Business Basics examines the factories behind Russia's missiles
The week's largest upload connects deep strikes on industrial plants with airport disruption and an interview excerpt from Piers Morgan.
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Ukraine's Drone Strikes Just Exposed Russia's Biggest Weakness
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- 0:41The host examines a reported strike on Oryol's Proton factory and its role in supplying missile electronics.
- 2:36A reported drone strike on Omsk Kauchuk brings the supply chain for rocket propellant into the analysis.
- 9:51The host contrasts air defenses around Putin's Valdai residence with protection of industrial facilities.
- 18:46In a shared interview, Piers Morgan challenges Konstantin Malofeyev's advocacy of nuclear escalation.
- 22:38The host explains how Moscow airport closures can disrupt connections across Russia's transport network.
- 26:01The video switches to another commentator reviewing frontline helmet-camera and drone footage.
Microchips, chemical supplies and aircraft components give Business Basics' latest war analysis its focus: the industrial links that keep Russian weapons production running.
The clips channel posted two uploads, with "Ukraine's Drone Strikes Just Exposed Russia's Biggest Weakness" drawing about 125,000 views. Its host argues that Ukrainian attacks are reaching beyond oil refineries into missile-production supply chains, examining reported strikes on the Proton electronics factory in Oryol and the Omsk Kauchuk chemical facility in Siberia. The video includes a sponsored software segment.
A central contrast is the protection afforded to those factories and to Vladimir Putin's residence in Valdai. The host presents satellite imagery and open-source research identifying extensive air defenses around the residence, then questions the priorities behind that deployment. Later, a shared Piers Morgan interview shows Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeyev advocating nuclear escalation, which Morgan challenges.
Airport closures connect the longer analysis to the other new upload, "Why Moscow airports are shutting down daily". In the longer video, the host explains how disruption at Moscow's airports can ripple through the wider transport network. The factory-strike analysis is also the channel's busiest video right now, ahead of its older uploads about Russian military criticism and St. Petersburg.
Across the channel, viewing is running at well under half its usual daily pace, while the subscriber count was unchanged over the week. The Military Show had a substantially busier week and added subscribers; Iraqveteran8888 and TAOFLEDERMAUS were also seeing slower-than-usual daily viewing. For Business Basics, the clearest new audience interest lay in the machinery and logistics behind the war, rather than the shorter airport upload.
A Russian media businessman who chairs Tsargrad, a media group focused on Russian Orthodox Christianity and supportive of Vladimir Putin.
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Where next?
The videos drawing views on Business Basics right now
- Channel
- Business Basics
- Subscribers
- 2,110,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 456,138
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- October 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 125,260
- Views on its first day
- 100,683
The numbers
Here is how Business Basics' uploads and audience moved over the week.





