The story of an elite Russian unit's war in Ukraine - BBC Newsnight
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Russia’s 331st Guards Parachute Regiment is considered "the best of the best", but BBC Newsnight has been tracing the casualties as the unit battles through Ukraine.
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The regiment's commanding officer - Col Sergei Sukharev - died in mid-March. His chief of staff and numerous other officers have also fallen.
The regiment previously served in the Balkans, Chechnya and the 2014 Russia invasion in the Donbas.
Tracking the unit through Ukraine, Newsnight’s diplomatic and defence editor Mark Urban looks at the outpouring of grief and anger from Russia in response to the devastating losses. What went wrong for the once-elite regiment? And what does its fate tell us about Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
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Doesn't matter how elite you are , if you underestimate your enemy you will pay the price.
@@shankarkhadka6057 The Russian Military is an unorganized mob with junk for equipment. You look like idiots out there. It's pathetic.
@@shankarkhadka6057 What did India do to help anyone else ever ? Answer-Never.
It’s the lesson on the Battle of Gettysburg
Coming from a keyboard warrior over here, I bet you're a navy seal delta force commando! If you want to downplay these men who have sacrificed their lives for a needless war then you may as well do it for all the NATO serviceman that have died from the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
well he died an elite death . ELITE OR NOT WE ALL HUMAN AFTER ALL.
UNDER THOSE UNIFORMS , BEHIND THOSE WEAPONS AND BOLD APPEARANCE WE ALL BLEED BLOOD
"Sergei gave up his life for the future of our nation..." Except he didn't. He died because Vladolf Putler felt like invading another country on a whim. SLAVA UKRAYINY !
"Sergei" was properly drunk while trying to rob a bank and got trap under the bank vault while moving it.
I like that. Vladolf Putler. Call me a thief if you want, but I'm spreading your words.
"Vladolf Putler" WHAAAAAHAAAA, what an excellent description of this idiot Poetin.
Zelensky too seems like , to order every male citizens to fight till end , like AH did during fall of Berlin . Not that I admire Putin though
Come on. Putins a monster, but Hitler is on another level altogether. If a comparison to previous leaders is needed, Id say he's imitating Khrushchev and his invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Just because you are elite in Russia doesn’t mean you are elite in Ukraine.
They were Elite in Ukraine.
🇷🇺 Elite Cannon fodder.
It means you get a decorated pine box to rot in.
They became Elite in Ukraine! Elite at dying that is!!
It means you have an elite funeral in Russia. In Ukraine they are not more than fertilizer on soil.
And, you can't get killed or you aren't made of steel.
Airborne units are not meant to partake in heavy, multi-day fighting. As a former member of the 82nd myself, we were, AT MOST going to sustain ourselves for 48 (MAYBE 72) hours before "follow-on" forces arrived and reinforced or replaced us. Seizing an airfield is one thing but seizing and holding a TOWN is a completely other matter. Even if our entire BCT jumped in, we would not have the manpower (or fire power) to take and hold a city! That's insane!
As sad as any loss of human life is, why not be honest about why they died? They died for nothing but the fanciful whims of one man
you talking about honesty? Coming from videos on youtube where you're shown nothing but propaganda and where fascists are denied their existance in ukraine... you're nothing but brainwashed turd following the media, have you learnt nothing from the days of Covid? the PlanDemic?
Not just Putin, he is backed by a lot of older Russians.
And the incompetence of others
doifhg Wish it would be so simple as described
@@goenzoy Oh but it is that simple. It really is.
Quality old school journalism. Well done Mark Urban and the BBC.
Mark is class mate
Mark Urban is crackhead.
Mark's propaganda of US and UK instigators of this war. Gareth. So sorry for you. Brainwashed from MSM dirty propaganda.
It is one feeling to fight and die defending your country, but a total different feeling when you are told that you are liberating a country that turns out you are the unwanted aggressor.
@tb except many locals did welcome the us
@tb Saddam husan was murdering innocent civilians. a murdering evil monster like putin. They went in for a very good reason.
@tb This is a video about Ukraine.
@@twotidoce so did some local ukrainians
@@Gabagoolf So what? It's a valid point seeing as the USA are right up to there neck in this catastrophe. You might even say the were the cause, depending on your ability to critically analyze the available information.
Here is the thing about elite units:
They are extremely good and extremely valuable for the purpose that they are designed for. This is a parachute/ airborne regiment equipped with lightly armored vehicles, which is elite in deploying quickly and launch an organized attack with short preparation time to accomplish a specific task like taking a certain enemy position.
It is not the first time in history that such a unit was effectively dissolved by having been given a task where their elite capabilities are neither required nor matter.
For the broader task that was given, they were simply the wrong choice.
When you need numbers and a variety of capabilites and instead you send one elite division, it is bound to end in a catastrophe.
If someone ever tells you you are wasting your life, remind them those soldiers that died for Putin and his yachts.
that's a really good point - a russian soldiers sacrificing their lives for putin's yacht
I hope you dont mind if I use that to troll some putin supporters with
Don't forget about his collection of expensive watches.
@@laszlozoltan5021 Not bad idea. Putin's yacht club for families of dead russian soldiers.
@@forrestgreene1139
And his international haute couture! Can't forget the jacket he wore at his propaganda rally that cost more than the average russian's yearly income! He may not be the antichrist, but he's definitely the anti-Robin Hood! Steal from the poor and keep all the wealth for one's self is the dictator's creed.
This highlights the difference between democracies and dictatorships, between liberals and conservatives, between good and evil! Conservativism is a disorder caused by traumatic events in early childhood: trauma, accidents, neglect, and all kinds of abuse. Anything that causes fear and triggers the amygdala (the brain's fear center) leads to the formation of conservatives. Here's a list of reputable sources that explain this phenomena...
The antivaxxers, the anti-maskers, the insurrectionists, those who have been displaying inappropriate behavior are very damaged people. When babies aren't protected, loved, and cared for properly they experience fear and it reshapes their brains. Their amygdalas are triggered by trauma, neglect, and abuse, becoming overly large and affects their thoughts and behaviors negatively. The abhorrent behavior seen on January 6th, the Karen's behaving hysterically, etc are people who have experienced horrors in one shape or another early in their lives and can't cope with reality very well. They're annoying, they're irritating, their behavior is disgusting, but that's because they are physiologically and psychologically damaged people.
Here are reliable sources that explain and demonstrate this phenomenon...
Trauma, neglect, and/or abuse in early childhood overstimulates the amygdala (the brain's fear center) causing it to grow huge and results in aberrant thoughts and behaviors. This is damage you can LITERALLY SEE IN A BRAIN SCAN!
Read the peer reviewed research on the fMRI differences between conservatives and liberals. Here's a little help; conservatives have larger amygdalas and liberals have larger anterior cingulate cortexes. Amygdala = fear. Anterior cingulate cortex= higher level, complex thinking.
Red brain, blue brain: evaluative processes differ in Democrats and Republicans.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3572122/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23418419/
The Size and Connectivity of the Amygdala Predicts Anxiety
www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201311/the-size-and-connectivity-the-amygdala-predicts-anxiety%3famp
Yale psychiatrist explains how devotion to Trump is based on emotional patterns most people grow out of by age five
www.rawstory.com/2018/12/yale-psychiatrist-explains-devotion-trump-based-emotional-patterns-people-grow-age-five/#.XU2q1IEArtQ.facebook
New research explores authoritarian mind-set of Trump’s core supporters
www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/12/trump-voter-authoritarian-research/?fbclid=IwAR2QG55_XuUE0Uq5_6yRHhEGOSB2Gt_qWG1vc_xekp9G56buJVW8RRsPacA
Conservatives Big on Fear, Brain Study Finds
www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201104/conservatives-big-fear-brain-study-finds%3famp
Peering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at University College London found that self-described conservative students had a larger amygdala than liberals.
Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/580465/
People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds
www.google.com/amp/s/www.psypost.org/2019/09/people-with-lower-emotional-intelligence-are-more-likely-to-hold-right-wing-views-study-finds-54369/amp%3ffbclid=IwAR0HPiXYhbwtrOStM3mkvEW72xpwB4fQDuvW4PkXsqDxzcmEGoIY54fmeQY
People with low emotional intelligence are more likely to vote Republican, new study claims
www.google.com/amp/s/www.good.is/amp/a-new-study-shows-that-people-with-low-emotional-intelligence-are-more-likely-to-vote-republican-2640327363
Scientists Are Beginning to Figure Out Why Conservatives Are… Conservative
billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/scientists-are-beginning-to-figure-out-why-conservatives-are%E2%80%A6-conservative/
John Hibbing of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues, arguing that political conservatives have a “negativity bias,” meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments.
