Russia ERUPTS in Giant FIREBALLS

It was one of the most devastating attacks on Kiev so far.By the end, at least 24 people were dead, with at least 48 others being injured.Putin had targeted civilians again.This time, Zelensky put out the call to the Ukrainian military, prepare a response.Prepare they did, and Russia felt the pain.Ukrainians did something that made Russia burn like never before, as a massive drone blitz has shattered multiple targets throughout Russia.

The attack on Kiev was brutal.Overnight up to May 14th, explosions rocked the city as Russia unleashed a horde of dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, targeting Ukraine's capital city.A large apartment building was destroyed in the blitz.Among the dead were three children, the youngest of whom was a 12 -year -old girl.By the end of Russia's strike, Ukraine's military had counted 675 drones and 56 missiles.Ukraine managed to take most of them down.

652 of Russia's drones were shot down by Ukraine's air defenses, along with 12 Iskander and S -400 missiles and another 29 Kh -101 cruise missiles.But it wasn't enough.

Some of Russia's missiles and drones broke through, striking 11 residential buildings in Kiev and another 50 across the whole of Ukraine.But Ukraine, as it always does, responded with grit and prepared to unleash something far more devastating.The rescue operation was swift and did what it could.By 9 a .m.local time on May 15th, Ukraine had completed its search and rescue operation at a residential building on the banks of the Dnipro River, where they searched for survivors under the rubble.

But as the tragedy unfolded in Kiev, plans were being made elsewhere.Foreign Minister Andriy Sebeya got the ball rolling.He called for the initiation of a United Nations Security Council meeting that he wants to be held to use other international platforms to respond to Russia's killings of Ukrainian civilians and attacks against humanitarian personnel.It's an important step on a diplomatic level, sure, but Putin has proven time and time again thathe doesn't care what the United Nations thinks.He has settled into his role as a war criminal.

and no matter what the UN says, he's going to stay in that role.As Sabir called for attention from the international community, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was calling for a far more direct response, both from Ukraine and its partners.On the partner front, Zelensky pointed out that at least one of the Kh -101 missiles that struck a residential building in Kiev had been built during the second quarter of 2026.which is Zelensky's way of pointing out that sanctions aren't doing enough to stop Russia from getting its hands on the components it needs for its missiles.A timely reminder has been delivered to Ukraine's partners, more needs to be done.But when regular sanctions fail, Ukraine has its kinetic sanctions to fall back on.

Zelensky delivered the instruction, Ukraine's military must prepare possible formats for our response to the lethal Russian aerial attack.That preparation did not take long.Giant fireballs were coming for Russia, and they were coming fast.The news broke on May 15th, Ukraine had unleashed a volley of its own long -range drones at Russia.Only Ukraine didn't go down the same cowardly route that Putin takes.While Russia's leader terrorizes civilians, Ukraine focuses on making oil and military infrastructure burn.

On May 15th, the Russian blast of Ryazan was the target, and you'll learn why in just a moment.

Ryazan isn't the furthest target that Ukraine could have struck.It's located about 450 kilometers away from Ukraine's northeastern border with Russia.which stretches along the Sumy Oblast.It's also about 180 kilometers southeast of Moscow, which makes it the perfect target for a revenge strike.

Far enough away to prove to Putin that Ukraine's long -range arsenal is strong enough to hit anything and close enough to Moscow to deliver the message to Putin that he best stay hidden away in his bunkers, as he has been for most of 2026.So Ukraine had the perfect region to strike.Now it needed a target.And Ryazan just so happens to be the host of something that Ukraine was more than happy to sell.away from Putin.The Ryazan oil refinery is one of the largest in all of Russia.

When operating at its peak, the refinery processed upwards of 17 .1 million tons of oil annually, turning crude oil into refined products such as gasoline and diesel that Russian military can use in Ukraine, and that Russia's oil companies can sell to countries that are willing to ignore sanctions and buy Russia's cut -price oil products.

Take out the refinery and you get revenge for Putin's massacre of civilians, in a way that ensures that Ukraine stays true to its strategy of crippling the Russian war machine.So that's what Ukraine did.

