How Ukraine is pushing Russia to the brink - expert explains

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2022
  • Russian President Vladmir Putin is expected to announce the annexation of four regions of Ukraine - just like he did with Crimea in 2014. But this isn’t total deja vu, because this time, he’s on the backfoot and he's in trouble.
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    Following months of stalemate after his failure to take the capital Kyiv, Putin’s forces were surprised by a Ukrainian counteroffensive that either pushed his forces back, or made them flee.
    And so now, he’s had to hold sham referendums and initiate a partial mobilisation to try to turn things around. But can he?
    In today’s episode, we speak to our presenter and Europe editor Matt Frei in Kyiv about how this point in the war is arguably one of the most pivotal moments for all sides in this bitter conflict.
    Produced by: Nina Hodgson, Heidi Pett
    Camera in Kyiv: Ray Queally
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Комментарии • 1,7 тыс.

  • @johnb8229
    @johnb8229 Год назад +99

    Matt Frei great news reporter. Love his reporting. He doesn’t just read the news but knows the news in depth with great empathy ! 👏

    • @InterestedCitizen
      @InterestedCitizen Год назад +3

      I agree.

    • @andyrobinson2653
      @andyrobinson2653 Год назад +3

      You never noticed any bias? I advise you to read Nietzsche beyond good and evil. We are bent by our bias.

    • @DarrenRFC
      @DarrenRFC Год назад +5

      Yes. He’s strangely human for a reporter a man who can hold interest when he speaks. Rather than the usual plastic pish

    • @andyrobinson2653
      @andyrobinson2653 Год назад +5

      @@DarrenRFC But has he actually been on the ground in Ukraine? Spoken to Russian soldiers? Or is he a long line of endless analysts?

    • @christinepeach8213
      @christinepeach8213 Год назад

      @@andyrobinson2653 Isn't it interesting that we have footage of WW1 and WW2, yet there is only reporting from Kyiv and Liviv; reporters from the AP filmed with people in the background walking about with no problem. Why is there NO footage of frontline conflict? Is it because the Nazis in Ukraine are committing war crimes? The armed personnel are to protect the citizens as they vote. You might know that if you didn't report from hundreds of miles away.....

  • @zinazina2132
    @zinazina2132 Год назад +15

    Matt Frei you’re the best! Love the way you went thru it all step by step! Positive vibes!

  • @pabs5270
    @pabs5270 Год назад +7

    Some of the best journalism is on this channel-thank you!

    • @marcopaganotto9125
      @marcopaganotto9125 Год назад

      Great stuff. It's all Puntins fault right? Never in my lifetime have I seen such a horrific deception.

    • @pabs5270
      @pabs5270 Год назад

      @@marcopaganotto9125 who invaded whom? Did Ukraine invade Russia?

  • @waynegore5291
    @waynegore5291 Год назад +8

    Daydreaming on media is very comforting. Actual loss on ground is painful.

  • @thomascuvillier7250
    @thomascuvillier7250 Год назад +225

    You are also forgetting that hilarious video where the woman doesn't even look at the ballots and counts "YES" when everyone can see the ballots she is counting are all blank xD xD
    How anyone idealizes Russia is truly beyond me....

    • @thomasdequincey4364
      @thomasdequincey4364 Год назад +39

      Well: human stupidity knows no borders ... I think that's the answer.

    • @Fallout3131
      @Fallout3131 Год назад +12

      Mate they could be sorted into stacks and she was counting the papers in the stack.
      It doesn't take half a brain.
      That being said I agree its a sham ref 100%

    • @thomascuvillier7250
      @thomascuvillier7250 Год назад

      @@Fallout3131 You could see on camera that the ballots were all blanks....

    • @chirpywiggins5796
      @chirpywiggins5796 Год назад

      Might be hilarious but when your country is run by a desperate lunatic with nuclear weapons I guess anything goes unless you want to be nuked ?

    • @mrb.5610
      @mrb.5610 Год назад +19

      @Piuxie Fear of being pushed out of a window, more like.

  • @ShaneBabb
    @ShaneBabb Год назад +7

    One of the best Q&A media sessions I have ever seen in my 53 years. We need more of this type of journalism.

  • @bernardwarr4187
    @bernardwarr4187 Год назад +24

    Great news and open questions. Media at its best. Many thanks

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/KszFzhJBcJA/видео.html
      This is a great reporter, she is watching from inside, not from far away.
      And she is amazingly decent and honest reporter.
      Is it why she is on the dead list of Ukraine?

  • @Krachuken
    @Krachuken Год назад +2

    Awesome discussion…looking forward to more

  • @PaulMathias1
    @PaulMathias1 Год назад +5

    Matt Frei really is a superb journalist and reporter. Well done to Channel 4 for keeping hold of him.

    • @robinlowerson565
      @robinlowerson565 Год назад

      ......mmm, I wish he wouldn't keep saying , "you know'.

    • @tombown9960
      @tombown9960 Год назад

      Part of propaganda machine

  • @marmac83
    @marmac83 Год назад +12

    It doesn't give Putin the excuse for anything.

  • @createone100
    @createone100 Год назад +23

    Superb explanation of tactics and geopolitics of this war. Thank you!

  • @mollypenwhistle7918
    @mollypenwhistle7918 Год назад +41

    This format is great, we need more explanation of the news and much less ‘headline’ opinion, thank you... more please

    • @davidgriffiths946
      @davidgriffiths946 Год назад +4

      Could not agree more here! 👏🏻

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/KszFzhJBcJA/видео.html
      This is a great reporter, she is watching from inside, not from far away.
      And she is amazingly decent and honest reporter.
      Is it why she is on the dead list of Ukraine?

