Ukraine’s Raid to Free 3,000 Cut-Off Troops
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
2:37 - The Plan
4:18 - Shakhtarsk
6:57 - Savur-Mohyla
8:39 - Stepanivka
10:10 - Crossing the Mius
11:29 - Closing the Circle
Sources:
• "Raid. Documentary" • Raid. Documentary
• "Олександр Порхун | Vоїн - це я" • Врятувати 3000 солдаті... • Бої на кордоні з росіє...
• "Герой Украины Сергей Собко: Если бы все выполняли здаачи, которые им ставили - возможно, ход событий был бы иной" (Pravda) www.pravda.com.ua/rus/article...
• "Рейд десантників 1-2 серпня 2014 року. Хроніка створення «коридору» для прикордонників" (Rubryka) web.archive.org/web/202007232...
• "Бій за Шахтарськ: кривавий рахунок 25-тої бригади" (Rubryka) web.archive.org/web/202104221...
• "Обираємо гiдних. Герой України. Олександр Порхун. Округ 217" (Chernozem) chernozem.info/journal/geroy-...
• "Происхождение артиллерийских ударов по позициям украинских военных в восточной Украине с 14 июля по 8 августа 2014 г." (Bellingcat) web.archive.org/web/201605130...
• "Обстріли України з території РФ у серпні 2014. Вивчено супутникові знімки 539 вирв" (InformNapalm) informnapalm.org/ua/obstrily-...
• "Битва за Савур-Могилу. Хроніка подій" (Ukraine Military Pages) www.ukrmilitary.com/2015/12/s...
"Аналіз ведення антитерористичної операції та наслідків вторгнення Російської Федерації в Україну у серпні-вересні 2014 року" web.archive.org/web/201509100...
Man those airborne brigades used to be light. From mostly soviet BMDs and armoured trucks to British Challenger 2s and America Strykers. What an evolution
Lets be clear. Lightly armoured, yes. The BMPs and other APCs of soviet make were emphaticallynot "light" by any means. Especially in the light of carrying capacity, meaning sonetimes two soviet APCs for one NATO one. So pick your words carefully, for logistics and practicality are entirely different from apples to apples comparisons
Long Live the UA 95th Airborne!
@@kaing5074 I don’t follow. If it takes two Soviet APCs to equal a NATO APC, doesn’t that mean the NATO APC is heavier and the Soviet APCs are lighter?
He is just a Karen and wants to speak to the manager...
I assume what he meant is based on firepower. Since the OP mentioned them being "airborne brigades" I assume they were armed similarly to the Russian VDV which means nothing bigger than 20mm of the BMP...
Thank you for focusing on some of the earlier conflict between Ukraine and Russia
THANK YOU for a historical battle!! Alot of people have NO kdea this conflict had been raging on since 2014...but you know. 'Merica we are not that well educated or aware of our surroundings with our current educational systems
@@Nperez1986 Same thing happens here in El Salvador with our own educational system, we are not even given history or geography class, it literally doesn't exist as a subject to be taught in school!
Knowledge is available if you have the desire to learn.
School is for brainwashing and I knew it by age 12.
I know the history of almost every nation and culture on earth.
I didn't learn it in school.
And I am from California.
Our public schools are a disgrace.
Nothing will stop you if you apply yourself.
I have lived and worked in 8 countries after my wasted school years.
Never let anyone tell you what you "cannot" do or that your beggining defines your ending place.
Video idea: A video rundown of 2014 - 2015 era Russian army involvement & how they maintained "plausible deniability".
There are no such (condensed) english-speaking overview videos, anywhere - especially not with maps & decent footage.
This could be a series, honestly. 👍
Just the general outline of how war & Russian brazenness progressed; not an "every battle" report.
Many people don't have time to go read Bellingcat & would be interested in "pre-2022" context. Win -win. 🏆
I am impressed the Ukrainians were able to do this, back in 2014, when they weren't as well equipped as they are today
also decade in war does that
In 2014, AFU was a drained force that’s supplies were siphoned off by the remnants of soviet era bandits. Makes operations like this even more impressive to be honest. In todays hostilities AFU is much more tactically competent and way better supplied.
