{"id":1197,"date":"2026-04-30T05:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:38:03","slug":"civil-fury-propagandists-admit-total-failure-as-drone-strikes-humiliate-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/video\/civil-fury-propagandists-admit-total-failure-as-drone-strikes-humiliate-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Fury: Propagandists Admit Total Failure as Drone Strikes Humiliate Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>(TUAPSE, KRASNODAR KRAI) \u2013<\/strong> Civil unrest is escalating across the Russian Federation as Ukraine\u2019s campaign of deep strikes intensifies, overwhelming decrepit air defence systems and exposing the Kremlin\u2019s prioritisation of protecting its dictator over its population. In the Black Sea port of Tuapse, residents are now living under a toxic cloud of burning petroleum, breathing oil fumes and watching black rain coat their homes, cars, and pets, with the catastrophe sparking open fury against Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The strike on Tuapse\u2019s oil infrastructure, which has been ablaze for approximately eleven days, has crippled local electricity and water pumping stations, leaving the population without power, running water, or the ability to contact loved ones. Local social media channels are flooded with anger, with one resident writing, \u201cRegarding water, it is clear that the pumping station has been destroyed. Water is being delivered, but the time frame for repairs is unclear. What&#8217;s wrong with the gas and electricity? There&#8217;s no information about the outage, the cause, or the restoration timeline.\u201d Another citizen openly mocked the regime\u2019s failure, asking why the \u201cbald grandfather\u201d is protected by 27 air defence systems at his Valdai palace while Tuapse burns, stating, \u201cOne person can\u2019t be more important than millions of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">In a grim echo of Soviet disaster management, Kremlin officials deployed to Tuapse appear to have taken their crisis communication strategy directly from the 1986 Chornobyl playbook. A health official tasked with soothing a population literally covered in oil claimed there was \u201cno particular health risk\u201d to the public, while acknowledging laboratory capacities were being \u201cstrengthened\u201d for testing, offering no timeline for a return to normalcy. The transcript of the exchange shows the official avoiding a direct question on danger to residents before a state propagandist abruptly terminates the interview with a curt \u201cthank you very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces are dismantling Russian energy logistics on a continental scale, striking facilities at record-breaking distances with apparent impunity. In the Perm region, a major refinery complex roughly 1,900 kilometres from Ukraine was engulfed in hellfire, turning day into night under a thick black smoke cloud before spring showers turned the airborne oil into contaminated rain over the local populace. This is consistent with a systematic strategy to blockade the pumping junctures of Russia\u2019s western economy. Further east, an oil refinery in the Orenburg region near Orsk was also targeted overnight, with debris reportedly crossing into Kazakhstan. Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has indicated it is handling the Kazakh incident as a non-malicious operational occurrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Evidence of a systemic failure of Russian air defences is generating panic within the pro-war blogosphere. Well-known Russian propagandist Alexander Uroatkin complained openly, \u201cCan\u2019t we set up a proper air defence against them? What is the problem then? Why did they destroy our ports near Leningrad?\u201d He answered his own question by noting that mobile air defence systems are conspicuously absent from regions like Voronezh and Tambov, having been concentrated in a \u201csmall circle around Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The brittle state of rear area security was underlined by footage released by Ukraine\u2019s Unmanned Systems Forces, showing the destruction of a Russian Mi-28 and Mi-17 helicopter at a temporary staging site in the Voronezh region, approximately 150 kilometres from the front line. Ukrainian drone crews targeted the aircraft during refuelling and maintenance, triggering a meltdown in pro-Russian channels where commenters observed that internet shutdowns and VPN bans are failing to mask the truth. One Russian military blogger lamented that the FPV drones \u201cflew a record-breaking distance for their size and without any communications interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Economic disintegration is compounding the military humiliation. A leaked video circulating online shows mass-produced, irrevocable savings certificates created by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, described as an IOU mechanism for freezing depositor funds. In a choreographed media campaign, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Central Bank Chief Elvira Nabiullina urged citizens to deposit their \u201cunder the mattress\u201d cash into banks, with Nabiullina stating frankly that \u201cRussian savings are now the main source of funding for the country\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Pro-Kremlin celebrity and oligarch cheerleader Philip Kurkov added a layer of farce to the collapse by lamenting his placement on a sanctions blacklist by the luxury brand Balenciaga, declaring to a visibly shocked interviewer, \u201cI\u2019ve been blacklisted at Balenciaga. Oh my god.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Political cracks are deepening within the elite. Russian Z-blogger Yenni Goldman raged to his large Telegram audience that the system has catastrophically failed, stating, \u201cWhat the f are you doing? We\u2019re being destroyed. We\u2019re being humiliated\u2026 The financial system is about to go tits up. No matter what some [expletive] is bullshitting on TV, we\u2019re effed. 80% of my friends closed down their businesses.\u201d He concluded with the classic refrain of the failing autocrat, suggesting the tsar is being lied to by his underlings, stating, \u201cThey\u2019ve been lying to Vladimir Vladimir and they keep on lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">International support dynamics remain fraught. In Washington, Republican Senator McConnell confirmed to the Washington Post that the Pentagon, under Deputy Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby, is once again blocking $400 million in congressionally mandated aid for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative for fiscal year 2026, despite overwhelming budgetary approval. This mirrors a pattern of obstruction from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Furthermore, the U.S. diplomatic corps is bleeding senior officials; the current U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Julie Davis, has resigned following growing frustration with the Trump administration\u2019s dwindling support for Kyiv. Her predecessor, Bridget Brink, who resigned earlier for similar reasons, stated, \u201cI resigned as US ambassador to Ukraine when Trump kept siding with Putin over our democratic partner. Now, my successor is doing the same. I knew I had to speak out and run for office because siding with dictators is just not who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anger Spreads Across Russia As Ukraine Expands Strikes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYO-b0HqRL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TUAPSE, KRASNODAR KRAI) \u2013 Civil unrest is escalating across the Russian Federation as Ukraine\u2019s campaign of deep strikes intensifies, overwhelming decrepit air defence systems and exposing the Kremlin\u2019s prioritisation of protecting its dictator over its population. In the Black Sea port of Tuapse, residents are now living under a toxic cloud of burning petroleum, breathing oil fumes and watching black rain coat their homes, cars, and pets, with the catastrophe sparking open fury against Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. The strike on Tuapse\u2019s oil infrastructure, which has been ablaze for approximately eleven days, has crippled local electricity and water pumping stations,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":18,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-video","entry","rows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1152,"url":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/europe\/putin-claims-threat-of-environmental-disaster-after-attack-on-tuapse-refinery\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":0},"title":"Putin claims threat of environmental disaster after attack on Tuapse refinery","author":"Elise Dumont","date":"April 29, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"(TUAPSE, KRASNODAR KRAI) \u2013 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has claimed a drone strike on energy infrastructure in Tuapse could trigger an environmental catastrophe. 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