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🗓️ 19 October 2025
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Russia drone and missile superiority overwhelms Ukraine air defense
The Duran: Episode 2366
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the military situation in Ukraine. |
| 0:05.5 | And perhaps this video, in this video, we can focus on the situation in the sky, |
| 0:12.7 | Russia's dominance of the air war. |
| 0:16.6 | The fact that Ukraine clearly does not have any more air defense missiles or air defense systems |
| 0:23.6 | to counter the Russian drone and missile strikes. And the blackout situation in Ukraine, |
| 0:30.6 | we had an interesting development a couple of days ago where the electricity in major cities just kind of went out. And this time around, |
| 0:41.3 | it wasn't because of a specific Russian missile strike or drone strike. It just seems like the |
| 0:47.3 | grid is not able to cope anymore because of all of the continuous subsequent missile and drone strikes over the past couple of weeks and a couple of months. |
| 0:57.4 | It now looks like the entire grid, at least in major cities, including Kiev, is just starting to crumble. |
| 1:06.5 | This story isn't getting as much attention as it deserves because people are still focusing |
| 1:11.4 | very much on the situation on the ground. And rightly so. And by the way, the narrative that, |
| 1:18.9 | you know, the Ukrainians are holding back the Russians. We recently did a program about this. |
| 1:23.8 | It is not true. And since we did that program, there's been more military developments and the |
| 1:29.7 | crisis for the Ukrainians on the front lines is worsening. But let us indeed focus on the situation, |
| 1:37.1 | the war in the sky, as I've called it, and which is intensifying. The Russians now conduct missile and drone strikes against Ukraine, either every night |
| 1:51.0 | or every other night, but it is continuous. |
| 1:54.1 | This is a much bigger air offensive than the ones we saw in previous years on a much, much bigger scale. |
| 2:03.6 | Ukraine's air defense has completely collapsed. The very latest drone missile strike |
| 2:12.6 | that took place just before we made this program is unique in one important respect that the Ukrainians |
| 2:21.0 | themselves admitted that out of the 24 missiles the Russians launched, they weren't able to |
| 2:28.0 | shoot down a single one. All of the missiles got through. Previously, the Ukrainians have claimed |
| 2:33.6 | that they shot down 80, 90% of the missiles got through. Previously, the Ukrainians have claimed that they shot down |
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