Putin tried to defend Kursk with ‘kids’ | Tom Ball
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- “As soon as they saw them, they surrendered and didn’t even try to fight back… he described them as kids, or conscripts.”
It wasn’t until three or four days into the Kursk incursion Ukrainians “eventually came across regular Russian units,” says The Times’s Tom Ball.
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2000 + conscripts (mostly teenagers) taken prisoner. Thank God these kids were sensible enough to surrender.
2000+ taken prisoner??? Where did you hear that? Last I've heard was a 100-200 POW.
@@peace4myheart That was 100 on the first day, they have been surrendering every day.
@@peace4myheart the largest number at once was over 100 but smaller groups have been surrendering daily.
@@peace4myheartits +20,000 actually
@@MarcoHernandez-nb5dcYOU ARE RIGHT 200 BY DAY=20.000
Dropping poisoned food is simply despicable but hardly surprising given the nature of who Ukraine is fighting against.
Disregarding civilian...
Collateral damage may be large...
Troups are more use to handle poison stupidity...
Doesn't this count as chemical warfare? Do the Geneva Conventions say aything about this practice?
@patrickmcgraw9168 I don't think Russia care about the Geneva Convention
The civilized war has to keep these barbarians isolated, however this war goes.
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"You were given a choice between war and dishonor. You have chosen dishonor, and you will have war"
Winston Churchill
Yes but Churchill wasn't all he was cracked up to be.
The argument that British made missiles should not land in the Kremlin is a bit like saying North Korean missiles should not land in Kiev. Whether Ukraine buys these weapons or it is donated to them it is theirs and they can do what it is of advantage to them.
Not very bright are you
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Your comment shows your extreme lack of self confidence. People with these vocabulary reflect their own internal deficiencies on others whenever they find an opportunity.
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Jealousy is not good for your liver!
@@naderpezeshkzad6582 There is nothing to be jealous of matey boy. Ukraine is a puppet of the corrupt zionist / WEF / NWO and as undemocratic as it gets not that democracy is good. Supplying weapons in a war makes you complicit in the goals of that party to the war. The situation is a contrived one anyway in that it is essentially a massive money laundering operation but doing that gives them and Putin the excuse to regard the UK as a combatant and for TPTB to have the excuse they need to crank up the war and drag in the UK. This of course is what they want including the previous and current UK governments so that they can continue the depopulation by sending umpteen young Brits to the pointless meat grinder along with other Europeans.
With kids - just not his own!
That is characteristic of any leader of today.
Only in Terrorist States.
With Putin, the Russian oligarchs, Russian state tv it is always someone elses kids. Don't let them out of Russia.
Lucky RF who surrender get water & food proper shelter
And a Can of Vienna weenies. 😂😅
Somebody at the Times give Tom Ball a hug? He always sounds so exhausted and unhappy. Slava Ukraine.
Russia's strategy of ignoring the Kursk Offensive is going swimmingly. Keep it up, Russia.
It takes a few a years to be a good Soldier. God bless Ukraine. Peace soon
Tom......errr.....and errr......erm....right.....Ball
The lads struggling to talk bless him
Where is your own broadcast? I’d love to hear how you’re performing? Pitiful and embarrassing I suspect.
My Uncle said he unfortunately encountered Germanys Youth Troops in WWII he had PTSD really bad
Yes, my dad was a tank commander in France... But they were well-trained.
Things are bad when the Children are Forcibly Conscripted and Forced into battle. ☠️
@soldierofunclesam5.56 they weren't forced just brainwashed by the Nazis themselves into thinking they had to defend their land, alot of German kids fought during the fall of Berlin
@@TomGodson95 My reply was not allowed or squashed by RUclips Typical😁
@@TomGodson95 Once again we're seeing nazis trying to invade Kursk, Russia. Everyone asking why put doesn't use nuclear tactic weapons, I guess is because they see Ukraine as part of Russia, and will go for it all.
Tom Ball, I do hope you have listened to your delivery. Please make changes, you have 30 more years doing this.
Of course, today's youth, 18-20 year olds are not what they used to be in WWII. People used to mature faster and were not distracted by electronics, were more physically strong and reality-oriented.
Respect to this guy for his knowledge, but I have to bail out because of all of the emmmms, ummmmms, errrrrrms. I am out.
Ok bye bye. Noone will miss you.
that um and err guy again, can you speak to him about this, its very distracting when he uses it after every third word.
Needs serious elocution lessons, seriously!
Yeah, uh, erm,ah, get a speech ah, pathologist for this umm guy….
