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Please do a video on the battle of Guadalcanal when you get a chance now that’s a story that deserves to be told. What those Marines and Army Dogs went through is insane. Cut off and Completely surrounded by the Japanese Navy. 😅😬
Man... You really pulled out all the stops on this one. Full blown cherry-picking cope. I mean, yeah, sure, if you ignore all the men Kiev lost, and all the money and irreplaceable hardware the West has thrown away, and all of the territorial gains that have been negated by Russian advances in the past 3 months, sure, yeah, Ukraine is "still hanging on." Not to mention the sanction wars that have all backfired on the West. Meanwhile, the Russo-Chinese economic alliance is dethroning America all across the globe. But yeah, whatever. 🥴
Got to say Armchair historian is very Biased IN THIS VIDEO. Talks about how far right members are fighting in Donetsk military, MEANWHILE Barely MENTION OF AZOV BATTLION, Well known to be anti semitic far right battalion. Amnesty International put a statement out that UKRAINE used civilians as SHIELDS. I also thinks it’s hilarious that he has Ukraine attacking around Mariupol, while it shows Russia directly attacking apartment buildings is so propaganda, cause Ukraine also attacks civilians and example would be the bridge connects Crimea. Ukraine killed three civilians while trying to destroy the bridge. Meanwhile Russia has already rebuilt 65 percent of Mariupol and Men living there, don’t have to worry about being drafted in the meat grinder.
@@pll3827 At least this time it's not some rogue general or ultranationalists that're the baddies, and just straight up the actual Russian military and govt XD
dunno man, seems to me he pretty much recycling a few of animation couple of times, and many of the animations just "there" without any meaningful point to support the narrative, sure it's pretty much better on graphics than back then, but for me it's pretty much enjoyable watching AH videos from couple of years ago
I think drone war is one of the worst addition to warfare. War is war but watching a soldier trying to run for his life get blown to pieces by a drone, or two soldiers in pitch darkness on watch when one informs the other to retreat unaware that a drone just dropped and set a bomb trap in between them is just sad to watch.
While I agree with you, people were saying the same thing when tanks, planes, machine guns, barbed wire, bolt action rifles, white gunpowder, assault rifles, dynamite, camouflage, trench digging and other advanced ordinances were introduced to the battlefield
I agree with you that drone warfare in itself is a bad addition as it turns the war into more of a game and limits the risks involved the the operator. But in causality drone warfare is cheap, easy, and reduces the risks to the user. It gives many more options and gains to the side that uses them unlike the wars of old that didn't have drones. Drones are the future that will be used in any conflict in our era and beyond there is no turning back. An we all know these very drones will be used on not only soldiers but on the very citizens of their own country in time. Any tool of war that's cheap, easy to use and can cause great effect will be highly sought after and used. What we see today is the infant stage of drone warfare, what comes later will be far more terrifying as more weapons are integrated for use on drones, AI is added and drone designs become more lethal though options and load outs.
How is a drone any different than someone getting shot by a sniper? Or an artillery shell hitting them? All kinds of things can happen when someone is running away or chilling on watch. Explosions and bullets are explosions and bullets dude drones are not that special. They're just annoying. The only thing that drones have really changed is that tanks are not as effective and everybody sees everything you can't really hide movements from the enemy. Other than that dying is dying you make it sound like dying to a drone is any different than anything else. It's not.
@@bestieswithtesties Sniper puts himself in danger by being on the field of battle with in range of the enemy to strike back at them if they see them or notice their location. They can be dealt with directly and quickly. Artillery is on the battle field with in X range. New tech can detect, track and locate and counter fire which makes artillery risky as a sniper. All things can happen to those that retreat and do not surrender you are fair game to be dealt with by any means necessary thats the fact of war. But in most wars expect those fought by russia and some 2ed and e3rd world countries. As a modern country they respect and accept surrendering combatants and follow the international laws that all countries should follow in war. Again not all countries do follow those rules those tend to be 2ed world and third world countries and warlords. But what makes drones different. You are not actively in danger while operating and can be hundreds to thousands of miles behind the lines. Making it harder to track and eliminate the operator more so if they are mobile. Using said tech makes it feel like a vid game in how it operates an descentizes your thought process that you actually killed someone(s) and the reality check that you pulled the trigger on someones life. As the whole process seams unreal compared to seeing your results right in front of you while fighting on the line. Lastly drones will become a cost effective norm over time in price, man power, efficiency and many advantages you normally don't have on foot and easily accessible. As our tech grows and advances less human interaction will be needed and drones are just the step in the right direction to use AI and simpler algorithms to do the same job as a well trained solider. It costs thousands to millions to train a solider fully and a min of 4 years for a skilled combatant. But a child of the age of 7yr old or older and less then 2-8 hrs of training can fly a drone and think it was a video game. We already have 3-4yr olds operating their parents tablets and cell phones to watch kid shows online. How hard do you think it would be for young children to get hooked on a cool flying sim you can crash your plane into things. Side note: The real horror hasn't started yet with drones. We will soon see commercial drones being modified and being equipped with explosives and used for terrorist acts while being mobile and very hard to catch and locate due to mobility. Currently there are no countermeasures set up to defend against this. Unless something was set up in advance and even then the current tech isn't readily available. The world is seeing how effective drones are in Ukraine its just a matter of time before those idea's are used by bad actors only wanting chaos.
