Taking over a Ukrainian Base: Russian Roulette in Ukraine
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2014
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In the aftermath of the referendum in which 97% percent of the Crimean population supposedly voted to join the Russian federation, VICE News' Simon Ostrovsky returns to the Ukrainian Naval headquarters in Sevastopol, after self defense forces stormed the premises and took over the base.
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Moskva at the very end of this video is no more.
The song sung by the Ukrainian sailors at their base when it was taken over was pretty touching.
это просто какой то позор...(проговорил голосом Швондера)
Да Украинский гимн слышишь и блевать сразу хочется.
ТАКОЙ МАРАЗМ СЛОВ
@@user-nd7ke3dc2gговорит россиянин у которого гимн не имеет исторического смысла, а просто восхваляет державу.
It was Ukraine anthem
@@Grzegorz_Brzeczyszczykiewitcz про крейсер "Москва" тоже так сказать можно...
Its amazing how fast they get these videos out. The stuff they talk about in this video happened in the past 24hours.
"we will lay down for our freedom" ....Hmm you seemed to give up without any kind of fight whatsoever.
You stupid if they fought we be closer to ww3 than ever >:|
allen phon The irony of that comment was not wasted on me. Thank you.
You're stupid man. You expected them to shoot on civilians. They were disarmed by the people of cremia. Majority of cremia accepted to join Russia. Besides, Ukraine was part of Russia (ussr). The west are the ones creating all of these problems especially USA. Ukraine is a Russian territory
@Just some yeti with internet access and i am replying to a day old comment nice
@Just some yeti with internet access point of correction its an 11 hour old and not a 11hour
6:51 what a beautiful ship. I would really like to see it with my own eyes, would be a shame if something happend to it.
Tak, to jest piękne, w rzeczywistości mają ich 10
LOL
Mriya's Revenge.
I hope you have scuba gear
Lmfao
This is some scary shit.
and the world sat by and watched
snizzle515151 Sadly.
What's scary is Kosovo, Libya, Iraq and the rest of Ukraine. Crimea protected itself from the "scary", executed the most essential democratic right - the right to vote, with no single shot joined Russia, and made a party to celebrate this reunion.
Konstantin Kalinchenko
You probably had speakers off but there were shots fired in this video. Plus, there have been people killed in this conflict already. Watch a few previous dispatches.
Konstantin Kalinchenko
Really? "executed the most democratic right"? To have a vote on changing 50 years of history with 10 days notice? With NO freedom to promote an opposing viewpoint or debate? In fact, without even a choice on the ballot to remain as a part of the nation they had been with for decades? (You know that right? That they were given the choice to join Russia or be wholly independent? NO choice to remain with Ukraine!) And all the while with masked gunman roaming the streets enforcing the will of Russia (while remaining spineless cowards because they never dared to show Russian colors on their uniforms). I have relatives who live both in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea whose lives are torn apart because of this-- because of Putin.
Guys, I admire your work. Thank you very much. Bless you.
6:46 Boy, that Russian naval vessel sure looks robust. I bet it doesn't sink aflame in the Black Sea, like, ever.
It's now a stealth submarine.
Was thinking it was the flagship convertible warship
Other countries can sleep calmly. This peaceful capture was possible only because of dominant support from locals...
О чём и речь, местные жители за Россию, местные жители просили Россию о помощи и местные жители поддерживают Россию. Это единение одного народа, который был разделён бездушными политиками.
Peaceful? You call 60,000 armed troops peaceful? Oh I see....war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
Wanda Rebiejo how many were killed here? how many were killed in Irak Afganistán Syria, Vietnam etc.
@@donone1493 6 people died during the annexation of Crimea. If you call that and an ARMED invasion peaceful, then you don't know what peace means. I'm also not gonna play the "the USA did it too so Russia can do it" game. That's a Hegelian dialect, psyop. It wasn't right when the USA did and it wasn't right when Russia did it.
@@wandarebiejo6409 It wasn't right to sponsor a violent ultra-nationalist uprising and coup deta in Ukraine, this is merely a response to that. How many people died in that coup deta? Or do you remember when 40 pro-russians were burned alive in Odessa? How should Russia have reacted?
One more thing, those troops always were in Crimea, Russia always had a naval base there.
It'll be fun when Ukrainia will stop supplying Crimea of electricity and water.
yeah, good idea, because Russia can't do nothing about it.
they will have to change the system fast i guess
Yes, it will be more fun when Russia stop to supply Ukraine with gas
Stepan Stepanov Well if Kiev can't get any more economic res from Crimea (and only if they're 100% sure they won't get it back ever of course) I wonder why they'd still care about it.
