Putin's Failing Pincer Attack: The Latest from Ukraine - TLDR News
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Putin's efforts in Ukraine continue to stall, with his latest pincer attack seemingly falling short. So in this video we discuss the latest from Ukraine, what's happening in the war and what this means for the Ukrainian odds of victory
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UPDATE:
Since we wrote and animated this video, the Russian advance in Severodonetsk has accelerated. According to the governor of Luhansk, Russian forces now control 70% of Severodonetsk, and Ukrainian forces have retreated to defensive positions in western Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which is still under Ukrainian control.
You should point out that the river runs through the city, so in this case, Russia is really facing another attempted river crossing while Ukrainian forces are using the typography to build defensive lines. And in most likely, the Ukrainians are withdrawing in good order.
Moral of this post, it's not ideal to make frontline conclusion videos while fog of war is thick, from daily reports Ukraine reinforcements that is holding the line is bending and bending, and the counterattack through the river at Kherson Oblast is called off after huge casualties. Russia is stalling in advances, but Ukraine is losing more reserves and people to plug the gap. Ukraine's apc's and trucks are already wiped out. and optimistic "we are repelling attacks" tone of Ukraine high command are now reporting their daily posts as "Russians are attacking x and y" and the reported big defeats on Russian units are no longer reported since Izyum breakthrough. Don't know with with these reports who is winning
@@rudigermullins8343 they will be "evacuated" soon enough 😂
And maybe another update, since Scholz just announced that German will deliver multiple rocket launchers, modern air defence and spotting radar to direct counter-battery artillery fire. If that comes to pass, that would be massive help
So you’re admitting that this video is anti Russian propaganda, something that we already know.
The problem is that Ukraine simply can not accept to lose more land.
A lot of those territories are extremely important for Ukraine's economy so giving up on them would hurt the country a lot in the future.
There is also the obvious problem that, if Putin can come out from this conflict as a winner he may invade Ukraine again in few years (which is exactly what happened in this case after he managed to take Crimea with almost no resistance).
Proper economic policies are more valuable than land. North Korea used to be richer and more industrialized than South Korea at the end of the war. We all know how that turned out.
They can't, but they've only lost forests and tiny villages right the past few days
True, especially as these lands are filled with gas and I think oil.
It's curious how supposed rebels only appeared in these regions. Ones that would benefit Russia if they were taken.
The myth of “rich east poor west” is outdated. There’s huge IT industry in western and central Ukraine, which grew 5-10 years ago, and brings a lot more money than outdated mines and steel plants. This is the reason why UAH fell 200% in 2014 war, but fell only 20% in 2022 war, despite the latter being far more destructive and total, Ukraine already gave up on relying on industry of eastern Ukraine
it could also mean Ukraine is in position to make it very costly for russia by using only a token resources, land can be retaken. Better to make the other guy die for their country. Let the russians tire themselves out. It also helps when there are political motives behind, it makes enemy movements more predictable. Just my 5cents on the matter.
As a German I must state that I am utterly ashamed that my country is rightfully being sorted into the hesitant bracket. Not all people in Germany want our famous peace at all cost. Some actually value freedom and justice and the struggle for self-determination for all which Ukraine is fighting right now.
I feel like Germany should invest in nuclear energy, rather than ban it. Love from Vietnam 🇻🇳❤💗🇩🇪💪🇩🇪💪🇩🇪💪🇩🇪
@@NeoEvanA.R.T yes , its really crazy how germany shuts down their atomic energy while being in an economic war with his Energy supplier
@@BMG0091what a bunch of dumb ass they are
@@BMG0091 well no one who has any actual knowledge of nuclear energy understands that decision. Sure it may have been right to reform the sector and shut down older faulty reactors but state of the art nuclear reactor have killed somewhere around 0 people while fossil fuels kill 10th of thousands every year. The totally crazy thing is that with a phd in physics Merkel should have known better.
@@tomgoluke1425 ja sie tat es nur um die Stimmen der Gegner von Atomkraft zu bekommen
Errors: You said Russian forces instead of Ukrainian forces at 2:43
You should probably mention that Poland, Canada, Romania, Finland, and Sweden are among the powers remaining staunchly pro-Ukraine in terms of support.
they are not the ones getting attacked so no wonder. easier to do nothing
@@ReekyCheeks ahm What? Are you talking about the countries listed by OC or The Rest of The West?
Not surprising the French are cowardly. Its disappointing to see the Germans and Italians go back to their old pro-fascist ways though.
@@ReekyCheeks Go help them in Donbass
The OP and creator of this video already admitted this entire video is false and wrong and he was stupid to post it. Ukraine is losing hard and the entire " Failed Russian Attack " he's referring to has actually been successful. Maybe quit listening to fake news propagandists.
“Ultimately it’s hard to see who’s right here” I would say that it is actually pretty easy to see who is right, since we already have example of appeasing dictators in the past. Ceding Ukrainian land does not and will not stop Russia and Putin’s dream of a new Soviet bloc
No one wants soviet land not even russian
Exactly. It will be like Czechoslovakia in 1938. Putin like Hitler will only come for more.
Ukraine ceeds land. Russia comes back in 5 years to take more. lol
France, Germany, and Italy are an embarrassment. We all know how appeasing Hitler turned out yet these three cowards are repeating that again
The problem with Germany and mostly France is they are afraid of denying their own citizens the comforts they are used to. This denial will cost votes. The citizens are of course all for kicking Russia out of Ukraine, so long as they do not have to turn the heating thermostat down a degree, or cut that Sunday drive out of the week´s activities.
When this war is over we will have to send the bill to Russia. No trade until every cent is repaid, every building reconstructed and every family compensated.
And what about the US? Don't they have to pay anything for their wars of aggression in the world, destruction and human suffering!? Of course not, of course. You can continue to do everything. Damned hypocrites.
@@guzzirider701 They they should. But since the US is a democracy, protecting agains dictatorships. This is far easier to accept than the other way around.
Taking the fact that Macron and Scholz had a phone call with Putin as a sign their support for Ukraine would falter is beyond ridiculous. It's not either phone or weapons. You can do both.
It better not include Ukrainian capitulation. Cuz ukraine will never do that.
5:25
Well actually you forgot Poland... Again
But serious now, we even recently sent them 236 tanks. Ukrainian victory is very important for us
Yes, I was amazed to find no mention of Poland, considering what a lead it has taken in supporting Ukraine.
Poland is easily becoming the most important European NATO power in all of this. Still I can't believe how useless the Western European countries are being. As if Putin hasn't been in a low key cold war with the West long before the invasion of Ukraine. Even if somehow Putin was convinced to end this it won't be the end of this. Russia will just aim their military elsewhere and someone else will be in danger.
@@adagietto2523
Yeah I realised that probably he doesn't like Poles. He mentions Poland only in a negative way or not at all
@@kupieckorzenny5093 Poland is the best. Thank you for your support.
@@kupieckorzenny5093 Probably people from the west could not cope with the idea of conservative democracy ,which most of the former Warsaw pact countries practise, that why he talks negative for Poland and especially Hungary. I admire the polish for taking such an active stand. I wish my country was also that active
"2nd best army in the world", "We could take Warsaw and Bucharest in 24 hours", " T-90 is superior to Abrams", "NATO is weak", "72 hour special operation".... :))
@My Name Yeah, so? Weren't they saying that UK is ****, that Russian weapons are the best etc? I don't remember USA b8tching about the fact that the taliban were receiving funds and weapons from Russia or China. git gud or git lost.
“PuTiN iS HoLdINg BAcK!! RuSsIa IsNt UsiNg ITs BeSt UniTs anD EQuipMenT!!!?!???1!1?!1!”
@@sam5tue577 ah, yes. “We DiDNt loSe thE BATtLe of HarkyiV, we WoN by ReTREATiNg”
@@DerDop
“kYiv WAs A DiStrACtiOn anD NEvEr Fhe IntenDed TaRgEt aNd NaZi UkraInE anD FaScist NATO FeLl fOr iT!”
