for armbands, recently Ukrainians adopted green armbands, at least for the police force. The regulations about the shade simply state "green" or "yellow" or "blue" so no uniformity of shades is to be expected. What I know, as a person whose relative is in police force, the armband colours don't symbolise anything in particular, first they were yellow, then blue, and now green. My theory is that the forces on the frontlines just can't get their hands on new armbands in enough quantities to distribute them among all the troops so they just don't replace them. And, interesting fact, yellow armbands were very bright because they were made of duct tape, and the others are darker because they are just regular fabric
@@hia5235 it wasn't Zelensky, the absorption happened before his tenure. And it happened because there was really no other choice, they were one of the only battle capable regiments in the country, the Ukrainian army back then was in shambles. And it also helped to temper them significantly, at least officially
I think you could also mention the uniform of the national guard of Ukraine since you can see them participating in the fighting as well. Their uniform simply has the olive colour without any camouflage
@@Morningstar_Actual I don't know for sure to tell you that you are wrong. But I did a reserve officer training at the national guard of Ukraine 2 years ago and we all wore the olive uniform. Maybe something has changed since then, but I don't think so.
@@ihorzakharchenko1485 “reserve officer training” says it all. You did training. 2 years ago is different than today as well. Training and being operational with you unit are two very different things. The OD uniforms aren’t usually an operational uniform. Think logically, why waste valuable camo, that’s scarce, on training troops when your front line troops need it more? The supply chain is much better now which is why you’d see even less of it today. That’s why OD is still issued to SOME units when the supply chain can’t afford to give out the full camo kit (I.e rear echelon units/volunteer units/troops in training that need a uniform but not an operational pattern).
@@Morningstar_Actual He wrote correctly. The National Guard uses olive oil. Exceptions, outerwear may have a pattern. In terms of quality, uniform and equipment, the National Guard is better than the Armed Forces. Therefore, your take on the rationality of using Oliva in training does not work. Even the Territorial Defense wears MM14, but not the National Guard.
Language actually is a good way. Some of the ukrainian army was told to speak only ukrainian or surgyk(it is a mix of ukrainian and russian) after russians started to wear ukrainian uniforms
@@thedamntrain the "split" of the country by language is a completely made up problem (among others) pushed mostly by russian propaganda and pro-russian political forces in Ukraine. Before 2014 nobody cared about language, and now russian-speaking and ukrainian-speaking people are fighting together.
It's interesting that countries have been spending so much time, money and effort into making camouflage patterns only for a war to come along and soldiers end up wearing bright coloured bands on their arms or helmets. Seems that camo is less important than ease of identification. Edit: Makes one wonder how uniform design will go in the future, how are they going to combine the need for camouflage with making identification easy.
Something I think I should mention is that the camouflage being used is designed for the wilderness, yet most important fighting is in populated areas where the camouflage is not effective.
Blue and yellow arm bands doesn’t signify who is regular army or volunteer. My brother in-law wears a yellow armband, yet he’s a volunteer serving as a anti-tank gunner with a Territorial Defence Battalion in Chernihiv. 🇺🇦
@@LuisAldamizI doubt it. Marine veteran buddy of mine joined a Territorial Defense Battalion, wore a yellow armband, and he’s of Mexican descent. You’ve got bad Intel.
@@HollywoodMarine0351 - I've been following the Maidan pustch since 2014... from independent sources. I doubt you can teach me much: Ukraine is a nazi regime, just another US-sponsored totalitarian putsch like the one in Honduras or the chaos instilled in Haiti.
In Ukraine, the airsoft game is seriously developed, a lot of people play it. At games, when they are divided into two teams, the organizers try to separate the parties according to different camouflage patterns. But this very rarely works, so players from different sides are marked with tape of different colors in order to make it easier to identify. Usually it is a yellow, blue, or green ribbon. Only conditionally killed players mark themselves with a red or white rag, so these colors have never been used to identify sides. During the invasion, most airsoft players went into the military or territorial defense and brought their experience there. Yellow is usually a priority, and it was not chosen casually, because this color is the only one that will remain yellow even in the dark. But the color of the identification tapes can be suddenly changed in the event of a new campaign in the region (for example, an offensive), since the enemy, knowing the color of the identification, can mask the saboteurs.
It's been bizzare seeing how hobbies crossover into the war effort. A smith (Historical Fencing Armouries, do recommend) that made me a dagger for fencing, as well as making Buhurt Armour. Now they're making tank traps.
In ex yugoslavia we was wearing similar armbands trough wars...but we used to change colors and armband combinations before actions it was for recognition becouse it was a lot of similar uniforms and gear
They are not clearly present anywhere. The mercenary organization has been active in Africa however, where they have been very welcomed by several governments who prefer them to French peacekeepers, what had Macron some months ago almost yelling to Putin: "get out of my turf", much to the amusement of everybody who is not French.
@@LuisAldamiz Of course, African autocrats prefer Russian mercenaries who support war crimes and corruption instead of peacekeepers. It is the same reason Putin and Assad love them.
The vehicle marking section of the video is 100% completely wrong, and then some. V = NW Kyiv O = Chernihiv/Sumy Z in a box = Kharkiv Z = Crimea & Donbas It was just a simple FoF identification system and designated area of operations by accident. Every area of operations had their own commander, and he kinda did his own thing. A reason why the first month was a mess.
do you have any idea if these are designated for specific army groupings for now? Like in donbass and kherson areas, there are Zs and Vs, or if its just FOF identification and has no specific designation for units
You are not right about Russian being the first language of the majority in Ukraine. Almost all the people understand Russian, but I would say, over 60% speak exclusively Ukrainian. In Kyiv, for example, it's close to 50/50. For me Ukrainian is the first language, however, I speak Russian with some of my friends.
Yeah you are right but in kyiv case i kinda disagree ( i lived in Kyiv for 9 years until 2019) , majority of people that i know from there speaks russian mainly as mother tongue but i also know that in ukrainian houses use a variation called Суржик if i have to remember , fun fact my GF is from Херсон she actually speaks russian and ukrainian but mixed in form of Суржик in my case i speak russian with her but sometimes is difficult thanks to the Суржик
@@Juan2Soto23 Yeah, from my experience Russian is more spoken in Kyiv than Ukrainian is (in communication between the people, not in facilities and so on), but this difference is not significant, bot to mention the fact, that almost all the people who speak Russian in Ukraine also have a perfect knowledge of Ukrainian
@@klauswegens9912 in the second point i can say thats true in my GF case she sometimes mix the words of russian with ukrainians and i tend to getting confused and she gets pissed off.
I am currently in Ternopil in Western Ukraine and in past several days, I have been seeing green tape on soldier's arms. I have no further information on what prompted this change or what it means.
@@pecheneg896 No, I don't think so. I saw a group of soldiers with the green tape today in the city again and I am pretty sure they were member of the Territorial Defence. They used to wear yellow, as far as I remember.
@@vaclavcervinka65 Blue + yellow = green. I have seen a video early in the war where Russians who wanted to show solidarity with ukraine used the colour green.
