Russia's Military Strategy in Ukraine Is Gaining Momentum
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Only two countries in the world right now have first hand experience on how to fight a modern war: Russia and Ukraine
Exactly
Azerbaijan has some experience as well. Although Armenia’s army isn’t that modern, they did use a lot of drones
A lot of the things shaping this war are pretty unique to it being a war between post-Soviet states.
110%
USA has a Gay transwomen led military. Better watch out ! They can SCRATCH !
It's nice to see there still are youtubers who are trying to do reporting in a professional manner, regardless of who has the advantage on the battlefield at the given time. The number of youtubers who are literally spreading BS and use childish mockery to gain viewers lately is ridiculous.
Hey combat veteran reacts needs to sell his bubble gum
Just stick to analytics channels, I just block those who make contents with BS and extreme bias remarks. It's just profiting from death.
People like Preston, Ryan McBeth, and WillyOAM are good examples of non-bias journalism, I find it hard to watch anyone else really.
edit: Willy's titles may have become a bit more sensational over the past two years, reporting is still quality though.
@@ajstyles5704which channels would you vouch for? I feel even many analytical channels seem questionable.
@@TiesBesselJonker my no.1 on analytics would be WeebUnion, relentless updates and unbiased, slightly leaning on Russia but also provides harsh criticism if Russia gave false statements.
I'm extremely skeptical with WillyOAM, he does a lot of biased reports, my opinion he tries hard to stay neutral.
My go to in predictions, Scott Ritter, out of many his predictions has 70% accuracy, proRussia, overall he cares about Ukraine as well, but hates their leaders. He predicted Wagner coup would only last a day. No one predicted that.
For results I go to history legends, just a goof. But he makes sure he provides confirmed facts, and leaves out unconfirmed or lack of evidence.
I stopped doing my own research after Bakhmut, to me, it was over, just a matter of time.
Cant fool us with that War Thunder SU-17M4 Thumbnail
I was just gonna say I recognise those graphics haha
Honestly i thought it was dcs
lol
Russian bias irl
Plot twist: War Thunder uses a classified photo provided by Gen. Austin to win a debate.
The Russians are retreating forwards and the Ukrainians are advancing backwards
Lol @ these upvote bots 😂😂😂
maybe it is a bot maybe its not but one thing is true we will stand with ukrain even if they are losing
@@Baraxes another cut copy and paste response when Russians admit publicly that they spread disinformation to cause chaos in western countries, if I didn’t care to listen to people that believe differently than I do I wouldn’t be sitting here watching a video about how Russians are gaining the upper hand regard
@@liorgoldshtein2373 You talk like a true j3w. Some stupid goyim can die for your interest while "you stand with them" on a safe distance watching. Lol. 🇳🇴 🤝 🇷🇺
@@Baraxes i respect you for being civil about this but i was refering to all the ones supporting ukrain i was not trying to force anyone to share my opinion
The amount of Ukrainian military age men that ran away to all parts of the world to avoid fighting says alot about how this war will end,
more on
no we only have shovels remaining ukraine is safe
truly "Зрада"
This will happen in the European Union too. 70% of the young in Poland do not want to fight.
@@tadhgcronin175 Loyalty has to go both ways, and a lot of man in military age (the ones that would have to die in the trenches) feel that their country is not holding up to their end of the deal and has never done........ The fact that the sons of the rich and powerfull are in Monaco, Germany, ot the USA, living a lavish lifestyle, while the common man is send to suffer and die, also doesn`t help......
Most of them probably think that a pro-russian administration in their countries would be more or less similar to what they have now, and that with a lot of people from the loosing side beeing removed from power-positions, they can perhaps even improve their situation.....
Quantity does have a quality all its own, and Russia has historically proven that it can "win ugly" if it has to.
And the Russians have a glutton for punishment too. We should never under estimate them
Exactly
Historically shown? What history? Since the 90s? How’d the first Chechen war go again? You may be confusing them with the Soviets, which had many more people, resources, etc. and still managed to lose against Afghanis 😂 and “win ugly” in WW2, which part is ugly about that, their reliance on lend-lease?
but it also lost ww1 so
Russia isn't winning by quantity, but by quality.
What about the 1 million strong ukrainian army, and just 30 000 kia, the numbers are not adding up with the media, the west become so cringe over the years
The Ukrainians are defending and the Russians are attacking. Attackers always suffer higher rates of attrition.
At best the 30000 is a conservative estimate. However it’s equally as unbelievable as the claim by many pro-Russian commentators claim the Ukrainians have 500k kia. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle and we may never know the exact casualty numbers for either side.
Those missing hundreds of thousands are the ghosts of Kiev.
You haven't seen Russian media then have you?
Clown world, my friend, clown foolery fckn world!
Underestimate Russia ALWAYS ended very bad..........
"We're Russians, we don't give a fuck how many of us die" from the Great pretty much sums it up.
@@toddlogg Russia.....is not for the weak ☠️☠️
Pretty much. They seem to be willing to pay the cost to win in pretty much every war they’ve been in.
@@dwellner502 So maybe it would be wise to not force them to fight
@@toddlogg Thats what westerners have been conditioned to believe after 80 years of post WW2 hollywood. I've seen a lot of interviews with Russian troops and officers, they struck me as regular guys doing a professional job. They're not throwing their lives away, they're not heroes. They're just driving tanks and leading assault squads in clearing operations, like it was just a regular job. Calm, prudent, reasoned, systematic and workmanlike. There is no sense of being squandered or brutalized.
The problem with this war is that Ukraine has no realistic end goal. Without NATO boots on the ground, there is no way they can win unless Russia give up. If their goal is to hold off Russia for as long as possible? Putin has stated this is an existential war for Russia, so they will not give up. At this rate, Russia will annex half of Ukraine. They need to make a deal.
They don’t need to make a deal, our leaders need to stop being pussies
Cannot make a deal, that is a problem
@@colorblindvidsAnd what will your “strong” leaders do, stomp their feet, shout, threaten, what? The most the USA can cope with are farmers on donkeys, although no, and they are much cooler.
