Russia's Attempt to Surround Eastern Ukraine
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2022
- After a month of regrouping for Ukraine and Russia, both sides shoot their shot. The war has turned into an artillery duel in eastern Ukraine. In this video we examine the firepower on both sides as well as the geopolitical implications of the battles. Ukraine risks becoming encircled but Russia has left their Kherson flank wide open.
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This continous commitment to mispronounce every city in Ukraine after 3 months is one I respect and hope to see you continue. Much love Cappy ❤️
...continuos and unfaltering - but you have to be steadfast and resolute if you want to achieve something in your life... ;-)
I think you mean every city in "YOO-krane"
He had me at Odeesa. :D
just like lunkers
Hahaha hahahaha
Oldest problem in military history: river crossings. Still hard after all these centuries.
Friedrich barbarossa the German crusader king drowned while attempting to cross a river on campaign .And that is what the nazis named their biggest operation after ....
Won't be solved until we get hover tanks. Give it a few decades.
That -1 dice roll hurts
Hopefully either this war heads to negotiated settlement or Russia prevails in the east as the USA war machine will use this proxy war as template for more regime change and slaughter in the third world.
They can be solved by clever military tactics and air support.......ngl russian generals are trash ....with the amount of equipment they have have even i could have captured donbas in days lol
Golden Bridge strategy: leave one avenue of retreat for your enemy. This way the defenders won't have the mindset of "Fighting to the Death", and once they do retreat through that predictable corridor, artillery fire will be called down to eliminate them.
It has also a flaw: supplies still can come inside through that corridor
This is funnily enough also written about in the art of war: "围三阙一" ("surround the city on three sides, but leave one side open"). You deliberately allow the enemy to escape, but set an ambush. Or maybe you don't ambush them, because taking the city quickly is far more important than killing those men.
nothing of the kind happened . this channel is full of propagandist bs fed to it by usa regime that has not won even one real war since ww2, even which was won because russians did the actual fighting and winning.
Thank you for the series. Very good
Your pronunciation of Severodonetsk gets worse every try. Beautiful.
How about “Moskava”
You mean our proud city of Serodnzatk on the great Donutk river?
He is just proving he is an merkin. LOL
“Keersen”
@@Roman92UA Mosq-aw-ah :)
I have zero experience with BMPs, but I was involved in amphibious exercises with BTR-80 during my compulsory military service in Ukrainian army in 2010. It didn’t take a week to prepare a BTR for river crossing, but it took 2 days to tighten and seal all the drain plugs and latches and to be sure all the amphibious gear works as intended . Plus, all weapons, ammo and equipment had to be removed to make it lighter. The company commander specifically instructed drivers to drive carefully, because once BTR touches solid ground with it’s belly, you have to do the drain plugs all over again. Anyway, all but one BTRs made their way across the lake. One got some water into the intake, critically stalled the engine, drained the batteries and had to be towed to the shore. Somewhere at home I still have the photo of guys standing on the roof of the BTR in the middle of a lake and shouting for help.
I had a similar experience, amphibious vehicles are a gimmick. The usable practical tech is not there.
Thank you for sharing your personal insights. If you see my comment, do you have a personal view on the state of the war's development so far? Western news is very pro-Ukraine, which I want to believe but it's not reliable to believe that filtered news. How do the actual citizens and soldiers on both sides feel and how are they doing? I am in some online communities with medieval armored armored combat, and I hear 1) the Ukrainians seem very proud and motivated, though concerned by the Russian numbers and weight of weaponry -- I've read dozens of comments about how they have waited in line to get supplies and ammunition, slept in subway tunnels waiting to defend their city, and seen a community fundraiser to buy someone's brother (a volunteer soldier?) an offroad truck to use; and 2) those Russians think the war is reckless -- certainly their own international sales have been completely destroyed but also some of them seem personally quite upset at this invasion of a neighbor who should be a friend instead. In both cases, many of them are facing challenges in relocating their businesses west into e.g. Slovakia and away from the war.
It's really informative to hear details such as how water can easily get in once the plugs are compromised by hitting the ground, or how water causes which systems to fail. This fits with how most inexperienced people (TV news, civilians, even amateur military history enthusiasts) tend to assume a claimed function or ability on paper is 100% usable like a on/off light switch.
If only they would pause 5 seconds to consider how complicated it is to change summer/winter tires on a car, or drain and replace the oil. Try making that car float safely in water. Now scale that up to a 20-ton armored vehicle with systems that have not been designed for easy civilian consumer maintenance. :P
@@dakaodo Armies are 90% over hype, propoganda and lies. It's the reality. It's same everwhere. All those features, ads, documentaries, news. Serve to scare the other side away, by making them believe that you actually have those capabilities. So every gimmick counts as "full reliable awesome feature that will shock balls". In reality, it's your own soldiers getting their balls shocked, while trying to use that awesome feature.
