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Bulwark Takes

Why Russia Is Bombing Ukraine Again — and What Trump Has to Do With It

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Russia launches devastating missile attacks on Ukraine, emboldened by Trump's pro-Kremlin rhetoric. Reporter Caolan Robertson reveals the scary reality on the ground, explains why Putin feels rewarded by Trump’s policies, and warns of a dangerous escalation as Trump sides openly with Russia. 

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0:00.0

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0:23.9

unofficial quasi-Ukraine correspondent, Kalyn Robertson, for folks who saw our last conversation.

0:29.9

He is an Irish journalist who has been in Ukraine for quite a while. And it's coming at us

0:37.0

today from Odessa. How you doing? Thanks for doing it again. I'm good. I'm good. Thanks for having a while. And it's coming at us today from Odessa. How you doing? Thanks for doing it

0:39.5

again. I'm good. I'm good. Thanks for having on back on again. So a lot was happening last night,

0:45.7

which is why I messaged you. I wanted to talk about it. Obviously, on the political side,

0:50.5

you know, President Trump is trying to pressure Zelensky into cutting a BS deal with the Russians.

0:57.9

Simultaneously to that, Russia engaged in maybe the largest attack of the whole war on Kiev, as well as attacks in other parts of the country.

1:09.1

As I mentioned, you're in Odessa right now. So talk to us a little

1:11.7

bit about what happened last night and if that's a kind of accurate summary of the state of play.

1:17.1

Yeah, it's accurate. I mean, what happened last night was something I expected because Trump has been

1:21.7

basically doing the PR work for the Kremlin since he took office. He's been repeating all of Putin's lines,

1:28.2

all of Russia's lines, since he set foot into the White House. And he's been doing their work

1:34.9

for them. And Russia feels emboldened because of this. You know, Trump is basically,

1:39.7

in the last few days, said that Crimea, which is literally just over here, should be given to Russia.

1:47.4

Reward Russia for stealing it. Reward Russia as well by freezing all of the front lines right now

1:53.1

and giving Putin everything that he's stolen, not just Crimea, but all of the Dombas area,

1:59.1

Hirsan, Zaporizia, and parts of Harkiv.

2:04.6

And the Kremlin feel emboldened.

2:06.6

So they thought that they would put massive amounts of ballistic missiles, all fired from the Black Sea Fleet.

2:11.6

Again, just behind me, they were all fired from this giant sea into major cities all across Ukraine and multiple people were killed.

2:18.8

There was over 100 casualties in Kiev.

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