@@OniksR how many Russians were erased around the Conoco oil fields?
Imagine this happening to the USA or any other country and seeing people saying "they should make a deal". The retardation of the statement's just beyond reason.
Reminds me of the strategy used by Grant to end the Civil War -- tie down more and more of the enemies resources until the line becomes so thin a break threw to Richmond is achieved. Grant could do this because he had superiority in man power and in resources. It took a lot of man power and a "bloody" mindset, just like the Russians have, but it broke the back of Lee's forces and ended the war
Which had nothing to do with slavery.
@@spudwesth it had everything to do with slavery. The very reason why they seceeded is because of slavery. Read on the reasons the governers of the states at the time gave for seceeding.
I had been thinking about the parallels between the Petersburg campaign and what the Russians are doing. I do think there are some asymmetries that the Ukrainians may be able to leverage but they involve operational as well as strategic risk.
"Grant could do this because he had superiority in man power and in resources."
Remember, Russia spent the first year+ greatly outnumbered along the frontlines.
They STILL achieved killratios of over 10 to 1 in their favour.
Or to say it in other words, currently the total Russian casualties are probably around 150 thousand, with 34 thousand Russian military KIAs out of those.
Ukraine however, their casualties are somewhere in the 3-6 million range, with 1 to 1.8 million KIAs.
"It took a lot of man power and a "bloody" mindset, just like the Russians have"
Russia is still not deploying more troops to the frontlines than to just barely get 1 to 1 in numbers.
And what it took, was Russia's exceptionally capable and welltrained military.
You need to realise just how serious Russian and before that Soviet training of military officers are.
Everyone is a conscript at first, no way to cheese your way past that.
Then there's a lot of training vaguely similar to western officer training.
However, there's a lot more math involved and the amount of training for planning is magnitudes beyond the west.
But when the west considers officer training complete, nope, not in Russia.
Next comes training in operational warfare. And a lot more math.
And this is what we're seeing on the ground in Ukraine.
Russian troops do not win every tactical fight, although they're usually getting the upper hand more often than not even against Ukraine's "elite Nato" units, but absolutely not perfect or anything. But whenever they're not winning, they always retreat before taking heavy casualties.
And when they do, they usually try to drag the enemy attackers with them. Into preplotted artillery fire or airstrikes.
But while they do not win every tactical fight, at the operational level, their dominance is UTTER AND COMPLETE to a point that is just embarassing for anyone in the west.
Even Russia's one single failed largescale attack during the entire SMO, the infantry attack against Ugledar that ran into a previously unknown minefield. Even that eventually ended up resulting in an operational success. The attack failed, but still reached far enough forward, that the ground taken, allowed Russia to get good lines of fire against the northern road into Ugledar, which allowed them to cause more casualties for Ukraine in the next 1-2 months than their own failed attack took. And they kept that forward location for over 6 months, causing massive casualties until it finally forced Ukraine into having to push the Russians out, at another MASSIVE cost in casualties.
The west militaries simply have absolutely no understanding, they don't even have the full concept of operational level warfare.
And it shows. The Russian mobile warfare at operational level is just amazingly good.
And strategically, they're REALLY good as well.
While the west and their Ukraine puppets, dear gods... I knew already before 2022 that western militaries had "issues", not seldomly to the point of severe incompetence.
But what's been shown in Ukraine, which is under direct control from Washington to the level that Ukraine's 2023 offensive was openly called the Nuland offensive.
What's been shown in Ukraine is so bad that it makes western militaries and their training, doctrine and standards look like delusional, mentally challenged children playing in a sandbox.
The constant assumptions about western superiority alone is just embarassing. Battlefield evidence keeps debunking it violently, and yet the west keeps believing that nope, all those failures are just flukes and Russia's warnings are just hot air, up until Russia's patience runs out and they DO exactly what they've warned about for months, and yet somehow, everytime this happens, it's Russia being aggressive and unpredictable and whatever.
Nowadays, i'm deeply ashamed of being part of the west.
Vengeance for the terroristmurder of Darya Dugina.
I really liked the Condederates as a Canadian. I had a reletive that did fight with the ? 10th Tennessee. He was from Ireland. Poor farmer. He was in the confederate artillery.
You guys have RU casualties numbers but don't have Ukraine's🤔,
I don't think ukraine is releasing them, it's mainly all guess work anyway.
But Zelensky said only 35,000 were lost 😡
I think it's probably pretty similar to what the estimated Russian casualties are? Maybe 10% lower?
All these loss calculations are inaccurate and politically affiliated. I think that Russia and Ukraine have approximately equal losses (with a difference of +/- 40 thousand), and they are definitely below 200 thousand for each side (killed of course).
@Nordska historically, the attacking side loses the most.
For Russia to have equal loses they've almost pulled a world first in a war of this scale.
Talk about Krinky. Russian attack in karkiv made ukraine relocate some forces from the southern front.
Personally I don’t even understand what the Ukrainian army is doing in Krinky, there is no logic behind that river crossing because their positions keep getting pounded nonstop everyday, Im starting to think it was all a PR stunt.
"Talk about Krinky."
You mean Ukraine's propaganda suicide squads?
At it's most intensive, Ukraine lost over HALF its troops just crossing the river, while Krynki, uh, yeah, right next to the river, LOW, meaning it's impossible to dig in there, because long before you get 2 meters down, water starts coming in. So, Ukraine soldiers, no houses to hide in, trenches only just over 1 meter deep, no hard cover, barely even any soft cover.
Russia basically just cordoned off the area Ukraine landed on, set up their own defenses behind the forest area to make sure Ukraine couldn't leave the small bridghead, then just kept repeating cautious forward scouting through the forest to force Ukraine to react and become clearly visible.
So Russia could move their artillery fire to hit spotted targets instead of just covering the place.
And then they moved 2 batteries of TOS-1A there. So called flamethrower MLRS. Better known as thermobarics. Kills pretty much everything in area of effect unless they have hard, AIRTIGHT cover. When you see large airburst fireballs exploding, it's generally thermobarics.