    • @jacobjorgenson9285
      @jacobjorgenson9285 Год назад

      Except it’s all nonsense! The SMO ends today, tomorrow Russia moves

    • @RA-gh3gg
      @RA-gh3gg Год назад

      @@lovepeaceandrespect8808 Yes you’d get a bunch of lies for useful idiots 😊

    • @kayallen7603
      @kayallen7603 Год назад

      perun does much better on his channel.

  • @robinstevenson6690
    @robinstevenson6690 Год назад +12

    I LOVE this correspondent! He and Gary are my two favorites, and the two Channel 4 correspondents I most love to tune in for. AND SO GLAD THAT CHANNEL 4 IS GOING TO CONTINUE ONWARDS ! ! ! !

  • @02bher1
    @02bher1 Год назад +9

    Putin reminds me of a Hockey coach who has little experience throwing rookies onto the ice and hoping they will carry the entire game. Canon fodder.

  • @Jesusandbible
    @Jesusandbible Год назад +71

    In no war ever before did one side say "No! you cannot do that! If you do that we will nuke you!" over and over again, to almost every plan of the opposite side. An example might be Ukraine bombing or even capturing Belgorod. "No! you cannot do that! If you do that we will nuke you!" Every form of bombing of Russia is not allowed, but Bombing Ukraine is ok. Russia: "This is a - 'we can bomb you, you cannot bomb us' war." This is unique in history. The tactic now is just how many times will the nuke card be played.

    • @LennyLaserdisk
      @LennyLaserdisk Год назад +3

      They talk about it while the US did it (twice).

    • @asmo1313
      @asmo1313 Год назад

      the ukranians don`t even care, they shell russia on a daily basis along the border and attacke bases inside russia with all kind of weaponry
      your example of belgorod is a nice one, they attacked military installations in that city multiple times already. What the ukranians are not doing however is cross that border and try to take russian land. at the kharkiv offensive, they stop attacking when they reached the border and consolidate there.
      Putins red lines mean nothing to anyone anymore

    • @baikhous
      @baikhous Год назад +17

      @@LennyLaserdisk I see you know details of history but can't see the picture. Good luck with that!

    • @LennyLaserdisk
      @LennyLaserdisk Год назад

      @@baikhous I’m just saying I prefer empty threats over actual bombs! Good luck with that!

    • @RichardTaylor1630
      @RichardTaylor1630 Год назад

      @@LennyLaserdisk The US did not "threaten" to drop the A - bomb on Japan. We simply did it. We knew that the alternative was a house-to-house conquest of the Japanese home islands, which would cost the lives of about 200,000 Americans and probably a million Japanese.

  • @robinstevenson6690
    @robinstevenson6690 Год назад +5

    This is the best analysis of what has REALLY been going on that I have seen! Well done. Very insightful analysis. Top-notch.

    • @kayallen7603
      @kayallen7603 Год назад

      Watch the youtube channel by perun - then you will truly understand what's going on.

  • @tominnis8353
    @tominnis8353 Год назад +8

    96%. What an unimaginable surprise!

    • @rogerburn5132
      @rogerburn5132 Год назад

      The same as the Western sham elections in Iraq and Avganictan. 96 % win 😀😀😀😀😀

    • @rogerburn5132
      @rogerburn5132 Год назад

      What a surprise Russians in Ukraine want to join Russia. Does this make sense to you.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 Год назад

      Kind of surprised it wasn't 110%.

  • @DrumToTheBassWoop
    @DrumToTheBassWoop Год назад +22

    25:14 this annoys me this opinion. What choice do we have but to go to brinkmanship with Russia, otherwise it just bites and takes away bits of european countries well into the future, it's an unfavourable opinion, but wouldn't it be better to call Russia's bluff now when its weak than to experience a renewed Russia 20 years in the future and will be even worse.

    • @poucine832
      @poucine832 Год назад +1

      Absolutely. But the USA is afraid of an excalation which may be correct. When Ukraine did their recent counter offensive in retaliation Russia began to bomb ukraine's infrastructures like power stations and water dams

    • @zanizone3617
      @zanizone3617 Год назад +3

      Yes. I agree. They make it sound like Europe or the West have a choice in the matter. This journalist say "nobody has thought" about the long term consequences. Haven't they? Because to me, it seems there is precious little that the European powers can do to avoid having a rogue nuclear state at their doorstep. It's already there.
      What exactly does he propose we do differently? Shouldn't we first deal with Putin, before sitting down an crying about the coming, scary post-Putin instability?

    • @fuzielectron5172
      @fuzielectron5172 Год назад +1

      Except way back Russia suggested that the areas on question became independent states, a diplomatic solution that was favourable to all concerned even to the extent of financing the states through the transitional phase, didn't suit the power suits in the West though.
      Bad Russia!

    • @DrumToTheBassWoop
      @DrumToTheBassWoop Год назад +2

      @@fuzielectron5172 no they did not, they agree the borders at 1991, now since the maidan revolution, they claimed Ukraine is undemocratic and said areas in questions need to be "liberated".

    • @fuzielectron5172
      @fuzielectron5172 Год назад

      @@DrumToTheBassWoop people are wising up to the money sink and political manipulations that put us in this position. Ukraine will be the new Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • @bobkatfan2013
    @bobkatfan2013 Год назад +39

    A survey in Donetsk of 4K people before the war only had 25% had wanted to join Russia, Half wanted to stay in Ukraine, and a forth of that wanted greater autonomy.