Additionally, Russian FSB/special forces troops operating in Ukraine wore a green and reflective white armband in the early parts of the war. This armband was also used before the war and in Syria for identification
Hello Hilbert. I was struggling to remember what this mix of styles reminded me of. A few videos back I commented on using left over ancient Mediterranean wargames figures from other nations to create an Iberian army. This seems like a modern equivalent.
Hi former TDF volunteer. Lately I've on footage from the Bakhmut front seen many *green armbands* (sometimes also on helmets or legs) on the Ukrainian side. Do you have any information( clues of what this green colour means/ indicates? This question is what I came to this video for. Regards, and if you know anything, thanks in advance.
Not much is going on there anymore the country is defacto partitioned between Turkey’s puppet regime in the north, the Assad regime sponsored by Russia in the west, the Kurdish republic in the northeast which is now cooperating with Assad while still being supported by America, and America itself which has a military base area in the southeast under the banner of Turkey’s puppet state in the north. The only real fighting the last several years is between Turkey’s puppet government in the north and Islamists in Idlib who have proclaimed the Syrian Salvation Government, which Turkey (with international support) is trying to slowly destroy
@@badluck5647 Libya has been over for a year or two, check the apolitical world map on the Wayback history channel on YT, they did a video documenting and mapping the ending of that conflict and the peace deal.
Here are some of his videos on the conflict's factions: *ruclips.net/video/FJdP9Vj0nBE/видео.html *ruclips.net/video/HutX6Yq6pvM/видео.html *ruclips.net/video/7yzd9-p215k/видео.html
@@badluck5647 Hezbollah and ISIS were involved but they had prior histories. The Syrian civil war is interesting and convoluted. Needs a whole damn series on it.
It's not true that most Ukrainians have russian as their first language. On the west and in many parts of the center, as well as in villages on the east, we have a predominantly Ukrainian-speaking population. So it should be at least half
He probably meant that in the regions where most of the fighting is going on right now most of the local forces Speak Russian as their first language (East and South of Ukraine & anywhere near the Russian border).
@@BebbaDubbs Yes, and mainly in the cities. They've inherited this soviet union stigma that talking Ukrainian is not so "cool" and that you're probably from the village. I hope at least after this genocide, we will cut this bullshit from our society
@@Reichsritter This is a lie of Russian propaganda. The Ukrainian language differs from Russian in about the same way as Portuguese differs from Spanish, and even more, because Ukrainians and Russians use different alphabets due to linguistic features. And, of course, there are many words in the Ukrainian language that are not found in either Russian or Polish.
As far as I know about armbands in Ukrainian forces. Yellow is for the Armed Forces. Blue is for Ministry of the Interior Affairs units (police, national guard). And the last one is green which is for border guards
So in summary both sides wear a variety of uniforms that vary from Ukrainian regular to Russian with a mix of civilian and surplus from a number of different nations. Russians wear red or white armbands or duct tape, but sometimes the armbands of the enemy. Ukrainians wear blue, yellow or green but it’s unclear what each means, except that green are generally not (sometimes are) combat units, except when Chechen fighters wear them.
If they're using electrical tape, blue is used more often than yellow by sparkies, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was therefore easier to get hold of. Pure speculation on my part.
about 4 days ago, everyone in uniform started to wear Green armbands, in my city of Lviv, Ukraine. Unlike the yellow and blue, which were tape, these are not.
I've seen combat troops, albeit sometimes irregular in kit and uniform, and regulars on green armbands. I presume 1. New standardisation, 3. Better colour for camouflage than bright yellow or blue in the field (even bright green could simulate dappled sunlight) 3. Green is a mix of the Ukraine blue and yellow flag colours anyway.
About the letters. What you cited is an early viral tweet that turned out to be nearly completely wrong. For some silly reason it ended up on wikipedia and gets repeated as a lot of bad information does. There is no A or X. V doesn't mean Marines. Etc. The channel "Battle Order" did a video on it that sorts it all out quite nicely.
@@RunawayTrain2502 That doesn't fit either. Not by military district or direction of attack. V was units of the Eastern Military District attacking south. O was units from the Central Military District attacking south and west. Z units of the Southern Military District attacking north, west, and east. Western and Northern Military Districts all attacked in a westerly direction but used both the Z and O with the new addition of [Z] for units around Kharkiv and some units like the 4th Guards Tank Division didn't use the letter system at all. They were just tactical markings for operational areas. There was no deeper meaning or symbolism to the letters.
It makes no sense, Red White Blue are the pan-Slavic colors, virtually every Slavic country uses them. It’s not like Putin brought back the Communist flag like Lukashenko, where the Classicalist flag becomes an obvious symbol of opposition (despite Lukashenko’s regime not being Communist, and the fact those who use the Classicalist flag are probably much further left than Lukashenko, who only uses the Communist flag as a symbol of pro-Russian irredentism). The problem in Russia is the regime in place (also a conservative Classicalist regime which, like Lukashenko’s, sometimes uses Communist symbols for irredentist purposes, but does use the Classicalist Russian flag with the pan-Slavic colors), the problem is not the flag.
@@TheLocalLt Many slavic countries don't use red white and blue. Such as: Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Macedonia.
Uniforms from different nations are getting more and more similar to each other and the range of a lot of weapons is getting longer and longer, it's going to be an issue in the future. After all, if a war is fought on a certain terrain both sides will want the most effective camouflage and minor differences in the gear cannot be appreciated from afar.
@@Dr_Ney какое значение? Газовые камеры, печи освенцима и горы трупов? Оставьте себе такие значения, не лезьте в цивилизованные страны. У нас - символ группировки сил восток и буква старой кириллицы "земля". Забираем свою землю у ССовских клопов. Что не понятно?
Hilbert, please make a video about russian Cult of Victory. This is really important in modern day russia, affects their politics, culture, holydays etc.
Ukraine (2014) : Let's start a war with Russia Russia (2022) : *enters the war* Ukraine (2022) : Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
the white armbands are older than 2014: in the South Ossetian "8 days" war of 2008, Ossetian-pro russianforces wore them. And in some footage or pictures, Serbs in Kosovo, in 1999 or Armenians (during the first Artsakh war of 1992 (?)) did too. White armbands are a generally pro Slavic thing (in the sense: opposed to western proxies or seen as such).
you should check out battle order's video on the vehicle markings, its pretty good. ruclips.net/video/gMh6Ml329VU/видео.html it corrects some misunderstandings like the naval infantry's V's and chechen's Xes both of those seem incorrect
I saw a photo of Russian forces (purportedly part or the Wagner Group) with white over red armbands which, of course looks like the Polish flag and was hella confusing...
The information on the symbols is highly dubious. More likely is that the symbols relates to the axis of advance. See the video by Battle Order for a much more in-depth breakdown on that.
I think you have Blue-Yellow backwards. What we've seen on the Ukraine subreddit is that Blue seems to be standard forces and yellow seems to be the TDF recruits
that is what i thought. tdf has lower standards and allow phones to be used hence why there is so much footage with Ukrainians wearing yellow. regular units are forbidden to have phones.
