap between the EU's sanctioning of Russia
09:39and its purchases of Russian products.
09:41Offshore Technology says that this single project has access to almost 1.25 trillion cubic meters of gas
09:48and 550 million barrels of gas condensate,
09:51and that Russia has invested an estimated $27 billion in getting this project up and running.
09:57Now, we know what you may be thinking here.
09:59Ukraine just broke a world record with its latest strike.
10:02Surely it's too much to add an extra 600 kilometers for Ukraine to target the Yamal LNG site.
10:08Maybe it is right now, but that's the exact type of thinking that has led Russia to the point where
10:12these sorts of attacks are happening in the first place.
10:14Remember, it took just two months for Ukraine to tack on another 300 kilometers to its previous range record.
10:20What could be possible in another two months or six?
10:23We don't even really need to ask the question as Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky,
10:27has also told the world that 2027 is going to see Ukraine bring even more dangerous drones with longer ranges
10:33into the fold.
10:35Toward the end of July, Zelensky said,
10:37We have drones with a range of over 3,000 kilometers.
10:40This year, we will have 4,000 kilometers.
10:43Next year, from 5,000 to 10,000.
10:45The Yamal LNG site isn't safe.
10:48If anything, it may be the next major target for Ukraine,
10:51making the world record-breaking attack we just saw a warning shot for strikes deeper into the Russian Far East.
10:57Coming back to the strike itself, Ukraine must have had a special kind of weapon to pull this off,
11:02and it seems most likely that the weapon used came from the same company
11:05that provides the drones for so many of Ukraine's long-range attacks, Firepoint.
11:09The makers of the Flamingo claim they provided the drone for Ukraine's Novy-Urungoy strike.
11:14Specifically, the company claims it was the FP1 drone that did the damage.
11:19FP1 drones can cover 3,200 kilometers and set a new record for the range of destruction,
11:24Firepoint declared on Telegram, indicating that one of the company's premier long-range drones
11:29has undergone some upgrades since it was first unveiled in May 2025.
11:33Back then, the FP1 was reported to be capable of carrying a warhead weighing up to 120 kilograms,
11:38up to a distance of 1,600 kilometers.
11:42A lot has changed since.
11:43On its official website, Firepoint claims that the FP1 can now travel 2,600 kilometers,
11:49carrying a 60-kilogram warhead.
11:51That suggests the warhead has been shrunk to give the drone more range.
11:55However, this stated range is still short of the distance the company's drone would have needed to travel
11:59to hit Novy-Urungoy.
12:01So what happened?
12:02It's possible that the FP1 has received another range upgrade,
12:05allowing it to reach even deeper into Russia.
12:08The Warzone points out that the Firepoint co-founder, Deniz Stielerman,
12:11now claims that the FP1 can travel up to 3,200 kilometers,
12:16though that claim isn't reflected on the company's website.
12:18Perhaps we've just seen the first successful combat flight of an upgraded version of the FP1.
12:24Or perhaps not.
12:25The caveat to Firepoint's claim is that it's the only entity making them.
12:29Ukraine hasn't provided any official confirmation that the FP1 was used.
12:33And the only suggestion we have of that drone being capable of reaching so deep into Russia
12:37comes from the company's co-founder, but there's always a chance that he could be serving up some marketing speak.
12:42Still, we know the strike happened, and the FP1 seems the most likely weapon used.
12:47Another possibility, though less likely, is that Ukraine used a proxy somewhere inside Russia
12:52to launch the drone that hit Russia's gas plant.
12:54This isn't a new tactic for Ukraine.
12:57Operation Spiderweb, which was carried out in the summer of 2025,
13:00saw Ukraine sneak dozens of drones into Russia to carry out strikes on several airfields.
13:05And back in December, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine reported a successful sabotage attack
13:10against an Su-30 fighter jet that was completed by a representative of the resistance movement in Russia.
13:16It's not outside the realm of possibility that Ukraine is sending drones into Russia to these proxy groups,
13:22which are then carrying out attacks like the one at Novyurungoy on Ukraine's behalf.
13:26However, this seems the less likely option.
13:29Firepoint making a public statement is a good indicator that it was indeed an FP1 used to carry out this
13:34attack.
13:35Moving on from the weapons used, there's what all of this means for Russia, and even the EU, to consider.
13:40Remember that we mentioned the Yamal LNG project, and the fact that the EU is one of the main customers
13:46of that project.
13:47According to Alexander Kirk of the Ugerwald Environmental and Human Rights Group,
13:52the EU should take Ukraine's latest attack as a wake-up call and start implementing more sanctions.
13:57The war has reached Russia's Arctic gas heartland, close to Yamal LNG, just days before this weekend's European Arctic summit.
14:05The EU needs to get a grip. It should use the upcoming 20-second sanctions package to sanction all 14
14:11ARC-7 tankers,
14:13sustaining Yamal LNG, and close the sanctions gap around the European maritime and maintenance services, keeping them operational.