While Russia took an average of around 1-2 KIAs per week from that fighting, Ukraine literally took hundreds of KIAs per week there.
And then Russia started using the place as a way to destroy Ukraine artillery and SAMs. Because to have any effect in support of Krynki, there were only so much room on the other side of the river they could be on, becoming notably easier targets.
For over a month, Ukraine lost at least 2 pieces of heavy equipment per day on average. Along with over 300 KIAs per week. And that's just what was COUNTED. The total was likely much higher.
And so many died just crossing the river there were thousands of corpses littering the riverbanks for many miles downstream. There were even some reports of corpses from Krynki assault crossings being found in the Black sea.
The number of boats destroyed just by Russian drones, just counting those seen destroyed on video is something like over 700 by now.
It's literally just ABSURD!!!
Attempting it once, sure, they might have managed to be lucky or something. But taking massive casualties without achieving ANYTHING for months upon months, and STILL trying? The level of disturbing is out of this world.
Worse, they're attacking with "marine" brigades. Yet the troops have such little training that majority of the troops can't even swim.
And they're not using lifejackets while crossing the river. And they ARE wearing full combat packs while crossing the river.
It's like begging for horrendous casualties.
Even months after it is blatantly obvious that Russia has created a meatgrinder/killhouse there, Ukraine just keeps pouring new, untrained soldiers in.
"Russian attack in karkiv made ukraine relocate some forces from the southern front."
Ukraine haven't really had much down there lately anyway. And i rather doubt Ukraine has had even 20 soldiers ashore at the same time in Krynki anytime in the last 2-3 months.
One of the DPR units, when they were holding the area, they brought a few of their old tanks and dug them in nicely around Krynki, so, even if Ukraine ever manage to put together enough troops there to actually attempt a breakout, the moment they get through the boobytrapped and sensorladen forest area, they run into a shooting gallery area where a company of Russian troops are set up in heavy fortifications with a big bundle of machineguns, mortars and auto-grenadelaunchers, and thanks to the DPR troops formerly holding there, over a dozen old T-54s, set up for crossfire across the area that must be crossed during any breakout.
Meanwhile, the Ukraine troops are completely unable to hide any heavy equipment, any crewserved weapons gets instantly spotted by Russian scout drones and destroyed within an hour after being landed.
Again, it's just beyond absurd. Complete madness from Ukraine.
They've lost thousands of troops there, achieved zero and yet, they still keep trying.
@@thiefsleef6752same thing with their obsession with attacking Crimea,
- Russia takes Bakhmut, ukraine attack Crimea, and damages russia submarine
- Russia takes Adeevka, Ukraine bomb Crimea with long range missile, and damages the russia landing ship
- Russia started the Kharkiv offensive, Ukraine bomb crimea, and damaged Russia mine clearing ship
@@junn679 it's more about making PR stunt for the West and its own population and try to claim that Ukraine is still in control of Crimea by attacking the city of Sevastopol, the Black Sea fleet and the Crimean bridge. Even though these attacks mostly have short-term effect.
Yeah they relocated to heaven. That’s the problem.
Ukraine runs out of men? But i just saw 2 millions of them partying in Germany 😂
No one wants to die for the Ukrainian’s Oligarchy regime.
@@Hotrodman troll
Those were Russians who fled conscription
*million...no need to make it plural. I'm here to help Russian bots with their English. I'm playing both sides, so I'm always on top.
@@rb239rtr Uki Zionist bot
Hypersonic ballistic shovels and shed tanks are too much for NAFO forces and weapons.
😂darn laser guided shovels
Then there's the TOS2 Thermobaric shovel.
Looks like the Russian military's advantages and capabilities are being accurately assessed for the first time instead of hubris and mockery. And while the Russians are consolidating their gains and expanding their opportunities, Ukraine is fighting without a clear strategy beyond holding the defense as long as possible. And what's worse is that with drones on the battlefield, maneuver is not really playing a deciding factor so manpower and logistics are going to determine the outcome of the war.
No, everything's precisely as was estimated. Ukraine's running low on AA and terrorussian nazis are making tactical gains because of it after getting some of their shit together, after two years of bloody war.
Russia is succeeding in denazifying Ukraine...🤔
Ukraine was foolish to rely on the US and EU for weapons. Hasn't Zelensky heard the saying: "It's dangerous to be America's enemy, but it's even more dangerous to be America's friend"?
i think they just don’t want to be russian
@@301MG The j3wish NeoCons and CIA gave Ukraine fake and gay "nationalism" to fight against Russia. They are all Slavic people and should be friends, but then they got a zio-president installed in Kiev to wage a slavic brotherwar instead.
Marcon also said EU can't rely on the US for security.
@@301MGNobody asked them to be Russian.
@@301MG All the more reason they should have taken the peace deal, they could have had all their territory as long as they pledged to stay neutral. Now they can kiss the conquered territory goodbye.
Ukraine is done, it’s just about drawing up new lines.
Russia is basically doing what Germany did mid to late WW1. They've basically copied the Stormtroopers playbook. Back in WW1 the basic military unit of the German Army was the Battalion. Most early engagements involved either full movement of the Battalion or the entire Regiment, but when the war became a stalemate the Germans adopted the small units tactics. Stormtroopers fought in either company size elements to company size. The only difference today is Russia is fighting at the fireteam to platoon level and of course Drones!
"Russia is basically doing what Germany did mid to late WW1. They've basically copied the Stormtroopers playbook."
Not copied it. USSR made their own version of it as part of the Deep battle doctrine of the 1930s.
Russia then in the early -00s started developing that further, and it was implemented as part of the massive reorganisation of the Russian military since 2008, as they found far too many deficiencies in it and also realised that they were functioning on Soviet doctrine but not with Soviet resources and that was not a realistic way to work.
"The only difference today is Russia is fighting at the fireteam to platoon level"
Mmm, sort of yes, but also very much no. Don't forget that Russia reorganised from the BTG setup to instead going back to divisional formations.