@@Бибабо-й2я Wrong. Our soldiers are holding off Mariupol from the orcs. It’s a pity you haven’t seen how russian soldiers abandoned their equipment and escaped from most scenes, sometimes leaving their comrades behind lol
@@nicotinamide4491 Mate , firstly who are those orcs yall are talking about , it's not an mmo rpg . Secondly : your brave soldiers surrender like pussies . And thirdly most of the mariupol is taken by russian forces, however ukranians have a good defence in azovstal factory. Also have you seen your fellow ukranians teamkill each other ? The tank video was top notch.
@@Бибабо-й2я Orcs are what we call the Russian soldiers. Do I need to explain further? Secondly, most of the “surrendering” videos of our forces are part of Russian propaganda to demoralize the publicity. Else why aren’t they showing some evidence that those who surrendered are confirmed Ukrainian troops? Thirdly, yeah, maybe Mariupol is mostly taken by Russian forces, but now it serves of no strategic place, because the orcs literally erased it for no reason. And yes, I have seen that tank video. You should go watch how Russian POWs tell stories of their commanders betraying them or finishing off the injured comrades. Great commanding, amirite?
@@nicotinamide4491 Still don't get where the whole orc thingy came from , but ok. P sure there were photos of some passports plus interviews ,so yean , not a propaganda. Also would like to point out that mariupol wasn't erased for no reason ,it was and still is a warzone , that's how warzones look like. Tbf i wouldn' t recommend you believing the POW videos, since they might as well be forced to say anything under heavy beating or under the gun barrel.
Very early in the war(2014 to about 2015 or very early 2016 maybe) Azov was using red armbands mostly in mariupol so if its older footage keep that in mind. Ive also seen Russians using orange armbands, and no not the ribbons actual orange tape.
I think "A" is false reporting. SOF wouldn't roll around with symbols announcing they are special forces and would rather blend in with one of the other symbols. Also there have been green armbands on the Ukrainian side. Not sure what they mean but I have heard they are police forces.
Ukrainians armbands are not linked to level of training or specific units. There are several color that are rotated periodically. You can see the same soldiers or units, wearing different color, depending of the time the photo/video was taken.
I do believe that the USSR had and impact on both of these countries like they were part of it after all but it so there equipment will have some similarities
@@thelucky4083 *were, and don't forget that fighting against extremist ideology by attacking democratic country is a lame excuse, perhaps an even more weak excuse when more Nazis fight for Russia than for Ukraine.
Z is for western. V is for eastern. Not otherwise. Not for fleet. Makes no sense for Z to be Crimea if it is for eastern territory. Zapad is West. Vostok is East.
" . . . the ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and lame And on each end of the rifle we're the same . . ." John McCutcheon - 'Christmas in the trenches'
@@Tokinjester there's like 400 neonazis out of millions in total forces on the Ukrainian side...like 30% of the 1000 Azov...this whole nazi thing is a farce
@@elchapojunior3091 Congratulations to the russian side for providing their first gore video of the Ukrainian side. Almost two months into the war. We've had videos of russians burning since day one lmfao.
@@Aistis1918 Oh ya, I forgot about the Reddit brigade where over a hundred of you western warrior wannabes got blown sky high in western Ukraine by a single Russia air strike lol
9:48 is wrong time stamp, that's the exact end of the video. You must mean something earlier. 6:01 do you mean this soldier with white bands on both arm and leg? (He's on the Russian side, "Z" on his tank). I have frequently, especially on the Russian side, seen soldiers with bands on both arms and legs. I guess it's just for giving more chances for fast identification. Maybe a better help for poorly/ untrained personnel (just an unqualified guess)?
Because it is banned in Schools, 50% speak Russian born in Ukraine. Oldies speak Russian, young ones speak Ukrainian. You can keeping banning languages & races but then you will always have War. Like Scotland & SNP changing road signs to Gaelic. Zero Scots spoke gaelic in the South they spoke Scots & English.
Can you do a video on the Freedom Of Russia Legion serving in the Ukrainian Ground Forces? They're former Russian Soldiers that defected or surrendered to the Ukrainians who want payback against Putin. Quote from Wikipedia: "The "Freedom of Russia" Legion (Russian: Легион «Свобода России», romanized: Legion "Svoboda Rossii"; Ukrainian: Легіон «Свобода Росії»), also translated as the "Freedom for Russia" Legion, is a legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, formed in March 2022 to protect Ukraine against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war. It consists of defectors of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as other Russian and Belarusian volunteers who have not previously been members of military formations."
Language actually is one of the ways to find out. Majority of Ukrainians speak Ukrainian as 1st language. And even tho some people do speak Russian, but they know ukrainian and can talk in Ukrainuan as well. But russians can't. Russians just can't pronaunce many ukrainuan sounds. The most famouse word is: palyanytsya.
Actually it doesnt work like that. Take for example Zelensky, he was a russian only ukrainian basically until he joined politics and had to learn it. Its better to ask about some really dumb mondane everyday bullshit in ukraine pre war. Msot russian soldiers are from east of the urals anyway, the will hardly now about some ramdom political event in ukraine, some random history thing or how some thigns are called or done There are a decent ammount of russian only ukrainians because if your entire place speaks russian...why learn ukrainian? And even if you learned ukranian in school, if you dont speak it every now and then its gone soon. Doesnt mean they arent ukrainians, it just means ukraine has two languages (which I think is a great thing to be honest)
@@noobster4779 What doesn’t work? I don't understand your point. Why? cuz its Ukraine and its official language. And it was damaged really hard during soviets, but it survived (unlike belarusian) and its getting stronger every year and more russian speaking ukrainian citizens starting to use ukrainian language. Its not great at all.
The issue with that is that many eastern Ukrainians actually speak russian solemnly. Although ofcourse they know some Ukrainian, they largely speak Russian. I mean, this whole conflict is because of this reality as to if they should be closer with russian or ukraine. Thus, its not that easy and then there are russians that know very fluent ukrainian as they have ties there. So take it as you will.
Coming from a Ukrainian: you got the symbols wrong. It's +- certain here that the symbols identify the Russian Axis of attack: V - forces that attacked Kyiv along the right bank if Dnipro river (you could have seen these forces fighting in Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, etc.) O - forces that attacked Kyiv through Sumy and Chernihiv Z-in-square - these forces were attacking Kharkiv and along the north-eastern side of the Eastern Ukraine in general (Kupyansk, Izyum) Z - these are forces that attacked Donbass directly and South of Ukraine from Crimea Yes, sometimes these were spotted in wrong locations but high majority of photos of destroyed vehicles prove the logic behind those symbols that I listed above Also X and A - almost never seen. But X being Chechens is proven to be wrong: Chechens near Kyiv were seen with V and Chechens near Mariupol - with Z.
Locally here in Ukraine I've seen green armbands. Not sure y. They ran out of blue or yellow? Yellow & blue make green? Green means territorial guard? IDK.
I'm pretty sure that the mysterious V and Z letters of the two Russian invasion groups mean Volodymir Zelensky. It's odd they're not using cyrillic letters in any case. In any case the Z seems to indicate forces deployed in the South of Ukraine and the V forces deployed in the North (now pulled back for the sake of negotiations).