    • @JamesSmith-qs4hx
      @JamesSmith-qs4hx Год назад +4

      Donetsk - 99.23%. Lugansk - 98.42%. Zaporozhye region - 93.11%. Kherson region - 87.05%.

    • @bobkatfan2013
      @bobkatfan2013 Год назад

      @@JamesSmith-qs4hx those are the sham election results.

    • @arthursimsa9005
      @arthursimsa9005 Год назад

      What war? Before what war? When?

    • @mixn44
      @mixn44 Год назад +3

      So when was this ? 9 years ago ?

    • @MrSandancer
      @MrSandancer Год назад +2

      I ‘d like to see your sources, but if genuine thank you. I have always wondered as to what side the Donbas region would turn. This does not take away my dislike of Putin’s tactics however. I’m afraid he has played his trump cards and been found wanting by his own people, his days are numbered.

  • @bluetonight
    @bluetonight Год назад +4

    "Matt Frei great news reporter. Love his reporting. He doesn’t just read the news but knows the news in depth with great empathy ! " I can't add to John B's comments as quoted

  • @baconchadman
    @baconchadman Год назад +4

    Pretty shocking to say

  • @TheYougig
    @TheYougig Год назад +19

    Absolutely brilliantly put together and compelling viewing/listening.

    • @bh-regime
      @bh-regime Год назад +3

      Yeah, it is very compelling to the uninformed!

  • @englishmaninfrance661
    @englishmaninfrance661 Год назад +12

    Matt is an excellent expert

  • @einsteinscat1591
    @einsteinscat1591 Год назад +8

    I vote for the shallow grave option.

  • @joe2mercs
    @joe2mercs Год назад +46

    The reason so many Russians want to leave is that being born in Russia they are only too aware of the ‘double speak’ used by authorities. Partial mobilisation means full mobilisation, only reservists means anyone with a pulse, volunteers means forced conscription, generous pay means no pay, comprehensive training means a walk from the barracks to the front lines and rapid medical response means bring your own first aid kit.

    • @1jordy11
      @1jordy11 Год назад +5

      he's already had to apologize for irresponsible forceful conscriptions but it surely still happening

    • @hillerm
      @hillerm Год назад +4

      @@1jordy11 He’s apologizing only because some VIP’s kid got drafted.

    • @fukkitful
      @fukkitful Год назад +1

      @@1jordy11 I don't understand why/how with 145M people Russia would need conscripts.
      There will always be young men willing to join. They tend to be young men who are adrenaline junkies who get high from being in combat. Unless the Russian military is just using these conscript as fodder and doesn't want to deploy the ones with proper combat training until nessecary.
      Or the Russian infantry only exist on paper...

    • @VajrahahaShunyata
      @VajrahahaShunyata Год назад +3

      Listen to the soldiers on social media if u want the truth.
      Not talking heads

    • @jalijali8448
      @jalijali8448 Год назад

      @@hillerm Dmitry Peskov

  • @Keralaforum
    @Keralaforum Год назад +4

    Only on Channels! Reality on the ground is different!

  • @andrewwatson6913
    @andrewwatson6913 Год назад

    Excellent discussion by Matt Frei.

  • @chestypants78
    @chestypants78 Год назад +1

    I could listen to Matt Frei for hours.

  • @steveh5005
    @steveh5005 Год назад +6

    Motivation 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇦

    • @douglastaggart9360
      @douglastaggart9360 Год назад

      I wish you'd motivate yourself too do some proper research instead of this rubbish

  • @spaceman9599
    @spaceman9599 Год назад +5

    An important point at ca.22 - the Nordsteams are indeed not actively transporting gas, but they are full of stationary gas - and there is a heck of a methane cloud over here in S/mid Sweden being blown north right now. The real threat being signalled here is linked to the Russian exercises off the Irish coast around the transatlantic cables ... And to the North Sea facilities. Norway is smart in going on alert to protect its facilities.

  • @estate0007
    @estate0007 Год назад +1

    2:22 We're innit to winnit! 🙂

  • @cquaio
    @cquaio Год назад +1

    Excelente!!

  • @marie7411
    @marie7411 Год назад +34

    Good, well done Ukraine ✌️🙏🕊️🤞🤗

  • @sentient94
    @sentient94 Год назад +4

    There is so much fear and anger and hate and distrust in the world today. And we act like there is no other way. Such a shame on humanity for choosing this path. But I still believe that there is hope for a course correction...definitely not in this lifetime as the wounds are too deep. Hopefully the next generation are smarter than the current and leaders of the past.

    • @nbkhafula8381
      @nbkhafula8381 Год назад

      Stay positive, do you see anything good, coming out of these people, whose babysitters are Video Games . I think after second world 🌎 war. We were supposed to be the best cohort to pacify the world. Nearly did, till Islamic Extremists and Communist bastards upended the Global Village we aspired to create.

    • @CantRead1
      @CantRead1 Год назад

      It's always been like that boomer

  • @mikefry9920
    @mikefry9920 Год назад

    Matt Frei
    Brilliant answers

  • @ezraepstein6933
    @ezraepstein6933 Год назад +2

    What about the simpler reason for annexing those regions.... It allows Russia to deploy troops there as part of the national guard and so allows a mobilization without declaring war. In other words it's done more for internal reasons than external ones.

  • @Marcus-ym1oj
    @Marcus-ym1oj Год назад +112

    Ukraine.Keep fighting for every inch of your land. Never give up and never give in All the good countries of the world are with you 💯💪💙💛

    • @yoshzlac2429
      @yoshzlac2429 Год назад

      Here is the full clip you all wanted:
      ruclips.net/video/mFnlLsX7eiw/видео.html

    • @azrielisrael8645
      @azrielisrael8645 Год назад +8

      That's not Ukraine fighting Russia Ukraine army is defeated they all know that that's nato and America that's fighting Russia and Russia already called nato and America to the battlefield none of them didn't step up yet.