Slava Ukraini!
To be fair, Russia committed far fewer resources at that point, yes they were 100% directly involved, but it definitely was not a full scale invasion.
@@qlumand there was no Russian air power involved either
Love for one's fellow countrymen makes men audacious.
For some reason, shelling of Ukrainian territory from Russian territory in 2014 is a little-known fact, despite that many of these episodes were investigated or caught on video (for example, episode near the Russian village Gukovo on July 16, 2014, which was filmed by locals).
If someone is interested in this topic, I advise you to start with the Bellingcat investigation - "Origin of Artillery Attacks on Ukrainian Military Positions in Eastern Ukraine"
Thank you for highlighting this topic, it is very important that more people know the truth.
@@tommytomas-fr3sh How is it propaganda if its true? Satellite imagery literally shows that Russia shelled Ukraine from its borders, while Russia claimed to be uninvolved.
Russia was straight up lying, and the "other guys" (the west) being bad doesn't absolve Russia of any wrongdoing
Il serait bon aussi de profiter de l'occasion pour faire état des exactions commises par les bataillons de répression ukrainiens à l'encontre des civils du Donbass, ne croyez vous pas?
@@patricepicaud5490 go ahead, share your sources
Dommage que ces répressions on été commis seulement dans la tête de dear leader poutine, ça rend une enquête un peu compliquer
And pro-Russians say that Ukraine had bombed the donbass. Russia was not fighting fair. They're weaving their artillery in and out of Russia. If Ukraine attacks them while in Russian territory, Russia will have an excuse to escalate the conflict back when they do not have any western support. It'll be a larger conflict similar to 2008 Georgia where Russia made themselves an excuse to invade when the separatists were about to be wiped out.
Perfect deep-dive video for people thinking Russia's invasion started in 2022.
Great channel. Definitely best in class.
Russians just countered an invasion that was happening in Kiev.
@@andydufresne9593Yep, and the earth is flat
THANK YOU for a historical battle! Alot of us dont know what happened before 2022 in Ukraine, this helps build context to what is happening now
Video idea: A video rundown of 2014 - 2015 era Russian army involvement & how they maintained "plausible deniability".
There are no such (condensed) english-speaking overview videos, anywhere - especially not with maps & decent footage.
This could be a series, honestly. 👍
Just the general outline of how war & Russian brazenness progressed; not an "every battle" report.
Many people don't have time to go read Bellingcat & would be interested in "pre-2022" context. Win -win. 🏆
I remember reading about this. And this one recollection by a veteran of the 95th always resonated with me. It was about how it was the proudest moment of his life, liberating a town and seeing the citizens come out waving the Ukrainian flag and cheering him on.
The Ukrainians could have won but it was not to be...
lol
That's perhaps the most frustrating part of all of this. The Russians were killing Ukrainians from across the borders, but Ukraine couldn't do anything about it except take it. Still Russia won't admit they did.
And when did Ukrainians kill people with Russian passports for 8 years?
@@vevovs6075 They didn't
@@fabik805Proceeds to not explain further
My polite response:
@@fabik805, the stance you’re taking is a serious matter.
The actions of the Russian military in Ukraine, documented and proven, are not just matters of opinion but of international law and human rights.
When one supports a regime that has been linked to such actions, it’s crucial to consider the weight of that support.
If you truly stand with Putin’s policies, I urge you to consider the long-standing consequences of such a position.
History will remember the choices we make and the sides we take.
I hope you'll reflect on the broader implications of supporting actions that have been internationally condemned.
I stand for truth and accountability, and I will continue to support Ukraine in their fight for sovereignty and human dignity. Remember, the internet is indeed forever, and our words are a testament to our values and legacies; even if this message only serves to improve engagement and continue the conversation and support.
Heroyam Slava!
My actual response; (I couldn't decide so thought "Porque no los dos?")
