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Kyiv Is Burning While Trump Shrugs

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller gets another update from Caolan Roberston. Kyiv faces relentless Russian bombardments, leaving civilians vulnerable and air defenses overwhelmed. Despite Ukraine's urgent need for Patriot missile replenishments, the U.S. hesitates, intensifying fears that without immediate support, the capital will remain dangerously exposed to deadly attacks.

Caolan Roberston YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@UCTQs-6DP7Vu0uWwFa9KHYCA

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0:00.0

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0:24.1

Ukraine correspondent, uh, Kaelin Robertson, uh, who is coming at us from the center of

0:28.9

Kiev after a just, what I understand to be just a brutal weekend of attacks and an offensive

0:36.0

from Russia that's kind of unlike what we've seen throughout

0:39.6

the whole war. But you tell me, man, you're the one that's there. And good to see you. Yeah,

0:45.0

it's nice to see you too. I mean, it's been pretty dramatic here in the last few days. I just

0:48.2

went to Brussels last week to confront one of Europe's biggest Russian propagandists, his name

0:53.9

is Phidias.

0:55.0

And then he's got millions of views. And it was quite weird getting back to Kiev,

0:59.0

because you go from sort of the safety and the sort of niceness of Brussels, then you get on the

1:03.9

train to Warsaw and then come here. And looking out the window, it looked like apocalypse now

1:08.1

or something. It was like one of the most dramatic nights that I've ever seen in Ukraine and it's been happening every single night since. It's just been constant because Russia are amping up their efforts. They've been hitting this city as well as other cities with everything that they have. And the air defense systems are being depleted right now. Again, they're not being replenished. The Patriot systems are not being replenished. So this city is resorting to old school tracers and old school sort of one world, World War II type fire to take out the stuff in the sky.

1:35.3

So it looks super dramatic. But it's also just crazy because this is, again, this is the capital of the largest country in Europe.

1:43.3

And it is being absolutely

1:44.9

demolished every single night with these drones and these missiles. And Ukraine have started

1:49.9

firing back with a lot of their homemade stuff, right? They started doing that because they

1:53.6

weren't given permission to hit the places where missiles are being launched from in Russia,

1:58.2

these long-range missiles. And that's been pretty successful.

2:01.9

But the difference is Ukraine is putting these things into strategic military sites. And Russia,

2:08.5

from what I've seen in the last three days, have been putting their missiles into residential

2:12.2

buildings. Children have been dying around here. And it looks like World War II every single night. It's, I

2:18.2

exhausted, actually. Even earplugs don't really stop the pressure waves, shaking your windows,

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