5 Adult Behaviors of Someone That Had A Toxic Family As A Child
www.powerofpositivity.com/toxic-family-behaviors/
Science Explains 4 Reasons to Never Spank Children
www.powerofpositivity.com/never-spank-children-according-science/
To date, 53 UN member states have prohibited most forms of corporal violence against children. 56 member states have pledged a commitment to full prohibition.
In 2018 ALL of the extremist muders were committed by conservatives! Our very own homegrown conservative terrorists!
facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/2753333928106431/
"A new database of 893 politically motivated terrorist incidents in America since 1994 shows that white supremacists and rightwing extremists have killed at least 329 people. Just one attack that led to a death came from an anti-fascist agitator."
Why Certain People Will Never Admit They Were Wrong
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201811/why-certain-people-will-never-admit-they-were-wrong
Ey americans they died for Bush and Obama and Trump too don't forget XD
Just a footnote on Sergei Sukharev he is widely recognized as the butcher who masterminded the slaughter of 1000 Ukrainian soldiers in Ilovaisk 2014 . The Ukrainian soldiers were encircled and given the ultimatum to lay down their weapons for safe passage to withdraw from the city they did and in doing so were hit by artillery. There are a lot of Ukrainian families who finally feel avenged. Good has prevailed.
Тепер він горить в пеклі!!! Слава Україні!!!
You've literally copied and pasted someone else's comment to try and get likes. Get a life you pathetic loser.
You forgot the millions the avengence of millions of Syrians who were either burned or bombed or displaced from their homes and now living in tents
Trust me bro
10x more Ukrainians have died than Russians so i dont know how you think they have been avenged .
This is the best news coverage the BBC has done in years. More videos like this please.
1. Children Found Hiding In Basement After Artillery Hit Their Apartment
ruclips.net/video/PGl5USbBLIo/видео.html
2. MARIUPOL - CITY CENTRE - HELL! ruclips.net/video/dWaNtAentO4/видео.html
3. Asking Mariupol Residents About Russian Attacks On Civilian areas
ruclips.net/video/rLZ2ZzoD-W0/видео.html
4. Mariupol: Refugees in Russian controlled hospital ruclips.net/video/nhLB5Wp1lGs-/видео.html
5. Church & School Targeted By Militants in Russia - Ukraine War ruclips.net/video/C3h9Paoy-UA/видео.html
6. January 2022 - Ukrainian Militia targeting civiliansruclips.net/video/IUuUufGo_VM/видео.html
7. Rebel forces (DPR) in Eastern Ukraine join Russian troops to fight Ukraine [DPR is the Donetsk People Republic that has been wanting independence from Ukraine for 8 years. Ukraine did not want this and has been shelling the Donbass area for 8 years, even after the Minsk Agreements were signed for peace.
ruclips.net/video/qDKUCMNL6oU/видео.html
8. Ukrainian forces firing on buildings
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True
Here you go
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They also did a good one recently regarding Russian claims of "NAZIISM" in Ukraine.
Completely destroyed the Russian government propaganda.
For me is like “oh no he died! Anyway is Putin next?”
I am not trying to be facetious but watching this video makes me realize that the stereotype of the not too bright Russian baddies from 80’s action movies have come to life
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Gave up his life to invade a soeverein, democratic country. No remorse. All my support goes to Ukraine 🇺🇦
Thanks for support!
🖕Z
♥️🇺🇦🌻
Love to Ukrainians
You should stop watching propaganda, and make a research by yourself. He sacrificed his live to save the people of Ukraine from nazis. Nazi army and government of Ukraine were killing unarmed civilians since 2014.
@@solareclipse9379 to quote a Ukrainian recently..."go F yourself!"🖕♥️🇺🇦🌻
"F*cked in the head president" comment by a Russian on their own social media is the best description of Putin yet.
I prefer to call him poo tin
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@@romzeck4395 z is good it signifies the end of Russia
@@nickcoppard5335 I always thought it was for "Zelenskyy".
@@hagdore I guess you're team Russia. Sad how so many think this is all a game, where you choose a team, and root for them. Ignorance and tribalism is eating away at the world.
The Ukrainians never claimed to have annihilated the whole unit, they did claim that they suffered so many casualties they became combat ineffective.
And when we look at it, they are correct. I mean even in Mariupol those 'neo-nazis' are killing them. They are cowards when they do not have massive air support like in Syria.
It can be the same, as the soldiers will not fight anymore. The unit is annihilated it doesn't mean all men are dead. In France we say "unité décimée", "decimated unit".
@@kiraxxxxxxxxx of course the French have a term for that. Haha
decimation is actually a latin Roman term, they used to decimate their own units, it means kill the incompetent 10% of your own unit
@@mxshed0144 Ouch 😀
Well done Ukraine Armies .. great performance..
Why you support nazist? These guys are saving us from this demon zelensky …. You are so stupid
The story of a dead elite war unit.
Stay strong Ukraine.
Elite in war games at home. Dead and decimated in real war. Sad loss of life for nothing but the dreams of a delusional dictator.
May all those VDV mutts rest in piss. Children have been gunned down with families through this war
Elites...killed by righteous Ukrainian....civilians. Slava Ukraine!!
@Cain Dingle Boxing
If there is a place worse than hell, send them there!
Russia should have nuked them to reduce Russian losses.
that woman proudly said about the military show " this is a family tradition" ,sadly she did not imagine that orbituaries were going to be a big part of it too
Most of them are butchers that did the same atrocities in Syria before that. That's the best Karma they received could receive. they thought it would be the same, they would face people that cannot respond back, they would be killing while being safe.
Well if she wants to fight she can strap up or shut up
@@danielvilliers612 You worry about your Karma.
War is all fine and dandy apparently until the shoe is on the other foot. Such hypocrisy.
Didn't imagine? What makes you sad that? You seem to know very little of Russian soul.
"Our media says everything is going according to plan".... This says everything one needs to know about the Russian society
Took the state TV party line, hook line and sinker! No awareness of state propaganda or any attempt at critical thinking. Mind you, you should be careful of what you post on any Russian website as they are all being monitored.
I don't know how they can keep saying that when the body bags keep coming home and their relatives and friends in Ukraine keep telling them the reality there. Cognitive dissonance from being brainwashed all their lives.
@@bangscutter It's been dangerous to tell - or even think - the truth in Russia for a very long time.
Yep.
In the Russian frame of mind 15-20k troops dead out of a force of nearly 180k is nothing even worth mentioning. If you look at the way they fought in WW2 you'd see Soviet/Russian leaders do not care about the lives of their soldiers the way western countries do. They don't care about the lives of anyone but themselves.
Long live Ukrain. My heart is ,ALWAYS with you.
Europe and the wider world owe Ukraine a massive favour. The Ukrainians are getting rid of the nazis.
@@tiernanwearen8096 BABE, these days, the Nazis are ALL, in America, in the Republican Party.. .the Ukraians are ALL FIGHTING FOR SOMETHING MANY IN AMERICA...HAVE FORGOTTED....BUT NOT ME. UKRAINE will get arms...as long as I have the strength...to breath...
@@diannshoemaker6419 nazis in the Republican party what idioticy!
They will live until the USA says so or until the donations stop.
@@markparkinsleedsuk8185 The Ukrainians are doing ALL the heavy lifting...AND DYING..in this War. NOT US. Before ANY real aid or arms arrived, they beat off the massive Russian Army surrounding KIEV...with molotov cocktails, grenade launchers and old men with WW2 rifles. The THREE DAY VICTORY OF PUTIN...became the 3 month rout...retreat. BECAUSE OF THEM. NOT US.
FRANKLY...our failure to give Ukraine the long range missiles, to take out Russian assets BOMBING UKRAINE, IN THEIR RETREAT...is what is holding back an earlier VICTORY. AND YET THEY SOLDIER ON...ANYWAY..
And while I understand the politics behind this decision, I think NOT trusting the Ukrainians with these missiles has caused PREVENTABLE hardship and damage...AND YET THEY SOLDIER ON...ANYWAY. NO WHINING. NO EXCUSES.
