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Patrick Lancaster From the Frontlines of Ukraine/Russia War: Kamikaze Drones & Attacks on Christians
Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Over the past years, countless American journalists have embedded with Zelensky’s military. On the Russian side, there’s only one: Patrick Lancaster. (00:00) Introduction (01:15) The War Started Much Earlier Than You Think (05:07) The Ukrainian Attacks on the Hometown of Lancaster’s Wife (19:47) Kamikaze Attack Drones (27:52) How Many People Have Died in this War? (37:59) Russia’s Attempt to House Victims of War Paid partnerships with: Identity Guard: Get a 30-day free trial and over 60% off when you sign up at https://IdentityGuard.com/Tucker Cozy Earth: https://CozyEarth.com/Tucker code TUCKER Policygenius: Head to at https://Policygenius.com/Tucker to see how much you could save PreBorn: To donate please dial pound two-fifty and say keyword "BABY" or visit https://preborn.com/TUCKER Subscribe to Patrick Lancaster's Substack Blog: https://patricklancasternewstoday.substack.com/subscribe. YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday . Support Patrick's Journalism here https://buymeacoffee.com/plnewstoday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Patrick Lancaster and why is his perspective unique in covering the Ukraine/Russia war?
Over the past three years, hundreds, maybe thousands of Western journalists have covered the war in Ukraine from Ukraine and effectively been attached to the Ukrainian government and its military and its many propaganda outlets, taking their talking points from Ukrainian government officials, interviewing President Zelenskyy
Always in the most fawning possible way and effectively carrying water for both the Ukrainian government and NATO and above all for the Biden administration. On the other side in this war that the United States has effectively paid for, there is one Western journalist, one American embedded with Russian troops. His name is Patrick Lancaster. He's from St. Louis, Missouri. He's a U.S.
Navy veteran. And for the past 11 years, he's been reporting from the region. For the past three years, he's been reporting from the front lines. He's been interviewed by precisely no other mainstream Western media organizations. And so it raises the question, how can you understand a war you're expected to take sides in and then pay for if you're not hearing truth?
So with that in mind, here's Patrick Lancaster. Patrick Lancaster, thank you so much for joining us. So you're one of the only maybe the only American reporter embedded with Russian troops in this war. How long have you been there?
Chapter 2: When did the Ukraine/Russia conflict really begin according to Patrick Lancaster?
Hi, Tucker. It's really an honor to be on here with you to show a little bit to the world about what the mainstream media does and wants a lot of the people around the world to see. So it's really great, and I appreciate the invitation. I have been covering this conflict, this war, for a lot longer than... Many people understand that it's going on. As you know, this didn't start three years ago.
It started in 2014. Some say even before, but for all intents and purposes, we could say 2014 when the war started following the events in Crimea where Crimea rejoins Russia because there was a referendum. That's where I first started reporting on the situation between Russia and Ukraine.
I went to Crimea for the referendum where the Crimean people voted to break away from Ukraine and join Russia, rejoin Russia, because before 1956, Crimea was part of Russia. So if you think about this, the people that were born before that year were born in Russia. So there's people living that were born in Russia that were literally born
so happy to be joining Russia again, going home as the people on the streets told me when I was there. And I've been there almost every year reporting since then as well. But that's what really triggered my interest and intensity in reporting on the situation between Ukraine and Russia. Because when I went from Europe to Crimea and saw the
a huge difference in what was being reported in the Western mainstream media about the real situation in Crimea. We're hearing in the West how Russian forces were going to be making people vote to break away from Ukraine and join Russia. And I saw just the total opposite. People just crying out of happiness to have the chance to rejoin Russia. And those are the real facts. And anyone who
that has been to Crimea knows that. And anyone that says something besides that is just not telling the truth and trying to hide the truth. And unfortunately, after the events in Crimea where they joined the northern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk ended up becoming part of what you could say a civil war, where they as well had a referendum to break away from Ukraine.
And that preceded the eight-year war, eight-year civil war, where after the vote, the that they call themselves Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, started to make their own governments, make their own militaries, and they were attacked after this referendum by Ukraine. And I spent eight years covering the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk areas
Just documenting my part of the puzzle or the pie that wasn't being shown in the Western mainstream media, because what I was showing then and now, what Western mainstream media doesn't, it's not convenient for them to show, doesn't fit their narrative. So I documented what they weren't. the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas by Ukraine, the targeting of civilian areas by Ukraine.
I mean, my wife is from Donetsk and her childhood home was destroyed by Ukrainian shelling, as well as the majority of her childhood neighborhood. So, I mean, these are the facts of the things that happened in the Donetsk and Lugansk territories long before 2022 when Russia came into this war. From 2014 to 2022 is when this civil war took place.
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Chapter 3: What happened to Patrick Lancaster's wife's hometown during the conflict?