No surprises that russia played dirty from the start, but very interesting to see it laid out and the great potential lessons learned. Slava Ukraini! ✊🇺🇦🏴🇬🇧
@fabik805 Oh and fabik; if you have such belief in putin and russia's claims of innocence of war crimes such as the facts discussed in this history video, your glorious leader vlad "the lad" putin is keen for volunteers! He'll even give you a passport - if you believe that criminal then he needs more meat for the grinder you putz.
I'd almost feel sorry for you - for your gullibility or vulnerability to manipulation if it just wasn't so ... What's the word... Oh yes; 'Evil' that's it the term.
Why have you chosen that side of history and only serving to drive engagement on a video countering your gullibility or willfully ignorant or, as I said - your behaviour is just evil.
Heroyam Slava! Drive out the invaders.
Yeah but that's just how Russia is, they will attempt to fight wars like a democratic country and as soon as the going gets tough you can bet your bottom dollar that they will start relying dirty strategies and cheap shots. For example in the second Chechen war one of Putin's best generals was captured and rather than accepting that it's war and this kind of thing happens he threatened to level a entire town to the ground if they didnt give that general back. They are russians it's what they do, they won't just torture civilians and pows no no no they will torture their own comrades because russians have no value for human life and they are filled with blind hate because there is very little they actually understand.
Thank you, finally there's a decent coverage of earliers stages of the war in English. ZSU were a different force back then but operations like these have kickstarted the transformation needed for the current endgame.
Vice news made a really good documentary about the earlier years of the war. Also, Ukrainian English language channels have good footage/accounts of the early battles.
Please do more of these types of videos. Personally I find them much more interesting
Yes. ❤ A video rundown of 2014 - 2015 era Russian army involvement & how they maintained "plausible deniability".
There are no such (condensed) english-speaking overview videos, anywhere - especially not with maps & decent footage.
This could be a series, honestly. 👍
Just the general outline of how war & Russian brazenness progressed; not an "every battle" report.
Many people don't have time to go read Bellingcat & would be interested in "pre-2022" context. Win -win. 🏆
That Orlan 10 transition at 1:40 is super nice
This is why people say russia already invaded donbas in 2014. Because they did.
Russia had few small groups and some serbian groups on Donbass. They was supporting people in donbass because they was attacked by ukrainians. ukraines killed 14k+ civilians in donbass but no one say about this. Well, why someone have to say something about this. Better we say that Russia was on donbass with no proofs. Nice
@@Anubis.731Evidence? My friend from Ukraine that originally live in Donbas said that those Ukraine army don’t care whatever u speak Russian
Another incredible video that proves the competence of the Ukrainian army and its tactical common sense. The 8 years of additional preparation from 2014 to 2022, today allow this formidable army to resist the invader. Ukraine will win and we will help it defeat the Russian monster ! Your job is always perfect. Keep it up ! 🇫🇷🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
Eh...it's like Iraq fighting its Kurds dude....😅
They have to by necessity, if they didn’t, we’d be talking about "filtration camps" all around Ukraine. Given the mismatch in men and material, incompetence is a luxury Ukraine can ill afford.
Ukraine’s success can can in no small part be attributed to this quote by the immortal words of a Ukrainian defender, "We're very lucky they're so F_ükkin stupid."
Reads just like a politician’s teleprompter.
@@Nperez1986 when the Kurds are given us tanks, SAMs, have US artillery supporting them and US troops dressed as Kurds helping them.
@@benholroyd5221 I think I understand the analogy, you mean this time it's russia the one providing all that to the so called separatists in Ukraine, right?