When you compare THE WEST'S AID, NOW IN UKRAINE...to the cost, DAILY, in Afghanistan to save THEM from an extremist government... and the 20yr effort, blood, treasure, and a fully trained and equipped Afghan Army and Air Force...that SIMPLY FOLDED AND WALKED AWAY FROM.. lacking the heart or will to fight for THEIR OWN country... leaving those arms to the Taliban, and NOW ARE WHINING about their very real loss of EVERYTHING WE GAVE THEM..
Compared to ALL OF THAT...the West's...and US AID to Ukraine...and their sacrifice, heart, effort, and desire to win...is an unbelievable BARGAIN. And, FOR ONCE, WELL PLACED.
If Putin IS NOT STOPPED HERE...he will devour non NATO countries NEXT, installing corruption and thugism as the replacement for Communism...to recreate the USSR...AND DESTABILIZE EUROPE, IN HIS PATHETIC IMAGE.
TWO World Wars...SHOULD have taught the US...this is a REALLY BAD IDEA. FOR THE WORLD. NIP IT IN THE BUD...NOW...or spend our lives, whining like Afghanistan...ABOUT WHAT WE'VE LOST.
So, yeah...me and MANY OTHERS will continue to hound ANY STRAYS that TRY to deviate from ANY financial and military backing of Ukraine's defense. The Republican Party HISTORICALLY were, and ARE, anti RUSSIAN AGRESSION. Those that FORGET THIS will do so at THEIR POLITICAL PERIL. In America... THE VOTE STILL COUNTS.
WHICH IS EVERYTHING UKRAINE IS FIGHTING, AND DYING, FOR... Sadly, TOO many of us have gotten too lazy to remember WHAT THAT MEANS. Or what it means to lose it...
Russia made the basic mistake of thinking Ukraine would be pushovers. Since 2014, the Ukrainian military has had training from the UK, US and Canada, and they been trained by the best
And typically it was said that the instructors also learned from the Ukrainian forces.
@@johnslusarenko3309 lol
@@johnslusarenko3309 they sure did.
And people tend to get annoyed when strangers invade their homes and try to murder them.
Trained and supplied by countries who have unfortunately been engaged in wars for the last 2 decades, so they have plenty experience. And in doing the training, both sides learn from each other, which improves both military personnel.
This is a venerable example of how to tell a story from more than one perspective. Bravo, we need more of this kind of thought-FULL journalism.
Yes great journalism but the Tory party wants to shut down the BBC.
This looks like.........................journalism. We don't see much of that anymore.
You're kidding, right? This is the BBC. One of the biggest propaganda channels there is.
what ?? you are talking about the BBC ?? a piece of advice for you don't take anything from the western media & the Russian media as facts they are at war & both sides are using their media platforms to spread their propaganda
@@courierdude7250
_Due_ _to_ _the_ _unique_ _way_ _the_ _BBC_ _is_ _funded_ It protects it's audience by providing trigger warnings at the beginning of, or simply outright erases, scenes from classic family comedies such as Dad's Army, Only Fools & Horses and It Ain't Half Hot Mum...
_Due_ _to_ _the_ _unique_ _way_ _the_ _BBC_ _is_ _funded_ It continually harasses and intimidates the elderly and most vulnerable in society because such people may well be too impoverished to pay for a Licence, ignoring the fact that the television may provide their only source of comfort or interaction with the outside world.
"When will so many of the 'boys' from Kostroma stop dying?" Probably when they get back to Kostroma and out of someone else's country.
It's a simple solution and guaranteed results. GTFO.
Russians should hold their god damn government accountabke. they have no one to blame but themselves for their situation. they allowed an authoritarian government to take control of their country. poverty, stagnation, corruption, and violence is what you get.
German Paratroopers in WW2 had the same end. They got surrounded in numerous battles also their victory in crete came at high costs.
same with the brits in garden market
No, you won’t remember him, in your heart. You will use his memory like you used his life. For power, political gain, and for war.
Human life seems to have little value in Russia. What a strange society. It's about serving an extreme pathological narcissist with a squirrel face. Ironically, the Russians are the Nazis. No better than Hitler.
And what would you do? Your name disguised! Are you a Ruski?
@@annazaderej2265 You are confused.
@@annazaderej2265 wake up or are you to afraid,a coward who can't think by themselves! don't think only as a Russian but as humans on the mankind!!! I believe you and i could party together talk together!!! we must all of us here on earth fight against evil! What a diamond this earth 🌎 would be in the universe! DO YOU WANT TO BE MY FRIEND ❤️ IT IS AN INVITATION TO COME TO DENMARK AND MEET MY FAMILY AND SEE MY COUNTRY HAVE FUN TOGETHER! IN DENMARK WE CAN SAY WHAT WE WANT! OKAY WE HAVE LIMITS FOR WHAT YOU MUST SAY!☺️ i am trying to say that you have your freedom to say that you are against the government and that the leader is an idiot without being afraid for my life! i would love to talk with you! your future friend Kim Jørgensen from Copenhagen in Denmark 🇩🇰 FREEDOM FOR ALL PEOPLE 💖
@@OneTimeVideos_ SLAVA UKRAINI!!!!!!!!!🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Imagine dying for a false cause, at the desires of a dictator who’s so selfish and obsessive about his own image, he sent sons of the nation to fight a charade of an invasion in the land of their brothers and sisters. I feel sorry for them all.
Their r being paid to do a job.plus free food and shelter.it a fair exchange.plus they r train to do what they r connanded no morals involve.lok
Unfortunately, that is the MO of Russia throughout their history.
well - you only have to look at US and UK Military - to see essentially the same thing..
Nothing new, nothing surprising, and certainly not explicit to Russia, people are brainwashed to the point they think our wars in Iraq and Afghan are the samne reasons our state media tells us to believe.
@@marvinpercival4820 lol food ?? They are starving pillaging villages for supplies .. there's radio chatter everyday about how soldiers are lost and confused .. and turning on their own side because of no supplies and no guidance ..
This piece forgot to mention that this Suharev character was the commander of this same 331st regiment in the 2014 war where it was one of the Russian units responsible for the Ilovaisk massacre of the retreating unarmed Ukrainian troops after promising them a safe passage out of the encirclement. Their fate in Ukraine now is justice at its best. Hopefully, more to come.
Hopefully many many many more.
@@julianpetkov8320 hahahahahahahah. Pathetic another Putin apologist with the mind of a child born to obey and believe. What part of the report didn't you understand. The end is near for Putin all he has left is an option to take the world with him when he inevitably goes.
You're being humiliated on all sidea and your glorious forces are reduced to shelling cities and residences from afar with weapons banned under the Geneva convention .
Russia is all alone in the world with no real friends and all the while their population swallow lies of Putin and their troopers and tankers get a round and sound stunning. Hahaha.
When your leaders manage to finish infantry fighting 1.01 come back and we'll talk about Nazism and how the far right secured 3% of the votes in the last elections in Ukraine.
Now fuxk off you sad c***.
@@julianpetkov8320 Nah man. SS tatoos are already taken. Whermacht too. What do you think the Russian slogan "We Can Repeat" and all their Zs and Vs mean? They are repeating after them. Bombing Kyiv and Kharkiv IS repeating after the SS and Whermacht.
@@julianpetkov8320 I could add to the number my grandfather killed in WW2 and 1918-1920...
@@julianpetkov8320
NATO is good.
Russia is bad.
It's that simple.
A compassionate view on an unnecessary conflict. The old men send the young to fight and die for them. Slava Ukraina.
Stay strong Ukraine. 💙💛💪🇺🇦
@scum folow russky ship
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@@Regionnnn like zombies... or better 200`s. At least the dog's aren't hungry
Your verbel BS ain't gonna cut it, put your moms hole on line for Russia.
Haha, you're a crazy zombie!
''Sergi did not give up his life for the future of your nation.'' Sergi had his life ended by the Ukranian Military quite justifiably when he and his fellow Barbarians attacked Ukraine on 24th Feb 2022.
Sergi whent to Ukraine looking for something, he found alot of wolfs looking for him.
General rule of thumb regarding casualties - get the number of killed in action then multiply it by three to get the number of wounded. So with about a hundred killed and three hundred wounded from a regiment of 1,500 is approximately a casualty rate of 25 percent. Even for elite units, casualty rates at that level, plus the morale impact of the loss of its commander and the likely loss of equipment in combat, this unit is probably combat ineffective thus necessitating its withdrawal to a rear area for reconstitution.