Also, you need to remember that Russia heavily employs the art of operational warfare. Yes, they fight TACTICALLY at very low unit levels.
But operationally, they fight at battalion or even larger level.
And since western, and their Ukraine puppets, doesn't have, or in Ukraine's case, no longer mostly have even the concept of operational warfare, Russia is utterly dominant at operational and strategic level.
Because every small unit is integral parts of an operational level plan. And you have not seen military planning until you've seen Russian planning!
When a Russian officer looks at a plan made by western militaries, they basically ask, "yes yes, that's the objectives, now where's the actual plan?".
Russian planning is thorough to a point that west considers it bad and claims that it just makes the troops inflexible and rigid.
But that planning is why, over 9 times out of 10 when Russian troops runs into heavy opposition, they already have multiple optional prepared routes of retreat, every one with ambush options, every one with preplotted artillery and airstrikes ready to appear within minutes if called upon.
@@DIREWOLFx75 Wow so why does the west make mockery of russian military the westerners are stupid
Storm of Steel
I have said so many times that fabs are the real gamecganger weapons of this war. I was called a russian bot..
They ain't. Lack of AA systems and ammunition is and everybody kinda fucking figured that a long time ago.
@Ilamarea fabs can be fired out of Ukraine radar and air defence reach. If Ukraine brings more AA close to the front line it could be struck by Russian drones or missiles and we have seen many examples of that
@@IlamareaUkrainian soldiers say otherwise. Of course we wouldn't know because we were sitting in furnished homes.
Gee, is a lack of AA systems related to having to shoot down fabs?
Are you a part of 66th NAFO Battalion and 45th Reddit brigade? Yeah I heard 112th Russian bot battalion are in high morale😂😂😂😂
Russia: Volunteers only, open borders - forms new brigades.
Ukraine: Total mobilisation, closed borders - constantly complains about manpower shortage.
And they say it's Russia who's taking more losses. Where did 'one million army' went?
Since ukraine only has old men at the front why hasn't russia taken one oblast and kept kherson ( forever russia)
😂😂😂😂😂
OK, so why hasn't russia won this yet??? please explain...
@@jaxonl7810And? It doesn't refute that he has said..
Poor ukrainians forced to join army, future recruits were beaten, hands broken on streets.. They cries and shout.
Russia advances slowly to save own soldier lives that's all
Russia left Kherson in order, because ukrainians in that time had about 10x more soldiers in this direction.
Ukraininas lose up to 6.000 for a week, Russians 500, and left the city..
🤡
@@187Rajahnone of what you said refuted anything in my comment
Just projecting
A very rare pro-NATO channel that says Russia strategy has nothing to do with taking land but all to do with destroying Ukrainian military. What use would land be for them in the middle of a war? Russia would much prefer Ukraine on the offensive and since it is not, Russia must engage in limited offensive operations. The end goal does include taking territory.
what end goal does slowing a Russian advance have for Ukraine? Surely their has to be an actual goal other than inflicting more losses to Russia. If they do not expect to take back any land, and they don't expect to be able to hold Russia, slowing down means over a long period of time means inevitable collapse of the entire country.
What point is being able to control a bunch of Donbas farmland when all your young farmers are dead or crippled.
You don't get it! do you?!
Its proxy war between the west and Russia, with money laundering sprinkled on top. Its not about what Ukraine wants.
@n3clar well then explain it to him you arrogant asshole instead of just popping in to denigrate him. His questions are legit. I know how i would prove these assertions wrong but do you?
By now the war is driven purely by Zelensky's ego.
@@n3clarobviously. Any ceasefire will be followed by further Russian invasion. Ukraine has no choice but to fight.
Hey Preston will you cover the Iran helicopter crash?
Discussed it a bit in some audio for Substack earlier today. It’s something that I need to do more research on in terms of what comes next for Iran and the region
@@PrestonStewartyeah you’re right we don’t know what will happen to the country now
@@PrestonStewart i myself dont think there will be much change , thier major loss is the Foreign Minister Hossein Amir. but overall i see them all as the suprem leader puppets as he makes all the decisions on appointments.
My honest reaction to that information:
"Oh no"
"Anyway."
@@activatekruger446 jeremy clarkson quote 👍👌
Thanks for the update. Keep safe.
We should triple the defense budget (satire)
Unfortunately there are Americans who sincerely think that military budget cannot be decreased. This is why I think that now it might be actually *good* time to buy a house because of *low* interest rates :(
That would not be enough, a russian arillery shell is prodused for around 500 usd, ours are now at between 5000-8000.
A legitimate question that a lot of people have, but its never addressed in fear that this would harm the carefully media curated profile of the state of Ukraine, is why there was a restriction for 27 years old and younger to be conscripted (they do accept volunteers). In every country that has a mandatory military service, in an event of war, the first line are the men already serving (18+) and then the classes of reservists are called according to their age FROM YOUNGER TO OLDER. Before you are going to call 45 year old men that cannot run 100m without blacking out, you have already gone through all the 20 and 30 year olds, unless there is a general mobilization where everybody is practically serving.
So why the ages 27 and bellow were protected? What makes a 25 year old different to a 28 or 30 year old? The answer is simple and sinister. The
if what you say is true they all should defect or surrender. the writing is on the wall in Ukraine, its corruption abounds. there is no reason to fight for half a country.
What a nonsense outlook. The folks old enough to remember Soviet times are the ones who hate Russia the most. Additionally, the men you want fighting on the front line are those who are most loyal to the country. Otherwise they'd all mutiny or at the very least desert.
The simple reason for Ukraine's unusual age bracket for military conscription is the demographic pyramid of the country. There were fewer 18-25 year olds that any other age bracket by a factor of 2-4. Conscripting these people would not only risk losing this entire generation, but result in complete demographic collapse of the country if they are conscripted before having children of their own.
Holy f this is dark
a bit like "suicide by cop". This is ethnic cleansing by conscription.