Thank you. It's absolutely annoying. I can't listen.
Lange lebe die Ukraine
buzz off
Ohne "die" bitte.
@@bobbyjohnson2956 die is an article means the in german and not dying
The ultimate fate of Ukraine will either be killed by Russia or partitioned by NATO.
Sadly! Soon that will have no meaning!
Russo-Nazis soldiers are old men and young boys. The Kremlin finger painter copying the Austrian painter.
The Nazis are on the other side mate
Oh god it's the UMMM dude from the other Times Radio clips
You won’t defend anything with kids
Putin doesn’t intend to defend using kids. He’s using them as fodder to later claim they were mistreated or worse by the Ukrainians. And if Putin has to do that “worse” himself, just to make the point…, he will.
Average combat soldier age in Vietnam was 22 and yes some were younger and they can fight if trained and supported.
Average age currently of Ukrainian soldier 43-45. Average age of Russian soldier in Ukraine 35.
22 isn’t a kid
@Shaun-tc9yh Learning to read is something a kid learns to do maybe learn to pay attention. Many in Vietnam were teenagers and not that bright either and not much more than kids at the start. Often from rural hicksville US where you know little of the world and life generally, basically occured at the front and was an adjustment.
In Ukraine the young on both sides are often swerving involvement in the conflict.
1/ One of the reasons for slow Russian response in Kursk is to avoid use of young conscripts and deploy more experienced soldiers.
2/ Many young Ukrainians pay for fake medical exemptions or people smugglers to go abroad and avoid risk of fighting or go into hiding. If caught a fine of 218 US Dollars.
The result has been exactly what Putin has feared the most as Russian mothers are now asking officials and the media where their "children" are. And, unlike fathers or prisoners who no longer lived with their parents and were portrayed as "volunteering" to be Storm-Z, the majority of the young conscripts left the nest for the first time when they entered the military; meaning the mother-child bond was still very strong.
It turns out the the RF MoD, in an effort to supplement their forces, assigned the young conscripts, which they promised would never see combat, to what I am sure they thought were safe postings as defending forces well inside of their borders. Because of this, within hours of Ukraines advance into Kursk, the young faces of 100's Russian "children" fighters began to be seen in the news and social media for the first time in the war.
These 100's of young conscripts, the vast majority of which are from the more prosperous areas of Russia, are considered the elite and future of the Russian mir that are worthy of living. [Copied from a post on X by OSINT]
In the battle of Singapore, Japan lost 1000 soldiers and took 100,000 POWs.
❤ Ukrainian ❤
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Yes but without more aid the war is now over, failed offensive followed by one that cannot bring victory or slow the advance in South.
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Trump told us Putin is a genius!
Trump told us that he was a stable genius! 😂🤣😂
lol he is compared to the donald ,sadly .
This was like 5 years ago! A lifetime! You have TDS
He is a very good leader look how far Russia has come under putin
Seemingly, the MOST important, if unacknowledged, consideration is that Ukraine is now or soon within artillery striking distance of the Kursk nuclear power plant (NPP). Remember the radioactive cloud going north because of the prevailing winds after the disaster at Chernobyl? If RU dares use a nuclear weapon, Ukraine can retaliate and the NPP will send a radioactive cloud immediately to Moscow, 300 miles due north. This invasion is ridding RU of its nuclear threat through “mutual deterrence” and actually preventing WW3. The West could ensure, and long could have ensured, the deterrence by giving permission to Ukr to use Storm Shadows and other long-range missiles to take out the NPP, if justified. USA, UK and the rest of the West, plz find a tiny, tiny slice of the courage that Ukr has shown for 2+ years.
That radio active pollution came to Finland in 1986. So I hope that we dont receive it again in any case. Seems like Ukraine is doing well in Kursk and soon in the neighbouring region.
Melt it down. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
I don’t think it would be smart to announce that they’ve given permission to use them.
Because if Russia did nuke the region and got counter attacked, surely it’s likely they would send other nukes westward?
Reminds me of the "Children's Crusade" from 1212 AD. Children were seen as comparatively free of sin, so they were chosen to fight the "infidel". But they were really just kids being handed over to foreigners.
Such a shame that UK's MOD is still suffering from chronic weakness & cowardice. I guess the worm has turned from 80 years ago when it took strong men to create good times. Now we have weak men inevitably creating hard times... that Neville Chamberlain deja vu moment. Some British people never learn.