True enough. All my units lose moral when they are down at 50% strength. Only royal bodyguards, kataphraktoi and Swiss heavy halberdiers fight to the last.
@@alexlazar4738 but for some reason when I put units in a Japanese castle, they decide to fight to the death. 🤔
In the video they said the wounded and killed are estimated to be a third.
Yep, good comment, 25% of their young men are dead or injured..........very sad indictment of one man's madness
10% casualties is usually enough to render a unit ineffective. Mind you that's what makes a unit elite. The ability to sustain higher casualties and not become brittle.
3:13 jeez, such an elite force the soldier in front pops off two rounds accidentally into the ground before while he is raising his rifle. elite indeed :)
its blanks plus its a military exercise and they're clearly suppressing the enemy to move up and take whatever is needed to be taken
@@Bearzslol point still stands: exercise or no, no 'elite' soldier puts 2 rounds into the ground, that is just horrible trigger discipline, and thus, not 'elite'. :)
@@evilbron666 yes that is understandable but its a simple mistake and should be fixed since they are elites and probably was an accident. But it really shouldnt matter since in combat footage soldiers shoot in the general direction and hit dirt infront of the if they're peeking over a trench. So it really shouldnt matter but should be fixed to make them better
They should have kept to the parades
Reminds me of thousands of troops with all the armor in the world, losing hundreds of troops in Afghanistan only to leave the Afghanistan at night
Yes. Russia’s faked up communist coup there, and a decade of fighting only produced - the mujaheddin. It was the mothers and veterans resentment of the Kremlin’s brutal use of cannon-fodder (brutal before many of them even got to Afghanistan) that resulted, not only in the 1989 withdrawal, but resentment at the Russian elite’s underlying contempt for the lives of their own citizens… a bug fact ir in the dissolution of the USSR.
underrated comment
This is the sickest burn I've seen in weeks, my goodness this is brutal
@@cryptohornbill9658 Hundreds of troops in Afghanistan in 20 years is not bad at all. Russia lost thousands in a month. Context is important.
"Of course they're lying. Our media says that everything is going according to plan"
Priceless, comedy gold. You can't make this shit up
Ikr 🤣
It might be going to plan, if the plan was to invade your smaller neighbour, run out of supplies, take horrendous casualties, have your tanks towed away by tractors, lose senior commanders on a daily basis, have sanctions drop on your economy like an anvil, witness hundreds of companies leave your country, watch your currency devalue by 40%, shut down your stock market to stop it evaporating, and show the world just how incompetent your forces are.
So if that WASN’T the plan, then clearly it’s not going as expected.
You think they would have learned to be more skeptical of Russian media given all the obvious lies during the communist era
Comedy gold 🤣🤣🤣
you think bbc dont make shit up! what is the difference between you and them!
This Colonel knew exactly what he was doing and why they were in Ukrain and was also responsible for the massacre of Ukrainaine Civilians in an unjustified war.
Really "Ukrainian" Russians you mean? No real Ukrainian has killed Ukrainians- only traitors and Russians.
"massacre of Ukrainian civilians " guess who should be responsible for it？
No tears for the dead crocodile, may he rot in hell.
NATO expanding on one of your biggest borders sounds justifiable to me.
Now a government throwing its own people against the invader for its own gains, not so justifiable.
But hey the news don't agree with me so I'm labeled an evil.
And who ended up being stationed in Bucha? The famous, the vaunted, the highly trained 331st.
Looks like these professional units are the most professional at carrying out mandated atrocities.
One man is responsible for all the death of those Russian soldiers that didn’t have to die, sadly many more will have to die unnecessarily
they could refuse to invade Ukraine and kill civilian ppl. so they got what they deserved. meanwhile not only pootin is to blame. personally pootin hasn't killed a single Ukrainian soldiers. and according to the latest poll results: 71% of russians do support the war.
Dont let Russians off the hook. They are mostly all for it. Its the same as it was in Germany and in Serbia. They were all for Adolf and Slobodan.
That is Russian history in a nutshell... stuck in an endless cycle of war and tyranny. Can't help but be reminded of "Natural Mystic" by Bob Marley
This could be the first trumpet
Might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
@@annan7728 excuse me but I don't think Ukraine was OCCUPYING part of Russia before this Latest round of fighting began.
@@annan7728 right - just bend over like a Russian to tyrannannical rule and let generation after generation live without freedom to speak, and create and live without fear...
From vietnam, my greatest respect for Ukrainian heroes because of your bravery.Thank you heroes.
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The will of the Ukraine people echoes the past when the Vietnamese made America fall to their knees.
What do you think about the Separatists who are nostalgic for the USSR?
@@Balthorium They are extremely dumb, very, very stupid!
@@Balthorium fuck socialism and fuck all russia
Didn't the ussr arm Vietnam against America
"Sergei gave his life for a future without Nazis."
The audacity of these propagandists. Sergei gave his life to prop up Vladimir Putin's fragile ego.
I was just about to make a comment about that
Give me your moustache
To give your life for a future without fascism you would have to infiltrate the Kremlin.
I'd go further, Sergei didn't understand that he served a fascist regime and was rightfully and deservedly killed.
Well , to be honest when he died he helped rid the world of one more nazi. So there is that . But even better , he lead a poop ton of his nazi brothers into a self purging of nazis.
Watching this again a year on from the posting i wonder what the families of these soldiers think now.have they realised the truth and their military/government was actually lying to them and they still believe their family members were not killing inocent civilians children mother's fathers grandparents and so on.
Maybe sooner the majority of Russian's find this out the sooner this horrific war will end.
Much support for Ukraine from the UK.
Never give up Ukraine ✌️...
I fought in Nam, I fought with Rangers and other sp. nobody is special when it’s comes to being shot. A twelve year old can put you in your grave.
Bad luck, a booby trap, a random artillery round, or even a little organizm that you can't see without a powerful microscope can get you, as the Koreans say, "A long time sleeping."
RIGHT ON RANDY. IT STILL HURTS TOO.
Very well said, Randy. It takes just a bullet.
@@jcd-k2s Orders are orders. Don't blame the individual soldier over the politics. War is a tragedy, and something that young men die for the old. The politicians is the problem.
Indeed. Omar got shot by a six year old
I start to believe that the incredible brutality of the Russian army in Chechnya, Aleppo or Georgia is just due to the fact they are really, really not very good at the whole war thing and end up shelling everything to the ground because that’s not as hard as conducting clean and organized operations.
True. Chechens were winning the war despite their numbers. But then the shelling comes - "так не достанься же ты никому" (a russian proverb meaning "you either will be mine or you`ll die", usually told by jealous men not ready to let their lovers go)
Much like Americans in WW2. Mass artillery made up for a lot of weaknesses in the infantry and armour. Similarly with use of air power. It’s a legitimate tactic but not when used to destroy civilian areas for revenge or out of frustration.
@@MrDino1953 oh, btw, russian army seems to act a lot like in the ww2. But it was a bloody war, massive losses even when soviets were winning. Am not a military person but it seems they took on the spirit and the tactics. Like a dream come true since the "we can repeat" logo circulated a lot in russia's pseudo patriotic people who never participated in ww2 but threatened the west that they can teach them a lesson just like in 1945. The level of craziness always terrified me because few of those who survived the ww2 would NEVER want to repeat that sh*t.
Russia's military strategy is deceptively simple: throw enough men into a meat grinder and eventually, you'll clog the meat grinder.
@@ratbatnufftime2861
How else would you do it, when most of the time you are drunk, trying to numb the voice of conscience and guilt, because all of the Russian wars are wars of aggression and brutality, started by a delusional, psychopathic government.
i,a cambodian American, respect and salute you, Ukrainian people for bravery defending your nation!
If you support them.. why don’t you go and fight ?
@@MrJohnnybe123 So if you believe someone is doing the right thing by defending their homeland from an evil dictator who wants to enslave them and steal the country's resources that means you should travel thousands of miles and join a war which you may die in? Is that what you are trying to say? So then do you support either side? If you do then that would mean you should go fight too.
@@MrJohnnybe123 fake Russian troll
@@MrJohnnybe123 i would be but they asked only for trained military personnel, which most people who'd like to go aren't. But anyway, it doesn't really matter since you're just a Kremlin troll and you know this already
@@MrJohnnybe123 Since when are you a hacked account ?
