The MeidasTouch Podcast - Zelenskyy Flips the Script on Trump and Strikes Back at Russia

Episode Date: August 24, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on all hell breaking loose as Ukraine President Zelenskyy flips the script on Donald Trump and Putin and strikes hard in Russia. Head to https://Superpower.com and use code MEIDAS at checkout for $20 off your membership. Live up to your 100-Year potential. #superpowerpod Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All hell is breaking loose as President Zelensky of Ukraine is striking back hard against Donald Trump and Putin's plan, and Zelensky is doing it on Ukrainian Independence Day. Zolinsky sent a massive drone swarm into Russia, and now Zolinsky is striking the Azon Logistic hubs after destroying most of the Wildberry Logistic hubs. Now, wildberries is like the... Amazon of Russia and you have Azaan one of the competitors of Wildberries. Zelensky's striking those hubs right now across Russia. We've seen Zelensky in Ukraine strike in Stravapurkoy, in Dagestan, in Agia, and these strikes were caught on camera. We have them right now.

Take a look at what went down. Let's play this clip. Now, here is another angle of one of those strikes on the Azon Logistic Hub, and you'll see the Ukrainian FP1 strike hard into the logistical hub. Play this clip. Here's another video right here of the Ukrainian FP1 Firepoint 1 attack drone slamming into an already burning Russian Azzan e-commerce distribution center in Dagestan. this morning. Let's play this clip. You can see the photo right here of this Russian warehouse that has been destroyed by the Ukrainian zones right here. This one is in the Dagestan area. Share this with you. This is what it looked like at night as the Ukrainian attack drones continue to hit the Russian

warehouses in Krasnodar at night. Let's show you this. Let's play it. You can see this Russian warehouse ablaze in Krasnodar after the Ukrainian drone strikes right there. You see this photo right here of the Ukrainian attack drones that hit this electric substation in Russia's Kerk's Ablost during the afternoon. The Kerskaya substation burning that you see right here supported the Russian Drusba oil pipeline as well. Show you the B-roll right here. This is footage. of a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 fulcrum, dropping a pair of French-supplied AASM guided bombs on a group of Russian drone operators.

You can see it right here. Let's play some more of that B-roll. Now, as Donald Trump and Putin have been planning ways, in my view, obviously, to tap Zelensky along with Donald Trump telling Zelensky, look, we're going to give you Patriot Interceptor licenses. Trust me, trust me, in my opinion, when Putin called Donald Trump on July 4th,

he and Donald Trump were talking about just tap, this is my opinion, you could have a different opinion, just Tap Zelensky along, tell him you'll give him interceptors at the NATO summit in July, and then don't give it to him. Let Putin build up more ballistics, which Putin's probably going to have the capabilities to build thousands of these ballistics,

to send and shoot at Ukraine during the winter and to try to keep Ukraine defenseless. Zelensky, you've seen, has been doing these drone swarms with these FP1 and FP2 drones, also utilizing the FPV drones, utilizing the FP5 Flamingos as well. And what we've seen also in the past 48 hours

is Zelensky really leaning in on Ukraine, allies, a meeting taking place now between Zelensky and the United Kingdom, a new prime minister Andy Burnham, where Zelensky and Burnham are discussing that UK will now be giving Ukraine long-range missiles that are so needed in Ukraine right now. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will be visiting Ukraine today. It's his first overseas trip since taking office, and he made it a point that his first trip is in Ukraine. And Burnham is announcing today the British support to help Keeve improve its domestic production of long-range missiles.