Putin biggest mistake was to underestimate Zelenskyy, Biden, and the Ukraine forces, he thought he would roll over the Ukraine Army but was shocked how good they were and how clever making drones out of harmless drones,
I don't think anyone would ever be mistaking by underestimating Biden 😂
11 days this has been developing and they’ve blown a bridge and trapped 700 russian soldiers now, who are a 10-15 Km away and have done nothing??? what are they doing? bizarre.
No surprising at all. russia has to hide or at least downplay this incursion to the russian people since they are unable to stop it or defend their own borders. putin will hide and personally will be well protected, but I don't think he cares to much about anyone other than himself
Um, yeah, um, yeah. The guy should try harder. He should be able to express himself without Um, yeah, every other word.
I uummm eh yeah aahh umm wow
I’d like to hear your interviews? Where is it available?
@Mr.Monta77 Yeah, um
Sounds like he was trying to be diplomatic with his responses.
@@freefall9832 How old are you?
Irritating that the film footage is nothing to do with the current Kursk event. It's all winter footage.
Why do we not hear about North Korean and Chinese weapons being freely used against Ukraine?
Soldiers of the Ukraine. Do not treat the people of Russia as the enemy. Show you are the better army.
Russia at this point is just doing geneva conventions bingo
Putin could care less about Kursk…
@@cinepost you mean “couldn’t care less”…if he could care less, that means he cares some.
I have seen a lot of footage of surrendering Russians in Kursk and they appeared really, really young. Most of them must have been under 20...
Thanks!
Kursk, how interesting is that. Russians, who aren't afraid of Putler, should remember the history of the sunken Kursk submarine when Putler chose his ego over human lives, when he chose to leave 23 submarine crew members to die just to look strong. Kursk is a symbolic message to Russian people that Putler has always been a psychopathic personality. The name Kursk is the last thing Putler wants to hear over ans over again. It causes him nightmares.
Sounds familiar. 80 years back the exact same story was provided by that hyperventilating little guy with the funny mustache.
The urrm emperor returns.
Too much... 'uhm' ....'err'.... 'und'
Little use of vocabularly.......indifferent, uninteresting style .....dare I say almost boring.......I lasted about 5 minutes
Uhmmm i errr yes but uunddd
pure weakness, putin is pathetic
Take a drink every time he says uummm
Excellent interviewing as expected however if the times producers could set up microphones and cameras properly the interviewers face would stop disappearing behind the 🎤 a bit distracting
Not only do they disappear behind the microphones, a lot of them look down to read text and all you see is the top of their heads!
This is war. Why imposed so many restrictions to the Ukrainian to fight back and defend itself.
Mmm.. the Ukraine...Mmmm.. the Russian..Mmmmm... But... Mmmm... food... Mmmm.... Tanks....Mmmm... FIRE THIS GUY! He did not know how to SPEAK! 😑
Tell pootin about it his in kremlin restroom 🚽 reading war reports 😅
English isnt my native language, but i do consider myself as being fluent.
And while i could understand what he was saying, it wasn't exactly effortless with all the "ummmm's", "eeeehhhh's" and "yeahhh's" breaking up his every sentence.
"My precious Donbass. My precious..."
"Putin tried to defend Kursk with ‘kids’" people are geting fed up with this type of propaganda.
Maybe Tom can do the work and someone else can speak for him...
Russia really taking lessons from their brothers in the Middle East
For the first time since the war began, I have the feeling that this war won't last two months.
?! Till 2026 at least!
UK MoD says Unkraine can't use Storm Shadow missiles? "Could be used to strike deep inside Russia"?
RAF first attacked Berlin on 25 August 1940.
You were saying... ?
That bit of film at the start showed all the trees leafless as in Winter. But it's August. Are we being conned?
Are those video clips really from early August? The trees are all bare. It looks like early spring.
Trees in late fall! Seen it right off myself!
please can you interview people who don't umm and ahhh.
Shut up
How to take selfies and not reveal your position...
Is he call Tom mm err Ball😂😂
Yeah, um, I will remember um, yeah, the name, um, Tom Bell. Yeah.
This is not going to end well at all
Ummmm. Ummmm. Ahhhhhh !! Engage brain and tongue, synchronize.
You do realize that some of us actually have speech impediments? As a teacher, I’d rather have a student with speech disorders than a cruel, unintelligent one who lack elementary compassion for others.
He's improved his ability to deliver this piece that a report I saw from him last week
In Vietnam the age was 18 19 years old .
Erm um
There's plenty of inexpensive audio software that will remove all the eeerrr, uuuummms. Assuming a professional journalist is incapable of delivering without them.
