Out of all of the other channels that cover things going on around the world. You are the best imo, no filler, not trying to sell us anything, well spoken, just telling us how it is and I appreciate that. Keep up the good work!
Kind of wish that was true Preston. Stay with a balanced approach and don't let the Nato narrative or their many club sandwiches at their parties suck you in. Thank you.
only guy i listened to. use to listen to more, but your military experience and balanced take is very important. I remember when very big channels on youtube said ukraine was gonna wipe russia in the counter offensive…we know how that went. You kept a balanced perspective. peace from east tn✌️
We also had every single media, military analyst, youtubers and even Russian propagandist themselves claim Russia wouldn't take over 2 weeks to capture Kyiv. Yet here we are.
@@lancerevo9747 yeah. Sure he predicted that Russia would fail to take Kyiv in the crucial first days of the war. What a load of horseshit. I’ve watched a few of Gonzalo liras videos. Jesus Christ what a demented retard Rusbots clinged onto. It’s crazy
Shoigu wasn’t replaced he was promoted he still retains his responsibilities from his previous position issues with the war planning movement etc.The new Russia Defense minister is to combine the Military industrial complex with the civilian economy to increase military spending and output.
From what I understand, while his new role is technically superior, it has less real power since it's only an advisory role. Used for putting ex politicans out to pasture in a dignified way
The fact that the Ukrainian government has to be prevented forcefully, from shelling civilian areas just for kicks and laughs, speaks volumes about their deeper ideology.
@@jaxonl7810 Sorry but what you want to happen has no effect on the situation. We'll have to wait and see how this operation plays out. Saying "It won't happen because I don't like it" is pointless and childish.
I think Russia's goals around Kharkiv are "all of the above." Based on the relatively small troop numbers and the incursions being close to Belgorod city I think the primary objective is to create a buffer zone to stop the raids by RVC et al, but they would certainly also be hoping for a lucky break like the Ukrainians got in their Kharkhiv campaign in 2022.
It’s a very very simple question Sir . The Kharkov offensive is to draw the Ukrainian defence in Donbas thinner and drew away any reserves as much as possible .. The Russians are now fighting over two major towns (Chasiv Yar and Krasnogorovka)
Белоусова назначили для более эффективного расхода текущих средств, а не для того чтобы увеличивать бюджет в будущем. Он опытный экономист и то что гражданский - не играет никакой роли, потому что войной занимается НАЧАЛЬНИК ГЕНШТАБА блин. Че ж так эксперты измельчали...
It seems like Russia will never go on a wild offensive with major flanking maneuvers again. It's not that they do not have enough manpower or resources, I think it's more of that it's very very risky and could go south really quick like early days of war. They realize now that they would actually prefer chewing down slowly through the defensive lines via indirect fire strikes which their military doctrine has always revolved around. Spot the enemy then hammer it down with indirect. I remember watching another RUclips video where they have some kind of statistics on this war. As it turns out, firearms are the last in terms of inflicting casualty something like less than 5%. almost 90% of the casualties come from indirect. That's just insane numbers where there's literally minimal shoot out happening, and majority is just calling all these ordinances on each other's heads
That's a good point, using indirect fires and missiles to take out the infrastructure and only take strategic areas instead of trying to maneuver across vast distances. Besides the Ukrainian army is obliged to come to them so they don't really have to maneuver all that much to make steady gains. Plus given the fact that they are prepared to keep going for the next 2-3 years means that time is on their side.
Serdyukov's name is synonymous with the reforms that are now viewed as having played a major part in undermining Russia's armed forces and a person closely tied to him was indicted in the biggest military related corruption scandal in Russia before the recent arrests of Shoigu's deputy.
thank you for covering this, it offers another perspective compared to the normal Ukraine News TV posts that i keep up with, he's still very insightful, would recommend!
Belgorad was under fire from 155mm sporadic firing and constant drone attacks from combatants left to defend the NE border region. A couple of youtube channels here laughing at all the cute explosions around Belgorad. They skip the news reports on all the apartments and houses and offices hit by these shells. You guys think Russia suddenly decided to do this and have 0 answers... well I just gave you the major ones... Aadivka was doing the same to Donetsk... making sense now?
Hey man, so I’ve been thinking about the maps situation and have a few thoughts. Maps being shown on most channels are super busy with tons of location names lines between countries, more lines on top of that etc. Jist makes everything far too thick to follow. If there were a program to show a cleaner simpler map with blatant colors of what Russia has taken and then show some animation movement of clear direction whether it’s Russians or Ukrainians and their movement with highlights of the cities or town being discussed. Constantly zooming in and out to show visual perspective is a huge plus! Next, if there was a way to even move into an easy to make sense “3D” visual of the area, that would be huge!! It would show physical challenges mountains etc and help people really connect with what they are seeing. That combines with your superb dialogue would make it super legit! I can guarantee that if you were to do this, which would at least in the beginning take probably a lot of extra time to edit, it would blast your channel off in an epic capacity. Why? Because no one, no other channel that I have seen is doing anything remotely close to that and because I believe the business of the current maps everyone are using makes it difficult to follow and actually starts losing people’s attention. Just my humble opinion! Hope the Beez are doing g well! 👍🏼🙂
So if Russia cannot even think to take on Kharkiv, then why is everyone saying they are going to take out Poland and the Baltics (Latvia, Estonia, etc.) what new army did they create to invade Poland? Did I miss some great recruitment of the 1million-3million strong army with new equipment?
@@LeadLeftLeon NATO cannot defend the Baltics..... NATO has complete uncontested control of the Baltic Sea with Sweden and Finland having joined. Finnish forces alone could curb stomp a Russian advance into paste and remind them just how bad Russians are at fighting in forests and swamps. Finland has an airforce of around 60 fully capable F/A-18 super hornets that are minutes away from the other Baltic states, Sweden has 71 Fighters JAS 39 Gripen. just between those two nations alone Russia would be unable to operate anywhere near the airspace of the Baltic nations completely ignoring the fact that Russian aircraft would be under threat from naval air defenses in those regions. now lets throw in the fact that it would take around 6 hours for Finland to deploy troops in Tallinn meanwhile England, France, USA and the UK keep troops on rotation in the Baltic states with tanks etc. Russia would literally get stopped within a few kilometers of the border and risk losing Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg if their was a counter offensive done by NATO.