@@eyeballpapercut4400 IDK, I only realized after Zelensky (or should I say "Elensky"?) asked for the letter Z to be banned, in which was probably his most epic comedian move ever.
@@LuisAldamiz huh, the letter is not banned, lol. It's not allowed to use it as a war symbol or just use the symbols the occupier army uses. Same as swastika, you know
@@yandespar3490 - I can only imagine, LOL. But (Z)elensky is so ridiculous, making endless demands to "Europe" (I'm EU-ropean, so I find all that not just irking but the worst kind of ridiculously fascist, like banning Russian sports people and even the books of Dostoievsky, yet our corrupt leaders go with it and what not). We Europeans are being destroyed by all those conspiring to make this war happen since years ago. The result will be a disaster, even Le Pen is capitalizing in being ambiguously pro-Russian (NATO is so hateful) and may win next sunday's election, what I do not celebrate, mind you, as it's yet another step in the European fascist madness and will lead to yet another war that destroys Europe even more. In any case Zelensky making endless demands and NATO leaders mostly complying with all that Russophobic nonsense, of which banning the letter Z is just the most iconic point of the iceberg (athletes and artists are being bullied just for being Russian in what amounts to one of the worst pogroms I've seen in Europe ever, the self-destruction or European economy is probably even worse), is something I can't but laugh about. But also fear a lot: we're being brainwashed into self-destruction at economic and freedom of speech levels. We are becoming Ukraine: the neonazi hell.
for armbands, recently Ukrainians adopted green armbands, at least for the police force. The regulations about the shade simply state "green" or "yellow" or "blue" so no uniformity of shades is to be expected. What I know, as a person whose relative is in police force, the armband colours don't symbolise anything in particular, first they were yellow, then blue, and now green. My theory is that the forces on the frontlines just can't get their hands on new armbands in enough quantities to distribute them among all the troops so they just don't replace them. And, interesting fact, yellow armbands were very bright because they were made of duct tape, and the others are darker because they are just regular fabric
Azov are nazi's. Why did Zelensky absorb them?
You realize that if you mix yellow and blue you get green?
@@LLlap yes, but it only works with paint, so not really applicable here
@@hia5235 it wasn't Zelensky, the absorption happened before his tenure. And it happened because there was really no other choice, they were one of the only battle capable regiments in the country, the Ukrainian army back then was in shambles. And it also helped to temper them significantly, at least officially
I've seen foreign volunteers and other fighters wear green armbands too, it could mean anything or even nothing tbh
I think you could also mention the uniform of the national guard of Ukraine since you can see them participating in the fighting as well. Their uniform simply has the olive colour without any camouflage
The OD uniform is mostly for volunteers and/or TDB. National guard uses MM14 in like 99% of units
@@Morningstar_Actual I don't know for sure to tell you that you are wrong. But I did a reserve officer training at the national guard of Ukraine 2 years ago and we all wore the olive uniform. Maybe something has changed since then, but I don't think so.
@@ihorzakharchenko1485 “reserve officer training” says it all. You did training. 2 years ago is different than today as well. Training and being operational with you unit are two very different things. The OD uniforms aren’t usually an operational uniform. Think logically, why waste valuable camo, that’s scarce, on training troops when your front line troops need it more? The supply chain is much better now which is why you’d see even less of it today. That’s why OD is still issued to SOME units when the supply chain can’t afford to give out the full camo kit (I.e rear echelon units/volunteer units/troops in training that need a uniform but not an operational pattern).
@@Morningstar_Actual He wrote correctly. The National Guard uses olive oil. Exceptions, outerwear may have a pattern. In terms of quality, uniform and equipment, the National Guard is better than the Armed Forces. Therefore, your take on the rationality of using Oliva in training does not work. Even the Territorial Defense wears MM14, but not the National Guard.
you mean their uniform is everything they can get their hands on? like they r the lowest prio in the equipment chain
Language actually is a good way. Some of the ukrainian army was told to speak only ukrainian or surgyk(it is a mix of ukrainian and russian) after russians started to wear ukrainian uniforms
No choice, I think removing the Russian language will be a national security question from now on (and hopefully forever)
@@chedabu and that’s the reason the separatists broke away
@@jamesmason3687 keep being a Putin apologist
@@jamesmason3687 that was never a thing, there was never a concrete plan to force Russian speakers to speak Ukrainian.
@@thedamntrain the "split" of the country by language is a completely made up problem (among others) pushed mostly by russian propaganda and pro-russian political forces in Ukraine. Before 2014 nobody cared about language, and now russian-speaking and ukrainian-speaking people are fighting together.
It's interesting that countries have been spending so much time, money and effort into making camouflage patterns only for a war to come along and soldiers end up wearing bright coloured bands on their arms or helmets.
Seems that camo is less important than ease of identification.
Edit: Makes one wonder how uniform design will go in the future, how are they going to combine the need for camouflage with making identification easy.
might as well go back to Napoleonic uniforms if this is the case.
And often in their legs too. In any case using a brigt color uniform would not be a good idea.
Something I think I should mention is that the camouflage being used is designed for the wilderness, yet most important fighting is in populated areas where the camouflage is not effective.
Camo is very important, but at the same time, so is avoiding friendly fire
Its better then no camo at least
The colored armbands almost make the soldiers look like units in an RTS.
Use monks or mind control units to change their team colours
@@eyeballpapercut4400 "Wululu"
Blue and yellow arm bands doesn’t signify who is regular army or volunteer. My brother in-law wears a yellow armband, yet he’s a volunteer serving as a anti-tank gunner with a Territorial Defence Battalion in Chernihiv. 🇺🇦
Yellow AFAIK generally means neonazi militias like Pravy Sektor, Svovoda, etc.
@@LuisAldamizI doubt it. Marine veteran buddy of mine joined a Territorial Defense Battalion, wore a yellow armband, and he’s of Mexican descent. You’ve got bad Intel.
@@HollywoodMarine0351 - Territorial Defense are the nazis AFAIK, regular UAF wears blue.
@@LuisAldamizyet you still believe in Russian propaganda after I informed you on facts from two independent, and separate sources.
@@HollywoodMarine0351 - I've been following the Maidan pustch since 2014... from independent sources. I doubt you can teach me much: Ukraine is a nazi regime, just another US-sponsored totalitarian putsch like the one in Honduras or the chaos instilled in Haiti.
In Ukraine, the airsoft game is seriously developed, a lot of people play it. At games, when they are divided into two teams, the organizers try to separate the parties according to different camouflage patterns. But this very rarely works, so players from different sides are marked with tape of different colors in order to make it easier to identify. Usually it is a yellow, blue, or green ribbon. Only conditionally killed players mark themselves with a red or white rag, so these colors have never been used to identify sides. During the invasion, most airsoft players went into the military or territorial defense and brought their experience there. Yellow is usually a priority, and it was not chosen casually, because this color is the only one that will remain yellow even in the dark. But the color of the identification tapes can be suddenly changed in the event of a new campaign in the region (for example, an offensive), since the enemy, knowing the color of the identification, can mask the saboteurs.
hope everyone can go back to airsoft soon
CRINGE
@@MarkTheDrunkenSailorcry about it lol
@lordv4zka876 I'm just saying dude, all this this your saying bout ukraine is extremely biased and cringe
It's been bizzare seeing how hobbies crossover into the war effort. A smith (Historical Fencing Armouries, do recommend) that made me a dagger for fencing, as well as making Buhurt Armour.