The Ryazan oil refinery now burns after Ukraine unleashed a devastating aerial blitz against the facility.

The reporting on Telegram showcased the results of Ukraine's assault.Exelenova Plus, which has been one of the most reliable independent sources, demonstrating what really happens when Ukraine attacks Russia for much of the war.

highlighted the damage that Ukraine did in a May 15th telegram post.A trio of photographs all proved that Ukraine's drones have struck their targets.In each we see the same thing.A blazing inferno somewhere in the Ryazan oil refinery is sending a massive black plume of smoke into the sky.The already darkened skies of Ryazan look like a hellscape as the flames shimmer in the distance and the blanket of smog spreads.

As time went on, reporting from civilians on the ground revealed the extent of Ukraine's revenge.Ukraine Today reports that the people in Ryazan began reporting explosions at the refinery at around 2 a .m.local time.By the end of Ukraine's strike, several dozen loud explosions had been heard in different parts of the city.Russia would later claim that Ukraine had attacked far more than an oil refinery, as it tried to paint the country's response as being as terroristic as what Russia had done in Kiev.

Russia was lying.We'll show you how we know soon.The same outlet reports that explosions were still being heard at the Ryazan oil refinery at 5 a .m., three hours after the initial explosions were reported.Ukraine may have been still sending drones into the open.

at this time, or, just as likely, Ukraine's drones had caused fires so massive during the initial strike that secondary explosions became inevitable as those fires spread.In a video shared by Supernova Plus on its Telegram channel, we get the shortest glimpse of one of the drones that Ukraine sent into Ryazan.The telltale buzzing is heard from the ground as the drone flies toward its target.Russian air defenses rattle off rounds, but none of them come close.That drone was one of many that Ukraine sent into Ryazan in its revenge strike.Some of the drones clearly hit their targets.

In the aftermath of Ukraine's retaliation for Russia killing and injuring so many of its civilians in Kiev, the Russian response was, shall we say, typical.

It looks like the world's most accurate drone debris has struck again.That's according to Ryazan's regional governor, Pavlo Malkova, who claimed that drone debris had struck an unspecified enterprise somewhere in the region.We don't need Malkova to specify what that enterprise was.

We know it.We see it engulfed in a fireball that lights up the sky.We don't know what Ukraine is putting into all of its drone debris, but it seems to be as powerful as the drones themselves.Sarcasm aside, Malkova made another claim following Ukraine's attack.And this claim changes everything.If it's true, it would show us that the situation has escalated to the point where Ukraine is using Russia's own strategy against it.

But before we dig into what that is, this is a quick reminder that you are watching the Military Show.

If you're getting insight from this channel, remember to subscribe so you can see more of our analysis of Ukraine's devastating strikes against Russia.So what was the big claim made by Malkova?Sticking with his drone debris excuse, Malkova claimed that three Russian civilians were killed in Ukraine's strike, along with another 12 being injured.The debris had struck residential buildings, Malkova claimed, with the clear implication being that the Ryazan oil refinery wasn't Ukraine's only target during the early hours of May 15th.

There are even videos to prove it.

Shared by Supernova Plus, those videos do indeed show a residential building in flames.with Russia claiming that Ukrainian drones, or more accurately, drone debris, was behind it all.Russia wants you to think that Ukraine is targeting civilians, just as Russia didn't keep.This is propaganda.It's another of Putin's patsies, saying anything he can to satisfy his leader.And for some, it will work.

Putin wants you to think that his attacks on Ukraine's civilians are justified because Ukraine is doing it too.Putin and his puppets are lying, and we have the evidence to prove it.There's no denying what we see in the footage of Russia's apartment buildings.There are indeed fires, along with massive holes blown inside of those buildings that could be the result of drones or drone debris scoring direct hits.However, there is one video that disproves everything that Malkova wants you to believe.In that video, we see what was really causing the damage to Russia's residential buildings, and we only need the first few seconds of footage to see it.

there was no drone involved.Instead, one of Russia's Pantsir air defenses rattles off a shot, causing a massive explosion that sends car alarms ringing and leaves a giant hole in the side of the building that it attacked.So many questions arise from this footage.Is the Pantsir so inaccurate that it mistook an entire building for a drone?Did it rattle off a shot against a building purposefully so that Russia could create a narrative of Ukrainian drones striking Russian civilians?We may never get those answers.