Why would Russia attack other countries? That's just propaganda. Russia only attacked Ukraine because of nato. CiA making biolabs in Russian border and you expect Russia to accept that?? Imagine Russia making military base in mexico
Wow! A politician, seated in the crucial position as Defense Minister during a brutal war, single-handedly decides to step down from his high ranking position. Possibly because the next man might be better suited for the next phase going forward? I’ve never said this and chances are I’ll never say it again, but the folks at the Capitol could learn something from this Russian politician/officer.
I’m rooting for Ukraine but I absolutely can’t stand mainstream corporate media lying about Ukraine always winning. It is better to be in touch with reality rather than to ignore a problem. Thanks for making a legit video
Right now I haven't seen too much Ukraine is winning but rather some Ukraine is loosing, Europe get your asses moving!!! I advise you look up other/more sources, but yes, it is necessary not to hide the problems, but confront them head on
We all know that this offensive is for the purpose of creating a buffer zone since Putin has talked about it for months, and I think the fact that Russia obviously understands that Ukraine will have to redeploy troops from their already stretched lines in the east is a huge bonus for them. But remember.. the main goal of Russia which has been the case for years now is to secure the Donbass, and by the looks of it Ukraine has already sent multiple detachments of their much needed elite forces to the north, withdrawing them from the Avdiivka and Chasiv Yar directions. I want to remind people about Ocheretyne, one elite battalion being able to be redeployed to that area as it collapsed saved who knows how much from being taken, it was a potential collapse of large parts of that front.. it was literally a large gap in Ukraine's frontline which was clogged by a quick reaction from the elite battalion at the last second. Now imagine if something like this happens again in the summer and there's no quick reaction force to plug the hole, imagine if that happens to Chasiv Yar. Russia has been massing troops near Chasiv Yar for almost 2 weeks now, so personally I think we're gonna see a push into Sumy as the Kharkiv front becomes more "established", and then as Ukraine rushes troops to Sumy and its high command being busy with that, Russia will start a big push towards Chasiv Yar. Obviously it's all speculations from me, but Ukraine should be very careful to not overplay their hand here. Like I said, we have seen large russian troop build ups in the Sumy direction and Chasiv Yar direction for weeks, so obviously they're planning something.
@@GeldUndKokaine-kc1hpone of the errors that the polish military made leading up the the German invasion was to try and defend every inch of the border rather than giving them selves depth to manoeuvre.
I still find it hard to believe that Russia with a population of about 165 million and a GDP of about Spain or Canada can out do the EU, NATO and the USA and others in all areas.
That's not accurate. Russia is out producing the number shells NATO countries are willing to send to Ukraine. Keep in mind artillery is only part of how NATO would win a war. While Russia is producing lots of shells and inferior tanks the US is producing stealth fighters and bombers, aircraft carriers, actual hypersonic missiles and so on.
People appreciate Preston and other authors who try to give objective information, because anti-Russian propaganda works worse and worse as the Russians advance further
Putin declared that his invasion of Kharkiv was to create a 10km wide zone sanitaire. That's French for sanitary zone, What we might call a buffer zone.
@@jaxonl7810 yeah the Russians are Olympic champions of goal post moving. whatever their goals are right now will be changed to whatever suits them tomorrow or saves them from embarrassment in a week.
Exactly. The Ukrainians have been evacuating the towns and villages in Kharkiv oblast and bringing everyone to Kharkiv City. So, obviously they're well aware of the fact that the Russians aren't going for Kharkiv city, otherwise why would they bring all the evacuated civilians there?
People spend so much time bashing putting an economist as Defense Minister but they won’t mention that Shoigu wasn’t a soldier either. He was by nature of politics and family connections given a military rank to justify his positions.
The Mavic's (3 classic, Mavic 3 Pro,..) all have an FPV modes with HD resolution with low latency. Commercially these are cheap & the use for observation in military situations would be a god send!
Doing a great job summing up these complex subjects. Since this war is going to push more toward Kharkiv over the next few months. To say Kharkiv it's "Har-Keev." Also not perfect, but it's close enough. For the correct pronunciation, you have to get really drunk and try to say "Car Key" and "Hard Leave" at the same time.
So it seems like that 2majors is a regular soldier? He’s been reporting from the front lines for a while now. It makes me wonder how he’s still alive considering the amount of regular soldiers that are being neutralized on a daily basis. Is he maybe a higher ranked officer? Just a thought I had
"Ground is something you walk or fly over. It is OK to win as much as possible of it, but what really matters is what kind of ground you have. Is it useful"' (Col. Douglas McGregor)
I thought so too all the time. Who knows, if russia had deployed their forces in the Bakhmut area instead of Kharkiv region, maybe they were on the way of capturing Chasiv Yar by now.
Russia has the numerical and artillery advantage, otherwise it wouldn't work. But they do, so it does. Pretty typical Russian method. It's not pretty or clever, but it works.
Could it be because of the *maximum viable concentration of forces?* Like when the Persians couldn't utilize their vast numerical advantage over the Spartans. In such cases, attacking from more directions should be advantageous to those with numerical superiority 🤔
Werent the freedom of Russia legion guys active in that general area? I wonder if they have people behind the lines who can help meet the Kharkiv feint.
Just like our weapons have improved, our ability to train and re-arm has un-dubitably improved, we have the Ability to run life training exercises with blanks, and review thousands of hours of combat footage. Now we have AI thrown in the mix and ultra-realistic simulators. They can get their guys trained up if they need too.