I heard about this too in comments sections. Ukraine is funneling cultural Russians off the streets and into the front lines as bullet catchers while the ultra-nationalists are used as blocking troops to prevent retreat.
It's also that their demography is terrible, if they kill the young generation there is no future for the country. I think they already don't have a demographic future but if they send the yound it's over for them.
Anyone that is a student of history, could have told you this was going to happen. Every war that Russia has been involved in has went this way. They always start off with shit for a command structure, because they have all bribed and swindled their way into those positions. They always start with shit equipment, because the personnel that were supposed to maintain that equipment, either pocketed the money or sold the equipment. And usually after 2-3 years they get their shit together, for the most part, and they become extremely capable.
Could Russia do this to the U.S. Military?
@@economiccrisis9267 the US has a much bigger population and industry not to mention its allies. So the US would definitely win an attrition war. However that also depends on the political situation of eather country and its willingness to sacrifice a generation.
@@lucagerulat307Russia has a bigger industrial base than the USA
@@misterpinkandyellow74and a smaller economy than Portugal. 😂
@@playedout148Why do people say that? It’s factually incorrect. By PPP Russia is the 5th in the world. Plus their debt to GDP ratio is 20%. Every other country in the West is debt laden. In most cases it’s like saying I earn $100k a year but my credit card bill is $90k a year. That doesn’t mean you are rich. It means you are stupid and print money.
It’s glad to see someone be honest instead of straight Ukraine propaganda
I think that phrasing forcing younger people to go to get killed, maimed, or PTSDed as "a step in the right direction" is an awful dehumanisation of the situation.
Yes, it is needed if we want to further certain political outcome, for sure. And that is what he was getting at, so i am not blaming him.
But for me mandatory conscription is the worst, more horrendous type of slavery. I don't care what jingoistic arguments people think make a good point, i find it abominable and reprehensible
This imbecile is gonna LOVE speaking Chinese after his stay in re-education camp. What an abominable, reprehensible stupidity.
You think this war is only now dehumanizing? We all can see the war front videos. What is wrong with you people who want to continue this madness? Surrender and win the peace.
Peace until the next time an oppressor wants to take more of your nation's land? Idk. War is bad. Self defense isn't.
@samdherring If Russia puts bases and weapons on America's border, America's response would be self-defense, right? Or are your standards double?
@@adamgates1142 US doesn't have to worry about that because it has good relations with its neighbors.
Russia’s venture towards Kharkiv caused Ukraine to move frontline forces from other fronts, thereby weakening those areas.
“If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.“ -Sun Tzu
The Russians cowardly retreat foward, while the Ukrainians bravely advance backwards.
Anti-drone tech stocks going crazy📈📈📈
2019-м Зеленский провел эффектную избирательную кампанию: обещал победить коррупцию, прекратить войну в Донбассе, не ущемлять права русскоязычных. Молодой, энергичный, он выглядел перспективным политиком. В октябре 2020 Зеленский встречается с Ричардом Муром, после чего он из президента МИРА, становится президента "войны до последнего украинца". 20 мая 2024 истек срок полномочий президента Украины Владимира Зеленского.
This is what politicians do, they lie during the campaign and after they are elected they receive the Agenda with the details. nothing new😅
A generation lost the average age of Ukrainian troop is something like 43.
They went into it like that. The under-30s are keeping the economy running right now. They may have to change that.
@@MM22966Economy? For real?
@@paledawn363 One of the big downsides with conscription is that if you pull too many men out of the workforce to go fight, it makes it harder to keep fighting as a country, or even feed people. Countries that use it (like Israel, for example) always have to conduct careful balancing acts of soldiers vs. workers, or keep their conflicts short, which isn't an option for Ukraine. Even during WW2, most of the combatants only mobilized about 10-15% of their military-age men, and in WW1, Germany started starving because they didn't have enough men left bringing in the harvest.
@@MM22966 what economy , the industrial centers of ukraine are mostly in the east occupied by russia. Most of the men shown to be kidnapped are under 30.
@@JL-tm3rc What are you talking about?
That last point was very interesting as Russia’s long range striking campaign deep into Ukraine or on the Ukrainian frontlines leading to the deterioration of the Ukrainian air defense creates a very difficult decision for Ukraine. Should it dedicate all air defenses to the protection of major population centers such as Kiev, Kharkov, or Odessa? Or should it concentrate them on the frontlines? If you do both than you will obviously fail to defend both as Frederick the Great once said he who tries to defend everything defends nothing. Once again thank you for your excellent coverage!! ❤❤❤
Military Equipment Salesmen, selling what they have to sell, and telling everyone that it is the only good solution.
Keep up the good work. Number 1 channel for Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Palestine
All this could've been solved if they would have simply followed the Minksk agreement
Or if Russia would leave them alone
Keep talking Trollof. 👾
Retard alert
@@economiccrisis9267Ukraine should of left the ethnic Russians alone and not kill them.
100% or signed the peace agreement at the start of the war. They thought they could roll Russia. I mean Russia. The West’s hubris has led to their own downfall and it’s fabulous.
Today in the news I've read that for the first time Russians used FAB-3000 glide bomb. It's explosion is comparable with a nuclear shell (the weakest existing nuclear weapon).
Simple mathematics indicates Ukraine will be loose at the end 😢😢😢
If I was younger I would volunteer to go and help Ukraine fight. More specifically would help maintain the f-16. In the past I worked in the F-15 at LAFB. Russia will not win this war. The EU and the west will not let this happen. Countries are already working towards going in and helping Ukraine. It is only a matter of time before this happens. Putin has single handily ruined Russia’s future. Russia’s economy is doomed and it is a matter of time until this is seen. But it is it inevitably going to happen. The wheels are already turning and it’s just a matter of time before this comes
darn shovels
Looks like those shovels didn't save russias oil refineries
Why does everyone keep talking about shovels?? I've never seen that reported anywhere
@@NoahGreene-pp5wmBecause it wasn't real. Western media claimed that Russia was using human-wave attacks of old men wielding shovels. It was completely disproven but still funny.