Now they're making tank traps.
6:00 got a good chuckle out of me. Love that kind of deadpan humor.
In ex yugoslavia we was wearing similar armbands trough wars...but we used to change colors and armband combinations before actions it was for recognition becouse it was a lot of similar uniforms and gear
Also green armband, becomed popular in UA fоrces too.
I surprised you haven't done a video on the Wagner Group.
It is probably one of the more interesting factions of the Ukraine-Russia War.
Why?
@@komposition2582 a Russian pmc group that is ran by a neo nazi
@@komposition2582 They are mercenaries with an interesting history (also quite a brutal organization).
They are not clearly present anywhere. The mercenary organization has been active in Africa however, where they have been very welcomed by several governments who prefer them to French peacekeepers, what had Macron some months ago almost yelling to Putin: "get out of my turf", much to the amusement of everybody who is not French.
@@LuisAldamiz Of course, African autocrats prefer Russian mercenaries who support war crimes and corruption instead of peacekeepers.
It is the same reason Putin and Assad love them.
The vehicle marking section of the video is 100% completely wrong, and then some.
V = NW Kyiv
O = Chernihiv/Sumy
Z in a box = Kharkiv
Z = Crimea & Donbas
It was just a simple FoF identification system and designated area of operations by accident. Every area of operations had their own commander, and he kinda did his own thing. A reason why the first month was a mess.
Very interesting
do you have any idea if these are designated for specific army groupings for now? Like in donbass and kherson areas, there are Zs and Vs, or if its just FOF identification and has no specific designation for units
You are not right about Russian being the first language of the majority in Ukraine. Almost all the people understand Russian, but I would say, over 60% speak exclusively Ukrainian. In Kyiv, for example, it's close to 50/50. For me Ukrainian is the first language, however, I speak Russian with some of my friends.
Yeah you are right but in kyiv case i kinda disagree ( i lived in Kyiv for 9 years until 2019) , majority of people that i know from there speaks russian mainly as mother tongue but i also know that in ukrainian houses use a variation called Суржик if i have to remember , fun fact my GF is from Херсон she actually speaks russian and ukrainian but mixed in form of Суржик in my case i speak russian with her but sometimes is difficult thanks to the Суржик
@@Juan2Soto23 Yeah, from my experience Russian is more spoken in Kyiv than Ukrainian is (in communication between the people, not in facilities and so on), but this difference is not significant, bot to mention the fact, that almost all the people who speak Russian in Ukraine also have a perfect knowledge of Ukrainian
@@klauswegens9912 in the second point i can say thats true in my GF case she sometimes mix the words of russian with ukrainians and i tend to getting confused and she gets pissed off.
In respect to Eastern Ukraine he’s not wrong ! Russian language is a major language there .
@@wallingnaga6563 I am from Ukraine, actually... So I know what I am talking about
I am currently in Ternopil in Western Ukraine and in past several days, I have been seeing green tape on soldier's arms. I have no further information on what prompted this change or what it means.
it's the cops
@@pecheneg896 No, I don't think so. I saw a group of soldiers with the green tape today in the city again and I am pretty sure they were member of the Territorial Defence. They used to wear yellow, as far as I remember.
@@vaclavcervinka65 Blue + yellow = green. I have seen a video early in the war where Russians who wanted to show solidarity with ukraine used the colour green.
It's mean color Kharkiv
Additionally, Russian FSB/special forces troops operating in Ukraine wore a green and reflective white armband in the early parts of the war. This armband was also used before the war and in Syria for identification
This armband have been using by FSB since 21 century beginning
Hello Hilbert. I was struggling to remember what this mix of styles reminded me of. A few videos back I commented on using left over ancient Mediterranean wargames figures from other nations to create an Iberian army. This seems like a modern equivalent.
The armbands are the colourful uniforms of the modern era.
Thank you...thank you so much for just simply sharing your knowrfge... not biased just really helpful...THANKS
Former tdf volunteer here
We used to wear yellow somedays and blue others. It all depended on where we were operating
Hi former TDF volunteer. Lately I've on footage from the Bakhmut front seen many *green armbands* (sometimes also on helmets or legs) on the Ukrainian side. Do you have any information( clues of what this green colour means/ indicates? This question is what I came to this video for. Regards, and if you know anything, thanks in advance.
Will you ever do some videos on the Syrian civil war? So much going on there it’d be a waste not to do!
Not much is going on there anymore the country is defacto partitioned between Turkey’s puppet regime in the north, the Assad regime sponsored by Russia in the west, the Kurdish republic in the northeast which is now cooperating with Assad while still being supported by America, and America itself which has a military base area in the southeast under the banner of Turkey’s puppet state in the north.
The only real fighting the last several years is between Turkey’s puppet government in the north and Islamists in Idlib who have proclaimed the Syrian Salvation Government, which Turkey (with international support) is trying to slowly destroy
@@badluck5647 Libya has been over for a year or two, check the apolitical world map on the Wayback history channel on YT, they did a video documenting and mapping the ending of that conflict and the peace deal.
Here are some of his videos on the conflict's factions:
*ruclips.net/video/FJdP9Vj0nBE/видео.html
*ruclips.net/video/HutX6Yq6pvM/видео.html
*ruclips.net/video/7yzd9-p215k/видео.html
"Civil war", not USA intervention?Arab spring?
@@badluck5647 Hezbollah and ISIS were involved but they had prior histories. The Syrian civil war is interesting and convoluted. Needs a whole damn series on it.
It's not true that most Ukrainians have russian as their first language. On the west and in many parts of the center, as well as in villages on the east, we have a predominantly Ukrainian-speaking population. So it should be at least half
Yeah, it's mainly the south & east, correct?
He probably meant that in the regions where most of the fighting is going on right now most of the local forces Speak Russian as their first language (East and South of Ukraine & anywhere near the Russian border).
@@BebbaDubbs Yes, and mainly in the cities. They've inherited this soviet union stigma that talking Ukrainian is not so "cool" and that you're probably from the village.
I hope at least after this genocide, we will cut this bullshit from our society
Ukrainian is just Russian with some Polish influence
@@Reichsritter This is a lie of Russian propaganda.
The Ukrainian language differs from Russian in about the same way as Portuguese differs from Spanish, and even more, because Ukrainians and Russians use different alphabets due to linguistic features.
And, of course, there are many words in the Ukrainian language that are not found in either Russian or Polish.
Too me it seems more like that the “V” marking used by Russian forces was to symbolize forces in northern Ukraine, like around Kiev.
