The MeidasTouch Podcast - Zelenskyy Strikes Back at Trump and Putin

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Ukraine President Zelenskyy striking back at Trump and Putin after they plotted to deprive him Patriot interceptors and interceptor licensed. For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 82-MEDICARE (826-334-2273) to speak with our trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/mtn. Disclaimer: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. 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 hitting Russia hard. This, as Donald Trump is refusing to give Zelensky the interceptor licenses, he so desperately needs in order to stop Russia's ballistic missile strikes. Now, Zelensky going on the offense using that right now as the best defense, because right now Kiev is struggling to defend itself from, Russia's ballistic missiles. Let me show you what went down. This is the moment that a Ukrainian drone attacked the latest Wildberries facility to be hit. This one is in the hub in Novice Menkino. Let me show you what went down here, play this clip.

Now let me show you the aftermath of that Wildberry's logistic hub over here. You could see it burning down. Let's play this clip. Oh, no. Now, no. Oh, my, bha. So, the, all. All right.

All right. Yeah. So he's up. If he, he, he's, he, he's, on, he was, on, he's, done. Zonove. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just take a lot of the world.

Oh, I'm going to. Ptichs people? Yeah, a pique. Just take a look at all of the wild berries logistical facilities here on this chart that have been hit. It's almost half of them at this point. The wild berries logistical facilities, it's like they're Amazon over there in Russia. And Ukraine argues that the wild berries are used in order to be used in order to be used. build out Russia's military capabilities.

Now, let me show you this video we've got coming in as well. It appears that Ukraine has a new variant of the FP5 Flamingo. Just to remind you, FP1, FP2, those are the long-range drones. The FP5 is the ballistics that Ukraine has been able to develop. Take a look right here. it glides right there near tree top level. Let me show you what this looks like. Play this clip.

Now late last night also, multiple Ukrainian attack drones struck Russia's Belgorod State Technological University. This is now being seen all throughout Russia's local channels. It hit a building there actually that housed Russian drone development, testing and operator training. And this center suffered significant damage.

Let me just show you the footage. Let's play it. There all got it. From all, you know, even a leisnichnyny plowlot, it's, you know, suka, that, you're, there, you're, like, how they're uproleting uproval. He's just, it's all overla. Now, a number of fuel storage tanks at the Russian Black Sea Port of Tammond.

are ablaze after an overnight Ukrainian strike as well. Ukrainian attack drones hit the Russian occupied Zewiefska power station in the Donesk's Oblast at night, setting it ablaze. Multiple Ukrainian attack drones slammed into Russia's Saratov oil refinery in the morning, setting that facility ablaze. I'll just show you what that looked like to show a short portion of this clip. You was. More from Russia's Saratav oil refinery a blaze this morning.

After a successful Ukrainian attack drone raid, show you the B-roll over there. Ukrainian attack drones also hit Russia's Ufa oil refinery overnight. This is the second strike on that same facility over the weekend. And then a series of explosions ripped through Russia's Naivnikomsk Industrial Zone in the the evening, starting a major fire that you can see there. Here's the message from President Zelensky of Ukraine. Of course, we see every leader and every country reacting to the Russian strikes on Ukraine. We've been covering those here at the Midas Touch Network.

Russia's been hitting Kiev, Zeprecia, LeViv, Kharkiv, other areas, very hard in Ukraine. Ukraine is struggling to defend. It's unable to defend, frankly, against Russia's ballistic missiles. Zelensky and Ukraine are able to strike down Russia's drones, often of the Shaheed variant from Iran, and even their cruise missiles. The ballistics, you need the interceptors in order to stop that. And that's exactly what the United States is intentionally depriving Zelensky.

Even depriving them of the licenses. Zelensky goes on to say, But the only strong reaction, it is fair, a reaction that really achieves the goal and helps the people of Ukraine is additional support for us and our people. There are patriot missiles in the world. It is important that partners make this political decision, a decision to transfer the necessary package. The United States of America, Trump knows what we need. In Europe, they know what we need. Anti-ballistic missiles should protect people, not.

lie in warehouses. And every day of the absence of such appropriate assistance is important. It is an opportunity for Russia to kill people. Now, too, we need to react with additional sanctions. Let me show you this over here. The Wildberries facility hit by Ukrainian droves in Novus Minkino. Here, play this clip. Look, if you're in this community, you're paying attention. You know what's happening. and a lot of what's happening, it's directly affecting your Medicare. Plans are being discontinued. Premiums are going up. And the broker you might have talked to probably pushing Medicare Advantage plans,

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I also want us to give a hat tip to Max 26, Kyrshan, Kat, J from Keeve. They do such a good job aggregating. all of this open source intelligence stuff that I don't think we're seeing anywhere else on corporate news or anywhere. I think it's important that you see firsthand what's going on right now. Now, Zelensky said the following too. We continue applying our long-range sanctions against Russian facilities that serve the war effort and finance the aggression. We could play this as B-roll while I'm reading this. Last night in Russia's Saratav, more than 600 kilometers from the front line, two strategic facilities were hit, the Saratav Oil Refinery and the Engels Military Air Base.