Thanks Preston. The concept of Putin wanting to militarize the economy for the long term and rebuilding the military for the next phase seems very plausible. Apparently Putin would like to somehow freeze the war( with a ceasefire and endless "negotiations"),and buy time to reform and rebuild.I fully expect an informational and diplomatic campaign aided possibly by China and directed towards Western general populations.At this point ,I don't see Western leaders ( except possibly in the US) buying it.👍🤙
I know it looks hard to believe but the reality is Ukraine is going to fail due to lack of leadership and resources. They had a great opportunity in 2022 and early 2023 unfortunately they stopped for some reason. That was stupid otherwise they could have taken more territory. The other part of Ukraine problems are number of troops, the amount Ukraine soldiers are dying it’s crazy. Second lack of training or knowledge of using western military equipment properly. The third horrible reason is corruption Ukraine government is the most corrupted government in the world that leads them to so many failures. 4th one is lack of strategic thinking for example how enemy could attack, from where? How they may attack etc, the great example is how Russian came back to Kharkiv? This big question I did some research on that so many some mistakes I found from Ukraine sides so over all they are in horrible shape
Anyone know when suriyak last updated? I check their instagram but have seen anything new in 5 days. (And insta treats their account weirdly). Is there a better way to follow them?
I follow multiple maps, and right now, since months, pro russian maps are much more precise and updated. Maybe because things are going well for them. Ucranians need to hide setbacks and maintain moral.
There is barely any moral left. From what I hear from civilians, they just want this shit over, regardless of outcome. Another youtuber reported that 2 groups of volunteers straight up ran away, when they noticed the Russian recon group advancing
Yo a channel you might wana collab with is Reporting from Ukraine, or maybe interview. He is from Ukraine and gives daily updates on the war from a pretty neutral perspective and if you wana know how good he is, he has suffered now 2 mass bot attacks from Russians trying to take down his channel.
Hi Preston, I think the goal of the russians is to basically divert all troops fighting in the donbass to rotate up to kharkiv, leaving chasiv yar, krasnohorivka and kupyiansk vulnerable (especially kupyiansk). I think the main goal is to re-capture kupyiansk, since they suffered a defeat in their last winter offensive in synkivka.
What you think is irrelevant. You're a nobody. You have no analyst training. You have no analyst experience. You have no actual intelligence to go by other than what's freely available. No one cares what you think.
The reason Russia needs to get into artillery range is because Patriot Missile systems can not shoot down these shells. That’s how I understand it . The Americans know this and so does any other person who has a brain apart from the nations who are buying these systems.
The only defense system that can theoretically take down artillery shells at rate of 20% is the iron doom but launching 5 missiles worth 60000 $ per each just to intercept 400 $ shell is not good idea
It’s a struggle of nearPutin thief clans. New guy supposedly isn’t as corrupt, but how he’s going to lead the most corrupt ministry (MOD) - that’s still a question.
Putin removed him and placed him on the security council. It's the equivalent of "benching" a player in sports, when they are underperforming. Putin waited 1 year after Prigozin demanded the MoD resignation. Putin deemed it was an acceptable amount of time, so it didn't seem like he was giving into any demands.
@@justinbourgeois4685 The security council isn't "benching" it's promoting. The security council meets every week, Putin himself attends, as well as all the members of the Duma. It discusses many more matters than the singular issue of what's happening in the Ukraine. Prigorzhin is a clown, no one serious took him seriously. It seems likely that it was Shoigu that benched Prigorzhin.
The Russians have enough man power to chose where they will apply points of pressure and follow the path of the least resistance once Ukrainians divert reserve to this new front the Russian stop and conciliate their gains and reapply pressure somewhere else, wash, rince, repeat.
Just a thought: what if Putin and Xi are restructuring their militaries so as to be able to operate smoothly together? Like NATO standardization and integration. I heard another take on Putin's new appointees and it was that new appointees have worked well with China, are well liked by Xi and his people. This makes a lot of sense to me. The claim that Russia and China are not military allies is a lie, IMHO. In fact, a "big lie", as they say. One last thing: appointing an economist as defense minister makes sense for reasons that Preston cited but also because the current war is hybrid and it is very clear that economic war is a major part of it.
It's a complicated relationship between them remember they are both historically enemies there is alot of distrust, as for the new appointee I think Russia is flailing in the dark here because nothing seems to be working
Oi I'm gonna tell Preston what actually is going on one of these days. I feel bad I never tell him because he asks before every one of his great videos.
It is a nonsensical fantasy for anyone to suggest that either side is capable of linking two fronts into a strategic envelopment i.e. a Sumy and Vovchansk pincer arms enveloping Kharkov. Whilst much has progresed since the Great Patriotic War it is worth recalling that then the strategic city changed hands four times 1941-44! The maximum force numbers then to achieve these wins was (per Wikipedia): First Battle - DE win DE 10-30k v RU 10k Second Battle - RU win: DE 350k v RU 765k Third Battle - DE win: DE 210k v RU 130k Fourth Battle - RU win:: DE 200k v RU 1,144k So, unless one is expecting somehow for there to be a Blitzkrieg style surprise attack, as per Unternehmen Baraarossa's inital success with low numbers, it is inconceivable that RU will make any substantial envelopment progress with the force numbers it has. Indeed this is the whole problem of this war (in order to win): neither side has generated sufficient ground force numbers to do so. Frankly I am pleased the RU haven't and grossly disappointed that UA haven't either.
I wonder what the reason for Russia opening this new front is. I mean they must have seen that the odds were not very good and what difference can they really make, they are to few. Seems like there must be a step 2 in this plan. Maybe the reports of Russian troop movements in Belarus has something to do with all this, time will tell.
Ukraine has been holding off the Russians for 813 days now. I think the Russians may have underestimated the defenses in the Kharkiv region, creating a buffer zone seems to be a waste of resources for little to no gains and they have already been bogged down.
Perhaps, however the opposite seems to be true as well, Ukraine believed the defenses where up to standard when in reality it was a shitshow, so it's a bit of both, Ukraine didn't set a minefield in the time since recapturing Kharkiv and didn't man the frontline trenches which the Russians occupied and used to hide from Ukrainian fire, on the other end it does appear the Russians saw an opening and rushed into it without wider military backup from the rest of the military, with limited men and material they are limited in their attacks they can preform and have to wait for artillery and plane support before they can attempt to attack.