Really, all these tanks are actually cannon fodder, why put expensive tech there?
That's why you don't have expensive reliable tech there.
A tank is just an armored truck with a slapped on artilery in it.
War in itself is stupid and sad. But it's always a real part of human history. Which is even more sad.
@@dakaodo I can only tell the Ukrainian point of view. We were kinda fed up with Russian propaganda since 2014. Everyone knew, the war will start at some point. We weren't prepared enough for the war but we did what we could. Some of my friends signed a reservist contract, others joined territorial defense. Every single person I know helps the army in some way (donates money, helps with supplies, does some kind of moral support). As for living in the metro stations: it's totally true for Kyiv and Kharkiv for the first weeks of war. (I live in Kyiv and I have a few friends in Kharkiv). We are really willing to fight for what we believe in. We have more men willing to fight than government can arm and feed. In Kyiv it's approximately 1 slot for 6 men. The support of Russia and soviet union is almost non-existent. We desperately want the war to stop, but only plausible way to stop it is through Russian defeat. I don't have an idea of what's really going on at the frontlines but I can definitely say that the troops' morale is high and the soldiers are far from being exhausted. We really appreciate any help we can get (even thoughts and prayers do these days). And my personal thoughts: we wouldn't last a week without international support. The only hope we have is that at some point Russian troops will be depleted whereas ours will be rearmed with western equipment and trained properly by NATO instructors and will be able to regain the lost territories. So far the things are far from being good, but at least we stay our ground (mostly) and hope for the best.
If it took only 2 days to prepare but then only one vehicle made it through, then it probably should have taken more than 2 days to prepare. That said, thanks for the insight, because right or wrong, if that's what's going on it's good to know.
Best video for strategic updates for last few weeks by far- Great work!!!
Thanks Chris, love your updates.
A small note to crossing rivers with BMPs by swimming. The Czech Army - which uses BMP-2s - does regular swimming excercises with those vehicles, but those excercises are always conducted at the same spot, where concrete ramps with slopes leading into the water are built on both banks of the river. An officer told me that the problem is not crossing the river, but getting out of the water on the other side. And no commander would want his BMP company stuck floating in the middle of a river without any way out. Therefore swimming with BMPs is cool on paper, but impractical irl.
You can watch a video of such excercise here (~1 minute). The ramps are clearly visible. It's a goddmamn joke.
ruclips.net/video/fxlZ9q32X64/видео.html
This makes a lot of sense.
They are frontal heavy so they would have a hard time in climbing up from the water for that reason I guess
Correct. Lots of Bradleys drowned when trying crossings. Bridging is better, but more vulnerable to, say, saboteurs or drones or arty. As we’ve seen. Ukrainians seem fairly good at interdicting Russian army tactical bridging. But here’s the issue. Ukrainian forces are backed by their country and logistical lines which could be interdicted by the Russian air force (not the “RAF”!) but who pretty much aren’t doing the job. The army-dominant Russian military structure simply doesn’t know how to either develop or properly use airpower. They like artillery, which is a brute force method fitting the Russian model. BUT, Russian forces are backed by the entire country and logistical might of RUSSIA. They can keep feeding men and materiel into this fight without much capacity for Ukraine to interdict those lines. Yes, the Russians have only certain logistical lines. But the rail lines in Russia that back them up are essentially unlimited for this type of war. The Russians have the long-term logistical advantage despite their incompetent operational performance thus far. Just remember the classic Russian military MO: massively screw up initial operations, draw back and then apply mass and overwhelm the enemy. Mass wins, whether it’s going after Tatars in Crimea in the 18th, 19th, and 20th century or Ukraine today. Mass, proximity, and sheer capacity for suffering have been Russian military advantages for centuries, ones they are conscious of and rely on.
Yes,
it is not some Royalty Air Force,
but
The Russian Federation Landbourne Armed Forces,
TRFLAF.
👋 Hello from occupied Kherson!!!
Kherson is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Be safe 🙏
That intro. Thanks man. Much love back from said atry. You call we got you.
Great insight! I really enjoy your take in things snd love the way you inject humor! Keep up the great work!!
Please...please...please...keep these battlefield updates coming. Your doing an AWESOME job.
I think this one thing is not a good at, he can stick to his normal content 🤔
Is like watching cnn or skynews absolutely rubbish 🗑
He only update , if ukraine actually done something ...