Burnham will be in Ukraine to co-chair a meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, a group of countries backing Ukraine that's taking place today on Ukraine Independence Day. And of course, the Trump regime is not part of that coalition of the Willing. We expect Burnham today. he is announcing that the UK has agreed to allow European missile manufacturer MBDA to release classified information on British-made components used in the scalp long-range cruise missiles, according to his office. That will help enable France and Ukraine to establish local assembly lines for the missile, which shares British and French technology. according to Downing Street. Ukraine's security is our security,

Prime Minister Burnham said in a statement, adding that Britain would stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes. You see, the way the UK is giving Ukraine those critical licenses for the long-range missiles, Donald Trump was promising we'll give you our classified licenses for the interceptors,

and Lockheed will give it to you. Raytheon will give you some others. And then Donald Trump said, actually, Lockheed and Raytheon, they told me they actually don't want to give it to you right now because they're concerned that you may do a cheaper job than they do it and that could hurt the military industrial complexes in the United States, which makes absolutely no sense. If you actually wanted to do a deal, Donald, you know,

Mr. Dealmaker, the dude can't make a deal for anything. Just say that if Ukraine makes any of its own interceptors in the future that all of the IP and all of the profits belong to Lockheed or Raytheon who was ever going to do it. I guarantee you, Zelinsky would agree to that because it's existential and it wouldn't be an extortive demand. Zelensky needs the interceptors. He's not looking to make a profit off of future interceptors. Looking to save Ukraine from Russian ballistics right now. Anyway, I'll show you this. A pretty inspiring video right here. Ukraine's Motherland Monument in Kiev right here.

You'll see the giant glowing trident right here that's being projected onto the Motherland Monument in Kiev. This was taking place yesterday on Flag Day. Let's show you the footage right here. Let's play it. Folks, more footage coming in as well. This is the moment of the attack by additional Ukrainian strike drones on the Azzan logistics hub in the city of Nevin Misk, Stavropol Territory, overnight. Play this clip.

More evening footage of the attack in Krasse. Let's play it. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then over here, you'll see, and again, this is in the past 12 hours or so, a warehouse building of a Russian company in Krasnodar that we just showed you. We'll show you over here. Let's play it. Take a look right here at this ozone, it's a lot of Yeah,

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It really helps support the show. Thank you. And then again, we're seeing this diplomacy. It's not just the United Kingdom and Ukraine. Ukraine is hosting a summit of Nordic nations right now. The NBA, Zelensky writes, I think, all the participation of the Ukraine, NBA, summit. We have very strong support from our Nordic and Baltic partners, true partners, true friends.

And today's summit reaffirm this once again. We discussed how to protect our skies, a winter package of missiles for patriots, and other air defense systems, and of course, the details of our Fraja project. Today we also openly discussed funding gap for Ukraine's defenses. It is important that we understand each other. Thank you to everyone for helping us so big meeting right here of the NB8, the Nordic Nations and Ukraine meeting. Thank you for the leadership and unity that strengthened our shared defense and all of Europe. So notably, as well, looks like Zelensky can get some interceptors from the Nordic nations while Donald Trump is trying to, again, deprive Zelensky of the critical interceptors that are needed. You have Finland's president

at the summit saying, I think many Europeans and Americans as well need to move beyond the mindset that we are somehow doing charity for Ukraine. Maybe that was the case at the beginning, but now we are learning more from Ukraine than Ukraine is learning from us. And what's notable is that the United States does not want to do the learning from Ukraine, as we previously reported, the Trump regime is shutting down a first of its kind cutting edge drone program. That's a first of its kind, cutting edge, drone program that studied the Ukrainian drone systems and drone interceptors. This was spearheaded by former Army Chief of Staff Randy George, but you'll recall that Pete Hegsseth basically fired Randy George, the most beloved four-star general in the Army.

And then we had Dan Driscoll, who was the Secretary of the Army, has been telling people he will be resigning as well. Driscoll and George were working with Ukraine on this program that Hegesith and Donald Trump didn't want because they want to focus on a quote, back to the basics approach and try to do the war fighting spirit of World War II is what they say. When there was a lot of testosterone is what Hegson said. Now, Zelensky says that Russia still has about 600 to 630 ballistic missiles and could produce up to 1,300 a year, calling the ballistic threat a key priority for Ukrainian strikes and sanctions.