However let's hope this doesn't give a good reason to Putin to invade Ukrainia, claiming the ukrainians as responsible for crimeans suffering (cause they'd miss essential supplies). And even if 1/3 of russians don't have those supplies, Im pretty sure he'd be able to do that, by using his good old brainwashing justifications.
level4complete True ! However that's not the solution that's gonna make Crimea having supplies back. And EU might start helping Ukrainia with more electricity supplies which could replace the missing russian gas in some way.
4:33 wow! The Russian flag lifted after the Ukrainian flag was lowered was a tense moment.
All those Ukrainian commanders had no problem switching back to Russia since they were in the same military with the Russians during soviet times.
Its strong and beautiful
Russians made it possible for the Ukrainian military to leave with dignity, with honor.
indeed it showed how soldiers respecting each others, regardless where they belong
I check youtube every 4 hours for a new one of these
Sounds about right for me as well.
Даже сейчас?
Very good news source.... Keep up the good work Simon
I am re watching all of this now to get a better understanding of whats going on. this docuseries has some great footage.. explains the real when the media portrays something completely different. thank you for your work here.
I grew up in Odesa and Crimea has literally always been pro Russian or strong Russian population since the 1940s .. I think it’s 68 ethnic Russian and rest is Ukrainian
@@cr3292 The Russians have revoked their right to it with the 2022 invasion. If only NATO and its allies would start sending proper amounts of equipment to Ukraine.
@@IronKreiseloh stfu. Nobody is going to risk a nuclear war to save the bankrupt failed state of Ukraine. None of this would have happened if the Americans wouldn’t have supported the illegal coup in Kiev 2014.
I love it how you guys put in the clips of videos showing otherwise of what the guy is saying. XD
Well.. Russia giveth.. so it taketh
In such barbaric way
@@user-jy7bj5nh6h what barbaric way? The Russians could have used force but didn’t.
I hope you guys get to interview Natalia Poklonskaya
Yes i hope that too if you know what i mean lol
lol
Great job Simon
Simon, you are a fantastic reporter. I speak highly of Vice News and it's outstanding journalists amongst my peers and friends. You deserve an award for your work here. Bravo.
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this didnt age well
@@jakeybby8527 right? They are trash now lol
@@KhanversationsOfficial lol simon is a good reporter, but the company as a whole...
the timing of watching this is perfect, just a few days after ukraine bombed this very same naval base to rubble
Hardly dented it secondly I grew up in Odesa and Crimea has literally always been pro Russian or strong Russian population since the 1940s .. I think it’s 68 ethnic Russian and rest is Ukrainian
Натянем на кукан всех!
Crimea is Russia
+Gideon Horwitz SLAVA UKRAINA
+Gideon Horwitz Crimea is Ukraine
@@Johntb100 nope
Yay Simon is back!
Thanks for the video
you can tell the by the faces of the sailors they do not want to serve Russia there probably going to resign
they looked fairly apathetic about the whole situation.
in my opinion they just wanted to get back to normal daily routines.
TheDriftingsmoke I hope they find a quick bailout to their economy, before they go bankrupt, Russia offered a plan in the first place, but the usa gave them three times less than Russia offered and the new government got sold!
I think they don’t care what flag is up, as long as they still have a job for the sake of them and their families.
The emotion from an official is quite interesting. 1:39
Simon you are the BEST
You never thought Russia would take over? You are quite naive Simon Ostrovsky, very naive.
Simon Ostrovsky didnt know that Crimea was captured from Ottoman empire 1783 by the Russian.
You expect intelligence from a western reporters?
@@GM-kp7yw Atleast hes telling the truth
WTF? did I just hear the Soviet Union ANTHEM towards the end? It collapsed in 1991. why the fuck are Russians playing that shit now???
is it safe to say RIP Ukraine yet??
The Russian national anthem reuses the tune of the Soviet anthem. The lyrics however are changed.
Who cares? The Soviet anthem just sounds better than any anthems out there.
BringerOfD interesting. I did not know that..
MyLostTemple It sure is. It's quite a stirring tune and the soviet version sounded absolutely amazing when sung by the military choir.
Whoamiii111 USSR did not end, in Putin's mind. He calls the collapse of the USSR illegal and the greatest geopolitical catastrophe.
www.mediaite.com/online/putin-reportedly-claims-the-dissolution-of-the-soviet-union-may-have-been-illegal/
www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/mar/06/john-bolton/did-vladimir-putin-call-breakup-ussr-greatest-geop/
He doesn't have any regard for former Soviet republics. They either do as he asks, or they get the boot, even though he claims Ukrainians to be brothers to Russians.
