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Russia Claims Frontline Progress in War With Ukraine, as Drone Strike Kills Two in Kherson

Two people were killed after a Russian drone attacked a minibus in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, local officials said Saturday, in the latest barrage of civilian areas, a hallmark of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.

Seven people were also wounded in the attack, regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said. Hours later Russia attacked another minibus in Kherson, wounding the driver, he said.

Meanwhile, along the northern border with Belarus, Ukraine recorded “rather unusual” activity on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram on Saturday. Without elaborating, he said activity was seen on the Belarusian side of the border and that Ukraine would act if matters escalated.

“We are closely documenting and keeping the situation under control. If necessary, we will react,” he said.

Belarus, a close ally of the Kremlin, has allowed Russia to use its territory as a staging ground to send troops into Ukraine and to host some of Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons.

On Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, a Russian strike damaged port infrastructure in the city of Odesa. No casualties were reported.

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Kiev’s attacks on Russian refinery cutting global oil supply – Kremlin

Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure on the Black Sea coast are worsening the global oil crunch caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes have hit Tuapse, a key densely-populated port in Russia’s Krasnodar Region, have targeted its refinery and adjacent marine terminal. Regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev reported fires at the site, including a major blaze at the refinery, prompting evacuations of nearby residents and emergency response measures.

The attacks led to high-risk air pollution, with residents advised to use respirators, as an oil spill destroyed miles of the beach in the resort town. Kondratyev also released a video of the town filled with smoke, with a clean-up operation ongoing on the beach.

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Trump warns Iran oil infrastructure could ‘explode’ as blockade halts exports

During an appearance on Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing,” President Donald Trump asserted that Iran’s oil infrastructure is currently on the brink of a catastrophic failure that could materialize within the next three days.

He attributed this imminent collapse to a U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, which has effectively halted the nation’s ability to export its primary commodity.

Trump further explained that while Iranian facilities continue to produce oil, the lack of viable export routes has left the surplus with nowhere to go, creating immense physical and logistical pressure on the country’s internal storage and pipeline systems.

“When you have, you know, lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system, if for any reason that line is closed because you can’t continue to put it into containers or ships, which has happened to them — they have no ships because of the blockade — what happens is that line explodes from within, both mechanically and in the earth,” the president said.

Trump also warned that if these detrimental failures occur, the country will have to spend vast amounts of time and money rebuilding the impacted infrastructure, and other issues could still linger.

“It’s something that happens where it just explodes. And they say they only have about three days left before that happens. And when it explodes, you can never, regardless, you can never rebuild it the way it was,” Trump said.

Analysts believe that Iran could be forced to shut down its oil fields as early as April 29th due to the blockade, which could also impact the crude production long term.

“In other words, it will always be, if you rebuild it, it’s hard to rebuild it all, but it would only be about 50% of what it is right now,” Trump said, emphasizing that he believes Iran is ‘under pressure’ because of the situation.

Forced to divert its oil to onshore tanks, Tehran is quickly running out of storage, as the tanks are only able to hold so much, since its exports have been halted.

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The Sabotage of Global Energy Infrastructure is Intended to Starve Billions of Humans to Death

Introduction: This Is Not Random

I am watching the world unravel in real-time. From empty diesel pumps in Sydney to desperate lines for petrol in Manila, a chilling new reality is taking shape. This is not a temporary supply hiccup or a market fluctuation. We are witnessing the first, deliberate tremors of a global energy collapse — an engineered crisis designed to shatter the foundations of modern abundance and force humanity into a state of controlled scarcity. [1]

As I have documented for years, the patterns are unmistakable. The current wave of refinery explosions, fertilizer plant fires, and the confirmed destruction of critical liquefied natural gas infrastructure is not a series of unfortunate accidents. It is a coordinated, global effort employing sabotage tactics designed to mimic accidents and cripple the very systems that sustain human life. [2] This is a deliberate act of war, not against a nation, but against humanity itself.

The Pattern of Global Energy Sabotage

To understand the present, we must look at the recent past. The COVID-era was not just a bioweapon and psychological operation; it was a pilot run for today’s engineered chaos. During the pandemic, we saw the strategic shutdown of food processing facilities, testing the public’s tolerance for disruption. That same playbook is now being executed against the global energy grid with terrifying precision. [3]

The current sabotage is a global phenomenon. As reported, over 100 food and agricultural facilities have been burned down, damaged, or destroyed in recent years, a pattern that has now expanded to energy infrastructure. [4] From the Haifa refinery to the Ras Laffan LNG complex in Qatar, the targets are not random. They are the choke points of modern civilization. The book Shadow Grid: The Hidden War on Global Energy lays bare how energy, the lifeblood of our world, has been weaponized by geopolitical elites to control populations and amass power. [5] These are not acts of war in the traditional sense, but special forces-style sabotage, designed to look like accidents while achieving strategic devastation.