    • @elaineread15
      @elaineread15 Год назад

      Only 10% of the world's population live in the West....presumably the ones you describe as "good nations".
      Western exceptionalism distorts your perception of reality.

    • @Anashadk
      @Anashadk Год назад +10

      @@azrielisrael8645 NATO loses no soldiers, Russia loses all her soldiers, who would you rather fight for?

    • @fawzifadhel1173
      @fawzifadhel1173 Год назад +7

      Really what about Palestinians are you supporting them

  • @spaceman9599
    @spaceman9599 Год назад +5

    Excellent deeper dive, intelligent discussions. Thank you.

  • @RA-gh3gg
    @RA-gh3gg Год назад

    This is such a good video! Please put more of these in depths on the RUclips Channel it’s excellent as an expat!

  • @justinsamsel1230
    @justinsamsel1230 Год назад

    Great questions, interesting responses with coloring detail. It was clear that at times you wanted to interject and further interrogate the responses but they were cut off. In the future why not share the bloopers? :)

  • @my-king
    @my-king Год назад +3

    This is a scary timeline right now. This really could turn into one of the biggest moments in history is Putin gets cornered.

    • @suad01
      @suad01 Год назад

      Putin is a moderate. Their are politicians in Russia who wanted to use nukes on day one.

  • @fintonking7525
    @fintonking7525 Год назад +130

    Matt mentioned the digging of trenches being more difficult with the onset of winter with the ground being frozen. Nothing drain's your energy so much like digging a trench in normal ground, using simple hand tools never mind frozen ground. There are small motorized excavators that will make that task a lot easier. A few of those out on the battlefield might be a good idea.

    • @marvinc9994
      @marvinc9994 Год назад +6

      Excellent point !
      Over to you, JCB...........................

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 Год назад +19

      Australia hasn't had a lot we can offer to help in the war, but we can probably help on this.We've got a few hundred million rabbits here that are experts at digging hard ground, so maybe we can send them to Ukraine - and they can double up as food & Ushankas when they're finished with the digging :)

    • @Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968
      @Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 Год назад +5

      Professor of the bleeding obvious... Well said.😂

    • @stukafaust
      @stukafaust Год назад +3

      Logical and worth noting.

    • @edubogota1
      @edubogota1 Год назад +1

      The problem is that there are just a few, that´s the issue. So yeah they will have to dig them manually

  • @worldallycat
    @worldallycat Год назад

    Great coverage

  • @DavidTothill
    @DavidTothill Год назад

    NEW Huge FAN of Matt

  • @NinjaSquirrel30
    @NinjaSquirrel30 Год назад +17

    Slavia Ukraine 🇺🇦

    • @disturbedreaper
      @disturbedreaper Год назад

      A sure way to get some likes! 😂😂😂

    • @bluered2117
      @bluered2117 Год назад

      @@disturbedreaper as anyone would say, tis for the greater good.

  • @JonnyCobra
    @JonnyCobra Год назад +221

    Five reasons why Putin can't use nuclear weapons in Ukraine:
    1. Nuclear weapons are a strategic deterrence and to use those will rob the Kremlin of the last line of its skunk defence strategy that is born more of weakness than a position of military strength.
    2. Using a nuclear tactical war-head on Ukraine's widely-dispersed forces won't have any real military impact; to use those on any city like Kyiv or Lviv will be so horrendous, the Kremlin can expect to be immediately hit with conventional cruise missiles. In such an event, there is a good chance that the Finnish army will seize the Russian nuclear arsenal in the isolated Murmansk base on the Arctic Sea to prevent Putin from using any of those, and there is nothing that the depleted Russian army can do to prevent that from happening.
    3. The use of nuclear weapons will also see an alliance of the willing NATO members join the Ukrainians Defence Force in the theatre of war and destroy the Russian forces in very short order, because it will be rightfully seen as an attack on all of Europe. Countries like the Finns, the Baltic states and Poland have a long list of historical grievances to settle, and the Kremlin knows they're chafing at the bit to do so.
    4. The prevailing winds in Europe blow West to East, meaning any radio-active fall-out will be blown over Russia and the other Federation members like Kazakhstan who is already siding against Putin. That will open up new military fronts on Russia's eastern borders that the Kremlin no longer can defend.
    5. The plutonium in nuclear warheads has to be replaced every five years to remain effective. Given the evidentially deplorable state of Russia's conventional arsenal, it is highly unlikely this ever happened. The still-huge Russian nuclear arsenal therefore likely amounts to mostly "dirty nukes", unlike that of the other nuclear powers in NATO.
    It's game over for Vladimir Putin. All he can do is to try and postpone the inevitable moment when one of his generals puts a bullet through the back of his head to prevent him from starting World War III.

    • @yvonnewey
      @yvonnewey Год назад +26

      Very well explained thank you👍 Slava Ukraini🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦👍

    • @aconiteuniverse
      @aconiteuniverse Год назад +18

      Well said so true..reason number 6 It will also motivate more neutral countries to move further away from abstaining in condemning Russia anf its actions.