Thank you for the detailed overview of the events and the almost hourly chronology of the events cause and effect analysis much respect to you for this. Especially important for me is the awareness of the Russian intervention and the actual invasion, this factor is the key reason why the war continues for so long, everything could have ended already at the end of the summer of 2014
What a lot of people don't realize is that these battles were taking place pretty much at the same time as Russians were entering Crimea. The international community was distracted by Crimea and didn't realize that Russia had already started invading Donbas. Now in 2023, Russia is failing miserably at its 2nd attempt to invade Ukraine. The only reason the invasion made it as far as it did in 2022 was because Russia had 8 years to prepare for it. Fortunately Ukraine took those 8 years to prepare as well.
not exactly. they took crimea very abruptly in the beginning of march. the first """"uprising"""" in donbass was mid april. and this cutting raid was mid august
Well it actually seems more like it was a deliberate Ukrainian tactic to trade land for time and not meet the invasion head on but use guerilla warfare to disrupt it and ultimately force them to retreat. The Ukrainians knew that they'd have the advantage in the cities so they let the Russians advance up to the cities where they could easily be halted. From there on sabotage and the weather would do most of the work repelling the most dangerous Russian incursions and in the mean time weapons from the west streamed in. After the front had been contained to a smaller area they could start focusing on more conventional operations, using their new western weapons to gain an advantage.
Honestly one of the best deep-dive videos in relation to the Ukraine-Russian conflict. I am used to the incredibly high quality videos of your channel, but you have topped yourself with this one. Also glad to see older (but no less important) parts of this conflict getting attention.
Really enjoyed this video! There aren’t enough of these animated battle map videos about Ukraines original invasion in 2014!
Vice news made some really great documentaries about the early years of the Ukrainian war! Highly recommend it.
They committed _eight explicitly Russian battalions_ to an overt _invasion_ of Ukraine and we, specifically the UK in my case, day back same did nothing.
To my every lasting shame.
To my Ukrainian cousins, I am so sorry we were not there enough in the beginning.
I remember losing my mind at all the apathy. All my russian teachers were ukranian and I was treated like shit for sounding ukranian
@@BiggestCorvid
Jesus man, what the fuck is wrong with some people.
I cannot begin to understand what you're going through, the anger must be indescribable.
I'm only barely related to Ukraine through my late Ukrainian grandmother and I'M furious.
Honestly I'd be furious whoever was getting invaded, we're supposed to have evolved past Great Power (ha, Russia wishes) warfare and here comes Russia to fuck up the world.
Gran survived the holodomor and then fled during the 2nd world war to avoid getting, let's not discuss it, by the Nazis and probably also the Russian empire (which was calling itself the USSR that century)
Allow she survived and made it to Scotland.
Glory to Ukraine.
Glory to the Heroes.
Il est toujours temps d'y aller, ne t'en prive surtout pas.
@@patricepicaud5490 only if you join the Russians.
I read it was Europe led by Merkel that didnt want to respond. Crazy, its just like Hitler grabbing bits of his neighbours in 1930s, Merkel = Chamberlain. In 2020 Europe spent $80bil on Putins oil, 1% of this buys 1,600 T-72s
Great in depth video as always Battle Order. Thank you for doing videos on little known but important events in this war. Will be signing up to your Patreon.
Cavalry raid basically. My grandfather would be proud.
Wow! You’re really upped your game in the animation/video/effects realm. Nicely done, keep ‘em coming!
That was really well done! Thanks for highlighting the conflicts early days. This raid was an amazing feat by the Ukrainians!
Jesus christ seeing such a small but professional and well trained military at work is like ballet. Gorgeous
Gorgeous you got be kidding me!Jesus Christ is happy as orthodox Christian slaughter each other you need think before opening your mouth.
The biggest triumph of Ukraine was not won on the 2022 invasion but by being able to contest the separatists well enough to force Russia to take the desperate gamble and take off the veil of plausible deniability.
The world didnt heed Ukraine then, the world owes Ukraine now. I hope the support keeps on going.
Slava Ukraina!
Wow this is excellently done.thank you. Only thing is sometimes it would have been better to zoom out a bit like at 9:07 so we could reorient and understand exactly where the town was before zooming into the action. But finally I have a very good understanding of the Great raid. Thank you so much.
Russia's history of cheating and hitting below the belt is legendary.
Pffft... cowards
The Separatists are literally reaping what they sow.