But the one thing we see for sure is Russia hitting itself and its own people.Russia's air defenses, it seems, are more dangerous to its own people than the Ukrainian drones that struck the Ryazan oil refinery.Coming back to that refinery, what Ukraine just showed Russia is that it can inflict pain without resorting to terroristic tactics that have been the hallmark of Putin's entire invasion of Ukraine.Ryazan burns because Ukraine has developed the types of capabilities that Russia never saw coming.That's according to Hannah Knott, who is the director of the Eurasia Non -Proliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Non -Proliferation Studies.Knott tells the Kiev Independent, Ukraine has clearly gained the ability to inflict pain on Russia in a way they couldn't previously.

They're not deluding themselves.that Putin doesn't want to hear.That ability isn't going away.But hold on a moment, you may be thinking.I'm sure I've heard about Ukraine attacking Ryazan's massive oil refinery before.How is this something new?

You are correct.Ukraine has struck the Ryazan refinery several times in the past, most recently in December 2025.That December strike even represented the ninth successful attack against this very refinery in 2025 alone.and it was a follow -up to an attack that caused the Ryazan refinery to grind to a complete halt the previous November.So how is what we're seeing now a type of pain that Russia has never experienced before if Ukraine's drones have been hitting Ryazan for well over a year?There are two answers, power and volume.

The attack on the Ryazan refinery demonstrates that Ukraine's aerial strategy has evolved to the point where it's able to send much larger drone swarms into Russia than ever before.

In the past, the attack we're reporting in this video would have been an isolated strike, But now it's the headline maker in a revenge attack that targeted several Russian regions, as well as some of the occupied territory in Ukraine.

As the Ryazan refinery burned, Ukraine's long -range arsenal was also heading in the direction of Moscow, forcing the region's governor, Sergei Sobyanin, to release a statement claiming that Moscow's air defenses had shot down five of Ukraine's drones.Elsewhere in Russia and the occupied territories, the Russian air defenses weren't quite so successful.In the Russian city of Yaisk, Ukraine's long -range drones took out a Beriev B -200 Altair aircraft along with a Ka -27 chopper.

The first of those is interesting as Russia uses its Beriev B -200s as firefighting aircraft.

Perhaps Ukraine is setting up for another strike that it anticipates setting afire in Yaisk and wants to limit Russia's firefighting options.Adding to this were attacks in the occupied regions of Ukraine.In Luhansk, Ukraine destroyed a TOR -M2 air defense system.And in Crimea, another air defense system went down, this time a Pantsir -S1.Well, that will save Russia from hitting some more of its own buildings with its air defenses.It also means that a few more safe aerial corridors have been created over the occupied regions that could help Ukraine to launch more aerial assaults in the future.

These were all a justified response to what Russia had done to Kiev.Zelensky would later declare, as he also revealed that Ukraine also took out a Redut -2US communication system and a dry cargo ship that was carrying ammunition for Russia's forces.Ukraine's drones travelled as deep as 1 ,000 km into Russia on May 15th, and they hit multiple targets.That's the problem for Putin.Ryazan was just one of many, and that shows him that Ukraine now has the capability to launch all -encompassing swarms of drones that match, or even exceed, what Russia sends into Ukraine.The latter actually happened in March.

Ukraine outgunned Russia by over 800 drones in March, scoring an average of 237 drones sent into Russia and the occupied territories in the process.So the volume is an issue for Putin, but the real problem both for Putin and Ryazan is this.Ukraine's drones are getting more powerful as well as more numerous.That's the real difference maker between this May 15th strike on Ryazan and those that have come before, and we can even see it in the sheer size of the fire that Ukraine caused.Ukraine is now producing around 200 long -range drones per day, United24 media reports, and they vary from the sorts of drones Ukraine has used in the past, which can travel far but carry relatively small warheads, up to monsters like the Flamingo drone -missile hybrid.The Flamingo has a warhead weighing up to 1 ,100 kilograms, which is a crazy amount of firepower that Ukraine simply couldn't deliver into Russia in the past.