God bless Ukraine
Thay have a special place in hell
A quote I heard from a Navy SEAL I worked with in Iraq, "I've trained foreign spec ops soldiers. And to be honest, we aren't that good at what we do, everyone else just really sucks." Both China and Russia are nuked up paper tigers.
The US run from afgan with over 20 yrs fighting without no wins
Is like what Mosha Diane said , Israeli army is only good at one thing, fighting Arabs.
Theoretically speaking, it's much harder to win when the opponent isn't trained properly because if they have no manual, you have absolutely no idea what they will do next and as a result, there is no way to prepare for the next move. It's much easier to win if they are civilised & have roads already built because they wouldn't want bloodshed in the first place and submit willingly. Srsly, look at world history. It's full of examples and I would quote them if I weren't afraid of the backlash.
@@edemernest9976 ok would like to mention the other countries that ran from Afghanistan with their tails tucked between their legsehem russia
@@edemernest9976 being one of them it's called the grave of empires for a reason ;)
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 and the heroes of Ukraine 🇺🇦.
1. Children Found Hiding In Basement After Artillery Hit Their Apartment
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2. MARIUPOL - CITY CENTRE - HELL! ruclips.net/video/dWaNtAentO4/видео.html
3. Asking Mariupol Residents About Russian Attacks On Civilian areas
ruclips.net/video/rLZ2ZzoD-W0/видео.html
4. Mariupol: Refugees in Russian controlled hospital ruclips.net/video/nhLB5Wp1lGs-/видео.html
5. Church & School Targeted By Militants in Russia - Ukraine War ruclips.net/video/C3h9Paoy-UA/видео.html
6. January 2022 - Ukrainian Militia targeting civiliansruclips.net/video/IUuUufGo_VM/видео.html
7. Rebel forces (DPR) in Eastern Ukraine join Russian troops to fight Ukraine [DPR is the Donetsk People Republic that has been wanting independence from Ukraine for 8 years. Ukraine did not want this and has been shelling the Donbass area for 8 years, even after the Minsk Agreements were signed for peace.
ruclips.net/video/qDKUCMNL6oU/видео.html
8. Ukrainian forces firing on buildings
ruclips.net/video/PGl5USbBLIo/видео.html
@Butchers From Beijing so?
@Butchers From Beijing sad but true.
@Butchers From Beijing China wants & needs Russia's raw materials, they will fight each other for Siberia one day
@Butchers From Beijing did you bring the duck sauce?
He gave up his life for actually nothing! Viva Ukraine! 🇺🇦👊🏼
I know. A pawn of Putins fantasies
Putins pulling an Obama
The russian dream.
They still can't tell the truth.
If the relatives of this over hyped unit want their husbands, sons, fathers and brothers to stop dying, get their leaders to stop sending them to take part in an illegal invasion of the sovereign state that is Ukraine.
Слава Україні слава героям!!!!🇧🇧🇧🇧✌✌
They deserve it for gunning down protesters in 2013-14 which started the donbass war AND shooting down civilian aircraft
and genereally just being one of europes least democratic and free country
well that and making the azov an official force of thier national guard despite thier crimes and blatant nazi symbols
That's easy to say than do in a communist country. People are brainwashed and lied to. Putin will further lie and make the Russian people more angry and hateful toward Ukraine and the West. Putin gotta go for a better and peaceful world tomorrow.
Родственники этого подразделения хотят чтобы на киев сбросили ядерную бомбу, и на лондон тоже - слава России!
you control the information then no one will know
Agreed
I salute you brave Ukrainian people fighting courageously for your country and freedom against an oppressive enemy..
SLAVA UKRAINE
Yes, Ukrainian soldiers are fighting very bravely as long as the pills they take are working. )))
@@antonyrudiger907 pills?
@@fixxxer4234 Antony rudiger is a putin lover trying to destabilize!!!! putin is a war criminal and as a rat ...he send those young russians to kill Ukranian people!!!🇺🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺💪🏼💚
@@antonyrudiger907 its EXACTLY the opposite im afraid :)
@@antonyrudiger907 Russian soldiers are braver, they marched straight into the Red Forest of Chernobyl and started to dig trenches. Surely that has to be courage, right?
With so many casualties and military mistakes, that unit wasn’t so “elite”.
Guessing it was just the best unit of an incredibly incompetent military.
The goal can be whatever you want. The strategy can change. His troops are the same. They are not an army. They are a gang of looters. With that nothing is achieved.
I'm going to say ,elite by Russian standards but not even close by even the weakest western countries standards . Sad
Ahahhaahha you fools still trust western propaganda? What a lame
@@pcpete911 the army don't have a clue what to do. I feel so sorry for the Russian soldiers. Hated worldwide and trapped in a war they weren't ready for
Long live UKRAINE!❤️
You should understand that the whole point is not only in "crazy Putin", but in the imperial mentality of a huge number of Russians. Some of them believe that Russia must tell other nations how to live and what to do.
I mean, some us here in the west are guilty of that too. Doesn't necessarily make it right when the Russians do it either though.
Weird that it sounds a lot like some NA country huh?
110%, Most Russians people want to believe the propaganda!
@@athoang2485 countries ask to be a part of NATO
@Tracchofyre *nervously looks at drone strikes, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Syria...
At 40% casualties, most formations cease to function. They generally either go to ground, and do well to hold position, or will rout or even disperse. If the casualties really did reach one third, then I’m not surprised to hear the Ukrainians believe they destroyed the unit. Enemy casualties are almost always over estimated. Intelligence officers know this, and account for it in higher level reports.
Yes. Destroyed could be defined as destroying combat effectiveness. When a unit ceases to be cohesive, it ceases to be unified.
@@Svensk7119 I guess we will soon see how much is left of them.
@Mick Lafitte No it would not. Not at all. Read it again.
It is an answer of the officer.
It is great to read such comments.👍
This is absolutely fantastic journalism from Mark and the Newsnight team, looking forward to more of this kind of stuff
You have been fed this one sided crap all of Your life...I take it You look forward for BBC telling You when/how to take another jab/and on and on...keep watching...._>> they shall have more wars for You to watch and cheer on in the near future...perhaps one day You can actually think for Yourself...
How is trolling social media posts equate to “Fantastic Journalism” 😂
Gets boring though
@GARETH TAYLOR Are you into binaries? Grow up. The 'color" black isn't even, or exactly, the opposite of the "color" white, except to simplify things for children.
@GARETH TAYLOR So what are we supposed to do about people who born as hermaphrodites?? Just pretend that they're normal because their condition confuses simple minded people?
They dont even recover their own dead soldier's.. and that is an absolute disgrace if you ask me..🤔
When they said the Regiment is destroyed, they didn't mean it literally. They just mean that their combat effectiveness is gone cause they have lost too many men and equipment.
The Russian military is by and large incompetent. Best of the incompetent in this case.
Exactly. When exactly did journalism die in the bbc? Seems quite a while now.
The documentary doesn't say the regiment is destroyed. It says the opposite, several times.
@@hurdygurdyman1905 They are talking about the Ukrainian govt claims not the BBC
@@hurdygurdyman1905 I was talking about when Ukraine said they destroyed it.
We thought the Russian army is 2nd strongest in the world, now we know they are 2nd strongest in Ukraine. Slava Ukraine
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That's a good observation.
LMAO
Nice!
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#StandWithUkraine
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This comment is genuinely awesome lol
You delusions are amusing.
No matter how elite you are...if you're facing a determined opposition defending every inch of their homeland...rest assured you've met your match!
@grand nagus The original poster said something meaningful and valuable, you've added to the excess of garbage floating around.
@@petergusev999 Russia has been exposed as having a garbage armed forces. Hopefully that cesspool of a country falls in the next year or two for good.
I wish that were true, however, Stalin crushed the Baltic’s states guerilla movement by 1949.
@@HooDatDonDar This wasn't in 1940's buddy , We are living in a different world now, Plus what does Ukraine doing right now is not a Guerilla warfare
@@HooDatDonDar The Ukrainian Army is *crushing* ALL of Russia's elite units and rank & file conscripts. Even attacking Russia *itself!* ruclips.net/video/YJ1PDP28iHI/видео.html
God this is sad on every level
Russian forces have committed a long laundry list of warcrimes in Ukraine. These are the type of soldiers that follow such orders... But I guess since this video had a little sad music, such actions are okay.