They are partying and having fun back then, dreaming of pushing someday in few years to Baltics, Turkey, Ukraine and ensure another Imperial legacy of Russia. Now those dreams are broken when reality hits hard. They thought they are on the winning side, the strong side which will give them a glorious place in history, but now they are seeing that the very country they betrayed gets it instead.
True for every nation that ever participated in a war.
Very well done! Thank you for doing this.
5:45 The image of military vehicles crushing peaceful and beautiful sunflowers almost gives me anti-war feelings.
Aren't anti-war feelings normal?
@@RandomGuy9republicans have anti war feelings in the sense of just letting the katsaps invade everyone around them.
Awesome work bro, please keep'em coming, this would put even the most expensive History/Discovery Channel documentary to shame.
Awsum video dude!!💯👍👍 i could watch these for like an hour!!😅 im shocked i dont remember hearing anything in 2014!😬
Can't imagine the bravery of these soldiers fighting against separatists and Russians alike with outdated equipment and no one to save them if they fail
They were mostly fighting russians as the separatist barely could get past 1 thousand troops of local origin
Great video, thank you! The only moment is that russian regular army first appeared on the 12th of August 2014 - BTR-82A were captured on video in battle near Snijne. Please continue making more videos about 2014-2015 period of russian invasion in Ukraine.
since when was a people standing up for themselves an invasion? You dont see sepertists invading ukraine, you see ukraine military shelling and killing civilians in places like Donetsk and Luhansk where the people are FIRM in their russian believes
And when even all material supplies, separate russian groups and squads, released prisoners and mentioned barrages from russian territory didn't help "separatists" (russian led terrorists) - regular russian army BTGs crossed border and hit in empty flank of Ukrainian Army, surrounding Ukrainian troops near Illovaisk town.
Then, promising "green corridor" for extraction - they fired evacuating troops in point blank range. Then, was Donets Airport, Debaltseve, Svitlodar arc and so on
"Civil war" witnesses, anyone ? 🤡
Это и была Civil war, потому что пока не доказано, не ебет что сказано, раз, а во вторых, 95% конфликта было на территории Украины и с людьми, имеющими её гражданство. Следовательно, гражданская война
Eyyy good day when this channel posts
Thank you for this great visualisation
Thank you for bringing light to this raid!
Good to see someone on RUclips covering the events of the Great Raid of 2014 at long last.
Mykhaylo Zabrodsky acquired a reputation for returning from raids with more vehicles and equipment than he started with; a tradition that the Ukrainian Army continues to this day.
For more information on the conflict in Donbas 2014 - 2015 go watch the lectures presented by Dr Phillip Karber.
Thank you for putting this raid into the spotlight. It is truly impressive.
Excellent video as always!
Great video as always
2014 vibes let's go!
Great video mate
unfair how we treated ukraine, they are trying to protect themselfs from the little green goblins since 2014
There is no such thing as goblins. Only young men who are afraid to die.
@@SuperBoyboys contract soldiers that took part in this war since 2014 are not “young men who are afraid to die”
And now Ukraine has goblin slayer (NATO)
Calling them goblins makes them sound like mischevious little guys not war criminals.
They trying to defend. O my god, im so sorry for people in donbass that died because if ukrainian artillery, soldiers, mortars and tanks. They have to see how btches on RUclips saying that ukraines were defending. I hate this shit
Another bomb video, thank you!
Thanks for making contact of such high quality!
the entire military leadership up to company commanders from Moscow, all equipment from Russia in unlimited quantities, fuel shells, artillery support, regular units were also present (vacationers), in fact, assault operations were often carried out by personnel units of the Russian Federation, and collaborators guarded the rear
Man, this video in combination with some of the other videos of Ukraine's conduct during the 2022 escalation really highlights the evolution the Ukrainian army underwent. During the period discussed in this video the Ukrainians are the ones who get ambushed and take serious losses. You can clearly see how they learned valuable lessons from this and turned that around on the Russians in 2022.
Very, very illuminating content! Crystal clear explanation and excellent juxtaposition!