In the Kaluga region, the tank farm of the Laudan Vatskaya Oil Depot was hit. In the Bryansk region, our warriors carried out a precise strike on a site used to store, prepare, and launch attack drones. Thank you to all the warriors of Ukraine's defense forces. We are expanding our long-range capabilities in delivering precise results. In Ukraine, Zelensky refers to long-range sanctions as the drones, the Ukrainian long-range drones, FP-1, FP2, and those FP-Flymingoes. And that new variant I showed you at the outset of the FP-5, FP-5, they call the Flamingo. Zelensky also posted this week, 16 of our regions were under attack from Russia. During that time alone, the Russians launched around 1900 drones, nearly 1,600 aerial bomb,

and 144 missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles. Today, Sumi was struck by aerial bombs. In Brovery, one person was killed in a drone strike and six people were injury. My condolences to their families and loved ones, Kharkiv and Kharkiv region remain under constant attack. Overnight, Russia struck the Odessa, Zepriya, and Denepro regions. This week, more than 1,500 sites have been damaged, including hundreds of ordinary residential buildings.

A significant number of Russian enterprises working to sustain these attacks by producing components for drones, missiles, and guided aerial bombs have still not been sanctioned. That is why the ingressor is investing more and more in its ballistic weapons capabilities and is trying to ramp up production. Pressure is needed on every segment of Russia's defense industrial complex, as Zelensky says over there as well. In addition, Zelensky posted the following message. Today, the Air Force is much more than just one branch of the military. It is a component of our defense that in many ways truly shapes the course of this war. Ukrainians did not surrender and will not surrender their skies to Russia. This is one of our nation's greatest achievements.

Throughout this full-scale war, we did not allow our Air Force to be destroyed and have built it up to the point where Russia regularly loses its aircraft. And now when the only thing, the last thing Putin has, has left to bet on is his massive attacks against Ukraine. The Air Force, our combat aviation, is destroying Russian cruise missiles and trying to destroy ballistic missiles as well. And when our Patriot batteries aren't empty, it succeeds. It is important that thanks to our cooperation with Europe, our Iris T, Hawk, and the Nassum systems

are operating. Every day we fight to secure missile supplies for them. And I am grateful for our partners around the world that are helpful. helping us with that. Of course, ballistic missiles remain a challenge, but we have provided Ukraine with protection against a significant share of cruise missiles, and we are shooting down a great many. Our interception rate against attack drones is also above 90%, and that's truly a significant achievement for Ukraine, for all of us, for every one of you. I thank all of you, all of those gathered here today, every man, woman defending Ukraine's skies, who despite

fighting what is in reality an unequal an unequal battle and lacking sufficient means to bring down enemy targets, accomplish the incredible go beyond the maximum. You have shown the world your skill and proven that Ukrainians are capable of overcoming anything and we honor you as well. So remember the reporting earlier this week, reporting from last week, heading into this week. Donald Trump, a few weeks back in Turkey, promises Zelensky interceptors. Interceptor licenses at the very least. Tap Zelensky along. Zelensky shows up in Washington.

Trump doesn't do the Oval Office press conference with Zelensky as he normally does, right? Instead, we then learn through financial times. Donald Trump says to them first, I'm not going to do the interceptors. I'm not going to do the interceptors. I'm not going to do interceptor licenses. And we'll just have to see also if we'll give Zelensky access to Starlink for the purpose of shooting down the ballistic launchers in Russia. And then we saw Donald Trump in Camp David also talk about not giving Zelensky the interceptors

because Trump says if we give him the license even, what if they turn against us? and then they want to go to war against us so we can't trust him with that. And Trump's like, you know, it's kind of like the Nvidia chip. The Nvidia chip, we don't just give that to anybody. It's classified.

You gave it to the UAE. You gave a version of it, not the black well. You gave the black well to UAE. That's the most classified. It is. And of course, once the UAE has it, they're going to give it to China.

And it's like, no, Ben. The Trump regime has safeguards. They'll make sure China doesn't get the Blackwell. What are you talking about? These are the reflecting pool people. This is Donald Trump who has imaginary conversations with himself about doing deals with Iran, darn happening. You expect they're going to put the safeguards to prevent UAE from giving China capabilities of the Blackwell chip. Come on.

And then Donald Trump gave China the Navidia's second big the second chip that's highly classified. Not the Blackwell, but one that's pretty serious. as well. There you have it, folks. We'll keep you posted every damn step of the way here on the network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all? It comes out officially this October, but you can pre-order your copy today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description below.