@@udhayakumarMNthat's my point, if you going to give an analysis you have to be balanced at least try to, you don't lose 20% of the land cause you are doing something right so..
Otherwise he should leave it to other channels cause they are capable to be unbiased
You believe this bullshit propaganda at its best
@@felixhabarugira7680 So long as he's being accurate, and the overall presentation is quick and concise, I don't mind it.
Despite his bias for the Ukrainian side of the conflict, he proceeds to focus on the people and the equipment they use. He doesn't bring political bias to the table and he does a good job analysing the step-by-step of both sides.
So he is providing something here that most major news coverings haven't given strict focus to.
"The RAF are bombing severodonetsk"
British Royal Air Force pilot: *spits out his tea* "Hey don't try to pin this on us!!"
I was thinking the same thing😂😂
And the germans are relieved that this doesn't involve them.
@@TheFirebird123456 truly!
As a Brit, it quite annoyed me and I thought it was a bit disrespectful that Cappy kept referring to the Russian forces as the RAF. There is only one RAF.
I believe he means VKS :)
Thanks Chris for this channel. It is highly informative for laymen, but it's your style that has addicted me, humor in the right balance along with self-deprecation makes it entertaining as well. Even your butchering of Slavic name places is endearing. I just hope your Arabic/Pashtun pronunciation was slightly better. Keep up the good work
This in depth look was exactly what i needed to see and hear, thank u so much for creating this analytical video discussing this.
The definition of "high intensity combat" is resource utilization that exceeds maintenance capability. IOW, high intensity combat means that the combatant is wearing down/sacrificing its own capacity to fight. Which is acceptable if the tradeoff is sacrifice in exchange for important objectives achieved. BUT if objectives aren't achieved, high intensity combat leaves the attacker vulnerable to a counter strike.
Just one round from any rifle shot in your direction is "high intensity combat". It could end your life!
Counter attack...
Another Sherlock Holmes here.
Conducted by WHO exactly?
Untrained family fathers, against those who kicked the crap out of CIA ISIS? And out of the CIA AZOV?
John Rambo retired in Arizona, didn't you see the movie?
It's over man.
I'd suggest y'all to begin to deal with the idea.
Thanks Captain, well summarised.
Don't worry JD, right now the west has only begin to ramp up it's factories and it war machine. That why it hard to supply Ukraine with weapons because they need them yesterday. But they are now starting ramp up and look out the western factories and manufacturing is ungodly good at what they do, they can pump out weapons at frightenedly high rate when the want too.
@@x_mau9355 I would suggest you boycott western products, and go on russian version of youtube.
oh wait, very soon you won't have a choice LOL
I really loved this video. ❤️ How you spoke to a former BMP crewman, how you looked up the depth, width and current of the river and then proceeded to search and actually visit a similar river near your location. How you tracked entire railway lines using google earth. How you put the singular pieces into perspective. How you read entire bloody field manuals.
As someone whos been watching your videos for quite some time, i can safely say youve really outdone yourself and this is your best video yet.
It's not that hard to talk to a former BMP crewman. Many Eastern NATO countries are full of them. Back in the Warsaw Pact days, conscripts used to operate these things. I don't know any, but I have a friend who was a T-55 tank driver.
There is also need to take care of the ammo. Not full ammo can be taken for crossing. Also only light vehicles would cross with limited amount of munition. No tanks and still no supplies coming with the trucks.
agree
yeah i think his journalism whilst pro west is as close as we can get to something resembling objectivity. Chris is always trying to respect his enemy and not play into histrionics from the pundits of state propaganda in the US and abroad.
But he still pronounces the easiest names easily looked up wrong. I mean there's hectic names but Kherson and Donetsk pretty much is everywhere.
I must say that your review is much better than anything I have seen on any news network!
I really appreciate your videos and enjoy how you share latest developments. Another resource to follow the conflict in Ukraine, looking at it from many angles. Thank you!
I'm an American, and that "raf bombed the city" line hurt me right in the teabags
That kept throwing me off to.
I've read too much WW2 history.
Artur "Bombardirovshchik" Harrisimov at it again
I'm out of the loop... please elaborate?
@@AlexLee-dc2vb - RAF is usually short for "Royal Air Force"
Think Battle of Britain during WW2
@@AlexLee-dc2vb Cappy mentions RAF as a short form for Russian Armed Forces but everyone knows the RAF is more commonly used to describe the Royal Air Force of the UK. Hence the jokes. The actual correct abbreviation for the Russian Air Force is the VVS.
