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Very soon, every single airport in Russia could look exactly like this one here in Ukraine.

But though flights taken off, nothing landing.

And Putin is terrified of this scenario.

That's why he responded within an hour of Ukraine announcing that they were going to do this.

And just to imagine how much chaos this could actually cause, the only reference that can really be compared to something like this would be the 2010 Iceland eruption.

And if you remember, the absolute chaos that caused.

Imagine that, but the volcano doesn't stop erupting.

So I want to spend this video sitting here telling you exactly what it would look like

if the runways in Russia were to look like this.

So the first thing I want to start with is the sheer scale and the size of Russia.

A country that spans 11 time zones doesn't work without planes

because it's such a big country it's impossible to get around otherwise.

And I've seen a lot of people as well saying well Russians can just get trains wherever they want to go.

Most freight in Russia they're not very well maintained, they're actually very at capacity anyway, they're pretty rubbish, a lot of them are pretty much broken.

And it's in a lot of ways the same for the roads in rural Russia as well.

To be honest, there's almost no way to really get around that country, unless you want to go back to the days of horse and carts.

So this is absolutely off limit.

But just to give you the full context of all this, Zelensky earlier this week said that the skies over Ukraine are no longer safe

and that he warned the civil aviation authorities around the world of that situation.

He basically said, look, Russia is at war.

We're flying our drones into Russia, Russia are flying their drones back into Ukraine.

And so Russia should be treated the same way that Ukraine is right now.

And if you look at these maps here of Ukraine since 2022, there's a blank spot right now that shows there's no air traffic over it.

And that looks like that's going to be extended over Russia.

And actually, it's a pretty reasonable thing to warn these insurance companies and these airliners that it's unsafe to fly over Russia.

And look, a lot of people think that this is some sort of warning

that Ukraine are going to start shooting down civilian aircraft.

And what Zelensky actually means by that is Ukraine are going to increase the amount of drones that they're using.

They're going to fly them deeper into Russia.

They might even have them circle certain airports.

They're not going to be crashing into civilian airplanes.

It's actually what Russia did with MH17 and denied it and tried to cover it up.

And also, this didn't actually start this week.

About 10 days ago, I was invited as part of a press pool to speak to Zelensky.

And I asked him if he was going to do this.

I think I was the only person in the room that predicted this would happen.

And that's because months ago within Zelensky's team, there was a plan to use AI systems to use swarms to do something to airports.

And I wanted to clarify what that was.

Zelensky didn't answer.

He said it was something he didn't know about.

Clearly, he did though.

But I kind of knew that they were up to something.

I kind of knew that this was still in the works

because the 40-day operation that Zelensky launched quite recently has already come to an end.

That was to try and force Russia to peace.

Russia hasn't done that.

Russia has actually intensified their attacks every single hour.

There's another air alert in Kyiv every minute.

This morning, I woke up to cabs exploding here in Odessa, which is pretty unprecedented.

So Russia have escalated things beyond belief since the 40-day operation started and ended.

And it looks like this is Ukraine's now response to that.

So first, let's start with the numbers.

Last year, Russia had about 109 million passengers in 12 months.

About 81 million of those were domestic.

That is about 300,000 passengers every single day, a huge volume.

Now, remove the planes.

You've got a serious problem.

I've written down just how long this is going to take.

So Moscow to St. Petersburg by train, just about doable, about three hours, three and a half hours.

There's not that many trains, but you can do it if you really want to.

But Moscow to this region, about 24 hours.

That's when things start to get really tricky and the trains get a lot worse the further out you go.

And now Moscow, maybe to somewhere here, by plane, about eight hours.

By train, six and a half days.

That's more of an expedition than a commute at this point, which means if you've got a business, say in Siberia, say you've got a factory and you've got a headquarters in Moscow, you've got to send out an engineer instead of it taking a few hours,

it's going to take over a week and

that engineer is going to become a Christopher Columbus style explorer trying to get there.

And that doesn't work when you're trying to do business at all.

Also take away the planes.

You decimate almost every single holiday destination inside Russia.

Again, 81 million domestic flights is a huge number of Russians going from A to B.

And all these destinations here all along the Black Sea, they are going to go out of business.

All those holiday destinations, all those resorts are going to be pretty upset, pretty decimated.

The local economies are going to be decimated as well.

That's a huge part of all of this.

Again, the Russian economy is going to take a huge hit to this.

And economy aside, look how angry Russians going to be about this.

Look how furious they were at their plans being cancelled when Crimea was closed for business this summer, when Brovdi made it impossible to get there.

They were screaming and crying saying that they couldn't go to the beach anymore, that they couldn't go to Crimea.

And that was just one region that was just Crimea.

Imagine if the Russians can't go on holiday anywhere in Russia.

Total disaster.

And this process has already started.

There's already been flights cancelled minutes after Zelensky announced this.

And yes, there's still air traffic over Russia.

But what's probably going to happen here is a domino effect.

You're probably going to have insurance starts to rise, certain airlines start to get nervous, premiums start to increase, perhaps pilots stop showing up.

