A lot of you wanted me to map this, but I wanted to wait a bit, so here we are a year later. Of course, the war isn't over. Here's hoping that Ukraine drives the Russian invaders out across the next year. Keep it civil in the comments please.
@@mr.patriotjol well then I guess people have the right to support hitler then? Right no matter who's wrong or right people can support them your words
It's eerie seeing sites of ongoing battles (Kherson, Kharkiv, Mariupol) right next to sites of great historical battles (Poltava from the Great Northern War, Sevastopol from the Crimean War, Kursk from WWII). This land has known conflict; I hope it can soon know peace.
I remember the night it started, I was so sure that Ukraine would be gone in a matter of days, two weeks at most. It is actually insane how well Ukraine and it's people have persevered in this single year. Edit: I appreciate the likes and comments and all, but stop arguing
The first 3-4 weeks were just insane. I remember people posting day by day maps of how far along the German invasion of Poland was in the same timeframe just wondering if Russia was really doing as poorly as people said or if people's understanding of how long wars take was warped.
@@ashtoncarriveau3880 And also, Russia has always been bad at wars and usually relies on throwing men at the problem until it goes away, so wars in Russia always degenerate into a chaotic war of attrition before Russia eventually gains the upper hand.
A small country tends to hold out better when half the planet sends its weapons to them. If NATO had not intervened, it would have been a two week war. All the Ukrainian armored battalions were wiped out by then. Really this isn't even the Russo-Ukraine war, it's the Russo-NATO war with Ukrainians paying the blood price.
Since I know it's not exactly commonly known, the red strip of land by the southwest border of Ukraine is Transnistria, a Russian-backed speratist region of Moldova which declared independence from Moldova shortly after Moldova declared independence from the Soviet Union. Russian soldiers are stationed there and they have expressed the desire to join the Russian Federation.
Indeed it crazy to think how many world or Nation changing stuff was going on as we were growing up in the last two early decade of the 21th century like Syrian civil war started when I was in the third grade back in 2011.
@@rfgnmf-nmesofuehsdjfnrmeowfsdz check out political views of this organization or at least of many of their photos with swastikas, Hitler's portraits and other stuff. Then show literally any nazi statement by russian government, I'll see.
Siege of Leningrad, but in 2022… Edit: To be honest, my comment don’t give any sense now since i learned that siege of Leningrad stood much longer than Mariupol.
@@Elio_Kyfe Well yeah obviously everyone knows that a lot of Azov were Nazis I haven't said they weren't Any Nazi Statements by the Russian Government? Bro have you seen Wagner? Have you seen their tatoos? They aren't any better than Azov
I know Bakhmut isn't as important as Mariupol (maybe) but I'm slightly disappointed we didn't get a detailed map of the advances in it the past 1-2 months
It's pretty hard to get information on the fronts at all. There are many different versions, outdated or fake, and many good ones that aren't easy to find. Mostly making a time-lapse.
@@the_sardinian not hard just look at both pro,neutral and anti ukraine maps(deepstate ua, suyriak, rybar), and you'll see where the front is, most of the time the information is more or less the same
The weeks it all started I'd get 1 to 2 hours of sleep a day. I was constantly glues to every source of information I could find on the war. Despite the horrors I saw I just can't imagine the toll the people who went through this stress in person felt.
@Имя Фамилия what Russia did in the donbass by making fake rebel groups was indeed a tragedy, but it isn't really comparable. While 2k people died on both sides in the first year of the war, this declined to 1k in the next and only 300 total between 2016 and 2022. So yes the horrors Russia afflicted here were terrible but not really comparable to their current barbary.
The main stress for me is that it's basically forbidden now for men to go anywhere legally. Never thought I would be living behind sort of "Iron Curtain".
@@Heprudymal According to "LDPR" themselves, in the entire year of 2021 only 9 civilians dies from fighting. In 2020 only 7 died. In 2019 only 8 died. Are you really saying that it is the same thing?
This is very well made and definitely one of the best versions I’ve seen, especially with the early days of the 2022 war. Although a couple of the short lived Russian backed states (Cossack state and Kharkiv PR) as well as other things involving the 2014 revolution, and the disputes between the DPR and Russia, and once the Kherson/Kharkiv offensives starts some details are missing.
oh yea i remember the Kharkiv Peoples Republic too it was just like the other 2 in the donbas except it’s flag was green red and blue in the same design of the other 2 and it collapsed quickly since ukrainian forces were able to respond quicker. the cossack state wanted to be independent from both russia and ukraine but they didn’t have enough support and just sort of faded away
Small correction: You wrote that Russia invaded with the intention of annexing the entire country. It's hard to tell what would have happened were the Russian offensive more successful, but most experts agree the idea was to simply land a devastating blow to Kyiv that would force a quick capitulation, and the Russian terms would entail instating a new head of government as well as some land concessions. To my knowledge, there is no evidence that Russia ever intended to annex the whole of Ukraine
Idk if this is true or not, but I’m pretty sure there were documents leaked a month or so ago detailing how Russia intended to form a union with a new implanted Russian-Leaning government in Ukraine like they’re doing with Belarus right now.
yea i think it was like they wanted to capture the Donbass region and probably some other territory their main goal was to dethrone the US installed Puppet Regime in Ukraine after the CIA Coup toppled the last government in 2014 then install their own Puppet Regime see the way Lukashenko is President of Belarus yea something like that but what we both agree on is that Russia never intended for all of Ukraine's land to become Part of Russia that was never the plan only part of it was supposed to be
I think a big reason everyone thought that Ukraine would fall so fast was that the Fall of Afghanistan was still fresh in everyone’s minds. Everyone was utterly shocked that a country the US had been in for two decades was suddenly in such a spectacular collapse. The Taliban seemed to sweep over the entire country. So naturally we had this same mindset expecting the same result.
That’s definitely part of it; there was also a general overestimate by western intelligence and the general populace alike of Russia’s military capabilities.
@@hapetE Lol Afghani did put a fight but they are outnumbered without any support. Im sure because of this Biden disgustingly put more support for Ukraine since its on his first term.
Thankful more are acknowledging this began long before '22. A proper, full understanding of just why this happened and who fanned the flames is crucial.
Yea. If the nations today opposed Russia when they started this war in 2014 as adamantly as they are now Ukraine wouldnt have to be dealing with this today
The '22 war was also caused by Ukrainian massacres in Donbass region, but apparently Russia is only attacking because of Putin's obsession with territory, or so every western media conglomerate says
В 2014-2021 не было России. Крым объявил независимость когда свергли незаконно власти в Украине. Поменьше смотри такие видео и лучше почитай документы, умнее станешь.
I learned about this conflict in 2016 because of Operation Azov, it was an operation carried out by the police here in Brazil with the aim of arresting Brazilians who wanted to join the Azov Battalion
Wait to till you learn Azov was funded most by a Jew... Jewish-Ukrainian billionaire and oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. That is true. And "When Azov deputy commander Ihor Mosiychuk made antisemitic comments about Kolomoisky, he was removed." Neo Nazis? Or some really S**t propaganda by Putin?
@@ExecutiveChefLance All the Brazilians arrested in this operation were criminals and all had WWII flags, German symbols and WWII tattoos, the police arrested them for good reason.
Hmm weird that in August 2014 the separatist went from the verge of defeat to holding on and solidifying their lines. At the same time Unmarked soldiers and vehicles started rolling in. Mmmmm 🤔
They were there even before August 2014. It just wasn't that obvious. It's just that when Russia realized it was losing Donbass, it stopped worrying about how it looked and stopped pretending it wasn't them.
Is there any information on the map areas on a lot of these war maps south of the Dnieper that shows "Partisan Warfare"? You have them as dots and such here, but I can never find any info about what is going on down there.
There isn't much info to begin with. The most detailed video I've seen was by "Task & Purpose". It's not surprising you can't find anything, they are partisans, duh
Honestly if I found something that mentioned partisan activity outside of a city, I just added a random blob near the city. It's likely there are some partisan areas I missed because of how sparse the info is.
I remember waking up that one day from the piercing sound of an air raid siren. February 24 at 9 o'clock. As I stood awake I looked up one single word: "WAR", then looked at the news section. I was shocked but I wasn't surprised. I was furious and overwhelmed with fear for humanity and for the day of tomorrow. Now here we are. The year has passed and this war is still ongoing.
