Except all the Russian democratic opposition leaders that were killed to get to this point. Just some of them for those asking for m to name one: Farid Babayev, Boris Berezovsky, Yuri Chervochkin, Natalya Estemirova, Yegor Gaidar, Nikolai Glushkov, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Magnitsky, Stanislav Markelov, Sergey Mokhnatkin, Boris Nemtsov, Anna Politkovskaya, Yuri Shchekochikhin, Yury Shutov, Denis Voronenkov, Sergei Yushenkov
@@sextempiric7137uh uh coorporate America uh u h uh global warming.. uh uh uh freedom u uh. Let me use my credit card. And the mockingbird has complete control!!muahahaha
Expecting Ukraine to do what no western military would even consider, have air superiority, top cover and close air support, is of course going to take time… Only the media and armchair soldiers would think that this could could be done quickly….
Looking back at what has happened I doubt that air cover would help (Would get to the objectives) (If we are talking about 100 F-16s). It would change a lot. But if were to expect considerable advancements it would come at high costs on both sides in aircraft and men. It's not that simple to just send F-16s to the battlefield, you have to provide them with something to protect from AA units.
When the US and Coalition Forces invaded Iraq during both Gulf Wars, what preceded the ground forces going in was over a month of air campaigns bombarding Iraqi/enemy targets. Even in WWII, before the June 6, 1944 D-Day landings, air assets dropped bombs on the beaches, they pretty much missed their targets, but the Commanders knew of the importance of softening up the targets before dispatching in ground forces. Even before the allies landed, the Naval assets bombarded the beaches and bunkers with their 5, 12, 14 and 15 inch guns. The Ukrainians were sent in without an air campaign to degrade their targets, nor do they have any meaningful air support. These soldiers are being sent to their graves.
Someone tell me. If the US had to flee with its tail between its legs from Afghanistan in 2021! Then probably the United States does not have such good weapons and military tactics. Then why did anyone even have the idea that if you give the Ukrainians just weapons, then almost everything is quite old, older than the United States had in Afghanistan. Ukraine has even the slightest chance to stand against Russia. Stop supplying them with weapons, have pity on the people!
Believe me, if the Russians did the same thing, you'll be the first one to shame on them. Everyone knows it's a suicide mission to do this offensive without enough manpower and air support, but who cares about the death of Ukrainians if it means that Uncle Sam will be pleased? No one! at least not from the west.
They had the air support first... By now 450 jets and 252 ukrainian helicopters have been destroyed. And they dont have the air support any longer. Russian air defence oficers are very dissapointed that Bidon dont want to provide ukrainians with the F-16 jets to train better russian ground to air missiles/ They look forward that Bidon will change his mind...
I think expectations were falsey heightened by media constantly talking about the offensives success. Without air support, you cant expect blistering progress on a heavily entrenched enemy. As a matter of fact, historically offensives start slow and then build momentum.
This^ The Russians have air superiority, months of entrenchment, and they have a lot more soldiers on the front now since the last mobilization. I want Ukraine to win, and I wouldn't count it out, but the situation on the front made me doubt that this counteroffensive was going to be a repeat of Kharkiv. I hope the best for Ukraine. We will support them until this conflict is over.
@@kulio1214 No... it's called a Counter Offensive. There is not a expectation of time outside a typical civilians head. They are not going to change it because it's working. The front line in this video has actually moved nearly 80KM towards the Sea and Russia is currently loosing the Key Railway junction that connects Crimea, their frontlines and the Russian/Ukraine border as i am typing this... Which means not only is Russia losing... Ukraine are about to severe the main supply line and have easy access to Crimea... and the worst is yet to come, as it cost's the Russian economy millions to repair the Crimean Bridge... and it Costs Ukraine nothing to destroy it (Free weapons).
Russia has a 7 layer Defense line. This General is describing the 3rd line and the 4th line. The Main lines. Line 1 and 2 are outpost for gauging the enemy strength. That is where the entire Ukraine Army is tangled in for the last few weeks, the Gauging Lines. Then 3 and 4 are the Main Lines, these lines are currently quite. Lines 5 and 6 are retreat lines. Hold Ukraine back and escape with the gear lines. Lines 7 is the cities themselves, the Encircled line. You really do not want to ever be on that line.
Notice at how Russia throws men at obstacles at Vuhledar, and Ukraine adjusted their offensive to secure a win. Russian artillery losses are happening at a rate of twice the war's average. Ukrainians clearly have a plan. The best way to not get punched is to take a scapel and cut the opponent's tendons. You may have a hand, but without tendons you can't make a fist.
It is the language they use because they are afraid of admitting their errors, their weakness and how their imbecile leaders support a lost cause. This is also how they brainwash their ignorant population. They are losing and they would never admit it.
The general said that the Russians destroyed the Khakovka dam which flooded their own minefields and trenches. Then he says that the water retreated giving the Ukranians a chance for an attack. By which logic would Russians create a disadvantageous situation for them? It makes no sense.
To be fair I think they are limited in what they would be allowed to say and it's likely that they aren't even following the war that closely, they are retired not active after all.
@@harrybuttery2447 absolutely possible. However, I really appreciate those who make absolutely clear what they are experts in, and what they only have basic knowledge about.
Yeah I was surprised MSNBC have a Colonel on saying it's not looking good for Ukraine right after Biden said "Putin has lost this war" When media do a 180 before an event is over its usually to save face.
Russia, apart from the fortifications has more arty, more planes, and more ammo. Attacking with these disadvantages is not the smartest plan from a purely military point of view. Also, common military sense says that you need a 3v1 advantage in ground forces - another thing that Ukraine doesn't have. So, no great mystery why the counteroffensive is not going well.
we see how Western corporations for the production of weapons and the mass media send Ukrainian men to a senseless slaughter! the western world is neo-fascism!
If only the Ukrainians had listened to you. General Zaluzhnyi probably hadn't heard about that 3-to-1 number that every armchair general with a Twitter account repeats.
@@MrMuel1205 Armchair general? lol. please read any military tactical book of the last 3 hundred years. If you have passed any military academy in the world (even the worst ones) you have known of that little bit.
I remember hearing another American General (Hodges maybe) saying before the offensive that the Russian defenses would be 'brittle'. I reckon I could be a General. I really do.
You guys are seemingly unable to understand what is even said. The first statement is not contradictory to second. Ukraine can and will likely find a weak spot. And then it will show itself wether they are able to penetrate. Even the best defence line is useless when there are no soldiers to defend it.
It hasn't failed yet, so he's not wrong yet. Now if they had F35s, F22s and some AWACS this could go a lot faster. But something tells me you'll be concerned about the cost.
I thought Russia ran out of missiles in March 2022 and that the m777, himars , Bradleys , leopards , storm shadows would be game changers ? And whatever happened to the 8 months of training by nato ?
They were game-changers. The original game was "Russia steamrollers smaller country with world's "2nd most powerful army (sic)"", now the game is "Hope Russia can maintain their defensive lines indefinitely against angry natives with support from the alliance that accounts for 60% of all global defense spending".
This retired general did a wonderful job of explaining what difficulties forces would face once they face the fortified defenses. He didn't explain why none of the Ukrainian attacks even came close to reaching these defenses that are so hard to break through.
@@vyros.3234 NO. They are not even close to the fortified lines. The deepest Ukr has got into the Security zone is in one place, 9km. That's ~3 miles. The closest the fortified lines are to the forward lines of contact is 20km. After a month of being on the offense this is an absolute failure. The Ukrainian losses are staggering for no real progress.
Maybe because he didn't want to lie and he can't tell the truth or he doesn't know about the state of Ukraine armed forces, manpower, equipment, command and control.
He allso didn't explain why they believed the counter offensive would be more effective originally..at the start of it ukraine just fired up some mine sweepers l, tanks l, and Bradley's and just drove at the defensive lines like they actually believed they where going to just drive threw the front lines for a Sunday drive
He had a very strange rationale for it too. If I were the Russians I would have kept the dam intact and if the Ukrainians attacked that way well, then I might flood them. It has never made any sense for Russia to blow that dam when it was done.
According to other sources, Russian communications were intercepted where they admitted to destroying the dam. How were Russian positions flooded with Russians inside you might ask? I imagine the Russia line of communication is trash and the right hand did not tell the left hand what it was up too. Or something to that effect.
@@michaelerzuah1105 yeah the whole spring offensive plan rested on the assumption that the russians woul run at the sight of a Leopard, nobody even mentioned air cover, the hubris was unbelievable
Because Russia have 1) Air superiority, 2) Fighting from an entranced position, 3) superior numbers, 4) an artillery advantage 5) superior training. A Ukrainian victory is about as likely as an army of flies winning over their attack on a speeding cars windshild. (spoiler its not the car that gets crushed, and neither is it the Russians)
He should've used the GI Joe hovercraft to drive over most of those obstacles. It wouldn't even set of the mines. He could've sent a forward recon team with Snake Eyes and Scarlett to cut the barb wire and Roadblock's so strong he could just push the dragon teeth to the side. I mean, really knowing is half the battle.
Ukraine has already gained more ground in the counteroffensive then Russia gained in the 9 month counter offensive. Do some research before you make comments and make yourself look dumb.
one is a large, functional army with centuries of operational history, extensive air cover, advanced air defence and artillery, with mobile warfare doctrine developed over the course of two different countries' military experience, with both bragging extensively about their military might and placing it at front and centre of their society. the other is a third-rate post-soviet military with a history of economic and political dysfunctionality, with no equipment from any later than the day the berlin wall fell. does that help?
They didn't underestimate the Russians. Only the ones who believe Western mainstream news do that. They have no choice. No truce, ceasefire is allowed. Men are literally being dragged to the front line to die well within the hour. *Most of them die without laying their eyes on a single Russian.
Only one nation manage to truly bend russia, and it didnt attack from west or south. One of their "descendants" call out Putin for taking them for granted, plus he is siding more with china which is massively hilarious
Yes, never underestimate the love Russian/Soviet leaders have for turning their people into cannon fodder. "I die for Putin and the Oligarchs" should be the country's slogan. What a waste.
They were all home sick the day they taught European history. This general lost me when he said the Russians took out the dam. Ridiculous, they could have just opened the floodgates if they wished to flood the river bottom. He probably believes the Zelensky propaganda that the Russians were going to blow the Zaporizhzhia Nuke plant despite the head of the IAEA who has inspectors on site saying this was false.