And that is the beginning of how this sort of thing starts to escalate, where prices start to go up, where chaos starts to ensure.

And honestly, it seems like a real possibility.

And I don't think every single airline are going to immediately start pulling out, especially the Russian airlines that are controlled and owned by the Russian government.

The Russian government do not give a shit about their population.

They don't care that civilians could die, they'll just blame Ukraine anyway.

So they're going to force their airlines to stay open as long as humanly possible.

But international airlines will probably start to go first, the ones that fly from places like this, from Dubai, from Singapore, from Istanbul, a huge number of flights.

If you look at this graph here, it shows the top 10 flights to and from Russia internationally, the top two are in Turkey, which is a NATO country, by the way.

So it's pretty insane that they're facilitating such a sheer volume of air traffic in

and out of a country that is at war with the largest country in the whole of Europe.

But that's an entirely side point.

And again, this is so unbelievably unprecedented

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that it's impossible to actually measure just the sheer scale of destruction this will cause to the Russian economy.

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But what we can do is look at examples from the past of

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when flights have been disrupted and try to use that as a gauge of how this could look in the future.

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So last year, July 2025, there were 485 flights cancelled and Russian industry estimates put that at 20 billion rubles and that was for a day.

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Imagine that every single day, not just for weeks, but for months.

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Actually, the only scenario that can possibly be compared to what this would look like in Russia is the volcano, the one that we can't pronounce, that erupted in 2010.

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But yeah, remember the headlines every single day, the tourism that was decimated, the holiday destinations that couldn't cope with it, the airline industries that almost went entirely bust.

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Imagine that without it ending.

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That's probably the closest thing we possibly have to this.

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But Ukraine doesn't have to destroy Russia's aviation.

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It just has to destroy the confidence in its aviation.

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That's how insurance works.

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That's how these policies work.

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That's how costs work.

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That's how flights start to get cancelled.

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That's all that needs to happen here.

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The bigger point to all this is that Russia tried to make life totally unbearable here in Ukraine.

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They tried to make cities unlivable.

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They tried to destroy ports, energy, infrastructure, and now Ukraine are fighting back.

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They've finally developed their own techniques, their own tools, their own drones to hit Russia where it hurts, without permission.

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And a big thing to note right now is

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that Russians are going to be preparing probably one of their biggest pieces of propaganda ever to try

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and convince the world that this is some sort of escalation, that this is some sort of terrorism right now, because they know how devastating this could be.

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And there's something vital to remember when you're reading that propaganda.

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And that is that Russia started this war.

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Russia made it so that every single runway in Ukraine looked exactly like this, not just since 2022, but since 2014.

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And Donbass runways like in Kramatorsk, the city I was just filming in, haven't had a single flight take off since the war started there.

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If Russians don't want their airports to look like this, then all they have to do is stop the war that they started.

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And then you can fly wherever you like.

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You can go on any business trip you want.

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You can go on any holiday you want.

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You can do whatever you like.

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All you have to do is leave Ukraine.

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Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole meno comuni del video, con pronuncia e significato:

airline /ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/ (sostantivo) — linea aerea, compagnia aerea. A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.
destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/ (sostantivo) — destinazione, meta. The place set for the end of a journey or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
cancel /ˈkæn.sl̩/ (verbo) — depennare, cancellare. To cross out something with lines etc.
drone /dɹoʊn/ (sostantivo) — fuco. A male hymenopteran (ant, bee, hornet, or wasp), whose sole primary function is to mate with the queen.
chaos /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ (sostantivo) — caos. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/ (sostantivo) — aviazione. The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
sheer /ʃɪɚ/ (aggettivo) — vero e proprio. Very thin or transparent.
runway /ˈɹʌnweɪ/ (sostantivo) — pista, sentiero. A defined, narrow section of land or an artificial structure used for access.
compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (verbo) — paragonare. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
passenger /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ (sostantivo) — passeggero, passeggera. One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/ — dovunque. Regardless of the place in, at or to which.
announce /əˈnaʊn(t)s/ (verbo) — annunciare, segnalare. To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.
civilian /sɪˈvɪl.jən/ (sostantivo) — civile. A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the armed forces.
scenario /sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/ (sostantivo) — scenario, panorama. An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
warn /woɹn/ (verbo) — avvertire, avvisare. To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.

I phrasal verb che sentirai

go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbo) — continuare. To continue in extent.
look at (verbo) — guardare. To observe or watch.
take off (verbo) — togliere. To remove.
fight back /faɪt bæk/ (verbo) — difendersi, contrastare. To defend oneself by fighting.
go up (verbo) — salire. To move upwards.
send out (verbo) — inviare. To issue, dispatch or transmit.
take away /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ (verbo) — togliere. To remove something and put it in a different place.
take over (verbo) — usurpare. To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 38 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they're, you've, doesn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “sh” e “zh”: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, destruction /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, unprecedented /ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, terrorism /ˈtɛɹəɹɪzəm/

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La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	I've seen · has already come · hasn't done
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	be compared · should be treated · be extended
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa	Odessa, which is · point, which means · Turkey, which is

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