• President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia could aim nuclear missiles at Ukraine if its neighbor and former fraternal republic in the Soviet Union joins the NATO alliance and hosts elements of a missile defense system proposed by the Bush administration.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021201658.html
• In April 2008, a source told Russia's Kommersant newspaper how Putin described Ukraine to George Bush at a NATO meeting in Bucharest: *"You don't understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state. What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, but the greater part is a gift from us."*
content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1900838,00.html
So he invades the counties on the same pretext Hitler used in 1938 - ethnical grounds.
"I am asking neither that Germany be allowed to oppress three and a half million Frenchmen, nor am I asking that three and a half million Englishmen be placed at our mercy. Rather I am simply demanding that the oppression of three and a half million Germans in Czechoslovakia cease and that the inalienable right to self-determination take its place." - Adolf Hitler's speech at the NSDAP Congress 1938
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Union
www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/feb/18/brief-primer-vladimir-putin-eurasian-union-trade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_war#Military_buildup
Putin is trying to rebuild USSR, because it pleases Russian nazi voters. Authoritarianism is the only thing he knows how to do, and he has a fetish for Stalin, who is still a hero in Russia, even though he killed twice as many people as Hitler.
5:13 i cant imagine whats going through the minds of those people
Incredible,,,,way cool Vice News
Great video
Ha ha lol He questioned the people and they were totally ok with Russia....so he had to speak up him self at the end of video to make HIS point
Obama: "We will punish Russia."
Putin: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
russia freak out about all the sunctions and said that american has no right to do so lol
Even Today : hahahahahahaha
xaxaxaxaaxaxa*
Декабрь 2020-ахахахахахаха))))
Yea Vlad turned the country into the Modern bustling metropolis that's the envy of all Europe & showed him didn't he Bruce ?
If it makes anyone feel better, the ship shown at 6:48, the Moskva, is now lying on the seabed after eating a Ukrainian neptune anti-ship missile. Слава Україні
Now it's a secret russian submarine😂😂😂😂
And a year later Ukraine is on its last legs. Zelensky is a DMW. He’s made too many enemies inside Ukraine.
@@Ktaurus26And years later Russia is on its last legs. Putin is a DMW. He’s made too many enemies inside Russia.
4:14 that guy in left is like : WTF am I doing here?!
In one of the previous dispatches, ordinary Civilians were blockading military bases preventing the wife of a Ukrainian servicemen from entering to give food to her husband, saying 'Its a military base , how can we let civilians go in'(Paraphrasing)
But when it suits them, Pro-Russian groups can enter anytime they want to.
Blatant fucking Hypocrisy
You shouldn't believe in every propaganda bit they put out on VICE news.
Mak Tek Explain to me what was propagandistic about their videos ?
and after you do that please direct me to articles or videos or news clips/news channels you have read or seen that are non-propagandistic about this situation ?
Mak Tek That was live footage without any comments so don't bs here.
lanciadr There were comments, the report was not impartial.
Yes, and the Russian soldiers gave them their food through windows. It was a tense situation and still is in Eastern Ukraine where the majority still support Russia.
All my respect for those Ukrainian soldiers singing with determination, while the other flag was rised.
THEY are the best example of what patriotism means.
Wish them all the best !
For FREEDOM !
Russia belongs Crimea
@@kingyeghig9150 I do not remember to ask what belongs to whom. I'm talking about something else. Read again.
@@andreibs7193 Russian wants to take Crimea Ukraine people saying Crimea belongs Ukraine
@@andreibs7193 Crimea does not belong Ukraine belongs Russia
@@kingyeghig9150 Sorry for you for not understanding BUTI'm not speaking about what's belonging to whom.
Got it this time? Your point of view it's your point of view, I'm not interested în it.
VICE changed a lot, now that Rupert Murdoch "invested" some money into this former unbiased news network.
Murdoch is a media mogul; investment and acquisition are his primary objectives. Investment does not imply any direct influence.
chegadesaudade right.
VICE has always been biased (not as a company but individual reporters have always been open to sharing their views. I mean, look as Shane) . It really doesn't bother me at this moment in time, it's not too overt, too in your face. I don't mind reporters sharing their views as they're simply giving their opinion.
Sort of the same way that the Left tried to crush reports of Khmer Rouge mass killings in the 1970s. Even Noam Chomsky got in the act. There is a Leftist line, and anyone who disagrees with it must be a capitalist spy.