Funny conclusion, Russia didn't claim to take over all Ukraine just demilitarize and denazify. Even with limited amount of forces russian army destroyed huge part of ukrainian army by June 2022, and in April 2022 in Istambul Ukraine agreeds to russian offerings.Ukraine get help in amount of 178 billions of dollars for 2 years + 60 billions recently. For comparison russian prewar military budget was about 32 billions of dollars. Ukrainian army had 6-10 times more soldiers in some directions in 2022 before the only mobilisation in Russia. Thats the trick. Now ukrainian army have about 2-2,5x more soldiers than russian one. Frontline especially in 2022 was very long , it needs several millions of soldiers , not 120K of russian + 35K of ldnr peoples republic militia against 400.000 ukrainians by summer 2022...etc etc...
@@gidi3250 To be fine it wasn't that it was a shitshow, well not entirely, but more so in the light that who would want to go building lines of defense straight up against the border where russia usually drop glide bombs on the regular. Especially without full protection from Patriots due to a lacking number of them and more important areas needing them.
@@ThariduDilshan-y1s I don’t think the end to this actual conflict is anywhere near ending. Will things begin to look more and more favorable to Russia? I would say so. But this conflict is far from over.
Russia losing around 1400 soldiers a day currently and over 1000 a day for months How do the Russian army sustain and even grow when losing so many people and equipment??
Out of all of the other channels that cover things going on around the world. You are the best imo, no filler, not trying to sell us anything, well spoken, just telling us how it is and I appreciate that. Keep up the good work!
Appreciate that!
Kind of wish that was true Preston. Stay with a balanced approach and don't let the Nato narrative or their many club sandwiches at their parties suck you in. Thank you.
@@PrestonStewart Much love from The Netherlands Preston, I always look forward to your updates! No sensationalization, no bs, just the news
only guy i listened to. use to listen to more, but your military experience and balanced take is very important. I remember when very big channels on youtube said ukraine was gonna wipe russia in the counter offensive…we know how that went. You kept a balanced perspective. peace from east tn✌️
We also had every single media, military analyst, youtubers and even Russian propagandist themselves claim Russia wouldn't take over 2 weeks to capture Kyiv.
Yet here we are.
Except if you go back and listen to his old shows ... he's never right rarely lol
@@IrrationalCharmthat was a US estimate
Remember when kherson was supposed to be forever russia then they were supposed to take Odessa
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@lancerevo9747 yeah. Sure he predicted that Russia would fail to take Kyiv in the crucial first days of the war.
What a load of horseshit. I’ve watched a few of Gonzalo liras videos. Jesus Christ what a demented retard Rusbots clinged onto. It’s crazy
Your well-researched summaries of the war in Ukraine are the best I can find. Thanks!
Suriyak maps is a trusted source which has proven to be correct and it's not pro russian. It's neutral
It's pro russian
Like RT is neutral 😂😂😂😂
@@Sepi-xh9tr Pro russian are 90% correct, pro ukrainian are 90% incorrect
Which sources do you consider neutral than?
@@187Rajahlike kherson forever russia?
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Thank you Preston
Shoigu wasn’t replaced he was promoted he still retains his responsibilities from his previous position issues with the war planning movement etc.The new Russia Defense minister is to combine the Military industrial complex with the civilian economy to increase military spending and output.
This
And you've learn it all from where? 😏
this is what happens when you DONT announce your offensive a month before it happens like it’s a damn avengers movie.
yeah but the trailers were cool
You get stopped after a week and then run damage control about "oh we didn't actually want to capture Kharkiv"?
But russia did announce its goals manny times
Shoigu was promoted, not demoted.
From what I understand, while his new role is technically superior, it has less real power since it's only an advisory role. Used for putting ex politicans out to pasture in a dignified way
No, Shoigu replaced patrushev.
That's more factic power
buffer zone is meant to stop artillery barrages against Belgorod
Sure because Ukraine is shelling civilians and TOTALLY not the other way around THATS why Russia getting closer sure
The fact that the Ukrainian government has to be prevented forcefully, from shelling civilian areas just for kicks and laughs, speaks volumes about their deeper ideology.
...they aren't stopping crap bud
@@jaxonl7810 You sound salty.
@@jaxonl7810 Sorry but what you want to happen has no effect on the situation. We'll have to wait and see how this operation plays out. Saying "It won't happen because I don't like it" is pointless and childish.
I think Russia's goals around Kharkiv are "all of the above." Based on the relatively small troop numbers and the incursions being close to Belgorod city I think the primary objective is to create a buffer zone to stop the raids by RVC et al, but they would certainly also be hoping for a lucky break like the Ukrainians got in their Kharkhiv campaign in 2022.
Why would you care either way?
Another great broadcast. Thank you for doing the homework and presenting well.
It’s a very very simple question Sir .
The Kharkov offensive is to draw the Ukrainian defence in Donbas thinner and drew away any reserves as much as possible ..
The Russians are now fighting over two major towns (Chasiv Yar and Krasnogorovka)
Ah yes, the classic switch to "its just a feint!" narrative as soon as Russia gets stopped.
Sure kiddo
@@jaxonl7810 how is it possible to take over 2 million city with 70K soldiers?
@@187Rajahwhy isn't kherson forever russia if ukraine lost 2 trillion men
@@187Rajah It isn't possible, but they also tried to take Kyiv with
It may take 2 years or 10 years, the result will be the same. Ukraine will lose bcz this war is about attrition and ukraine cannot beat Russia in this
😂😂😂😂 sure bud
And NATO is not capable of winning this kind of war.
Yes, in 10 years Russia will win, just like they won in Afghanistan after 10 years, because big country always beats small country.
Just like the Soviet Union in Afghanistan! Oh wait...
Just like Russia won after 10 years in Afghanistan. Everyone knows big country always beats small country.