"But why has there been little progress for Ukrainian soldiers breaking through the front lines?" My understanding is that these front lines are designed to be "broken through," until the attacker gets to the first actual defensive line, several km deep, which nobody apparently has, yet. The idea is that those "breaking through" will get bogged down in this area and then will have difficulty escaping, due to planes dropping mines behind them.
From the videos I have seen, if they are bogged down for more than 20 minutes they are spotted and killed. The Russians can "see" virtually every position and direct fire toward it. The West should tell Zelensky to surrender right now. Ukrainians have already lost and are dying for no reason.
@@corvanhoute8072 A “fire trap” is what the Slavs call decoy flares that aircraft drop to confuse heat seeking missiles. Took me a while to figure out what they were referring to.
@@javierititin No that's called the line of contact. The first line of defense is where the entrenched positions are (Ukraine still hasn't reached any Russian entrenched positions). They're currently unable to break through the forward outposts and minefields that Russia has built. Ukrainians keep pretending that they're inflicting heavy casualities on Russia, yet there has been zero evidence that Russian reserves have been used. Meanwhile the Ukrainians have finally learned that throwing men and armour at minefields and artillery positions is foolish, just like your comment you goon:)
Except for the cold war. And Wagner in Syria. And in 2014 in Ukraine. and in economy. And in education. And population growth. And in due time Ukraine. Just get ready for your bullshitposting for the 2024 election, and pray putin doesn't conscript you next.
This reminds me of the Western Front in 1916-18. The Russians this time have a defense in depth life similar to the Hindenburg line in WW1. The western allies never did breach the Hindenburg line until September of 1918 and only then because fresh American troops arrived on the scene. The film failed to mention that air support as well as "smoke" will be used to protect any large offensive attack.
Good thing the US and Ukriane is prepping a false flag at the power plant in order to manufacture consent from the US population for boots on the ground. Can't wait to see the nukes flying over Europe. It'll be a bigger boom to the US economy to rebuild the EU than ww2 ever was.
Americans were still attacking like in 1915 for the early part of 1918. By the 100 day offensive the trenches were pretty much empty, not because of the immense power of the americans but because of tge dwindeling manpower, industrial capacity, lack of resources from the blockade and most importantly The Spanish Flu. Most of the German elite troops were spent during Operation Michael or Kaiserschlaht as its known. By the latter part of 1918 there was really no elite troops to counterattack, which was what made the Hindenburg line so difficult to breach. It was an active defense.
The general said that 'Bakhmut went back and forth' between Ukraine and Russia, which tells me he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. If he doesn't know that, I completely doubt his competence regarding this war.
Constant flip flopping on all kinds of topics. Wagner went from prisoners with no training equipped with just shovels to "the toughest and best fighters"
It's both. Wagner's core consists of ex-Russian soldiers, a lot of them former special forces e.g. VDV. Which has a lot to do with how the Russian military structure does NOT provide a valuable career path for NCOs, but that's a topic for another day. So after some meat grinders in Ukraine, namely Soledar, they were depleted heavily of their veteran soldiers and subsequently heavily ramped up their recruitment from prisons. The core of hardened veterans still existed, as well as whichever convicts survived Bakhmut.
there are 2 main groups within Wagner. the 'core' are actually quite well equipped and trained, but the convicts were sent in with minimal training and equipment. they're the ones that took most of the casualties in Bakhmut. One of their tactics in Bakhmut was to send in the conscripts to try and create an opening, then sending in the 'good' troops to try and exploit said opening.
No. Wagner had a core of well trained, very experienced soldiers. They drove the convicts ahead of them to draw fire so they return fire at the Ukrainians. The slaughter was so great that the Ukrainians on the front lines had to bring multiple rifles because the barrels would overheat the fired so many rounds. For those who don't know, barrel heat will prematurely set-off the rounds.
Surely the most ridiculous thing was to announce to your opponents a good 4 months beforehand that you were going to stage a huge counter-offensive, giving said opponents months and months and months to dig in, prepare and ready themselves.
That's the key problem. Their entire campaign is based on trying to build hype in order to receive supplies and funding, all while announcing their goals and hoping to seize territory for TikTok videos to build more hype. Idiocy, really, but not so surprising.
A lot is over confidence because of last autumns victories that the Ukrainians had. What people fail to realize was the Russia was severely over extended last Autum. Russian forces were attacking heavily all year long and were far weaker than the Generals in command wanted to admit resulting in Russian force becoming way to over extended. That is why Russian forces were routed around Izum. This time Russia has had half a year practically to fortify the borders, bring up fresh forces and dig in. So at this point there is no telling how things hold up. Russia will have due to things to win- spool up its armaments industry and maintain moral. Holding back this offensive should help built Russian moral but who knows.
@@MrChickennugget360 The Russians weren't routed at Izum. There weren't seasoned combat soldiers there but more like something akin to our national guard and very low numbers. They were stretched way to thin at the time, didn't give much consideration at the time and Ukraine exploited that opportunity.
@@nicholasgrossman3194i think the people of the West are well informed about the systematic raping and torture that Wagner does around the world. And we are well aware that this war is an unmitigated disaster for Russia. Going from "special opreation" moving on kiyv to cheering not being pushed back in the East after 16 months...
the counteroffensive hit a brick wall? and why is this brick wall further and further into russian occupied territory then? XD Yeah yeah.. its always "the others" that fall for Propaganda isnt it ^^
If it was American soil and a fascist autocracy had invaded (canada or mexico? 🤣) I kind of do think the US would try to reclaim it's territory. Unless they take Florida. I'm okay with them having Florida.
@@vanessac8193t's not about that. This is a suicide mission that will end in Ukraine not having an army at which point Russia can occupy the rest of it. You have to fight in a way that's realistic and intelligent. This counter offensive isn't either.
@@ranndino Russia is waiting for just what you say which is let the Ukraine expend its army on pointless, ineffective offensives. When Wagner Group has reorganized and incorporated new talent, they will lead a spearhead of a new third Russian army into Kharkov. Russia is signing up 1,200 new volunteer recruits a day; that a regiment a day.
Before the offensive started it's been said they will breach the lines in be at Mariuple in a few days. In fact, they are still far from the first line if deffense.
@@hawaiian529 Putin only attacked because NATO intends to destroy Russia using Ukraine as a battering ram. How can you be so stupid? Putin is on the right side of history in this case.
@@hawaiian529 Putin is one man. Russia has hundred-something million people. They could easily defeat Putin, the mob could tear him apart. There's hundreds of thousands, most likely over a million in the police forces and national guard who could just step aside and let the people give the leader the Gaddafi treatment. They're all to blame.
The gentleman didn't mention that the Ukrainians didn't get any near to the first line, and they stuck in the grey zone that filled with minds, mobile ATGMs units, FPV kamikaze drones, Lancets and manpower divided into small units. And of course not to forget attack helicopters and artillery.
Do you really think the yanks want Ukraine to succeed? They want a forever war so the profit margins go up for the arms industry. They dont care how many lives are spend or who wins. No one will win in the conflict. Only the globalists and the World economic forum will win. Another destroyed slave nation of consumers to add to the pile who can be flooded with immigrants to replace the original population and for ukraine its gonna be way more easy. All the "white" men are dead so the blackies and middle eastern can fill up the ukrainian womens bellies with their devil seed.
This entire attempt of an analysis is a joke. They have been relentlessly switching between causing as much russian casualties as possible to obliterating their supplies and infrastructure. The "counter-offensive" is nothing more than Ukraine exploiting weakspots, directing russian forces to different parts of the frontline and preventing them from launching an offensive.
Department of Public Procurement and Supply, Promoboronexport as well as the military of defence have all been embezzling funds and selling weapons sent by the west... UKRAINES CORRUPTION IS THE PROBLEM.
What the general is describing is "1st line of defense". Ukraine didn't even reach that, they are still trying to break the "front line of defense". Just look at the maps of 1st line of defense and front line of defense. Russia has 5 line of defenses, not counting the front line of defense.
Then the Ukrainians will slowly kill them all. Catastrophic loss of life for a failed leaders vanity project. All that suffering. And it is inevitable that Russia will lose, no matter how many years or decades this goes on.
Instead of the "allies" (you mean, proxy-war wagers?) expecting UKR to win against Russia, they should have done enough to avoid the war from happening if they really cared about UKR.
Opportunity for a détente ended when a new US regime was installed in 2020. The new regime encouraged the breakdown of the peace process and due to this, Russia attacked.
this offensive is against well entrenched troops, who've occupied the area over a year, not those in freshly taken areas, like Kharkiv. Another factor is all those troops, have been pushed back to a smaller area, meaning each position has a higher troop density.
There were not enough troops to defend Kharkiv area, that's why they decided to rollback there. Basically, the gaps between formations were too big and the enemy could pass unnoticed.
Let's put this bluntly, firstly airforce pilots training and planes and support needed before the offensive, secondly not all ground supplies wasn't delivered till late, thirdly the weather gave a late start and finally Ukraine's combined combat is expected to start with a depleted airforce this is one half of combined combat out the window. This last part is like asking a amateur boxer to go into a boxing ring with one arm tied behind their back. This hardly takes a brain surgeon to work out.
Someone tell me. If the US had to flee with its tail between its legs from Afghanistan in 2021! Then probably the United States does not have such good weapons and military tactics. Then why did anyone even have the idea that if you give the Ukrainians just weapons, then almost everything is quite old, older than the United States had in Afghanistan. Ukraine has even the slightest chance to stand against Russia. Stop supplying them with weapons, have pity on the people!
Add to the fact that the amateur boxer is facing an elite professional fighter. Odds are not in favor of The AFU. The economy was slowing down and they needed a distraction, new resources, and an excuse as to why the dollar is dying.
@@saysumn7369 your correct, that's why most countries wasn't willing to help Ukraine in the first place, now after showing a resilience never to be taken every country is willing to help them.
@@saysumn7369 am not sure i would call many of the russian troops elite. We have seen pretty stupid things from them even before mobilisation. What is afu? The war was started by russia its their fault...
@@markusengel4701air power isn't really playing that big of a role. Russia hasn't had the economy to wage a massive air war since the fall of the USSR. (The US doesn't really at this point either since it scaled down compared to the cold war.)And Ukraine has soviet era hand-me-downs. So artillery is only really getting shot at by other artillery and drones. Leading to everything being fairly static.
