Crimea

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack aimed to hit oil and logistics facilities.

Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed to have shot down 1,110 Ukrainian drones across Russia and Crimea on Sunday.

I'm Karen Shamas.

In Moscow, Vladimir Isachenkov reports results from parliamentary elections came in as expected.

Peace terms were offered a few weeks into it.

They said, listen, we just want that side to hold their own election and we're keeping Crimea.

And Boris Johnson said, fuck you.

No, no, no.

If you look at the Russo-Ukrainian war right now, I think there's a clear example of these tactics in action.

The conflict which began with Russia's annexation of the Crimea in 2014 has been marked by a mix of traditional military operations, cyber attacks, and information warfare.

I would tell you this goes back to 2008.

If not going back to 1992 with the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, when it comes to this constant schizophrenia within the West in which they continue to embark on these provocation operations against Russia with the neutrality or entry to membership to NATO dangling along these, what would be for the Russians, Western buffer zones, and what would be for the European continent in the West, the Eastern buffer zones.

And it's pretty wild to look back at that time and discover that it was there written on the wall for us all to see, but nobody was paying attention.

Of course, we all know that that war took a significant turn on February 24th, 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the Ukraine.

marked a shift from hybrid warfare tactics used annexing Crimea and the other parts of the Oblast in the eastern part of the Ukraine to a more traditional form of warfare.

Despite initial gains by Russian forces, Ukrainian defenders repelled attempts to seize Kyiv This is where the VDV forces, which would be their descent troops, their parachute troops.

I do know that, um, in 2012, while Barack Obama was president before the Maidan revolution that Barack Obama ran with NATO and John McCain and USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, CIA and the UK and everyone else, um, that in, uh, there was a huge amount of oil resources found in the Donbass region, and apparently the Atlanticist, globalist, Barack Obama foreign policy crew were not happy about that.

And from that point on, we dealt with Crimea, and we dealt with the Maidan Revolution, and then we're supposed to believe that somehow...

Ukraine completely and totally run, as Victoria Nuland said and George Soros said and BlackRock has said, completely run by the global public-private partnership, the military-industrial complex and international intelligence and international weapons and big tech.

That's who's been running Ukraine all this time.

They have gradually rolled this out, and look at how that thing unfolded.

Not only was it in Kosovo, going back to that, but it was the coup, and then as they said, well, we have a right to secede from Russia, but the Russian-speaking, Russian cultural areas, the Crimea and other places, do not have the right to secede.

They do not have a right of self-government.

And so they shelled their own people in a civil war before the Russians attacked.

to think that Russia claims it downed a thousand Ukrainian drones at the Moscow refinery.

This was the biggest collection of drones and saw a similar swarm in Crimea.

Will that be the case in advance of this winter as they try to move the needle?

I think they're both sides are going to really try to cripple the other's economy.

And obviously we got, I got into, you know, news reports.

I think Vice TV was covering what was going on in the Crimea, where they had, Well, some people say that they were strong-armed into being annexed, you know, but other people say there are elections where people want to definitely say they wanted to be Russian there.

People saying it worked out better.

People saying it didn't work out.

They have gradually rolled this out, and look at how that thing unfolded.

Not only was it in Kosovo, going back to that, but it was the coup, and then as they said, well, we have a right to secede from Russia, but the Russian-speaking, Russian cultural areas, the Crimea and other places, do not have the right to secede.

They do not have a right of self-government.

And so they shelled their own people in a civil war before the Russians attacked.