Second best army in Ukraine.
I remember after the Russians fell back from kyiv Russian supporters said "they've seen nothing yet, wait til they see whats coming in the east" still waiting on this super amazing blitz they were supposed to do because what we've seen so far isn't much
Their new general is trying to outbomb/ out artillery the ukraine army when they are entrenched/ defending cities. After the mini siege attack the attack comes. Its slower but more methodical. Their first strategy to blitzkrieg failed due to deliveries of short range anti tank and anti airplane weapons of the west.
Without them ukraine would probably been fallen already.
Ukraine need more artillery weapons to defend this strategy. Only time will tell us wich country wins. There is still a chance that weapon deliveries make Russia use (small) nukes if they start losing.
@@Puma-ph5ep Russia using tactical nukes means it will even lose support from China/India (the nuclear taboo). Furthermore, as Russia is not officially at war with Ukraine, Russias nuclear doctrine prevents the use of nukes.
@@Puma-ph5ep They won't use nukes, any nukes. If they do, NATO declares war on them directly and China and India drop their support immediately just for very pragmatic reasons (if they support the usage of tac-nukes, they'll only invite other nations not only acquire nukes themselves, but also dropping them on their troops should they ever try to threaten anyone just so they can't nuke them first).
The Soviets didn't nuke Afghanistan when they were losing their footing there either and that was losing after a ten-year long struggle.
@@shiroamakusa8075 Can you explain how does India support Russia?
@@shiroamakusa8075 NATO WILL NEVER declare war on Russia
Interesting analysis. However to suggest that the hawkish approach risks escalation ignores the troubled history of appeasement when dealing with an autocracy.
Which of the 4 autocracies do you mean?
The only unelected person in this conflict is Ursula. The rest all hold sham elections.
Appeasement didn't stop the Nazi's.
It encouraged them.
@@concept5631 so why would Putin appease them this time?
Europe is controlled by a German dictator.
How can you call this an analysis when this is clearly a propaganda piece?
@@FuncraftVideos please explain
An important thing to understand about Severodonetsk AND Lysychansk is that those twin cities are separated by Siverskyi Donets river. Russians will eventually seize Severodonetsk but in order to seize Lysychansk, and hence capture the entire Luhansk region (which is their primary goal), they will need to cross the river which didn't go well for them last time when they tried to do so near the village of Bilohorivka where they lost about 70 vehicles and 400 men.
As noted, Severodonetsk isn't particularly important apart from Putin's ego. Lysychansk has an oil refinery which is a pretty expensive piece of equipment and a bit of a prize... but the Russians are currently shelling it with artillery. They are so dumb.
Phillip.
The other side of the river is higher ground so that will make it even harder for the Russians. The river to the north has been well defended and it doesn't look like the Russians are going to break through that way. That leaves pushing forward from Popasna to cut them off. Time will tell if they can achieve that but it will cost the Russians.
👍🏾👍 Absolutely - & Lysychansk is higher ground I believe.
Lmao i will be back here in 2 weeks when Russians would have already taken the city
@@kartikeyatiwari2502 deal
Honestly, I want to hear about how close the Russian train network is to the places they're attacking. I have yet to hear contradiction that you can predict if the Russian war machine can function in an area by asking if it's within 90 miles of a supply depot, and train track is about the only competent method they can deploy to get things from A to B.
openrailwaymap
Do you not know how to use Google search?
Absolutely correct- and what are they going to do with it -
There’s 11, million men armed to the teeth for the long haul -
Like ffs
Parovoz supermap. Only in Russian though
Newly captured Lyman is a railway hub. I will be surprised if the Ukraine didn't try to bomb it while retreating. They bomb all assets when they retreat, particularly bridges
"We'll capture Kiev in 3 days."
3 months later: can't even capture a fringe province which wants to separate from Ukraine
Its hilarious
I’m afraid what you’re saying is not necessarily true .
In 1991 after the fall of the Soviet union 83% of the population of the Donbas actually voted against joining Russia .
The Russian separatists were always a minority
Those “fringe provinces” contain a tremendous amount of oil and natural gas. Donbas and Crimea were always the real objectives.
@@truthsmiles - Bad objectives. Russia didn't need more oil and gas. It does need plenty of other things, and now it's never going to get those things.
@@steveosborne2297 always have been, and still are. It's a myth cooked up by Russia. What they're doing would be like Mexico invading Texas because some people speak Spanish there. Russia is simply greedy and wants more land, even though it's the largest country on earth already. Any other reason they give is horse manure. I hope that oversized country balkanizes into 10 different countries and Russia goes the way of Rome
Yes, I agree Russia doesn't "conquer a city" by simply reducing the whole area to ashes.
Another painful lesson why appeasement is never the solution.
"It's hard to know who's right." No it's not. Ukraine is right. It's their territory, and they are the ones dying. It's their choice whether to hold talks with Putin. If they want talks, fine. If they don't, also fine. Western leaders should not try to pressure them one way or the other.
Yeah, Russia invaded foreign country. They can't be right, simple as that. Period.
How about a referendum of eastern and southern Ukraine provinces to decide where they want to go
@@Vlog-hu8gb not while they're under Russian occupation. They can not be trusted
@@Vlog-hu8gb Well, as long as the many autonomous republics within Russia get to hold their own referendums too. Needless to say, I think that Putin is only interested in letting a "fair referendum" happen if he knows he'll win it.
takes two to talk
Russia is already the largest and most resource-rich country on earth. They don't need more territory, they need to start administrating what they have competently.
Until ukraine starts selling natural gas, there will be more competition and russia will lose a lot of money
Putin: I hear what you're saying and I think you're right. I should buy myself a bigger yacht.
General Oligarkov Putin cares not.
@@somethinglikethat2176 wait, is buying a yacht illegal? Or you just hate the rich?
@@sashagrey2984 it's called corruption. That's how he got the money for it. Robbed the Russian people to buy a boat. Some patriot.
My view is that if Ukraine fights and wins, the suffering will be temporary, if Ukraine loses, suffering, even for just a small amount of Ukraine, is permanent. Not to mention it would also lead to the increased presence of authoritarianism in the world, and that cannot do
@My Name 2 things.
1. we were funding the whole military, not the individual battalion
2. the battalion wouldn't have been integrated into the overall military and would continue to be a fringe opinion in Ukraine but isn't because of Russia destabilizing the region in the first place
@Heinrich Hertz many things wrong here.
1. the United States is the place where democracy on a large scale was brought back from death, after having died with the Roman Republic for the most part. in China, youll be shot by the government if you talk about its issues. Same with Russia.
2. Putin also banned all opposition parties, and part of the reason the Ukrainian government was pushed to do the same (not a move I agree with regardless) was due to Russian aggression.
3. I would like to hear some specific instances of Zelenski handing out weapons to serial killers?
4. Zelenski is literally Jewish first of all, second, as I mentioned before, groups like the Azov Battalion were only integrated into the military due to Russian aggression, and even then their ideals are still a fringe belief in Ukraine. I would argue its actually Putin sponsoring Nazism by provoking Ukraine to take these drastic measures
stable world vs free world
pick your side
@@sinoroman what exactly do you mean by stable and free world
@@sinoroman yeah, because Russia, North Korea and China are real fucking stable. The word you meant to use was 'stagnant'.
Ukraine has natural gas reserves in the south and east. Exactly the areas that Russia is now occupying with the claim that it is about the Russians who live there. Keeping these parts of Ukraine and starting gas production there could be a big competitor for Russia.