14:20Kirk makes a good point. As long as this sanctions gap exists, Russia is earning billions of dollars from the
14:25EU
14:26when the EU is supposed to be actively punishing Russia for its actions in Ukraine.
14:30There's a suggestion here that the EU should start playing follow the leader with Ukraine.
14:35Use Ukraine's strikes to determine what the country considers the most valuable Russian assets,
14:39and then follow these strikes with official sanctions to damage those assets.
14:43Whether the EU will actually do that is up for debate.
14:46Though the Union has promised to permanently stop Russian gas imports, it's a phased halt.
14:51LNG flows should be ended by December 31, 2026, with pipeline gas to follow on September 30, 2027.
14:59It's likely only after that second deadline that there will be any prospect of the EU sanctioning Russia's Yamal-based
15:04gas sites.
15:05Beyond that, Ukraine's latest strike is an indicator that its attack range has extended even deeper,
15:11putting even more parts of the Russian Far East and Siberia at risk.
15:14Nobody in those territories will want to hear that.
15:18Putin has been touring the Far East with the general message to the people that they need to stay calm,
15:22not worry about the damage being done by Ukraine's drones.
15:25It's hard for that message to get through when those drones are now reaching territory that nobody ever thought they
15:30would be able to reach.
15:31You can see what Ukraine did in Novy-Urungoy as a response to Putin's tour.
15:35Your leader is telling you that everything is fine.
15:38The fire at one of your country's most important gas processing facilities says otherwise.
15:43Don't listen to Putin.
15:44He's lying to you.
15:46Beyond that, we're watching Ukraine expand the scope of its campaign against Russian energy infrastructure,
15:51as well as extending the range of its drones.
15:53Oil refining has been Ukraine's main target for much of the year.
15:56The Kyiv Post reports that Ukraine knocked out 42.7% of Russian refining between August 2025 and July 26th,
16:05costing Russia an estimated $13.5 billion in industry losses.
16:10We're not saying that gas is a brand new target for Ukraine, it isn't.
16:13But what is new is Ukraine's ability to strike deep into Russia's gas heartland.
16:18That ability has just been demonstrated for the world to see,
16:21and that means Ukraine may be setting up for a new campaign,
16:24where it causes multi-billion losses in the Russian gas industry to complement those we're already seeing in Russian oil.
16:30Putin can't afford that. Literally.
16:34Russia thought that it was doing something smart when it sent the remnants of the Black Sea Fleet to Novorossiysk.
16:40The port, which is in the Krasnodar Krai, was supposed to be a safe haven,
16:45a place where warships could go to hide after Ukraine made the fleet's Sevastopol headquarters a death zone.
16:50But Novorossiysk isn't safe. It hasn't been for a while.
16:55And if Russia needed to learn that lesson once more,
16:58Ukraine has delivered a fiery lecture that offers all the proof that will ever be needed.
17:03The wrath of a Roman god has just been unleashed on the Russian navy,
17:07joined by a new generation of drones that sparked a massive fireball that engulfed Novorossiysk.
17:12Overnight on September 9th, a swarm of Ukrainian drones and missiles flew to Novorossiysk,
17:18striking target after target in a hellacious attack that has hit a missile ship and set a fuel oil terminal
17:24ablaze.
17:25Residents heard the strikes coming before they saw the damage.
17:28The unmistakable sounds of drones buzzing overhead were a portent of things to come.
17:33Then it happened. Explosion after explosion racked one of Russia's most important ports in an attack that has devastated the
17:41country's navy.
17:42Ukraine has been more than happy to share what it did.
17:45Robert Brovdy, who is the outspoken head of Ukraine's unmanned systems forces,
17:49shared a special message for Russia on Facebook in the wake of Ukraine's attack.
17:53The worm is in a hurry to lie down, Brovdy declared before he said.
17:57The naval base of Novorossiysk lost a number of military naval assets at night,
18:02with a comprehensive strike by the SBU with the participation of the SBS, including a missile carrier.
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18:22Russia can't run away from this one, and it certainly can't hide the fact that it happened.
18:27The fires are so large that they can be seen from space.
18:30NASA's FIRMS satellites, which are used to track large fires,
18:34have provided images proving there are now several red zones in Novorossiysk,
18:39with each red mark indicating a fire that Ukraine caused.
18:42We said this was the wrath of a Roman god, and we meant it.
18:45What does that really mean?
18:47One word, Neptune.
18:49That's the name of the type of missile that Ukraine used to carry out part of its Novorossiysk attack.
18:54Brovdy claims that Ukraine struck several warships on the night of September 9th.
18:58However, the only one we have real evidence for is the Admiral Essen.
19:02Metzer reports that this was the ship that Ukraine hit with its Neptune missiles.
19:06That ship is a missile frigate that is capable of firing caliber cruise missiles,
19:10that often form parts of the swarms of projectiles that Russia uses to batter Ukraine's cities regularly.
19:16Launched in 2014 and part of the Project 11356R fleet of warships,
19:22the Admiral Essen has a long history of being used in these types of attacks,
19:26having first come to prominence for similar strikes in Syria in 2017,
19:30before becoming one of Russia's more important weapons in the war against Ukraine.