How is it sad. Every dead Russian is a good Russian. Russians are some of the worst scum on earth. Racist , angry and full of violence
They wanted Ukrainian land so they rested in it.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks 🇺🇦❤️
They now laying on the ukrainian soil and their mothers and family in russia probably never will know where and how they died. But they can ask Putin just i have my doubts they get ever an answer.
@@dfguko Of course they won’t the Ukrainian farmers have had to dig mass graves for the Russian dead some as long as 100 feet. Plus there’s 1000’s of bodies in Belorus in freezer trucks etc. I believe Russia will just tell Belorus to make a barnfire because it’s to embarrassing to Putin. Why else wouldn’t they’ve sent them home. Look how fast they got those officers home!!!!
BBC propaganda Ukraine daily getings it's ass kicked daily losing oil depot's ammo depot's.....missle depot's ... And equipment it canot replace ....izym was broken and now they proffsionaly army will get
destroyed
Kick them well putin Slava Russia ✌️✌️🇷🇺
And what is left of them will be destroyed soon.
@@dfguko you are underestimating the power of Russians media and nationalism, most Russians have gotten used to sacrificing their lives for their country, which is a terrorist country no doubt
Never underestimate the determination of a man fighting for his country. Слава Україні!!!
GETTING TOSSED OUT OF UKRAINE
@@hotspur666 nope, becoming fertilizers.
God bless Russia
@@bitterballs356 looking at how it is going he might not be on the russian side at all
@@bitterballs356 Seems "God" has deserted RuZZian fascists and their failed invasion is leading them to slaughter.
“Destroyed” can be equated as combat ineffective. Meaning the unit has suffered 30%+ losses. Doesn’t necessarily mean every single soldier of that unit is dead and/or wounded.
I have a better story ... during Ukraine attack on fuel inside Russia .... 4 Ukraine helicopters tried in Mariupol to extract
***Mystery *** group ... rumours are range from Col Alexander Vindman to ... American Troops ...forgot 2 shot down others ran home
Maybe in US military doctrine. Not synonymous with how the rest of the world operates.
Yes but the nature of airborne combat means that units unable to link up with the main body are often completely annihilated
That kind of losses is effectively destroyed as far as being able to function. This piece is interesting because it’s actually tracking verifiable deaths. That’s been really rare in this conflict.
@@tlrelement more of a case " collective west" has lost every war last 50 years ( can't count Falklands ( seriously lol ) ... printed currency with no understanding of relationship to producing goods ..failed " global supply lines ...simply put ... a complete system , governance failure
Elite unit that never seen action lol A non-elite unit that has seen constant action is more elite than an elite unit that has never see action.
Leave our lands and no more of your sons will die Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🦖🇺🇦✊
HAREM SLAVA!!!!!
Yes, you can leave my tribal peoples lands, in fact that would mean you would have to leave this planet, caucasion person. You are ignorant and it annoys me. You are also manipulated beyond belief, you and people like you, command no power over people like me who see things for what they really are and I will not be bought by the lies of media, social media or your Governments anymore.
Thanks, youd be wise to learn the truth and soon too, before it is to later for you and your, umm, species I guess.
tho....the more you kill, the better off the future of our species is.
"Never Interrupt Your Enemy... While He's Making a Mistake.". Napoleon Bonaparte...
Hard to interrupt something already almost destroyed.
Lay off the space bar dude
Yes, and he was either talking from experience or was going to experience that fact. A leader who led a vainglorious expedition that lost 83% of his troops.
Yes.... Napoleon was a good guy...! Until much like Hitler their intentions were honourable to a point...until greed got the better of them...that will always be man's Achilles heel...?
Russians would not get killed in Ukraine ..it is only because of the Aggressor Putin.
It must be really scary to be told you are an elite soldier and then finding out that you are not on a battlefield.
THEY FOUND OUT REAL QUICK THEY WERENT LOL
He’s been told to keep his uniform clean .. that means they want to be able to read it later when it’s laying in the mud ….
Sorry for that ..I’m guessing your not going to believe me anyway so I mind as well have fun.
Imagine the American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq lol😂😂
Ukraine is winning the Social Media War. Just take a look at their country to see who's winning the real war. 15000 Russian troops is peanuts compared to the dead just in one city Mariopol.
@@bourbon2605 7,000 dead over 20 years... compared to 20,000 Russians in a month and a half. The US left Afghanistan because we lost at nation-building, not at warfare. And Iraq? We still deploy soldiers there, and it’s considered a boring deployment because nothing happens.
The sheer, staggering incompetence of Russia’s military is quite extraordinary.
So no matter how tough you think you are, if you invade Ukraine, bring your own body bag because you are going to need it.
Please refrain from calling it "the" Ukraine. This is how Putin sees Ukraine, he sees it as the ukraine (the borderlands) of Russia. Using the article "the" Ukraine is calling the country of Ukraine as a part of Russia. This is exactly what Ukrainians are fighting and dying to prevent.
Bullets kill elites just like anybody else
There's an easy way to avoid these losses and all the family heartbreak:
DON'T INVADE OTHER PEOPLE'S COUNTRIES.
Pardon me if I shed no tears.
#StandWithUkraine
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However, your countries are invading others, and this is normal for you.
@@АндрейСолигорский Putinbot - I realise for you I need to add extra words.
DON'T INVADE PEACEFUL DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES.
Your Putin-filters may have caused you to miss certain key facts, such as 9/11 and the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. I would suggest you Google those but, of course, your dictator says you're not allowed free access to the Internet in case you discover the truth about things, and realise how much you are being lied to.
If only you knew how nice it is to live in a free democracy.
#StandWithUkraine
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The Russian citizens don't have a choice
I get what your trying to do, but I guess I am having severe anxiety with Russia nuking us in a war... That's why I don't want us to anger Russia to much
@@davidjames2145 Your society is built on the suffering of others. I see what is happening both on one side and on the other. This whole conflict happened because of the actions of your government. After all, you were asked to give security guarantees. Not to expand NATO to the east. Now reap the fruits of your shitocracy.
The same happened to the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade out of Pechenga. With unconfirmed reports that a tactical unit was completely destroyed almost down to a man with only 3 survivors out of 648 soldiers.
200th in ukrainian and russian army slang means "soldier was KIA". I just like how it ends, and hope this for every russian soldier
@@mmp4529...oh because you were there right?
I hope they wipe out more RUzzIAN Terrorist units! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Present the evidence so we can be certain.
@@KONAMAN100 well, he wrote "unconfirmed reports"! At least he´s sayin that... not exctly making things up.
What BS is this deputy minister saying, instead, he need to say in that funeral, “His Burning in Hell Now with our generals”
Mark Urban is a top journalist. He is even more impressive when providing strategic, geopolitical analysis. In five minutes or so this captures the complete futility of Putins war and the terrible cost his own people are paying. Some patriot.
I wish we had journalists in the US, must be nice.
Came as vile murderers who kill civilians- men, women, children- and do evil deeds. Died as killed murderers
Pretty much. I feel nothing but rage for those war criminals. The only victims of this war are the Ukrainians themselves. All those who follow Putin in his mad quest for power are nothing to me. If Russians truly care and have a heart, they should defect, desert, resist, or at least, not support Putin's regime.
@@mdstate829 Kremlin troll bot spotted
@@mdstate829 Mariupol. it is that simple. MURDERERS.
@@mdstate829 You want to go back in history, how many did the soviet union kill of its own citizens during Stalin's reign due to mass famines? It vastly exceeds the deaths in Vietnam or the Middle East. How about you stop playing the "lets look at history to see who is worse" game. No one is trying to figure out which country did the most harm. People are commenting on what Russia is doing, today, not about what happened in the 1960s by another country. It has nothing to do with anything except to hide the crimes of the Russian state by focusing on someone else
@@mdstate829 pootin’s poo, get lost baby killers and war criminals🤮🤮🤮.
Russian or Soviet government never cared for their people, so their deaths are just a statistic. "We have plenty of people," a Russian colonel said to my grandmother, when she pulled his cuff and showed him a drowning soldier, during WWII.
My God!
Not sure about the origin of this please, but I think it was Stalin that said:
Death of one human is a tragedy. Death of many people is a statistic.