Yh... Its ALWAYS about the money
Hence he attacked in 2014 after the discovery of the Crimea gas fields in 2012/13
Puting couldnt care less about the thnic Russians and NATO on his border, he isnt stupid he knows NATO will NEVER attack a nuclear power like Russia
Jens, does your country import gas from Russia or from these areas of Ukraine? Be honest with yourself :)
It has in fact Europes second largest natural gas resources, oil, coal and superior farmland which produces the worlds 4th largest exports for grain! The world is hungry and food the new gold!
Don‘t be fooled, it was allways about power, land and resources!
@@tomasfuk8439 what a question… you don’t get gas from there because when the gas was found accidentally a war broke out… of course we can’t get the gas from there! That is the goal of the invasion that Ukraine can’t offer an alternative to Russia!!!
Your comment proves Jens’s point.
@@VINLAND_777Agree, but as to the current enormous hunger for food, was this really the reason or rather the result of Russians attack? Nonetheless I do not question what you say
Great video as always guys! Appreciate the constant updates 👍
I actually got fooled by the profile pic...
@@pennyfarthing7332 Same
The OP and creator of this video already admitted this entire video is false and wrong and he was stupid to post it. Ukraine is losing hard and the entire " Failed Russian Attack " he's referring to has actually been successful. Maybe quit listening to fake news propagandists.
@@yakivpopavich Maybe you should stfu and stop spreading russian propaganda here?
Putin's 3d chess amounts to bombing the shit out of residential housing , such brilliance , how can we survive such an intellect ?
@My Name what the US and Europe are doing is in direct response to Russian aggression , if a bull charges into a china shop you do not blame those who are trying to get the creature out of the shop for the damage ? nice try Russian confusion troll
@My Name
Cry me a river in a mess that Ru started.
They were never going to successfully do a major pincer attack, since that requires coordination that I don't think they are capable of.
Russia has put half of its entire army there and is struggling. Meanwhile, Ukraine is counter-attacking in the Kherson region.
@@herbb8547 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Russians will find a way to achieve that W
I have been watching Ukraine war videos for 3 months now. My eyes are getting blurry....Really want to see more win for Ukraine.
God, strengthen Ukraine warriors.
I think Ukraine needs to win back Kherson territories as the residents there are not like in Donbass.
Kherson residents *Do Not like Russia* at all.
Earlier videos showed they defiantly told the Russians in a military vehicle to back off and go home !
At this rate, in a couple of weeks we’ll be hearing about “Putin’s failing attack to occupy mrs. Shevchenko bathroom as her husband is mounting a fierce resistance with a chandelier in the living room”
Hilarious! But may guess is Putin's man will be ready to give up, provided Mr. Shechenko will allow him to take the washing mashine as souvenir from Ukraine ....
@@rodicasimion6675 I don’t know about that, as President Zelensky is in the position now for rejecting the idea of conceding any further house appliances to Russia to end the war.
@@rodicasimion6675 putin not gonna give up any time soon, giving up mean possible coup, political unrest, and they military power will be put in question
I think that if Zelenkyy agrees to a peace deal, it has to come with Ukraine entering NATO the instant it's signed, otherwise Russia will just be knocking on their door again later.
That isn't possible. But perhaps UK and US could give Ukraine same guarantees as were given to Sweden and Finland.
NATO won't allow Ukraine to join, otherwise they would already be a member. Hell, Turkey isn't even allowing Finland and Sweden to join. Zelensky is going to have to hurt Russia's military so badly that they won't even look at Ukraine again for quite some time, and even then he is going to have to get some military assurances from stronger powers to intercede if Russia dares to step foot in Ukraine again, even though it won't be as strong a deterrent as NATO.
@@Suksass I doubt that would be good enough for Ukraine. Prior to the war, they HAD such safety guarantees, not just from the US, but _also_ from Russia, as a condition of Ukraine turning over their own nukes. Clearly Russia violated that, and the US did not fully live up to their commitment to defend Ukraine, for sad but understandably pragmatic reasons. I feel like only the NATO Article 5 would be enough to protect them at this point. Or at least something a bit stronger than just a pledge from the US.
@@Gwyrddu Under normal conditions, it would be complicated, and they will not let them join while actively at war, but given the extreme risk they are now under, if them joining it part of a peace deal, NATO might agree. And Turkey will allow Finland and Sweden to join, they just need to get their beak wet first.
While I think Ukraine could hurt Putin badly, and drive them off for a bit, lead to a "peace deal," if the only thing holding it together is Putin's promise to not invade again, then it will never last. The minute they get the Russian forces back across the border they will start plans for "Invade Ukraine 2," and start building up their forces in preparation for that. Another invasion could come within a year, or at most maybe five. They need some stronger international framework that would keep Putin away for good.
I don't think Russia will be wanting to knock on their door again, at least in the next few decades. Seeing how bad it is going for them. Every future Russian leader will have this example to look at when thinking of invading Ukraine again.
EXCELLENT content and delivery!! You have a superb speaking voice!!
Like what many are saying here, if the Ukrainians are willing to fight, we MUST support them. Putin's failure is pivotal for our future because such hideous barbarism must never prevail and should send a clear signal to anyone else with such ambitions in future. I want humanity to explore space and not waste money on stupid conquests like this.
Edit: for those compelled to compare Putin's imperial conquests to 'the West's' military operations... don't. While I do not agree with many of the usa's politics and excursions, I don't remember them raping, pillaging and murdering en masse their way through a war as part of their strategy. There IS a difference.
Once the threat posed by putin & his ilk is dealt with let's put our efforts into saving the environment that supports us - this is the best spaceship that we've got !!
@@JamesC785 I like that idea too!
What do you know about this conflict?
Taking our mentality outside of Earth after proving that we can't even govern ourselves properly here? I once read a sci fi short story where Earth was quarantined because the savagery of its denizens could not be permitted to spread.
@@SophiasHeir probably as much ad you.
Escalation and prolongement of the conflict is the only way for Ukraine to achieve desireable results, European leaders should understand that.
They do understand that, but that may not be in their interest. A quick peace and resuming of trade is the issue to protect millions from starving due to this war. Globalisation enables us to feed 8 billion people, but also cause issues when things get disrupted. Those starving people will start moving to places with food security as well or start taking stuff from others. You know the drill, it's history repeating.
what is the "desirable result" of Ukraine? to remain complete, sovereign and peaceful? Oh, you must be talking about the "attack-bird development"... So, Ukraine wants to prolong the Russian invasion in order to finish the research in their "biolabs" and attack and defeat Russia and steal Russian factories for production of Moscvich :D
Not rly, they would end up with millions dead and an enemy that wants nothing but victory, even if they capture luhansk donetsk and Crimea, they would be nothing but rubble, and Russia can't afford a defeat so they would continue the war until they win.
Peace is the obvious option even if it risks another war, it is better than continuing an existing war.
@@ALIHQG I understand that point of view too. But both west and Russia are already giving commitments for the sovereignty of Ukraine when they denuclearize them now the west has to follow through.
The argument about if this war is worth it or not that's a Ukrainian people decision to make.
@@noxiouspro yes if the Ukrainian people and the individual had a say, but at the end of the day it's Zelinsky who makes the decisions and even if he has good intentions, that doesn't make all his decision automatically right.
Like for example, banning men over 18 from leaving the country in order for the to fuel his war economy cause if too many people leave then he won't have enough resources to fuel the front lines, that is wrong on so many levels.
U can't force people to fuel a war that they themselves don't support, even if the majority does, the individual still gets a say in what they themselves want, and it's worse to discriminate one gender, not to mention it being quite dictatorial to try and dictate where people can and can't go, it's just bad, no but's.
Are you sure that France (at least) is that hesitant to help? The foreign minister just said yesterday that France is going to ramp up arm delivery to Ukraine. Trying to get negociations in parrallel doesn't negate that, does it?
It's mostly English right wing rags trying to play up their help for Ukraine and playing down Europe's help for Ukraine. It has little basis in reality.