He said that Ukraine recently destroyed an Iskander launcher near the border as part of an ongoing hunt for Russian missile systems. On the ground war, Zilinsky warned Russia could eventually push toward Kiev or Chernieve Oblast to create a buffer zone while stressing that Kiev remains one of Putin's long-term objectives regarding the former defense secretary Fedorov. Zalinski said he offered

Fedorov four different options to remain on the team, but Fedorov refused them, adding that Fedorov had been pushed towards wrong things. It should be noted, Fedorov, very popular, young guy in Ukraine, defense minister, cutting-edge drone guy, seems to also be very close to Elon Musk, seems to have presidential ambitions in Ukraine as well. So just keep note of those developments that we've been talking about here. It was a big mistake, I think, one of Zelensky's biggest mistakes, to fire Fedorov. And now I think Fedorov is, again, he's got Elon Musk in his ear. He's close with Musk.

I think he has presidential ambitions, but he should never have been fired. And I think the people of Ukraine know that I think Zelensky knows that that was a big blunder. and Zelinsky did it because the former army chief of commander-in-chief, who Zelensky then also fired, told Zelensky, you know, to do it. But, you know, look, you have Zelensky, it's like a race, it's like kind of like running out of time at this point, right? Zelensky striking these warehouses. We know in the winter, Russia is building its ballistic capabilities. Ukraine doesn't have the interceptors to really stop Russia from striking with these ballistics. And you have Zelensky expressing a concern that without the right weapons and without

the support, Russia could be making major advances on the front and Russia could be striking hard with its ballistics, Ukrainian cities like Kiv and Zuprecia and Kharkiv and others. So you have Russia's former president Medvedev at a major Russian party delegates conference said, Ukraine is now commonly called country 404. Half of its population, has disappeared, along with 20% of the territories that had fallen into its hands. I'm sure that more and more territories will be returned to Russia, and our valiant army constantly confirms this. Medvedev says on Europe, the current leaders of the European Union and some European states are direct descendants and ideological heirs of fascists, and in some cases

simply stupid people. Putin said at the same party delegates conference, the people are the source of power, the constitutional right of citizens to choose their representatives and determine the path of development of their country is inviable. That is the basis of legitimacy and effective democratic state institutions. So it's noteworthy that that's the language that Putin is using right there. At the same time, you know, Donald Trump uses that type of language, whereas the behavior is to the contrary would be an understatement. Putin says, says the following about Ukraine. The more difficult the situation at the front becomes for the enemy,

the more brutal and barbaric the attacks carried out by the Kiev regime become. This reveals the entire neo-Nazi, banderite, Russophobic essence of the force that we are fighting. Putin refers to the potential peace deals with Ukraine as I would say they're exotic nature and are unacceptable. We are always ready for dialogue, but only based on the realities emerging from the ground. And Putin also said, Ukraine opened this Pandora's box itself.

Well, then, it should expect a response targeting the most vulnerable sectors of its economy, which, frankly, are already on their last legs. This also applies, by the way, to agriculture production, whose exports are a major source of revenue for Ukraine. Now, I'm not going to show this video, but there was this horrific drone, terroristic attack on a young boy in Ukraine. And it was really horrific to see. He was on a bicycle and this drone, this Russian drone, approaches him. And again, I'm not going to play it.

It's pretty horrific to see what took place. You know, but the drone sees this young, looks like a person may have been 16, 17 years old on a bike, and then went around him and then just kind of killed the innocent person. And it's gone viral, but I'm not going to show it here. I wanted to give you the statements coming out of Russia as well, because I want everybody to be clear-eyed that this is, there's not going to be a deal anytime soon. Okay? There's no deal that's going to be happening. And Donald Trump promised on day one he was going to make a deal. It was going to be amazing.

So when Donald Trump claims, I'm going to do a deal, a deal, a deal, he can't do deals. Okay. If anything, things have escalated. Things are getting far more deadly than they were before Trump was in office, and you're seeing it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching, everybody. Before you go, our book, WTF America is available for pre-order now.

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