The Real Goal: Engineered Scarcity and Deliberate Depopulation

The simultaneous impact of open warfare and covert sabotage has one clear objective: to destroy the world’s hydrocarbon base. Why? Because energy is the foundation of everything. It is the prerequisite for modern agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, and commerce. As the book Fragile Foundations: Securing the Pillars of Modern Civilization warns, our dependence on centralized, complex systems is our greatest vulnerability. [6] Destroy the energy foundation, and you directly engineer famine, poverty, and societal collapse.

This is not about exterminating everyone. The globalist strategy is one of a controlled ‘pinch.’ It aims to cull billions to ‘solve’ the economic and social burdens — specifically, the multi-trillion-dollar entitlement obligations that governments see as unsustainable liabilities. As I stated in a 2022 interview, global elites see these financial obligations and have a simple, genocidal solution: clear the balance sheets by eliminating the people owed the money. [7] The destruction of fertilizer production is a key vector in this plan. The Haber-Bosch process, which synthesizes ammonia for fertilizer, is directly responsible for feeding half the world’s population. Sabotaging the natural gas feedstock for this process is a direct attack on the global food supply. [8]

Follow the Incentives: Why Governments Want You Gone

We must follow the financial incentives to see the cold, calculated logic behind this war. Schemes like Universal Basic Income (UBI), often marketed as progressive policy, create a perverse incentive. A government that promises a basic income to every citizen has a direct financial motive to have fewer citizens. Every person removed from the UBI roster is a permanent reduction in state liability. [9]

Furthermore, the rise of AI and robotics is rendering human labor obsolete in the eyes of the ruling class. In an interview, I discussed how figures like Yuval Noah Harari argue that technology can replace human workers, making vast swaths of humanity ‘useless.’ [10] From this vantage point, human life is no longer an asset but a liability — a consumer of resources and a potential source of social unrest. Why feed, house, and care for billions when AI-driven machines can perform the labor? This mentality justifies the depopulation agenda.

This also explains why genuine breakthroughs in longevity and natural health are suppressed. Technologies and protocols that could allow the masses to live longer, healthier lives would only exacerbate the ‘problem’ of too many people. Such breakthroughs are therefore reserved for the elite, who see themselves as the worthy inheritors of a depopulated planet. The masses are deemed expendable.

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Hegseth Says US ‘Locked and Loaded’ to Strike Iran’s Power Plants If No Deal Reached

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on April 16 urged Iran’s leadership to reach a deal with the United States, warning that a military operation against the country could be restarted quickly and that Iran’s power plants would be struck.

He said the U.S. government will ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon, which Trump administration officials say was a primary reason for launching strikes against the country in late February. Iran has long denied that it wants to obtain a nuclear weapon and insists that its nuclear program is for civilian purposes.

“We’d prefer to do it the nice way through a deal led by our great vice president and negotiating team. Or we can do it the hard way,” Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon alongside the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine.

Hegseth called on Tehran to “choose wisely” in dealings with the United States.

“I pray you choose a deal, which is within your grasp for the betterment of your people and for the betterment of the world,” Hegseth added.

The U.S. military has kept up a naval blockade on Iran’s ports since April 13 in a bid to place economic pressure on the country’s leadership.

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Russia strikes Ukrainian military and energy sites after Kiev kills children – MOD

The Russian armed forces carried out mass strikes on Ukrainian military and energy sites on Thursday in response to a drone attack that killed two children in the country’s Krasnodar Region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.

Russian strikes hit facilities involved in the production of cruise missiles and medium- and long-range UAVs, the MOD said in a statement on Thursday, adding that energy infrastructure sites used to support Ukraine’s military were also targeted.

”In response to terrorist attacks by Ukraine against civilian targets on Russian territory, a mass strike has been carried out over the past day using long-range precision weapons launched from land, air, and sea, as well as strike drones,” the ministry statement read.

”The objectives of the strikes have been achieved. All designated targets have been hit,” it added.

The strike followed a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Black Sea port city of Tuapse, in which two children aged five and 14 were killed.

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‘Legitimate targets’: Medvedev on Russian MOD’s Ukraine-linked drone network list

A list of Ukraine-linked manufacturing facilities scattered across Europe, which was published by the Russian military, should be treated as a register of potential targets, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said.