Vice was recently doing PR work for FSA terrorists in Syria. Basically hanging out and demonstrating to the dim-witted viewer that hired terrorists just are normal guys who drive Toyotas, own Iphones, and shoot at zionism's enemies for fun.
Simon is the man.
Who has the CHAOS plates? those are cool as shit and I would like to know if the driver is doing interesting things as well.
I love how the guy in the fur hat is talking about locals removing the Ukrainians, while standing behind him are soldiers with no insignia, standard Russian military uniforms and new boots and weaponry, all who never speak a word and don’t show their faces. Absolutely ridiculous
А теперь что ты об этом скажешь? 😉 Крым всегда был русским!!!
Yes I like Vice news but the journalist has a one sided viewpoint
Well I mean he's there.... You can go back to Dispatch 1, I think the footage alone speaks volumes..
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he did get manhandled by the russians at one point.
How? He just showed different things happening, there was little to no commentary.
in episode 14. they detained him, roughed him up a bit. so yeah.
1:31 tell me thats not the greatest invitation to a handshake youve ever seen.
Russian's anthem kick some serious asses...!!!
This is how it starts but just wait till another territory is taken. History repeating itself?
finally someone who is not blinded by all this propaganda. sick and tired of those people
Your forecast was sadly right.
Are the pro-russian comments on here real? And if they are, why have they been upvoted so much. It doesn't make sense given the actual ratings for the video, which are hugely supportive.
It's not just this video, I see the same on tons of other videos that are critical of Russia.
Keep in mind that a lot of people view Russia as the lesser of two evils. At the moment the Ukrainian government is in shambles and the people currently in charge have been heavily linked with corruption and Neo Nazi groups. Until that gets sorted and settles down, Russia looks good in comparison.
I do not think people that are pro-russian understands that Vice is pro-ukrainian, and upvotes the video just because "Russia is winning".
Most pro-russian people on RUclips seem awfully dumb.
You do realize that's how the other side sees you as well?
It's the same for games that don't show Russia in the best light. It's really odd
Dejan Andric Russians think they are smarter than anyone and all other people who have different views are brainwashed. They are really that dumb. They are really the ones brainwashed here.
Simon is back everybody!
6:30 exactly.
Wow, the Russians stole the winning music from call of duty 4!
What a stirring moment when they performed the Ukrainian anthem...
6:46 Eight years later, this ship was order to carry out a special military operation to denazify the bottom of the Black See.
i love simon
I really hate the way people talk about Russia ''invading'' Ukraine and holding a referedum at gun point but look away when it comes to judge Ukraine far right parties, U.S.A and Europe. What about the leaked phone call about the snipers being paid to kill both civilians and police? What about NATO breaking the expansion agreement with Russia? What about the new anti-missile defense systems being installed on Russia borders?
Yeah! Why doesn't Vice mention, completely out of context, two European ministers talking about how they'd heard Russian rumours of snipers shooting on both sides.
& Yeah! How dare Russia's neighbours want missile protection and NATO protection, it's not as if Russia would invade and annex it's neighbours.....oh wait......
What about Russia taking your home ?
And why doesn't Vice mention far right Russia waging a war on gay rights?
NinjaPudd
That is not the problem here...
Simon Young
1. TV Boss beaten by at least three MPs from the far-right Svoboda party and forced to resign: goo.gl/TygDML
2. Right Sector leader Alexander Muzychko barged into a prosecutor's office in Central Ukraine and attacked an employee while demanding to see the prosecutor, who was not there. He then began to terrorise staff members, assaulting one of them and threatening to tie him up and drag him out, quote, "like an animal": goo.gl/zHqyw8
Right Sector and Far right parties are all the same.
Residents of the Crimea have been consolidating to Russia for many years
I wanted it.
VICE News always makes my day..
Too bad they go bankrupt
WELL DAMN
Well i can say from my point of view that people at Ukraine will just start to hate Russia ( or maybe Putin as tophead ) more and more. You know even if you were part of former Soviet Union, today future of Ukrainians and Russians will just divide. You can't tell that random person living in particulary random city or region is russian if that person feels that he/she isn't. But it's only my personal opinion.
YES
America buzzed this
Despite all Ostrovsky's propaganda, it's just impossible for such events to happen if Crimeans really had any enthusiasm for being Ukrainian.
That last sentence :l
which ever side they choose hopefully they can do it peacefully
Crimea has not always been Russian, just more then 200 years. but from 882-1240 Kiev was the capital of ancient Kievan Rus'.