This was really informative. Impressive for both the Ukrainians and you. Thanks for the putting for the effort.
This channel is so darn good!
Great explanation of the mission. I never have heard about these actions during the previous Russian invasion. Thank you 👍🏻
Holy shit guys, this mfer even has the brigade patch logos! Dude, you're the first channel I've seen to be THAT god damned detailed. You love to see it.
Important reminder of the early days of this current war.
And that the tenacity and courage of the Ukrainians is not a recent thing.
Im glad someone covered the great raid in detail, u did it in style. Dr Karber does a nice lecture on yt on this phase of the war aswell.
Excellent video!
I remember when the first conflict happened in 2014. I remember hearing reports of Ruskie's supporting the "separatists" and thought the Russians invaded.
They did.
@@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 Yup.
Great video!!
great content love battle order!!
Wow what a great video. Super clear presentation and very informative! I hadn’t realized how blatant Russia’s involvement in 2014 was.
I can't wait for a series of detailed documentaries about the first eight years of this conflict
Vice did a great real-time series on the war from the very beginning. It's on youtube.
Vice got most of it very very wrong
@@VajrahahaShunyata how so?
Outstanding stuff!
EXCELLENT VIDEO, THANKYOU
This battle is mentioned in a couple lectures I watched a while back..(maybe Russian way or war by Philip something).. anyways I looked and looked for some info on it and never could find it..... So thanks very much for posting this!!!!!
Love this kind of video
6:20 has some great accidental comedic timing for my monkey brain.
Seriously though great video, would love to see more videos in this nature!
Battle order: *Makes detailed video about Ukraine*
No one:
4:26 : CLOUD
Just stumbled onto your channel, I subscribed. Thank you for covering the beginning of the Ukraine/Russian War. This was very comprehensive and well done. Looking forward to seeing some of your other work. SLAVA UKRAINE ✊🇺🇦🇺🇲
Well done!
I remember this. It seemed that Ukraine had won but then Russia ordered its regular troops to cross the border.
That animation quality is so crisp 🤌🏻
I really enjoy your video productions. I would love to see more of these "battle" videos of lesser known conflicts. We don't need more Second World War battle videios. thank you for the work that you do.
The way the EU and NATO caved to Russian pressure and sold out Ukraine during 2014-15 is one of the most shameful and idiotic policy blunders in recent history. This is why we need more quality videos like this on Russia's wars of expansion.
Mate you obviously clueless on that time period EU and NATO never sold out the ukrainians they did it themeselves.
This is partly because Russia has managed to win the information battle and convince many that what is happening is a "civil war" in Ukraine.
@@gotanon9659 Does your head work right? France and Germany in particular pressured Ukraine to give into Russian demands, even though Russia blatantly and repeatedly violated ceasefire agreements.
@@SausageOwnage What demands specifically?
@@MarcosElMalo2 Well come on. By their actions it was pretty obvious that they wanted to establish a foothold in eastern Ukraine.
This would make a great movie
The fact that they pulled this off in the wake of all the political chaos and with the ragtag 2014-era Ukrainian military is pretty impressive
great video
Highfleet sound effects :)
great material
Thanks very much 👍. This is a really well done simulation of what was going on when the war started in 2014. It's not tragic now, but for a better overview / better understanding of where exactly what took place, it would be more helpful if you zoomed out further from the map. It's tragic that it happened that way back then and that the world didn't react more strongly to it. I've been following the whole history of Ukraine since the Orange Revolution.
It's wild that this was essentially just soviet on soviet tactics. Ukranian commanders were literally rocking the same blue stripe undershirt that Russian VDV are known for.
No wonder, armed forces of both have been post-Soviet and UAF were externally modernized only mainly after 2016, so in 2014 they were even closer to Soviet.
Please make more videos about the 2014-2015 phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Great video!
Any inspiration taken from TiK historys battlestorm series?