It's joined by drones that are perhaps less powerful, but can still pack a punch, such as the FP1, which can travel over 1 ,000 kilometers to deliver a 105 kilogram warhead, and the FP2.That drone's range of 200 kilometers makes it perfect for tackling the occupied territories, and it delivers158 kilograms of explosives.Add power to volume and you get devastation.Russia found that out the hard way in Ryazan on May 15th.And as Ukraine works on bolstering its production and the capabilities of its drones, this will only get worse for Russia.

On May 11th, just four days before its raising of the Ryazan oil refinery, Ukraine announced a new partnership with Germany that will see the two nations jointly produce long -range drones.This is just one of several similar drone partnerships that Ukraine has formed over the last few months.and it will reportedly work on developing drone solutions that can travel 1 ,500 kilometres.So much more is coming, Putin.Soon it won't just be Ryazan that's burning.As for what all of this means for the future of the war, there are two key takeaways.

First, Ukraine's revenge strike highlights the contrast between the Russian and Ukrainian approaches to long -range attacks.Russia targets civilians.Yes, it hits infrastructure too, but Putin's entire goal with his deep strikes is to terrorise those who aren't on the front as much as possible.The 24 dead and 48 injured in Kiev join a dreadful group of 15 ,578 Ukrainian civilians killed and 43 ,352 injured as of March 31, per the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.This data only covers the civilian deaths that have been verified and the real numbers may actually be much higher, the office says.By contrast, Ukraine focuses on Russian oil and its industrial heartland.

There are civilian casualties, though they aren't intentional, and as we saw on May 15th, they are sometimes caused by Russian weapons misfiring.But Ukraine's priority is always the weakening of Putin's war machine, as it believes its strikes are enough to drive a message home to Russian civilians without actively attacking them.Ukraine is being smart here.It knows that Putin's propaganda machine will try to cast it as a terroristic nation if it attacks civilians.Russia is trying to do just that, as we saw in the Ryazan governor's response.but Ukraine very much maintains the moral high ground while still doing damage to Russia.

And speaking of that damage, we come to the second takeaway.Ukraine isn't letting up on Russian oil anytime soon.The attack on the Ryazan refinery comes on the back of several others that targeted Russian oil and gas just days before.On May 13th, the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces confirmed that drones had scored direct hits on the Yaroslavsky oil refinery in Yaroslavl, taking out an AVT primary oil processing facility in the process.Another strike against the Astrakhansky gas processing plant in Astrakhan had caused a fire.

In Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine also attacked a seaport in Taman.likely as an attempt to prevent Russia from exporting its oil products to other nations.These types of strikes are having a clear impact on Russia's ability to sell its oil, which, in turn, limits the Kremlin's ability to tax oil revenues to fund Putin's war machine.On May 13th, Reuters reported that Russian crude oil production had declined by 460 ,000 barrels per day in April when compared to the same month in 2025.The New Voice of Ukraine adds that Russian oil production has now dropped to its lowest level since 2009, demonstrating that Ukraine's kinetic sanctions are extremely effective.And on May 15th, United24 media reported that Russia's oil shipments from its Baltic Sea ports, which Ukraine has targeted with repeated strikes for several months, are down 31%.

Cripple the oil and the Russian war machine collapses.

As Ryazan burns once again, Putin has learned that his terror attacks on Ukraine will always be answered.Ukraine's Ryazan strike was revenge mixed with the continuation of a strategy that it has been employing for a long time.And as Ukraine's drones get more powerful and numerous, the fires in Ryazan, as impressive as they are, may pale in comparison to what comes next.Having said that, Ukraine now also has to prepare for another war.machine potentially stirring.Belarus and its insane dictator Alexander Lukashenko are making some crazy moves that may indicate that a new threat is on the horizon for Ukraine.

Will Ukraine be ready for it?Find out the answer to that question and learn what Lukashenko is trying to do by watching our video.And if you enjoyed this video, make sure you subscribe to the Military Show so you don't miss any of our coverage of Ukraine's devastating strikes against Russia.And thank you as always for watching.