19:34Beyond its caliber cruise missiles, it's also home to a 100mm A-190 artillery mount
19:40and a Stihl-1 anti-aircraft missile system that is supposed to be capable of stopping incoming projectiles in their
19:46tracks.
19:47It doesn't look like that system worked this time around.
19:50Ukraine's missiles clearly broke through.
19:52It's unclear which variant of Neptune missiles Ukraine used to do the job against the Admiral Essen.
19:58The original R-360 version, which is an anti-ship missile, seems like the most obvious choice.
20:03That missile was designed to destroy warships capable of displacing up to 5,000 tons of water,
20:08and it can be launched from land, surface, and air.
20:12It's also a missile with an impressive history, as it's what Ukraine used to destroy the Moskva missile cruiser back
20:18in April 2022,
20:19which was the starting point for the campaign against the Black Sea Fleet that led to the Admiral Essen being
20:24in Novorossiysk in the first place.
20:27Another candidate is the Long Neptune, which Ukraine designed to function as a cruise missile,
20:32but is just as capable as its older cousin of hitting and destroying ships.
20:35That missile can travel up to 1,000 kilometers carrying a 260kg warhead,
20:41and it flies low enough to make for a very difficult target for anti-air systems.
20:45The Long Neptune has been in play since at least November 2025,
20:49so Ukraine knows that it works and that it can do some serious damage.
20:54Whichever version was used, the point remains the same.
20:56The fury of a missile named after a Roman god just rained down on the Admiral Essen.
21:01And it's not the first time that this particular ship has been a target for Ukraine, not by a long
21:06shot.
21:06Back in May, Ukraine hit Admiral Essen for what was then the fourth time since Putin launched his invasion.
21:12We guess Ukraine can rack up hit number five now.
21:15You are doomed to sink someday, you scab. You won't hide,
21:19Brovdy wrote in the aftermath of that attack, which appears to have been carried out using drones.
21:23An earlier attack in March destroyed the Admiral Essen's onboard radar components and central superstructure.
21:29Another, carried out on April 6, affected the ship's anchor handling and some of its auxiliary compartments.
21:34The Admiral Essen has been reduced to little more than a sitting duck in Novorossiysk.
21:39It may still be able to fire missiles, but it doesn't seem to be capable of doing anything against Ukraine's
21:43weapons anymore.
21:44This latest attack doesn't appear to have sunk the missile ship.
21:48The satellite images show that it's still afloat in port.
21:51But as Brovdy says, it's only a matter of time.
21:53The Admiral Essen has nowhere to go,
21:55and Ukraine is clearly determined to use Neptune to send the ship to the god that gave the missile its
22:00name.
22:00It's attacks just like this one that sent Russia's Black Sea warships into hiding in Novorossiysk in the first place.
22:07Now the hiding spot has been revealed.
22:09Russia's ships are just as vulnerable now as they were when they were sailing in the Black Sea and using
22:14Sevastopol as their base.
22:15Mark our words, another strike against the Admiral Essen is coming, and Russia won't be able to do anything about
22:20it.
22:21But the Admiral Essen wasn't the only casualty of Ukraine's overnight blitz.
22:25As Neptune flew toward the warship, Ukrainian drones targeted the rest of Novorossiysk, spreading the fires that we mentioned earlier.
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22:45In its report on Ukraine's September 9th series of strikes, Euromiden Press says that Ukrainian drones scored hits against the
22:52fuel oil terminal in Novorossiysk, causing a fire to break out on the terminal grounds.
22:57At least one storage tank appears to have taken damage, and footage of the aftermath has already started to emerge.
23:04Excelenover Plus, which is often among the first media outlets to share such footage, shares a video shot by a
23:09Krasnodar Cry resident who saw Ukraine's attack happen in real time.
23:13That video showcases what NASA's firm's satellites have confirmed, large fires caused by Ukraine's drones.
23:20In another, we mostly hear, rather than see, what Ukraine's drones did.
23:23The sound of buzzing is audible, as is what appears to be the sound of Russian anti-missile guns rattling
23:29off rounds.
23:30For a moment, all goes quiet.
23:32Then it happens.
23:33The sound of a massive explosion, which is likely the result of one of Ukraine's drones scoring a direct hit
23:39on its target.
23:40Other fires have been reported aside from the one highlighted by Excelenover Plus.
23:44Astra, which is another independent media outlet inside Russia, reports that there are fires on the grounds of several enterprises
23:51in Novorossiysk,
23:52including the one we already know about at the port's fuel oil terminal.
23:56Again, there is footage that proves the claims.
23:58And according to Militanyi, that terminal is pretty valuable to Russia.
24:02It's one of several enterprises operating as part of a wider Novorossiysk transport hub.
24:08And it specializes in the transshipment of fuel oil and light petroleum to the tune of 4 million tons of
24:14product shipped every year.
24:15There was nothing accidental about Ukraine's choice of target here.
24:19Ukraine knew exactly what it wanted to hit.