Germany too said they gonna "ramp up" arms deliveries, 3 months ago
The problem is that for Putin, trying to talk is a sign of weakness. Thanks to this, Putin hopes that if he tightens the bolt even more, the west will break.Because of the talks, this war will only escalate, if nobody talked to him, maybe Putin would say that the war is unwinnable and it is time to limit his own losses and withdraw.
@@gaius100bc they did, from nothing to something. And Ukrainian soldiers are currently trained in Germany on modern equipment
@@veritaspk Bullshit. If Putin sees it as weakness, he's just kidding himself. As we speak by the end of the year 90% of Russian oil to Europe will be banned, western European nations still keep sending arms to Ukraine and are preparing a potential 7th set of sanctions.
If Putin has no potential offramp (no matter how small), he might be forced into an all or nothing position.
Thanks to Russian propaganda over the years and historical reasons Italy public opinion and Parliament is quite "pro russian" (as in there are a lot of voices pro "peace" and "anti NATO"). Luckly Draghi is strong on supporting Ukraine. About his phone calls with Putin he said "I am skeptical of the usefulness of these phone calls, but there are reasons for making them. These conversations show that it is Putin who does not want peace."
Same shit also in Greece!
Lefties and far-right people are pro-Russia, anti-NATO and neutral but fortunately the government and the major parties in parliament support Ukraine with sanctions and weapons
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So instead of trying to solve the conflict and work as a negotiator, it's better to pump weapons into Ukraine to get destroyed and to Russia to kill much more untrained ukrainian men? Good job, really!
Whenever I fill my car with fuel or pay my gas and electricity bills some of my money goes towards Putin's war machine. That makes me sick.
Make a principled stand, stop buying gas and elecricity.
@My Name does this justifies Russian invasion?
@My Nameif Russian didn't invade donbass in 2014 this was never gonna happen
Once again, Putin is showing the world that he and Russia is a paper tiger
paper bear.
Not even... paper tigers can give you paper cuts... and they really hurt.
The Russians will take it slowly.
A paper bear with the most nuclear weapons in the world
@@Yougaga34 - which are useless when others have plenty.
in February, Russia wanted to demilitarize Ukraine, in May Ukraine is the best equipped European country.
Vladolf Putler is a genius 😂
@@begonekneecaps9718 in a war to "demilitarize" Ukraine.
Did you read the comment he made?
Someone once said " IT IS BETTER TO DIE ON YOUR FEET THAN LIVE ON YOUR KNEES " i totally agree Mick Timson
Pushing for peace seems like a bad idea in this situation. It's very doubtful that Russia would accept peace without any territorial gains, in one form or another. And Ukraine can't accept losing any territory without significant economic harm and an assumption that Russia will invade again in the future. Appeasement will only encourage future aggression from Russia.
Ukraine just needs to promise to not join NATO. then war will loosen and finally end
@@sinoroman I seriously doubt that if Ukraine promised not to join Nato that Russia would just leave and give back all captured territory.
@@sinoroman yes, just like when they promised to never invade ukraine if they gave up their nuclear power.
the 2014 Ukraine coup was a mistake
@@sinoroman Ukraine was not going to join NATO; it wanted to, but NATO was never going to let it in. Now though, if a peace settlement is reached Ukraine probably will join NATO, and regardless, NATO has nothing to do with oil in Donbass, or the imperialist wet dreams of the Russian elite.
I guess it's either the attack debuffs or not enough command power to click the forced attack button.
Not enough hoi4
Hoi4
+ in the beggining he left his troops on training while declearing the war big mistake smh
Please let's not compare this to a strategical game, as good as it may be. There are people who are currently dying from this war. The memes will have to wait.
it's the massive supply penalty, and they failed to take the supply depot.
The smaller the couldron, the heavier the firepower.
Those maps can be misleading, they make it seem like Russians have spread millions of troops and steadily controll tens of thousands of square kelometers.
Yes the Russians have pushed the Ukranians out of open areas and small cities, but all they control is scorched earth and they barely have enough manpower and fuel to patrol those wastelands let alone protect supply lines. The first stage of the war was every mistake the Germans made in WWII, the second stage seems like Vietnam or even Laos, where the Americans wasted more ammunition than all of WWII only to lose the entire territory in an unsustainable war.
That is why they bomb cities. Because soldiers hide there
Don’t forget that Russia has lost as much soldiers in a 3 month campaign, as their attempt in Afghanistan in 10 years. That got to hurt
Continue lying to yourselves
Thank you for your explanation.
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Based putin drone
thanks for keeping me UpToDate, its easer to follow this rather than sit through 2 hours of news
I have to say I love your video so mutch better than watching or reading the news, no propergander or hidden agendas, just pure facts. Keep up the good work
Just trust Zelenskey! He knows best. Its his country and he has massive support from his people. Its no business of tghe french, Germans or Italians, who are more concerned with Euros than Ukrainia's future.
The position of these European nations since world war 2 has always been to keep trying a diplomatic resolution even if this is next to other things they do (like sending arms). It essentially is better to give Putin a potential (very) limited offramp than force him in an all or nothing position.
Just trust clown, are you serious? 🤡🤡🤡
@@MDP1702 німеччина не постачає Україні зброю, а Франція за 3 місяці передала 6 САУ caesar
@@DhonnIk Maybe you should speak english on an english channel, otherwise you're just wasting your time.
@@DhonnIk okay so?
A man with decades of experience and one of the largest and modern forces in the world held at bay for 100 days by a comedic actor leading people with a love of country.
and don't forget the 40 billion dollars and all the weapons and mercenaries of oxidant.
This is the value of organization and real time networking. The time from finding a target and launching artillery is 30 seconds for Ukraine. Russia has no such system. Russia is going in blind with poorly trained troops.
Excellent, as always.
Oh course Western Europe is waffling. I really wish there was a collective growth of a persistent backbone and a willingness to recognize an enemy when one violently announces itself ad infinitum
Not our enemy not our war
Russia has been an enemy of Western Europe and Eastern Europe for decades, expressly. An enemy of liberal values and the international order. So regardless of where you are, they are in fact your enemy
Except....that's complete nonsense. There's no change in support for Ukraine. Germany, as always, has just really shitty PR. Accused of doing nothing whilesending small arms to Ukraine, and heavy weapons to NATO partners to enable *them* to pass on their stuff to Ukraine.
@@drsnova7313 As of this moment Germany has failed to send replacement materials such as tanks and components to replace what Poland and Czech Republic has sent to Ukraine, which Germany agreed to do. I’m asserting the waffling of France and Germany in all encompassing, only the beginnings of an orientation of weakness and appeasement.
98% of Ukranian people surveyed said they will Not give up any Ukraine territories to Russia....
and this included 82% of Russia Ethnic group.
Brave and Loyal President Zelenskyy is the Voice of his people...
'Will NOT Give Up Any Territories At All'........
Truly proving himself a War Leader, Hero and true Servant of the People.
Sounds like blind optimism. Nobody wants to give up anything but in the future they might not even have a choice. In fact things will get way worse if they don't get more artillery and tanks. Javelins are useless on open plains like Donbass. Russia is currently inflicting very significant casualties on the Ukrainians because they have an overwhelming artillery and armor advantage.
82% is absolute cherry picking rubbish. Poll the Russian speaking peoples of the DPR LPR etc etc and you will get a totally different result. The way its going Poland and Belarus may call in their claims, Z won't have any territory left to give up.
@@stoyantodorov2133 : sometimes you just have to do what's the right thing to do, instead of weighing profit and loss. Ukraine is fighting for its right to exist as sovereign nation. This is its trial by fire. Every sovereign nation sooner or later has to prove itself this way.
@@gendoruwo6322 Ukraine is fighting for stupidity of its leaders, trying to become as hostile to Russia as possible on russian land border.
@@bobdeverell In 1991 the majority in every region voted for independence from russia & recently Zelenskyy won the election by a landslide.