Hey, for the longest while I have considered you a humorous take on the current state of military affairs. And yes you were quite funny. Recently, you have very much up'ed your game. I also follow the ISW, and you have done an absolute amazing job explaining them to the common man. I applaud you and your whole channel's team in their well researched and overall presentation. Keep up the good work! We are all spare parts...
Amen
In warfare everything is expendable - Dwight Eisenhower
@@fredskolnick1183 RT anchorman...He is a Commie.
Well written, sir.
Lol
Very educational, thank you for making this!
You’ve got me hooked on your clips. Looking forward to the next one.
Never heard anyone butcher city names as much as our beloved average infantryman
Some ornery critters, headin' for ol' Odeeeesa ...
It's how he maintains neutrality
Same for the sunken boat
Yes, Lyman is pronounced as leeman and not Liman
Yup and the 'murica pronunciation of "EYE-rak"....... lol. I know I can trust someone that knows to pronounce it "EE-rahk". It's a great early tell.
Wow, it can't be easy to do a well edited 22 minute in-depth analysis that is also timely and relevant in a developing war scenario. Very well done. Thank you!
It’s CIA propaganda.
He make one mistake though. T-62 is basically updated T-55. They are OLD tanks, which deployment is significant indication of the state of Russian military. Ukrainian T-64 was revolutionary tank what serve as base of T-80 and T-84. And its dumbed down version T-72 and its later upgrade T-90. What more important T-64 has modern variant known as Bulat, what easily compare to T-90. Idea that Ukrainians have weak armor is a misconception.
@The God of J's wrong comment, thank you
My guess is the US gov. is helping Chris focus his videos.
Looking forward for next week video
Great details in the video that's what we really need. Thank you for doing it.
Thanks Cappy now I have to waste 22 minutes of my time watching a war analysis video instead of studying for my Electric Engineering Class
King Clawthorne?! What are you doing here? 👁👄👁
Instead of studying for my x-ray analysis class.. dang you task on purpose! And your amazing content
It's 6:00 AM here in Russia and in 3 hours i'll have my university exams (economics).
Wasn't sleeping for night, but i also gotta watch this analysis )))
You should probably study and invest in yourself atm. No amount of trying to grasp understanding of this conflict will lessen the social and economic consequences it has in store for our lives. Having a good job and practical skill might save you.
@@danielc9312
Thank you, i passed my exam, even tho it was kinda hard)
im glad these videos exist, beyond the in depth analysis it's nice being able to stay in the loop with a shade of humor! informative instead of depressing :D
Adding humor to this isn't necessarily a good thing. Along with the fighting in war, comes atrocities. And I don't just mean war crimes. The amount of human and child trafficking that goes on in war zones is immense. Only the wealthy and middle class can afford to escape, if they have the means. The poor are always left behind to fend for themselves, and once you see that, it's hard to find the humor in war.
@@jthieme id say nothing is as black and white to exclude anything as broad as humor. it's how some find strength and there's no shortage of humorless footage from the frontlines you're welcome to watch.
@@jthieme if you had been watching his videos since the beginning of the war he explains why he does that. He had really bad issues from his own experience in war and it is how he copes with it when talking about it
@@jthieme “If you don’t laugh, you’re gonna cry.” Some are better at coping than others
It’s not necessarily an indication that someone has no capacity for compassion or empathy for the suffering of others. In fact, you could argue that having a short ironic chuckle preserves that capacity for empathy and compassion.
“Forgive us our sins and forgive those who sin against us.” In other words, please turn a blind eye to our ironic humor and stop judging us for trying to cope with an evil situation if you please.
Nicest way I can possibly say it.
The issue with him is that he is way too pro west. Severodonetsk is basically gone, there is no chance of Ukraine holding it like the ISW(America) says
Another Great Job Of Analysis!!!
Good analysis. Thanks!
Those Terminators look badassed, it would be a crying shame if...something...happened to fly into them.
Then it cracks open like an egg and a Skynet T-500 walks out the wreckage.
Now it become most hunted Russian vehicles on the battlefield, more and more footage from Ukranian ATGM crew carrying cameras for obvious reason 😁
there will always something that will fly into them, all war machines will eventually blow up in the battle field but the real question is how much it contributed to the offense and how much effort/resources did it take for the opposing force to take it out.
How many are there? 100 built?
@@linusa2996 even less, they are pretty expensive to build .. it has the same fate as t-14
Russian troops took the trend “don’t let them know your next move” to the next level.
NATO gets their orders before they do
The terminator can change the tie if only facing light tank and soft target
not with those cheap Chinese radios lol
@@yeoshenghong4802 yes and i could change the tide of the war if all the enemies were horses. But they're not, are they? Javelins still exist dude
@@demonbot6617
The javelins have not been doing everything they've purported to be. Still one of the better weapons that Ukraine has as its disposal
Good job as always cap.