    • @mbolton
      @mbolton Год назад +2

      Because he said only use them in defense of their territory as per the Russian constitution, however, the MSM are lying at every opportunity, let me remind the oligarchy-owned MSM supplicates that there is no room for them in the fallout shelters, they will die along with the rest of us from this escalating USA #oligarchy war on the #Russian state and people.
      So tell the truth and stop with the lies, try it, we can build a better world with the truth, that will scar the oligarchy and its pets in the political arena. Think of the good you could do rather than serving the evil course of the 1%
      It is the #MSM that has enabled the destruction of western #democracy they must be very proud of there to work, in their selfish actions they also confer slavery on their flesh and blood who will suffer because of their incompetency or the selling out of the real news, journalism, and our freedoms.
      The USA is the only nation that used WMD on the civilian population killing 100,000+ women, children, and old people.

    • @metapol118
      @metapol118 Год назад +3

      wait till the end of October and November at least before jumping to conclusions next month will be very active for Russia, September was the month of Ukraine

    • @keithpalmer4547
      @keithpalmer4547 Год назад

      putin having a extra hole in his head from another russian is the best outcome. Who cares if a bad guy takes over russia. That person will move troops back to russia to maintian control and this war would end.

  • @WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT
    @WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT Год назад +3

    I am surprised that the results were not 100% in favour - or more...

    • @brandyluck6171
      @brandyluck6171 Год назад

      Yeah they stopped at 98/97/95/93/99 but not over 100

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      Don't be sarcastic, you don't know anything about Ukraine and what has been done to eastern part of it.
      Take a look if you've got a brain and patient for long videos, Tik toker!
      ruclips.net/video/KszFzhJBcJA/видео.html
      This is a great reporter, she is watching from inside, not from far away.
      And she is amazingly decent and honest reporter.
      Is it why she is on the dead list of Ukraine?

  • @jonathanjollimore4794
    @jonathanjollimore4794 Год назад +4

    A million men are just meat for the grinder with out more tanks planes and artillery to go with it. On paper Russian seem to have all the advantages but that paper is pretty misleading right now Ukrainians are out gunning larger Russian force the Russian have lost A LOT of equipment. This mobilization not really going help as much as people think

  • @oksanatulpa7984
    @oksanatulpa7984 Год назад +7

    Exuse me but , but when some one speaks about confidence , I always remember the dialog from one fantastic book of my youth by Strugatskie
    : "Fools are always confident " - " Are you sure " " Yes ? I am confident " )

    • @frederickd.provoncha8671
      @frederickd.provoncha8671 Год назад +1

      Interesting quote. I'm sure it's a great book. I don't know that I agree with the quote in principle tho. It may be that fools are always confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all those who are confident are fools. There are many endeavors in life where success requires confidence, such as sports, war, politics, etc. In my experience, preparation, planning, and practice lead to confidence, and confidence leads to success. I'm just waxing philosophical here. I don't mean to criticize, your quote just got me thinking, that's all.

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/KszFzhJBcJA/видео.html
      This is a great reporter, she is watching from inside, not from far away.
      And she is amazingly decent and honest reporter.
      Is it why she is on the dead list of Ukraine?

  • @ManlyMenAndSam
    @ManlyMenAndSam Год назад +3

    “We've got one thing that Voldemort doesn't have. - Something worth fighting for.” - Harry Potter

    • @bharathsf
      @bharathsf Год назад

      There is no such dialogue in Harry Potter books. In other words, you are sheep

  • @kevindickson2178
    @kevindickson2178 Год назад

    pipe doesn't need gas pressure to prevent crushing.

  • @theflan045
    @theflan045 Год назад +1

    The Bells!!!

  • @Lambert7785
    @Lambert7785 Год назад +5

    tell me again, why is it that the ukrainians are confident that they will win the war? (why do they have real confidence, as opposed to just being determined?) you said early in the broadcast that they did, but I didn't get a compelling reason as to why...- did I miss something?

    • @norrisphillips4360
      @norrisphillips4360 Год назад

      @lambert lorette look a map today. Now check in Tomorrow. Do this for the next few weeks and most sane and observant persons will see that Ukraine can win. Look at the equipment the new Russian recruits are getting. No training and sent to active front? all Russia cheerleaders are delusional.

    • @uffa00001
      @uffa00001 Год назад

      "tell me again, why is it that the ukrainians are confident that they will win the war?" My opinion: Russia will lose a long-term war because with more time passing by, the more Ukraine will get western weapons and training (rather than former-Warsaw-pact weapons as they did initially), and the more Russia will be weakened, socially and economically, by the sanctions. If the war lasts three or four more years, Putin is bound to suffer politically more and more, until somebody gives him a spicy tea. In Ukraine people will not protest in the streets against war, but in Russia discontent is mounting and in two-three years it might erupt in giant demonstrations that might force Putin to resign and flight somewhere.

  • @joshhencik1849
    @joshhencik1849 Год назад +5

    Well, I guess if Ukraine is going to be shortly attacking Russia proper (formerly Ukraine) then go all in and just start hitting targets in Russia all along the border. Let them figure out where to defend.

  • @samwaters1556
    @samwaters1556 Год назад

    The bells! 😂

  • @gamehack6359
    @gamehack6359 Год назад +1

    What point is a curfew on the people during a war??????

  • @irishseadogoz
    @irishseadogoz Год назад +5

    Another great discussion by two brilliant commentators, love the rhetoric with both these guys, Thank you. ☘️

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/KszFzhJBcJA/видео.html
      This is a great reporter, she is watching from inside, not from far away.
      And she is amazingly decent and honest reporter.
      Is it why she is on the dead list of Ukraine?

    • @douglastaggart9360
      @douglastaggart9360 Год назад

      If you class these are great your thick.

  • @yinchingleung7766
    @yinchingleung7766 Год назад +4

    thank you! God bless Ukraine!

  • @Funkylogic
    @Funkylogic Год назад

    Isn't there something about the calling of a vote inside of 90 days of border action?