Белоусова назначили для более эффективного расхода текущих средств, а не для того чтобы увеличивать бюджет в будущем. Он опытный экономист и то что гражданский - не играет никакой роли, потому что войной занимается НАЧАЛЬНИК ГЕНШТАБА блин. Че ж так эксперты измельчали...
It seems like Russia will never go on a wild offensive with major flanking maneuvers again. It's not that they do not have enough manpower or resources, I think it's more of that it's very very risky and could go south really quick like early days of war. They realize now that they would actually prefer chewing down slowly through the defensive lines via indirect fire strikes which their military doctrine has always revolved around. Spot the enemy then hammer it down with indirect. I remember watching another RUclips video where they have some kind of statistics on this war. As it turns out, firearms are the last in terms of inflicting casualty something like less than 5%. almost 90% of the casualties come from indirect. That's just insane numbers where there's literally minimal shoot out happening, and majority is just calling all these ordinances on each other's heads
That's a good point, using indirect fires and missiles to take out the infrastructure and only take strategic areas instead of trying to maneuver across vast distances. Besides the Ukrainian army is obliged to come to them so they don't really have to maneuver all that much to make steady gains. Plus given the fact that they are prepared to keep going for the next 2-3 years means that time is on their side.
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Serdyukov's name is synonymous with the reforms that are now viewed as having played a major part in undermining Russia's armed forces and a person closely tied to him was indicted in the biggest military related corruption scandal in Russia before the recent arrests of Shoigu's deputy.
Thank you for the commentary.
thank you for covering this, it offers another perspective compared to the normal Ukraine News TV posts that i keep up with, he's still very insightful, would recommend!
Belgorad was under fire from 155mm sporadic firing and constant drone attacks from combatants left to defend the NE border region. A couple of youtube channels here laughing at all the cute explosions around Belgorad. They skip the news reports on all the apartments and houses and offices hit by these shells. You guys think Russia suddenly decided to do this and have 0 answers... well I just gave you the major ones... Aadivka was doing the same to Donetsk... making sense now?
And russia did the samething 😂😂😂😂
Not just 155, but Vampire MLRS, too.
"The Vampire ball is over".
@@jaxonl7810To the border towns in Northern Kharkiv region...yeah, and Belgorod was the reason why the Russians are taking them.
@sarahbrown5073 sure armchair general
Hey man, so I’ve been thinking about the maps situation and have a few thoughts.
Maps being shown on most channels are super busy with tons of location names lines between countries, more lines on top of that etc. Jist makes everything far too thick to follow.
If there were a program to show a cleaner simpler map with blatant colors of what Russia has taken and then show some animation movement of clear direction whether it’s Russians or Ukrainians and their movement with highlights of the cities or town being discussed.
Constantly zooming in and out to show visual perspective is a huge plus!
Next, if there was a way to even move into an easy to make sense “3D” visual of the area, that would be huge!! It would show physical challenges mountains etc and help people really connect with what they are seeing. That combines with your superb dialogue would make it super legit!
I can guarantee that if you were to do this, which would at least in the beginning take probably a lot of extra time to edit, it would blast your channel off in an epic capacity. Why? Because no one, no other channel that I have seen is doing anything remotely close to that and because I believe the business of the current maps everyone are using makes it difficult to follow and actually starts losing people’s attention.
Just my humble opinion!
Hope the Beez are doing g well! 👍🏼🙂
Thanks for another great update. See you soon!
So if Russia cannot even think to take on Kharkiv, then why is everyone saying they are going to take out Poland and the Baltics (Latvia, Estonia, etc.) what new army did they create to invade Poland? Did I miss some great recruitment of the 1million-3million strong army with new equipment?
Baltics is puny. nato cannot defend them.
If NATO is attacked that means US joins, so yeah NATO cannot defend them... makes sense now, thanks for your intelligence.
It’s pure propaganda by NATO countries to justify all sorts of things, from sending troops into Ukraine to increasing military spending.
@@LeadLeftLeon NATO cannot defend the Baltics..... NATO has complete uncontested control of the Baltic Sea with Sweden and Finland having joined. Finnish forces alone could curb stomp a Russian advance into paste and remind them just how bad Russians are at fighting in forests and swamps.
Finland has an airforce of around 60 fully capable F/A-18 super hornets that are minutes away from the other Baltic states, Sweden has 71 Fighters JAS 39 Gripen. just between those two nations alone Russia would be unable to operate anywhere near the airspace of the Baltic nations completely ignoring the fact that Russian aircraft would be under threat from naval air defenses in those regions.
now lets throw in the fact that it would take around 6 hours for Finland to deploy troops in Tallinn meanwhile England, France, USA and the UK keep troops on rotation in the Baltic states with tanks etc. Russia would literally get stopped within a few kilometers of the border and risk losing Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg if their was a counter offensive done by NATO.
Why would Russia attack other countries? That's just propaganda.
Russia only attacked Ukraine because of nato. CiA making biolabs in Russian border and you expect Russia to accept that?? Imagine Russia making military base in mexico
Wow! A politician, seated in the crucial position as Defense Minister during a brutal war, single-handedly decides to step down from his high ranking position. Possibly because the next man might be better suited for the next phase going forward? I’ve never said this and chances are I’ll never say it again, but the folks at the Capitol could learn something from this Russian politician/officer.
I dont believe it was voluntary to be honest. Rather it looks like he was relieved from this duty and into another
Shoigu was not promoted. What happened to Shoigu is what we used to call, ‘get kicked upstairs some place where he can do less damage’. 🤣
Preston, I appreciate you really sticking to the unbiased and balanced view and opinion. Keep up the great work!