This is incredibly detailed, nice work
Chris, I love that your Putin impression sounds more Jamaican than Russian 😂
One like for the name
i mean, pootin could've been an honorary Jamaican with all those secret families he has. probly not gonna happen now
Why haven't the cable news channels hired you as an analyst yet? You run rings around all their "retired generals" in understanding and explaining what's going on! Thank you for the clear analysis!
Maybe he's hired to be an analyst on RUclips? It's not like RUclips is a hidden gem
Seriously. Those retired officers (with very few exceptions) get it wrong or explain things vaguely.
Hah, good call. Especially when he went out to personally eyeball for us a river analogous to the one under analysis. Little ground-pounder POV details like that help explain why we're not seeing the specs-on-paper POV from said retired generals.
the only military expert worth his salt is Col Douglas Macgregor who tells it as it is. the others are just repeating the same line about how Ukraine is winning & Russia is incompetent & about to collapse.
He is too close to being neutral. He is obviously pro west and zelenksy, but not enough for the media
Thank you for your analysis and updates. Very informative and balanced
Thanks for your more honest coverage
"If the enemy has made me the same offer I'd be living in Baghdad smoking apple hookah, right now." I laughed my ass off when I heard that one. I was an American contractor working for the Saudi Royal Air Force in the late 1990's. I have to admit, I like apple hookah.
Love this video format! It's always difficult to actually know what's going on in real time between all the sources, it's nice to have you explain it.
The Dive with Jackson Hinkle has daily streams about the situation.
@@ValFlr thanks for the suggestion, it's interesting hearing the points from the other side of the propaganda wall and how they see it. Take a shot everytime they say the word Nazi or goon.
Good companion to Task and Purposes views.
Congrats on your 700,000th subscriber, Cappy!!!! Keep it up! T&P is doing great!!!
Yoir analysis of this war is by far amongst the best out there.
This is the finest explanation of the ongoing battle I have seen - by a wide margin. Well done, Cappy.
One small note, at the 9 minute mark you refer to a 'wide berth'. It is a 'wide sweep'. Giving a wide berth implies avoidance. Still, your best effort yet.
Thanks for the info ! I’ll go with wide sweep next time , works for me
Cappy is drinking the MSM kool aid, watch The New Atlas or The Duran for a more realistic picture
Best explanation yet completely drunk on cool aid of large Ukrainian Kherson offensive that never materialised. Instead the only large offensive is in the Donbas and the Ukrainians are getting mauled. Which kinda defeats the entire point of the video.
@historylegends is much better and can actually pronounce the names of places he's talking about. This guy suffers from a major case of being American. I mean 'donsk' come on
@@Taskandpurpose Yes, great job. I’m starting to change my mind about aiding Ukraine. It’s not worth nuclear war, but Ukraine is doing so well and their will is so strong that we should send them what they need short of being directly involved (except volunteers). If Russia launches their ICBMs first, instead of returning fire NATO can start at Ukraine and directly invade. It sounds crazy not to retaliate with MAD, but if I have the choice between hand over Putin and form real elections or 1000 nukes I would say thanks for having a heart, we won’t use dominion equipment. We owe the Russian people a favor since 2 times their commanders were supposed to initiate WWIII and twice they simply said nyet.
Thank you for your input in this area. Loved the way you put it.
Best coverage and analysis of the war I've seen is right here.
Keep up the good work Cappy.
Nah...this is pure BS, western propaganda.
Go to The New Atlas for realistic war analysis.
Great video, please upload more updates about the war
These war updates are so well-researched and presented. Fantastic job as always! You really do a better job analyzing the war than any other media I read or watch anywhere.
Hopefully there is a follow up video, where he corrects some of these analysis after the real information comes out when everything settles.
I know only one thing for sure. Neither side is going to admit they are losing until they do. The Germans were winning every single day of the war until May 8th 1945. Then I remember at FOB St. Michael we were winning everyday of the war, mission was accomplished, and to celebrate 1AD was extended and stop loss was implemented, because you know we were winning.
Nailed it
Well of course not, who wants to fight for an army that openly admits they’re losing?
And yet still, everybody acts like they know what's going on.
@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 - Ain't that the truth.
@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 Everybody always knows everything. You should always listen to him.. ;)
Brilliant presentation. Thank you for the clear explanation.