@@NoahGreene-pp5wmRussian fanboys and Russian bots love to chant this, mockingly, as if half of their soldiers don’t look like bums off of the street in temu equipment
@@maximilienslingluff4379like ukraine only having old man and pregnant women at the front but russia still fail to take one oblast
The experience that the Russians are gaining is invaluable. The soldiers are gaining combat experience, the equipment is being tested and modified and new strategies are being developed. This is excellent for the liberation of Ukraine and for further regime change in the EUSSR.
Zaporihzhia would be a tough fight being split by the Dnipro, more solid defense and hard to break.
Another reason why there are only small to medium scale of RU ops in Ukraine is the amount of drones and other UAVs available to both sides. Because of that it's s nearly impossible to concentrate a large amount of forces without being detected. Which defeats the whole purpose of conducting a large scale offensives and achieving a successful outcome. So both sides had to adapt a lot during this conflict.
@Preston Stewart did you now history of the region?
Good analysis Preston.
When will it be time to sit down and give Russia the Donbas? I haven’t changed my mind since the beginning of the war. It’s been obvious to me eastern Ukraine wants to be aligned with Russia, why not let them. I wonder what our GDP would be if we removed all the excess military spending from these wars?
2 years later and russia still haven't taken donbass
Because it wouldn't stop there.
@@jaxonl7810 beacause it doesnt have to, the strategy is to deplete ukrainian forces first, there are a million ukrainian men at arms while russia deployed only half a million men at the start of the war. western media are now saying that the russians outnumber ukrainians that is why zelensky wants to mobilize half a million men, a year more into this conflict and ukraine will be down to 100,000 troops and russia will just roll over the remaining forces. look at what happened to germany getting stuck for close to 3 years in leningrad and after stalingrad no significant victory after that, the soviets just rolled over the volkstrum and depleted german units
Russia was offered concessions early. At no point would Russia accept just the Donbas. They demand the entirety of Ukraine. The minimum demands are Ukraine must completely disarm and allow Russia to select their government.
Russia will not accept less. Anyone calling for Ukraine to just give up the occupied territory is spreading misinformation - intentionally or not.
Russia keeping what it has is not on the table from Russia. Ukraine's choices are co plete destruction of Ukraine as a people, or fight. Period.
@@jaxonl7810No, But Ukraine has practically been destroyed… Besides, the people of the Donbas want nothing to do with Ukraine.
It's not the raw numbers, it's strategy and improvisation, Russia is doing it very well.
That's a weasley way of saying Ukraine Fucked lmao
I can tell we have similar views on all these life’s being lost . Thank you for not being biased.
Sadly it is not going to end well for Ukraine. Man power is just on Russia’s side and don’t see it changing.
Manpower, ingenuity and production are all on Russia’s side.
@@ashfield1425bot comments are also on russias side lol
@@___seb3341 Why does everyone call people who they don’t agree with bots? It’s a different perspective. Calling people bots is just infantile.
@@ashfield1425 LMAO ,, keep dreaming
@@ashfield1425 Leaving silly comments is infantile
Thanks for the unbiased coverage. Saw you in Ronnie Adkins range day vid. Looked like a couple of kids on Christmas morning. Keep up the great work, sir.
Good reporting
Appreciate that!
Thanks for this report. It is a grim analysis of a failing Ukrainian army against an army several times as large. There is no evidence yet--none-- that recruitment is picking up. If it doesn't pick up, the game is over for the Ukrainian army. But how can you persuade men to join the Ukrainian army, telling them that if they join, they can help blunt the inevitably advance of the Russian army?
The law just went into effect a few days ago. The effect will not be seen for 3-6 months at a minimum. But the process has begun, the first step taken. It was the right thing to do for Ukraine. 🇺🇦👍
@@nicolasoltonUkraine has already had over 10 rounds of forced mobilisations, and hundreds of videos are released of Ukraine commissars stealing people right off the street. We even saw one guy blow himself up, injuring the commissar, just to avoid being forced into the Ukrainian army.
But here is the problem: Even if they could put 200k soldiers in the front lines within 2 months, how are they going to produce officers? What about staff officers? Good NCOs? Most of the surviving Ukrainian troops are of low to shitty quality (You know, the bulk of them, who got 2 weeks of shoddy training and then sent to the frontlines as cannon fodder). Most of the elite forces and the Army Ukraine started died in Bahkmut, then in the counter offensive, etc. One cannot make a whole new army from stratch. The Soviet Army had this very same problem in the second world war: Divisions were the size of brigades and Army Cores were the size of Divisions because they didin't had enough officers. Germany ran the same problem too. As the war progressed the quality of the army went downhill. And its going to be the 8th time that Ukraine is going to have to rebuild their army. Its the 8th general mobilization and they are still in lack of manpower. This is simply a war that cannot be won.
@@Melanrickcool story.
@@nicolasolton What do you men "Right thing" ?
Team shovels winning over team super weapons
Why didnt those shovels save russian oil refineries
@@jaxonl7810 Please go to the Eastern Front and fight for your Western LGBTQ+ values. Lol!
Oil refineries are one of the easiest things to repair it takes maximum 2 months to repair a crazly huge oil refinerie@jaxonl7810
@@jaxonl7810no need.. rus just need to move most their refinery to the east outside the ukr wonder weapons reach. Atacms cant reach all the way to siberia.
@@jaxonl7810and why the wonder weapon dont protect ukr electric grid?
We thought Ukrainians had 31000 casualties, but how come they are running out of man power?
And I thought kherson was supposed to take Odessa
2 years later
The end game is logically Russia will beat Ukraine. The question is at what cost to Russia ? Russia has never fought an enemy which has modern weapons and can attack Russia.
So does everyone, US spent fighting a backward military force. Iraq and Afghanistan submitted. Because of airpower. They did not have a significant number of air defense to fight mass and quality with second-hand equipment. Right now, everyone is experienced against terrorist hiding with civillians. Not conventional war.