@cypriotknight V means Vostok = east. This is the army group from Belarus, west from the Dnieper river.
you are right, just as O means forces going to chernihiv/sumy/konotop to reach east kiev, Z boxed is kharkiv, and Z is donbass/crimea areas.
Good stuff, great detail. Keep it coming.
As far as I know about armbands in Ukrainian forces. Yellow is for the Armed Forces. Blue is for Ministry of the Interior Affairs units (police, national guard). And the last one is green which is for border guards
Quite informative! Thanks.
So in summary both sides wear a variety of uniforms that vary from Ukrainian regular to Russian with a mix of civilian and surplus from a number of different nations. Russians wear red or white armbands or duct tape, but sometimes the armbands of the enemy. Ukrainians wear blue, yellow or green but it’s unclear what each means, except that green are generally not (sometimes are) combat units, except when Chechen fighters wear them.
There's no actual meaning for each collor. It's basically "I'm friendly, don't fking shoot me dumbass".
What a mess. Talk about friendly fire.
I just had a flash of Renly Baratheon saying “I suppose if we use the same one, the battle will be terribly confusing. Why is your stag on fire?”
If they're using electrical tape, blue is used more often than yellow by sparkies, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was therefore easier to get hold of. Pure speculation on my part.
about 4 days ago, everyone in uniform started to wear Green armbands, in my city of Lviv, Ukraine. Unlike the yellow and blue, which were tape, these are not.
I've seen combat troops, albeit sometimes irregular in kit and uniform, and regulars on green armbands.
I presume 1. New standardisation, 3. Better colour for camouflage than bright yellow or blue in the field (even bright green could simulate dappled sunlight) 3. Green is a mix of the Ukraine blue and yellow flag colours anyway.
The Green Armband - it's Kharkiv division
About the letters. What you cited is an early viral tweet that turned out to be nearly completely wrong. For some silly reason it ended up on wikipedia and gets repeated as a lot of bad information does. There is no A or X. V doesn't mean Marines. Etc. The channel "Battle Order" did a video on it that sorts it all out quite nicely.
I assumed Z, V and O stood for Zapad, Vostok and Yug (юг)
@@RunawayTrain2502 That doesn't fit either. Not by military district or direction of attack. V was units of the Eastern Military District attacking south. O was units from the Central Military District attacking south and west. Z units of the Southern Military District attacking north, west, and east. Western and Northern Military Districts all attacked in a westerly direction but used both the Z and O with the new addition of [Z] for units around Kharkiv and some units like the 4th Guards Tank Division didn't use the letter system at all.
They were just tactical markings for operational areas. There was no deeper meaning or symbolism to the letters.
could you maybe make a video on the new Russian opposition flag? it's quite an interesting topic worth spreading
Yes this! ⬆️
It makes no sense, Red White Blue are the pan-Slavic colors, virtually every Slavic country uses them.
It’s not like Putin brought back the Communist flag like Lukashenko, where the Classicalist flag becomes an obvious symbol of opposition (despite Lukashenko’s regime not being Communist, and the fact those who use the Classicalist flag are probably much further left than Lukashenko, who only uses the Communist flag as a symbol of pro-Russian irredentism).
The problem in Russia is the regime in place (also a conservative Classicalist regime which, like Lukashenko’s, sometimes uses Communist symbols for irredentist purposes, but does use the Classicalist Russian flag with the pan-Slavic colors), the problem is not the flag.
Those are police colours. "Opposition" sees them while being shoved in police van.
@@TheLocalLt Belosussian "opposition" uses nazi collaborationist flag. No wonder it was shoved up their asses.
@@TheLocalLt Many slavic countries don't use red white and blue. Such as: Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Macedonia.
7:04, what actually happened to these guys anyway? Were they actually trapped or did they manage to get out?
They were in a safe place not under enemy presence
fun fact St. George ribbon is banned in Lithuania.
Uniforms from different nations are getting more and more similar to each other and the range of a lot of weapons is getting longer and longer, it's going to be an issue in the future. After all, if a war is fought on a certain terrain both sides will want the most effective camouflage and minor differences in the gear cannot be appreciated from afar.
You would be suprised to learn how many friendly fire incident is occuring in the Ukranian side.
@@venator5 only Ukrainian? Why not russian also?
Thanks for posting it. Very good video!
So Azov SS insignia is not considered as swastika, but russian Z is "swastika alike". "Z" is a letter of old russian alphabet. Today it is "З"
exactly! nobody mentioning the literal nazi insignia worn by ukrainians
Да потому что у Азова их знак имеет значение, а у вас типичная свастика, которую вы лепете куда вздумаете, прямо как кто? Как нацисты времен 2-й МВ
@@Dr_Ney какое значение? Газовые камеры, печи освенцима и горы трупов? Оставьте себе такие значения, не лезьте в цивилизованные страны. У нас - символ группировки сил восток и буква старой кириллицы "земля". Забираем свою землю у ССовских клопов. Что не понятно?
@@15bleach51what about stalin's mountains of corpses? Have you forgotten?
Thank you.
Hilbert, please make a video about russian Cult of Victory. This is really important in modern day russia, affects their politics, culture, holydays etc.
Look forward also to the report on the British and US Cult of Defeat.
@@casteretpollux what would that be? They have won most of their wars, unlike russia.
@@blowbert9126 Glad you can see that. Most people don't. But the bolts are beginning to pop.
The O is to represent troops from "Center" they've been seen all over and usually troops in Center use red armbands and O patches
Russia: let's go 20 second adventure in and out
Literally three weeks later:💀
Ukraine (2014) : Let's start a war with Russia
Russia (2022) : *enters the war*
Ukraine (2022) : Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
@@Tokinjester, that's not how it went at all
@@Tokinjester brainwashed
@@Tokinjester Right, UKRAINE started the war. They forced all of those Russian soldiers over the border. That makes sense.
@@ChrisTheCringe But that IS
the white armbands are older than 2014: in the South Ossetian "8 days" war of 2008, Ossetian-pro russianforces wore them. And in some footage or pictures, Serbs in Kosovo, in 1999 or Armenians (during the first Artsakh war of 1992 (?)) did too. White armbands are a generally pro Slavic thing (in the sense: opposed to western proxies or seen as such).
you should check out battle order's video on the vehicle markings, its pretty good. ruclips.net/video/gMh6Ml329VU/видео.html it corrects some misunderstandings like the naval infantry's V's and chechen's Xes both of those seem incorrect
The yellow armbands might be awkward for comouflage.
I saw a photo of Russian forces (purportedly part or the Wagner Group) with white over red armbands which, of course looks like the Polish flag and was hella confusing...
slight additition:
I've seen some Ukrainian troops also use green identification tape, i think it's for the foreign legion.
Why I hear people speaking English and sort of new Zealand accent in Ukrainian army?
Man Ukraine soldier are great man they have shown so much bravery and my respect go to them
Glory to Ukraine
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do you support all neo-nazi militia or just the ones you've been told to support?
@@Tokinjester neo nazi militia exist only in your head
@@stefanthedane8968 russians who were trying to take over the city ? What would you do with people breaking into your house ? Pour them some tea ?