24:22As for what it used for the job, it's since been reported that FP1 drones rained down on Novorossiysk on
24:27the night of September 9th.
24:28That news comes directly from the drone's manufacturer, Firepoint, which said,
24:33FP1 drones paid a visit to Novorossiysk tonight, before confirming the strike against the port's fuel oil terminal,
24:39as well as suggesting that its drones were used to target the KSK grain terminal,
24:44which processes about 2.5 million tons of grain annually.
24:48It isn't clear if Ukraine managed to hit that terminal or if Russian air defenses managed to stop a few
24:52of the FP1s.
24:54UNN reports that a fire occurred at the grain terminal, though other reports suggest that outcome is up in the
24:58air.
24:59It's worth noting that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky didn't mention the grain terminal in his report on the attack.
25:05As he said,
25:06During this day there were results in Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar Krai.
25:09A naval base was struck.
25:11A terminal involved in oil shipments, military harbor facilities, warships, and caliber missile carriers.
25:17Regardless, the FP1 has been getting a major workout recently.
25:20On the same day that these drones were used to devastate Novorossiysk, they were also reportedly responsible
25:25for carrying out a record-breaking 2,800 km strike against a Russian gas plant in Novyurungoy,
25:32which is in Russia's Yamal-Nanets autonomous region.
25:35That facility is as important to Russia's gas condensate infrastructure as the Novorossiysk fuel oil terminal is
25:41to getting Russian fuel out into the Black Sea and beyond.
25:44As is always the case with Ukraine's drone strikes, they're just like the buses.
25:48Russia waits for one, then several come along at once.
25:52Russia has been forced to respond to what Ukraine pulled off on September 9th.
25:56While there are no mentions of warships being hit, which is no surprise, as such strikes can be hidden from
26:01the public
26:02unless they lead to flaming shipwreckages that can be seen from kilometers around,
26:06the strikes on Novorossiysk's other port infrastructure are impossible to hide.
26:09That's how things go when massive fires are visible on the horizon.
26:14Novorossiysk's mayor, Andrei Kravchenko, has already published the Russian spin on the events in a telegram post where he said,
26:20The UAV attacks continue to be repelled in Novorossiysk.
26:24We'll stop you right there, Kravchenko.
26:26Repelled isn't the word you're looking for here.
26:28Successful seems like a better fit, after all of the evidence that we've seen.
26:32Kravchenko continued by trotting out Old Faithful to explain all of the fires.
26:36Currently, it's known that drone debris fell on the premises of enterprises and near a residential building.
26:42Emergency services have been assigned to deal with the consequences.
26:45Information about other possible damages is being clarified, the Novorossiysk mayor said.
26:51There it is, the old drone debris excuse.
26:53We're running out of jokes to make about this one.
26:55As Russia uses it every time that Ukraine's drone score direct hits, it's all a bit ridiculous, isn't it?
27:01Russia expects people to believe that drone debris just so happens to hit exactly what Ukraine wanted to hit every
27:07single time.
27:08At least come up with a new excuse, Russia.
27:11This one has been beaten so far into the ground that it's becoming friends with the mole people.
27:15Still, at least Russia could console itself with the thought that a terrible night both for Novorossiysk and for the
27:20far-flung region of Yamal-Nanetsk couldn't get any worse, right?
27:23Not exactly.
27:25A range of other targets were also hit elsewhere in Russia,
27:28showcasing just how fragile the country's air defense network has become.
27:32As Novorossiysk burned, Ukraine struck a broad range of other targets, including an MI-8 helicopter and a pair of
27:38radar systems,
27:39all of which were further along the coast from Novorossiysk, in a settlement named Anapa.
27:44Brovdi also reports that Ukraine's drones took out another 13 vessels belonging to Russia's Shadow Fleet in the Black Sea,
27:51bringing its total of Shadow Fleet ships struck in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to 282 since it
27:57started that particular campaign back on July 6th.
28:00But perhaps the most important loss among this additional series of strikes was that of an Su-33 fighter jet,
28:07also in Anapa.
28:07That one will sting Russia, both because it's yet another fighter jet down and because the Su-33 is essentially
28:14a tangible example of Russian design failure.
28:17This jet was designed to be a carrier-based air superiority fighter launched from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier.
28:24With its folding wings, reinforced landing gear, and a resting hook, it was designed specifically for carrier operations, but it
28:32never really amounted to much of anything.
28:33Russia only produced the jet in limited numbers, United 24 media reports.
28:38The factories that have made it have long since shut down, so it's unlikely that Russia will be able to
28:43carry out repairs even if it wanted to.
28:45And it's not like there would be much of a point. The aircraft carrier that was supposed to carry Russia's
28:50Su-33s into battle has spent far more time being repaired and maintained than it ever spent at sea, and
28:57it now seems likely that the warship will be sold for scrap.
29:00Making the Su-33s left over useless for their original purpose, leaving them to be used in land bases instead.
29:07This jet's entire story is one of failure and unrealized potential. On September 9th, Ukraine delivered the conclusion to the
29:14tale of one of the very few Su-33s that exist, not that it needed to.