I remember the day of invasion very well. It was my best friend's birthday... her 18th birthday actually. During one school break our friend group congratulated her, and during the next one we were already listening to the news about invasion. It was a beautiful day, winter sun shining low. But no one paid attention to it since everyone was scared of possible WW3. I don't think I'll ever be able to forget that day
5:50 it says most countries have not recognized the annexation, but I am not aware of any that have, not even the Kremlin’s allies. Speaking of the Kremlin, they said they are not even sure what their new claimed borders are in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, and that they would “consult with the residents” on what they should be. I think this ambiguity should be reflected in a final post-war video with a dashed line or something.
They changed their position on that in a couple of days after the referenda. Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics and Zaporozhye Oblast of the Russian Federation would officially have the same territory as the Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhia Oblasts of Ukraine; Russia's Kherson Oblast would be comprised of the old territory of Ukraine's Kherson Oblast and also include small part a small part of Ukraine's Mykolaiv Oblast (like this video correctly points out). There is no ambiguity on that from the perspective of the Russian law.
@@holdenennis according to Pavel Krashennikov, Putin's official representative in the State Duma (lower chamber of the parliament) whom he appointed specifically to represent him during the lawmaking process of ratifying the treaties of the accession of the four independent states (legally, Zaporozhye and Kherson declared independence right after the referenda) to the Russian Federation, on October 3. I just checked the website of the government of Russia's Zaporozhye Oblast, and it clearly claims the entirety of the region, including the city of Zaporozhye/Zaporizhia which it doesn't currently control
You're right, the propaganda in this video is not enough, it's sitting at 99% and it should be at 100%!!! Just like the US representatives have told the Serbian president in regards to Kosovo - ''You should accept the reality of Kosovo's independence'', I too advise you to accept the reality of Russian control of almost everything up to that line.. Sorry, no dashed line...
thieves and corrupt officials in power. Nepotism and cut budgets are widespread. son-in-law of the Minister of Defense supports the opposition. Enemies within the country Shoigu's daughter (Minister of Defense) rides around Dubai with her opposition husband
@@malickfan7461 if this **"full-scale"** was full-scale, as the United States fought in particular, Ukraine would not have survived a week And so excessive fear led to a year of war and incomprehensible prospects
During the war in the Donbas the average daily fatality rates was about 80, during the last year of the current war it wasn't abnormal for 800 or more people to die in a day, with some days having more than 1500 people killed. The level of intensity between the two wars is utterly incomparable.
I offer you all my respect, and I hope that you will do a video similar to this video about the Iraqi-Iranian war from 1980 to 1988. I hope that you will make a video and explain all the details. I hope that and thank you.
Thanks for doing this! What are the small pockets of blue territory in Zaphorzhizhia and northern Luhansk regions? Are these cities with notable Ukrainian resistance in them?
There are sometimes terrorist attacks against pro-Russian local Ukrainian authorities like car explosions or explosions on their way back home after work, organized (obviously) by Ukraine and loudly represented in the Western media as "partisan warfare". I believe that what those blue marks mean
You forgot to put "(Nato's support)" next to Ukraine, like you did with Belarus for Russia. Even though Belarus didin't actually help Russia with troops, but only allowed Russian troops to pass through and be stationed in its soil...
@user-ct9sj3rh8p НАТО херня и оно само доказало это на примере украины. Оружие устаревшее причем отдается оно нв поле боя а новое оно оставляют себе. Дебильные неумелые инструкторы из за халатности которых погибают украинцы. Так что тут спорно у кого что лучше
1:28 What happened here? It's almost like an outside actor sent hundreds or even thousands of fighters and tons of equipment to help the fledgling and unpopular Separatist movement. How else did they suddenly gain so much territory like that?
Yes. It was on August 25, 2014 that Russia secretly sent its army to the Donbas. How I remember that day now. If not for this, then in 1-2 months all the riots in the Donbas ended.
And now ask the same question to Euromaidan and think about how ordinary people were able to stage a coup d'etat. What if they were also helped by an outside actor?
Yes. Feb. 24th was the beginning of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, but that was a massive escalation of the already ongoing conflict rather than a separate war.
It started when there was a coup d’état in ukraine where they overthrew their pro russia leader and put someone of their own. Russia did not approve and took back crimea. Since crimea is majority russian there wasnt much resistance and since the govt of ukraine was just overthrown they couldnt defend it
@Toporzeł Russia is also getting help from North Korea and Iran especially when it comes to drones and China and India remain strong trading partners, so it’s not there not getting support either.
@@agentofchaos3015 they didn't get the same support as right now... everything can be checked, ukraine got mostly 3 things: ammunition, money, training. But all of those in small quantities, they're 1/10 of what ukraine received since the start of 2022 war....
@@hztn не чего было Дудаеву издеваться над местным населением. Мы всё видели и мир знает об этом прочтите отчеты ООН. Или вы боитесь правды? А как приспешники Дудаева похищали французского представителя ООН не знаете?
@@MrMariannnooo Correction: the US helps Ukraine defend American capital and property within Ukraine's territory. A marginal difference, perhaps, but do recall how long did they do nothing during the Crimean and Donbas conflicts. Only once the war directly threatened the main Ukranian argicultural regions - which are mostly bought by American companies - did they nudge the West to step in.
My favorite consequence of Russia's imperialistic war is the rush of other European countries to join NATO. Once Sweden and Finland are confirmed, it's over for Russia.
Глядя на обзор и комментарии, вспомнил уже довольно старую шутку, которой хочу ответить: "Если бы США увидели, что США делают в США - то США вторглись бы в США, чтобы освободить США от США." Тем, кто понимает русский язык, но недооценивают или переоценивают ситуацию - рекомендую послушать старую песню "Хотят ли русские войны" Эдуарда Хиля. Никто не желает кровопролития и притеснения, но если уж так просят, то приходится действовать. Всем мира и добра! P.S. И да, учите историю. «Тот, кто не знает прошлого - не знает ни настоящего, ни будущего, ни самого себя.» Вольтер
How much research goes into making videos like this, especially for wars that happened centuries ago? It must be absolutely insane with the amount of sources you have to dig through to find maps/documents detailing borders.
Very interesting although a major inaccuracy, Russia never stated any intention of "annexing the country". Its also worth pointing out that peace talks started in Feb and that the withdrawal from Kiev at the end of March/beginning of April was part of those talks hence the massive draw back.
putins manifesto in the summer of 2021 and the rhetoric from various officials of putins inner circle convey that ukraine was to be conquered in it’s entirety including belarus eventually (which is already a puppet state)
No, withdrawal from Kyiv was not a part of the peace talks. It was a ruse, a smokescreen. Russians withdrew because they were sitting ducks there, and tried to save as many forces as they could for the next phase of the war.
Ты очень отлично показал конфликт, спасибо за это и за то, что видео без конкретной политики (я не считаю формулировку слов важной, пока суть событий сохраняется).
5:53 most of the world also doesnt recognize the israeli annexation of the golan heights but here we are, I give it 5 years for google maps to draw dashed lines there like the golan's dashed lines
Sounds like the Bakhmut front has been very active today. Would you consider doing daily/weekly maps of Bakhmut and other individual battles on the front?
4:15, I think, that there wasn't intention of annexing whole country, it's just not profitable. To my mind there was intention of annexing only some lands and to change government of Ukraine.
@@kalistot0_0 Nope 🤡 Russian army just degenerated. They lost officers, non-commisioned officers, artilerymen. They used barrels in their artilery, lack ammunition etc. They are fighting with "platoon tactical groups" now and send soldiers to die in senseless "meat assults".
Is here any, who think that not Russia start Ukraine conflict at 2014? Maybe Crimea in 2014 was supply will of locals people when it became free from Ukraine. Anyway it was not an annexion or occupation.
Russia started it in 2014, there's a lovely set of documents called the Budapest memorandum. Signed in 1994 tgey cover things like nuclear disarmament for Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. The first point was that Russia respect the borders of and sovereignty of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan
Я родился и живу в Крыму, и просто в голове не укладывается как до этого дошло у меня много родственников в Украине и никаких нацистов там нет... Всем мира!
Упа - украинская повстантическая армия, она придерживалась взглядов нацисткой Германии, она хотела чтобы была только нация украинцев, а сейчас некотрые из населения Украины его восхваляют, мы как и в сороковые освобожаем вас, да это может звучать как пропоганда, но почитайте в интернете что такое УПА, я думаю глаза вам откроют
You lost me at “Russia launched a full scale invasion with tbe intention of annexing the country” there’s no way Russia intended to annex Ukraine with 190k troops. You need better analysis
@@lilestojkovicii6618 Russia is already having supply issues with the 15% of their military they sent they can't send anymore also if it isn't a full-scale invasion why are russians being conscripted?
Its impossible to not go onto twitter and encounter some person shouting about Russian inevitable victory and such. Its impossible to tell how many of these are just people side with Russia because of a political faction or is misinformation going around.
@@ChromiumCastle Russia is every bit the diseased, corrupt, cruel monstrous hydra the west can be. The only difference is that one is not as willing to straight up murder and rape as the other. No one wins in a Russian victory. No one has ever won in a Russian victory save for the evil and corrupt ever since the Russian Tsars. And no one wins in a Globalist victory. This is a false binary you subscribe to. A lie, pure and simple.
@@kalistot0_0 Thats a strange question to ask. Guess do what most people always do to illegal occupations/annexations, oppose it. I would accept the reality that the war is won. Doesn't mean Russia is in the right. Even so though, Russias victory is not inevitable, and the fact they have lost as much ground as they have from Ukraine that they took, it isn't entirely likely. It should be noted that Russia is largely on its own, with few real economic powers on their side. China maybe helping them, but thats just to keep their economy afloat, at most. Even if they are helping them militarily, all that is doing is landing Russia within the Chinese sphere. A fate that is likely to be as dooming if not more so than what they feared would happen with Ukraine going to Nato. Even if Russia wins(At best maybe getting the actual disputed regions), it will lose in the long run. This war was a short sighted mess as well as destroying the idea of Russia being a real military threat outside of nukes.
Remember that before 2014 russia had a fast-growing economy with almost no debt. They could become second UAE by 2023, but chose to destroy their economy (and a good chunk of military) for... conquering even less land than Kirov oblast? Wow. sounds like a dollar store WW2 Germany
You are a complete psycho and not quite an adequate person. The Russian economy is currently stable and is not threatened by anything, unlike the NATO economy.
@@RomanLavandos I'm sorry for you, sincerely dude, time will put everything in its place, but it may be too late for that. You understand perfectly, I'm sure. You know what I'm talking about, I'm sure of that too.
Because since they've grabbed all thinkable assets they don't care about it anymore. The growing independent middle class would threaten their positions so they crushed it and the growth of the economy just to keep themselves in power They are quite literally a criminal organization mimicking as government. They don't represent anybody since 2011 Pidarasy
Why is Melitopol shown here and in other maps as Ukrainian control / contested? I have heard that partisan activity is higher than normal but is this still the case? What is the bar for coloring an area as Ukrainian/Russian controlled?
I remember that day, one year ago, when I woke up and made myself ready to go to school. I looked on my phone, received a message that there is a "special operation in Ukraine". I couldn't really believe it so I simply moved on, thought it was a border conflict. When I was about to go, my mom came to me, crying, saying the words "Russia declared war on Ukraine". For the context, my mom is Ukrainian and the majority of our family lives in the eastern parts of Ukraine. I was so shocked that I simply couldn't really process it in the moment. I tried to cool down my mom, took me time so I came too late to school. My teacher got angry at me for coming too late and I almost even got a bad grade for it. After the lesson, I started to realize what happened, went to my teacher and told her what happened and why I came too late. She said sorry and I went to a friend, told him I can't hold my tears anymore and deregistered to go back home. The moment I went through the door and left school, I started panicking, barely holding my tears in just to get back home. 15 minutes of internal screaming, crying and pain. As soon as I got back home, I let it all out. Took me a whole 5 days to come back to school (and the people there still talked about Ukraine, so it wasn't that easy for me to simply just do school and move on). For the sake of humanity, I deeply wish for this war to come to an end. For my family, for all the people who live there and for everyone involved. #StandWithUkraine
@@Leviathan500 I'm from Germany, although I was very connected with it due to my family. My uncle and some of my grandparents are still in Ukraine, and basically everyday you can hear sirens. So yeah, life goes on normally, you get used to war, kind of.
@@averagepotatoenjoyer Is Russia's justification for that not the fact that the annexed areas are predominantly Russian, or at least Russian speaking? That is not the case with the entirety of Ukraine
oh it will end some day imo how i see this going is the war will end in a Ceasefire in a peace treaty Russia will hold some of the land it controls the war is over so short term Russia wins but long term the Astronomical cost of this war will come back to Bite Putin's Regime it will be one day known as a Pyrrhic victory eventually toppling the Putin Regime and somewhere down the line someone is in charge of Russia who will secede all the land Russia was holding back to Ukraine this time frame could take 5-15 years really unsure how long exactly
@@pentti3715 will the Ukrainian just push out the Russian forces? Or will the Ukrainian forces along with its allied also invade Russia, and contribute to another long war?
tigerstar i was waiting foir this video for so long! THank you. Its kinda crazy something so recent and we are watching it in some time lapse like as if it just happened back in ww2
"In 2022, Russia *Suddenly* launched a full scale invasion" yes, very sudden and completely unexpected, that is why months prior it was moving enough equipment and manpower to wage a short war, as well as establishing numerous fieldhospitals. Definetly not expected.
Those mobile crematoriums on Ukraine's border were purely for training purposes! Doesn't every army practice their ability to cremate thousands of corpses on the borders of their geopolitical rivals?
That's supposed to represent partisan warfare. In another reply, EmperorTigerstar explained some of that and how the dots aren't truly representative of actual areas of operation.
@@zachswaim1956 The most partisan activity was in Mariupol, Melitopol and Kherson, the sources are hard to come by though as they are all either in telegram or twitter.
4:20 The music here is perfect. Totally captures the feelings of dread and horror everyone had on Feb. 24th, 2022, witnessing what we thought was the fall of a sovereign nation to an imperialist, nuclear-armed power.
Where did you get your data on moskovian occupation forces in Donbas before the 20 of April 2014 (in yellow color)? I found only two dated maps, one of wich is stating non-existent cities and objects within them, so clearly not a good source, and the other one is just a one shot picture. I also found citiwise maps for Donetsk and Luhansk regions separately (there were just flags over cities, not territories), but Luhansk set contradicts itself, and a lot of other data, and Donetsk set is deleted from the site I've seen it on, and now I can find only 3 pictures of 3 dates from it.
3:54 the frontline until 2022 at Donetsk was literally next to the city, I think you gave them way too much area west of Donetsk city during the Donbass war time
List of battle (only Russian invasion) 4:22 Snake Island Campaign 4:22: Battle of Antonov Airport 4:22 Capture of Chernobyl 4:22 Battle of Kharkiv 4:22 Battle of Kherson 4:22 Battle of Okhtyrka 4:22 Battle of Sumy 4:22 Siege of Chernihiv 4:22 Siege of Mariupol 4:23 Battle of Kyiv 4:23 Battle of Hostomel 4:23 Capture of Melitopol
Wow this format really tells a story, almost like Russia got mad at how unsuccessful their attempts to infiltrate Donetsk and Luhansk were going and thought they could get away with a quick blitzkrieg. Damn, did they dug themselves a grave with that move
They knew they would be fighting the dystopian world order. They are fighting the EU and US as well. But the people of the free world still support them in the fighting against the colonial might of Europe. 🙏
@@gunterxvoices4101 It never ceases to amaze me how pro-russians call themselves the "free world" when the countries they support are almost always some form of authoritarian regime.
@@gunterxvoices4101 .......yes. Yes they are. Considerably better. They have more freedom, freedom of press, democratic elections, and the ability to criticize their government with impunity. Where freedom of the individual is concerned, there is zero comparison between both sides.
@nicolaszan1845 To be fair, the US does native genocide, has prison slavery and silences whistle-blowers like Patrick Snowden and Julian Assange. There's also the whole largest prisoner population in the world (more than China despite China having over a billion more people than the US) and extreme police brutality. But sure, East bad hurr durr.
Russia almost took Kiev in the first month of the operation. Putin revealed a document signed by Kiev that was the reason why they abandoned the north territory. For those who say that Russia failed, no, people, Russia would win in a week, but geopolitics and economics are not that easy.
Sorry to ruin it for you, but Russia failed terribly. The amount of dead soldiers, lost equipment, economic situation in Russia and even the recent Wagner Group incident are proofs.
A lot of you wanted me to map this, but I wanted to wait a bit, so here we are a year later. Of course, the war isn't over. Here's hoping that Ukraine drives the Russian invaders out across the next year. Keep it civil in the comments please.
"Keep it civil" 1st comment I saw was long live russia lol
there are more Russian supporters than i thought
@@Lp-army1 i mean everyone has a right to believe on a side regardless whose right or wrong.
here's hoping Russia puts down the Israeli puppet zelenskyy and liberates the Ukrainian people from NATO ZOG dominion.
@@mr.patriotjol well then I guess people have the right to support hitler then? Right no matter who's wrong or right people can support them your words
It's eerie seeing sites of ongoing battles (Kherson, Kharkiv, Mariupol) right next to sites of great historical battles (Poltava from the Great Northern War, Sevastopol from the Crimean War, Kursk from WWII). This land has known conflict; I hope it can soon know peace.
Isn't Kursk in Russia?
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 yea it is, a fair distance from ukraine too, no fighting took place here this war
@Acceleration Quanta Pray you never have to learn how silly you sound by picking up the pieces of someone you used to love
@Acceleration Quanta that is the natural and inevitable fate of humankind.
@Acceleration Quanta No. Buzz off. Surely liberalism is for the weak but war should be the last resort. Too many lives are lost to wars.
I remember the night it started, I was so sure that Ukraine would be gone in a matter of days, two weeks at most. It is actually insane how well Ukraine and it's people have persevered in this single year.
Edit: I appreciate the likes and comments and all, but stop arguing
The first 3-4 weeks were just insane. I remember people posting day by day maps of how far along the German invasion of Poland was in the same timeframe just wondering if Russia was really doing as poorly as people said or if people's understanding of how long wars take was warped.
@@ashtoncarriveau3880 And also, Russia has always been bad at wars and usually relies on throwing men at the problem until it goes away, so wars in Russia always degenerate into a chaotic war of attrition before Russia eventually gains the upper hand.
no its normal for wars to last long periods of time esp 2 tecnological advanced countries
A small country tends to hold out better when half the planet sends its weapons to them. If NATO had not intervened, it would have been a two week war. All the Ukrainian armored battalions were wiped out by then.
Really this isn't even the Russo-Ukraine war, it's the Russo-NATO war with Ukrainians paying the blood price.
@@JamesTaylor-on9nz if you take a look at Russian history, I don't think there's been a single major war where they won without outside help.
Finally people started acknowledging that this war actually began in 2014.
Everyone looked at me crazy back then for telling them that back in 2014, 2015, that Ukraine was integral to European security
@@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 that's like saying Poland is integral for Russia's security
@@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 And Australia is Africa in your opinion?
@@vif3182 the difference is that the EU is not an existential threat to Russia, whereas Russia is an existential threat to the EU :)
@@золотаявата yes wumao, bow down to your masters
Since I know it's not exactly commonly known, the red strip of land by the southwest border of Ukraine is Transnistria, a Russian-backed speratist region of Moldova which declared independence from Moldova shortly after Moldova declared independence from the Soviet Union. Russian soldiers are stationed there and they have expressed the desire to join the Russian Federation.
Like south ossetia in georgia
Yeah, I also heard some news recently that Russia was preparing a coup in Moldova, but after that it all went quiet
southwest*
@@greenthepokemontrainer3358 True, thx for pointing that out.
неверная информация, мало и плохо знаешь.
Crazy to think, that this war spans over my entire teenage years and still continue (and escalate!) to my young adulthood.
Hoowde! 🤠
I was 6 when this war started. High school is going pretty well
Same here man. I turned 13 in 2014.
Afghanistan war was 20 years
Indeed it crazy to think how many world or Nation changing stuff was going on as we were growing up in the last two early decade of the 21th century like Syrian civil war started when I was in the third grade back in 2011.
It's insane that Mariupol stood for almost 3 months
All thanks to nazis from Azov
@@Elio_Kyfe Nah i'd say it's all thanks to the incompetence of Nazis from the Russian side but yeah Ukrainians did pretty well
@@rfgnmf-nmesofuehsdjfnrmeowfsdz check out political views of this organization or at least of many of their photos with swastikas, Hitler's portraits and other stuff. Then show literally any nazi statement by russian government, I'll see.
Siege of Leningrad, but in 2022…
Edit: To be honest, my comment don’t give any sense now since i learned that siege of Leningrad stood much longer than Mariupol.
@@Elio_Kyfe Well yeah obviously everyone knows that a lot of Azov were Nazis I haven't said they weren't
Any Nazi Statements by the Russian Government? Bro have you seen Wagner? Have you seen their tatoos? They aren't any better than Azov
I know Bakhmut isn't as important as Mariupol (maybe) but I'm slightly disappointed we didn't get a detailed map of the advances in it the past 1-2 months
I'd say it's more important to be honest since it's basically the gateway to the donbass.
It's pretty hard to get information on the fronts at all. There are many different versions, outdated or fake, and many good ones that aren't easy to find. Mostly making a time-lapse.
@@BRFC.75 for me bakhmut is like verdun
@@BRFC.75 yeah, but Mariupol has (or had, since 90% got destroyed) a port and the Azovstal steel mill.
@@the_sardinian not hard just look at both pro,neutral and anti ukraine maps(deepstate ua, suyriak, rybar), and you'll see where the front is, most of the time the information is more or less the same
Great work. Can't imagine how difficult this was to do. Thanks for it.
Wow I wasnt expecting this. Amazing quality!
As a ukranian I appreciate that you started with Crimea. Splendid job
God bless you and your brave people standing for their freedom
Crimea is rightfully Russian
@@BlackiLP011 in your dreams
@@BlackiLP011 Crimea is rightfully scythian when you think about it
@@BlackiLP011
Crimea is Albanian, bro
It's quite interesting seeing history repeat itself with trench warfare reappearing. Thousands dying over a few bits of land on the frontline.
tactics hasnt caught up with technology again and ill omen for the future
we have warhammer 40k at real life!!!1!!1
Trench warfare never ended, you need only look at the Sino-Japanese and "Great Patriotic" war, heaps of trenches, because artillery...
@@issstari954
Other way around. Technology has caught up to tactics
@@bruhbruh-us6gl Nope its the right way around technology is way ahead of tactics similar to ww1
The weeks it all started I'd get 1 to 2 hours of sleep a day. I was constantly glues to every source of information I could find on the war. Despite the horrors I saw I just can't imagine the toll the people who went through this stress in person felt.
since 2014, residents of the LDPR have endured this. and endure now
@Имя Фамилия what Russia did in the donbass by making fake rebel groups was indeed a tragedy, but it isn't really comparable. While 2k people died on both sides in the first year of the war, this declined to 1k in the next and only 300 total between 2016 and 2022.
So yes the horrors Russia afflicted here were terrible but not really comparable to their current barbary.
The main stress for me is that it's basically forbidden now for men to go anywhere legally. Never thought I would be living behind sort of "Iron Curtain".
@@Heprudymal According to "LDPR" themselves, in the entire year of 2021 only 9 civilians dies from fighting. In 2020 only 7 died. In 2019 only 8 died. Are you really saying that it is the same thing?
@@eberkovich
Very few died, it's okay, all your relatives.
EmperorTigerstar has made me realize geopolitics is just history for the future.
Thank you, I really love it when people map today's conflicts out
Civil war with ukrainian separatists for the reunification of Russia.
Uhmm People already did it in 2022
People already mapped Russo-Ukrainian War (2022-ongoing) and Donbass war 2014 to 2022 and crimean annexation 2014 in 2022
This is very well made and definitely one of the best versions I’ve seen, especially with the early days of the 2022 war. Although a couple of the short lived Russian backed states (Cossack state and Kharkiv PR) as well as other things involving the 2014 revolution, and the disputes between the DPR and Russia, and once the Kherson/Kharkiv offensives starts some details are missing.
oh yea i remember the Kharkiv Peoples Republic too it was just like the other 2 in the donbas except it’s flag was green red and blue in the same design of the other 2 and it collapsed quickly since ukrainian forces were able to respond quicker. the cossack state wanted to be independent from both russia and ukraine but they didn’t have enough support and just sort of faded away
Kharkiv PR never really existed. The whole thing was gone in several hours.
@@ArturKwaszyn “Never existed” “lasted a few hours” pick one
Where in Ukraine was the cossak State? I can't find anything on the net.
Wait, the Cossack State? I am Ukrainian but have never heard about anything like it.
Small correction: You wrote that Russia invaded with the intention of annexing the entire country. It's hard to tell what would have happened were the Russian offensive more successful, but most experts agree the idea was to simply land a devastating blow to Kyiv that would force a quick capitulation, and the Russian terms would entail instating a new head of government as well as some land concessions. To my knowledge, there is no evidence that Russia ever intended to annex the whole of Ukraine
Idk if this is true or not, but I’m pretty sure there were documents leaked a month or so ago detailing how Russia intended to form a union with a new implanted Russian-Leaning government in Ukraine like they’re doing with Belarus right now.
@@seanzlifeadventures1218 There were? If you find more info on it, let me know. I hadn't heard about it until now, but would like to know more.
yea i think it was like they wanted to capture the Donbass region and probably some other territory their main goal was to dethrone the US installed Puppet Regime in Ukraine after the CIA Coup toppled the last government in 2014 then install their own Puppet Regime see the way Lukashenko is President of Belarus yea something like that but what we both agree on is that Russia never intended for all of Ukraine's land to become Part of Russia that was never the plan only part of it was supposed to be
Because there's a meaningful difference between a puppet state like Belarus and an annexed territory like Chechnya?
@@PlatinumAltaria A huge one actually, yeah.
It's already been a year, time passes like a cloud. Good job on the animation, E.Tigerstar!
For me an year is a forever.
Civil war with ukrainian separatists for the reunification of Russia.
I'm sure the comments will be totally respectful and apolitical
Nope is russian bots and normal people
@@kbityy yeah and russian bots
@@dr3w399 damn, that sounds like racism
How can they be apolitical if it is a political topic?
Translation for "apolitical" - I'm Russian and I don't want my feelings hurt because my countryman are committing genocide!
Hopes for peace. Thoughts go out to those affected
Hopes for nothing less than full Ukrainian victory.
@@n.k.939 Russian victory*
@@exoels mf likes terrorists 🤣
Thank you
@@n.k.939 why would Ukraine win? Russia will ultimately take away some of Ukraine in perpetuity. Just like Finland lost land during the winter war.
I think a big reason everyone thought that Ukraine would fall so fast was that the Fall of Afghanistan was still fresh in everyone’s minds. Everyone was utterly shocked that a country the US had been in for two decades was suddenly in such a spectacular collapse. The Taliban seemed to sweep over the entire country. So naturally we had this same mindset expecting the same result.
That’s definitely part of it; there was also a general overestimate by western intelligence and the general populace alike of Russia’s military capabilities.
The Russians plan poorly, Putin removed the person in charge of the operation afterwards.
@@ASUS_spades That's probably the bigger factor. I think most people (in the west) knew Ukraine was going to at the very least try and put up a fight.
@@hapetE Lol Afghani did put a fight but they are outnumbered without any support. Im sure because of this Biden disgustingly put more support for Ukraine since its on his first term.
nahh fam
I want to note that it is very interesting to watch such maps and videos, given the fact that the front line is 30 kilometers from you.
Glory to Russia
@@alirezafiroujza3064 glory to joe mama
@@alirezafiroujza3064 your mother.
@@kiwuuspurr1927 Glory... to me!
@@alirezafiroujza3064 🤖
Thankful more are acknowledging this began long before '22. A proper, full understanding of just why this happened and who fanned the flames is crucial.
Yea. If the nations today opposed Russia when they started this war in 2014 as adamantly as they are now Ukraine wouldnt have to be dealing with this today
US coup on Ukraine wasn't shown at all hahahaha
@@hulahula6182 yeah lmfao only Russia can be bad
The '22 war was also caused by Ukrainian massacres in Donbass region, but apparently Russia is only attacking because of Putin's obsession with territory, or so every western media conglomerate says
В 2014-2021 не было России.
Крым объявил независимость когда свергли незаконно власти в Украине. Поменьше смотри такие видео и лучше почитай документы, умнее станешь.
Very nice work
I watched a few of your videos. Nice work
Your video is better
When will your video come out?
@@Максим-г5в9т soon, maybe in 2-3 days
I learned about this conflict in 2016 because of Operation Azov, it was an operation carried out by the police here in Brazil with the aim of arresting Brazilians who wanted to join the Azov Battalion
Wait to till you learn Azov was funded most by a Jew... Jewish-Ukrainian billionaire and oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. That is true. And "When Azov deputy commander Ihor Mosiychuk made antisemitic comments about Kolomoisky, he was removed." Neo Nazis? Or some really S**t propaganda by Putin?
Brazil is so based
@@ExecutiveChefLance Azov batalion are nazis and they proud of being nazis, this is fact
@@ExecutiveChefLance All the Brazilians arrested in this operation were criminals and all had WWII flags, German symbols and WWII tattoos, the police arrested them for good reason.
Hmm weird that in August 2014 the separatist went from the verge of defeat to holding on and solidifying their lines. At the same time Unmarked soldiers and vehicles started rolling in. Mmmmm 🤔
For a while Kremlin consented to support the rebels with warfare and stuff. Didn't last long though.
They were there even before August 2014. It just wasn't that obvious. It's just that when Russia realized it was losing Donbass, it stopped worrying about how it looked and stopped pretending it wasn't them.
I was waiting all year for this map. Thank you so much!
I hope this war won't kill me, it has to end.
Awesome video man! Keep up the great work
Is there any information on the map areas on a lot of these war maps south of the Dnieper that shows "Partisan Warfare"? You have them as dots and such here, but I can never find any info about what is going on down there.
There isn't much info to begin with. The most detailed video I've seen was by "Task & Purpose". It's not surprising you can't find anything, they are partisans, duh
Honestly if I found something that mentioned partisan activity outside of a city, I just added a random blob near the city. It's likely there are some partisan areas I missed because of how sparse the info is.
@@EmperorTigerstar this activity not so spread than it shown on the map.
All partisans have already been caught and deported to Ukraine.
The ISW probably has the most detailed maps about Partisan warfare, most of the info is on twitter or telegram sources.
Thank you, you are my hero for doing it! The best mapper on youtube is EmperorTigerstar!
I remember waking up that one day from the piercing sound of an air raid siren. February 24 at 9 o'clock. As I stood awake I looked up one single word: "WAR", then looked at the news section. I was shocked but I wasn't surprised. I was furious and overwhelmed with fear for humanity and for the day of tomorrow. Now here we are. The year has passed and this war is still ongoing.
I'm glad you're defended!
Почему не на фронте то,родной?
Take care
"with fear for humanity" 😂
@Чел с галочкой я с Юнармии)) собираем коробки нашим парням,чтобы ваших еб@ть))))
I remember the day of invasion very well. It was my best friend's birthday... her 18th birthday actually. During one school break our friend group congratulated her, and during the next one we were already listening to the news about invasion. It was a beautiful day, winter sun shining low. But no one paid attention to it since everyone was scared of possible WW3. I don't think I'll ever be able to forget that day
i thought the invasion started at 4am in the morning, not during 2nd school break
@@ImperialDiecast It did (google says it was 5am) but we heard about it around lunch
Желаю вам чтобы в ваши дома и бункеры прилетела русская ракета украинские свиньи
In
Spanish
Enserio sigo sin acordarme de que pasó un maldito año cuando el tiempo paso así?
good. keep in mind the WW3. Is not far
5:50 it says most countries have not recognized the annexation, but I am not aware of any that have, not even the Kremlin’s allies. Speaking of the Kremlin, they said they are not even sure what their new claimed borders are in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, and that they would “consult with the residents” on what they should be. I think this ambiguity should be reflected in a final post-war video with a dashed line or something.
It sould stay with the war borders
They changed their position on that in a couple of days after the referenda. Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics and Zaporozhye Oblast of the Russian Federation would officially have the same territory as the Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhia Oblasts of Ukraine; Russia's Kherson Oblast would be comprised of the old territory of Ukraine's Kherson Oblast and also include small part a small part of Ukraine's Mykolaiv Oblast (like this video correctly points out). There is no ambiguity on that from the perspective of the Russian law.
@@r8rgtrs according to who?
@@holdenennis according to Pavel Krashennikov, Putin's official representative in the State Duma (lower chamber of the parliament) whom he appointed specifically to represent him during the lawmaking process of ratifying the treaties of the accession of the four independent states (legally, Zaporozhye and Kherson declared independence right after the referenda) to the Russian Federation, on October 3.
I just checked the website of the government of Russia's Zaporozhye Oblast, and it clearly claims the entirety of the region, including the city of Zaporozhye/Zaporizhia which it doesn't currently control
You're right, the propaganda in this video is not enough, it's sitting at 99% and it should be at 100%!!! Just like the US representatives have told the Serbian president in regards to Kosovo - ''You should accept the reality of Kosovo's independence'', I too advise you to accept the reality of Russian control of almost everything up to that line.. Sorry, no dashed line...
Bahkmut (expecting to be on the map): you took everything from me
Tigerstar: I don’t even know where you are
Kindof crazy how it’s devolved into ww1 trench warfare in most areas
thieves and corrupt officials in power. Nepotism and cut budgets are widespread. son-in-law of the Minister of Defense supports the opposition. Enemies within the country Shoigu's daughter (Minister of Defense) rides around Dubai with her opposition husband
It’s like Trump said, Putin thought this invasion would be a 48 hour deal. He didn’t plan appropriately and now he’s paying the price.
@@malickfan7461 if this **"full-scale"** was full-scale, as the United States fought in particular, Ukraine would not have survived a week
And so excessive fear led to a year of war and incomprehensible prospects
I find it very interesting too. This war is much different from today's guerilla or mobile wars.
@@Heprudymal ?
During the war in the Donbas the average daily fatality rates was about 80, during the last year of the current war it wasn't abnormal for 800 or more people to die in a day, with some days having more than 1500 people killed. The level of intensity between the two wars is utterly incomparable.
I offer you all my respect, and I hope that you will do a video similar to this video about the Iraqi-Iranian war from 1980 to 1988. I hope that you will make a video and explain all the details. I hope that and thank you.
Yeah very underrated war
I agree
He has already done the video
@@ShubhamMishrabro "underrated war" implies some wars are cool. I think not well known would be better.
@@O5MO yes very underrated you're correct
Thanks for doing this! What are the small pockets of blue territory in Zaphorzhizhia and northern Luhansk regions? Are these cities with notable Ukrainian resistance in them?
There are sometimes terrorist attacks against pro-Russian local Ukrainian authorities like car explosions or explosions on their way back home after work, organized (obviously) by Ukraine and loudly represented in the Western media as "partisan warfare".
I believe that what those blue marks mean
You forgot to put "(Nato's support)" next to Ukraine, like you did with Belarus for Russia. Even though Belarus didin't actually help Russia with troops, but only allowed Russian troops to pass through and be stationed in its soil...
@user-ct9sj3rh8poverestimated NATO
@user-ct9sj3rh8p НАТО херня и оно само доказало это на примере украины. Оружие устаревшее причем отдается оно нв поле боя а новое оно оставляют себе. Дебильные неумелые инструкторы из за халатности которых погибают украинцы. Так что тут спорно у кого что лучше
2017-2021: No major changes in the front lines.
Gee, I wonder what was going on then.
I remember the first 4 months being very important, then everything just flew by
War is hell
1:28 What happened here? It's almost like an outside actor sent hundreds or even thousands of fighters and tons of equipment to help the fledgling and unpopular Separatist movement. How else did they suddenly gain so much territory like that?
They had the Ghost of Kiev watching the skies.
Yes. It was on August 25, 2014 that Russia secretly sent its army to the Donbas. How I remember that day now. If not for this, then in 1-2 months all the riots in the Donbas ended.
And now ask the same question to Euromaidan and think about how ordinary people were able to stage a coup d'etat. What if they were also helped by an outside actor?
So technically the Russo-Ukrainian war has been going on for 9 years
Yes. Feb. 24th was the beginning of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, but that was a massive escalation of the already ongoing conflict rather than a separate war.
It started when there was a coup d’état in ukraine where they overthrew their pro russia leader and put someone of their own. Russia did not approve and took back crimea. Since crimea is majority russian there wasnt much resistance and since the govt of ukraine was just overthrown they couldnt defend it
@@masterdeetectiv9520 The Ukrainian army back in 2014 was also in a rough rough shape since the dissolution of the USSR
I like way the music hit the 24th february 2023.
I still think "The Sunflower War" makes sense... Though I have been playing Ace Combat.
It's surprising Ukraine has managed to survive this ordeal is interesting and just awesome.
@Toporzeł Well at first, they didn't get the aid when they were first invaded in 2014. But now that NATO is supporting them they are going strong!
@@user-DeLorean-Dude2024 they did get support in 2014
@@agentofchaos3015 Not really, no. They didn't.
@Toporzeł Russia is also getting help from North Korea and Iran especially when it comes to drones and China and India remain strong trading partners, so it’s not there not getting support either.
@@agentofchaos3015 they didn't get the same support as right now... everything can be checked, ukraine got mostly 3 things: ammunition, money, training. But all of those in small quantities, they're 1/10 of what ukraine received since the start of 2022 war....
As usual, you did a great work!
Most people forgot about 2014 after like 2 or 3 years but that's when it really started
Is Melitopol really under Ukrainian resistance control?
Haven’t heard anything about that
Control? No.
No
No, its partisan activity, which usually means a russian official got killed there
Only the outskirts, same goes for Mariupol.
Slava Ukraini!🌻
viva RUSIA
@@Leviathan500 thankfully it won’t live long
@@Leviathan500That isn't even Russian lol
When I was born, Putin and Lukashenko were presidents. I'm in uni now, and they're still presidents.
The emperor in Japan is still an emperor.
Der Kaiser in Japan, ist auch immer noch Kaiser.
- Poor boy, didn't see how Russia imitated democracy (meanwhile genociding Chechens on Kaukaz).
@@hztn не чего было Дудаеву издеваться над местным населением. Мы всё видели и мир знает об этом прочтите отчеты ООН. Или вы боитесь правды? А как приспешники Дудаева похищали французского представителя ООН не знаете?
@@hztn it is not imitating. It is american democracy style
are you russian?
Russia wanted war and now they are reaping what they sowed
Greetings from Poland
Ummmm ever heard of the US government??
@@mrsmith-sh2px Are you trying to whataboutism every comment. Grow up
@@mrsmith-sh2px I think that war is bad no matter who does it. However I'm glad that the US helps Ukraine defend itself
@@MrMariannnooo Correction: the US helps Ukraine defend American capital and property within Ukraine's territory. A marginal difference, perhaps, but do recall how long did they do nothing during the Crimean and Donbas conflicts. Only once the war directly threatened the main Ukranian argicultural regions - which are mostly bought by American companies - did they nudge the West to step in.
@@balintkovacs4089 better that than nothing
My favorite consequence of Russia's imperialistic war is the rush of other European countries to join NATO. Once Sweden and Finland are confirmed, it's over for Russia.
AConfirmed. No over for Russia.
Take the L
Глядя на обзор и комментарии, вспомнил уже довольно старую шутку, которой хочу ответить: "Если бы США увидели, что США делают в США - то США вторглись бы в США, чтобы освободить США от США."
Тем, кто понимает русский язык, но недооценивают или переоценивают ситуацию - рекомендую послушать старую песню "Хотят ли русские войны" Эдуарда Хиля.
Никто не желает кровопролития и притеснения, но если уж так просят, то приходится действовать.
Всем мира и добра!
P.S. И да, учите историю.
«Тот, кто не знает прошлого - не знает ни настоящего, ни будущего, ни самого себя.» Вольтер
Придется уничтожить россию . Хватит устравить войны в Европе в 21 веке. Чечня, Грузия, Украина. За всё ответите
How much research goes into making videos like this, especially for wars that happened centuries ago? It must be absolutely insane with the amount of sources you have to dig through to find maps/documents detailing borders.
Very interesting although a major inaccuracy, Russia never stated any intention of "annexing the country". Its also worth pointing out that peace talks started in Feb and that the withdrawal from Kiev at the end of March/beginning of April was part of those talks hence the massive draw back.
Still annexing Ukraine is the only good scenario for Russia.
Even a small, demilitarised and allied Ukrainian state is a treat to RUSSIA
putins manifesto in the summer of 2021 and the rhetoric from various officials of putins inner circle convey that ukraine was to be conquered in it’s entirety including belarus eventually (which is already a puppet state)
I find that hard to believe considering that they've annexed parts that they control.
No, withdrawal from Kyiv was not a part of the peace talks. It was a ruse, a smokescreen. Russians withdrew because they were sitting ducks there, and tried to save as many forces as they could for the next phase of the war.
@@astrocatsoft there is no great percentage of ruSSian population in these regions - why do you lie?
How does the creator know the intent of the Russian govenrment, 4:15 ?
@@astrocatsoft no, human trash overlords states their intentions multiple times.
They annexed 4 regions so far
Nice video thank you very much.
Great job on the animation! I hope the war ends soon.
Ты очень отлично показал конфликт, спасибо за это и за то, что видео без конкретной политики (я не считаю формулировку слов важной, пока суть событий сохраняется).
Так и так все у которых интеллект не на уровне одноклеточной знают, что виновата параша
набутылочник
- Это не избавит тебя от развала, разоружения и выплат репараций!
Что за красные территории возле молодавии
@@timprogram6482 Приднестровье. Типа днр и лнр только молдавы. Также виновата расия
@@solarsystempresident первый раз слышу об этом
And Hostomel showed the Russians it ain't gonna be a 3 day war..
5:53 most of the world also doesnt recognize the israeli annexation of the golan heights but here we are, I give it 5 years for google maps to draw dashed lines there like the golan's dashed lines
4:19 annexing? Really?
yeah
Practically yes
@@averagepotatoenjoyer Putin was probably gonna create a puppet
Yeah that’s what I meant by „practically“ (also finally some people who are on the same page)
from October 5, 2022
Sounds like the Bakhmut front has been very active today. Would you consider doing daily/weekly maps of Bakhmut and other individual battles on the front?
You should check out Vologda Mapping
They do weekly updates of the battlefield
Daily maps? What like 2 seconds videos?
Try going there yourself.
@@SLavaluChinang5 why would I do that?
@@michael_dugan so you don't get brainwashed by mass media like everybody on YT
Russia never stated it's intention to "annex the country". But hey, cool video.
russia is a terrorist state
Fair point. They also stated their intentions to go full out war, so that checks.
4:15, I think, that there wasn't intention of annexing whole country, it's just not profitable. To my mind there was intention of annexing only some lands and to change government of Ukraine.
Dude, the change of government to a Russian friendly government is the effective annexation of Ukraine.
Excellent map, thank you for the great job. I pray The Good will win and the war stops as soon as possible.
The Good always wins, and the nazis always lose
Its amazing to think Russia was winning at first but is now having a hard time to break the stalemate with Ukraine.
@@kalistot0_0 Nope 🤡 Russian army just degenerated. They lost officers, non-commisioned officers, artilerymen. They used barrels in their artilery, lack ammunition etc. They are fighting with "platoon tactical groups" now and send soldiers to die in senseless "meat assults".
wont be a stalemate
Смотря у кого мясо закончится быстрее)
Who is having a hard time NOW exactly😂😂😂😂
@@ruzealot928 ну тут 100 против 15 миллионов
Is here any, who think that not Russia start Ukraine conflict at 2014?
Maybe Crimea in 2014 was supply will of locals people when it became free from Ukraine.
Anyway it was not an annexion or occupation.
Russia started it in 2014, there's a lovely set of documents called the Budapest memorandum. Signed in 1994 tgey cover things like nuclear disarmament for Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. The first point was that Russia respect the borders of and sovereignty of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan
@@ilajoie3 It was happened after parts of Ukraine did not accept the government's coup in Kyiv.
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Great work!
Я родился и живу в Крыму, и просто в голове не укладывается как до этого дошло у меня много родственников в Украине и никаких нацистов там нет... Всем мира!
Упа - украинская повстантическая армия, она придерживалась взглядов нацисткой Германии, она хотела чтобы была только нация украинцев, а сейчас некотрые из населения Украины его восхваляют, мы как и в сороковые освобожаем вас, да это может звучать как пропоганда, но почитайте в интернете что такое УПА, я думаю глаза вам откроют
@@grigakz 🤡🤡🤡
Ну да ну да
literalmente tienen estatuas a favor de nazis en ucrania ademas tienen tropas nazis en su ejercito
Ну да людей сж... 🔥 2 мая 2014-того года это у них майские традиции.
You lost me at “Russia launched a full scale invasion with tbe intention of annexing the country” there’s no way Russia intended to annex Ukraine with 190k troops. You need better analysis
Exactly
Its not full scale even now let alone then
@@lilestojkovicii6618 Russia is already having supply issues with the 15% of their military they sent they can't send anymore also if it isn't a full-scale invasion why are russians being conscripted?
The weird fact is theres almost no change in map for over 4 months
Its impossible to not go onto twitter and encounter some person shouting about Russian inevitable victory and such. Its impossible to tell how many of these are just people side with Russia because of a political faction or is misinformation going around.
Nah, I just hate western values. As such it would be better they be weakened in the world, and a Russian victory would help toward that end
@@ChromiumCastle Russia is every bit the diseased, corrupt, cruel monstrous hydra the west can be. The only difference is that one is not as willing to straight up murder and rape as the other.
No one wins in a Russian victory. No one has ever won in a Russian victory save for the evil and corrupt ever since the Russian Tsars. And no one wins in a Globalist victory. This is a false binary you subscribe to. A lie, pure and simple.
@@kalistot0_0 Thats a strange question to ask. Guess do what most people always do to illegal occupations/annexations, oppose it.
I would accept the reality that the war is won. Doesn't mean Russia is in the right. Even so though, Russias victory is not inevitable, and the fact they have lost as much ground as they have from Ukraine that they took, it isn't entirely likely.
It should be noted that Russia is largely on its own, with few real economic powers on their side. China maybe helping them, but thats just to keep their economy afloat, at most. Even if they are helping them militarily, all that is doing is landing Russia within the Chinese sphere. A fate that is likely to be as dooming if not more so than what they feared would happen with Ukraine going to Nato.
Even if Russia wins(At best maybe getting the actual disputed regions), it will lose in the long run. This war was a short sighted mess as well as destroying the idea of Russia being a real military threat outside of nukes.
Remember that before 2014 russia had a fast-growing economy with almost no debt. They could become second UAE by 2023, but chose to destroy their economy (and a good chunk of military) for... conquering even less land than Kirov oblast? Wow. sounds like a dollar store WW2 Germany
Too bad
You are a complete psycho and not quite an adequate person. The Russian economy is currently stable and is not threatened by anything, unlike the NATO economy.
@@timmy1752 you remind me of a guy from Outlast that said "you are a psycho", lmao
@@RomanLavandos I'm sorry for you, sincerely dude, time will put everything in its place, but it may be too late for that. You understand perfectly, I'm sure. You know what I'm talking about, I'm sure of that too.
Because since they've grabbed all thinkable assets they don't care about it anymore. The growing independent middle class would threaten their positions so they crushed it and the growth of the economy just to keep themselves in power
They are quite literally a criminal organization mimicking as government. They don't represent anybody since 2011
Pidarasy
Why is Melitopol shown here and in other maps as Ukrainian control / contested? I have heard that partisan activity is higher than normal but is this still the case? What is the bar for coloring an area as Ukrainian/Russian controlled?
I remember that day, one year ago, when I woke up and made myself ready to go to school. I looked on my phone, received a message that there is a "special operation in Ukraine". I couldn't really believe it so I simply moved on, thought it was a border conflict.
When I was about to go, my mom came to me, crying, saying the words "Russia declared war on Ukraine". For the context, my mom is Ukrainian and the majority of our family lives in the eastern parts of Ukraine.
I was so shocked that I simply couldn't really process it in the moment. I tried to cool down my mom, took me time so I came too late to school. My teacher got angry at me for coming too late and I almost even got a bad grade for it. After the lesson, I started to realize what happened, went to my teacher and told her what happened and why I came too late. She said sorry and I went to a friend, told him I can't hold my tears anymore and deregistered to go back home.
The moment I went through the door and left school, I started panicking, barely holding my tears in just to get back home. 15 minutes of internal screaming, crying and pain. As soon as I got back home, I let it all out. Took me a whole 5 days to come back to school (and the people there still talked about Ukraine, so it wasn't that easy for me to simply just do school and move on).
For the sake of humanity, I deeply wish for this war to come to an end. For my family, for all the people who live there and for everyone involved.
#StandWithUkraine
hypocrite
Are you Ukrainian and if so, the school you went to was in Ukraine, what was it like going to class in the middle of a war?
@@Leviathan500 I'm from Germany, although I was very connected with it due to my family. My uncle and some of my grandparents are still in Ukraine, and basically everyday you can hear sirens. So yeah, life goes on normally, you get used to war, kind of.
4:19 "With the intention of annexing the country"
What is this statement based on?
Probably their recent actions of annexing the lands they captured
"On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians"
@@averagepotatoenjoyer Is Russia's justification for that not the fact that the annexed areas are predominantly Russian, or at least Russian speaking? That is not the case with the entirety of Ukraine
@@tritonewt3344 this areas are not Russian or Russian-speaking (only Crimea is).
@@noienzalbe9661 All Novorussia within the boundaries of at least 8 southeastern regions are Russian areas.
I really pray and hope that there will be peace and that this war will end someday. 🙏
oh it will end some day imo how i see this going is the war will end in a Ceasefire in a peace treaty Russia will hold some of the land it controls the war is over so short term Russia wins but long term the Astronomical cost of this war will come back to Bite Putin's Regime it will be one day known as a Pyrrhic victory eventually toppling the Putin Regime and somewhere down the line someone is in charge of Russia who will secede all the land Russia was holding back to Ukraine this time frame could take 5-15 years really unsure how long exactly
Мечтай.
Yes, but Ukraine must win
@@pentti3715 will the Ukrainian just push out the Russian forces? Or will the Ukrainian forces along with its allied also invade Russia, and contribute to another long war?
tigerstar i was waiting foir this video for so long! THank you. Its kinda crazy something so recent and we are watching it in some time lapse like as if it just happened back in ww2
"In 2022, Russia *Suddenly* launched a full scale invasion"
yes, very sudden and completely unexpected, that is why months prior it was moving enough equipment and manpower to wage a short war, as well as establishing numerous fieldhospitals. Definetly not expected.
dont forget the decades of diplomatic and political manoeuvring beforehand by both sides. this conflict has been a while in the making.
Those mobile crematoriums on Ukraine's border were purely for training purposes! Doesn't every army practice their ability to cremate thousands of corpses on the borders of their geopolitical rivals?
No one realy thought putin would do it i mean he does this every time when something happens he doesnt like
@@fraserhill2k159 The mine the USA planted on nord stream 2 was in 2021 for instance.
Overall, it's a blunder. You should only invade if you can quickly and completely knock out the enemy. The Russians miscalculated by a lot.
Hitler: WRITE THAT DOWN!
Нифига... оказывается уже как 9 лет в состоянии войны...
доброе утро
Не знаю, у нас нет войны, у нас спецоперация!
@@thebearking да я вотъ тоже не знаю о какой войнѣ рѣчь идётъ
I was 11 when this war started. Now I'm 19. I want this war to end.
With deoccupation ukrainian places
I was 2 when this war started. Now I'm 11.
Надо ещё указать подавленные восстания в Одессе и Харькове для полной картины.
На Москву
What are the blue pockets in the red territory, are there still Ukrainian holdouts there? Hadn't heard of that.
That's supposed to represent partisan warfare. In another reply, EmperorTigerstar explained some of that and how the dots aren't truly representative of actual areas of operation.
@@zachswaim1956 The most partisan activity was in Mariupol, Melitopol and Kherson, the sources are hard to come by though as they are all either in telegram or twitter.
@@kalistot0_0 Huh?
4:20 The music here is perfect. Totally captures the feelings of dread and horror everyone had on Feb. 24th, 2022, witnessing what we thought was the fall of a sovereign nation to an imperialist, nuclear-armed power.
Where did you get your data on moskovian occupation forces in Donbas before the 20 of April 2014 (in yellow color)? I found only two dated maps, one of wich is stating non-existent cities and objects within them, so clearly not a good source, and the other one is just a one shot picture. I also found citiwise maps for Donetsk and Luhansk regions separately (there were just flags over cities, not territories), but Luhansk set contradicts itself, and a lot of other data, and Donetsk set is deleted from the site I've seen it on, and now I can find only 3 pictures of 3 dates from it.
3:54 the frontline until 2022 at Donetsk was literally next to the city, I think you gave them way too much area west of Donetsk city during the Donbass war time
It's more that Donbass is a city larger than the dot lol.
I would consider Transnistria neutral since they dont have showed the support Belarus did, the 1000 russian soldiers are just to defend (for now)
trans or whatever they, russkue backed puppets
The news of today will become the history of tomorrow.
List of battle (only Russian invasion)
4:22 Snake Island Campaign
4:22: Battle of Antonov Airport
4:22 Capture of Chernobyl
4:22 Battle of Kharkiv
4:22 Battle of Kherson
4:22 Battle of Okhtyrka
4:22 Battle of Sumy
4:22 Siege of Chernihiv
4:22 Siege of Mariupol
4:23 Battle of Kyiv
4:23 Battle of Hostomel
4:23 Capture of Melitopol
4:23 Battle of Volnovakha
4:23 Battle of Lebedyne
4:23: Battle of Mykolaive
4:20 russia did not and does not have the intention of annexing ukraine
Explain them annexing Donbass and other regions then
@@DeezNuts-id8vr Well a whole annexation is very unlikely. But they would probably puppet them and annex some parts near border
@@kalistot0_0 They are interested in all of Ukraine, also Putin doesnt care about the russians in the Donbass, he wants the materials there
Wow this format really tells a story, almost like Russia got mad at how unsuccessful their attempts to infiltrate Donetsk and Luhansk were going and thought they could get away with a quick blitzkrieg. Damn, did they dug themselves a grave with that move
They knew they would be fighting the dystopian world order. They are fighting the EU and US as well. But the people of the free world still support them in the fighting against the colonial might of Europe. 🙏
@@gunterxvoices4101 It never ceases to amaze me how pro-russians call themselves the "free world" when the countries they support are almost always some form of authoritarian regime.
@@nicolaszan1845 And the setter states of the US, and Canada are any better?
@@gunterxvoices4101 .......yes. Yes they are. Considerably better. They have more freedom, freedom of press, democratic elections, and the ability to criticize their government with impunity.
Where freedom of the individual is concerned, there is zero comparison between both sides.
@nicolaszan1845 To be fair, the US does native genocide, has prison slavery and silences whistle-blowers like Patrick Snowden and Julian Assange. There's also the whole largest prisoner population in the world (more than China despite China having over a billion more people than the US) and extreme police brutality. But sure, East bad hurr durr.
Russia almost took Kiev in the first month of the operation. Putin revealed a document signed by Kiev that was the reason why they abandoned the north territory. For those who say that Russia failed, no, people, Russia would win in a week, but geopolitics and economics are not that easy.
Sorry to ruin it for you, but Russia failed terribly. The amount of dead soldiers, lost equipment, economic situation in Russia and even the recent Wagner Group incident are proofs.
@@ved3046информация из воздуха и из телевизора
@@ved3046вам то хохлам виднее 😂
If you think that Russia would win in a week, tell me what is stopping them from doing so.
@@jameeztherandomguy5418ответ очень прост-геополитика
Inaccuracy of Donbas phase, thats actually plenty of additional russian armored columns entered Ukraine proper without even hiding now
Что мы наделали... 2 народа поссорено на долгие годы, множество людей перебито с одной и другой стороны
Всю жизнь так было. Никогда не были друзьями с Украиной.
@@Oleg789i Я бы так не сказал. С востока Украины у меня много друзей. На западе только там всегда так-себе относились к русским
@@Oleg789i як з вами свинотами які перебили купу мирних наших громадян дружити?!
На Украине русофобия и нацизм. Это их политика.
@@alexandrvint7098 в росии ещё больше украинофобов