The Russian Defense Ministry rolled out the list earlier on Thursday, claiming that Kiev’s Western backers have been planning to sharply ramp up production of long-range drones to target Russia. The plan is bound to drag European nations involved in the effort closer to direct conflict with Moscow, the military warned.

Medvedev, the deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, urged European nations to take the warning at face value.

“[The] Russian Defense Ministry’s statement must be taken literally: the list of European facilities which make drones & other equipment is a list of potential targets for the Russian armed forces. When strikes become a reality depends on what comes next. Sleep well, European partners!” the ex-president wrote on X.

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Europe vs. Russia in a War: Food, Energy, and Logistics Favor Russia

A companion analysis I conducted for The Gateway Pundit examined European versus Russian military capabilities without U.S. support, focusing on direct military hardware such as tanks, aircraft, carriers, submarines, and nuclear weapons.

It found that Russia holds decisive advantages in ground-force experience, armored production, submarine power, Arctic dominance, and tactical nuclear weapons. Europe’s theoretical hardware advantages are undermined by readiness failures, fragmented command, and a complete lack of peer-level conventional warfare experience.

Raw firepower is only part of the equation. Wars are won or lost on the ability to sustain operations over time. That means keeping weapons factories running, fuel flowing, soldiers fed, and supply lines open under fire. On every one of those dimensions, Russia’s position is stronger than Europe’s. In some cases, the gap is not even close.

European defense spending has risen sharply since 2022, but remains structurally insufficient for a peer conflict. At the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague, allies committed to investing 5 percent of GDP by 2035, with at least 3.5 percent on core defense. Commitments and current reality remain far apart, however. Sixteen European allies barely exceed the 2 percent threshold, spending between 2 and 2.1 percent of GDP in 2025, and only Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland are projected to reach 3.5 percent this year.

By contrast, Russia’s total defense spending reached RUB 6.3 percent of GDP and 32.5 percent of the federal budget.

Putin claimed in December 2025 that since February 2022, Russia increased tank production by 2.2 times, aircraft by 4.6 times, strike weapons and ammunition by 22 times, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers by 3.7 times, electronic warfare and communications equipment by 12.5 times, and rocket artillery by 9.6 times, with the defense sector now employing approximately 4.5 million people and accounting for 20 percent of all manufacturing jobs.

General Christopher Cavoli told the US Senate Armed Services Committee in April 2025 that Russia is replacing battlefield losses at an unprecedented rate due to industrial expansion and full transition to a war economy.

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Patronizing Democrat MA Governor Maura Healey Uses Donuts to Explain Soaring Energy Costs to Suffering Constituents

Fresh off being booed on Red Sox opening day alongside radical Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, leftist Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey thinks the suffering her constituents are facing with rising energy costs is a joke.

She appears to think voters are too dumb to understand economics and, instead of talking to residents like adults, she pulled out donuts to dumb down her patronizing explanation.

“Energy bills are high. Everyone can see that. So lowering your energy bills is my top priority. Now, how does that happen? That’s a little more complicated,” Healey began.

“So let’s talk about energy in a way that everyone understands— with munchkins.”

“Picture this: you’re at work or school, wherever. It’s 9 AM, and no one’s eaten breakfast. Someone shows up with one of these. Demand is high.”

“Everyone wants a munchkin or two or three, but we’ve only got 25. That’s where we’re headed with energy. So how do we fix that? See this glazed munchkin? That’s wind.”

“Massachusetts already has an offshore wind project lowering our energy bills as we speak. And we need more. It’s affordable, homegrown energy, and it’ll create thousands of jobs.”

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IDF Issues Chilling Nationwide Warning to Iranian Civilians — “Stay Off Trains” Ahead of Suspected Rail Strikes

The situation inside Iran is rapidly escalating.

On Tuesday morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a rare and highly specific warning directly to Iranian civilians, urging them to avoid all train travel and railway infrastructure for roughly 12 hours.

According to reports, the warning was delivered in Farsi on social media and explicitly stated:

Urgent Warning to Users and Train Passengers in the Country of Iran.

Dear Citizens, for the sake of your security, we kindly request that from this moment until 21:00 Iran time, you refrain from using and traveling by train throughout Iran.

Your presence on trains and near railway lines endangers your life.

The directive remains in effect until approximately 9:00 PM local time in Iran.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Monday that Iran would face its heaviest round of US strikes ahead of Trump’s deadline for Iran to make a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face “complete demolition.”

He further revealed that the President had ordered “the largest volume of strikes since day one of this operation” before tomorrow’s deadline, where bombs will rain down “even more than today.”

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