That Kherson offensive didn't age very well :/
Brilliant info in this piece. Really well put together and it's great that you back up your already extensive knowledge of war tactics, with additional research regarding river crossings, and social media snippets coming from Ukrainian 'boots on the' ground. Keep up the good work 🤙😊
Your analysis and investigation is impressive! Thanks a lot for your time and effort here!!!
Great analysis ✌
Much better reporting than mainstream. Keep up good work.
The Muskava wasn't sunk, it was reclassified as a submarine.
In a 'special submerging operation'.
@@sunshine6522 ахахахахах
ua wasn't invaded, it was reappropriated.
@@sunshine6522 Got to keep those Ukrainian fishes in check, this way the fishes in that region are tied up defending 🤪😁
It was a special submerging operation 😂
Thanks for the clear concise every man analysis on this Chris!👍🏻👊🏻
Excellent analysis.
Excellent video Sir!
Wonderful reporting. Thank you for that analysis of the bridge crossing
Thanks for making videos about the Russian-Ukrainian war. It's pretty interesting to watch the American infantryman's thoughts about the events. Greetings from Ukraine)
Great video quality. I like the personalized maps and when you went to an actual river to explain it better
Wasn’t sure if people would like the out of the studio part , I’m glad it went well
Great job! I really like your take on this. Best wishes.
You have a Belarusian informant?? You are literally more competent than multi billion dollar western "news" network. Grateful for an average infantryman 🙌🏾
That Italian-Russian accent segment was hilarious. Made my day. Greetings from Ukraine Cappy ! Keep up your great work!
And by the way we highly appreciate each and every American taxpayers penny , that goes for military help for Ukraine . Thank you from the bottom of our hearts ♥️
Just make sure you are using what you get with great thought. We back you but don't just waist it please.. much love from the USA you guys have this.. and hopefully soon more support from the rest of nato.. america is strong but this is a responsibility of all of nato... he have decided what we are doing it's all in time... Russia is definitely feeling the pain far more then they thought they would.. keep up the good work. Are prayers are with you.. hopefully peace will come soon.
@@jessejames2914 dont "waist" it? Bruh people from Eastern Europe write more correctly than you lol.
So 1 billion to arms 39 billion to the corrupt elite. Niceee. I bet even after 50 billion you still need more help. Pathetic.
@The God of J's lol missing an apostrophe is better than spelling "waste" as "waist".
@The God of J's GRAMMAR COMBAT! *cue mortal combat theme*
Chris looks so young without the stubble! Great update, many thanks!
Great breakdown, Cappy, a grunt's eye view of how it all goes sideways real fast. Looks like a succession of muddy kill zones for both sides.
Holy crap, I feel like a General getting an update from my top advisor! GREAT VIDEO! I'm gonna have to watch this multiple times to get it all.
Imagine your top advisor telling you that you are winning only to discover 2 months later that you lost and never stood a chance.
Good video man. Keep it up!
Good analysis Cappy
Love the videos man
Another great video Cappy, seriously without you I’d have no idea what was happening, I gave up on Network war media coverage about a week after it began. Yours is the smartest channel around with actual tactics discussions…throw in a few bad jokes and that’s all I need to get me through every day. Great job bro. 🤙🏼🇺🇸
Very well researched and well presented. Kudos!
Nice briefing. Well done.
Always enjoy your presentations. Your pronunciation of the city “Severo donetsk” was killing me 😅. The key to pronouncing Slavic words is to break them into chunks. The Ukrainian people will thank you 😁💜
Moskava was funny to. It would be easier for him if he tried read it like "Musk-va" 😂
I assume is means something like 'upper Donetsk'?
@@foobar201 North Donetsk
@@zperdek Or just say 'Moscow'.
@@Krieghandt yes, but he was trying not americanize it althought he destroyed it other way.
Finally the video I was waiting for👌
This video really shows the value of the extra mile along the river for your video. Well done
One comment on the point you made on the tanks. Ukrainian T64 is not quite as outdated as T62 despite the 64-62 minimum difference. T64 was bit of a first attempt to snap off the t34 philosophy and make a soviet high tech tank (later T64 was abandoned because it was too cool for the soviet school . not sure if it was so or perhaps other reasons ? ).
Although old, T64 had a big modernization potential and many T64 are now modernized to "BV" level with a powertrain update to compete with Russian T72 quite successfully.
T64 bv is THE MBT of UAF and these tanks were under regular maintenance, Ukrainian troops are familiar and probably more successful with this equipment because they were trained extensively on how to use it to the max of its potential.
Well said, as always
In the 1970's I remember training in river crossings. We were aware of how it worked but this was my first time in doing it.