I’m rooting for Ukraine but I absolutely can’t stand mainstream corporate media lying about Ukraine always winning. It is better to be in touch with reality rather than to ignore a problem. Thanks for making a legit video
Right now I haven't seen too much Ukraine is winning but rather some Ukraine is loosing, Europe get your asses moving!!! I advise you look up other/more sources, but yes, it is necessary not to hide the problems, but confront them head on
We all know that this offensive is for the purpose of creating a buffer zone since Putin has talked about it for months, and I think the fact that Russia obviously understands that Ukraine will have to redeploy troops from their already stretched lines in the east is a huge bonus for them. But remember.. the main goal of Russia which has been the case for years now is to secure the Donbass, and by the looks of it Ukraine has already sent multiple detachments of their much needed elite forces to the north, withdrawing them from the Avdiivka and Chasiv Yar directions.
I want to remind people about Ocheretyne, one elite battalion being able to be redeployed to that area as it collapsed saved who knows how much from being taken, it was a potential collapse of large parts of that front.. it was literally a large gap in Ukraine's frontline which was clogged by a quick reaction from the elite battalion at the last second. Now imagine if something like this happens again in the summer and there's no quick reaction force to plug the hole, imagine if that happens to Chasiv Yar.
Russia has been massing troops near Chasiv Yar for almost 2 weeks now, so personally I think we're gonna see a push into Sumy as the Kharkiv front becomes more "established", and then as Ukraine rushes troops to Sumy and its high command being busy with that, Russia will start a big push towards Chasiv Yar.
Obviously it's all speculations from me, but Ukraine should be very careful to not overplay their hand here. Like I said, we have seen large russian troop build ups in the Sumy direction and Chasiv Yar direction for weeks, so obviously they're planning something.
OK armchair general 😂
Preston, As always, many thanks for another great report....
Bro, did you just wake up? Good on you Cap'n
Is this really bad or good for Ukraine ? One channel says it’s all over the next one says Ukraine stopped them in the tracks idk what to believe.
I’m there with you, I’ve seen the same things.
@@GeldUndKokaine-kc1hpone of the errors that the polish military made leading up the the German invasion was to try and defend every inch of the border rather than giving them selves depth to manoeuvre.
When a pro ukrainian channel starts reporting on russian success you know shit has hit the fan
Not necessarily its hard to tell who is winning at this point
@@alexbrown200 cope
@alexbrown200 It really isn't
@@alexbrown200 it isnt.Simple war of attrition,YOu can see how the war affected Ukrainian side
I think you’ve settled into a good place of hat wearing vs non-hat wearing
Do you need Knee pads and a hat for yourself?
wearing a hat indoors, could never be me
@@bafa000 Exactly. A lot of ppl need knee pads on this channel , its crazy
@@OwainapDewi no one cares kiddo
I still find it hard to believe that Russia with a population of about 165 million and a GDP of about Spain or Canada can out do the EU, NATO and the USA and others in all areas.
That is what you being told! so- obey and believe!
The US GDP mostly consists of finansial assets
@@PlanetWalking-qd8gv Those numbers are very correct
That's not accurate. Russia is out producing the number shells NATO countries are willing to send to Ukraine. Keep in mind artillery is only part of how NATO would win a war. While Russia is producing lots of shells and inferior tanks the US is producing stealth fighters and bombers, aircraft carriers, actual hypersonic missiles and so on.
@@toddlawrence6872 NATO countries doesnt have hypersonic
Thank you.
I really appreciate your effort to inform, and not to spread propaganda for either side.
Thank you
People appreciate Preston and other authors who try to give objective information, because anti-Russian propaganda works worse and worse as the Russians advance further
Putin declared that his invasion of Kharkiv was to create a 10km wide zone sanitaire.
That's French for sanitary zone, What we might call a buffer zone.
Let's see how long till the narrative changes
Russian propaganda wants the whole Ukraine to be a buffer lol
@@jaxonl7810 yeah the Russians are Olympic champions of goal post moving. whatever their goals are right now will be changed to whatever suits them tomorrow or saves them from embarrassment in a week.
Exactly. The Ukrainians have been evacuating the towns and villages in Kharkiv oblast and bringing everyone to Kharkiv City. So, obviously they're well aware of the fact that the Russians aren't going for Kharkiv city, otherwise why would they bring all the evacuated civilians there?
@@sarahbrown5073says armchair general
People spend so much time bashing putting an economist as Defense Minister but they won’t mention that Shoigu wasn’t a soldier either. He was by nature of politics and family connections given a military rank to justify his positions.
The Mavic's (3 classic, Mavic 3 Pro,..) all have an FPV modes with HD resolution with low latency. Commercially these are cheap & the use for observation in military situations would be a god send!
Former defence minister: pronunciation "Seirrdookov", current defence minister pronunciation "Belooyusov". I'm a native russian speaker.
699k, almost there. Thanks for the update, keep safe.
You a little sick? Your voice sounds a bit off is so hope you get better!
Power of shovels
Thank you for the articulate analysis
I'm continually impressed with your level headedness and non (for the most part) biased reporting and analysis
Preston bro, you dont look too well physically, either sleep deprived or coming down with something, take care of yourself brother
During the WW2 battles around this city, what was it called?
20:00 why both of your analysts are related to Carnegie endowment?
Good fair assessment..
Doing a great job summing up these complex subjects. Since this war is going to push more toward Kharkiv over the next few months. To say Kharkiv it's "Har-Keev." Also not perfect, but it's close enough. For the correct pronunciation, you have to get really drunk and try to say "Car Key" and "Hard Leave" at the same time.
20:45 for what it’s worth, Dara pronounces his name “Sir-Jih-Kov”
So it seems like that 2majors is a regular soldier?
He’s been reporting from the front lines for a while now. It makes me wonder how he’s still alive considering the amount of regular soldiers that are being neutralized on a daily basis. Is he maybe a higher ranked officer? Just a thought I had
"Ground is something you walk or fly over. It is OK to win as much as possible of it, but what really matters is what kind of ground you have. Is it useful"' (Col. Douglas McGregor)
Well said big bad Preston as always
1:48 *To tie up enemy forces* you need to tie up your forces, too. Even more yours than theirs, because it's you who's attacking. What's the point? 😑
I thought so too all the time. Who knows, if russia had deployed their forces in the Bakhmut area instead of Kharkiv region, maybe they were on the way of capturing Chasiv Yar by now.