@@Tokinjester how to indentify pissed russian troll
nazi
Thx for the info.
I want to see more videos about different insignias from different armies around the world.
2:04 why does your audio go low here?
From what I've heard from a Ukrainian friend:
Yellow - Armed Forces
Blue - National Guard
Green - National Police and Territorial Defense
Hi, I'm from Ukraine, and I think you're right👍
2:55 woot "Angel" from Patrick Lancaster videos.
The information on the symbols is highly dubious. More likely is that the symbols relates to the axis of advance. See the video by Battle Order for a much more in-depth breakdown on that.
Note that arm bands do not nullify the rest of a camo uniform and are more visible up close.
You forgot wolfsangel.
I think you have Blue-Yellow backwards.
What we've seen on the Ukraine subreddit is that Blue seems to be standard forces and yellow seems to be the TDF recruits
that is what i thought. tdf has lower standards and allow phones to be used hence why there is so much footage with Ukrainians wearing yellow. regular units are forbidden to have phones.
You can distinguish the Russian soldiers from the Ukrainian soldiers by seeing which one is retreating from the battlefield into Belarus.
Nah, ukranian soldiers are in mariupol trying to escape , saddly hasn't work out for them.
@@Бибабо-й2я Wrong. Our soldiers are holding off Mariupol from the orcs. It’s a pity you haven’t seen how russian soldiers abandoned their equipment and escaped from most scenes, sometimes leaving their comrades behind lol
@@nicotinamide4491 Mate , firstly who are those orcs yall are talking about , it's not an mmo rpg . Secondly : your brave soldiers surrender like pussies . And thirdly most of the mariupol is taken by russian forces, however ukranians have a good defence in azovstal factory. Also have you seen your fellow ukranians teamkill each other ? The tank video was top notch.
@@Бибабо-й2я Orcs are what we call the Russian soldiers. Do I need to explain further? Secondly, most of the “surrendering” videos of our forces are part of Russian propaganda to demoralize the publicity. Else why aren’t they showing some evidence that those who surrendered are confirmed Ukrainian troops? Thirdly, yeah, maybe Mariupol is mostly taken by Russian forces, but now it serves of no strategic place, because the orcs literally erased it for no reason. And yes, I have seen that tank video.
You should go watch how Russian POWs tell stories of their commanders betraying them or finishing off the injured comrades. Great commanding, amirite?
@@nicotinamide4491 Still don't get where the whole orc thingy came from , but ok.
P sure there were photos of some passports plus interviews ,so yean , not a propaganda.
Also would like to point out that mariupol wasn't erased for no reason ,it was and still is a warzone , that's how warzones look like.
Tbf i wouldn' t recommend you believing the POW videos, since they might as well be forced to say anything under heavy beating or under the gun barrel.
Very early in the war(2014 to about 2015 or very early 2016 maybe) Azov was using red armbands mostly in mariupol so if its older footage keep that in mind. Ive also seen Russians using orange armbands, and no not the ribbons actual orange tape.
Ukraine: look like functioning military uniforms.
Russia: looks like a costume of a military uniform.
Seriously? Russians use the Ratnik uniform, Ukrainians use freaking tracksuits like gopniks
It's a great video, Sir! Thank yoU!
I think "A" is false reporting. SOF wouldn't roll around with symbols announcing they are special forces and would rather blend in with one of the other symbols. Also there have been green armbands on the Ukrainian side. Not sure what they mean but I have heard they are police forces.
Ukrainians armbands are not linked to level of training or specific units. There are several color that are rotated periodically. You can see the same soldiers or units, wearing different color, depending of the time the photo/video was taken.
How could Z be for Eastern? Zapad means West. East is Vostok.
That's what i originally thought , z-zapad , v-vostok .
Z - West Military District (Zapad), V - East Military District (Vostok), O - Central Military District (centre sign in geometry).
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my dude Hilbert, if you havnt seen the northman yet do so . its the best Viking film, ive seen so far
I do believe that the USSR had and impact on both of these countries like they were part of it after all but it so there equipment will have some similarities
Ukraine bought Russian 3rd gen anti-aircraft missiles ... from Russia :)
@@Tokinjester And they actually know how to use it properly, unlike your russian idols. Cope harder kremlin bot xD
What do the international volunteers wear?
yellow, I've seen clips of Americans with the yellow arm band
I think ur missing the swastika and black sun
Kek
Can we get an update on this? A whole set of the early-war Russian Uniforms are by now quite rare
Skipped over the nazi symbols used by Ukraine
Where ? XD
@@okularenxd6431 azov battalion
@@justin-c1k5k That is just one group, not the whole military and they have also new logos without the black sun.
@@okularenxd6431 but they are nazis
@@thelucky4083 *were, and don't forget that fighting against extremist ideology by attacking democratic country is a lame excuse, perhaps an even more weak excuse when more Nazis fight for Russia than for Ukraine.
Ukraine also were spotted in some videos few days ago using green bands like green insulation tape green :D
Ukraine is adopting NATO standards, Russia is still based on Soviet standards.
WHat about the green armband?
Z is for western. V is for eastern. Not otherwise. Not for fleet. Makes no sense for Z to be Crimea if it is for eastern territory. Zapad is West. Vostok is East.
V mostly attacked Kiev. I also thought “naval? Wut?”
You do realize that Russian doesn’t have the letter V or Z right?
@@baneofbanes Being a Russian, I do realize that
@@vlmt7716 the why would they bother translating that to the Latin alphabet?
@@baneofbanes I don't know that. It may be because Russian letter for the sound Z looks like З.
The Chechens also wear a different camo pattern. Does anyone know what pattern it is?
It seems you missed a few symbols btw...
You're right, he missed the bullet holes in the russian soldiers back as they run for the border like dogs with fireworks strapped to their tails.
We have a shibalet word "Palianytsia" which is used to tell apart russian insurgents and infiltrators
Yeah, the “bread” one word
@@istandwithiran паляныца це клубника
@@thelucky4083 полуница - клубника, а паляниця - хлеб
" . . . the ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and lame
And on each end of the rifle we're the same . . ."
John McCutcheon - 'Christmas in the trenches'
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Ukrainian troops have yellow or blue armbands.
Russian troops tend to be on fire.
Ukrainian troops can also be determined by their use of nazi symbolism ... :)
Tell that to the dozen Ukrainians that got blown up point blank by a Russian tank right in front of them lol
@@Tokinjester there's like 400 neonazis out of millions in total forces on the Ukrainian side...like 30% of the 1000 Azov...this whole nazi thing is a farce
@@elchapojunior3091 Congratulations to the russian side for providing their first gore video of the Ukrainian side. Almost two months into the war. We've had videos of russians burning since day one lmfao.
@@Aistis1918 Oh ya, I forgot about the Reddit brigade where over a hundred of you western warrior wannabes got blown sky high in western Ukraine by a single Russia air strike lol
Silver armbands on Russian side is said to be related to Chechen units.
Look for the notsee symbols
What's with the guy at 9:48 wearing a band around his leg as well as an armband ?