29:19Russia seems to be doing a pretty good job of destroying its own fighter jets, regardless of what Ukraine is
29:24doing.
29:25Just a couple of days before Ukraine's September 9th onslaught, the news broke that a pair of Russian Su-35s
29:30had collided with one another in mid-air over Kursk.
29:34Only one of the two pilots involved survived the crash, and it's unknown what caused the collision, leading us to
29:40the possible conclusions of technical malfunctions or pilot incompetence.
29:43Either way, it's not been a good couple of days for the Russian Air Force. If it's not Ukraine's drones
29:48destroying fighter jets, it's Russia itself.
29:51Returning to Novorossiysk, which is an apt way to put it, Russia has had the lesson reinforced that its supposedly
29:57safe haven is now well within range of Ukraine's drones and missiles.
30:01This isn't a lesson that needed to be repeated, as Ukraine's long-range weapons have made multiple visits to this
30:07port in 2026 alone.
30:09August 12th saw another attack, which shut down a pair of grain terminals.
30:13And we've already told you about the series of strikes against the Admiral Essen before this latest attack, all of
30:18which occurred at Novorossiysk.
30:19It's not that Russia isn't learning the lesson here. Russia's problem is that there is no other option, especially when
30:26it comes to ports where it can keep the Black Sea fleet.
30:29Sevastopol is out of the equation, as it's more vulnerable than Novorossiysk, and Russia can't get its fleet out of
30:34the Black Sea region.
30:35Turkey controls the two straits leading in and out, and it has banned warships from passing through them for as
30:41long as the war in Ukraine rages.
30:43That leaves Novorossiysk, which is one of Russia's largest ports and now a very obvious target.
30:48It's not just the presence of warships that draws Ukraine to Novorossiysk, either.
30:52That mention of it being one of Russia's largest ports should clue you into the fact that Novorossiysk is a
30:57key export hub that is part of a supply chain that sends billions of dollars into the Kremlin coffers every
31:03year.
31:03According to the Moscow Times, Novorossiysk accounts for 20% of Russian oil exports,
31:09which is such a large amount that a Ukrainian attack that forced operations to be suspended at the port back
31:14in November caused a 2% spike in oil prices.
31:17Russia's oil and gas revenue for 2025 was $108 billion, Euromiden press reports.
31:24If we assume a 50-50 split, which likely isn't accurate, that means Novorossiysk accounted for at least $10.8
31:30billion in oil trade, and likely much more in 2025.
31:35IntelliNews adds that Novorossiysk is Russia's last functioning Black Sea port, as well as one of only a handful of
31:41ports that Russia can use year-round.
31:43Whenever Ukraine's drones come to visit, oil and grain terminals get shut down, fires are caused, and Russian exports slow
31:50to a crawl.
31:51That's the entire point.
31:52A Neptune missile hitting the Admiral Essen is great for grabbing headlines, and if Ukraine can sink that ship, another
31:59Russian main missile threat goes down the tubes.
32:01But what Ukraine really wants to do is make Novorossiysk a no-go zone for the ships sailing in and
32:06out every day.
32:07Ukraine has the drones, it also has the sitting duck target that it has established it can hit with many
32:13strikes over the last year or more.
32:14Now Ukraine just has to keep pounding away.
32:17Constant strikes against a Black Sea fleet that has nowhere to go, and export infrastructure that is vital to the
32:23Kremlin, will ensure that Russia absorbs the maximum cost possible for its actions in Ukraine.
32:29The Black Sea and the Sea of Azov are under Ukraine's fire control, and the same can now be said
32:34of Novorossiysk, just as it was of Sevastopol.
32:37Not bad for a country that doesn't even have a navy.
32:40He was the general who crossed an unforgivable line in Ukraine.
32:45When a children's hospital was attacked with cruise missiles, it was this man who gave the order for the strike
32:51to go ahead.
32:51A true butcher, and a man who is as lauded in Russia as he is hated in Ukraine.
32:57He couldn't be allowed to survive.
32:59Revenge had to be taken, and when it finally came, it was swift, brutal, and delivered with the cold hatred
33:05a man like this deserves.
33:07The Butcher of Kyiv has just been shot.
33:10Punishment has been delivered.
33:12And it came courtesy of a shooter riding a motorcycle.
33:15As morning calm descended on the town of Engels in Russia's Saratov region on September 3rd, people woke up and
33:23prepared for the day.
33:24But gunshots pierced the quiet.
33:26Those shots were first heard near the private home owned by Major General Nikolai Varpakovich, News Sky reports.
33:33He is the commander of the 22nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
33:38An unknown man riding a motorcycle carried out this very special delivery, and the bullets from his gun struck the
33:45general at least twice, possibly three times.
33:48Varpakovich was shot once in the torso and possibly twice in the face, leading to severe injuries.
33:54Right now, Varpakovich appears to be just about clinging to life in a Russian hospital.
33:59He was reported to be in critical condition following the assassination attempt.
34:03Nothing has been heard since.
34:05For all we know, the Butcher of Kyiv may be dead, and Russia is trying to pretend that he's still
34:09alive.