@@schokobar4133 The Russian Army was successful in subjugating Easter European countries for almost 40 years, installing illegitimate, communist governments and their security apparatus. My grandfather was tortured by NKVD and his brother executed in Katyn with other 30,000 Polish officer POWs. Stalin also killed 20 million of your own citizens, before WW2 even started. So lives of ordinary Russians are regretfully disposable in the eyes of Kremlin. This is repeating in Ukraine.
Funny because in ww2 did the russian gouverment care actually one of the most of they soldirs, 8,6m soviet soldirs died to 7m axis and its important to note they was absolut unprepared when the axis attack them in the suprise attack and allone 38% of all casuals come because they killed so many pows, on the whole westfront died 1,5m soldirs to 800k what actually proof how competent the russian army was or how incompent the west
Absolutely first rate! Thank you.
Shameless- they even use his funeral to spread their absurd propaganda.
I thought that was what funerals were for. State or religious propaganda.
Shameless that you don’t even recognise the genocide that was happening in Donbas by the azov nazis. The truth will prevail
@@rapha5891 Azov is now defending Mariupol, where Russians slaughtered at least 5000 women, children and other civilians. Not in Donbas. Which "truth"? From the Russian state media, not calling it even a war?
@@rapha5891 Did Russian soldiers enter Donbas in 2014 which basically started that part of the war. The President of Russia wants to reunite the old USSR and rule it
@@zilari3662 Russian separatist rose up in Donbas after the maidan revolution, they didn’t want the same nazi government that was now ruling Kyiv, that’s why later on at the Minsk agreements Ukraine agreed with Russia that 1/3 of Donbas will be controlled by Russian separatists. There was no Russian army present there, Donbas it’s self is a majority Russian eastern part of Ukraine.
I got bile in my throat when the Russia Deputy Minister of Defense talked about Nazis. His words are an insult to people who have died to the true Nazis in the Second World War including million of his own Russian countrymen.
At some base level those soldiers of 331st must have known that they were acting like the German did in WW2. Killing of civilians , looting and reports of some raping.
That they invaded a country that did not want them there , that they are the oppressive "orcs" , that they are on the wrong side of history.
A solider at a personal level cannot use the excusing of just following orders to avoid his own personal responsibility.
@Mitthenstein "We have very clear evidence that they didn’t come over to attack citizens." ruclips.net/video/HNTPyAsMmxs/видео.html
I can give you more.
You need to get your information not only from Russian State TV.
Like a good propagandist you add some grains of truth in your many statements.
Best lessons of life learnt is don't waste a lot of time trying to inform or change people that are incapable of change.
Speak your words of true and let history judge you in time :)
@Mitthenstein Surprising we might agree on a lot of subjects. You may be educated and its good that you question things and not look at things at face value but please please if you can take anything from this conversation. Worse than being stupid you are illogical as stupidity is just a lack of information while being illogical is a lack of a structed thought process. When you see direct evidence that comes to you that contradicts your world view and you cant logically explain it you need to rethink your thought process when you say illogical things to defend your current position.
Also its good to embrace self doubt in your beliefs and knowledge and re examine them from a different point of view. I do.
Personal note I enjoyed this conversation and thanks for your time that you spend writing it. Its good that we can this have this discussions at a intellectual level without base personal and emotional attacks. At first thought you were a Russian propagandist , its good that you have corrected me :)
Brillant piece of journalism - well done BBC
Well done to the PROPAGANDA MACHINE thats been lying about the war since they stopped russian media. HILARIOUS. Do you feel like a pleb.
I wonder if this counts amongst the "western propaganda" that the Russian trolls are always yelling about?
I had to double check if it was BBC.
Still not worth a tv license!
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History shows that airborne troops despite being elite are in fact very fragile to a determined defence.
Thank you from the all Ukraine people , we will fight for the end , god bless you all!
INTERVIEW WITH THE RESIDENTS OF MARIUPOL. THE TRUTH ABOUT UKRAINE ruclips.net/video/rLZ2ZzoD-W0/видео.html
The whole world is supporting Ukraine in their fight for freedom and homeland.
SLAVA UKRAINE !
correction - ... end of empire of evil
They don't lie when they say that everything is going according to plan! According to Ukrainian plan😘
No it's not you idiot the Ukrainians are barely surviving
ukraine planned to be bombed into pieces?
this is the most outstanding piece of journalism on the ukraine war this year. It surpasses the NYT radio intercept piece and the France24 piece where they follow a Ukrainian soldier. A+ Well done!
That’s funny you mentioned the NYT radio intercept story as I was just thinking these two are the best I’ve seen. I still prefer the NYT story more since it gave us real insights into Russian invasion but this is another well done piece of video journalism
Check out Vice's coverage if you havent. Particularly Battle for the South of Ukraine.
check out PBS with '' The Battle of Ukraine '' :)
Indeed. What I want to see next is how Ukrainian special forces of 30 men destroyed the 40-mile long column of tanks and trucks near Kyiv using drones and Javelins!
@@kukulroukul4698 okay thanks
This reminds me of that movie with Gary Cooper "Veracruz" Where he says "As a child I had these little toy soldiers to play with, but then I lost one. I think I found it again." He was referring to a German officer serving the so called emperor of Mexico as he was trying to escape from Mexico City.
Sergey died fighting for a dictator's wet dream. History will never look upon their death as a form of bravery.
then you know nothing about bravery. Is charging a machine gun nest for a tyrant less brave than storming a beach in 1944. NO! Bravery knows no politics.
@@soyentak5076 bravery means not following the sucidial orders of a dictator
@@soyentak5076 Bravery means shooting your commander because he ordered you to shoot at civilians.
Bravery is stealing a Tank and surrendering to the Ukranians.
Bravery is sabotaging your own vehicles to not be part of an illegal and imoral war.
That is bravery.
@@fberdf Ultimately that is what will create a culture change in Russia - stories of soldiers deserting their tanks or sabotaging it and not taking suicidal orders . Poutine must have had fantasies that this was like 2014 when his green men walked away with crimea .
"Your homeland will always let you down, my son, always." Arkadi Babtschenko Russian Soldier.
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Fun fact - Arkady Babchenko became a journalist after the second Chechen War, and was frequently threatened and prosecuted for his anti-Putin. He eventually moved to Ukraine, faked his own death in an elaborate scheme to unearth an assassination plot against him (predictably enough, by Russian agents), and became a Ukrainian citizen.
Yup in every country sir
Sad to watch because many people died not just the young soldiers who should be enjoying their lives with their loved ones. But because of one man's EGO and CRAZYNESS these people give their lives for nothing. That was a very good reporting.👍🙏🙏🙏
Don't forget millions and millions killed by US&UK in Syria, Iraq, China, Yogoslavia,Yemen,Lybia........
No. Sad to watch Ukrainians children die. Every Russian soldier who entered Ukraine deserves to die. And every Russian mother should know that she herself killed her son many years ago, when she accepted dictator to rule her
This is one of the biggest lies of this war. That it was the work of one madman. It's calculated that if he's removed from power (or removed completely...), it'll be possible to return to cooperation with Russia. Thanks to that, Russia will have the money to improve what failed in Ukraine, of course. Take a look at the Russian oppositionists. Navalny is also a Russian imperialist. And there would be no democracy in Russia if he came to power. Listen carefully to what he says and don't fall in love with the next celebrity or the martyr on a plush cross.
These warriors died defending their country and we are proud of them. Have pity on your citizens who suffer under your sanctions.🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
@@mirram3824 We will always live better that you people. Enjoy your dirt roads and no rights.
First time they fight an army. Normally they only encounter or fight civilians.
Ukranians - you are brave. So humbled by your bravery.
Unlike the rest of europe who watch the slaughtering from afar
i can't stand ppl calling ukrainians brave
you are telling them they are brave because they are at war and you want to motivate them
it doesn't matter what country i will talk about but in every country there are brave people , because it regards personality and not if their ukrainian or russian
quit the BS
@@paprikaman1124 you sound like a halfwit disabled child 🤦🏽♂️
BRAVE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE are incredible.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💙
@@paprikaman1124 what part of calling brave people brave annoys you so much.?
Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound.???
@@paprikaman1124 Then just look away or go to Russia state media outlets.
Airborne units are typically very well trained and motivated, but there's always the issue of being "too light to fight" with heavier units. High mobility makes for difficult tradeoffs. I vaguely remember that a US 105mm howitzer being airlifted goes with about 50 rounds until regular supply can be established. That's not a lot, and thus there is generally a high dependence on close air support. As I understand it, the Ukrainians were very well prepared also from an anti-air perspective, taking away even more capability from the Russians.
