Samara

You'll remember that's where Ukraine said it destroyed a number of airfields in last week's episode.

And also on the 24th of September, Ukraine claimed that it hit the Kuibyshev refinery in Samara.

That's some 600 miles inside Russian territory.

And this week, Krasnodar, the Russian oblast of Krasnodar has declared a state of emergency because of the cumulative effect of Ukrainian strikes on its grain export infrastructure.

How did he end up in Berlin?

So Dad is from a town in Russia called Samara.

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.

In all these districts, Ukrainians form from 76 to 99% of the total population, the rest being Jews, Poles, and lastly, Russians.

In the provinces of Saratov, Samara, etc., in the European as well as Asiatic Russia, there are also separate settlements of recent immigrants who live in compact villages or groups of villages.

In Siberia, there are miles of Ukrainian villages and no less than 2 million Ukrainians.

There are also large settlements of Ukrainians in Canada, as I said, where they number something like 200,000, and in USA, Brazil, and the Argentine.

Well, he lives in Canada.

He was looking at the Kuybyshev refinery in Samara that was burning and the smoke blanketing the entire city.

He made a technical point and then walked straight to the conclusion.

The Russian jet-powered Garan drone, he notes, flies four times faster than the Ukrainian FP2, which is a primitive piston engine machine.

I'll show you what that looked like.

I'm going to show you what Zelensky said in a moment, but let me show you this other fire in the industrial zone of the Kubyshev oil refinery in Samara in Russia.

Not sure if this was a new strike or from the strikes the night before, but you'll see that burning.

Let's play it.

The first was yesterday at the Bashneft-UNPD oil refinery in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, which is about 1,300 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

Uh, the second confirmed strike was last night into the early hours today, and that, that was the Kuibyshev oil refinery in Samara Oblast.

That's about 910 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

Now, fires were reported at both facilities by Ukraine's general staff as well as footage from independent media outlets and locals.