The war in Ukraine just took another chaotic turn — and The Restricted Handling Podcast is here to break it all down with bite, energy, and insight. In this episode, “RH 11.19.25 | Russia: Missiles, Mayhem, and the Fog of War,” we’re diving into Russia’s largest air and missile barrage in months, Ukraine’s daring counterstrikes deep into Russian territory, and the Kremlin’s spiraling paranoia that’s now rewriting the rulebook for life inside Putin’s fortress state.

We start with the night that lit up Ukraine’s skies: more than 470 drones and 48 missiles raining down on cities from Ternopil to Lviv. Apartment towers reduced to rubble, power grids crippled, and NATO countries scrambling jets as Russia’s war machine spills over its borders. But Ukraine’s not sitting still — Kyiv just fired U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles straight into Russia, striking near Voronezh. Moscow claims it shot them all down, but debris in the heart of Russia tells a different story. If this sounds like escalation, that’s because it is.

Then, we return to the Pokrovsk front — where last week’s “encirclement” has turned into a full-on bloodbath. Russian troops are crawling through the ruins of a city that now looks more like Stalingrad 2.0 than a modern battlefield. Fog, drones, and exhaustion define the fight, and both sides are paying a heavy price. Ukraine’s still holding, but the cost is rising by the day.

Meanwhile, Putin’s locking down his country tighter than ever. New laws let the Kremlin mobilize two million reservists to “guard infrastructure,” block cell networks for returning travelers, and jail teenagers for sabotage. Russia’s morphing into a digital police state while even its pro-war bloggers — once its loudest cheerleaders — are being silenced, arrested, or branded as extremists. When a regime starts eating its own propaganda machine, you know the walls are closing in.

We’ve also got a wild espionage subplot unfolding across Europe — Poland uncovering Russian sabotage on its rail lines, NATO scrambling over drone breaches, and a spy tug-of-war in Azerbaijan involving a GRU agent accused of running a Europe-wide parcel bomb plot. Add in Zelensky’s peace talks in Turkey, Europe’s defense deals, and a U.S. warning that China could weaponize global supply chains — and you’ve got one jam-packed episode that feels like Tom Clancy meets Black Mirror.

It’s raw, it’s fast, and it’s the kind of real-world drama you can’t make up. Tune in for RH 11.19.25 | Russia: Missiles, Mayhem, and the Fog of War — where geopolitics meets chaos, and every headline feels like a cliffhanger.