Very few original inhabitants of the occupied territories remain in place.
If you listen to the media, we would have impression that Ukraine is winning.
But in reality, Russia is gaining ground. Slowly but surely.
I wish the best for Ukraine.
What is winning? And the fighting is diffrent every day. Looking at what Russia said it was, then Russia is failing hard. Such a army, so much equioment and only manages to so much with big losses. Its kind of a win for Ukraine in my books.
Other thing, around kherson region, whole front line isint moving for a month now, and only Ukrainians managed to counter attack and take tiny bits of lands back. In Kharkiv region same thing, pushed russians out of artilery range on the city. And now front line isint moving anymore. Its only with lyman and severodonetsk, where russia is gaining SLOWLY very slowly territory.
So you tell me is there a clear winner and loser?
You need to define winning. It's a war of attrition. If Russia is suffering heavy losses compared to Ukraine trying to take strategically insignificant towns, then it is a case of losing smaller battles to win the bigger war. The ground Russia is taking are bombed out villages, that they then later need to hold indefinitely.
Ukraine knows Putin has personally ordered the taking of Severodonetsk and the generals have no choice except to throw everything they have at it. Therefore Ukraine are making their withdrawal as slow and painful as possible for the Russians. It's a smart tactic.
Phillip.
@@kerstas10 the russia's aims are to liberated LPR and DPR claimed territories. Then russia also control most part of kherson and zaporizhzhia oblast and the canal that give fresh water to crimea. Even slowly russia get the ground.
In my countries we acknowledge ukraine as winner in social media/news outlet but not on the ground
Ukraine is gaining ground in the Kherson area... .slowly but surely.
@@muhammadasruni8992 russias aim was to take ukraine in 3 days, then take Kiev they failed, then thought of other objectives and failed, theyr aims a changing every week.
Just like I said first day this war started, its either 7 days or half a year. 3 months passed and Russia is already struggling. They gaining but at what pace and at what losses, what will happen after other 3 months?
This is like watching a ww2 documentary in real time.
Then: *Russians when the snow starts speaking Finnish*
Now: *Russians when the wheat starts speaking Ukrainian*
A bit outdated lol, the Ukrainians are retreating from Severodonetsk now by most sources. Lysychansk is still Ukrainian, but I don't know if Ukraine will try to hold on to it and risk being encircled. On the bright side, it seems like an organised retreat and they're not getting encircled, but we haven't seen many Ukrainian counterattacks on the area, so I wouldn't be too hopeful about that yet. And another piece of good news is that Ukraine is counterattacking in the Kherson area.
This counter attack has already been repelled. 200+ ukranian servicemen confirmed as dead by russian military. They got pummeled by artillery and airforce, scattered and retreated.
@@AltairMagnus Confirmed by the Russian military LOL
Sounds legit
Hmmm Ukraine is doing a fighting retreat so they can counter attack later.
And with them still fighting thats less troops in kherson to hold off that counter attack.
@@AltairMagnus You could be more honest. In the counterattack Ukraine has lost:
-3x Deathstar;
-5x packs of Pringles with with cheese flavour;
-2x with bacon flavour;
-4x copies of DJ Khalid's song "Suffering from success";
-1000x M1A2 Abrams tanks;
-Michael Schumacher's jacket (only one was ever produced);
-5x packs of Marlboro cigarettes;
-3000x UFOs;
-1000x Bayraktar TB2 drones;
-5x of 1000 V-bucks cards;
-The Infinity Gauntlet.
I don't really see the rift in support that this video suggests. To my knowledge, Scholz and Macron do not ask Russia to negotiate (which sounds like they favor Ukraine to give up on territory without even involving Selensky), afaik, they tell Putin to stop this war.
There is a rift in the EU, but it's between Hungary (maybe Slovakia) and the rest of the EU.
“things are not going [according] to plan” often said with or without [according]
I think the video overlooks some key information. Recently, in the south, Ukrainian forces have made major advances on Kherson. They are reclaiming a lot of territory and there is no reason to think that won't continue at least until Kherson. Secondly, Ukraine has dug its heels in as far as peace talks are concerned and rightly so. This is their war, and only Ukraine has a right to say when they will ask for peace. European nations refusing to aid Ukraine are doing so because of economic reasons, not wanting to face the prospects of finally weaning themselves off Russian energy dependence. Not only is this short-sighted, but it is also the same logic of appeasement that led to Hitler taking more and more land which fully triggered WW2. The spirit of Helsinki is dead and the sooner Europe fully recognizes this, the better the world will be.
The Ukrainian advances near Kherson are even smaller than the Russian advanced in the Donbas.
Peace remains the best option for all sides. The belligerent attitude will get us all killed if we aren't careful.
@@hess6wi That is objectively wrong. With NATO equipment coming online, Ukraine's military is more capable than ever before. Morale is high, Russian gains are being rolled back across the country except in one area where the majority of the Russian military is based and Ukraine is fortifying the hills just south and across a river from Severdonestsk, making an ideal position for the M777 artillery. Ukraine is absolutely wrecking the Russian military and Russia is facing an economic crisis at home. Peace only plays into Putin's hand, nothing more.
Yeah no. Kherson offensive failed.
@@daniell1483 It doesn't look as positive as you might think (and I very much wish Ukraine was crushing Russian military). Zelensky said Ukraine is losing 600 soldiers every day (100 dead + 500 wounded). Intercepted calls indicate that Russia has ridiculous lossess as well. This is highly active war right now (unsustainable at this pace in the long term) and although Russia is slowly gaining positions and land, it is so very far from over. Wars like this take years, not weeks. All will depend on how much we keep helping Ukraine with heavy weapons. Their fate is in the hands of us in the West right now.
@@daniell1483 However you are 100% correct that it is exactly as 1938 when Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia. United Kingdom and France then negotiated peace with Hitler and SACRIFICED Czechoslovakia for peace in Europe. Hitler said literally "Sudetenland (like Donbas in Czechoslovakia) is my LAST territorial request in Europe". Hitler 1938. ... How did that "peace" with Hitler work for UK and FR? Hitler also said Czechoslovakia is "legitimate security concern" for Nazi Germany, and even shown a map how far Czechoslovak bombers can reach (550 km) into entire Germany (exactly as Russia with nukes - citing Ukraine as legitimate security concern for Russia). And also Hitler was very worried about how German speaking minorities are treated in Czechoslovakia/Sudetenland (exactly as Putin is "concerned" about Russian speaking minorities). ... History is repeating almost carbon copy and the west of Europe has not learned any lesson... yet again.
The war is about the control of oil and gas, both the control of selling it and transporting it. Letting Russia talk about peace and letting it keep the valuable areas it has stolen should not be on the table. The EU powers still rely far too much on Russian fossil fuels, remember that when you see who is on which side here......
Spot on.
In Europe the lines are pretty clear. The former eastern block states fear for their safety and therefore support ukraine with everything they have (only outlier is hungary because the ruling party is basically financed by putin). The western states who don't feel as threatened militarily fear more for their economies and what this means for upcoming elections, therefore they push for a peace even if it means ukraine gets shafted. I think they are honestly despicable cowards. Reliance on russian gas is toxic to the EU and should have been given up a long time ago. It only helps to keep Putin in power and make climate change worse. Also making peace with putin and letting him keep his gains will only embolden him to do the same thing again at the next opportunity. All this talk of the danger of nuclear escalation is BS, Putin can't use his arsenal without having his whole country destroyed by the west, he's just using the threat of it to gain leverage.
Who says anything about them offering to keep the conquered area's? They just want to keep the dialogue open next to aiding Ukraine and increasing sanctions. Just now the EU has decided to a measure that essentially cuts Russian oil imports by 90% in the coming months.
@@MDP1702 Well do you think Putin would give up any territory he conquered? What would be in it for him? He could end the war at any moment if he wanted to by just withdrawing his troops. Pushing for peace talks will mean freezing the status quo.
