Ukraine’s Long-Range Attacks Impact Russian Infrastructure

Ukraine’s long-range campaign has moved beyond the trenches. It now strikes deep into the Russian heartland. Each precision hit cripples Moscow’s war machine. Substations, refineries, and railway junctions that once powered the invasion now lie silent. Satellite images reveal vast blackouts across Russia, a nation literally and economically shutting down.

In Sterlitamak and Nizhny Novgorod, flames from drone-hit refineries cut vital fuel supplies to the front. Electric railways, moving 80 percent of Russia’s military freight, have stalled. Ukraine’s precision strikes are systematically dismantling the power grid that keeps Putin’s war machine alive. Each destroyed transformer and factory erodes the empire’s lifeline. The Kremlin calls it “resilience.” The evidence says otherwise.

This is not chaos; it is strategy. Ukraine has turned time and precision into weapons, degrading the infrastructure that sustains the invasion: power, fuel, and rail. The front line now runs through every darkened city, every failed substation, every silent plant that marks the decline of an autocracy built on spectacle rather than strength. As outages spread through industrial corridors, repairs become slower, costlier, and less effective, forcing Moscow to strip resources from other regions and ministries just to keep trains moving and shells delivered.

While the Kremlin funds distant proxies, ordinary Russians wait for wages, fuel, and light. That is the real referendum on power. Ukraine’s strategy compresses Russia’s time, drains its budget, and exposes its inability to defend its own sky. Behind every blackout lies a measurable loss and the slow death of an empire in darkness.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:49 - Why Ukraine's Deep Strikes Are Incredible
03:24 - Hidden Unemployment Crisis: Russians Wait for Paychecks
04:32 - Targeting Russia's War Machine: Refinery Attacks Explained
05:45 - Russia's Criminal Pipeline: Trading Defense for Diplomacy
09:01 - Global Allies Break Ranks: India Protests & Putin's End
09:35 The Collapse of the Putin Regime
10:28 - Outro

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Dr. Jason Jay Smart, also known as Jason Smart and Jason J Smart, is a political adviser who has lived and worked in Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Latin America. In 2010, he was banned for life by the Kremlin for supporting Russia’s democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin.

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