I don't want to say that Kiev should be part of Russia, I just a meant that Russia and Ukraine for thousands of years were tied by a common history.
it means that the some memory is selectively and precarious
They forgot, and We remind.
Vice News: Never has a bias.
Guy second from left at 4:21 looks totally clueless and tired of everything
What was the point of the last minute of the report Simon? To dispell any doubts you have a clear favorite in the match? Can we get a bit more reporting and a bit less editorial commentary from yours trully? After 16 reports I think we all know how you feel and think about what is happening.
My thoughts exactly. I don't like how he's choosing sides, it's not professional. He barely finds any people who are opposed to Crimea becoming part of Russia and so he usually tries to belittle the vast majority who want it by implying they are uneducated or dumb by focusing on how they often don't have super-professional and intelligent answers to his questions when put on the spot and any improper behavior by ethnic Russians or supporters of the referendum is pointed out and made to look like it is indicative of the whole movement. It's really a shame, because such favoritism leads me to question the whole report.
I feel like I am watching a real life game of Risk..
You are, Putin is winning.
And so he should
***** Putin won the battle but lost the war. Ukraine will never become Russian territory ever again.
ZGutta519 Haha you are funny. Putin won the battle but lost the war. Ukraine will never become Russian territory ever again. Ukraine will join Nato and the EU faster than he can say balalaika and then we will have pushed freedom and democracy and western civilization closer to his ass than ever. Further, Ukrainians speak Russian so they will be able to influence the Russian and Belarusian populations much easier. They also need their EuroMaidan.
Inga Heliga Kor I am completely against Putin's "board game" moves.
Simon's words are not neutral and i don't think he understands. He wasn't there when USSR fell apart and almost the same situation happened. People in 1991 "suddenly woke up in another country"(this figure of speech originated those days, but Simon used it in one of his previous dispatches like it was fresh and new), back then people also never wanted to became Ukrainians, to choose sides, to loose one citizenship for another. Crimeans remember those days, Simon do not.
These Ukrainian flags waved not so long to mourn them. Also Ukrainian fleet was a fiction, and there was not honour to serve there.
Russia retakes a peninsula that was a part of its territory for centuries and holds an ethnic Russian majority. Everyone makes cold war noises and bars 30 Russians from visiting the west. Simon makes it clear that democracy everywhere is in danger because Russia "invaded" an island filled with... Russians. Unless Putin sends the army into Eastern Ukraine (which I deem unlikely at this point). Everyone in the West will forget about Crimea, a region they didn't know much about to begin with and it will be back to business as usual. ~ Ivan's Shady Existence Blog
Ivan Nikolayev You wanna talk history? 1821. Catherine the Great. And WW2 deportation of Ethnic Crimeans. Those are the reasons why there's a Russian majority in Crimea. 2 centuries of forceful foreign occupation and an anti-islamic depopulation plan. The same shit that Europeans did here in my country to all the native tribes. Crimea is not Russia. Crimea isn't even Ukraine. But if ALL the Crimean Tatars who are indigenous to thay land side with Ukraine, who is Russia to void out their demand? Can you imagine if the UK invaded New York and decided to pay ethnic English to rise up against New York and US just to raise a British flag in Albany, regardless of if Mohawks want to live under a US flag? Come on dude.
Ivan Nikolayev You wanna talk history? 1821. Catherine the Great. And WW2 deportation of Ethnic Crimeans. Those are the reasons why there's a Russian majority in Crimea. 2 centuries of forceful foreign occupation and an anti-islamic depopulation plan. The same shit that Europeans did here in my country to all the native tribes. Crimea is not Russia. Crimea isn't even Ukraine. But if ALL the Crimean Tatars who are indigenous to thay land side with Ukraine, who is Russia to void out their demand? Can you imagine if the UK invaded New York and decided to pay ethnic English to rise up against New York and US just to raise a British flag in Albany, regardless of if Mohawks want to live under a US flag? Come on dude.
Ivan Nikolayev Well can England invade the U.S. because it has so many English descendants?
Dem Apples simon ostrovsky: not born in crimea
you: make little sense
AM I THE ONLY ONE WATCHING THESE AFTER 5 YEARS ?????
You are not the only one.
me too
6 years now
April/2024
10 years now 😂
There was no "invasion of the Ukraine" by Russian forces. Cut the crap and try giving the facts for a change.
