Jason Jay Smart

💥 Ukrainian drones hit a Russian S-300 & Buk air defense repair plant near Moscow while Moscow & St. Petersburg airports have restricted flights. 👉 Russia is already losing scarce air defenses: Destroy the facilities needed to repair them & Russia’s situation becomes critical.

❗Putin's war has turned Russia's vast territory into a liability. Every airfield, factory, railway & navy base now demands protection Moscow can't provide. 👉Join Chuck Pfarrer and me to see what's next. YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/zV8BbzT... Substack: jasonjaysmart.substack.com/p/ukraine-hi...

⚡️ In Ukraine 🇺🇦, trust in Zelensky jumped from 43% to 57% in just one week amid mounting US 🇺🇸 pressure on Ukraine. 👉 Zelensky is now almost twice as popular at home as Trump is in the US.

🔥 Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Tambov region, igniting a Druzhba oil pipeline junction. 👉 Nikolskoye station is burning: a key artery pumping 300K tons of jet fuel and diesel daily.

⚡️⚡️⚡️ Washington🇺🇸 steps in to stab Ukraine🇺🇦 in the back & rescue a reeling Russia. “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven’t been doing much.” - Donald Trump 👉 Reminder: Moscow actively feeds targeting intel to Iran🇮🇷 to kill American troops.

🔥 Musk builds the future while Russia can’t even restyle a Soviet-era rust bucket. Yet he still acts like the Kremlin’s submissive junior partner, cutting Ukraine’s Starlink on demand. 👉 Imagine conquering orbit just to grovel to a rusted petro-state.

🔥🔥🔥 Russia’s Borisoglebsk airbase struck. Sirens wailing across 7 Russian regions as deep as Tatarstan. 👉 Russia’s interior is wide open. Hundreds of miles behind the front, air defense failed completely and panic is hitting the heartland.

🔥🔥🔥 Another of Russia’s Rostov refinery’s reservoir finally exploded. 👉 The lifeblood of the Putin war machine must be drained.

Kyiv Post's Jason Jay Smart (@jjsmart.bsky.social) rode into Russia's Kursk region in a Ukrainian Army APC alongside Sergej Sumlenny (@sumlenny.bsky.social). They just surpassed €1M raised to save Ukrainian soldiers' lives. But now? Something even bigger is already in the works.

🔥 With oligarchs refusing to fund the war, a bankrupt Kremlin has unleashed the FSB to shake down Russia's private businesses to stay afloat. Now a full-out Kremlin war has begun. youtu.be/qlxm-MjWuDI

Here, in Kyiv🇺🇦, there in darkness as bombs fall. In Europe, there is in danger as Russia’s sabotage spreads. And in Washington: the US President just chose to fund the bad guys’ terrorism in the largest European war since WWII.

🔥 From Schröder partying with Putin yesterday; To spy chiefs caught for treason or stranded in Kyiv; Merkel traded security for gas, & now the AfD leads the polls. 👉 Germany’s Russia policy is an unbroken streak of catastrophic delusion.

Russia's metals industry falling off a cliff, with 42% of all metallurgical companies now operating at a loss.

🔥 From Schröder partying with Putin yesterday; To spy chiefs caught for treason or stranded in Kyiv; Merkel traded security for gas, & now the AfD leads the polls. 👉 Germany’s Russia policy is an unbroken streak of catastrophic delusion.

⚡️⚡️⚡️ The Kremlin sells imperial greatness. Ask everyday Russians: they want stability, pay, and safe families. "National glory" isn't on the list. Is the war really for an empire forgotten in polls? Or because Russia has 87% more billionaires today than in 2022? Cui bono?

⚡️ Russia just bombed a sanctuary for rehabilitating injured birds in the Kyiv region, Ukraine🇺🇦. The birds burned alive. Their food & equipment turned to ash. All necessary to protect Russia from NATO… Or maybe it actually isn’t about NATO? Just wanton destruction by Putin.

⚡️ Russian terrorism incoming over Poltava Oblast. What appears to be a Kh-101 cruise missile screams past at roughly 800 km/h (500 mph), carrying about a 450 kg (1,000 lb) warhead. 👉 It flies at treetop height to evade detection before striking a peaceful Ukrainian city.

Rescuers drag dead bodies from a high-rise in Pryluky 🇺🇦 following a Russian attack. A child is pulled out - incredibly alive. This is Russian "liberation."

🔥 A Russian "shadow fleet" tanker is on fire off the coast of Sochi. The Aframax Rio was hauling oil to India under a Liberian flag. Wasn't on the EU’s sanction list - but Ukrainian kinetic sanctions took swift action to stop the kremlin’s cashflow.

⚡️ When Russian drones struck off Odesa🇺🇦, Capt. Oleksii Sidoruk (63) ordered his 15 crew below deck. He returned alone to the bridge to steer the ship. A strike hit the bridge. All 15 survived. Sidoruk did not. His body was recovered 11 days later.