As an off-hand comment: whats the point of calling them pro-russian militants/rebels if they can call in artillery from the russian armed forces? Looks very regular armed force-y to me. Couple this with the fact that russian GRU and FSB was involved(strelkov, motorola to name a few) makes it seem like silly way to keep the obviously russian narrative and justification of past and current events alive but I digress.
at the beginning of the full-scale stuff in 2022 russia had two full-scale army corps in it's disposition, the 1st and 2nd ones. they were famously consisting of Luhansk and Donetsk natives. even if some of the participants were drafted in there against their will, there was still plenty more vatniks for each unwilling participant. as a closing statement regarding your comment: guns don't fire themselves, they kinda need people to operate them. even if those national traitors were trained poorly, they still did their fair share of harm and do not deserve to be acquitted of their crimes. it was mentioned in the video too that only after this operation russia allocated 8 batallion groups to the battle theatre. keeping apples to apples doesn't mean there's no pears in the orchard.
@@bosermann4963 my comment was more about the 2014 era - russia used regular and special forces extensively as could be seen on russian social media(VKontakte). The "rebels" were a minority in the forces doing the "uprising".
Hopefully not since TiK is a nutter. Also the point is that they weren't part of the regular Russian army and that often matters when it comes to training, equipment and supply. Russia has begun to integrate them recently but it hasn't gone that well and DNR and LPR units are often treated as second class and used as cannonfodder while getting surplus equipment.
Like you wouldn't say that the Muhadjeen were part of the American army even though they were supplied and trained by the US. There's a pretty big difference in how these irregular units are used by the countries supplying them compared to how they use their own armed forces. You might be right that on some level it's bullshit but you can realize that and still use the terms for other reasons.
@@juliusEST false, even Ukrainian estimates put 40k Donbass natives and Only 5k Russians. This is even ignoring the constant conflict between moscow and DPR and LPR.
TiK, the guy that said that anyone who disagrees with his takes on National Socialism is a Holocaust denier? No thank you. I prefer to argue in good faith and not shut down literature reviews.
More Ukraine videos please!
Could you please do a video on Irelands squad
Documentary videos like this hit differently when the events took place just a few months ago. In past conflicts it would take years to gather this material.
Those battles happened years. They were documented fairly well when they first happened.
So awesome 😎
Quite so. Well said. Do keep bringing this up. Current generations won't know.
@@janesoole703 YEP!
donetsk and luhansk surviving is living proof that you can never take away somebodys allegence to their people
Hoping to see Australian army video soon :)
Why don't you make a video about Debaltsevo? @BattleOrder
Holy moly this is the quality that I paid for
Debaltsevo next?
I’m happy to see a video about The Great Raid of 2014. As others had pointed out, Ilovaisk was an absolute shitshow. The Ukrainians went in to the fight ready for the usual fight against the Separatist Militants only to be basically sucker punched by Russian regulars, then to be shelled on retreat in an agreed Green Corridor. Tragic
Dude at 13:22 has the plate on upside down
I remember following the news about this battle very closely. There's an hour long documentary about it from more than 7 years ago that I truly recommend. ruclips.net/video/co-AHRfrSro/видео.html
Battle of debaltseve and illovaisk please
I’m so friggen glad you put sources in the description.
I have been doing my own research for the past few years (albeit a slow pace, it’s a hobby n not for money lol).
I will definitely add and look over your sources.
I may revamp the whole section on the 2014->2022 section. It initially was a basic outline of the 8 years… maybe I do a month by month review like I am with the section on the current conflicts.
Thank you! Amazing work!
The only fair fight is the one you will win, but then you'll make contact with enemy and you'll discover they have a cheat code invinsible artillery at their disposal... but you've come this far and there's only two ways to end this... for you, there is just one actually...
graviteam mius front have the same locals in the video
It's crazy people have been fighting over this land for legit generations.
No they haven't, before the Russian invasion in 2014 the region had been peaceful since WWII like most of Europe. Even during the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Ukraine started, there was very little violence.
Interesting
Tell about Debaltsevo or Isvarino pls
A modern version of Xenophon’s Anabasis?
Lol, that Tank said “Puta” 😂😂