Don't lie. Russian forces with Russian weapons invaded Ukraine and stripped away land that was given to the Ukraine by Khrushchev in Soviet times, before Brezhnev, before you were even born.
bowrudder I think what you meant to write was "Russian forces came to protect Russian people from an illegitimate-fascist-clown government"... You're welcome.
bowrudder, give me any proof that the Russians just invaded the Ukraine. Are you on crack?
On the one hand, you're right: Who would know who the invading force is because they are wearing insignia-less uniforms, in violation of international rules of war. On the other hand, Russia just announced it was annexing Crimea. They ran the Russian flag up the flag poll. They speak Russian. Whose tanks and soldiers and helicopters and warships do YOU think they are?
Russia did invade Ukraine. Weather you would like to admit it or not is up to you. Countries have borders for a reason and the reason is just that, to separate nations. Russia has with full knowledge disrupted the territorial integrity of Ukraine by mobilizing its troops in the region. At first claiming they were not Russian troops with zero opposition from the Ukrainian people and military in the area, they were able to systematically take down every single Ukrainian military base in the Crimean Peninsula, under the guise of a civilian pro-Russian revolt and a completely invalid unrealistic referendum, and used the Russian people already in Crimea as a diversion to the Russian troops storming the bases which belong to Ukraine. Crimea is and has been Ukrainian through treaties ratified by a popularly elected government by the people. To defy these treaties and take over the Ukrainian bases is still an invasion by the Russian military backed by Russian civilians who are a huge majority in Crimea. Those who opposed or protested this had no impact as they were simply drowned out by the pro-Russian masses. There's a majority of Russian people already in Crimea who claim Crimea is still Russian, but sorry to say the world doesn't work that way. Look at Nazi Germany annexing Austria and Poland and Czechoslovakia, claiming that the land and people are rightfully German so were just going to claim it for Germany. Crimea will never be recognized as Russian by the global community as long is it is forcefully occupied by the Russian military, which is to the rest of the world including Ukraine and the USA a preemptive act of aggression. Mr. Putin is playing war games, and its only a matter of time before he sets his sights on the rest of Ukraine... or god forbid further still. This will blow way out of proportions with extreme unintended consequences if Russia doesn't keep its hands out of the cookie jar.
Even reasonable Ukrainians understand that the results of the referendum could not be other
pensioners that half of the population of Crimea - all for Russia
civil servants - all for Russia
students - mainly for Russia
businessmen - 50% for Russia (they have something to lose)
crimeans tatars (10-15% of population) - mainly for Ukraine and boycotted referendum
The result is logical! Most of the population of Crimea - russian. Poor country Ukraine and Crimea was poor area. How could people vote for Ukraine?
Only 58% of Crimeans self-identified as ethnic Russian in the 2001 census. The rest as Ukrainian and Tartar. Both the Russian and Ukrainian populations were steadily decreasing, and the Tartar population increasing, in Crimea for the last decade. "The number of Crimean residents who consider Ukraine their motherland increased sharply from 32% to 71.3% from 2008 through 2011; according to a poll by Razumkov Center in March 2011"
Ukraine is so crap, people actually want to be with Russia, imagine that.
someonegetsteve You think that Russians voted for Russia and all Ukrainians for Ukraine or didn't vote at all? It just doesn't work this way. In fact, most of Ukrainians voted for Russia as well. I bet you can't tell the difference between Russian and Ukrainian. In Crimea most of them were russified - just like the man at 2:10 said people who came there became Sevastopol people, not Ukrainians.
someonegetsteve
Ha! )))))))
Between "ukrainians" and russian in Crimea there is no difference. externally, names, language, manners - all russian. there is no one even spoke in ukrainian language.
Tatars have very differences. tatars exterior, language, manners...
I live in Russia. I understand every word in the reports of the Crimea. I do not understand more than half of the words of reports from Kiev (Central Ukraine)
RUSSIA anthem sounds like a track from Star Wars
They just gave up
They say Chrushtshov was drunk when he gave Crimea to the Republic of Ukraine lol
We're you drunk when you gave RUclips these words via your keyboard?
I don't understand. You know that is an actual story, and that in Russia we tell it all the time right?
There's a similar story in Denmark, when we gave Norway most of the oil spots they profit from today. So apparently its not unheard off .
Russians drink a lot of vodka so being drunk is logical.
Julius Granström Khruschev was Ukrainian.
Apparently the "si vis pacem para bellum" era is not over yet. Ukraine should have kept its nuclear arsenal.