  • @jolantad7971
    @jolantad7971 Год назад +2

    Thats why it happens. Its not bout Ukraine being confident of victory.
    Its about entire world not being aware of ultimate loss...

  • @maurvir3197
    @maurvir3197 Год назад +83

    I know things are going to be rough in Europe thanks to the gas situation, but Europeans need to be reminded what happened the last time a nation annexed its neighbor and the rest of Europe went with appeasement. Giving in to Russia at this point is going to invite a vastly worse war that won't be limited to making Europe suffer a cold winter. If Putin's nuclear blackmail works in Ukraine, he will use it again, and the next time may involve a NATO country.

    • @morganpeters3454
      @morganpeters3454 Год назад +3

      really

    • @jakebarr8670
      @jakebarr8670 Год назад

      Well we all know who set this ball rolling , did you actually listen to Putins speach or did you hear second hand from our world class reporters on the ground in Ukraine .You see back in the day, war reporters were embedded with the troops on the frontline just like theRussians do.....oh they can't Zelensky does not allow Reporters on the frontline. Begs the question how do the news reporters know anything. Right line up this what you will report ,We are winning they are losing, we are killing thousands of Russian, we have had minimal casualties. People need to find the information for themselves, rather than listen to reporters who have lost their objectivity and values.

    • @Ophaganestopolis
      @Ophaganestopolis Год назад +31

      Exactly, here in Europe we must understand that any help to Ukraine is not only right, it is also an investment in future stability.

    • @morganpeters3454
      @morganpeters3454 Год назад +5

      @@Ophaganestopolis I couldn't agree less with you

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      Just one remark: there was no Putin nuclear blackmail at all, if you didn't hear his full speech about it, then don't believe in a couple of words taking out of context and biased experts comments.
      Don't worry Putin is not crazy, but after the last accidents on NS I see there are crazy west decision makers.

  • @hawklord100
    @hawklord100 Год назад +22

    One Russian rufusnik interviewed at the Georgia border, said 'why are we fighting to steal someone elses land' not me.. and walked away into Georgia,this suggests that this is likely common knowledge now. Slava Ukraine

    • @messrsandersonco5985
      @messrsandersonco5985 Год назад

      Young people will think differently from the older generations who are more likely to believe Russian propaganda. China has done the same to its population - it's essentially brainwashing.

    • @pite9
      @pite9 Год назад

      What is common knowledge?

    • @hawklord100
      @hawklord100 Год назад +1

      @@pite9 it means 'that everyone knows'

    • @pite9
      @pite9 Год назад

      @@hawklord100 I mean what specifically is common knowledge? You don't specify what you mean.

  • @vtownpaddy517
    @vtownpaddy517 Год назад

    Great analogy!---VTown Paddy Patrick

    • @C02045
      @C02045 Год назад

      The highest probability at this time is assassination of Putin in a lightning coup. If it does by not happen soon control could be lost to bedlam decisions.

  • @edenfinch5299
    @edenfinch5299 Год назад

    Thats wallpaper?

  • @grannyappleseed
    @grannyappleseed Год назад +14

    Glory to the FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF UKRAINE 🇺🇦 🙌
    LETS GIVE UKRAINE BACK THEIR 💥

    • @ninzki143
      @ninzki143 Год назад +1

      AMEN, Glory to Russia!

  • @mikestirewalt5193
    @mikestirewalt5193 Год назад +7

    You and others are missing the main point re the eastern oblasts. The question may and surely was a sham, but the primary point of it all is that Russia had no right to conduct a referendum on Ukranian territory in the first place.

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      really? Could you give me one legal ground? No just those words?
      And why no one told a word about Kosowo, being cut off Serbia even without referendum?
      Then the territory of Kosowo was "cleaned" from Serbians, destroying orthodox churches and again not a word?

    • @mikestirewalt5193
      @mikestirewalt5193 Год назад +2

      @@poppyaustin7315 You're comparing beans and asparagus.

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      @@mikestirewalt5193
      BS and no legal ground, as I thought

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 Год назад

      @@poppyaustin7315 BUT WHAT ABOUT--

  • @dietrichschmiedeknecht3687
    @dietrichschmiedeknecht3687 Год назад +2

    The danger is; people want to believe what they are most influenced by. Sublimable convincing can be pretty easy to accept. Who knows the truth/presently. In the future history will tell us the truth.

  • @joshuajames1720
    @joshuajames1720 Год назад

    Decent insights from Matt Fry here. I like this open dialogue type of conversation, much more revealing and real. More of that channel 4 and I may stop slagging you off so much!

  • @peterhagan8454
    @peterhagan8454 Год назад +2

    soon as he said russian men might die there, the church bells toill that is almost take a realiseation moment, of clearity on that

  • @coolchoicebro
    @coolchoicebro Год назад +3

    Russia had what looked like a good Running all outter body nice jacked up truck but once you get the hood up there's no engine to run it.

  • @JamieHumeCreative
    @JamieHumeCreative Год назад

    Why help them make corrections then..

  • @InterestedCitizen
    @InterestedCitizen Год назад +1

    Matt Frei, great reporter👍

  • @doitdiddy
    @doitdiddy Год назад +24

    The little trick that the ukrainians used in swapping places that they were about to counter attack was brilliant, but it was not the only trick they played. They appear to be very intelligent and creative, in their use of homemade weapons, the repurposing and upgrade of tanks, the use of decoys to replicate HIMARS and other weapons, encircling the enemy etc etc. I have been watching this war from the beginning and I'm very impressed with the creativeness and relentlessness of the Ukrainian people. They also appear to keep a great sense of humor and the singing- Beautiful! When they raise their flag I almost feel like I'm a part of their success. Slava Ukraine! The world is with you! 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇨🇦

    • @marioformosa4259
      @marioformosa4259 Год назад

      Yes and both 16 year olds and a farmer pensioner bring down Russian planes we are told. And Amnesty International told us that the Ukrainian Army loves the Eastern Ukrainians so much that they place military bases in schools and hospitals

    • @jamescariaga
      @jamescariaga Год назад

      Ukraine would have been conquered in the first month if we didn't step in. This war is between the US vs Russia, Ukraine is just a pawn on the table nothing more.