@@alexsitaras6508 Russia had a 240 Billion surplus before the war Started. And thanks to the sanctions the Russian economy is as good as its ever been in decades. Their war factories are running 24/7 wages are up. Imagine that. I think like the U.S. was worried about escalation Putin was worried about a eventual NATO involvement and when he lost a few planes which every nation do in a war.. He decides to using them at the lines rather passed them.. maybe a costly mistake that is costing lives but, Russia is still winning despite
@@jaythomas3224 Putin expecteda three-day overthrow of Ukraine. Now they are hunkered down behind defensive lines over 500 days later. That's not winning.
It was the helicopters, anti-tank missiles, mines and artillery that stopped the Ukrainians, not the 'barbed wire', trenches or the flat terrain. Imagine how catastrophic their offensive would be if Russian positions were on some signifficantly higher ground.
To be fair russians lost significantly more Ka-52's, and their stocks are fairly low now. Regarding mines and artillery, that's very correct. Hopefully Ukrainian counter-battery fire bears fruit in a month or so
What we are seeing is a historic moment, for the first time in modern history NATO is in a war and is running out of weapons (in my time we thought that the US was the arsenal of democracy), sending cluster bombs was an act of US despair, isn't it better to accept it at once and go negotiate with the Russians?
Tactics are evolving fast, and western training did not anticipate much of it. Air support is almost non-existent apart from drones, but there are also anti-drone measures. Still artillery strength is highly imbalanced. No, there is comparatively few hand-to-hand combat, because most hits are by artillery and mines. Russians often retreat and then shell the trenches newly occupied by Ukraine - and sometimes the other way around.
@@MrBahjatt Western doctrine is one of combined arms... unfortunately for Ukraine they have only an effective army at its disposal. This entire video can be made null by effective air control over the battle space
Nah, a ten year old could have googled wiki on the population, resource and armed forces differential between Ukraine and Russia on DAY ONE and understood that Ukraine already lost.
Why is Ukraine trying to invade Donetsk and Luhansk? Both those areas declared themselves independent of Ukraine. Just as America declared itsel to be independent of Britain. Let us not forget that America fought an eight year war with Britain to achieve its independence. Also, Texas delared its independence from Mexico in 1836. A year Texas joined the United States. As Abraham Lincoln said, "Any people, anywhere, have a right to shake off an existing government and form a new one if it suits them better. This is a most sacred right."
@@qtkilos DNR/LNR had the same situation. Only after around 8-10 months of fighting and failed establishment of government control and whole ATO - Anti Terrorist Operation the Ukrainian government started to "discover" huge Russian invasion forces in DNR/LNR. This was total bs and was only meant to get western funding and support. In comparison, there were actual Russian troops in Crimea, funny enough there was zero fighting in the last 7 years or so. DNR/LNR - alleged Russian presence = war for over 7 years. Crimea - actual Russian troops = no fighting or any attempts to recapture from Ukrainian side. Do you see a pattern here?
FOR THOSE SAYING F16s FOR UKRAINE, REMEMBER UKRAINE HAD AN AIRFORCE BEFORE THE WAR.4TH GENERATION FIGHTER JETS. WHERE DID THE AIRFORCE GO TO? THATS THE BIGGEST QUESTION. WHERE WILL THOSE JETS BE STATIONED AT THAT THEY CAN'T BE SEEN OR BOMBED ON AIRFIELDS? AND DO YOU ASSUME RUSSIA DOESN'T HAVE LONG RANGE AIR DEFENCE SYSTEMS?.THERE WAS A TIME THE COMEDIAN WAS SPEAKING HOW HE LOST ALOT OF AIRCRAFT IN THE FIGHT IN MARIUPOL
People in the comments thinking Ukraine would win if given aircraft....i hope you people know that Russia has one of the best integrated air defence systems in the world.
A small correction: Russia has the best integrated air defense in the world. In addition, in one year Russia is producing more air defense missiles than the rest of the world combined. This is not my imagination, this is reality.
RuSSian air defense is so advanced so its shooting down ruSSian planes. Control planes in Syria and ruSSia itself couple of weeks from here, helicopters getting down like flies. RuSSia's not "invincible". It's clay feet collossus.
4:10 "The Russians fearing an attack from Kherson blew up the dam" and made it even easier for the Ukrainians to cross a shallow river i can't even with these clowns masquerading as military strategists on youtube🤣🤣
@@infinitum2013except Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk disclosed that the Ukrainians have been shooting HIMARS missiles at the dam. Who are your random, anonymous “Russian telegrams?”
Ukraines offensive is going great no matter what you hear on the news.the ukraine offensive against the western taxpayer has been amazing since day one actually.
Russia has had a lot of time to set up fortifications. Russia had a hard time pushing into Ukraine being on the offensive, and now Ukraine will have a hard time pushing back
No, they just set up their field forts way behind their lines. There's no way Ukraine could've advanced that quickly and reached their secondary fortifications
Thanks to Western reluctance to arm Ukrainians the war could have ended earlier. But the Western or NATO soldiers are not dying so why would the West address this issue quickly
The copium is insane 😂. The counter offensive is not going "slowly", its been a complete disaster. A completely expected outcome at that for anyone paying any attention.
Of course the problem with a breakthrough, as the gentleman fails to announce for whatever reason, is that the penetrating force connects not to its own lines but to the sea--leaving the attacking force flanked on both sides. So, either Ukraine will have to break through so fast--in hours, not days--so as to prevent Russian forces from counter-attacking and permit Ukraine to exploit the breakthrough by advancing south, or the Russian Army will be able to attack the neck of the penetration and thereby rather swiftly cut off and encircle the Ukrainians.
The problem is we've been lied to for a year by the corrupt press and corrupt administration. Nothing they've said was true and Russia finally understood June of 22 that they were fighting NATO and outnumbered and put real forces in the field. They're now fighting the real Russian army. They're screwed
@@NaSeNS Yep. Just like in Kremina. The Ukrainians have lost thousands of troops and related equipment in gaining no particular advantage. Meanwhile the Russians still hold the disputed territory. The Russian strategy....launch an offensive. Get a counterattack from the ememy. Fall back to a defensive position. Destroy the counterattack with overwhelming artillery and air assets. This is an espcecially attractive proposition if the territory getting destroyed is claimed by the enemy as belonging to them. It's called trading land for a big kill. Then take the land back when you are ready.
It's not possible! Ukraine will not be able to do anything! do not forget that when the Ukrainian troops approach the water. You forget about the most important thing! This is the fleet. and yes! Their rapid advance will immediately close into a trap and they will all die!
Either they have a map of where the mines are, or there are gaps left in the field for movement. Those gaps are tempting for the other side to use for advancing, but they become death traps as troops and armor are forced to funnel through while being hammered by artillery, aircraft, and drones.
@@josephr9930 Not in Russia, WITH Russia! Although it has changed, the Russian ethnic territories in Donbas, did seceded and joined the Russian Federation.
Mr.Commander, You forgot to mention that the Ukraine military hasn't even reached the first layered defensive line you mentioned here.They are like 20-30 km from these locations fighting at first contact points in the grey zone. There are at least a minimum of 4 defensive layers behind them to even reach main towns which are further fortified. The Bhakmut sector these layered defenses are behind the city of Bhakmut.
The 'security zone" or whatever you Russians want to call it it built similarly to the "First line" of defense. At least with Minefields and trenches. Same problem applies. Just have to repeat the process if possible.
@@karthikmalayil Well, whatever the Russians want to call their defensive layout. Still, if Ukraine can advance 20-30 km from the Security/Front zones to the main/first line, that would still be a major feat. Russian supply lines would not be happy if Himars had extra space.
@@Kevik70 How is that a major feat? That's an insanely large attrition. The security zone needs to be cleared out fast as those are the "Killing Areas" where the enemy has placed mines, pre coordinated artillery and airpower. The fact that they can't even go through that means that the moment they reach the 1st line of defense, what the Russian army will face is a tired and low morale army.
@pilotman9819 My opinion is that, gaining a little bit of ground will at least expand the areas Ukrianian artillery can strike. Putting Russian logistics at risk. I do not think we will see a major breakthrough unless Russian forces give up the will to fight.
Lol 😂large formations with Western tanks, which tanks?? Russia 🇷🇺 has already destroyed half of Leopard tanks before even reaching the first line of defense.
An offensive without air support and a preponderance of artillery fires is suicidal. The courage of the Ukrainian troops in this offensive is highly commendable but ultimately futile.
Oh, wow, the general explained that there are tanks and there are mines and if a tank hits a mine it goes boom. And if it goes boom it will counter-offence a bit slower. Such a brilliant analysis, nobody except generals would come up with this such hard to see idea. But what's not said here - why Russians were given the time to build all these fortifications? 9 month ago there was barely a flat field and with all provided western equipment a while ago, it would have been much easier and quicker ride for Ukrainians. Then, there still is no air support - why? Because F-16 will come somewhere in 2024, when Russians will build another round of trenches and fortifications. But forget all this, did the journalist compare the counter-offensive with other same-scale wars? Nope, the main idea said was that a random office guy expected the offensive going faster for no particular reason, perhaps because Ukrainians have a few more tanks now or something. To conclude this magnificent analysis, he shared an original idea is when you see many tanks in a formation, that perhaps means something happening, probably a counter-offence going on. Such a Pulitzer-level thought. Gosh, such a biased and unprofessional material, I wasn't able to imagine.
The thing that specifically changed in the 20th century was the ability, with railroads, planes, and concrete, to make entire countries into one single fortress structure. How can any country be captured who can make every mile of their country a fortress wall
@@foxknight666nice try troll. Leveling cities is russian tactics. US uses low collateral damage weapons, russia use grad and etc which are field weapons and impact zones are thousands of squate metres big compared to guided munitions having what like 10m of impact zone
@@marisjanelsins1563 Low collateral damage weapons, ie shooting weddings and dropping nukes. If russia wasn't fighting ethnic russian, what do you think would happen? there will be no siege of mariupol or bakhmut, just drop a couple of thermobaric bombs and walk through the corpses.
Russian army is very far from completent or this war would be over in under a week just like everyone thought. Including Western experts. Russia just has a lot of ammunition left from Soviet times.
finally they are talking about this war half-realistically. Next, we might even hear people talk about soldiers and how the logistics of how Ukraine can get enough solderis to overcome some of the best trench defenses in history... (cough cough, its not possible, they will all die)
Наступление Нашей страны уже начинается в Харьковской области, надеюсь на успех. Украина и НАТО должны потерпеть поражение, а наши Братские народы должны жить в мире. Всем мира и добра из России
The last guy forgets that "large numbers of western tanks" will roll across the front lines. LOL There are no large formations anywhere. Many of those tanks were destroyed in warehouses before the offensives
@erimakpeadelemoni7444 I think he's unironically referring to leopard one's which is the real kicker. Russians don't even need to hit those things to blow em up. An anti-personal mine or some shrapnel from a blast 50 meters away will tear those things to shreds.