@@lb2791 Fully agree. The EU, as an organisation, fails again, not being able to do the right thing because of internal divisions. Another failure, just like Jugoslavia, with NATO having to sort things out.
Macron's dream of an EU army is just that - a dream.
I disagree with your claim about Germany becoming hesitant. They just announced that they are going to provide medium range MLR systems
They also announced they won't be sending anything else more claiming it doesn't have enough to defend itself or serve its NATO role if it continues to support Ukraine. Unfortunately this came not long after Putin demanded it stopped, and there lack of stockpiling and training means it has to legitimately fear Russian invasion taking before we can dig in and rip apart a invading force
the U.S. probably pushing them to move forward
Limited progress...?? That is the danger of releasing speculation and not facts.
At this point I feel like Russia has already admitted defeat but wanted to at least get something out of the war after they already lost so much; not just from the fighting itself but also the cost of the sanctions and the alliance they lost. The irony though: Donbas is pro-Russian and they are getting buildings destroyed by artillery by the country they support…
I really don’t want to anger Putin even further, but the harsh reality I am seeing is people are being punished by Russia for being their “friends”, and I have a feeling this act could push more Russian allies away; including long-term ones like Kazakhstan or Belarus.
I have been read that Kazakhstan has already started distanciating itself from Russia
Exactly !
Kazakhstan most definitely could distance itself from Russia but Belarus can’t. Belarus is literally Putin’s puppet state and that won’t change until both country’s government’s are rebuilt from the ground up like Germany after WW2.
@@sam5tue577 time for another uprising in Belarus - it was russian forces that repressed the last one after the doggy election.
Russia has many Ukrainian cities, and people still saying Russia “has lost” 🤣
Russian Casualties within 3 months reach 10k+ with limited success? Holly molly. wasting so many artillery shells, with the economic sanction, I have a feeling that they would running out of ammo and man power in 6 months
And by then it will be winter again for the Russian troops stuck in Donbas foxholes...
Hopefully in six months NATO will have finally decided to train Ukrainian forces on operating Abrams tanks and F35s or whatever the US is planning to replace fairly soon anyhow. Not the latest or best equipment, but still a lot better than most of the Russian equipment Ukraine is facing. Ukraine will need a substantial boost in offensive capability if they are going to go on the offensive against Russian defensive positions without suffering massive losses.
@My Name It's either 'Washington vs Moscow' or 'USA vs Russia'. Be consistent.
And if the war in Ukraine is really just a USA vs Russia proxy war, then Putin started it by annexing Crimea. What is your theory for why Putin chose to start a proxy war with the US? ;) My theory is that he is an egocentric narcissist that doesn't care how many Russia soldiers or Ukrainian civilians have to die in order for him to have a shot at going down in the history of Russia as "Putin the Great".
ps. The country that invaded Ukraine is the one full of maniacs.
But I shouldn't be at all surprised by this sort of nonsensical claptrap - a classic Soviet disinformation technique was the 'big lie' e.g. you invade another country and then claim that they were the aggressor. You start a war and then claim that you have sent in 'peacekeepers'. You call yourself a 'people's democratic republic' and then have a egocentric, kleptomaniacal autocrat as despotic 'ruler for life' and arrest or kill any opposition.
@@ralphmorgan6130 They won't get those weapons and will not be able to use them. A quick 4 week training for a high-tech weapon in a safe country will not prepare anyone for counter-fire and shellshock. Stop the bullshit, it will not help Ukraine at all.
Considering the long term consequences, and what we can learn from history, I would argue that supporting Ukraines war effort is the only good 'and' righteous choice.
I doubt weapons of mass destruction will come into play. It is just a scare tactic used precisely to encourage the peace at all cost stupidity. The start of WW2 should know why escalation may come from a silk glove response, so sometimes defensive war is the only good option.
Hard to see who's right? They might have said that about Chamberlain and Churchill at the Munich agreement, but it didn't take long to find out.
From Russia's point of view:
1) Ukraine's oil and natural gas reserves now under Russian control or close enough to stop Ukraine from ever using them. Foreign energy companies scared away, Russian gas/oil monopoly safe.
2) Separatist regions still firmly under Russian control and more fortified by the day, so no chance of Ukraine ever joining NATO.
3) Crimea's water supply problem solved by taking control of the dams near Kherson.
4) Crimea connected to Russian mainland, so no more supply problems.
5) Black sea coast and its ports firmly under Russian control. Better power projection for the southern fleet as well as new export routes open.
6) Ukrainian economy and defense industry utterly crippled.
I want nothing but the best for Ukraine, but I'd hardly call this failing. They're ticking a lot boxes on their political wishlist.
I will also add that all we read about is the Ukrainians roasting tanks etc, it is all so one sided and does not agree with the maps showing who controls what. It is actually so one sided that it escapes fantasy that we are expected to believe it. I also root for Ukraine, but I am sceptical about the "news" updates. I also puzzle about the lack of initiative in taking/controlling/destroying russian assets in Russia, ie rail bridges oil/gas pipelines, some of these pipelines are active in Ukraine, how is that possible, someone should explain to them what WAR means.
yeah but Ukraine is still winning tho 😂. People are DELUSIONAL, Ukraine hasn't a chance.
@@Anashadk russia hasn't announced war on ukraine yet.
@@kartikeyatiwari2502 Exactly & no-one is declaring war on russia either.
No guarantee that these 'achievements' will remain permanent.
This war is over only when both sides agree to it & following a Ukrainian referendum.
Germany had far greater successes in the beginning of their campaign.......
Thanks again. Very interesting and well presented. Luhask may seem to have ‘little strategic value’ however, the oil reserves in that region of Ukraine must be part of putin’s (small p) motivation to occupy it and settle more Russians in the region to give an impression of legitimacy. The same applied to Crimea and Mariupol. A ‘peaceful settlement’ cannot include Ukraine giving up part of its sovereign territory. You just have to look at the 100 year old partition of areas of Ireland to know that this would end badly.
The people living there are russians and they have chosen to stand against Ukraine and its crimes. No "peaceful settlement" could simply include them being given up to Ukraine, that would start the same situation over again
@@QiuSe if they love Russia so much, they should leave and go live in Russia. Russia is giving citizenships to such people, let them leave.
@@nozhki-busha They're literally living on their ancestral homeland. Why should they pack up and go?
@@QiuSe Oh yea you mean like Tatars who were largely forcebly removed and subdued by Russians from Crimea? Coz that was okay right coz it's from right side..from Russian side. Gottcha.
@@QiuSe they aren’t all russians, and it’s not russians’ ancestral homeland. Soviets practiced forced relocation a lot - removing local population to the Far East and populating their land with ethnic russians instead. They did it to Ukrainians, Baltic nations, Crimean Tatar, Finnish, Koreans, Caucasus ethnicities and many others (everywhere along the border). Even though there is a significant russian population in Donbas, the majority are Ukrainians and it’s Ukrainian ancestral land. russians have no clam to it
The gap between Izyum and Lyman is less than 70 km, and the Russian Army’s failure to quickly close the gap tells you a lot about their strength already.
Regarding the current Russian military setback in Donbas, one can only imagine how Vlad is screaming in the Kremlin to his generals:
“I sticked my body out of the manhole for just one minute and fate decides to shovel sxxxx in my face.”
Edit: less than 60km.
Less than 60 is less than 70 so you weren't wrong
Lol. 😆 I laughed at Vlad's raging.
lol your update is hilarious
i have seen some post from news out lets here that the netherlands does not have anyting they can sent that can make a difference so next to dose artillery where dry
So, EU still trying to appease the Monster of Moscow, huh? Because that worked SO well before...
They had a phone call, honey, they did not give the Sudetenland away. It's a basic diplomatic effort, not "appeasement".
making brexit seem all the better.