34:10Another assassination attempt has just been made.
34:13And in the case of this particular general, bullets to the face and torso are no less than he deserves.
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34:31On the surface, Varpakovich seems like just another Russian general in an army that contains hundreds of them.
34:36As the commander of the 22nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, he is a major figure in Russian military aviation.
34:44Varpakovich is responsible for overseeing the country's use of strategic bombers, such as the nuclear-capable Tu-160 and Tu
34:51-95MS.
34:52Those bombers also happen to be some of the main carriers of cruise missiles that Russia has spent most of
34:57the war unleashing against Ukraine,
34:59and many of them operate out of the Engels II airbase close to Varpakovich's home.
35:03The mention of those bombers is a massive clue as to why Varpakovich became a target.
35:08He is a butcher, and he earned that blood-soaked and shameful moniker on July 8th, 2024.
35:14On that date, a Russian cruise missile slammed into the Okhmadit Children's Hospital in Kyiv.
35:21The scant bright spot from this brutal assault is that most of the 600 people who were in the hospital
35:26had been evacuated,
35:27as an air-raid siren warned of the impending attack shortly before the missiles arrived.
35:32But not all patients were able to leave. Several were in surgery at the time of the strike.
35:37Those procedures couldn't be stopped, else the patients would have died on the table. Russia didn't care.
35:43Committed to carrying out war crimes long before this strike, Russia attacked the Children's Hospital regardless of who might have
35:49been inside.
35:49By the end of the strike, at least two fatalities had been reported, and dozens more were injured.
35:56Among the dead were a child and doctor who added to a final tally of 37 on a day when
36:01Russia carried out what former UK Prime Minister Sakir Starmer labelled as the most depraved of actions.
36:07Five hospital buildings were also destroyed or damaged, along with high-tech medical equipment used to save lives.
36:14It's very possible this Russian attack indirectly led to the deaths of others on top of those who were killed
36:19by the missile.
36:20The outcry was immediate.
36:22But nestled far away in Russia was the man who had given the order to carry out the strike.
36:28Vapakovich was that man.
36:29He had approved the use of a Tu-95MS bomber and the Kh-101 cruise missiles that the bomber fired.
36:36There was nothing accidental about this strike.
36:38The missile Russia used is pre-programmed with coordinates for their target before it's launched, and it struck the Kyiv
36:44hospital.
36:45The strike was deliberate.
36:46An act of terrorism arranged and approved by a heartless man sitting safely hundreds of kilometers away.
36:53The attack on the Okhmadit hospital only confirmed what many in Ukraine already knew about Vapakovich and the units that
36:59served under him.
37:00They were more than happy to kill civilians.
37:03Something similar happened on April 28, 2023, when a missile strike unleashed by a unit under the general's control struck
37:10Uman in the Chukasi region.
37:12These strikes involved missiles fired by Tu-95 bombers in the Caspian Sea region, and one of those missiles struck
37:18a nine-storey residential building.
37:20This time, 24 people were killed, including six children.
37:25Three days of mourning were declared in Chukasi following the attack, but for the cruel Vapakovich, this was just another
37:30success in a long line of attacks against Ukraine's cities and people.
37:35Vapakovich made himself a target on July 8, 2024.
37:39A little over two years later, justice has finally been served.
37:43There is no doubt about the fact that the motorcycle gunman was looking for revenge.
37:47The attack was far too well planned, and it targeted a man who has been on Ukraine's hit list for
37:52a long time.
37:53However, there's plenty about this assassination attempt that we don't yet know, as well as more that we do know
37:58that we haven't revealed yet.
37:59What we do know for sure is that the attack took place in the village of Probuzdeniya at around 7am
38:05on September 3rd.
38:06The motorcycle gunman was wearing a helmet at the time of the shooting, making him impossible to immediately identify, and
38:12he made a very quick escape.
38:14There wasn't any hanging around.
38:15At least two shots were fired, and the gunman was gone.
38:18According to the Russian telegram channel Shot, the attack may not have taken place directly outside Vapakovich's home.
38:24Instead, the channel claims, the general was shot as he emerged from a shop.
38:28This would suggest that whoever carried out this attack had been watching Vapakovich's routine closely,
38:33and chose the perfect time to strike when he was out in the open and defenseless.
38:37However, this report is contradicted by the MASH telegram channel, which says that the shooting did indeed take place outside
38:44a detached house.
38:45It's also believed that the general's driver was hit by a bullet, which may explain the third shot some reports
38:51claim,
38:51and that driver is the one who called the ambulance that carted Vapakovich to the hospital.
38:56We can already see variances and contradictions appearing in the reports.
39:00That continues when we start looking at Russia's reporting of what has happened.
39:04According to CNN, Vapakovich may not have died in the attack, and is instead languishing in hospital.
39:11News Sky backs this up, noting that some reports place the Russian general in serious condition,
39:16while others say that he is in critical condition and may not survive his injuries.