No major superpower fought anyone with modern weapons, and either or both sides losses theoretically.
@@subjectc7505 Yeah, that is why every country is checking their shelves in civillians commercial to buy and develope drones for military use. Because they are very cheap and effective against anything on the ground and water.
Ukraine does not have modern weapons 😮??
We have 33 countries that have boosted Ukraine with all the available capabilities no NATO countries have ever waged such a war
Very good reporting and analysis Preston.
So glad i subscibed. You give the best analysis of situations and i love the fact that you aren't biased. Keep up the good work 💪
I love your content as fmr. special soldier.....
You should do a collaboration with Willy OAM
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Willi uses click bait
TY Preston. Top level coverage as usual for you. The obvious big alarm will be a large herd of turtle tanks before a heavy hit....what DO we call a gang of turtles ? Clutch ?
Combat veteran reacts told me that Russia is out of steam and that this latest push (out of steam?) is actually a trap being set by Ukraine
Ok Imma be real I'm pro-Ukrainian but I really don't think this is the case
@@sensei4042 if you tell him that then his rabid followers start calling you a bot and crying
Nice shirt...2BCT 101st airborne Strike? I recognize the talon crest.
"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to 'uck things up."
-Barack Obama, 2020
Much better than the summer offensive
What has Russia achieved during this autumn-spring offensive? 😂
@@horoshkoaleksandr273it's called battle of attrition. Russia is grinding on Ukrainian men power, equipments and economy. Ukraine is going nowhere, so there is no reason for Russia to rush.
@@iamsorryforbeingrudebefore16262 years later 😂😂😂😂😂
Keep coping
Good analysis
Love your videos man!
Thanks a lot!
Unpopular opinion but I kind of am on the side of Russia NATO kept pushing for Ukraine to be part of NATO Russia can’t allow a NATO to be on its border that would mean NATO could literally setup absolutely anything they wanted military and weapons wise on Russias border. The Soviets did this in Cuba as we know it as the Cuban missile crisis. We ourselves didn’t allow it to happen we the U.S had plans to invade Cuba because of this. So it makes sense to me why Russia cannot allow Ukraine to join NATO and when push came to shove they had to physically stop it from happening
It already had two NATO states on its border, four if you count Kaliningrad. With the addition of Finland in NATO, it's at a total of five.
Ukraine has a deficit in manpower due to attrition, flight from the country and draft evasion. That tells us how popular the war is. I've never supported a cent of western taxpayer dollars being spent on a war to extend NATO into European Russia, which is what Ukraine is, just as Canada and Mexico are part of North America.
Russia never wanted to destroy Ukraine. That was the point of their failed early attempt, where they sent forces deep and almost encircling major cities. They wanted to scare them into giving up.
Now, they’ve killed over half a million men with estimates 8 to one kill ratios. Russia has geared up to a war economy, has large numbers of troops that are well trained now, and Ukraine is struggling to get enough replacements by throwing old, poorly trained men into the battle.
All that’s going to come from this US engineered fight, is the loss of a generation.
Maybe if the west didn’t lie about them joining nato, and had Ukraine not started killing 14,000 ethnic Russians this wouldn’t have happened.
If Ukraine lost this war. It's going to be a big embarrassment for Ukrainians and NAFO😂
It is NAZO's.
2 years later ...😂😂😂😂😂
Do you mean north Atlantic terrorist organisation?
@jaxonl7810 doesn't matter. A defeat still is a defeat
Weak troll bro, try harder.
Drones like Orlan 10 are cheaper then any SAM and fly above range of Cal 50 gun.
Tragic news to hear. Win or lose, rain or shine- I support Ukraine.
Ukraine is facing an existential threat to its survival, yet it still refuses to draft all able bodied men and women age 18 and older.
If it drafted them there would be a crisis in ukraine
True, Ukraine is weird. It's a very special kind of state which doesn't exist for fighting existential threats; it's more like a placeholder to cater for basic bureaucracy needs of otherwise very strong nation, capable of rapid horizontal organization. Unlike Russians, who seem to exist for the sole reason of creating threats.
Of course it is. This was always going to happen. Nothing Ukraine can do now.
Oof that's the PMS talking
@@jaxonl7810 Oh sorry, did I hear someone with a minuscule penis talking?
@@ashfield1425
People keep talking about what Russia's "strategy" might be. We don't have to guess.
Russia's strategy is to lose more men, lose more equipment, lose more resources, use more munitions, spend more money, lose more ground, repress its own population, etc. against a country 1/3rd its size that is technologically inferior.
Who thinks that's a winning strategy?
What is Ukraine's strategy?
Who told you that? How are Russians losing? Maybe dial down Western MSM propaganda.
Is this article a month old or are we feeling particularly alarmist today?
I ll start worrying when you see a 20Km advance with only 300 losses somewhere
It is the real question, isn't it? Are these chest-thumping probing attacks that did well at massive cost, or a harbinger of a slowly collapsing front?
In war history, I have never seen a country that has brought in the war to its territory being able to produce military supply adequately and turn the tide from defensive to offensive. Prime example is Nazi Germany, they could not recover from constant allied air bombardments to replenish their military supply. US Civil War can be a counter example, but the fighting happened in a limited area mostly along the Atlantic coastline near Maryland and Virginia. Then Union forces to struck the Mississippi delta and used blockade to win the war while the Union manufacturing occurred in the Midwest far away from the coastline. For Ukraine, production cannot happen near the Dnipro River close to the population center due to the reach of Russian long range missiles and satellites. The production will likely happen close to NATO country borders using the NATO air coverage. Also, production requires a large number of population participating in the economy when the military age population is sent to fight leaving behind lesser population to work in factories and farming and consume goods to run the economy. This is why it is tough to win a war when the war is fought in home territory. Smaller nations have it even tougher.
Comments flooded with the uber pro Russia set today. Noticeable difference in the quality of comments from the usual stuff.
I think most people have finally realised (there are a few NAFO diehards left) that Ukraine is corrupt, they are destroying and killing their young men for a war they will never win and for the US it’s just another Afghanistan grift.
