Ukraine Escalates Strikes After Trump-Zelensky UN Meeting

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What did Zelensky say about diesel prices after the Trump‑Zelensky UN meeting?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
All hell continues to break loose in connection with Russia's war in Ukraine. It continues to escalate. And after yesterday's United Nations session and that bizarre meeting between Donald Trump and Zelensky, Zelensky also is delivering a message to Donald Trump, a rude awakening, if you will, which is the lives of our people in Ukraine are more important than the price of diesel. So stop whining about the price of diesel going up. Zelensky's like, the main reason the cost of diesel is going up is because the Strait of Hormuz. But even if it was also being caused by Russia's war in Ukraine, Zelensky's like, we're trying to protect the lives of our people here. We are in a war. And he's also hinting at the fact that Donald, you promised you would end this 24 hours after the election in 2024.
Ben Meiselas 0:52
And you failed to do that. You said you had the best words and you would convince everybody. And all you basically did was make deranged posts on social media. That's not how you actually do peace deals. What are you doing? And so I'll show you Zelensky's message in just a moment. But why? Well, Donald Trump was out there yesterday in New York saying... oh i can tell you know zolinski wants a peace deal putin wants a peace deal it's both sides everything's both sides both sides both sides russian missiles were raining down on kiev and zapretia and all of these surrounding areas one of the things we saw russia specifically focused on with its drones and missile strikes yesterday was striking Ukrainian gas stations and other tankers, but focusing really on these gas stations and fuel storage tanks.
Ben Meiselas 1:48
And we're also seeing a lot of these Geron or Geron 5 drones that move very, very, very fast. These Russian Geron 5 drones. Let me show you what's going on over here. So take a look over these gas stations. Ukrainian sources reporting that Russian forces have been targeting gas stations in the capital and Kiev since the early morning. One after another, these gas stations have been hit. You can take a look over here at the aftermath of this morning's Russian Jaren 4, Jaren 5 attacks.

How are Russian drones targeting Ukrainian fuel stations and what damage are they causing?

Ben Meiselas 2:21
jet drone strike on the gas stations in Kyiv right over here. You have two gas stations as well as the Darnitsiya railway station, warehouse facility, and other transport infrastructure were hit by at least five of these Jaren-4 jet drones multiple large fires breaking out you see this in kiev a second upg gas station on kharkiv highway was also hit you had warehouses in zapretia hit let me just show you what these garin five or four uh missiles are actually looking like over here so this is uh kiev and you'll see that some of the anti-cruise missiles. It didn't work here. Let me show you what happened as the air defense missile failed to intercept the Russian cruise missile. Here, I'll play this
Unknown 3:13
clip. Where the fuck are
Jordy Meiselas 3:27
you? Where the fuck are you? Yeah,
Ben Meiselas 3:40
more footage over here are photos of the Amster shopping mall in Zaprezia, which was hit. This is a big deal as well. So this morning in Yakutia, the Narengrian power plant, is 5,500 kilometers from Ukraine, deep in Russia. And Ukraine's been able to hit it with its long range drones. Again, this is 5,500 kilometers. As a result of the fire, the transformer substation generator, technical equipment, wall panels, cable mesines on a total area of 90 square meters were damaged by the fire. I'll show you what that looked like.
Ben Meiselas 4:31
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.
Ben Meiselas 4:53
Yeah, so, I mean, you have Ukraine continuing to strike the refineries, the petrochemical facilities, other infrastructure, Russia striking as well. Here's what Zelensky said. When Zelensky was asked, he did this interview for Wall Street Journal recently, yesterday. And he said, look, our lives are more important than energy prices. So stop talking about the price of diesel, this and that.

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