39:19If he does survive, bullet wounds to the face and torso aren't things that can simply be shrugged off,
39:25meaning Vapakovich may have been rendered useless to the 22nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division that he ordered to carry out
39:32his war crimes.
39:33It's also worth noting that it isn't Russia itself that's claiming Vapakovich was the man shot in the attack.
39:38Officially, nothing has been confirmed by Russia outside of the fact that a shooting has taken place.
39:43Euromiden Press reports that the Saratov Regional Branch of Russia's Investigative Committee has stated that there was an attempt to
39:50kill a service member of the Russian military,
39:52and this service member has been taken to hospital.
39:55Investigators have also been casing the scene, and have reportedly recovered cartridge cases related to the assassination attempt.
40:02Cases have been opened for illegal weapons trafficking and attempted murder, though no names have been released either of the
40:09victim or the suspect.
40:10In other words, Russia is trying to keep this as quiet as it possibly can.
40:14There's no denying that the shooting occurred.
40:17Plenty of people would have heard the bullets and seen the ambulance arrive.
40:20So Russia resorts to Plan B, which is to say as little as possible.
40:24Probuzdeniya has been cordoned off too, which is another thing that's difficult to hide.
40:28And it's been reported by Migflug that FSB members and police officers have joined the Investigative Committee that is looking
40:34into the attack.
40:35Russia's Defense Ministry hasn't released any comment at the time of creating this video, and neither has Ukraine.
40:40Though we can assume all we want, Ukraine hasn't officially taken any credit for what has happened to Vapakovich.
40:46But that's par for the course for Ukraine. As much motive as it has for taking this butcher out of
40:50the picture,
40:51Ukraine rarely ever confirms its involvements in assassination attempts, successful or otherwise, that take place on Russian territory.
40:59SOFX notes that no Ukrainian officials have publicly commented on what happened, not even to celebrate the attack.
41:05However, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky dropped the vaguest of hints during his September 3rd evening address as he said,
41:12Wherever Russian war criminals would try to hide, they will be found.
41:16And today we have another confirmation of that. Confirmation on the territory of Saratovoblast.
41:22This isn't Zelensky outright stating that Vapakovich was shot by a Ukrainian government, just that the general was found.
41:28Perhaps a subtle little dig at Putin from a president who knows that everybody in the Kremlin knows who was
41:33behind the attack, but nobody can prove it.
41:36Or maybe not. Ukraine is keeping everybody guessing, and that's the entire point.
41:40Before we move on, there's one more interesting wrinkle to add to the story.
41:44The attempt on Vapakovich's life follows almost immediately on from Ukraine doing something that made it clear the butcher was
41:51on its radar.
41:52On August 31st, the Security Service of Ukraine announced that Vapakovich had been charged in absentia for crimes in Kyiv
41:59following an investigation that produced evidence revealing his involvement.
42:02Of course, the general was never going to head to Ukraine to stand trial, but justice has found him in
42:08the form of a bullet to the face and another to the torso.
42:11For Russia, this attack further establishes two disturbing patterns that it's seeing, one recent and the other that has occurred
42:17over several years of its failed Ukrainian invasion.
42:20But before we reveal more, this is a reminder that you're watching the military show. We bring you the full
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42:32First, we're going to give you a little reminder of where this assassination took place.
42:37Engels.
42:37If you've been paying attention to what Ukraine has been up to throughout much of August, this name will ring
42:42a bell in your brain.
42:43And it should.
42:44Engels is the home of an airfield where Russia keeps several of the bombers that form part of its strategic
42:48fleet.
42:49And Ukraine has been hitting that airfield hard over the last few weeks.
42:53This is the recent pattern that we mentioned.
42:55And this latest attack should tell the Kremlin that Engels is compromised to the point of being almost worthless to
43:02the Russian military.
43:03The pattern first emerged at the beginning of August when Ukraine carried out a sweep of strikes inside Russia, including
43:09an attack against the major oil refinery in Saratov.
43:12That refinery strike may have grabbed the headlines, but it was another attack at the Engels II airbase that set
43:18the stage for what has come since.
43:19A fire broke out at the base following Ukraine's attack, though it isn't clear if Ukraine managed to destroy any
43:25military assets in this strike.
43:27Clarity certainly came later in the month, though.
43:30In another Engels attack on August 28th, Ukraine's drones broke through air defenses that clearly aren't fit for purpose, scoring
43:37direct hits against a Tu-95MS bomber.
43:40Remember, these are the aircraft that fall under Vapkovich's umbrella.
43:44Satellite images since the strike show that Ukraine's drones destroyed the right wing of the bomber, which is a major
43:50problem given that this is a Soviet-era bomber and Russia has few facilities that could carry out repairs.
43:56What we're seeing here is that Ukraine has clearly determined that Engels is a weak point for Russia.
44:01The city, which is about 700 kilometers away from Ukraine, was meant to be safe.
44:05That's why Vapkovich felt comfortable living there.
44:08The Russian general might have been starting to get antsy about Ukrainian drones reaching the city's airfield so consistently.
44:14He might have been turning his eyes to the skies, perhaps expecting a drone to come for him, but there
44:19are other ways to kill a general hundreds of kilometers away.