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@@jaxonl7810 👈🏻Tiny little leadless prick
@@ashfield1425
Yeah typically you'd see comments like "Love the analysis, Preston" and genuine opinions but now it's just... whatever this cesspit is
God I hope Ukraine pulls through
Everything changed when they added wings to their shovels
Well said big bad Preston as always
Очень интересно и очень смешно слушать военную аналитику от страны, которая за последние 80 лет не выиграла ни одной войны, а терпела только поражения. Скорость, с которой американская армия удрала из Афганистана показала всю её убогость и неспособность вести серьёзные боевые действия. Американская армия, это лузеры, это трусливый сброд убийц, у которых руки по плечи в крови мирных жителей. Американские генералы, это недоумки обвешанные висюльками, неизвестно за что полученными , у них пустые головы и явно завышенное самомнение. Американские аналитики очень глупые и строят аналитику только на цифрах. Это в корне неправильно. Имея дело со славянами, а особенно с русским, необходимо учитывать душевную мотивацию и крепость духа войск. Российская армия комплектуется на добровольной основе, солдаты хорошо обучены, вооружены, имеют мощную поддержку артиллерии, авиации, заряжены на победу и имеют высокий боевой дух. Украинская армия, всё больше комплектуется НАСИЛЬСТВЕННОЙ мобилизацией, низкой выучкой солдат и недостатков всех видов снабжения, боевой дух низкий и держится только на страхе и материальной заинтересованности. Негатив украинской армии будет только усиливаться и никакие поставки вооружения не остановят этот процесс. Россия ещё и не начинала воевать серьёзно и затягивание войны ей выгодно. Она истощает не только Украину, но, экономически, все страны, которые её поддерживают. Удачи!
they won’t attack kharkiv surround it sqeeze it
Russia will never stop. Ukraine is in a mess full of dead and wounded. This should never have happened. There had to be a away to avoid this catastrophe.
The new conscription law in Ukraine has not been received well. I very much doubt they reach any significant amount of recruits and the issue of training them in a short period of time.
Smart O stating facts without political bias. Thanks for the analysis.
Love from israel my man stay well
Good to see Anashim Shelanu here
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Neither side can accumulate the force necessary to engage in a large scale offensive or counter offensive without significant loss because of the use of drones. Drones have changed the face of modern warfare, otherwise Russia would have already won.
thanks congress for delaying the help you promised them
And limitless funding in Afghanistan accomplished what?
@@coolbreeze253 Ukraine is Not Afghanistan. 😐
Almost as if congress is supposed to fund and improve...our country?!
@@FdK3124 yeah. First one fights against professional army, second one were committed partisans. If you couldn't tame Talibs - maybe Russia is too big to take down?
@@FdK3124 Ukraine is not Afghanistan, they won't need planes that much☺😚. slava ukraine
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Shovels and washing machines 🫡
Edit: Holy, i triggered alot of people lmao. Imagine reporting about something and when Ukraine gets mocked people get mad.
If those shovels are so good why isn't kherson forever russia?
I've followed this war from the beginning, why do people keep bringing up this shit?? I've never seen this reported anywhere
@@NoahGreene-pp5wmit’s Russian cope
@@NoahGreene-pp5wm Ukraine and the British media had said Russia was using shovels and looting during the beginning of the war. You haven't been watching if you never heard of that
@@jaxonl7810 🥱
For the algorithm
In theory Russia could commit 1000 tanks, 30,000 troops, and a few hundred aircraft to a massive combined arms attack. But, what would be the result?
they lack the technical prowess to coordinate such an attack in the first place. massive combined arms attacks are incredibly difficult to perform
Few hundred aircraft is ALL they have, unless you include helicopters.
@@jadenpilledthey are also lacking the training
@@Therakusthat is kind of an unspoken point. And their training is also suspect
@@Therakusrussia have a fleet of +850 fighters
While ukraine have like 40 outdated ones
The us have a fleet of 1800
China 1100
India 400 and the rest nations are all less than 400
So russian air fleet size isnt a problem
Its the way they are using their air force
Even iraq used its air force 10 times better than what russia did in the war
Iraq wich isnt a super power managed ti strike every inch in iran while its size is 3 times bigger than ukraine and iran had the most advanced air defenses in the world at that time
People that know maths an how to count and know how a country works will know how the war would end ur support don't mean anything
Right from the start this was always clear. They say good commanders talk about tactics, great commanders talk about logistics. When it comes to logistics Russia has always had much more of everything.
@@D64nz brilliantly said
@@D64nz Which is how the tactics are based. Russia surrounds a strongpoint and controls the logistic supply roads into it until the enemy is forced to retreat. The Russians are nobody's fool, they conserve their manpower and force the Ukrainians to expend theirs. Now it is manpower which is tipping the scales.
Russians had ovewhelming arms superiority from start. In light of this and regarding western narative of "Russian losses" one only needs to remember videos of endles-Ukrainian-miltary-grveyrds... Something that simply dors not exist in Russia.
Presented with this argument, Ukrobots in their pycho-coping went as far as claiming that Russians are not burrying their fallen soldiers, so there are no-grveyrds..
They was this video of an interview not sure what years it was from. A interview with some of those Ukrainian group bragging about all the weapon and training the NATO have given them and how they were going to take Donbas and Crimea back and take to the Russian. I wonder how leader few now?
How is the goal destruction of the Ukrainian military when Russia throws tens of thousands of bodies at Ukrainian defenses, just to take a ruined little village that has no strategic importance? This video does not give an intelligent take.
What proof do you have that Russia “throws tens of thousands of bodies at Ukrainian defenses”?
Ukraine friends western alliance isnt helping enough! for over 6 months ukraine didnt get enough weapons from US. europe is nothing they pledged 1 million artillery shells but got only 300k 😂😂😂😂 this war American war they have to make decision either to supply enough or to negotiate & end the war. Ukraine is losing too much they can't afford more losses!