Perm

And I'm gonna come back to what they mean by ceasefire violations later.

While we're on these long-range strikes, on May 7th, the longest strike this week, an oil refinery in Perm was hit.

That's 1,500 kilometers from the closest Ukrainian territory.

That's a refinery on the edge of the Ural Mountains.

That was supposed to be the sort of safe harbor for Russia.

And Ukraine is hitting targets that deep.

That was the Lukoil Permnefteorg Sintel refinery.

Also reports that an apartment building was hit in Perm.

She was in her early 20s.

Uh, there was a performance, I think, that she was invited to with the Perm Ballet Company, which is a Russian ballet company, and she sat in the crowd with a friend and was introduced to another ballet dancer, a, a Russian one, who was my dad.

And the way that she kinda describes it was love at first sight, [chuckles] just such a strong, visceral energy that just drew them to each other.

And after the performance, he invited her back to, you know, a Russian hotel party with all the dancers, and she said they were all doing, you know, shots of vodka and had, you know, the rye bread.

In Russia, it was the Soviet Union during this time, and ballet was renowned, right? It was, like, this prestige thing to be a part of, uh, culturally.

And he-- there were people that went around the country and went to schools and did flexibility tests with kids and, you know, looked at their, all their measurements and height and, and weight and that kind of thing.

And, uh, I think it was the age of six, he had someone come to his school when he was young and did all the tests and said, "Right, we want to take him to Perm and enroll him at this ballet school." And so from such a young age, he was, you know, up and left his whole family.

He left his, his siblings, he had two brothers, and his mom and dad and moved to Perm in Russia.

Thus, Saint Sergius returned to his own monastery to the great rejoicing of the whole brotherhood.

Once, Saint Stephen, the bishop of Perm, who had for Saint Sergius a great spiritual affection, was traveling from Perm to Moscow along a road which lay about seven miles from Saint Sergius' monastery.

He thought of visiting the saint, not then, but on his way back from Moscow.

When he came to the point in the road nearest to the monastery, he stopped and saying, Meet it is, bowed low in the direction of the monastery and said, Peace be with you, spiritual brother.

Let's play this clip.

Now you'll see over here footage of a Ukrainian attack drone slamming into Russia's Perm oil refinery.

That Perm oil refinery, uh, continues to burn.

It's one of the sixth largest refineries in all of Russia, and the fact that Perm is down is also, uh, a massive blow.

We talked about the Moscow refineries that were hit by Zelenskyy last weekend.

We'll see what this weekend holds as well.

This is what he posted.

"We are responding to Russia's b- brutal strikes against life.