The young fellows were abel to surrender because they were not shot in the back when they showed the white flag. Not like at the eastern front where surrender has been made almost impossible for russian troops .
The world is a wonderful place and the ruSSians are such funny people!
lol no one was defending kursk,just the regular police force in case u dint know
Apparently all Russian forces south of the river are planning to surrender anyway.
The nonsense has now reached fever pitch.
Looks like we’re seeing another game changer.
Russia nor Putin, did not defend...
The troups were busy in Ucraine...
I didn't hear you posting about Ukraine recruiting old people and people with mental problems or forcing women to work in mines?
And you didn't see Putin fighting for his country.
Go to the frontline and see for yourself. Don't ask others to fight your battles.
On the 13th August it was reported that the occupation administration in Dontesk was trying to form youth groups to send to Kursk from a collaborationIst group called Youth Republic.
It’s nice that also Russian teenagers don’t want to do their chores and act irresponsibly towards their duties.
Could have been a lot shorter if you edited out the ums and ahs
And uh um a well um ah conscripts um uh
Do you get paid by the government
Russia tries to poison Ukranian's, they don't realize Ukraine can support a supply line LOL
Ukraine using great OPSEC
Russia called up the Boy Scouts.
This is not the behavior of a strong opponent, onward to Moscow.
Putoon in siberian bunker looking at the portrait of the funny mustache guy and filling his underwear 😅
Ummmm ummmm ummmm ummmm ummmm ummmmm... jeez
I really can't bring myself to believe this from main stream media sorry
Umm err umm umm errr umm this lad cant even talk properly
The Drones dropped pootuns old brown under pants also 😅
All propaganda you gonna hear is about how putin failing in kursk😂😂😂😂 after only 2 weeks of incursion.
Except for their frontline programme every other programme emphasises putins red lines and this two and half year fear of escalation. Ukraine could easily use home produced ordance to target symbolic sights if they wished.They require stormshadow and other long range munitions for legitimate military targets unlike Russia who use their allies weapons to target civilians.
you got kids defending your border towns Putin? who's really running this outfit Wiley Coyote??
Is he on green 😂😂😂
Good report but stop saying, "and un".
Ahmmm, Ahmmm, Ahmmm, Ahmmm, Ahmmm. I gave up halfway through.
Check that challenger 2 tank out the amour on those tanks is very special and expensive
I endorse general Kyrylo Budanov as head of NATO
Very good interviewer.... who is it?
videos from this summer you have ?
Send in the Putin youth.
Same old...Same old...Good information....but Same Old.
I, and others, are looking for a more dynamic look at the Russian/Ukraine conflict.
I am asking for you to discuss the conflict from another vantage point. [No one is exploring this when reporting on the war.] I am asking that explore this perspective on your program.
Here stated is the posit:
Western nations are modulating and metering the flow of arms and arms systems into Ukraine for the purpose of keeping the conflict ongoing for a purpose (as explained below):.
The purpose is regime change in Russia.
The method is a slow and constant drain on the Kremlin’s political, economic and military resources until a flash point is reached.
When that point is reached Western nations will fund insurrection within the full range of “occupied” nations in the Russian Federation.
A multi front war situation will begin when Russia has been depleted of armaments and is in a negative cash flow situation.
-At that time China will move to recover Russian occupied formerly Chinses occupied land in the farthest Russian territories in the Eastern realm.
-Moslem and Middle Eastern power centers will fund and facilitate Muslin populations to act militarily.
-Western Nations will act in concert to replace the current kleptocracy with a regime that will direct Russia into a manufacturing and consuming Western Liberal economic model. The objective is to enlist and re-direct the vast resources of Russia into the Western economic zone so as to create a state that can rival China for production of Western products and thereby weaken China which is dependent on Western markets for its production.
Assume that Ukraine’s people are a foil and of little real concern to comment on this ‘real-politik’ perspective.
It may not be palatable to the emotions of your viewers, but it may in fact be the real path that Western powers have orchestrated for the purpose of Russia’s integration into the Western economic club and a push back against China.
ACE card is working.
Please pronounce Kursk properly you pronounce it as Cursed (kerst)
More warmed up geriatric hindsight .
Be strong for your people father if this is yiur plan then makes us understand but if not then help your people and shine on yiur will in this world this darkness is overall the world give us the holispirit back to this world to push this darkness out and bring back the bright up and love the struggle people. Fathrr my own opinion you want wwr 3?. Im in pain. Now we are not confuse by your will. Everything you attract no one understand like me i dont. Bless the secret
They umm and the umm and umm .... Where do you get these mumbling commenters from??