We have given Ukraine fewer weapons than Wagner is giving back to Russia. Our cowardice is costing Ukraine. We should have given Ukraine Polish planes at the beginning when Russia was stalled on a few highways. We could have destroyed almost all the invading force in a few weeks.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmit (Ret.) fought as a US Army soldier, the richest and most well equipped army in the world supported by air superiority, aircraft carriers - fought and lost in Korea, Vietnam & Afghanistan his good advise for Ukrainian army should be taken with a grain of salt.
To all the copium-goblers out there talking about how “Cluster bombs are gonna become a game changer” y’all know that Russia can just start using em too, right? 😂
@@hasibakhshi4435 Unfortunately , this is a tragedy . Russia is conducting a special operation . Although many believe that it is necessary to start a real war and end it . Putin is too liberal and kind .
03:52 "The Russians, fearing that this was the number one attack route to split off Crimea and also get out ti the water, they... That gives the potential for the Ukrainian forces here in Kherson to start the attack." Of course, I understand information wars and all that, but just who is it designed for
If you didn't omit the middle part of his sentence "Well it's starting to dry out so" then you wouldn't be at all confused. The Russian's blew up the dam to flood the area to make a natural barrier. It is now receding (though it will take a lot longer for the earth to dry up, the terrain will remain muddy for weeks to months, not to mention contamination) so the Ukrainians can now reestablish a bridgehead.
Ukraine is so successfully conducting a counter-offensive that it did not even get to the 1st such defense that was shown on the video! they all died in the Buffer Zone. The counter offensive has been so successful for a month now
It really is a catastrophe...what is left of the ukrainian army are like chickens with their heads cut off. This is bottom of the barrel recruits with the losses theyve suffered. And so many of the arrogant ukrop fanboys are now so angrily seething
@@trevorsutherland5263 Ukraine knew and were notified about invasion. They just decided to not public that info so all the cities would be full of people and considering that Russia were trying to not harm ordinary people it made city occupation much more difficult.
@@trevorsutherland5263 That's right. Zelensky took it easy about the threat from Putin. He even blamed the US when the latter warned Ukraine that the invasion was imminent. How could you almost not doing anything then your arch enemy rallied 100,000 troops plus tons & tons of equipment close to your border? It was unfortunately Ukraine's fatal mistake!
@@trevorsutherland5263 Russia set up its defensive lines within the past 6 months "after" having captured Ukrainian territory, the war has been going on for 16 months now, what has Ukraine been doing all this time that has prevented them from setting up and fortifying defensive lines?
2:03 and who are you??????? On the internet any kind of idea or perspective can be "cherry-picked." Americans could use better pre-college "education." This should be "unacceptable." No caption or anything even saying who this man is- and why, on the internet, i would want to listen to him!!!!!
Disclaimer: No politicians were harmed during the making of this film
Except all the Russian democratic opposition leaders that were killed to get to this point.
Just some of them for those asking for m to name one: Farid Babayev, Boris Berezovsky, Yuri Chervochkin, Natalya Estemirova, Yegor Gaidar, Nikolai Glushkov, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Magnitsky, Stanislav Markelov, Sergey Mokhnatkin, Boris Nemtsov, Anna Politkovskaya, Yuri Shchekochikhin, Yury Shutov, Denis Voronenkov, Sergei Yushenkov
No peacemaker were harmed during the making of this film
@@mjw907 Can you name one?
Thanks to the mockingbird and his operation.
@@sextempiric7137uh uh coorporate America uh u h uh global warming.. uh uh uh freedom u uh. Let me use my credit card.
And the mockingbird has complete control!!muahahaha
Expecting Ukraine to do what no western military would even consider, have air superiority, top cover and close air support, is of course going to take time… Only the media and armchair soldiers would think that this could could be done quickly….
Looking back at what has happened I doubt that air cover would help (Would get to the objectives) (If we are talking about 100 F-16s). It would change a lot. But if were to expect considerable advancements it would come at high costs on both sides in aircraft and men. It's not that simple to just send F-16s to the battlefield, you have to provide them with something to protect from AA units.
take time = not gonna happen
Ukraine isn’t winning this war if the west really want to WIN it needs boots on the ground and confront the Russians directly.
When the US and Coalition Forces invaded Iraq during both Gulf Wars, what preceded the ground forces going in was over a month of air campaigns bombarding Iraqi/enemy targets. Even in WWII, before the June 6, 1944 D-Day landings, air assets dropped bombs on the beaches, they pretty much missed their targets, but the Commanders knew of the importance of softening up the targets before dispatching in ground forces. Even before the allies landed, the Naval assets bombarded the beaches and bunkers with their 5, 12, 14 and 15 inch guns.
The Ukrainians were sent in without an air campaign to degrade their targets, nor do they have any meaningful air support. These soldiers are being sent to their graves.
" is of course going to take time"
Where I live, it is not called to "take time" but suicide!.
You cant expect a quick advance while pushing into the most fortified defensice positions in the world without air support
Then it is crazy to try unless you care nothing about the lives of Ukraine soldiers. Trust me, Biden does not care.
Someone tell me. If the US had to flee with its tail between its legs from Afghanistan in 2021! Then probably the United States does not have such good weapons and military tactics. Then why did anyone even have the idea that if you give the Ukrainians just weapons, then almost everything is quite old, older than the United States had in Afghanistan. Ukraine has even the slightest chance to stand against Russia. Stop supplying them with weapons, have pity on the people!
I was about to say the same thing.
Believe me, if the Russians did the same thing, you'll be the first one to shame on them. Everyone knows it's a suicide mission to do this offensive without enough manpower and air support, but who cares about the death of Ukrainians if it means that Uncle Sam will be pleased? No one! at least not from the west.
They had the air support first... By now 450 jets and 252 ukrainian helicopters have been destroyed. And they dont have the air support any longer. Russian air defence oficers are very dissapointed that Bidon dont want to provide ukrainians with the F-16 jets to train better russian ground to air missiles/ They look forward that Bidon will change his mind...
Its not a slow counter-offensive...its a failed one...
This aged well
@@ahmadmusheinesh4391complete disaster the UA couldn't even get to the 1st defense lines and now Advikka is about to fall
@@megclifton6692and the Russians took Marinka too😂 Russia gained twice the amount of territory they lost in 2023
@@megclifton6692 It has fallen
I think expectations were falsey heightened by media constantly talking about the offensives success. Without air support, you cant expect blistering progress on a heavily entrenched enemy. As a matter of fact, historically offensives start slow and then build momentum.
It's called propaganda.
This^ The Russians have air superiority, months of entrenchment, and they have a lot more soldiers on the front now since the last mobilization. I want Ukraine to win, and I wouldn't count it out, but the situation on the front made me doubt that this counteroffensive was going to be a repeat of Kharkiv.
I hope the best for Ukraine. We will support them until this conflict is over.
@@LEFT4BASSspeak for yourself
@@LEFT4BASSsadly they won't win against Russia even in your wildest imagination
@@kulio1214 No... it's called a Counter Offensive.
There is not a expectation of time outside a typical civilians head. They are not going to change it because it's working. The front line in this video has actually moved nearly 80KM towards the Sea and Russia is currently loosing the Key Railway junction that connects Crimea, their frontlines and the Russian/Ukraine border as i am typing this... Which means not only is Russia losing... Ukraine are about to severe the main supply line and have easy access to Crimea... and the worst is yet to come, as it cost's the Russian economy millions to repair the Crimean Bridge... and it Costs Ukraine nothing to destroy it (Free weapons).
Russia has a 7 layer Defense line. This General is describing the 3rd line and the 4th line. The Main lines. Line 1 and 2 are outpost for gauging the enemy strength. That is where the entire Ukraine Army is tangled in for the last few weeks, the Gauging Lines. Then 3 and 4 are the Main Lines, these lines are currently quite. Lines 5 and 6 are retreat lines. Hold Ukraine back and escape with the gear lines. Lines 7 is the cities themselves, the Encircled line. You really do not want to ever be on that line.
@@achristianman6725 after their disasters last spring they learned to finally defend. No matter, their defense will be broken
@@justADeniby the time they break Russian defenses only zelensky will be left hahaha.
@@justADeni broken by what? Ukraine has no air cover and gets slammed every time they try to cross open ground.
@@justADenin ur dreams only. Counter offensive my foot ! 😂😂
@@justADeni So when are you enlisting?
Notice the language the western media uses: “slow progress” and “limited success”. Never direct words like “failure” or “floundering”.
Notice at how Russia throws men at obstacles at Vuhledar, and Ukraine adjusted their offensive to secure a win.
Russian artillery losses are happening at a rate of twice the war's average. Ukrainians clearly have a plan. The best way to not get punched is to take a scapel and cut the opponent's tendons. You may have a hand, but without tendons you can't make a fist.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD funniest comment on this thread!
It is the language they use because they are afraid of admitting their errors, their weakness and how their imbecile leaders support a lost cause. This is also how they brainwash their ignorant population. They are losing and they would never admit it.
@@RedSpicyFeast1010you are a bot, lol
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD stop smoking drugs
The general said that the Russians destroyed the Khakovka dam which flooded their own minefields and trenches. Then he says that the water retreated giving the Ukranians a chance for an attack. By which logic would Russians create a disadvantageous situation for them? It makes no sense.
Incompetence. They seemed to have undesestimated how much damage their bombs would do to it.
You want logic and reason from Wall Street Coping Journal? 😆
@@Anvilman
Your incompetence, elementary school dropout
@@Conserpov Salty Russian shill is salty.
They didn't blow up the pipeline either
what I have learned from listening to retired generals is that military guys do not automatically become geniuses just because they are retired.
To be fair I think they are limited in what they would be allowed to say and it's likely that they aren't even following the war that closely, they are retired not active after all.
@@harrybuttery2447 absolutely possible. However, I really appreciate those who make absolutely clear what they are experts in, and what they only have basic knowledge about.
@@harrybuttery2447 You kidding? They're watching this by the hour.
No - these guys are PAID to say BS for propaganda. If it was their command they would not say anything even remotely close ;)
Neither do arm chair general commentators safe at home in front of their keyboards
Slowly, the reality of the situation is beginning to be acknowledged.
@chrismifflin3862
Let's just hope it leads to peace talks and not further escalation from the West.
