Russia Hawks Take Control, Victory Day Stakes Are High. Most Dangerous Moment of the Conflict
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
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Russia Hawks Take Control, Victory Day Stakes Are High. Most Dangerous Moment of the Conflict
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the ceasefire. |
| 0:04.0 | Russia's ceasefire, May 8th, 9th, and 10th. |
| 0:09.0 | They've added another day to the ceasefire. |
| 0:13.0 | Ukraine is not adhering to the ceasefire. |
| 0:17.0 | We have massive Ukraine drone strikes into Russia, especially the fixed wing drones, |
| 0:25.9 | hitting Russia on May 8th after the ceasefire went into effect. |
| 0:31.9 | Ukraine launched around 260 to 300 drones all over Russia. |
| 0:39.6 | And of course, this violates the Russian ceasefire |
| 0:44.4 | and the Russian warnings, essentially, warnings and statements |
| 0:49.6 | that I believe were the strongest I think we've ever seen |
| 0:53.0 | from Russia. |
| 0:58.4 | And these are not warnings and statements coming out of Medvedev or Putin, |
| 1:01.8 | which I believe many people in the collective West, |
| 1:05.7 | all of the collective West would simply ignore if these are statements coming out of Medvedev or Putin, |
| 1:06.5 | any warnings. |
| 1:12.5 | But coming from the Russian military, these were very strong warnings to Ukraine. |
| 1:18.9 | Don't you dare attack Russia during the Victory Day celebrations, or else we will strike at the center of Kiev. |
| 1:20.6 | And then the warnings were also for diplomats in Kiev to evacuate, including warnings from the ministry of the foreign ministry |
| 1:31.1 | and Maria Zaghavha saying that diplomats should evacuate from Kiev in anticipation of Ukraine |
| 1:38.0 | strikes. So Ukraine has hit Russia. The ceasefire did not hold. Where do we go from here? |
| 1:47.2 | Well, first of all, there was never any possibility that Ukraine would abide by this ceasefire. |
| 1:54.2 | Ukraine has to say that they have antagonistic views about victory, the victory day, would be an understatement. |
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