9:48 is wrong time stamp, that's the exact end of the video. You must mean something earlier.
6:01 do you mean this soldier with white bands on both arm and leg? (He's on the Russian side, "Z" on his tank).
I have frequently, especially on the Russian side, seen soldiers with bands on both arms and legs. I guess it's just for giving more chances for fast identification. Maybe a better help for poorly/ untrained personnel (just an unqualified guess)?
What are you taking about? Russian is not the first language of most people in Ukraine, Ukrainian is. See the data.
Because it is banned in Schools, 50% speak Russian born in Ukraine. Oldies speak Russian, young ones speak Ukrainian. You can keeping banning languages & races but then you will always have War. Like Scotland & SNP changing road signs to Gaelic. Zero Scots spoke gaelic in the South they spoke Scots & English.
They switched to blue brcause yellow looks looks white at night, espesially light yellow.
Can you do a video on the Freedom Of Russia Legion serving in the Ukrainian Ground Forces? They're former Russian Soldiers that defected or surrendered to the Ukrainians who want payback against Putin.
Quote from Wikipedia:
"The "Freedom of Russia" Legion (Russian: Легион «Свобода России», romanized: Legion "Svoboda Rossii"; Ukrainian: Легіон «Свобода Росії»), also translated as the "Freedom for Russia" Legion, is a legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, formed in March 2022 to protect Ukraine against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war. It consists of defectors of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as other Russian and Belarusian volunteers who have not previously been members of military formations."
Мстить Путину, убивая своих соотечественников?
@@JopaPolzovatelya We’ll crush them like ants, we’ll win as you probably already know. 🇷🇺💪
They will be the using 6B26 the 6B27 is a airborne helmet only 1:54
5:10 I lold on Poroshenko squad as an example of infiltration
Whats the purpose of armbands? Just to identify which side you are?
Especially to avoid friendly fire.
Language actually is one of the ways to find out.
Majority of Ukrainians speak Ukrainian as 1st language. And even tho some people do speak Russian, but they know ukrainian and can talk in Ukrainuan as well.
But russians can't. Russians just can't pronaunce many ukrainuan sounds. The most famouse word is: palyanytsya.
Actually it doesnt work like that. Take for example Zelensky, he was a russian only ukrainian basically until he joined politics and had to learn it. Its better to ask about some really dumb mondane everyday bullshit in ukraine pre war. Msot russian soldiers are from east of the urals anyway, the will hardly now about some ramdom political event in ukraine, some random history thing or how some thigns are called or done
There are a decent ammount of russian only ukrainians because if your entire place speaks russian...why learn ukrainian? And even if you learned ukranian in school, if you dont speak it every now and then its gone soon. Doesnt mean they arent ukrainians, it just means ukraine has two languages (which I think is a great thing to be honest)
@@noobster4779 What doesn’t work? I don't understand your point.
Why? cuz its Ukraine and its official language. And it was damaged really hard during soviets, but it survived (unlike belarusian) and its getting stronger every year and more russian speaking ukrainian citizens starting to use ukrainian language.
Its not great at all.
@@vexillonerd , actually Ukrainian language suffered during Polish occupation.
The issue with that is that many eastern Ukrainians actually speak russian solemnly. Although ofcourse they know some Ukrainian, they largely speak Russian. I mean, this whole conflict is because of this reality as to if they should be closer with russian or ukraine. Thus, its not that easy and then there are russians that know very fluent ukrainian as they have ties there. So take it as you will.
@@voldemarvaglaots6690 it did, but its nothing compared to russian occupation.
I always thought the "saint george ribbon" was akin to an adidas track suit stripe
Coming from a Ukrainian: you got the symbols wrong. It's +- certain here that the symbols identify the Russian Axis of attack:
V - forces that attacked Kyiv along the right bank if Dnipro river (you could have seen these forces fighting in Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, etc.)
O - forces that attacked Kyiv through Sumy and Chernihiv
Z-in-square - these forces were attacking Kharkiv and along the north-eastern side of the Eastern Ukraine in general (Kupyansk, Izyum)
Z - these are forces that attacked Donbass directly and South of Ukraine from Crimea
Yes, sometimes these were spotted in wrong locations but high majority of photos of destroyed vehicles prove the logic behind those symbols that I listed above
Also X and A - almost never seen. But X being Chechens is proven to be wrong: Chechens near Kyiv were seen with V and Chechens near Mariupol - with Z.
It is likely rather an id method for which military districs the units came from
My assumption on yellow and blue to stop infiltrators was that it was based on the front and the ‘color of the day’.
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Locally here in Ukraine I've seen green armbands. Not sure y. They ran out of blue or yellow? Yellow & blue make green? Green means territorial guard? IDK.
"How to distinguish ukrainian and russian soldiers" just look and see who behaves like a soldier and who's an animal.
You are right, а distinctive feature of animals is a yellow-blue flag.
humans are far worse than animals, animals survive, humans destroy, this is who we are, we are all the same shit just under different flags
True, the Ukrainian army really look like 🐷 🐽
About time someone make a content about this
Z doesnt stand for Eastern but for Western military district. "Zapad"
I'm pretty sure that the mysterious V and Z letters of the two Russian invasion groups mean Volodymir Zelensky. It's odd they're not using cyrillic letters in any case. In any case the Z seems to indicate forces deployed in the South of Ukraine and the V forces deployed in the North (now pulled back for the sake of negotiations).
@@LuisAldamiz that is an even older myth
@@eyeballpapercut4400 IDK, I only realized after Zelensky (or should I say "Elensky"?) asked for the letter Z to be banned, in which was probably his most epic comedian move ever.
@@LuisAldamiz huh, the letter is not banned, lol. It's not allowed to use it as a war symbol or just use the symbols the occupier army uses. Same as swastika, you know
@@yandespar3490 - I can only imagine, LOL. But (Z)elensky is so ridiculous, making endless demands to "Europe" (I'm EU-ropean, so I find all that not just irking but the worst kind of ridiculously fascist, like banning Russian sports people and even the books of Dostoievsky, yet our corrupt leaders go with it and what not).
We Europeans are being destroyed by all those conspiring to make this war happen since years ago. The result will be a disaster, even Le Pen is capitalizing in being ambiguously pro-Russian (NATO is so hateful) and may win next sunday's election, what I do not celebrate, mind you, as it's yet another step in the European fascist madness and will lead to yet another war that destroys Europe even more.
In any case Zelensky making endless demands and NATO leaders mostly complying with all that Russophobic nonsense, of which banning the letter Z is just the most iconic point of the iceberg (athletes and artists are being bullied just for being Russian in what amounts to one of the worst pogroms I've seen in Europe ever, the self-destruction or European economy is probably even worse), is something I can't but laugh about.
But also fear a lot: we're being brainwashed into self-destruction at economic and freedom of speech levels. We are becoming Ukraine: the neonazi hell.
The Z stands for „for the victory“ in russian and the V for something else aswell. Nothing to do with military districts
V are marines
@@SchwarzerSamt no, V stands for the north, ever seen a Z in Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel?