Every episode on this channel is like this. I once made a joke about this channel that goes: "Remember when the History channel was THIS high quality? Me Neither".
@@ThePRCommanderbasically it prevented the Russians from creating an air corridor into the capital. It’s still arguably considered the most key battle of the war
runway of the Hostomer airport was destroyed in first days of the war, thus town lost strategic importance and main fights moved to other places like Moshun there are available videos on on youtube about Hostomel fight
I'm Ukrainian and I've always been on top on the situation from the start of invasion. The quality and precision of facts in this documentary is impressive. It's the best one I saw so far.
Where do you think they will strike in this offensive. And will there be 2 fronts with possibly one being across the dnipro river and is it likely that they will try and get behind bakhmut to liberate it. I just want to see the hrim 2 in action as well as the western tanks. Can't wait to see the challenger 2 kicking ass. I'm from uk
@@brookwhiteman9810 Ultimately only the President, Zaluzhny, Budanov and their advisors know for sure. It's important to keep true information out of public outlets in order to have a successful offensive. I'm sure we all will find out soon though
KG, makes good videos but he's not always right and the fact he claims this war is all rus fault and that it's an illegal invasion proves he either has no idea what's going on or he is pandering to YT and ukr simps
The art looks like what people used to draw of descriptions of battlefields before cameras and phones were invented. Since In bakmut everyone is in trenches someone should re-edit and make it look black and white like ww1
@@LitoSi they certainly are biased, but they do state hard facts and also give official Russian views/numbers on these events as a comparison to Ukrainian ones
@LitoSi atleast I'm not crazy. I love K&G until I listened to this video. To be repeatedly saying unprovoked and consistently inserting their bias pretty much ruined the video for me and I probably won't be supporting the channel anymore. Do your research @kings and generals Ukraine has crossed political lines and broken major treaties with Russia to encourage this conflict. I'm from USA and my government is quite literally pushing Ukraine to do this and is equally at fault.
With the annexetion of Kherson/ Zaporizia/ Luhansk/ Donbass Putin has created a situation were Russia can't back out. This Process has to be recognized as illegal and reversed, but any Russian who even mention this will be prosecuted as a traitor. We have to expect that Russia is willing to keep this conflict going for a long time :(
@@unitedfloridamapper7669 Why are you lying about 60% of the Ukrainian population having fled? Source? A simple google search states that app. 5-6 million have fled to neighbooring countries?
But not care for all the Russian wounded, dead, and families that lost someone because were forced to fight or face life in prison? It’s a double edged sword. But I can agree Ukrainians are suffering more. Hopefully we get peace as soon as possible.
@@asdkjh4370 Many citizens of Ukraine left for Poland. A lot of people who lost everything. But also many people who simply went to Poland to live a full life. Instead of defending Ukraine, these people fled. As a citizen of Ukraine, I am ashamed of such people. As long as some protect the country, others do not give life to the citizens of Poland. If it were my will for those people whose house did not pass through the war, but he ran away to live at the expense of the citizens of another country, I would force such people to work for the good of this country. Unfortunately, all strong people and patriots are now on the front lines or have died, others are volunteering, the rest are working to keep the state functioning. And only weak people who were not personally affected by the war flee. But do not condemn people who fled from the war zone. War is hell trust my experience
@@user-qf1tp7rm3w yo forgot to say that mostly women and children left Ukraine. And in most case, only people that could do that. People that doesn't have assets to do that remain... women, children, older people...
From watching battles from the time of Alexander the great, Khalid bin Walid to WW2 battles to now on an ongoing battle at this channel it simply amazes me, what a time to be alive indeed
Muchas gracias por doblarlo al Español no se mucho ingles pero algo que agradezco es que estén los subtítulos en Español para poder verlos a cada uno, tu canal es excepcional.
I'm not even a minute in and I am quite impressed by the animation on this video! The character rigs and illustrations are very well done. History will remember who was the aggressor in this conflict, stand with Ukraine!
im not with any side war is ugly but we have to be fair and aknowledge that the ukranian army have been shelling russians in the donbas since 2014 for 8 years before the russian army finally intervening
@@massoudhabchy7120 : true. However the Ukrainians were only countering a separatist faction in those regions, spurred by Russian espionage. Then what prompted the full on invasion by Russia more than a year ago? Remember Czechoslovakia in 1938? Same play done by a fascist leader back then. Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@massoudhabchy7120 While true it's still a very bad excuse to invade Ukraine, especially seeing that it only started after the first invasion in 2014 and the subsequent arms deliveries to the separatists by Russia. Not to mention the years of propaganda setting up these citizens against their government in Kyiv
This video is absolutely amazing and very accurate. I remember each of these events as if it were yesterday. Especially when I had a class in the college and just read that Kherson was liberated. It was so surprising that it was hard to believe, but everyone was very happy. Although, it was a little under-emphasized that a vastly superior enemy force was held in a completely surrounded Mariupol for 82 days and for 86 days in general. An absolute feat. Also the fact that the small hero city of Bakhmut has been held for about 9 months by now is no less a feat, despite the fact that Russia is throwing almost all of its free resources into this direction and the same 9 months declares that the city will fall in just a little while. I wanted everyone to know about the exploits of our heroes, because it is very difficult to survive in that hell and not go crazy. By the way, I liked it from the first seconds of the video. It is not so often that someone mentions that the war did not start on February 24, 2022, but much earlier. It is important
The Ukrainian equipment upgrades reminds me of a “Tech Tree” in a video game. As the campaign progresses, the Ukrainian military unlocks more and more powerful weapons in its Tech Tree.
As a former US soldier, I sometimes think about going over there. Not necessarily to fight, but to aid Ukraine in any way they could use me. Im totally impressed by the fighting skill and courage of the Ukrainian military and it's people. 🇺🇲♥️🇺🇦
@@omarrr166 you comparing iraq with russia attacking Ukraine???? Cmon man. You cant jist say "iraq" and tjink you got a point. To the american: if you tjink you can be helpfull go. You dont need to go and be a soldier. Ukrainians need help in all sectors.🤝
@@pipo4158 Yeah. Even going as a tourist would be helpful, foreign money coming in will help out their economy. If you don’t want to fight - very understandable! - then you could volunteer for the Frontline Kitchen I think it’s called. They make food for the soldiers every day, so they can eat high quality fresh food every day. Keeps morale high, helps civilians feel they are contributing and stay connected to the army - of which they may well have family members currently in it and involved in combat operations! - and keeps the soldiers operating at peak efficiency and health (for combat. Obviously war is unhealthy in general, even without injuries)
@@pipo4158 Alternatively, if you have combat medic training, OP could either provide training to Ukrainian medic aspirants, or volunteer for a position in a combat squad.
Go train them.. they got regular people going into war with little to no training. They’re running out of troops, I think every country from NATO should send about 5000 troops each! That would make a huge difference, a well trained army can wipe out a lot of these Russians.
@@andreyshevchenko4689 that's a sickening thing to say Mr Russian Bot. If you are a human just open your eyes and see the devastation that is happening to your country. Consider humbling yourself to God and asking Him what's going on instead of trusting that fake sick big Kirril.
It really is hard to believe just how much of an impact HIMARS has had in the war, and the fact a single weapon system has had such a dramatic and obvious effect still boggles the mind. Literally overnight the russian artillery advantage dropped massively.
@@comensee2461 While this is true, the resources required to dull the impact of Himars is huge. Scattering ammo and shells between different warehouses. Constant radar monitoring and gps jamming. Limited fuel supplies and such.
@@comensee2461 Not entirely true, the main thing HIMARS has done is force the russians to move their supply depots far away from the lines which with how beyond gods awful their logistics are has massively reduced the amount of firepower they can deploy. While there aren't as many things being blown up the effect has been very significant.
It makes me wonder how fast would US Forces absolutely obliterate russian army in a direct fight if single piece of equipment is making such a difference.
@@Manaphy0882 Just look at Desert Storm for that, took 4 days from the US crossing into Iraq (Feb 24 ironically enough) for there to be no Iraqi army. The last big tank battle of the 20th Century was when about a dozen vehicles of the US Eagle Troop absolutely deleted about 100 tanks (and many other armored vehicles) of the "elite" Republican Guard.
@@Manaphy0882 the worrying possibility in a war between russia and the U.S is not the bombing of cities with nuclear weapons (both sides aren't stupid enough to do that) but bombing the frontline of troops, causing essentially massive troop deaths due to radiation poisoning and the blast radiuses.
I may be wrong, but the Kherson Counter Offensive, at least in the eyes of the news reporting, was the most shocking turn of the war. The fact that Ukraine not only managed to hold its ground but was actually starting to retake seized land was absolutely mind blowing
Ukrainian army surprised the hell out of everyone at every turn of the war. I thought Kharkiv would fall within a week of the full scale invasion. The city is literally some 20 miles away from the russian border. Simply astonishing.
The fact hat everyone is surprised Ukraine put up a fight and is winning and or holding its own surprises me!!!!! Why does everyone think Russia would take Ukraine? Do you not think Ukraine would defend itself?? If my government came into my state and ordered Marshall law there are a ton of people I know that would go to the hills and put up a fight. Never under estimate an opponent especially ones you Invade, we know all about it with our fight in Iraq, which I spent almost 18 months on the front line of.
@@marc2638 Putting up a fight is not surprising. But Ukraine did not have a reputation for being a military juggernaut while Russia did. This war is not only testimony to Ukrainian spirit but how far Russia has fallen
@@mesofiusRussia hasn’t targeted Kharkiv. They targeted the areas in Donetsk and Lugansk where people were being killed and oppressed for speaking Russian and wanting to maintain a link to their culture and heritage. Kharkiv is not the target yet.
the protests during the blackouts were not about giving up to russian demands in exchange for electricity, it was about unfair distribution of electricity. For example in Vinnitsya employees of the local energy distribution company NEVER shut down their houses and some "elite" residential blocks
I know it's about war going on right now but being used to watch history documentary in your voice it really felt like I was waiting a history documentary, Keep it up I love your documentary and it's style
I hope someone makes a good film about it. It needs to be kept in the western consciousness if vigilance against Russian aggression is to be maintained.
@@trojanthedog then they should show corrupt ukr using civilians as human shields and abandoning their forces to be surrounded by an enemy that they and the west provoked
holy jeebers, the art style on this one is off the chart. that's to stay in the content on this channel the production quality is already superb, but the art style here really feels like you're put in the middle of the events being depected with all the emotions that go with it. it's a step up from what already is a 10 out of 10 production quality.
If my memory serves me right, Kharkiv region was liberated first in September and Kherson was the next one around November. They use deception to draw Russian forces towards Kherson and counterattacking in Kharkiv. Then they slowly ate at the logistics in Kherson until Russian forces retreated.
Great summary of events that we have forgotten. This is going to be a long conflict and a lot of suffering from the aggressor and defender. Thanks again K&G for continuous updates and reminders of what is still going on, on a daily basis.
Wow, that is incredible how your work on every episode is good. It is actually high level, starting from animation in the very beginning and finishing analyzing situation, fantastic!
@enter tainment seriously Ivan? The Ukrainians have had a separate culture and ethnic identity for a very long time. This invasion has only reinforced it
Crazy that you provided all the audio tracks in the different languages 🤯🤯 good job guys! 👏 This in depth video on Ukraine is very much needed and appreciated 🙌🤗🙏🎉
We've been told for long that Russia has one the greatest army on the planet (also thanks to CoD MW2 for that). On 24 Feb 2022 we all think Ukraine won't hold a week, even some "experts" think it'll be done in 3 days, but then weeks, months, a year gone by, but Ukraine still hold. Them Ukrainian boys really shows us the capabilities of the Russian armed forces, which we can say the second strongest army in Ukraine
Wars are hard and many factors playing in one being the best. Overall their is no best army it depends on the fallacies of the army attacking and any slip ups they male more tha. Just sheer overwhelming power
There will of course be many other points worth mentioning. Personally I would add the endless announcements of nuclear red lines from Russia, which Ukraine and its partners cross, only for Medvedev to declare a new nuclear red line. What are we up to now? Number 10? Even the grain deal was subject to a nuclear threat for a while.
Thank you so much Kings And Generals! Again, this is such excellent work. The best I have seen to date! Thank you for giving the public such insightful views with such an innovative format!
@@miceliusbeverus6447 It did get the black sea fleet away from the coast. It also demonstrated shocking ineptitude and complacency on the part of the Russian navy. They should have been able to shoot down those missiles and be good enough at damage control to not have her SINK!
@@miceliusbeverus6447 it changed literally everything, russian navy was kicked out of the area and the Snake Island was liberated, this saved Odesa and basically the country is Moldova from a marine assault
Isn't it crazy how the script was written a month ago but Bakhmut is still somehow holding? If it continues for another month it will overtake Verdun as the longest battle in all of history.
It's crazy to think that a battle in modern times would be anywhere near Verdun's length. Thankfully Bakhmut won't be as bloody as Verdun (over 700,000 casualties at Verdun if anyone is curious about the casualties.)
Yes, the Ukrainian defenders still hold in the western part of the town. Though the ultimate withdrawal is almost inevitable, unless something miraculous happens. Still it is remarkable, but also sad when one sees the pictures of the towns' ruins
What the Ukrainian People have been able to accomplish thus far in this conflict is simply amazing. Hopefully this conflict will end soon so the Ukrainian People can get back to their lives. They’ve earned that.
A superb summation of the key points, although I was surprised that you didn't include the battle at Hostomel Airport, which the Ukrainians won, preventing Russia from simply flying thousands of troops in very close to Kyiv.
I think it's part of a larger fight for Kiev, there were several equally important battles, the battle for Hostomel was the most media-relevant of them
While I am aware that HiMARS means High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, I like to think that HIMARS now stands for High Impact Mobile Artillery Rocket System considering the effect just 4 of them had.
I would argue #16 would be the Russian stated goal or preventing NATO expansion causing NATO expansion with Finland and potentially Sweden. It's important to the war because it shows a strategic goal failure for Russia as a consequence of Invading Ukraine. Russia made the idea of Neutral countries in Europe potentially more problematic.
after the Soviet union fell, Ukraine held a lot of Soviet nukes. the Budapest treaty saw the return of those nukes in exchange for Russia acknowledgement of Ukraine's sovereignty
Thanks for telling the truth to the world. Another night in Ukraine under missile attack. But Ukraine will withstand, gain victory over evil and achieve justice.
hi this is a great video and i love the new animation style but i'm pretty sure have the city of ivano-frankivsk incorrectly labeled on your map. the city is located much closer to the romanian border and the bystrytsia river. i think the city you have labeled as ivano-frankivsk is actually khmelnytskyi by the southern buh river. it would be nice if you could fix this for your next incredible update for us. thanks, love all of your videos! :)
@@FlyshBungo2 i'm glad someone else noticed! now that you mentioned it, it could be a stylistic choice but i also agree that a more accurate map would be nice. these are still great videos though. :)
When I seen that 40 mile long armor collom even I thought Ukraine was in deep trouble. How come that 40 mile with all that armor and trucks could not back it to the capital ? Ukraine needs all our support ! Long Live Ukraine !
They ran out of petrol, I guess, the petrol trucks were targeted by Ukr ambush squads. I saw those trucks in occupied Balaklia as russian columns drove through.
@@Romkosss Even more simple, corruption, sold the fuel for vodka and cheap knock off Chinese Tyres instead of military standard, another YT Perun has a channel history full of review of Ukranian, Russian and Global military processes. Vanro = lying to get promotion, so everyone is fully focused on the advance Comrade Commander etc
@@Romkosss Not just that. Low level commanders weren't told that they are in Belarus to Invade Ukraine, they were told that they are there for training. So a lot of them figured they will just write down that they trained, but not really bother, meaning that there was a lot of precious fuel and supplies to sell for some nice profit. By the time the order came to move into Ukraine, they quite simply did not have the supplies needed to actually get to Kyiv. Good old systematic corruption.
Slava rus from US... corrupt ukr caused this war and they lost over 200k ppl at a rate of 8:1 against rus; most all ukr well trained troops are dead and they use ppl as cannon fodder to hold the lines... ukr ppl don't even want to fight to defend their corrupt gov as 10mil have fled and men don't want to join up to the point corrupt ukr has kidnapped ppl even as young as 16 to be forced to the front... ukr deserves to be completely taken over by rus and we in US if anything should be bombing corrupt ukr not supporting it especially after all of ukr war crimes during and before this war
Poor M270 MLRS isn’t getting any love. Ukraine received 6 M270 from the UK, 5 from Germany, 2 from France and 2 from Italy. Those fire the same GMLRS rockets as the HIMARS, but have 12 rockets each instead of the 6 of HIMARS.
This is absolutely the best video you have produced to date. The detail of your narrative is astonishing to say the least. Commentary is supurb and riviting. The artwork, maps and all your background is amazing. Thank you for this most instructive bit of hisoritcal events
Had the Russian army managed to capture Kyiv I'm pretty sure it would've meant a significant a blow to the Ukrainian army's morale, and the Russian blitzkrieg would have continued for probably another month or something like that. p.s.: Very good editing and illustrations!
@@merlijnbazuine5075 losing Kyiv in the first week or two would have been a big blow to international effort. Western support would likely be much more limited, leaving the Ukrainian army handicapped. If that happened, I have no doubt Ukraine would keep fighting, but it would be losing quickly without Western weapons, and quickly become a small scale guerrilla war.
@@merlijnbazuine5075 the soviet invaders will lose as the Ukrainian people are willing to fight. The biggest surprise is how incompetent💩putler's army is.🤣🤣🤣
@@pyroman1382 Javelines and anti-tank weapons started coming in by the second week of March. They were promised and shipped pretty much as soon as it became clear Kyiv wasn't going to fall. Without those, how well do you think Ukraine would have done in the first critical months?
I can’t believe we can watch this for free on RUclips. Honestly the BBC, or any other sort of news outlet or history themed channel would struggle to make something on this level with millions of pounds of budget
Just a reminder that both the Kherson and Kharkiv counteroffensive were mostly led by old T 64 tanks and out of date T 72 tanks of the Ukrainian armor brigade. They were also accompany by light IFVs. Now, with modern Western tanks and Western made IFVs Ukraine have more firepower at their disposal.
Challengers, leopards and abrahams are all products of cold war. Created in the minds of facing the soviets in the future I'm quite excited to see the showdown of the modern mbt Well..if there's still T-90 remaining in their stockpile lmao
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41:23 what the name of the music?
The animation is so awesome in this episode!
From certain stand points who’d you believe is winning the war?
Your videos are the best on RUclips yeah i say it again the BEST...
@kings and generals can you make shows on the foolhardy invasion of iraq?
Props to the art and editing department for this episode - the production values are spectacular
Yeah the artwork was great
9:40 Is a great conceptual visual.
*This series has been amazing.*
Every episode on this channel is like this. I once made a joke about this channel that goes:
"Remember when the History channel was THIS high quality? Me Neither".
Not true, the Russian art is far better and Ukraine will lose any art contest anyway!
🤺🤯🤣
This video is so well edited, props to the editing team. I’m very impressed!
you forgot to mention the cameraman
They made just 1 mistake 38:08
@@Nemanja_P. didn’t even notice that script hic cup, good catch
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@@mat3714 :D
The battle of Hostomel definitely is one of the most interesting to me.
Why is that?
@@ThePRCommanderbasically it prevented the Russians from creating an air corridor into the capital. It’s still arguably considered the most key battle of the war
runway of the Hostomer airport was destroyed in first days of the war, thus town lost strategic importance and main fights moved to other places like Moshun
there are available videos on on youtube about Hostomel fight
There was a very good vid on that battle put out a few weeks ago, titled 'Battle for Hostomel Airport - Animated Analysis' by '@TheWarArchive'
Yeah the thing is bogged down with fog of war
Can't get information out of hostomel during the occupation
I'm Ukrainian and I've always been on top on the situation from the start of invasion. The quality and precision of facts in this documentary is impressive. It's the best one I saw so far.
Where do you think they will strike in this offensive. And will there be 2 fronts with possibly one being across the dnipro river and is it likely that they will try and get behind bakhmut to liberate it. I just want to see the hrim 2 in action as well as the western tanks. Can't wait to see the challenger 2 kicking ass. I'm from uk
@@brookwhiteman9810 Ultimately only the President, Zaluzhny, Budanov and their advisors know for sure. It's important to keep true information out of public outlets in order to have a successful offensive. I'm sure we all will find out soon though
@Petee Black refreshing to see a civilian concerned about op sec bravo, my man.
KG, makes good videos but he's not always right and the fact he claims this war is all rus fault and that it's an illegal invasion proves he either has no idea what's going on or he is pandering to YT and ukr simps
@@jaybelle1909 it’s not a justified invasion
This new animation style is awesome! I hope you keep it for your next videos!
The art in this video is just outstanding. The content as well
The art looks like what people used to draw of descriptions of battlefields before cameras and phones were invented. Since In bakmut everyone is in trenches someone should re-edit and make it look black and white like ww1
This series has been amazing. Thanks K&G! You guys do a good job being as fair as possible with the information available to us. 👍
Fair? They are bias and it's so obvious I don' get how anyone could think they are 'fair'. This war has 2 bad sides and not just 1.
@@LitoSi they certainly are biased, but they do state hard facts and also give official Russian views/numbers on these events as a comparison to Ukrainian ones
@@LitoSi too bad sides? I don't see any ukrainians torturing and murdering civilians. You need to get real
@LitoSi atleast I'm not crazy. I love K&G until I listened to this video. To be repeatedly saying unprovoked and consistently inserting their bias pretty much ruined the video for me and I probably won't be supporting the channel anymore. Do your research @kings and generals Ukraine has crossed political lines and broken major treaties with Russia to encourage this conflict. I'm from USA and my government is quite literally pushing Ukraine to do this and is equally at fault.
@@nickt9331 you are crazy. If you are an American you're infected with bladimir Putin's toxic paranoia, like the rest of the people in Moscow
Let’s hope this war ends quickly and the Ukrainian people can make a swift recovery afterwards. 🇺🇦
With the annexetion of Kherson/ Zaporizia/ Luhansk/ Donbass Putin has created a situation were Russia can't back out.
This Process has to be recognized as illegal and reversed, but any Russian who even mention this will be prosecuted as a traitor.
We have to expect that Russia is willing to keep this conflict going for a long time :(
@@unitedfloridamapper7669 Why are you lying about 60% of the Ukrainian population having fled? Source? A simple google search states that app. 5-6 million have fled to neighbooring countries?
@@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082 it's never going to look the same. Whole towns are rubble.
But not care for all the Russian wounded, dead, and families that lost someone because were forced to fight or face life in prison? It’s a double edged sword.
But I can agree Ukrainians are suffering more. Hopefully we get peace as soon as possible.
It depends on how much aid US and EU would give to Ukraine, for now only 30% was given, from what was promised by West. Sirian war last 10 years.
as an ukrainian, I really appreciate your work, everything looks clear and detailed at the same time
Badass name :D
Hope you stay safe friend
Stay safe mate, and give 'em hell. Can't wait to see what your boys and girls get up to with those Leopards, Challengers, and Abrams coming in.
@@asdkjh4370 Many citizens of Ukraine left for Poland. A lot of people who lost everything. But also many people who simply went to Poland to live a full life. Instead of defending Ukraine, these people fled. As a citizen of Ukraine, I am ashamed of such people. As long as some protect the country, others do not give life to the citizens of Poland. If it were my will for those people whose house did not pass through the war, but he ran away to live at the expense of the citizens of another country, I would force such people to work for the good of this country. Unfortunately, all strong people and patriots are now on the front lines or have died, others are volunteering, the rest are working to keep the state functioning. And only weak people who were not personally affected by the war flee. But do not condemn people who fled from the war zone. War is hell trust my experience
@@user-qf1tp7rm3w well said
@@user-qf1tp7rm3w yo forgot to say that mostly women and children left Ukraine. And in most case, only people that could do that. People that doesn't have assets to do that remain... women, children, older people...
From watching battles from the time of Alexander the great, Khalid bin Walid to WW2 battles to now on an ongoing battle at this channel it simply amazes me, what a time to be alive indeed
Muchas gracias por doblarlo al Español no se mucho ingles pero algo que agradezco es que estén los subtítulos en Español para poder verlos a cada uno, tu canal es excepcional.
I'm not even a minute in and I am quite impressed by the animation on this video! The character rigs and illustrations are very well done. History will remember who was the aggressor in this conflict, stand with Ukraine!
im not with any side war is ugly but we have to be fair and aknowledge that the ukranian army have been shelling russians in the donbas since 2014 for 8 years before the russian army finally intervening
@@massoudhabchy7120 : true. However the Ukrainians were only countering a separatist faction in those regions, spurred by Russian espionage. Then what prompted the full on invasion by Russia more than a year ago?
Remember Czechoslovakia in 1938? Same play done by a fascist leader back then.
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@massoudhabchy7120 While true it's still a very bad excuse to invade Ukraine, especially seeing that it only started after the first invasion in 2014 and the subsequent arms deliveries to the separatists by Russia. Not to mention the years of propaganda setting up these citizens against their government in Kyiv
@@massoudhabchy7120 That is simply untrue3. Donbas IS Ukraine and it was captured by the Russian Army in 2014.
Yo that’s what I said😂😂
This video is absolutely amazing and very accurate. I remember each of these events as if it were yesterday. Especially when I had a class in the college and just read that Kherson was liberated. It was so surprising that it was hard to believe, but everyone was very happy. Although, it was a little under-emphasized that a vastly superior enemy force was held in a completely surrounded Mariupol for 82 days and for 86 days in general. An absolute feat. Also the fact that the small hero city of Bakhmut has been held for about 9 months by now is no less a feat, despite the fact that Russia is throwing almost all of its free resources into this direction and the same 9 months declares that the city will fall in just a little while. I wanted everyone to know about the exploits of our heroes, because it is very difficult to survive in that hell and not go crazy. By the way, I liked it from the first seconds of the video. It is not so often that someone mentions that the war did not start on February 24, 2022, but much earlier. It is important
The Ukrainian equipment upgrades reminds me of a “Tech Tree” in a video game. As the campaign progresses, the Ukrainian military unlocks more and more powerful weapons in its Tech Tree.
Indeed. It makes me sad each upgrade is paid for in Ukrainian lives however.
Final weapon will be nukes 👏👏👏👏
Boom beach hhhh
@@seantomlinson3320 “Do not be sad that these men died, thank God that such men lived in the first place”.
-General Patton
@@crisj45 Hopefully, I can’t wait.😊
As a former US soldier, I sometimes think about going over there. Not necessarily to fight, but to aid Ukraine in any way they could use me. Im totally impressed by the fighting skill and courage of the Ukrainian military and it's people. 🇺🇲♥️🇺🇦
The same way you helped in Iraq ?
@@omarrr166 you comparing iraq with russia attacking Ukraine???? Cmon man. You cant jist say "iraq" and tjink you got a point.
To the american: if you tjink you can be helpfull go. You dont need to go and be a soldier. Ukrainians need help in all sectors.🤝
@@pipo4158 Yeah. Even going as a tourist would be helpful, foreign money coming in will help out their economy.
If you don’t want to fight - very understandable! - then you could volunteer for the Frontline Kitchen I think it’s called. They make food for the soldiers every day, so they can eat high quality fresh food every day. Keeps morale high, helps civilians feel they are contributing and stay connected to the army - of which they may well have family members currently in it and involved in combat operations! - and keeps the soldiers operating at peak efficiency and health (for combat. Obviously war is unhealthy in general, even without injuries)
@@pipo4158 Alternatively, if you have combat medic training, OP could either provide training to Ukrainian medic aspirants, or volunteer for a position in a combat squad.
Go train them.. they got regular people going into war with little to no training. They’re running out of troops, I think every country from NATO should send about 5000 troops each! That would make a huge difference, a well trained army can wipe out a lot of these Russians.
Continue to pray for Ukraine and its people!
Me too
Amen
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@@andreyshevchenko4689 it works all the time.
@@andreyshevchenko4689 that's a sickening thing to say Mr Russian Bot. If you are a human just open your eyes and see the devastation that is happening to your country. Consider humbling yourself to God and asking Him what's going on instead of trusting that fake sick big Kirril.
It really is hard to believe just how much of an impact HIMARS has had in the war, and the fact a single weapon system has had such a dramatic and obvious effect still boggles the mind. Literally overnight the russian artillery advantage dropped massively.
@@comensee2461 While this is true, the resources required to dull the impact of Himars is huge. Scattering ammo and shells between different warehouses. Constant radar monitoring and gps jamming. Limited fuel supplies and such.
@@comensee2461 Not entirely true, the main thing HIMARS has done is force the russians to move their supply depots far away from the lines which with how beyond gods awful their logistics are has massively reduced the amount of firepower they can deploy. While there aren't as many things being blown up the effect has been very significant.
It makes me wonder how fast would US Forces absolutely obliterate russian army in a direct fight if single piece of equipment is making such a difference.
@@Manaphy0882 Just look at Desert Storm for that, took 4 days from the US crossing into Iraq (Feb 24 ironically enough) for there to be no Iraqi army. The last big tank battle of the 20th Century was when about a dozen vehicles of the US Eagle Troop absolutely deleted about 100 tanks (and many other armored vehicles) of the "elite" Republican Guard.
@@Manaphy0882 the worrying possibility in a war between russia and the U.S is not the bombing of cities with nuclear weapons (both sides aren't stupid enough to do that) but bombing the frontline of troops, causing essentially massive troop deaths due to radiation poisoning and the blast radiuses.
Those animations definetly deserve a praise.
The quality of these videos are on a another level.
As a ukrainian: what great editors you have. Thanks for the video!
I may be wrong, but the Kherson Counter Offensive, at least in the eyes of the news reporting, was the most shocking turn of the war. The fact that Ukraine not only managed to hold its ground but was actually starting to retake seized land was absolutely mind blowing
Ukrainian army surprised the hell out of everyone at every turn of the war. I thought Kharkiv would fall within a week of the full scale invasion. The city is literally some 20 miles away from the russian border. Simply astonishing.
Himars made holes in Russian logistic and left front line without supplies, that's why.
The fact hat everyone is surprised Ukraine put up a fight and is winning and or holding its own surprises me!!!!! Why does everyone think Russia would take Ukraine? Do you not think Ukraine would defend itself?? If my government came into my state and ordered Marshall law there are a ton of people I know that would go to the hills and put up a fight. Never under estimate an opponent especially ones you Invade, we know all about it with our fight in Iraq, which I spent almost 18 months on the front line of.
@@marc2638 Putting up a fight is not surprising. But Ukraine did not have a reputation for being a military juggernaut while Russia did. This war is not only testimony to Ukrainian spirit but how far Russia has fallen
@@mesofiusRussia hasn’t targeted Kharkiv. They targeted the areas in Donetsk and Lugansk where people were being killed and oppressed for speaking Russian and wanting to maintain a link to their culture and heritage. Kharkiv is not the target yet.
One of my favorite parts of this channel is the beautifully well drawn animations. Keep it up man!
the protests during the blackouts were not about giving up to russian demands in exchange for electricity, it was about unfair distribution of electricity. For example in Vinnitsya employees of the local energy distribution company NEVER shut down their houses and some "elite" residential blocks
Another top-notch video. Cheers!
I know it's about war going on right now but being used to watch history documentary in your voice it really felt like I was waiting a history documentary,
Keep it up I love your documentary and it's style
Thank you so much for this video, I've had a bit of trouble keeping up with everything going on in Ukraine through the media. Very helpful!
Has anyone else noticed Kings and Generals and Perun both release on the same time. Because I see you both.
It's good to have a recap of all major events in this terrible conflict. Keep up the good work!
Absolutely wonderful recap of the top events of the War... Top notch narration and production work!
I would very much like to see a breakdown of the battle for Mariupol.
I hope someone makes a good film about it. It needs to be kept in the western consciousness if vigilance against Russian aggression is to be maintained.
@@trojanthedog then they should show corrupt ukr using civilians as human shields and abandoning their forces to be surrounded by an enemy that they and the west provoked
holy jeebers, the art style on this one is off the chart. that's to stay in the content on this channel the production quality is already superb, but the art style here really feels like you're put in the middle of the events being depected with all the emotions that go with it. it's a step up from what already is a 10 out of 10 production quality.
Okay...
Those new animations/drawings are absolute fire!!!!
Kings and Generals has without question presented the most complete coverage of this momentous conflict.
Thank you all.
momentous my ass
No, if he did that you'd know rus has been winning from the start in a war corrupt ukr and US caused; yes performing underwhelming but still winning
I appreciate the detail. Thanks! I think if hostomel fell, things would have gone differently.
This channel is beyond words!! Just great in everything. Thanks for the detailed animations I love it. Big hugs from Brazil!!!
The illustrations were great. Amazing work.
If my memory serves me right, Kharkiv region was liberated first in September and Kherson was the next one around November. They use deception to draw Russian forces towards Kherson and counterattacking in Kharkiv. Then they slowly ate at the logistics in Kherson until Russian forces retreated.
Great summary of events that we have forgotten. This is going to be a long conflict and a lot of suffering from the aggressor and defender. Thanks again K&G for continuous updates and reminders of what is still going on, on a daily basis.
Seeing a big western RUclipsr still talking about Ukraine, thank you.
holy sh*t the opening cinematic animations are on point, the animators deserve a beer
Wow, that is incredible how your work on every episode is good. It is actually high level, starting from animation in the very beginning and finishing analyzing situation, fantastic!
This was masterfully put. All I can say is: Slava Ukraini!
Ukrainians are pretty much Russian lol.
@@entertainment-mj1rv no they aren't and I dare you to ask one of them that
@@black-uh1df they are in denial.
@enter tainment seriously Ivan? The Ukrainians have had a separate culture and ethnic identity for a very long time. This invasion has only reinforced it
Crazy that you provided all the audio tracks in the different languages 🤯🤯 good job guys! 👏 This in depth video on Ukraine is very much needed and appreciated 🙌🤗🙏🎉
Man these visuals are breath-taking.
Well done bud
Awesome animation & graphics!
We've been told for long that Russia has one the greatest army on the planet (also thanks to CoD MW2 for that). On 24 Feb 2022 we all think Ukraine won't hold a week, even some "experts" think it'll be done in 3 days, but then weeks, months, a year gone by, but Ukraine still hold. Them Ukrainian boys really shows us the capabilities of the Russian armed forces, which we can say the second strongest army in Ukraine
Wars are hard and many factors playing in one being the best. Overall their is no best army it depends on the fallacies of the army attacking and any slip ups they male more tha. Just sheer overwhelming power
Russia and China are paper Tigers. No proof of good miltary Operations. US military is roman army russia is some guys from a village.
There will of course be many other points worth mentioning. Personally I would add the endless announcements of nuclear red lines from Russia, which Ukraine and its partners cross, only for Medvedev to declare a new nuclear red line. What are we up to now? Number 10? Even the grain deal was subject to a nuclear threat for a while.
I can't talk about Medvedev in a serious video
@@KingsandGenerals That's fair.
@@KingsandGenerals 😂😂😂😂
What a good recap of the events. Thank you very much. Glory to the Ukrainian heroes 💙💛
Very very informative, and packaged without the long talks that other channels bore us with. Good work, team!
I really want this channel's next video on this topic to be the "aftermath" of the war. 🙏
I'm Ukrainian. Thank you for your job. You make outstanding documentaries. Дякую, ти справжній друг України.
The art style is top notch. Love it.
Thank you so much Kings And Generals! Again, this is such excellent work. The best I have seen to date! Thank you for giving the public such insightful views with such an innovative format!
Thank you from Ukraine for your great work!
before watching: turning the flagship Moscwa into a submarine has to be on the list.
Depends. Symbolically, it's a huge thing, but strategically, sinking her didn't change much.
#5
@@miceliusbeverus6447 It did get the black sea fleet away from the coast. It also demonstrated shocking ineptitude and complacency on the part of the Russian navy. They should have been able to shoot down those missiles and be good enough at damage control to not have her SINK!
A great moral booster for all of the Ukrainian people
@@miceliusbeverus6447 it changed literally everything, russian navy was kicked out of the area and the Snake Island was liberated, this saved Odesa and basically the country is Moldova from a marine assault
Isn't it crazy how the script was written a month ago but Bakhmut is still somehow holding? If it continues for another month it will overtake Verdun as the longest battle in all of history.
I doubt it will but... if it does... that's fucking insane.
It's crazy to think that a battle in modern times would be anywhere near Verdun's length.
Thankfully Bakhmut won't be as bloody as Verdun (over 700,000 casualties at Verdun if anyone is curious about the casualties.)
Yes, the Ukrainian defenders still hold in the western part of the town. Though the ultimate withdrawal is almost inevitable, unless something miraculous happens. Still it is remarkable, but also sad when one sees the pictures of the towns' ruins
@@janboreczek3045 there is not much loss in Bakhmut. The most we lost is so many Ukrainian lives, it hurts so badly.
What the Ukrainian People have been able to accomplish thus far in this conflict is simply amazing. Hopefully this conflict will end soon so the Ukrainian People can get back to their lives. They’ve earned that.
We lost so much, I'm not sure if Ukraine will be able to recover
They sided with the devil they will be punished for it.
@@DavidChristosAlexandros how have they sided with the devil? You mean they fought against the devil
Spectacular quality! Both in terms of editing and value of information.
Thanks for this.
Battle of Mariupol probably stand as the most memorable fighting in Ukraine war so far, it remembering me with "the last stand" by Sabaton
Great video. The animation is extremely top-notch, especially that beginning montage
This video made me weep for everyone dying in this conflict. Beautifully made, well done K&G
This is so well done all across the board, thanks guys.
A superb summation of the key points, although I was surprised that you didn't include the battle at Hostomel Airport, which the Ukrainians won, preventing Russia from simply flying thousands of troops in very close to Kyiv.
I think it's part of a larger fight for Kiev, there were several equally important battles, the battle for Hostomel was the most media-relevant of them
Thank you for supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦
While I am aware that HiMARS means High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, I like to think that HIMARS now stands for High Impact Mobile Artillery Rocket System considering the effect just 4 of them had.
Great content as usual. Love the animation and art style too.🇺🇦
One of the most visually impressive videos I have seen from anywhere covering the war. Instantly liked, and now subscribed. Brilliantly done.
I would argue #16 would be the Russian stated goal or preventing NATO expansion causing NATO expansion with Finland and potentially Sweden. It's important to the war because it shows a strategic goal failure for Russia as a consequence of Invading Ukraine. Russia made the idea of Neutral countries in Europe potentially more problematic.
Every video has better graphics! I'm very confident to say that this is the best animated history channel in all RUclips history....
Props to the artists who made this visually possible
These recaps are very helpful, thanks to you team for these video series.
after the Soviet union fell, Ukraine held a lot of Soviet nukes. the Budapest treaty saw the return of those nukes in exchange for Russia acknowledgement of Ukraine's sovereignty
Thanks for telling the truth to the world. Another night in Ukraine under missile attack. But Ukraine will withstand, gain victory over evil and achieve justice.
Guys the video it’s just amazing….I subscribed because I don’t want wait to see…parabéns.👏👏👏👏👏👏
One of the very first events, the repel of the Russians at Hostomel airport, changed the course of the entire war imo.
edit - amazing video editing
Please add this to your “Russian Invasion of Ukraine” playlist. Great video btw.
Town as "Bucha" were so many.
And there were many cities like Bucha with more brutal murders of civilians.
hi this is a great video and i love the new animation style but i'm pretty sure have the city of ivano-frankivsk incorrectly labeled on your map. the city is located much closer to the romanian border and the bystrytsia river. i think the city you have labeled as ivano-frankivsk is actually khmelnytskyi by the southern buh river. it would be nice if you could fix this for your next incredible update for us. thanks, love all of your videos! :)
Its not just that, the whole zoomed out map is innacurate as hell. I think its a stylistic choice, but i would prefer accurate depictions.
@@FlyshBungo2 i'm glad someone else noticed! now that you mentioned it, it could be a stylistic choice but i also agree that a more accurate map would be nice. these are still great videos though. :)
The quality of the content is outstanding. Many thanks to the authors.
as always ecxellent content... Slava Ukraini
Great video! If I were allowed to add two more major events, I would pick the capture/evacuation of Snake island, and the failed assault on Vuhledar.
When I seen that 40 mile long armor collom even I thought Ukraine was in deep trouble. How come that 40 mile with all that armor and trucks could not back it to the capital ? Ukraine needs all our support ! Long Live Ukraine !
They ran out of petrol, I guess, the petrol trucks were targeted by Ukr ambush squads. I saw those trucks in occupied Balaklia as russian columns drove through.
@@Romkosss Even more simple, corruption, sold the fuel for vodka and cheap knock off Chinese Tyres instead of military standard, another YT Perun has a channel history full of review of Ukranian, Russian and Global military processes. Vanro = lying to get promotion, so everyone is fully focused on the advance Comrade Commander etc
@@Romkosss Not just that. Low level commanders weren't told that they are in Belarus to Invade Ukraine, they were told that they are there for training. So a lot of them figured they will just write down that they trained, but not really bother, meaning that there was a lot of precious fuel and supplies to sell for some nice profit. By the time the order came to move into Ukraine, they quite simply did not have the supplies needed to actually get to Kyiv. Good old systematic corruption.
@@Warfoki Yeah, they were selling off their fuel, lmao. I am very glad they are so corrupt.
Woah the graphics for this video are amazing and idk like far superior to every other content creator in this genre. Great job, keep it up!
The resolve of the Ukrainian people is something incredible to behold. They deserve more help. Slava Ukraini!
Slava rus from US... corrupt ukr caused this war and they lost over 200k ppl at a rate of 8:1 against rus; most all ukr well trained troops are dead and they use ppl as cannon fodder to hold the lines... ukr ppl don't even want to fight to defend their corrupt gov as 10mil have fled and men don't want to join up to the point corrupt ukr has kidnapped ppl even as young as 16 to be forced to the front... ukr deserves to be completely taken over by rus and we in US if anything should be bombing corrupt ukr not supporting it especially after all of ukr war crimes during and before this war
I hope for a strong alliance between Romania and Ukraine for centuries to come.
@@jaybelle1909 You are reported for misinformation, hate speech and promoting terrorism
Great video and editing. Y’all went all out with this one👍🏾
Poor M270 MLRS isn’t getting any love.
Ukraine received 6 M270 from the UK, 5 from Germany, 2 from France and 2 from Italy.
Those fire the same GMLRS rockets as the HIMARS, but have 12 rockets each instead of the 6 of HIMARS.
The animations in the beginning are amazing
Damn this is well edited and the art is beautiful. Keep up the good work!
Excellent documentary!!! Slava Ukraine
This is absolutely the best video you have produced to date. The detail of your narrative is astonishing to say the least. Commentary is supurb and riviting. The artwork, maps and all your background is amazing. Thank you for this most instructive bit of hisoritcal events
Bro your animation for your videos is amazing visuals to look at! Absolute perfection 👌🏼
Had the Russian army managed to capture Kyiv I'm pretty sure it would've meant a significant a blow to the Ukrainian army's morale, and the Russian blitzkrieg would have continued for probably another month or something like that.
p.s.: Very good editing and illustrations!
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@@merlijnbazuine5075 losing Kyiv in the first week or two would have been a big blow to international effort.
Western support would likely be much more limited, leaving the Ukrainian army handicapped.
If that happened, I have no doubt Ukraine would keep fighting, but it would be losing quickly without Western weapons, and quickly become a small scale guerrilla war.
@@merlijnbazuine5075 the soviet invaders will lose as the Ukrainian people are willing to fight. The biggest surprise is how incompetent💩putler's army is.🤣🤣🤣
@@speakingwithoutnet
They didn't give any major weapons until a few months.
@@pyroman1382 Javelines and anti-tank weapons started coming in by the second week of March. They were promised and shipped pretty much as soon as it became clear Kyiv wasn't going to fall.
Without those, how well do you think Ukraine would have done in the first critical months?
I can’t believe we can watch this for free on RUclips. Honestly the BBC, or any other sort of news outlet or history themed channel would struggle to make something on this level with millions of pounds of budget
The animation/ graphics are top tier kings and generals 👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥
I love the pictures / clips / visuals that you made for this vid, they are really high quality and add alot to the vid.
Just a reminder that both the Kherson and Kharkiv counteroffensive were mostly led by old T 64 tanks and out of date T 72 tanks of the Ukrainian armor brigade. They were also accompany by light IFVs. Now, with modern Western tanks and Western made IFVs Ukraine have more firepower at their disposal.
I can't wait to see what will happen when the Whispering Death (Abrams), Iron Pig (Leopard), and the armor laden Challengers get there.
@@markmulder9845 window dressing,the west is just not sending the #’s required.
Challengers, leopards and abrahams are all products of cold war. Created in the minds of facing the soviets in the future
I'm quite excited to see the showdown of the modern mbt
Well..if there's still T-90 remaining in their stockpile lmao
Judging by the offensive that has been going on all last week, Western technology is too complicated for Ukrainians
@@markmulder9845 Well, several leopards have already been destroyed. We expect the same with the rest of the tanks
I appreciate you having made this reconstruction. This is what has been happening in my country so far.
Great animation on this video. Very well made and edited
this video is so well made , so detailed thank you for this great work King
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