"EU still trying to appease the Monster of Moscow, huh?"
No, not really.
With the U.S. M270 MLRS the Russian invader will fear its cruel murderous rockets. Russia's best fighting force is already spent. Time to clean up the trash. Slava Ukraine! 💛💙💛💙🤘
Missile strikes will take care of that.
....in a few months
The area you highlighted at the start of video consists not only of Luhansk oblast, but Donetsk one too.
Yes, lazy research.
@@xpusostomos and the cities are placed wrong by order of tens of kilometers, like Popasna and Rubizhne.
Thanks again! I really appreciate these updates 👍
I think another point important to highlight is that the Russian command chain is getting decimated. I'm not at all an expert in military command structure so I am not completely sure what it means, but from what I understood, Russian army had a lack of "medium level officers" from the start, that was just the way it was organized. But as "low level officers" keep getting killed on the field, higher officers need to get to the Frontline to effectively do the job of medium command chain. This puts them at risk, and they keep getting killed themselves. There are frequent reports about this.
As such, from what I understood again, this means that it's becoming harder and harder for Russian command to keep control of its army. So not only it's becoming less effective, but dissidence and disobedience are getting harder to repress. That doesn't sound like a good thing on the long term, for them.
But please, someone who understands this topic better, comment to better explain the situation and its concrete implication.
Many people have pointed out that Russia lacks experienced NCOs. Which probably limits units flexibility
Another problem is that contracts with soldiers will be expired, if they are not expired already.
They will no longer be required to fight:) And Putler refused to call this a war, so by Mordor law, soldiers can go home.
EDIT: They could try to force orcs to fight at gun point... but soldiers literally took out grenade and said ''Try it, we'll die together!'' If they try to force them, rebellion will become even more likely.
You are spot on with your assessment.
Looking at the education of the dead generals, I believe a Russian general is equal to a U.S. major. They have the basic military college education with a few years of experience. Generals in the U.S. have doctorate degrees and access to better war gaming both physical and in simulation.
@@orlock20 ahah imbecil our generals much more better than muricans
A little surprised by some of the details of this video. Based on the latest I've been reading from Ukraine, Russia seems to be gaining momentum. The fighting has become extremely intense, and Ukrainian forces have been having more and more issues resisting the relentless artillery assaults we've been seeing so much of in this war. No, there are less large-scale maneuvers at the moment, but that is just the current state of the conflict right now. But Russia seems to be whittling away at the Ukrainian resistance, and the number of daily casualties on the side of Ukraine is very high.
EDIT: Sorry I didn't see the pinned comment.
Russia is using 50% of its ground force to take one leveled city which can be struck by Ukrainian artillery from the other side of the river.
What do you mean who's right?!? Germany and France were trying to back out SINCE THE START!!! Their stomachs of fear are so pronounced!! It's because THEY are rich countries, yet only donate less than LITHUANIA. I mean come on! LITHUANIA of 1 million!!! That's just SAD!!! Ukraine needs you! If no money or arms, then YOUR BODIES!!! That's what it means to support now.
Peace Love and Freedom ☮️💜☮️
This is the war in which tanks became obsolete. The russians never had any tanks that could withstand direct artillery hits on the top deck, and the combination of artillery with drones that can observe the shell falls from fifty meters overhead means that Ukraine's artillery accuracy is nearly perfect. A Russian invader is far safer on foot than he is in a tank,
Putin can dig another thouaand tanks out of the museums, and if they can run at all, the only purpose they'll serve is to show the Ukranians where they can kill four russians with each hit.
Even if pewtin eventually throws enough cannon fodder into the fight to overwhelm Ukraine in the next year, he's done catastrophic damage to Russia. The young people streaming out of russia since his crimes in Crimea, and fleeing as we speak won't be coming back. Russia's demographic crisis has beem moved up by at least fifty years, due to pewtin's ego, power lust, ignorance, and incompetence.
Pewtin is Russsia's worst enemy since Stalin. I wish the Russian people all the luck they'll need to kill that son of a bitch with as little innocent bloodshed as possible.
Tanks aren't obsolete, the Russian's are just using them wrong for a modern battlefield.
*Putler.
Tank is not getting obsolete, just the Russian use tank in the worst way possible
@My Name You forget that the funding for the last 8 years was in response to Putin invading Crimea in 2014. Putin is bringing disaster upon Russia - perhaps he is in the pay of the CIA ;)
@@NeoEvanA.R.T
And ru tanks are worst possible too.
Slava Ukraini!
From encircling an entire country to encircling individual buildings in a small town.
Compared to the start of the war the last few weeks have been really really slow with only a few settlements taken
Slava Ukraini! Heroiam Slava! 🇺🇦
@@begonekneecaps9718 Coming from someone named begone kneecaps that's rather rich 😂
Before you ask others to research an expression maybe you should research yours.
Btw - how many statues of the genocidal maniac called Stalin are there in russia today ??
Slava Ukrayini ! Heroiam Slava ! 💙💛 Fascists never win !!
@@begonekneecaps9718 does'nt matter where it comes from, not even a tiny bit
Today its used by the forces of free and democratic Ukraine.
And it literally just means.
"Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes"
Whats wrong with that?
@My Name That's what russia is trying to do & failing.
Ukraine is a free & sovereign nation & is defending itself from invasion & this time russia will not succeed because Ukraine has the same allies that russia needed to be able to beat Germany.
Without the US & the Allies russia would never have beaten Nazis and now it is putin's regime that thinks that it can dominate, playing the role of Fascist & sacrificing their countrymen.
Who is it that YOU follow 'my name' ?
Hey Vlad, how's the 3 day "special operation" going😂
They never said that btw, it waa invented by scummy journalists from western media LOL
This is similar to the battle of Kursk, in that there is a clear salient in the line, and Ukraine can simply place its reserves on the edges of the salient so the Russians can bash themselves while attacking.
...... EVERYONE ...... Knows what BRILLIANT ...is ... Its becoming a by word for skipping the video !!!
The best part about the russian mechanized assult however is that the tanks they are brining out of retirement are also lacking in many key parts, so once they do get to the front, a ton of them typically wont work, or many more usually will not be able to run long due to the damage sustained through their retirement, and also since russia can't get the parts it needs anymore for these vehicles it would not be surprising if the number of vehicles they do have available to pull out of retirement is ever shrinking as they gut others for the parts to repair the others, not only that but russian assults being in waves like this makes them very very predictable, so while they halt advances and then escalate again, that must be due to how many vehicles they need to bring in before beginning their assaults, such predictability would allow Ukrainian forces to endlessly push back after each wave, or cause more damage to the mainland of russia, which coukd cause a catastrophic amount of holdup on the russian side, especially if the Ukrainians can begin targeting the russian railway systems in russia that help lead troops and armor to the front, which is surprising they haven't done yet.
It also would not be surprising if Putin and his communist regime dont even plan to really repair the damages they caused to the Ukrainian cities, and especially if their entire economy collapses doing so, considering the amount of money in repairs for the damages caused, both militarily, and infrastructurally is in my rough estimations in the trillions of dollars or more, something russia and possibly not even the Oligarchs themselves could help or hope to pay off, especially now that 90% of all that they had in banks around the world were frozen or confiscated by the world. Making alot of Oligarchs in russia poorer than the government itself now. But again, the damages done to every city they've bombed, mortar'd, airstriked, missile barraged, and cluster bombed, will cost trillions if dollars in repairs, but also the destruction to the farmlands will take ages to fix due to mortar fire, missiles and such, needing to shovel out debris and some still active shells, especially from cluster munitions.
Its also disgusting to me how France, Germany and the others against the war are choosing to try and win over the affections of the tyrant by kissing his ass and requesting a ceasefire or trying to force a peace agreement cause you know the reason their doing it is because they need or want Daddy Putins Oil and gas rather than to look for alternative means of getting it....it honestly disgusts me that they would rather kiss the boots of the tyrant than to help free a nation in strife by letting it fight back against its oppressor. While some still are, its clear they want the war to end so they can have their gas back or oil without needing to pay in rubles or make it obvious they themselves are tyrants cloaked in shadow not ready yet to strike.