    • @spaceman9599
      @spaceman9599 Год назад +2

      The Russians mastered 'Maskarovka' - the art of operational deception - in WWII.
      The Ukrainians just casually superseded them, with the brilliant application of limited assets, excellent operational and strategic direction, and unlimited Ukrainian courage.
      The last month, in particular, is going to be taught in military colleges as textbook operational art. Ukraine managed to rout Russian forces near Izyum at 1:3 odds.

    • @RA-gh3gg
      @RA-gh3gg Год назад

      Democracy vs Dictatorship. In War incredibly creative people in Democratic States end up running rings around static dictatorship hierarchy based forces.

    • @dagnytaggart2027
      @dagnytaggart2027 Год назад

      I am ukrainian and sometimes I watch international news. Comments of unknown people are very supportive. Thank u🇨🇦❤

  • @jakeydelasbebs8800
    @jakeydelasbebs8800 Год назад +5

    There's no sound

  • @nads5907
    @nads5907 Год назад +1

    It's amazing how bad Ch4 is.

  • @barbaraniedenthal6814
    @barbaraniedenthal6814 Год назад +1

    So much administration, love and respect for the Ukrainian forces and people.
    Slava Ukraini

  • @SocialStudies831
    @SocialStudies831 Год назад +10

    Russia lost so much on this war... mainly cuz no one will ever fear them again

  • @robertbones326
    @robertbones326 Год назад +52

    I love Ukraine from the UK 🇬🇧
    Zelenksyy is a hero

    • @JamesSmith-qs4hx
      @JamesSmith-qs4hx Год назад +2

      77th Brigade...

    • @tomjackson2907
      @tomjackson2907 Год назад

      @@JamesSmith-qs4hx what about them? That’s child’s play vs what JTRIG & CGHQ are really capable of

    • @cyberblunt
      @cyberblunt Год назад +2

      I love your post from the USA

    • @darrenpowell7225
      @darrenpowell7225 Год назад

      ❤❤❤ fan boy

    • @IBTU
      @IBTU Год назад +4

      If you love them so much why don’t you go over there and fight

  • @josephsmith3908
    @josephsmith3908 Год назад +1

    The problem with throwing people with no training it could actually hurt you because you are straining a already strained logistics Russia has x amount of war material puting a further strain and you risk loosing those materials to the other side

  • @FannyBunny
    @FannyBunny Год назад

    Oh, those experts that have no clue what's going on 🤦‍♀️

  • @AchtungEnglander
    @AchtungEnglander Год назад +3

    So we could be heading to WWIII by next week?

    • @thebigpicture2032
      @thebigpicture2032 Год назад +4

      We’ve been one madman away from WWIII FOR 70 years.

    • @ShugScotland1872
      @ShugScotland1872 Год назад +1

      @@thebigpicture2032 we are the madmen.

    • @chirpywiggins5796
      @chirpywiggins5796 Год назад

      We in Europe will be wiped out by Xmas.

    • @_oceanman
      @_oceanman Год назад

      Perhaps buddy. Heard that China is considering attacking Taiwan this winter. Heard this unsurping of Xi Jin Ping incident is just a diversion

  • @mrromantico5518
    @mrromantico5518 Год назад +9

    Ukraine soldier dont giveup because the fight is for your country in to ur country men..all the souldier now from ukraine is the hero to save the land of ukraine country..

  • @raymondjones9233
    @raymondjones9233 Год назад +1

    Dear Matt, the respect I have had for you for so many years shames me now.

  • @NormanFinkelstein9863
    @NormanFinkelstein9863 Год назад

    Good holesum entertainment. simplistic and pleasing to ears.

  • @paulhoskin3286
    @paulhoskin3286 Год назад +64

    The problem for Putin is most of the soldiers don't want to fight for him

    • @corneliusantonius3108
      @corneliusantonius3108 Год назад +25

      They just don't want to Putin the effort.

    • @susandavey2361
      @susandavey2361 Год назад

      @@corneliusantonius3108
      Someone needs to Putin down quick

    • @MarkM001
      @MarkM001 Год назад

      He has a lot more problems than that. Russia will lose and they will lose in every way possible.

    • @Paul-dv4dr
      @Paul-dv4dr Год назад +6

      They have to camp in a trench to avoid prison... not the making of a good modern army.

    • @corneliusantonius3108
      @corneliusantonius3108 Год назад

      @@Paul-dv4dr Trench foot will be rampant soon.

  • @silverback855
    @silverback855 Год назад +3

    Why do I feel like I'm living in a cheesy James Bond movie with an evil maniac threatening to destroy the planet if he doesn't get his way?

    • @suad01
      @suad01 Год назад +1

      Referring to Biden obviously

  • @artadrians
    @artadrians Год назад

    Yeah yeah....let's see...!!!

