Ukraine destroys ARMADA of Putin's oil tankers as Trump gives Patriot permission to Zelensky

Today, we're starting with what's been happening in the Sea of Azov because Ukraine has struck tankers many times over the course of this war, and warships, but never on this scale.

Ukrainian officials claiming that now 35 vessels have been struck in the 96 hours before we recorded this episode.

That is extraordinary.

Almost all of them tankers designed to s- move oil across the Sea of Azov, perhaps to resupply Crimea or send it further afield.

Also, a tugboat and a dry supplies ship.

Also, some reports saying a ferry has been hit, a Kerch ferry has been hit.

Now, this all fits into two of Ukraine's main efforts.

The first is damaging Russia's oil infrastructure, its ability to make, refine, and export oil.

And of course, the second element is choking military supply lines, and particularly choking supplies into and out of the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

Let's look at the other strikes that have been happening against Russian infrastructure over the course of the last week.

On the night of the 5th into the 6th of July, the Slavneft Yanos Refinery, some 700 kilometers inside Russian territory, was hit.

That's the fifth time that plant has been hit since December.

We've also seen that night the ports at Ust-Luga and Vysotsk.

Those are north and south of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, so west of Saint Petersburg, the city of Saint Petersburg, variously 900 and 1,000 kilometers from, uh, Ukrainian territory.

There have been total blackouts separately recorded in Crimea.

That's to the south, uh, in occupied Crimea, south of- uh, in the south of Ukraine.

And most recently, the refinery at Omsk.

That is Russia's largest refinery that accounts for 7% of its total production.

Some 2,500 kilometers inside Russian soil, that has been hit.

And I said most recently, but actually since then, overnight on the 8th into the 9th of July, the Nizhnevartovsk refinery, some 750 kilometers, has been struck.

And two more oil depots at Stavropol and Tver, which are both about 500 kilometers inside Russian territory.

Now, to just put some of that in perspective, not only is this the latest continuous strike against this infrastructure, against this oil infrastructure, the distances involved are staggering.

So Omsk, 2,500 kilometers from Ukrainian territory.

That is the equivalent of launching a drone in New York to hit a target in Cancun in Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico.

And to be fair, those drones may well have flown more than 2,500 kilometers.