So one night on exercise we pulled upto a river in Germany in my Chieftain tank. As we sat there the Royal Engineers bridging unit drove straight past us and into the river, they formed a line in the river and then the tops of the vehicles opened up and a bridge began to form between each floating unit. Within an hour they were connected and then we began driving over. That was really scary as I did not want to go into the river but it was completed without a hitch. Once the squadron were deployed across the bridge they started to take the bridge apart for the next river crossing. Unbelievable and the river was a good 300 feet wide and this was I think 1974.
This channel is pro Russia
You think, its American!
@@juliuspeterevis5806 Hmmmm, could it be that you're pro Russian?
@@juliuspeterevis5806 Hmmmm, could it be that you're pro Russian?
nothing of the kind happened . this channel is full of propagandist bs fed to it by usa regime that has not won even one real war since ww2, even which was won because russians did the actual fighting and winning.
Apparently, that T-90M was destroyed by the Russian Ground Forces to stop it being captured. In the video of its destruction you can see the recoil of a tank firing, which shows relationship to the axis of retreat. Yet another great video though :)
Still pretty bad that it happened with in a few days of it showing up. They are some of the more expensive and rare tank the Russian have on the battlefield
The Russians saying that it had nothing to do with the Ukrainians and that their best stuff exploded for some other reason is so Moskva of them.
Everyone check the channel called 'Red Effect' he made a video explaining it
I imagine the orders come down from Moscow along the lines of: "Listen, brother. If you must disable the t90 to keep it from the enemy do so at all costs.... but we will kill you and your family for it. If the enemy capture your t90 we will kill you and your family over it"
It was either disabled by a Carl Gustav or a mine; but it was 100% finished by a Russian tank to prevent capture.
You nailed it with your overall assessment.
Pretty good assessment, there, Mr purpose. Keep up the good work!
Also, take a look at the newly discovered oil and gas fields in eastern Ukraine. I want to say they were discovered in 2018 or 2019.
That has nothing to do with the conflict tho
The European Union and Russia seeing oil: 👀
@@andrewbeketa4418 it weakens russia trade so it possibly does
@@shinigummyl1586 the eu is already moving to stop Russian energy trade all together and the sources in Ukraine are smaller than the ones in Norway. Plus the fields are currently in a warzone so they're not gonna produce anything for years
@@andrewbeketa4418 It is a major component, along with the very large field in the Black Sea between Crimea and Odessa
Thanks for this update! I love the bold declarations ... maybe some fine aging milk, but hey maybe not.
I don't know if the Ukrainians have fully prepared for a serious major counteroffensive so it will be very interesting to see if the attack in the Kherson area is just the start of something a lot bigger.
I find your report informative, accurate and most important.....entertaining.
You definately do your homework! Great Job!
Dude, your analysis is 10x better than all the major news networks combined. Thanks for going into the details.
Having two years on the old East/West German Border with the 14th and 11th Cav, (M114s and Sheridans) we made similar analysis and battle plans on how to slow the 8th Mechanized Rifle Division which was on the other side. Drop trees, blow bridges and give time to 3rd Armor to move up. Lots of shot and scoot. Tactics having changed in 50 years. Good analysis.
This channel is paid disinformation. "Ukraine major offensive" -Don't look too closely Gentiles but its staged from a tiny village and ran down a dirt lane by a couple of dozen vehicles and was ambushed and turned back a dozens of kilometers short of any objective
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nothing of the kind happened . this channel is full of propagandist bs fed to it by usa regime that has not won even one real war since ww2, even which was won because russians did the actual fighting and winning.
@@sitting_nut i wrote what you said 2 months ago but YT shadowbanned it. You probably can see in comment reply totals.
@@TheBelrick yes. i see that.
Would love sources for all content in ur vid but regardless, cheers for being an aussies source of all Ukraine info. Love ya mate
You are brilliant. Analysis really on point. ✊
18 yrs service.
yes he gives a better citrep than our potato in chiefs people at the pentagon
The Terminator is the much touted “lesson from Grozny” designed to escort & protect tanks in urban environments. In the open field, however, they need tanks to protect them as their auto turrets are vulnerable to tank & anti-tank shells. Seeing them moving in column alone says combined arms lessons may not have been learned. They look just as vulnerable to mission kill by NLAWs as anything else in Ukraine right now.
The Terminator column was inside safe area and moved towards frontline, they weren't in danger.
When are the Ukrainians going to catch those terminators
Bayactar could get them.
Terminators aren't an end all be all solution to urban combat. They're essentially heavily uparmored IFVs with no troop capacity. They still suffer the weaknesses of all AFVs in that they need infantry or aerial recon to protect them from ambushes. An NLAW or Javelin can kill them just as easily as a T-72.