Yeah I was surprised MSNBC have a Colonel on saying it's not looking good for Ukraine right after Biden said "Putin has lost this war" When media do a 180 before an event is over its usually to save face.
Russia, apart from the fortifications has more arty, more planes, and more ammo. Attacking with these disadvantages is not the smartest plan from a purely military point of view. Also, common military sense says that you need a 3v1 advantage in ground forces - another thing that Ukraine doesn't have. So, no great mystery why the counteroffensive is not going well.
we see how Western corporations for the production of weapons and the mass media send Ukrainian men to a senseless slaughter! the western world is neo-fascism!
If only the Ukrainians had listened to you. General Zaluzhnyi probably hadn't heard about that 3-to-1 number that every armchair general with a Twitter account repeats.
@@MrMuel1205 Armchair general? lol. please read any military tactical book of the last 3 hundred years. If you have passed any military academy in the world (even the worst ones) you have known of that little bit.
@@pmpbds9 Don't worry, he's just butthurt that Ukraine isn't rolling over Russia like it was supposed to happen in his head.
@@MrMuel1205 Seeing you anti-westerners Cope and Seethe that Ukraine is actually beating back Russia is laughable.
Looking at this 4 months later. Western media is just so wack
Is that the same general explain why Ukraine will pull off an successful counteroffensive few weeks ago? What a great general!
I remember hearing another American General (Hodges maybe) saying before the offensive that the Russian defenses would be 'brittle'.
I reckon I could be a General. I really do.
He is dumb but its good for TV
😂🤣
You guys are seemingly unable to understand what is even said. The first statement is not contradictory to second. Ukraine can and will likely find a weak spot. And then it will show itself wether they are able to penetrate. Even the best defence line is useless when there are no soldiers to defend it.
It hasn't failed yet, so he's not wrong yet. Now if they had F35s, F22s and some AWACS this could go a lot faster. But something tells me you'll be concerned about the cost.
I thought Russia ran out of missiles in March 2022 and that the m777, himars , Bradleys , leopards , storm shadows would be game changers ? And whatever happened to the 8 months of training by nato ?
Uve asked what happens with 20 leopards but didn't ask what happens with 3000 russian tanks. Thats funny.
They were game-changers. The original game was "Russia steamrollers smaller country with world's "2nd most powerful army (sic)"", now the game is "Hope Russia can maintain their defensive lines indefinitely against angry natives with support from the alliance that accounts for 60% of all global defense spending".
@@shadowproxy331 except burned leos and bradleys are in front of you while 3000 tanks are there, source: "trust me dude"
You forgot that Ukraine was givin new Lies to deploy. They'll march on Moscow any day now. lol
@@shadowproxy331 what were these 3000 tanks destroyed by ? Twitter hashtags. ?
This retired general did a wonderful job of explaining what difficulties forces would face once they face the fortified defenses. He didn't explain why none of the Ukrainian attacks even came close to reaching these defenses that are so hard to break through.
They seems to have gotten close on some fronts and past on others?
@@vyros.3234 NO. They are not even close to the fortified lines. The deepest Ukr has got into the Security zone is in one place, 9km. That's ~3 miles. The closest the fortified lines are to the forward lines of contact is 20km. After a month of being on the offense this is an absolute failure. The Ukrainian losses are staggering for no real progress.
Maybe because he didn't want to lie and he can't tell the truth or he doesn't know about the state of Ukraine armed forces, manpower, equipment, command and control.
He allso didn't explain why they believed the counter offensive would be more effective originally..at the start of it ukraine just fired up some mine sweepers l, tanks l, and Bradley's and just drove at the defensive lines like they actually believed they where going to just drive threw the front lines for a Sunday drive
Desperate Russian lies are desperate lol
You can just say it failed you know...
The war has developed not necessarily in our favour.
RuSSians are failing for sure.
@@Hereford1642 Best comment so far!
How did the retired general conclude that Russia blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam? Does he site any evidence or is it a “believe me bro” moment?
well he said blowing up the dam helped ukrainians so it must be the russians who did it
he's guessing, they always blame the russians
He had a very strange rationale for it too. If I were the Russians I would have kept the dam intact and if the Ukrainians attacked that way well, then I might flood them. It has never made any sense for Russia to blow that dam when it was done.
According to other sources, Russian communications were intercepted where they admitted to destroying the dam. How were Russian positions flooded with Russians inside you might ask? I imagine the Russia line of communication is trash and the right hand did not tell the left hand what it was up too. Or something to that effect.
Russians were and still are the only people who had access the the area of the dam. They blew it up whether it was a good decision or not.
How difficult is it to attack soldiers who only fight with shovels and have no morale?
Reality check it is
And oh, they know to run too😂
@@michaelerzuah1105 Russian ebb & flow, draw you in "Liquidate your force" & push you back to the start 💪
so air defense of army of Ukraine is grandmothers armed with cans of pickled cucumbers
@@michaelerzuah1105 yeah the whole spring offensive plan rested on the assumption that the russians woul run at the sight of a Leopard, nobody even mentioned air cover, the hubris was unbelievable
its just nice to watch a load of people eating their own BS
Because Russia have 1) Air superiority, 2) Fighting from an entranced position, 3) superior numbers, 4) an artillery advantage 5) superior training.
A Ukrainian victory is about as likely as an army of flies winning over their attack on a speeding cars windshild. (spoiler its not the car that gets crushed, and neither is it the Russians)
хорошо сказал!
I like fighting from an entranced position.
I'm a bit disappointed that the general didn't make "Vroom, vroom"-noises, when he handled that APC-model 😢...
He isn't talking to a bunch of 10 year olds.
Kkkk lol
Same here
I'm calling psyops this ain't legit
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. I knew something was missing and u just pointed it out, what a brilliant!!!!!
He should've used the GI Joe hovercraft to drive over most of those obstacles. It wouldn't even set of the mines. He could've sent a forward recon team with Snake Eyes and Scarlett to cut the barb wire and Roadblock's so strong he could just push the dragon teeth to the side. I mean, really knowing is half the battle.
It’s so funny how people mocked the Russians for slow advancement last year, but switched to saying “WaR iS nOt eAsy” now
People mocked because russian army is the second in the world! They have 2 million army and without limits weapons.
Ukraine has already gained more ground in the counteroffensive then Russia gained in the 9 month counter offensive. Do some research before you make comments and make yourself look dumb.
*Russian winter offensive
one is a large, functional army with centuries of operational history, extensive air cover, advanced air defence and artillery, with mobile warfare doctrine developed over the course of two different countries' military experience, with both bragging extensively about their military might and placing it at front and centre of their society. the other is a third-rate post-soviet military with a history of economic and political dysfunctionality, with no equipment from any later than the day the berlin wall fell. does that help?
@@josephr9930 That's rubbish. Russian took the whole 2 cities in the last 6 month. Ukraine took 3 small villages in a gray zone in a month.
Underestimating Russia is the greatest gift their enemies can give them
They didn't underestimate the Russians. Only the ones who believe Western mainstream news do that. They have no choice. No truce, ceasefire is allowed. Men are literally being dragged to the front line to die well within the hour. *Most of them die without laying their eyes on a single Russian.
Yup, they never learn, Napoleon, the Japanese, the ww1 allied expiditionary force, HItler, now Zelensky
Only one nation manage to truly bend russia, and it didnt attack from west or south.
One of their "descendants" call out Putin for taking them for granted, plus he is siding more with china which is massively hilarious
Yes, never underestimate the love Russian/Soviet leaders have for turning their people into cannon fodder. "I die for Putin and the Oligarchs" should be the country's slogan. What a waste.
They were all home sick the day they taught European history. This general lost me when he said the Russians took out the dam. Ridiculous, they could have just opened the floodgates if they wished to flood the river bottom. He probably believes the Zelensky propaganda that the Russians were going to blow the Zaporizhzhia Nuke plant despite the head of the IAEA who has inspectors on site saying this was false.
"But why has there been little progress for Ukrainian soldiers breaking through the front lines?" My understanding is that these front lines are designed to be "broken through," until the attacker gets to the first actual defensive line, several km deep, which nobody apparently has, yet. The idea is that those "breaking through" will get bogged down in this area and then will have difficulty escaping, due to planes dropping mines behind them.
By artillery as well, btw.
@@sahteekrem Yes, I heard most of the battles are dueling artillery.
Fire trap.
From the videos I have seen, if they are bogged down for more than 20 minutes they are spotted and killed.
The Russians can "see" virtually every position and direct fire toward it.
The West should tell Zelensky to surrender right now. Ukrainians have already lost and are dying for no reason.
@@corvanhoute8072 A “fire trap” is what the Slavs call decoy flares that aircraft drop to confuse heat seeking missiles. Took me a while to figure out what they were referring to.
He is one of the war crimminals from the Yougoslavian war. A real American hero🤮
They haven't reached the first line of defense for over a month and this guy talks about the defense line instead of talking about why they haven't.
cos they just talk out their back sides
Gotta maintain the narrative lol
The first defense line is the line in contact with the enemy you goon.
@@javierititin No that's called the line of contact. The first line of defense is where the entrenched positions are (Ukraine still hasn't reached any Russian entrenched positions). They're currently unable to break through the forward outposts and minefields that Russia has built. Ukrainians keep pretending that they're inflicting heavy casualities on Russia, yet there has been zero evidence that Russian reserves have been used. Meanwhile the Ukrainians have finally learned that throwing men and armour at minefields and artillery positions is foolish, just like your comment you goon:)
@@javierititin that's the security zone the defensive line are about 10 kilometers inland
Fact is the Russians won't be defeated. This is not a movie.
Except for the cold war. And Wagner in Syria. And in 2014 in Ukraine. and in economy. And in education. And population growth. And in due time Ukraine. Just get ready for your bullshitposting for the 2024 election, and pray putin doesn't conscript you next.
This reminds me of the Western Front in 1916-18. The Russians this time have a defense in depth life similar to the Hindenburg line in WW1. The western allies never did breach the Hindenburg line until September of 1918 and only then because fresh American troops arrived on the scene. The film failed to mention that air support as well as "smoke" will be used to protect any large offensive attack.
Good thing the US and Ukriane is prepping a false flag at the power plant in order to manufacture consent from the US population for boots on the ground.
Can't wait to see the nukes flying over Europe. It'll be a bigger boom to the US economy to rebuild the EU than ww2 ever was.
Ukraine already lost...relax
@@bulavo Yes. Ukraine Army cannot win. Why because Russia cannot afford to loose.
@@bulavoahahaha
Americans were still attacking like in 1915 for the early part of 1918. By the 100 day offensive the trenches were pretty much empty, not because of the immense power of the americans but because of tge dwindeling manpower, industrial capacity, lack of resources from the blockade and most importantly The Spanish Flu. Most of the German elite troops were spent during Operation Michael or Kaiserschlaht as its known. By the latter part of 1918 there was really no elite troops to counterattack, which was what made the Hindenburg line so difficult to breach. It was an active defense.
The general said that 'Bakhmut went back and forth' between Ukraine and Russia, which tells me he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. If he doesn't know that, I completely doubt his competence regarding this war.
No he's just lying. There's a difference.
Constant flip flopping on all kinds of topics. Wagner went from prisoners with no training equipped with just shovels to "the toughest and best fighters"
It's both. Wagner's core consists of ex-Russian soldiers, a lot of them former special forces e.g. VDV. Which has a lot to do with how the Russian military structure does NOT provide a valuable career path for NCOs, but that's a topic for another day.
So after some meat grinders in Ukraine, namely Soledar, they were depleted heavily of their veteran soldiers and subsequently heavily ramped up their recruitment from prisons.
The core of hardened veterans still existed, as well as whichever convicts survived Bakhmut.
there are 2 main groups within Wagner. the 'core' are actually quite well equipped and trained, but the convicts were sent in with minimal training and equipment. they're the ones that took most of the casualties in Bakhmut.
One of their tactics in Bakhmut was to send in the conscripts to try and create an opening, then sending in the 'good' troops to try and exploit said opening.
Wagner used the prisoners as cannon fodder so it's well trained soldiers would live. So both are true.
No. Wagner had a core of well trained, very experienced soldiers. They drove the convicts ahead of them to draw fire so they return fire at the Ukrainians. The slaughter was so great that the Ukrainians on the front lines had to bring multiple rifles because the barrels would overheat the fired so many rounds. For those who don't know, barrel heat will prematurely set-off the rounds.
Of course, the ones on the third line. Because they send the meat to the front to be slaughtered.
Is this the same general that said that Russia is going to lose a year ago?
Yeah.
Surely the most ridiculous thing was to announce to your opponents a good 4 months beforehand that you were going to stage a huge counter-offensive, giving said opponents months and months and months to dig in, prepare and ready themselves.
That's the key problem. Their entire campaign is based on trying to build hype in order to receive supplies and funding, all while announcing their goals and hoping to seize territory for TikTok videos to build more hype. Idiocy, really, but not so surprising.
The russians already knew this was going to happen anyway
A lot is over confidence because of last autumns victories that the Ukrainians had. What people fail to realize was the Russia was severely over extended last Autum. Russian forces were attacking heavily all year long and were far weaker than the Generals in command wanted to admit resulting in Russian force becoming way to over extended. That is why Russian forces were routed around Izum.
This time Russia has had half a year practically to fortify the borders, bring up fresh forces and dig in. So at this point there is no telling how things hold up. Russia will have due to things to win- spool up its armaments industry and maintain moral. Holding back this offensive should help built Russian moral but who knows.
maybe the point is not to win but to cause as much death and destruction as possible?
@@MrChickennugget360 The Russians weren't routed at Izum. There weren't seasoned combat soldiers there but more like something akin to our national guard and very low numbers. They were stretched way to thin at the time, didn't give much consideration at the time and Ukraine exploited that opportunity.
That feeling of being surprised and confused the counteroffensive met a brick wall is what happens when Propaganda and reality meet.
its almost as beautiful to watch as the WSJ going from calling wagner great men to terrorists in the span of an hour
@@nicholasgrossman3194i think the people of the West are well informed about the systematic raping and torture that Wagner does around the world. And we are well aware that this war is an unmitigated disaster for Russia. Going from "special opreation" moving on kiyv to cheering not being pushed back in the East after 16 months...
the counteroffensive hit a brick wall? and why is this brick wall further and further into russian occupied territory then? XD
Yeah yeah.. its always "the others" that fall for Propaganda isnt it ^^
@@Grimshak81technically they have not even reach the brick wall yet😂
How's that 3-day war, I mean special military operation, going?
Maybe they should have ignored Washington and signed peace in previous March.
The question they never ask these retirees: WOULD YOU SEND AMERICAN TROOPS INTO THIS DEATHTRAP? Spoiler alert: no, they wouldn't.
If it was American soil and a fascist autocracy had invaded (canada or mexico? 🤣) I kind of do think the US would try to reclaim it's territory. Unless they take Florida. I'm okay with them having Florida.
It's not going to happen. Weapon supply is the whole plan.
@@vanessac8193I'm not, I live in Florida
@@vanessac8193t's not about that. This is a suicide mission that will end in Ukraine not having an army at which point Russia can occupy the rest of it. You have to fight in a way that's realistic and intelligent. This counter offensive isn't either.
@@ranndino Russia is waiting for just what you say which is let the Ukraine expend its army on pointless, ineffective offensives. When Wagner Group has reorganized and incorporated new talent, they will lead a spearhead of a new third Russian army into Kharkov. Russia is signing up 1,200 new volunteer recruits a day; that a regiment a day.
The counter offensive is not running behind, it failed, call it like it is
Two months and still haven't reached the first Russian lines.
You can try to reach the first line . Show us if you are so smart
500 days and you still have not reach Kiev.
Before the offensive started it's been said they will breach the lines in be at Mariuple in a few days. In fact, they are still far from the first line if deffense.
Who said that?
@@MLVL312all of western media and these retired generals
@@rubengonzalez620 B.S.
I feel for all those that are innocent & caught up in the middle of these wars…
Blame one person. Putin
@@hawaiian529 Putin only attacked because NATO intends to destroy Russia using Ukraine as a battering ram. How can you be so stupid? Putin is on the right side of history in this case.
@@hawaiian529 Putin is one man. Russia has hundred-something million people. They could easily defeat Putin, the mob could tear him apart. There's hundreds of thousands, most likely over a million in the police forces and national guard who could just step aside and let the people give the leader the Gaddafi treatment. They're all to blame.
Indeed, I agree.
@@hawaiian529 винить только НАТО.
The gentleman didn't mention that the Ukrainians didn't get any near to the first line, and they stuck in the grey zone that filled with minds, mobile ATGMs units, FPV kamikaze drones, Lancets and manpower divided into small units. And of course not to forget attack helicopters and artillery.
"Filled with Minds"
Geez, just STOP already!
I worried a bit whether the old man can break through the Russian defence lines, but he did! It was thrilling!
he needed M and Ms,
You’re right the old man actually broke through
If you wanted a swift counter offensive maybe you should not waited to give Ukranians weapons, tanks and jets (and they still don't).
Do you really think the yanks want Ukraine to succeed? They want a forever war so the profit margins go up for the arms industry. They dont care how many lives are spend or who wins. No one will win in the conflict. Only the globalists and the World economic forum will win. Another destroyed slave nation of consumers to add to the pile who can be flooded with immigrants to replace the original population and for ukraine its gonna be way more easy. All the "white" men are dead so the blackies and middle eastern can fill up the ukrainian womens bellies with their devil seed.
This entire attempt of an analysis is a joke. They have been relentlessly switching between causing as much russian casualties as possible to obliterating their supplies and infrastructure. The "counter-offensive" is nothing more than Ukraine exploiting weakspots, directing russian forces to different parts of the frontline and preventing them from launching an offensive.
They've had PLENTY.
Defund Ukraine Make America Great Again
Department of Public Procurement and Supply, Promoboronexport as well as the military of defence have all been embezzling funds and selling weapons sent by the west... UKRAINES CORRUPTION IS THE PROBLEM.
What the general is describing is "1st line of defense". Ukraine didn't even reach that, they are still trying to break the "front line of defense". Just look at the maps of 1st line of defense and front line of defense. Russia has 5 line of defenses, not counting the front line of defense.
Then the Ukrainians will slowly kill them all. Catastrophic loss of life for a failed leaders vanity project. All that suffering. And it is inevitable that Russia will lose, no matter how many years or decades this goes on.
They are gaining miles every few days, Patience boy this is how military operations work . Don't get your panties in a twist.
@@josephr9930Miles? Meters to say the best 😂
@@josephr9930 At what cost? conquering some empty fields while taking massive material and manpower losses,will it be worth in the end?
@@josephr9930 losing thousands of soldiers and hundreds of vehicles per day you may add
Instead of the "allies" (you mean, proxy-war wagers?) expecting UKR to win against Russia, they should have done enough to avoid the war from happening if they really cared about UKR.
Shutup Russian Bot. Russia shouldn't had started the war.
Opportunity for a détente ended when a new US regime was installed in 2020. The new regime encouraged the breakdown of the peace process and due to this, Russia attacked.
this offensive is against well entrenched troops, who've occupied the area over a year, not those in freshly taken areas, like Kharkiv. Another factor is all those troops, have been pushed back to a smaller area, meaning each position has a higher troop density.
Bahkmut entrenched and fortified for 8 years, and you people were laughing at the Russians for being slow.
There were not enough troops to defend Kharkiv area, that's why they decided to rollback there. Basically, the gaps between formations were too big and the enemy could pass unnoticed.
@@donalexeymore importantly they did not deploy significant numbers of mines.
@@Dan-Martin we are still laughing because russia threw 40k prisoners to death to take a city with 40k prewar population :D
@@justADeni You traded 40k prisoners for 75k Ukrainian soldiers 🤣. Think you got the short end of the stick bud.
Let's put this bluntly, firstly airforce pilots training and planes and support needed before the offensive, secondly not all ground supplies wasn't delivered till late, thirdly the weather gave a late start and finally Ukraine's combined combat is expected to start with a depleted airforce this is one half of combined combat out the window. This last part is like asking a amateur boxer to go into a boxing ring with one arm tied behind their back. This hardly takes a brain surgeon to work out.
Someone tell me. If the US had to flee with its tail between its legs from Afghanistan in 2021! Then probably the United States does not have such good weapons and military tactics. Then why did anyone even have the idea that if you give the Ukrainians just weapons, then almost everything is quite old, older than the United States had in Afghanistan. Ukraine has even the slightest chance to stand against Russia. Stop supplying them with weapons, have pity on the people!
Add to the fact that the amateur boxer is facing an elite professional fighter. Odds are not in favor of The AFU. The economy was slowing down and they needed a distraction, new resources, and an excuse as to why the dollar is dying.
@@saysumn7369 your correct, that's why most countries wasn't willing to help Ukraine in the first place, now after showing a resilience never to be taken every country is willing to help them.
@@saysumn7369 am not sure i would call many of the russian troops elite. We have seen pretty stupid things from them even before mobilisation.
What is afu?
The war was started by russia its their fault...
@@denismorgan9742Without air support it is no suprise how slow the counter offensive is and clearing out mines to add to that.
with all the modernization and technology, it is scary how much this war looks like WWI. 109 years ago.
why didnt you compare it with ww2?
@@markusengel4701air power isn't really playing that big of a role. Russia hasn't had the economy to wage a massive air war since the fall of the USSR. (The US doesn't really at this point either since it scaled down compared to the cold war.)And Ukraine has soviet era hand-me-downs. So artillery is only really getting shot at by other artillery and drones. Leading to everything being fairly static.
@@alexsitaras6508 Russia had a 240 Billion surplus before the war Started. And thanks to the sanctions the Russian economy is as good as its ever been in decades. Their war factories are running 24/7 wages are up. Imagine that. I think like the U.S. was worried about escalation Putin was worried about a eventual NATO involvement and when he lost a few planes which every nation do in a war.. He decides to using them at the lines rather passed them.. maybe a costly mistake that is costing lives but, Russia is still winning despite
@@jaythomas3224 Putin expecteda three-day overthrow of Ukraine. Now they are hunkered down behind defensive lines over 500 days later. That's not winning.
@@alexsitaras6508 hahaha
Everyone in comments acting like there isnt the whole NATO and United States backing Ukraine Up
Im surprised russia managed to hold on so much. Basically all the westren world supported this war
It was the helicopters, anti-tank missiles, mines and artillery that stopped the Ukrainians, not the 'barbed wire', trenches or the flat terrain. Imagine how catastrophic their offensive would be if Russian positions were on some signifficantly higher ground.
To be fair russians lost significantly more Ka-52's, and their stocks are fairly low now. Regarding mines and artillery, that's very correct. Hopefully Ukrainian counter-battery fire bears fruit in a month or so
@@justADenirussians havent lost a single helicopter during this offensive
They are around the high ground.Specially near the village peytikhatki (not spelled correctly)
You forgot about the shovels
All of which are more effective if the enemy has to slow down to bypass tank ditches
What we are seeing is a historic moment, for the first time in modern history NATO is in a war and is running out of weapons (in my time we thought that the US was the arsenal of democracy), sending cluster bombs was an act of US despair, isn't it better to accept it at once and go negotiate with the Russians?
So you think it's a great idea to reward Russia for aggression? Great precident.
Tactics are evolving fast, and western training did not anticipate much of it. Air support is almost non-existent apart from drones, but there are also anti-drone measures. Still artillery strength is highly imbalanced. No, there is comparatively few hand-to-hand combat, because most hits are by artillery and mines. Russians often retreat and then shell the trenches newly occupied by Ukraine - and sometimes the other way around.
Western training and doctrine is silly to say the most of it.
@@MrBahjatt Western doctrine is one of combined arms... unfortunately for Ukraine they have only an effective army at its disposal. This entire video can be made null by effective air control over the battle space
Nah, a ten year old could have googled wiki on the population, resource and armed forces differential between Ukraine and Russia on DAY ONE and understood that Ukraine already lost.
@@1ambrose100 Who needs experts and generals when we have geniuses like you googling on Wikipedia.
To punch through quickly without air support, you need lots of wide area, dense, long range, 24/7 artillery, which I don't think Ukraine has.
Why is Ukraine trying to invade Donetsk and Luhansk? Both those areas declared themselves independent of Ukraine. Just as America declared itsel to be independent of Britain. Let us not forget that America fought an eight year war with Britain to achieve its independence. Also, Texas delared its independence from Mexico in 1836. A year Texas joined the United States. As Abraham Lincoln said, "Any people, anywhere, have a right to shake off an existing government and form a new one if it suits them better. This is a most sacred right."
The difference is that Texas didn’t have Americans in there land. Having people with guns can make them choose a option of independence
@@qtkilos
DNR/LNR had the same situation. Only after around 8-10 months of fighting and failed establishment of government control and whole ATO - Anti Terrorist Operation the Ukrainian government started to "discover" huge Russian invasion forces in DNR/LNR. This was total bs and was only meant to get western funding and support. In comparison, there were actual Russian troops in Crimea, funny enough there was zero fighting in the last 7 years or so.
DNR/LNR - alleged Russian presence = war for over 7 years.
Crimea - actual Russian troops = no fighting or any attempts to recapture from Ukrainian side.
Do you see a pattern here?
Yeah and those kind Russians counted the votes.
FOR THOSE SAYING F16s FOR UKRAINE, REMEMBER UKRAINE HAD AN AIRFORCE BEFORE THE WAR.4TH GENERATION FIGHTER JETS. WHERE DID THE AIRFORCE GO TO? THATS THE BIGGEST QUESTION. WHERE WILL THOSE JETS BE STATIONED AT THAT THEY CAN'T BE SEEN OR BOMBED ON AIRFIELDS? AND DO YOU ASSUME RUSSIA DOESN'T HAVE LONG RANGE AIR DEFENCE SYSTEMS?.THERE WAS A TIME THE COMEDIAN WAS SPEAKING HOW HE LOST ALOT OF AIRCRAFT IN THE FIGHT IN MARIUPOL
People in the comments thinking Ukraine would win if given aircraft....i hope you people know that Russia has one of the best integrated air defence systems in the world.
Also that Ukraine used to have an Air Force, and now it does not.
they couldn't even stop Wagner, Ukrainian Air Power would crush them if it actually existed
The Ukrainians just want the f16s to reverse engineer them with China. Corrupt leeches
A small correction: Russia has the best integrated air defense in the world. In addition, in one year Russia is producing more air defense missiles than the rest of the world combined. This is not my imagination, this is reality.
RuSSian air defense is so advanced so its shooting down ruSSian planes. Control planes in Syria and ruSSia itself couple of weeks from here, helicopters getting down like flies.
RuSSia's not "invincible". It's clay feet collossus.
4:10 "The Russians fearing an attack from Kherson blew up the dam" and made it even easier for the Ukrainians to cross a shallow river i can't even with these clowns masquerading as military strategists on youtube🤣🤣
he really said that, I couldn't believe what I heard jezus
Except Ukraine blew up the dam, not Russia.
Fun fact American and most Western media outlets design their propaganda for an IQ group equivelent of a 7 year old child, no joke.
@@whereisthehook Except, they didn't There's literally russian soldiers who bragged about doing it on their Telegram channels
@@infinitum2013except Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk disclosed that the Ukrainians have been shooting HIMARS missiles at the dam. Who are your random, anonymous “Russian telegrams?”
They seriously thought they would advance through miles of landmines and defeat an enemy who possesses significant airpower and air defense 😂😂😂😂😂
Ukraine hasn't even made it to the first defense lines. They get bogged down in minefields.
I'm sure that's what daddy Putin desperately wants people to believe. Too bad for him.
Did you even watch the video?
The counter offensive FAILED!
Hah !!! So say you.
Silly Russian lie is silly.
its not slow, its over. it was over before it started.
Candidly it’s over for the Ukraine.
Ukraines offensive is going great no matter what you hear on the news.the ukraine offensive against the western taxpayer has been amazing since day one actually.
Haha yes👍😂
Russia has had a lot of time to set up fortifications. Russia had a hard time pushing into Ukraine being on the offensive, and now Ukraine will have a hard time pushing back
No, they just set up their field forts way behind their lines. There's no way Ukraine could've advanced that quickly and reached their secondary fortifications
Thanks to Western reluctance to arm Ukrainians the war could have ended earlier. But the Western or NATO soldiers are not dying so why would the West address this issue quickly
Ukrainians had 8 years to fortify and yet their casualties are horrific
They have had so much time because the USA and NATO have dawdled in arming for a war that we must win.
Nah, Ukraine had 8 years to fortify vs Russia 1 year max.
The copium is insane 😂. The counter offensive is not going "slowly", its been a complete disaster. A completely expected outcome at that for anyone paying any attention.
Of course the problem with a breakthrough, as the gentleman fails to announce for whatever reason, is that the penetrating force connects not to its own lines but to the sea--leaving the attacking force flanked on both sides. So, either Ukraine will have to break through so fast--in hours, not days--so as to prevent Russian forces from counter-attacking and permit Ukraine to exploit the breakthrough by advancing south, or the Russian Army will be able to attack the neck of the penetration and thereby rather swiftly cut off and encircle the Ukrainians.
Just like in Kupyansk right?
The problem is we've been lied to for a year by the corrupt press and corrupt administration. Nothing they've said was true and Russia finally understood June of 22 that they were fighting NATO and outnumbered and put real forces in the field. They're now fighting the real Russian army. They're screwed
@@NaSeNS Yep. Just like in Kremina. The Ukrainians have lost thousands of troops and related equipment in gaining no particular advantage. Meanwhile the Russians still hold the disputed territory.
The Russian strategy....launch an offensive. Get a counterattack from the ememy. Fall back to a defensive position. Destroy the counterattack with overwhelming artillery and air assets. This is an espcecially attractive proposition if the territory getting destroyed is claimed by the enemy as belonging to them.
It's called trading land for a big kill. Then take the land back when you are ready.
It's not possible! Ukraine will not be able to do anything! do not forget that when the Ukrainian troops approach the water. You forget about the most important thing! This is the fleet. and yes! Their rapid advance will immediately close into a trap and they will all die!
probably the plan was that the Russians, seeing the leopards, would run.
Question: How does that 1st trench line get resupplied if it all has to come through the minefield behind them?
Perhaps they have a 'map' so that they can navigate through the minefield
Either they have a map of where the mines are, or there are gaps left in the field for movement. Those gaps are tempting for the other side to use for advancing, but they become death traps as troops and armor are forced to funnel through while being hammered by artillery, aircraft, and drones.
Lesson #1 of military History, never get involved in a land war with Russia or China. Any questions?... ask Napoleon or Adolf.
They are not fighting in Russia.
@@josephr9930Get used to it, it's Russia now
@@josephr9930 Not in Russia, WITH Russia! Although it has changed, the Russian ethnic territories in Donbas, did seceded and joined the Russian Federation.
@@uberraschtedame1510 those were fake elections and are not even recognized by any countries but nice try.
Mr.Commander, You forgot to mention that the Ukraine military hasn't even reached the first layered defensive line you mentioned here.They are like 20-30 km from these locations fighting at first contact points in the grey zone.
There are at least a minimum of 4 defensive layers behind them to even reach main towns which are further fortified. The Bhakmut sector these layered defenses are behind the city of Bhakmut.
The 'security zone" or whatever you Russians want to call it it built similarly to the "First line" of defense. At least with Minefields and trenches. Same problem applies. Just have to repeat the process if possible.
@@Kevik70 I'm not Russian.😅
@@karthikmalayil Well, whatever the Russians want to call their defensive layout. Still, if Ukraine can advance 20-30 km from the Security/Front zones to the main/first line, that would still be a major feat. Russian supply lines would not be happy if Himars had extra space.
@@Kevik70 How is that a major feat? That's an insanely large attrition. The security zone needs to be cleared out fast as those are the "Killing Areas" where the enemy has placed mines, pre coordinated artillery and airpower. The fact that they can't even go through that means that the moment they reach the 1st line of defense, what the Russian army will face is a tired and low morale army.
@pilotman9819 My opinion is that, gaining a little bit of ground will at least expand the areas Ukrianian artillery can strike. Putting Russian logistics at risk. I do not think we will see a major breakthrough unless Russian forces give up the will to fight.
Retired general wants more military spending?? Who would’ve thought.
They literally made a trailer for this offensive a half year prior
Yea Ukraine works closely with their U.S. handlers to craft and distribute their propaganda.
It's ALWAYS harder to be the attacking side. Especially if the other side was digging in for months
Lol 😂large formations with Western tanks, which tanks?? Russia 🇷🇺 has already destroyed half of Leopard tanks before even reaching the first line of defense.
An offensive without air support and a preponderance of artillery fires is suicidal. The courage of the Ukrainian troops in this offensive is highly commendable but ultimately futile.
This is brilliantly covered by experts. I am amazed at what people do to defend themselves.
Oh, wow, the general explained that there are tanks and there are mines and if a tank hits a mine it goes boom. And if it goes boom it will counter-offence a bit slower. Such a brilliant analysis, nobody except generals would come up with this such hard to see idea.
But what's not said here - why Russians were given the time to build all these fortifications? 9 month ago there was barely a flat field and with all provided western equipment a while ago, it would have been much easier and quicker ride for Ukrainians. Then, there still is no air support - why? Because F-16 will come somewhere in 2024, when Russians will build another round of trenches and fortifications.
But forget all this, did the journalist compare the counter-offensive with other same-scale wars? Nope, the main idea said was that a random office guy expected the offensive going faster for no particular reason, perhaps because Ukrainians have a few more tanks now or something. To conclude this magnificent analysis, he shared an original idea is when you see many tanks in a formation, that perhaps means something happening, probably a counter-offence going on. Such a Pulitzer-level thought. Gosh, such a biased and unprofessional material, I wasn't able to imagine.
4:05 😂😂 Man just said what we already knew about Ukraine blowing up the dam. No wonder the media almost automatically stop saying anything about it
What is said in the office is usually different from what happens on the ground, it's tough time for Ukrainians but I wish the success.
I thought Bakhmut is not important strategically? 😅
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They die for bakhmut again and it is not strategically important...it is to continue feeding the russian meatgrinder until the last ukranian😆
The thing that specifically changed in the 20th century was the ability, with railroads, planes, and concrete, to make entire countries into one single fortress structure. How can any country be captured who can make every mile of their country a fortress wall
@@foxknight666nice try troll. Leveling cities is russian tactics. US uses low collateral damage weapons, russia use grad and etc which are field weapons and impact zones are thousands of squate metres big compared to guided munitions having what like 10m of impact zone
@@marisjanelsins1563 Low collateral damage weapons, ie shooting weddings and dropping nukes.
If russia wasn't fighting ethnic russian, what do you think would happen? there will be no siege of mariupol or bakhmut, just drop a couple of thermobaric bombs and walk through the corpses.
@@foxknight66624 civilians were killed in the invasion of Grenada, how many civilians has Russia killed in Ukraine so far??
@@hdajhdaahha38368 people were killed in the invasion of Crimea, how many were killed in the invasion of Iraq?
Turns out it's not as easy waging war against a competent adversary.
Russian army is very far from completent or this war would be over in under a week just like everyone thought. Including Western experts. Russia just has a lot of ammunition left from Soviet times.
@@ranndinook Brandon
@@ranndino So does ukraine have tons of ammunition from soviet times. Remember that USSR was tons of different countries with stockpiles everywhere.
finally they are talking about this war half-realistically. Next, we might even hear people talk about soldiers and how the logistics of how Ukraine can get enough solderis to overcome some of the best trench defenses in history... (cough cough, its not possible, they will all die)
The question is: After Ukraine completely lose its army when will start the Russian counter-counter-offensive?
Наступление Нашей страны уже начинается в Харьковской области, надеюсь на успех. Украина и НАТО должны потерпеть поражение, а наши Братские народы должны жить в мире. Всем мира и добра из России
An interesting mixture of reluctantly admitted reality, copium and outright nonsense.
The last guy forgets that "large numbers of western tanks" will roll across the front lines.
LOL
There are no large formations anywhere. Many of those tanks were destroyed in warehouses before the offensives
sure buddy
Bruh, you need to hook me up with your plug. You trippin like a broken-legged marathon runner.
@erimakpeadelemoni7444
I think he's unironically referring to leopard one's which is the real kicker.
Russians don't even need to hit those things to blow em up.
An anti-personal mine or some shrapnel from a blast 50 meters away will tear those things to shreds.
We have given Ukraine fewer weapons than Wagner is giving back to Russia.
Our cowardice is costing Ukraine. We should have given Ukraine Polish planes at the beginning when Russia was stalled on a few highways. We could have destroyed almost all the invading force in a few weeks.
I don’t even think the mutiny was real
Am I the only one who is impressed by the part at 5:58 showing a soldier handling concertina wire with his bare hands?
Brigadier General Mark Kimmit (Ret.) fought as a US Army soldier, the richest and most well equipped army in the world supported by air superiority, aircraft carriers - fought and lost in Korea, Vietnam & Afghanistan his good advise for Ukrainian army should be taken with a grain of salt.
"slow counteroffensive" ? the counteroffensive was stopped becuase it failed
mines + heavy fortifications + not much air support + complicated logistics (leopards, abrams, and many more)
War. War never changes.
FO4
Fallout 1... 90s
Maybe everyone is tired of throwing money away for a no win in sight war.
With such accuracy in their news report, you understand why we go through an economic crisis every couple years
To all the copium-goblers out there talking about how “Cluster bombs are gonna become a game changer” y’all know that Russia can just start using em too, right? 😂
Russia has been using them.
Guys remember about 10k+ soldiers of UA have so far been KIA and many more injured. This counter offensive is nothing but a tragedy
Sources?
26 000
@@rerbitd7094 1 life lost is too many and that goes Both sides.
@@hasibakhshi4435 Unfortunately , this is a tragedy . Russia is conducting a special operation . Although many believe that it is necessary to start a real war and end it . Putin is too liberal and kind .
@@rerbitd709452000 dead RuZZian soldiers already in 23 of June, and Im laughing at everyone 😂 gonna buy some champagne when it reaches 100k!
03:52 "The Russians, fearing that this was the number one attack route to split off Crimea and also get out ti the water, they... That gives the potential for the Ukrainian forces here in Kherson to start the attack." Of course, I understand information wars and all that, but just who is it designed for
If you didn't omit the middle part of his sentence "Well it's starting to dry out so" then you wouldn't be at all confused. The Russian's blew up the dam to flood the area to make a natural barrier. It is now receding (though it will take a lot longer for the earth to dry up, the terrain will remain muddy for weeks to months, not to mention contamination) so the Ukrainians can now reestablish a bridgehead.
@serebii666 But the Russians didn't blow up the dam.
@@nappybiscuitwe found the bot
Both sides were surprised by the dam giving way. They were both scrambling to get out of the way of the water.
@@nappybiscuit yet It was the russians that let the water build up to breaking point just weeks before the breach. Pretty sus man pretty sus.
Ukraine is so successfully conducting a counter-offensive that it did not even get to the 1st such defense that was shown on the video! they all died in the Buffer Zone. The counter offensive has been so successful for a month now
It really is a catastrophe...what is left of the ukrainian army are like chickens with their heads cut off. This is bottom of the barrel recruits with the losses theyve suffered. And so many of the arrogant ukrop fanboys are now so angrily seething
Don’t worry we will send tickets to Kobzon’s concert to all muscovites
@@ironrye4317 don't forget to call a Wagner concert
Your best move is to gain that land via negotiation, not take back with force.
Can't negotiate with Herbert from Family Guy.
What should Ukraine negotiate? How much land do reward Russia with for its illegal invasion?
If the US had’nt orchestrated this conflict , this tragic loose of life would not have happened.
The US forced Pootin to invade and commit those horrible war crimes?
This war is different from the war I fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. This war is not a low-intensity guerrilla war but a WW2 type of battle.
And the fighters are not wearing flip flops and dressed in bedsheets......and no suicide bombers so far.
Exactly. Modern army fighting a modern army.
My question is, if the Russian defensive line is so tough to break through, why didn't Ukraine setup such defensive lines when Russia was invading?
Ukraine didn't belive Putin would do it. Even up to the night before, the Ukrainian ambassador was telling NATO "he won't do it".
@@trevorsutherland5263 Ukraine knew and were notified about invasion. They just decided to not public that info so all the cities would be full of people and considering that Russia were trying to not harm ordinary people it made city occupation much more difficult.
@@trevorsutherland5263
That's right. Zelensky took it easy about the threat from Putin. He even blamed the US when the latter warned Ukraine that the invasion was imminent. How could you almost not doing anything then your arch enemy rallied 100,000 troops plus tons & tons of equipment close to your border? It was unfortunately Ukraine's fatal mistake!
@@donalexeyRussian bot
@@trevorsutherland5263 Russia set up its defensive lines within the past 6 months "after" having captured Ukrainian territory, the war has been going on for 16 months now, what has Ukraine been doing all this time that has prevented them from setting up and fortifying defensive lines?
Forcing Donbass residents to serve NATO is not democracy, so these residents are fighting and winning for their freedom!
2:03 and who are you???????
On the internet any kind of idea or perspective can be "cherry-picked."
Americans could use better pre-college "education." This should be "unacceptable."
No caption or anything even saying who this man is- and why, on the internet, i would want to listen to him!!!!!