It would be cool, if Ukraine could have something in its hands agains Putin, but nuclear weapons wouldn't be good for that. Apart from other countries getting damaged, the EU and the USA would turn that into a (nuclear) WWIII which obviously would suck harder than bush alone...
hold on so what you're saying is that ukriane should have nuked russia
George West if they would nuke putin with that, we'd at least be able to have a party ;P
Rather nuke the kremlin
***** No one would benefit from a war, and all this mess is about profit. Russia wouldn't have invaded a nation armed with nuclear weapons and an unstable government.
Ukraine with nuclear weapon ? HELL NO ! They could not handle a damn nuclear power plant , remember CERNOBIL -the bigest disaster around here. How manny milions died directly and indirectly from that disaster , and was pure incompetence ??? Noone knows, but the cases of cancers exploded.
Giving to a corupt state like Ukraine nuclear weapons is pure madness.
I completely understand and respect the principal of following orders. Yet what I can't quite grasp is that all these military installations are being taken and all of Crimea annexed without any real struggle to do so. I know it's a poor & not a direction comparison but the recent wars we've fought have shown how guerrilla warfare & sometimes cowardly tactics can frustrate a more technologically advanced, well trained etc. adversary. It's quite remarkable. Maybe we'll see that happening if Russia invades mainland Ukraine but I highly doubt that. And after all this, some Ukrainians are just going to switch sides, just like that? Why wait so long to defect if that's what you were going to do?
Crimea is a strategic location being home to the Russian Black sea fleet (even before annexation) and also because of oil/gas reserves in the Black sea which are under Crimean control (the US was actually trying to gain rights to these through negotiations with Ukraine) - Russia has no reason to 'invade' Ukraine.
Lee Johnson
Ukraine does contain a lot of coal along its eastern border with Russia
Russia was trying hard to provoke Ukraine's solders to shoot back... That would give Putin excuse to invade east Ukraine. I would think it is much harder to keep piece and not shoot back in order to save lives - big respect to Ukraine for doing this. Another evidence that Ukrainian government is in fact not fascist.
Lee Johnson Yeah I knew that except for the US trying to negotiate some oil/gas deal which I don't have a problem with. My analogy like I say is quite poor and like you say there really isn't a reason to invade Ukraine unless the Ukrainians respond like stradglider mentions
Anyone else see Ricky Gervais at 4:21 ?
could you pack this into one long video?!
Simon is a provocateur not a journalist
Id like to see you do better !
LOL
6:48 Look. Ukraine's navy took revenge at last.
A 40 year old ship. Big deal. Not gonna save Ukraine.
One big boat missing now :)
Yeah I was going to ask why some people were saluting the flag but none of the ones singing were. That must be such an awkward situation to be in.
That Ukrainian Army/Navy makes the French Army look like the Golden Horde in comparison.
GLORY UKRAINE
This is just like battlefield 3 conquest rounds without the gun fights
I wish you would put adverts later into the report than at the beginning as people tend to turn off at start with an advert for less people to watch than would watch your report
My fucking ears, they bleed. God let them never ever sing again, I'm gonna sacrifice two lambs for that.
I wouldn't go as far as calling the Ukraine an oppressor. The territory was a gift.
I would watch as many videos presenting conflicting points of view as possible and make my own conclusions, while keeping in mind what the locals themselves think **referendum results wink-wink** Reading a couple of historical references would probably help as well.
If we take an idealistic position, international laws are there to protect the interests of the people, or at least that's what the US has been telling us while invading its two-page long list of targets for the last 60 years. Any way, Putin gave two hour-long speeches on the subject, you can watch both of them on RT. They address legal problems quite comprehensively.
Of course you can't and that's not what Putin's position is all about. A car is different from a republic in that the latter is inhabited by actual living people whom the international law gives a right for self-determination regardless of the governing country's laws. Watch the speeches, you won't regret it, I really mean it.
Technically, the Russian troops were the catalyst for the referendum which allowed the people to speak up and say "fuck you" to the politicians in Kiev who cut the pie of power among themselves in an unconstitutional coup and took a stance clearly threatening the rights of the Russian-speaking part of the country (about a third of it by my estimates). That wasn't the first time it happened either, but this time the hand of the U.S. of A. was too obvious in this not to insult Putin and the whole patriotic part of the Russian society personally. To put this thing into perspective, what would you expect the US to do if a Russian-backed anti-American coup happened, say, in Mexico?
poor ukraine
Don't crying,..its a rite step.