  • @thesean68
    @thesean68 Год назад

    Can’t wait to celebrate my prediction 💪🏼🙂

  • @bernardwarr4187
    @bernardwarr4187 Год назад +4

    Ultimately Mat, your right, Putin will do what he needs to, to stay in power. That’s what this is all about

    • @marioformosa4259
      @marioformosa4259 Год назад +1

      Actually it is about America's divine right to have American NATO bases wherever it wants. And America wants these bases so that we stay democratic and free.
      Not for us undemocratic Russia. We need democratic friends like Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar etc not countries like Poland, Hungary, Italy who hold elections and tell us that they are democratic. They need von Laden to confirm whether they are democratic or not

    • @bernardwarr4187
      @bernardwarr4187 Год назад +1

      @@marioformosa4259 I did not know Americans had bases in Ukraine? where are the American bases in Ukraine? Do you know why countries like Poland invite NATO to have bases in there country?

  • @jjm4371
    @jjm4371 Год назад +21

    imminent defeat for the russians in lyman today, ukraine pulling off another huge encirclement, looking like russia will announce the accession of occupied territories the same day that their military suffers another catastrophic defeat.

    • @marioformosa4259
      @marioformosa4259 Год назад +1

      Yes they have suffered about 146 catastrophic defeats.

  • @catherineandpaulfuters2523
    @catherineandpaulfuters2523 Год назад +1

    We'll wear more clothes and send more kit!

  • @CYCHIATRIC
    @CYCHIATRIC Год назад

    We are going to start throwing sunshine lol!

  • @frederickd.provoncha8671
    @frederickd.provoncha8671 Год назад +30

    It's very ironic that Putin is so scared of being overthrown, like the Czars were in 1917, yet every decision he's made since this war began has only increased the likelihood that he will be. He started a war that nobody wanted, he employs the most ineffective military tactics & strategy that leads to high casualties and embarrassment on the battlefield, his war brings sanctions from the West down upon him that cripple the Russian economy, and then he institutes a very controversial and unpopular draft. Every single one of these things only increases the anger and dissatisfaction among the Russian population with his leadership. Again and again in recent months he keeps doing things that have the opposite effect of what he intended.

    • @jimrogers4809
      @jimrogers4809 Год назад +6

      Yea the czar the dictator of russia in 1917 was alot like putin , he lived in palaces with extreme wealth and total power oppression any opposition , his big mistake was entering ww1 as a chance to grab some territory fro m germany , he thought it would be an easy victory because the russian army was so large, but he suffered on defeat after another on the battlefield and the people got sick of dying for him and rose up and overthrew him, maybe histroy will repeat

    • @guywebster8018
      @guywebster8018 Год назад +2

      Not to mention brought nato closer. From what I hear though he was having issue with the economy as is and his calculation (wrong one) was to stay in power. I think he was shocked when trump lost and knew biden would be a weaker potus but a bigger pain in the butt for him. He made his move didnt he?

    • @edwardrose3061
      @edwardrose3061 Год назад

      How many Russian elections have been free and fair since Putin came to power? He lost power a long time ago but sham election after sham election plus fear has helped him remain there. The Russians haven’t wanted Putin for years either. Time to rise up in Russia and remove the despot.

    • @RichardTaylor1630
      @RichardTaylor1630 Год назад

      @@guywebster8018 You got that half right -- Putin correctly assessed that Biden would be a weaker POTUS, but he didn't count on Boris Johnson standing up to Russia in a way that forced the Biden administration to get on the bandwagon of opposition to the invasion, lest Biden completely forfeit the US's role of leadership of the western alliance. He also utterly miscalculated the determination of the Ukrainian people to fight back - which led the US / NATO to give Ukraine more support once they saw that a Russian victory was not inevitable.

    • @strawb1793
      @strawb1793 Год назад +4

      You are just being fooled by the news that you watch

  • @Seablack66
    @Seablack66 Год назад +4

    Apparently Putin thinks its still the 1950s. Like any sane human not to mention the rest of the world would accept these elections as remotely legitimate. Would be complete comedy if it wasn't so utterly, desperately, stupidly PATHETIC.

    • @susandavey2361
      @susandavey2361 Год назад +2

      We all can see how crazy it is even Puckin himself, but he's thinking What you gonner do about it?

    • @chirpywiggins5796
      @chirpywiggins5796 Год назад

      @@susandavey2361 Absolutely and once again in his speech tomorrow he'll threaten the West with nuclear war until he eventually carries out his threat, which i don't think is far away now !

  • @user-ju1qd3ok2g
    @user-ju1qd3ok2g Год назад +2

    The Energy issue will be solved after 2 or 5 years.

  • @martinsFILMS13
    @martinsFILMS13 Год назад

    4 News is the best

  • @lionelpayette4628
    @lionelpayette4628 Год назад +10

    Victory to Ukrainian ❤💙💛☮

    • @greathey1234
      @greathey1234 Год назад

      Azovstal 😂

    • @poppyaustin7315
      @poppyaustin7315 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/KszFzhJBcJA/видео.html
      This is a great reporter, she is watching from inside, not from far away.
      And she is amazingly decent and honest reporter.
      Is it why she is on the dead list of Ukraine?

    • @DianusaRo
      @DianusaRo Год назад

      @@greathey1234 ha ha ha. Azovstal is dead!

    • @DianusaRo
      @DianusaRo Год назад

      The nazi country!

    • @greathey1234
      @greathey1234 Год назад

      @@DianusaRo yes, by their own friendly fire loooool

  • @paul1x1
    @paul1x1 Год назад +3

    More guns and ammo planes tanks Germany get it over with

  • @senencalapatia2666
    @senencalapatia2666 Год назад

    Aren'r mobilization for war not for "special operation"? 300k for sp.opn.?

  • @lazybear5313
    @lazybear5313 Год назад +2

    I mean they are not. But if that is your narrative, so be it.