Russia has the numerical and artillery advantage, otherwise it wouldn't work. But they do, so it does.
Pretty typical Russian method. It's not pretty or clever, but it works.
Could it be because of the *maximum viable concentration of forces?* Like when the Persians couldn't utilize their vast numerical advantage over the Spartans. In such cases, attacking from more directions should be advantageous to those with numerical superiority 🤔
@@konstantin.v yeah it would be stupid to try and concentrate your forces into one 'big arrow'. Look how the Ukrainian 'Great offensive' turned out.
For the algorithm
Love yo vids
Thanks a lot!
You seem tired Preston
The world is tired, this should have been over 18 months ago.
When do the rumored UK and US Special Forces come into play?
Werent the freedom of Russia legion guys active in that general area? I wonder if they have people behind the lines who can help meet the Kharkiv feint.
Let's be real, those dudes are small potatoes
lolz
In Crimea. В Крыму.
Most of those dude probably already gone lol
I love this channel on how to cope with US as reference 😅
Hey Shoigu. Remember Prigozhin?
I'm saying nothing, but maybe sit AWAY from the window.
Just like our weapons have improved, our ability to train and re-arm has un-dubitably improved, we have the Ability to run life training exercises with blanks, and review thousands of hours of combat footage. Now we have AI thrown in the mix and ultra-realistic simulators. They can get their guys trained up if they need too.
Gee Wiz, yes let the enemy think your not capable of military tactic or the size of your force.
A feint?
Thanks Preston. The concept of Putin wanting to militarize the economy for the long term and rebuilding the military for the next phase seems very plausible. Apparently Putin would like to somehow freeze the war( with a ceasefire and endless "negotiations"),and buy time to reform and rebuild.I fully expect an informational and diplomatic campaign aided possibly by China and directed towards Western general populations.At this point ,I don't see Western leaders ( except possibly in the US) buying it.👍🤙
The mega expert again is here
I know it looks hard to believe but the reality is Ukraine is going to fail due to lack of leadership and resources. They had a great opportunity in 2022 and early 2023 unfortunately they stopped for some reason. That was stupid otherwise they could have taken more territory.
The other part of Ukraine problems are number of troops, the amount Ukraine soldiers are dying it’s crazy.
Second lack of training or knowledge of using western military equipment properly.
The third horrible reason is corruption Ukraine government is the most corrupted government in the world that leads them to so many failures.
4th one is lack of strategic thinking for example how enemy could attack, from where? How they may attack etc, the great example is how Russian came back to Kharkiv? This big question I did some research on that so many some mistakes I found from Ukraine sides so over all they are in horrible shape
Anyone know when suriyak last updated? I check their instagram but have seen anything new in 5 days. (And insta treats their account weirdly). Is there a better way to follow them?
He said on X that he would go offline for a couple days due to work load.
I follow multiple maps, and right now, since months, pro russian maps are much more precise and updated. Maybe because things are going well for them.
Ucranians need to hide setbacks and maintain moral.
There is barely any moral left. From what I hear from civilians, they just want this shit over, regardless of outcome. Another youtuber reported that 2 groups of volunteers straight up ran away, when they noticed the Russian recon group advancing
Seems all three options workout for Russia.
Russia can at will enter ukraine and establish a foothold anywhere. Thats sad. Poor Ukarnazi's
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Yo a channel you might wana collab with is Reporting from Ukraine, or maybe interview. He is from Ukraine and gives daily updates on the war from a pretty neutral perspective and if you wana know how good he is, he has suffered now 2 mass bot attacks from Russians trying to take down his channel.
Hi Preston, I think the goal of the russians is to basically divert all troops fighting in the donbass to rotate up to kharkiv, leaving chasiv yar, krasnohorivka and kupyiansk vulnerable (especially kupyiansk). I think the main goal is to re-capture kupyiansk, since they suffered a defeat in their last winter offensive in synkivka.
What you think is irrelevant. You're a nobody. You have no analyst training. You have no analyst experience. You have no actual intelligence to go by other than what's freely available. No one cares what you think.
Russia's advances really seem painful and strained
The reason Russia needs to get into artillery range is because Patriot Missile systems can not shoot down these shells. That’s how I understand it . The Americans know this and so does any other person who has a brain apart from the nations who are buying these systems.
There is a concept called Counter Battery Fire.
It works very well.
The only defense system that can theoretically take down artillery shells at rate of 20% is the iron doom but launching 5 missiles worth 60000 $ per each just to intercept 400 $ shell is not good idea
@@shawnr771
Cunter battery fire is about targeting the artillery launchers not the shell
FWIW Kharkiv is a native Russian/Russian speaking city that Russia is unlikely to level with artillery.
whole ukraine is russian speaking
Where are the f-15s
720p only :)
Shoigu removed as in, he stepped down or he was taken out?
Peter Principle.
He wasn't removed, he was promoted.
It’s a struggle of nearPutin thief clans. New guy supposedly isn’t as corrupt, but how he’s going to lead the most corrupt ministry (MOD) - that’s still a question.
Putin removed him and placed him on the security council. It's the equivalent of "benching" a player in sports, when they are underperforming. Putin waited 1 year after Prigozin demanded the MoD resignation. Putin deemed it was an acceptable amount of time, so it didn't seem like he was giving into any demands.
@@justinbourgeois4685 The security council isn't "benching" it's promoting. The security council meets every week, Putin himself attends, as well as all the members of the Duma. It discusses many more matters than the singular issue of what's happening in the Ukraine.
Prigorzhin is a clown, no one serious took him seriously. It seems likely that it was Shoigu that benched Prigorzhin.
The Russians have enough man power to chose where they will apply points of pressure and follow the path of the least resistance once Ukrainians divert reserve to this new front the Russian stop and conciliate their gains and reapply pressure somewhere else, wash, rince, repeat.