Capt DeRichelieu destroying Ukraine land and people and economy is the right step you turning soviet bro
***** I will support to any one, who is planning to destroy the Neo Nazis government in Ukraine. Before you try to say something about the situation on this land, learn a little bit about the history of this area,..bro.
go invade some where else i hear Sweden is nice this time of year
***** Don't be a clown { MrKbenge } ! In my opinion,... you really play very well your roll in this show .
Geat idea
The ship at the end with the missiles on its side. Isn't it the Russian so called "carier killer"?? Which is armed with tactical nukes?
This short documentary is at least more neutral than those news on CNN and stuff because it covers both sides of the story
CNN and MSM are agents of darkness!
I'd be very worried if I was living in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Moldova, or Hungary -- not to mention Western Ukraine. Russia is quite at home as the region's most dangerous aggressor.
Russia only seem to get away with this, because they share an ethnic relationship with Ukraine. So invading any non-russian-ish populated country would really mean something warlike.
(from Hungary)
There is no prominent Russian minority in Russia to speak of. Besides, the PM is doing his best to cozy up to Putin.
And by that I meant in Hungary, not Russia. Oops.
There is a significant number of ethnic russians in the Baltic states. And let's not forget about Belarus. It has RUS in the name -- there are surely russians, da??? ;)
There's a reason NATO has been making an airshow over the Baltics these days :)
***** Why so many people here are saying dumb, ridiculous crap about my country?! You forget, that this is Russia, who sacrificed the most to save Europe from fascist vermin. And name at least 10 countries with Russian bases in them? And which countries did it invade for oil?
I mean they had a whole Naval base there
damn this is crazy
Вот дурачки курсанты, что уперлись по Украине. У той и флота то уже нет. 2.5 ржавых корыта в Одессе остались. Где служить-то потом? А ведь могли-б доучится уже на российской стороне и пойти на героический черноморский флот.
кому нужны предатели? может это, конечно, громко сказано, но сами посудите - присягать одной стране, а потом другой.
Victor Paskel ну их командиры делали также, сначала присягали ссср, потом украине. Украина не отказалась принять предателей, за что сейчас и получила )
Героический. Уже смешно.
Victor Paskel страны которой и не было, Беркутовцев всех взяли, молодцы
@@MrPercival2 Смешно - это выёбываться, а потом мейдей скулить. Смешно - полтора ржавых корыта на всю страну иметь. А ЧМ России поводов для смеха никогда никому не давал.
This is just all kinds of sad. I cannot believe people are still justifying this act of Russian aggressive expansion.
propaganda! they are being shown this situation in a way different way
@@nazariyscoot What about now?
People in Crimea want to be part of Russia. It doesn’t matter what Zelensky wants or Putin wants.
I grew up in Odesa and Crimea has literally always been pro Russian or strong Russian population since the 1940s .. I think it’s 68 ethnic Russian and rest is Ukrainian
I guess that's that.
Hail to the new chief.
Those who sacrifice their liberty for a little secruity will obtain neither and lose both.
"Crimea has always been Russian territory". Yes, it has. Especially in 1944 when Stalin and Beria used 32,000 NKVD troops to deport over 200,000 ethnic Tatars. Half of the Tatars died in that process.
jerzbondon Tatars were sabotaging Supply lines and raiding bases
Tatars were Nazi collaborators. And they were a minority before they shot a lot of Russians , Greeks and other nations in Crimea.
@@indycoon Oh shut the hell up, that's the official line of the Soviets, they would have deported them regardless. Tatars were never a minority until quite recently actually and they themselves were killed, not the other way around.
@@Koba66619 Yeah, according to the Soviets, but it's not true and there's no evidence of that. It's the same thing with the Russians calling Ukrainians fascists when they're obviously not. Yes, some Ukrainians did collaborate with the Nazis because the Soviets were much worse but most Ukrainians were loyal to the Soviets and a lot more fought alongside them.
@@ConorMcgregor322 I live in Crimea.
1917 - 28,7 %
2001 - 12%
2015 - 10,6%
Is it not a minority? Shut up yourself
propaganda at the end...
Keep saying that, Im Polish so this sound scary as fuck, according to history and Ukraine latest happenings
OrsihTheBad really? 98% for annexation isn't good enough o guess.
OrsihTheBad Unlike Ukraine, Poland is a member of NATO, so you're safe.
OrsihTheBad don't be scared, Russia wont take Poland unless the Poles want it to take Poland, this isn't USSR and they aren't invading you to spread communism. Look, Poland is under EU, EU is under Germany, that means Germany already owns Poland because it owns EU, Merkel is your leader...
BigChiefWiggles V true :)
soldier standing behind the cellular sector antennae at 0:40 is getting blasted with radiation!
He didn't update his talking points, describing the takeover like its a revolution