There's really no recovery from such poor planning based on wishful thinking (e.g., this would come off like Czechoslovakia in 1968).
?? The Warsaw Pact crushed the Velvet Revolution ? The CzS were ready to fight, but were told to stand down to avoid a blood bath.
In a nutshell. I'd like to add that from the moment the Russians started their buildup ( ..round about June 2021, almost a year before the ..cough..uhum..er.. "special military operation") the Ukrainians were on war preparations big time x infinity. Plans A1 to Z100 for eventualities on every square inch of territory. .. The Russians?.. It's okay, we shall be welcomed. Let's celebrate already. Where's the vodka?
Yup. Sad. Tragic.
Love Russia. Despise Putin and his most fanatical enablers and supporters. 😔
@@jcoker423 And that's what Russia expected to happen. That lightweight comedian Ukrainian president would flee the country, and the Ukrainian armed forces would all stand down to avoid a blood bath. That plan failed when President Zelenskyy said "I need ammunition, not a lift" when the US offered to extract him.
@@badtux NATO was not prepared to support CzS (68), Pl (80) or Hu (56) in the same way they are supporting Ukr.
Maybe because NATO now includes Cz Sk Pl and Hu (seeing a pattern - a backbone from 45yrs experience of Russians).
Also what a difference, a Prez who stands his ground, and doesn't take off in a chopper with all his loot (Afghanistan).
Ukr gives me hope for civilisation, men fighting, women / kids sent to safety, and the LGBTQI+ community given heavier handbags to swat the Russians (that's a joke). Also different to countries with a cult religion.
@N Fels how do you rank the Russian elite forces? I mean surely there's a point where a mission can be turned down by a senior officer(s)? Dashing from one country to another without any sat-nav equivalent through wide long streets in light infantry vehicles seems monumentally stupid and a huge gamble. If I'm a Russian planner I've got to have the Intel and knowledge that stingers,NLAWS and javelins have poured into the Ukraine and any mad sprints for the capital without infantry and close air support adds up to morale boosting ambushes with these weapons.
Why did Russia under estimate Ukraine since 2014 they've had the best NATO training the Brits alone have trained 20,000 NCOs It was obvious in my layman mind that the Ukrainians would hedge on defending the capital and so they did. Hostomel as well seemed like a Hollywood film script who in their right mind dumps plane loads of elite soldiers on a flat surface with not artillery. Mind boggles fantastically
Ridiculous.
If that’s their best I feel sorry for the rest. Glory to Ukraine!
They didn't even take enough damage to get rotated out of the line. This video implies otherwise, but puts forward no actual data.
@@OakInch another Russian troll in the peanut gallery. . …
Yikes dude, they are people too you know
@@OakInch WERE....
@@yushka1917 well not anymore... Since they are dead
I like the ominous melody in the background, please do more of these about ruzzian units. Theres more to come
that melody kept playing in my head after i watched, this presentation had great production and narration
This type of news is what journalists are supposed to do. Not cheerleading about the war or the weapons used in it.
Oh shut up.
It should include as many aspects as possible.
To destroy a unit, you do not need to kill everyone. Injured, too tired, loss of morale are factors in unit combat readiness. If you put all of that together unit may be destroyed as combat element in as little as 10% dead... Usually that would mean around 40% are injured, rest will have morale issues or just too tired to carry on.
All you need to do is make the option of downing their weapons and webbing and walking back to Belarus more attractive than staying in Ukraine.
When I was in Vietnam the worse thing we had to run into was Snipers. If you did you just pulled back and call in an airstrike. Imagine that, a half million dollars to get just one sniper. But if you went in there to get him on foot then you could count on 3-4 more dead before you got him. Ukraine can do the same thing with well trained snipers. A sniper can make your life miserable in more ways than one.
Really depends on the details. I remember reading that in the late stages of the 1944 St. Lo campaign, some American companies were fighting while reduced to the size of understrength platoons.
@@Spaghetter813 Yes. I know, that's why I used may. US troops were heavily morale boosted by seeing with their own eyes that reports they were fed before landing were actually not overblown but omitted too much . As most of them being devout believers in fight of good and evil ( no matter religion they adhered to) they wanted to uproot that evil once and for all . It is easier to keep morale when you for 100% know you are ethically on high ground and there is whole might of your country behind you. On other side, RU soldiers are one doing atrocities, most of them do not want to be there, even in RU, as anywhere else, most psychopats run for politics (uncapable ones) or for Industry leadership (though capable ones are crushed there), they do not feel support of their country (it is sort of hard to feel support when you do not have spare socks, MRE you get is older than you and your CO is obviously useless idiot). These two armies are exact opposites in term of how they support their morale and eagerness to fight.
Slava Ukraine. I support a FREE UKraine. strong and proud
1. Children Found Hiding In Basement After Artillery Hit Their Apartment
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2. MARIUPOL - CITY CENTRE - HELL! ruclips.net/video/dWaNtAentO4/видео.html
3. Asking Mariupol Residents About Russian Attacks On Civilian areas
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4. Mariupol: Refugees in Russian controlled hospital ruclips.net/video/nhLB5Wp1lGs-/видео.html
5. Church & School Targeted By Militants in Russia - Ukraine War ruclips.net/video/C3h9Paoy-UA/видео.html
6. January 2022 - Ukrainian Militia targeting civiliansruclips.net/video/IUuUufGo_VM/видео.html
7. Rebel forces (DPR) in Eastern Ukraine join Russian troops to fight Ukraine [DPR is the Donetsk People Republic that has been wanting independence from Ukraine for 8 years. Ukraine did not want this and has been shelling the Donbass area for 8 years, even after the Minsk Agreements were signed for peace.
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8. Ukrainian forces firing on buildings
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free? you are the slave on biden 's plantation
Героям Слава!!!
ukraine has not been free for years... kek.
Looks like great fertalizers.
It's a crying shame old men start wars young men die in them😥😥😥
In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons.
Rich men start wars.....Poor boys & men die in them.
@grand nagus and putin, he was in the russian mafia
Everyone dies in them.
well deserved 331, well deserved. Glory to Ukraine.
Shame on Nazi Ukraine!!! Cruel Ukrainian Nazis kill people just because they are of a different nationality.
Fuck Putin fuck russia
Mother Russia!
Very interesting seeing the medieval, nationalistic militarism in Russia today. We had that in Europe a 100 years ago and it wasn’t a good idea.
We realised that cooperation, democracy, education, critical thinking, open debate, free media was more important to strive for.
Russia really seems more backwards than I thought. I really hope it can start to evolve soon.
It's too late for Russia. This imperialistic shit is ingrained in their hierarchy and no one in the country has the power to arrest it from them. The countries that were under their Jack boots have all jumped ship and have become what the Russian military fought so hard to stop. Putin now wants to turn the clock back but is finding that ship has sailed.
I agree.
Backward screwed up country with an elite who have ransacked their population.
I would not count on that
First you say medieval, than you say a 100 years ago? What are you referring to exactly, what happened 4 years after WWI ended? Or is it your self-righteousness that is showing itself throught these little "mistakes" or "approximations", followed by these aloof, almost propagandistic statements? And what exactly is nationalistic about Russia today, or about this terrible war? Imperialistic, perhaps, or definitely schizophrenic, if you'd ask me.
I'm from Belarus, and this war affects me way more than it does most people here in comments. I truly passionately hate it, and I hate the Russian government. And you know it's funny how for such a long time in Europe and US Russians or some other Eastern Europeans were made into boogeymen, it's been going on for centuries. In a lot of cases, we (slavs) are one of the last ethnic groups in the west about which you can openly air out pretty xenophobic statements. Can't easily call Muslims or Arabic states backwards in the same way, not when your colleagues or employers can see it, not in the "free media".
The pompousness of your post made me a bit sick. Pretty tired of westerners on their high-horses, because they are full of shit, so much so that they might start exploding soon enough. So much for your epic democracies and human rights with what happened in Yugoslavia. But I guess that was a 1000 years ago.
Also, I really wish Bidens weren't laundering money in Ukraine, while feeding them a bit too much false promises. I wish that Ukranian and Russian politicians and oligarchs weren't able to buy all these luxury goods in EU and real estate in UK, and that it wouldn't take decades and a war for these assets frozen and investigated. I could go on for long time.
War is so horrible but fascinating in a hard-to-look-away way