@@Winters004 cpt obvious any armor need infantry support.
FYI, since you will be saying these names a lot more, Donetsk is pronounced (Ukrainian pronunciation) “daw-NETSK”, (capitals mean emphasis is on the last syllable here) with every consonant at the end pronounced, as in the middle of the phrase, “iT’S Cold”. In Sievierodonetsk/Severodonetsk (you see it spelled both ways because the ie/e vowel is a letter that our Roman alphabet doesn’t have), the first two “ie/e”s are pronounced with a “y” sound as in “yes”, so it’s more like “syev-vyer-aw-daw-NETSK” (again, “syev” and “vyer” here are not like “sigh” and “Levi’s”, but just a “y” sound as in “yes”, said with the “e”…”ss-yev”, “vv-yer”, as a single syllable). And while we’re at it, Kyiv is pronounced like a very quickly-said “KIH-yeev”, where “kih” sounds like “kiss”. Hope I was able to make that all make sense.
Good job on giving them ideas and telling them what to do
Thank you.
I just hope this war ends soon my heart goes out to them.
I hope the Ukrainians win and this war ends soon.
Fixed 😀
I really hope Russia wins at least the donbass.
I hope the Russian Federation is divided into hundreds of small independent republics, with any land stolen from its neighbours returned to them.
It will, Ukrainian forces are just about spent. There's no reserves, they are low on fuel and are being surrounded and cutoff.
@@pengudapenguin "I support the current thing " " 3 months ago I couldn't find the Ukr a ine on a map but now I own their flag"
They kept vehicles like the T-14 Armata out of the fight because they don't have enough to actually to deploy them effectively. Actually, what you saw in the 2015 parade is possible the only T-14s that they have. I believe that they temporally halted production of this vehicles a few years back. This actually shows a weakness that Russia has and that they are unable to produce vehicles like the T-14 and even the T-90M because they simply lack the financial and industrial capability to do so. That's why you see such a mis mash of older generation vehicles in the Russian military (T-62 really lol) because that's what they can actually deploy. Granted they may have various upgraded variants and packages that improve the capabilities of this vehicles but they can only so much to improve a still fundamentally outdated designs.
@@imjashingyou3461 I don't really believe that. They're were most likely pre-production models so they might lack features that would've been present in the production models but what we saw were most likely the real deal. Like I said its not so much that they can't design such high tech equipment its that they can't effectively produce and implement them.
In other words Russia isn't the big bad that the whole world needs to be freaking out about like most medias like to portray. This isn't Nazi Germany and WW2 all over again.
A lot of people in Eastern Europe including Russia believe that the T14 was just a bluff for the 2015 "victory parade"
@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 Yeah like Russia was basically threatening both Finland and Sweden in a vain attempt to dissuade them from joining NATO but the hell are they gonna do? I'm pretty sure Finland and Sweden can not only successfully defend themselves from a Russian attack on their own but possible even successfully counter attack into Russia. Of course this is out of the scope of the military strategies of this countries.
@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 more like Fascist Italy actually. Aggressive, but comically corrupt and inept
First time watching your show. So interesting and informative. Really good job. Please be with you.
I just found your channel. Incredible content
I think it's a situation where at the start the US government didn't want to throw any equipment because they were skeptical if the Ukrainians were going to truly put up a fight. Obviously the situation has changed, and I feel that Ukraine's leadership (military and civilian) has done great. Considering how outgunned the Ukrainians were at the start, and still are to a lesser extent, they've ran a great defensive campaign.
As far as funding Ukraine, I think 40 billion is chump change in comparison to other military campaigns we've done. Like this is literally
Or we could just you know, stay out of other peoples shit and concentrate on our own
@@zarAK471 Recent years russia started military expansion to Latin America. Staying out of this shit would be a bad idea for US
How about we tell Europe to fix this themselves we've already been dragged into two of their world parties. Not really interested in a third, the hangover from this one....
NATO should just end it. Instead of sending our stuff, send our troops as well. A full scale war against Russia in Ukraine.
40 Billion dollars to Ukraine for a CHANCE of crippling Russia's military. And I don't think it'll get crippled, that's a stretch. Also 40 Billion that'll 100% increase tensions between US and Russia. Also will harden the Russia-China alliance. We shouldn't get involved. The aid would not and will not be reciprocated. Why are we getting involved now? Why not when Russia annexed Crimea? We're aiding a country that would not aid us. We don't need to be the world's police. Especially when we have so many problems in our own country that desperately need addressed. The American people should come first and that's the biggest problem I have with this.