44:23As Ukraine's drones flew, a gunman in Engels itself prepared for his own kind of attack.
44:28Russia may still try to use Engels as a base for its missile attacks, but it knows that the city
44:33isn't safe anymore.
44:34Even as Russia tries to build fortified hangars at Engels too, that only serves as an admission of vulnerability.
44:40And now that the general who was key to the entire facility seems to be out of the picture, it
44:45will be interesting to see how Russia responds in the weeks that follow.
44:48The immediate pattern is one that Putin never thought he'd see, especially at Engels, especially as Engels was supposed to
44:55be far enough away that Ukraine would never be able to touch it.
44:58But the longer pattern is even more devastating.
45:01Vapkovich is far from the only Russian general who has been successfully targeted inside Russia and outside of the sort
45:07of military base where you might expect a general to be hit.
45:10What happened in Engels is just the latest in a long line of assassinations and attempts on the lives of
45:15key figures that have been carried out inside cities, often close to where those officials live, by operatives who have
45:22clearly spent time watching and waiting for the time to strike.
45:25Russia has an assassin problem and the numbers are starting to stack up.
45:29According to Migflug, Vapkovich is the seventh Russian general who has been targeted on Russia's own territory over the last
45:36couple of years.
45:37Other notable examples include General Igor Kirilov, who was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter, which exploded as
45:44he walked past in December 2025.
45:47Several generals have also been killed with car bombs, and Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeev was shot and seriously wounded inside
45:54the lobby of his own apartment building in February 2026.
45:58That attack offers the closest parallel to what we've just seen with Vapkovich, though it's clear that whoever is making
46:04these assassination attempts has people inside Russia,
46:07who know exactly who to strike and where to strike them.
46:10It's almost as though there is an unconfirmed foreign intelligence agency that has operatives working right under Putin's nose,
46:16but that foreign country isn't confirming or denying anything.
46:20Using a wider lens, we can see that Russia's dying general problem is even worse than Migflug suggests.
46:26In a January report, the Moscow Times said that at least 19 of Russia's generals have died since the launch
46:32of the Ukraine invasion.
46:33That number comes from open source data, and not all have been confirmed by Russian authorities.
46:39It's also unclear how many more of these deaths took place inside Russia versus those that have happened close to
46:45the front lines.
46:46In an April 2 report, Mediazona put the number at 15 generals dead, adding that all of these deaths are
46:52verified.
46:54That likely explains the variance in the numbers.
46:56On top of that, the outlet claims 6,948 Russian army officers and security service agents are confirmed dead as
47:04of March 27th.
47:06And there will likely have been more added to that list since.
47:09Russia is losing far too many of its most experienced and talented soldiers from the level of general down, and
47:15it isn't helping itself either.
47:16If it's not unknown gunmen shooting generals and top officials in the street, Russia is purging other experienced professionals.
47:23A day after the shooting of Varbakovich, the news broke that a high-ranking Russian police officer named Colonel Sergei
47:30Shelaginov had been found dead outside a building in Yekaterinburg.
47:34He had served as the leader of the Center for Combating Extremism at Svedlovsk region's Internal Affairs Ministry before he
47:41was ousted from the role.
47:42Now he's gone, yet another high-ranking official who has taken an unfortunate fall out of a window.
47:48Of course, this is all coincidence.
47:50There's something about those Russian windows that seems to attract people who used to have power but somehow fell onto
47:55the wrong side of the authorities.
47:58Sarcasm aside, it seems that Russia is shooting itself in the foot as often as people are shooting its generals
48:03in the face.
48:03More talent and experience are disappearing due to these types of purges, and they, along with the assassinations and deaths
48:10on the battlefield, all add up to a Russia that is getting weaker by the month.
48:13Russia doesn't seem to be able to do anything about this.
48:17Sure, guidance is issued to those whom the Kremlin believes may become targets, with the most recent example being information
48:23about how to search for bombs under vehicles.
48:25Russia's Ministry of Defense has also urged potential assassination targets to change their hairstyles, shave or grow beards, and stop
48:35using their own vehicles.
48:36None of it's working, because these measures don't confront the core issue that Russia's internal security services are failing to
48:42locate the operatives working inside Russia who are carrying out these assassinations in the first place.
48:47The uncertainty in the air right now in Russia is palpable. Key officials who once believed themselves to be safe
48:54now know that they aren't, but they don't know where the threat is coming from.
48:57Could it be a drone in the sky, a scooter or car that they happen to be passing, a present
49:02or package that they've received, or perhaps a lone gunman riding past on a motorcycle?
49:07All are possibilities.
49:08The butcher of Kyiv just found that out the hard way, as he has paid for his crime of killing
49:13children on Putin's behalf.
49:14Before Varpukovich was shot, he'd had to watch as several of Russia's bombers were taken out at Engels 2.
49:20We touched on this earlier, now you can find out the details by watching our video, where we cover Ukraine's
49:25latest Engels 2 strike and what it means for Russia's bomber fleet.
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