Just a thought: what if Putin and Xi are restructuring their militaries so as to be able to operate smoothly together? Like NATO standardization and integration. I heard another take on Putin's new appointees and it was that new appointees have worked well with China, are well liked by Xi and his people. This makes a lot of sense to me. The claim that Russia and China are not military allies is a lie, IMHO. In fact, a "big lie", as they say. One last thing: appointing an economist as defense minister makes sense for reasons that Preston cited but also because the current war is hybrid and it is very clear that economic war is a major part of it.
The Chinese do not like the Russians especially not Xi
It's a complicated relationship between them remember they are both historically enemies there is alot of distrust, as for the new appointee I think Russia is flailing in the dark here because nothing seems to be working
Pressure and politics
Zi is talking to Ukraine
As putin attacks
Putin is not in good shape as is ukraine
He needs a way out that leaves him in power
Your tripping.,.,your in denial
I really dont know where u get your info but ukraine is in every way in a worse shape than russia
@@tombayless9759 you're
@@kuunoooo7293 2 years later...
@@kuunoooo7293Explain how exactly?
Oi I'm gonna tell Preston what actually is going on one of these days. I feel bad I never tell him because he asks before every one of his great videos.
It is a nonsensical fantasy for anyone to suggest that either side is capable of linking two fronts into a strategic envelopment i.e. a Sumy and Vovchansk pincer arms enveloping Kharkov.
Whilst much has progresed since the Great Patriotic War it is worth recalling that then the strategic city changed hands four times 1941-44! The maximum force numbers then to achieve these wins was (per Wikipedia):
First Battle - DE win DE 10-30k v RU 10k
Second Battle - RU win: DE 350k v RU 765k
Third Battle - DE win: DE 210k v RU 130k
Fourth Battle - RU win:: DE 200k v RU 1,144k
So, unless one is expecting somehow for there to be a Blitzkrieg style surprise attack, as per Unternehmen Baraarossa's inital success with low numbers, it is inconceivable that RU will make any substantial envelopment progress with the force numbers it has.
Indeed this is the whole problem of this war (in order to win): neither side has generated sufficient ground force numbers to do so. Frankly I am pleased the RU haven't and grossly disappointed that UA haven't either.
I wonder what the reason for Russia opening this new front is. I mean they must have seen that the odds were not very good and what difference can they really make, they are to few. Seems like there must be a step 2 in this plan. Maybe the reports of Russian troop movements in Belarus has something to do with all this, time will tell.
Ukraine has chosen extinction over negotiation
Ukraine has been holding off the Russians for 813 days now. I think the Russians may have underestimated the defenses in the Kharkiv region, creating a buffer zone seems to be a waste of resources for little to no gains and they have already been bogged down.
Perhaps, however the opposite seems to be true as well, Ukraine believed the defenses where up to standard when in reality it was a shitshow, so it's a bit of both, Ukraine didn't set a minefield in the time since recapturing Kharkiv and didn't man the frontline trenches which the Russians occupied and used to hide from Ukrainian fire, on the other end it does appear the Russians saw an opening and rushed into it without wider military backup from the rest of the military, with limited men and material they are limited in their attacks they can preform and have to wait for artillery and plane support before they can attempt to attack.
Funny conclusion, Russia didn't claim to take over all Ukraine just demilitarize and denazify. Even with limited amount of forces russian army destroyed huge part of ukrainian army by June 2022, and in April 2022 in Istambul Ukraine agreeds to russian offerings.Ukraine get help in amount of 178 billions of dollars for 2 years + 60 billions recently. For comparison russian prewar military budget was about 32 billions of dollars. Ukrainian army had 6-10 times more soldiers in some directions in 2022 before the only mobilisation in Russia. Thats the trick. Now ukrainian army have about 2-2,5x more soldiers than russian one. Frontline especially in 2022 was very long , it needs several millions of soldiers , not 120K of russian + 35K of ldnr peoples republic militia against 400.000 ukrainians by summer 2022...etc etc...
@@gidi3250 To be fine it wasn't that it was a shitshow, well not entirely, but more so in the light that who would want to go building lines of defense straight up against the border where russia usually drop glide bombs on the regular. Especially without full protection from Patriots due to a lacking number of them and more important areas needing them.
Россия ведёт войны уже боле1000лет. Думаю, что мы знаем, что мы делаем)
Bogged down? The Russians took in 3 weeks what the Ukrainians fought to retake for 4 months. You're in denial
And in the end Ukraine is winning
Putin move was interesting
Huffing copium i see
These bots are getting out of control lol
It's a diversion to focus on Donbas
Bro you're a bit late to party on this one. That offensive is going nowhere.
Cope you maggot
May 21 war is over bro
You think the war will be over in less than 4 days? Lol
@@samuelnicholas7834 no ukrain leadership over bro my sister in Ukraine she told me no one likes ukrain leadership
@@ThariduDilshan-y1s
I don’t think the end to this actual conflict is anywhere near ending.
Will things begin to look more and more favorable to Russia? I would say so.
But this conflict is far from over.
@@samuelnicholas7834 Russian win because Ukraine lose 30% land
@@ThariduDilshan-y1s
That’s probably a fair assessment of how this will end.
But it’s going to take a while. The war will not end in 2024.
Russia's Three Goals - denazification demilitarization decommunization
MoD and General Stuff is two big differences
russia win every time game over for nato
Russian POWs are saying they were supposed to take Vovchansk in 2 days.😂
You can make a POW say whatever you want.
Dont be soo naive.
@@henryrollins9177ok comrade
That map is literally just trust me bro source lol
It is way better than Deepstate
Its literally the most reliable map there is out there, atleast far better than the real trust me map, deepstate lol
@@kuunoooo7293 well I just assume it before even watching the video
@@kuunoooo7293sure kiddo
@@jaxonl7810 damn u got offended.... again. Not surprised
Russia losing around 1400 soldiers a day currently and over 1000 a day for months
How do the Russian army sustain and even grow when losing so many people and equipment??
Necromancy
You are clearly retarded if you believe those numbers, use your brain you maggot