You are watching a Russian missile hit a glass pedestrian bridge in downtown Kyiv,
that had been a popular site for tourists.
It's not a bridge that's used by Kyiv's military or by Ukraine's military,
it's specifically an area where pedestrians, tourists tend to be.
Now, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to bombard Kiev with missile
strikes in retaliation for
Ukraine's explosion of the Crimean bridge over the weekend.
The attack by Russia's military was actually so intense and
deadly that it's reported to have rivaled the day Russia's invasion started.
Now to give you some more details on this, the strikes targeted critical
infrastructure in cities from Kharkiv in the east to LvIv in the west, and
also hit in the center of downtown Kyiv, sending civilians racing for shelter.
At least five people were killed, and
at least a dozen others were injured in the Kyiv strikes.
Ukraine's national police reported on its telegram channel.
Now one of the missiles actually ended up landing in a playground
that's popular in Kyiv, known as Tara's Shevchenko.
And Ukraine has asked for
additional military assistance to bolster their air defenses.
So, Ukraine's military reported that its air defenses had knocked down 43
of the 83 missiles that had been launched at the country on Monday.
Now, I wanna give you some more details on what led to this or
at least what Putin and the Russian military is claiming this is done
in retaliation for, and it has to do with the attack on the Crimean bridge.
So let's take a quick look at that video and I'll explain that to you.
So the Crimean bridge that the Ukrainian forces blew up is not a popular tourist
destination, but rather a strategic piece of Russian military infrastructure.
The strikes appeared to be retribution for Saturday's attack on the bridge across
the Kerch Strait, which was partially reopened, including two rail traffic.
The Crimean bridge is a strategic, this is important.
It's a strategic link between mainland Russia and Crimea,
which of course was illegally annexed by Russia and
is not recognized internationally as Russian territory.
The 12 mile span while used by civilians is a critical military
logistics conduit for Russia's military,
which is why the Ukrainian military would target the Crimean bridge.
So comparing the tourist slash pedestrian bridge that was targeted by Russians
to the Crimean bridge is ridiculous because clearly the Crimean bridge is used
specifically as a important piece of military infrastructure for Russia.
>> Yeah, plus it was personal.
So Putin was super proud of that bridge.
He was part of the opening ceremony back in 2018.
Remember they took Crimea in 2014.
That was the original Russian invasion into Ukraine.
And this is the longest bridge in Europe and it is definitely used for logistics.
But they did bomb it on Putin's birthday and then Defense Minister for
Ukraine sent the video of the mash up of that bridge getting bombed and
Marilyn Monroe singing Happy birthday Mr President.
Okay, so they definitely rubbed his nose in it.
So, who struck first in this case?
Yes, the Ukrainians hit the bridge in Crimea first.
Does that matter?
Absolutely not, why?
Is it because we should be unconcerned about lives lost there?
No, no, as I was watching that video, I was thinking man,
those people in those cars, they have no idea, but they're about to die.
And so I don't care if they're Russian citizens or even military,
I mean those are human beings there.
So it is not really something to celebrate, okay?
Now, so does that mean that it's the Ukrainians fault?
No, the fault of any war is the country that started it period, right?
So for example, we started the war in Iraq,
hundreds of thousands of civilians died, that's on us.
So if funny enough or horribly enough, Colin Powell, one of the guys who started
that war but later regretted it said, if you break it you own it, and in this case,
Putin has broken Ukraine in that he has invaded, he has started killing civilians.
And now you look at the bombs that landed in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
So civilians, I saw some of the carnage and we can't show you the dead
bodies on the ground, but I saw them and it's a hell of a thing.
I mean, Putin made a decision, I'm going to enter this country and
I'm going to murder people.
>> Yeah, I mean that is his MO, I mean that is what he did in Syria with
assisting Bashar al Assad with yes, chemical weapons attacks.
And for any leftist who's bought into Russian
propaganda in questioning the existence of chemical weapons attacks in Syria,
you've been duped or you are part of the Russian propaganda machine.
But fact of the matter is, if you look at Putin's actions in other conflicts around
the world, this is what he does.
This is what he likes to do to bring whoever in his mind he's fighting
to their knees.
Targeting innocent civilians and
victimizing them through his military action.
And to be clear, Putin's been flailing, and he's lashing out as a result of that.
So, as we had shared with you before, Ukraine, with the assistance of
United States military aid, has been able to take back some of the ground
that had been lost to the Russian military since the invasion of Ukraine.
For instance, in the past six weeks,
Ukraine has routed Russian forces from the northeast Kharkiv region, and
pushed them back in the Eastern Donbas region and in the southern Kherson region.
So they're starting to make or
take back some of the ground that had been taken from them by the Russian military.
>> Yeah, the problem is,
we've now entered in a sense a more brutal portion of this invasion and
war, because since it went so poorly, Putin fired the general in charge.
He put in a new general, who's that guy?
Well, he's the guy who led the campaign in Syria.
And what did they do in Syria?
Oftentimes indiscriminate bombing of civilians.
So they brought in the hatchet man.
And so some of the most hardline people in Russia and
also the leader of Chechnya within Russia are all celebrating.
They're like, okay now they love the bombings of Kyiv and
the other civilian areas.
They said, this is how you should conduct a war.
Make sure that they understand that we will keep murdering their civilians.
Now the Ukrainians are relentless, so they're going back into the four
territories that Russia claims they annexed.
So they're not gonna stop and Putin and his hardliners have now moved on to well,
we're gonna retaliate by killing even more civilians.
So this is gonna continue to be super ugly,
unfortunately with a new Kremlin strategy, even uglier than before.
>> Yeah, I mean, and it doesn't appear that there's any end in sight and
any notion of a peace deal, a discussion about ending this as soon as
possible through some sort of agreement, seems far fetched.
But at the same time, I should note that Russia has serious course strategic
problems, including loss of soldiers.
Of course, lack of morale among the Russian soldiers.
I mean, just think back to when this invasion began, where the soldiers were
under the impression that they would be welcomed by Ukrainians, because Ukrainians
desperately wanted to be liberated from Ukraine to be part of Russia.
Obviously they were lied to, they were fed propaganda and
many of them got killed as a result of that propaganda.
And now you have members of the Russian
military trying to dodge having to go to Ukraine.
It's been a disaster for them and repeated logistical failures,
we're seeing that as well.
>> Yeah. >> But Putin is not giving up.
He just lashes out more in the ways that you described Jink.
>> Yeah, last thing is, look if you see people being apologists for
this butcher Vladimir Putin, understand what their objective is, right?
So there's no defense of Putin.
Before the invasion you can say, hey, listen,
we're encroaching too much into Russian neighboring areas, right?
And they're worried, like we're worried about Cuba, they're worried about Ukraine
and us putting weapons in there or making a part of NATO.
There were legitimate arguments, after the invasion, even though Ukraine said they
would not join NATO, which was the ostensible reason Putin was pretending
to care, then they made up insane things about the Jewish leader being a Nazi.
It's a ridiculous, totally insane, right?
So I don't care if you hear it on the right wing or
the left wing it is 100% propaganda.
So if you still see people doing that kind of propaganda,
whether it's Tucker Carlson or anyone else pretending to be on the left or otherwise,
understand that they're doing propaganda on behalf of this butcher.
Every civilian that dies in Ukraine, and by the way, in Russia and by the way,
all the military people, they're also human beings, both in Ukraine and Russia.
All of those dead are on Putin's hands and you see people kissing his ass in
American media and understand that they are definitely the bad guys.
Bad guys who love war and imperialism.