@Heinrich Hertz Love how out of everything here you chose to cling onto that of all things instead of actually trying to start a civil conversation...instead immediately with the insults, why am I not surprised.
mron y will dye
It’s not entirely true that everyone is focused on those towns. Ukraine are now taking advantage of the situation and making progress in Kherson.
07:06 extreme volume increase in ad 😱
It looks like this war is going to drag on for years
Hmm... This doesn't seem right. Yes, it is slow, but Severdonest and other cities around donbass are falling much faster than Mariupol and there is confirmation that ukraine is having real difficulties in supplying it's troops in the east. Yes, things are not going well for russia, but I wouldn t be this excited
@Olaf Sigurson well... I don't watch russian tv or any affiliated Channel. Just pointing out battlefield reports; it's not like the russians are "winning", but they are certainly taking a Lot of ground in the past two weeks, specially around Severdonetsk
I can only talk about germany. Yes, our chancelor hesitates with heavy weapons BUT germany is like the third biggest supporter of military, humanitarian and monetary aid just behind the us and uk. (I think that the uk only sends more arms than germany).
Our foreign minister is all for a heavy weapon export. Lets see what that brings.
Just today Scholz approved the export of a high tech anti air system. This will either be the Patriot aa system or the Rheinmetall Mantis. Either will protect ukrainian ppl well
Exakt.
4:45 That's a very important strategic gain. It strengthens propaganda, imporves morale and gives the Russia an opportunity to retreat with a face, if they decide to
Still Russia is losing??! In reality, they are gaining town after town. Western help is not going to be a major factor anymore. Best option for Ukraine is to negotiate now or lose more land and soldiers. Zeclownsky should start focussing on his people rather than making the American military complex richer.
It honestly upsets me that western European countries (Italy, Germany, France) are not united with UK and USA on supporting Ukraine. To be clear, if USA and UK had the same motives as them during ww2, those countries would be speaking in German under dictator rules. Western Europeans have become comfortable living in free democratic countries and have forgotten that freedom was achieved through blood and sacrifice. We Americans lost half million of our soldiers for your sovereignty and freedom and this is how you show support to your allies? It's a shame that they are still hesitant when US called all of Putin's bluffs about Finland and nuclear weapons, escalation is just an excuse for western Europeans so they don't have to pay a little more money for gas and oil at the cost of Ukrainian sovereignty.
Cry hard Anglo
@@aeganratheesh Don't worry USA and UK will help Ukraine win and gain their sovereignty as usual. And other nations just sit by and cheer as usual. But one thing is for sure, Russia has already lost this war 😉
P.s. countries like Poland and Baltic nations have also been extremely helpful so respect to them.
That's the thing. They are far away from Russia and even in WW2 at the start France was messing around and afraid to attack Germany despite declaring war earlier. Hence the whole phony war period. Granted UK back then was the same.
Eastern European support of Ukraine us understandable. They all been there and know how dangerous Russia is. They've also been once United with Ukraine before Russia even was a thing. If. Oth Ukraine and Belarus could throw off Russian chains of oppression, whole EE would celebrate.
Your American position isn't surprising. Russia is direct even if weakened opponent to you. You see the danger they represent and the weaker the Russia is, the better for everyone.
You can said that easily because your country is at the other side of the world, and won't suffer the consecuences, just as it didn't in ww2, no matter what the the result of the war is.
Get off your high horse
@@darksector1389 I'm not talking about that rturd ...your country helped USSR which is continuing its atrocities as Russia today
Where can I find a statement from the Russian side that they want all of Ukraine? Please?
The Russians tried to take Kiev and take over control of the whole country
Where can I find free gold, please?
@@samb8601 can be true, can be a failed attempt to intimidate Kiev into a peace agreement. I don't know and nether do you.
@@CalmMind69 Sure I dont know, but it gives us a clue as to the original plan before Russia scaled back it's objectives
@@samb8601 I guess it is fine to present assumptions as facts nowadays
You really need to normalize the volume of the brilliant add at the end, each time my ears get f***ed
Saying that giving Ukraine arms is prolonging the war is ridiculous. Not giving Ukraine weapons would be prolonging the war. In no world is Russia going to be successful in occupying Ukraine or even the eastern part of the country without Ukraine keeping up the fight. The war will end when the Russian government realizes that it is far too costly to continue the war. Ending the war is completely a decision Russia has to make.
I hope russia will remain isolated for the next 50 years
"What's the harm in talking?"
That is the mentality of the three big nations of in the EU. What ever you might do to help one side you never want to give the impression to the other side that peace is no option. Cause this is how you unify the enemy nation.
Peace has always been an option,we know it and they know. All they have to do is get out of Ukraine and it ends.
@@xpusostomos be serious
@@xpusostomos Absolutely !
Surely a commitment to a peaceful settlement by Putin could never be questioned? After all, he promised in mid Feb that Russia had no intention of invading Ukraine and that all those massed troops on exercises near the Ukraine border would be back at their home bases by mid March.... oh wait...
Putin really said “it’s over Volodymyr, I have the high ground”
They haven’t encircled Severd. to give the defense an out vs. another mariopul.
3:50
That footage is debated; It may be a convoy moving towards Syria in 2014. Fact check required.
There are actually two videos one which most definitely was somewhere in Russia but the other video has been shown and has been geo-located to have arrived in Maritopol in the south of Ukraine
I've seen tankies admit T-62s are being shipped into Ukraine, they claim it is for second line troops and peacekeeping in occupied areas rather than frontline use but considering that pre-war Russia had 2,000-3,000 operational tanks and have at least 750 confirmed losses (likely 1,000 or more real ones) with basically no means of producing replacements (The total lifetime yearly average production for the T-72 is about 400 per year and with sanctions the current ability to produce replacements is likely well below 100). Having lost between 1/4 and 1/3rd of their entire tank stocks in just 3 months means that Russia is on pace to be entirely tankless by the end of the year. I wouldn't be surprised to see them resort to T-34s by Fall.
T-62's have been geolocated for melitopol.
Where rail network is for the most part operational for the russians.
It's assumed they are for conscript units for DPR/LPR or russia..
@@demomanchaos Winter War 2: Krai 2022 Boogaloo
I've said for like a month there would be 2 encirclements, a smaller one and when troops try to help break the encirclement the second one will happen, look where most the formations are. Also, Severdonetsk is essentially taken, centre was reached days ago. Chechens were mopping up and informing the civilians, they walk to the centre administrative building. Severdonetsk isn't 'small' it leads to Lysychansk that leads to Slovyansk and also has connections to most highways in that are, they lead everywhere. Slovyansk has a river as a natural barrier, there are 2 bridges and 1 dam next to each other, but the river is so close to Slovyansk that it's with in artillery range even without crossing.
Ukraine controls all the high ground heading west out of Severdonetsk. It will b extremely difficult for Russia to get past that. Also, keep in mind that Russia has lost hundreds, if not thousands, of troops taking Severdonetsk. They cannot keep that rate of loss up for long before their entire military in that region becomes ineffective.
@@herbb8547 That's what's been said for months now. So clearly someone is lying.
@@herbb8547 The rates you see are Ukrainian estimates, even NATO's is half of that and US' is even less than NATOs. They stormed the city from the East, got repelled the first time due to a lack of troops (they assumed Ukrainians would be withdrawing in order to not get encircled) and then sent a sabotage unit to take the Mir hotel. From there they managed to pick off Ukrainian forces and force them to retreat to the West side of the city, which allowed Russia to also advance in the North and South.
"Russia don't have fire power" DOESN'T
Negotiating with a dictator is idiotic.