The locals in the eastern part of Ukraine at that point looked at the Maidan revolution as an illegal coup supported by the West, where it ended up with their democratically elected president, Yadikovych, removed from office without them having anything to say about it, and which effectively made their Ukraine dead and not in existence anymore after a puppet government was put in
by the United States in the West. So the people of the Donetsk and Lugansk areas just... They said, okay, well, that's not our Ukraine. Ukraine's gone. Some of them were patriots for Ukraine before. They just said, okay, we don't have anything to do with that. We're going to have a vote. We're going to vote ourselves what to do with the right of self-determination.
And Ukraine and the West did not want to respect the right of determination. And Ukraine basically, in the words of the locals, punished them for them trying to break away from Ukraine. Local family knew someone or had a member of their family injured or killed in the attacks by Ukrainian forces on the civilian areas of these regions, specifically the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk.
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Chapter 4: What are kamikaze drones and how are they used in the war?
So in the cab of the truck were these four elderly civilians and the soldier that was driving. And then myself and another journalist, a colleague of mine, were in the back of the truck with two soldiers. And we were trying to evacuate this village. And as we... Got out of the... Just outside the village. I happened to be filming one of the soldiers as they were scanning the skies.
And the other soldier actually pointed up and said a drone and a few other curse words. And I looked up and there was... a drone, a kamikaze drone. Right away, I knew what it was, and I knew the danger we were in. And the soldiers started firing on it, engaging it, trying to knock it down as it was trying to attack us and kill us. And they signaled to the driver, and the driver just floored it.
It was just driving as fast as possible. And I'm filming them shooting at the drone. The drone's trying to hit us. I thought... That we were going to be, you know, worse, a best case scenario injured because, I mean, it got so close to us as we were just driving, just got right up on us.
And then after about five minutes of it chasing us, well, what felt like five minutes might have been a few minutes less. It was knocked down. And how do you how do you knock down a drone?
How do you knock down a suicide drone over you?
They were engaging it with a shotgun and machine guns. And it was coming at us. And in the video, it's a little bit unclear if their bullets actually hit it or it hit a wire that was going over the road. But for about five minutes, three minutes, something like that, they were firing at it with a shotgun and a machine gun. Now, the shotgun is the most...
the new weapon of choice on the front line, because it's got the buck shot and it spreads. And these, uh, The idea is there's more room to hit, just like you're shooting at a bird. That's actually what they call these drones, birds. So they go hunting with this shotgun for these drones. And luckily, thank God, God was with us that day, and it did not hit its target.
So we made it to report another day.
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Chapter 5: How many people have died in the Ukraine/Russia war from Patrick Lancaster's frontline observations?
thing for the russian government to do is give certificates for uh new homes to the victims they've actually gotten pretty good at it because there's so many regions of people that have been had their homes lost by ukrainian shelling but uh one thing that i noticed it's pretty interesting about what they're doing in the kursk region and on top of the certificate
compared to what the United States does when someone loses their house, say, to a national disaster. The governor of Kursk, Alexander Kinzhting, started an initiative to request from Moscow a special stipend or payment, a monthly payment of 65,000 rubles for every member of a family whose home was lost monthly. So the I mean, that's sixty five thousand.
That's about seven hundred and fifty dollars. So if it's a family of four, that's about three thousand dollars a month. You know, of course, that's not going to, you know, replace everything in their lives that they've lost. But it's a lot more than I think it was the United States giving to some of the natural disaster. I think seven hundred.
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Chapter 6: How is Russia attempting to house victims of the war?
And then once I saw that the material was being lied about, um, I mean, one instance I was in the Lugansk region in Pervomysk when Ukraine forces launched a rocket attack on this soup kitchen. And, uh, We happened to be there and I filmed the aftermath and the women saying how Pereshenko was killing them and their families. Just really horrible.
Just targeting civilians by Ukrainian forces with huge rockets. And... I sold that material as a freelance journalist to Western outlets, and they turned it around and said that it was Lugansk rebels that fired on the soup kitchen, just totally lying about the situation. So after that, I decided... I'm not going to do that anymore.
You know, regardless if I get paid for it or not, I'm going to be showing exactly what I see. And that's what I've been doing since then is just on my YouTube channel showing my reports. I'm only supported by my viewers, of course. I'll do collaborations with other channels and things if they're interested. But I make it a point not to get paid by anyone but the donations from my viewers.
So the only people that I report to that I need to show what's really happening is my viewers. I don't have any editor or... boss that says, oh, we need to show this or show this. No, I show in my reports on YouTube and my Substack blog exactly what's happening, exactly what I see with no narrative, just the facts that the Western mainstream media isn't showing.
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So since you've been there all these years and have a tactile sense of what's happening, give us a couple examples of stories Americans may have seen or read in our media here that you know firsthand are wrong.
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