@SniperFallen06 I know because I see Ukrainian soldiers in my work place. One thing I can say is that they are getting older and older. In 2022, the Ukrainians who came to our workplace were mostly men in 2030s now ( when I last saw them in 2023 ) were mostly 40s and some even 50s. It is tragic, and I find these western propaganda outlets pathetic. They want to fight Russia till the last Ukrainians.
What is funnier about all of this, not only Russia has regained most of the empty fields they grinded in 4 months but they have advanced more in 7 days in Kharkov than they did in 3 months in Zaporozhye LOL and only using recon groups, and those same people now are saying that the Russians failed LMAO
The fact they only did that, and still not entirely while being the self proclaimed second best army in the world is not an achievement, but I guess the bar gets lower and lower while making Ukraines higher and higher. But I suppose they are "fighting all of Nato with shovels against the fourth reich reborn" so its justified. Each day the imperialist keeps at its 3 days very special millitary operation is a victory. But hey lets the whataboutisims, shovel comments and 😂😂😂 emojis start once more THIRD year in a row, that will certainly make their victory against less than percent of Natos budget more likely. Damn if I am willing to root for autocrats if that means sticking it to the current party in power in my country like a contrarian even I can stand against both equally
It's taken a dip for sure. Shoulda took the US's tactical advice on this one waiting to regroup was the worst thing they coulda done. They needed to keep pushing while they still could.
@@larrymunn5279didn’t help that Ukraine was so committed in taking Adveeka/Bahkmut, the US advised in not sending in so many men, but Ukraine’s military leadership continued on and it lost so many well trained, battle harden men, they really never recovered after that operation.
@@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521I think our us politicans are basically emptying out Ukraine so they can move there later because they like the demographics
@Sterlingcape Laughs in Azov. When has Putin ever said Bolshevik'ism/Stalin'ism was good. Shits crazy. He says "those with a heart miss thr USSR. Those with a brain would never want it to return".
I hate to be THAT guy, but for it to be ww1 you'd need at least a total war beetwen European union and Russia. With nuclear weapons on the discussion it's impossible because both has it
To be fair they did have helicopters since 1907, the mk1-4 were heavy tanks, and they had gossip magazines by 1916. We're just seeing their evolved counterparts now.
@@ReikerForgeThey did not have helicopters since 1907. They did, however, have pigeons, airplanes, and zeppelins, which could be considered as predecessors
Ok, i understand if this video would be published in summer-autumn 2023 but now... Seriously? Although, i really like this narrative: *Battle of Bakhmut:* Insignificant gains (including cities Bakhmut and Soledar), Russians lost 5 soldiers for 1 ukrainian according to NATO estimates (and only to it). Not a single word about ukrainian casualties during battle of Bakhmut and how it affected plans for counteroffensive, while mentioning all the problems of the russian army. *Summer Counteroffensive:* well, ukrainians did defended themselves, destroyed some russian ships and even though they didn't reconquered HUGE chunk of territory, still, they DID achieve tactical gains. Not a single word about russian gains. Bro, you even animated RDK raids on Belgorod and Krynki operation, while not saying a single word about Bradley square or Robotino. You haven't even shown battle of Avdievka on map and how it ended, while stating that "Russia lost a lot of soldiers and had huge issues". Hell, you haven't even shown this offensive and it's results on map, and i'm not even mentioning the results of 9 days russian offensive in Kharkiv oblast, which saw more territorial gains, than whole ukrainian summer offensive in 4 months. Im not saying that it's all good and great with the Russian army. There is a great number of issues and problems with it, but such biased view on this conflict is just disguisting. That's not history, that's propaganda. Still, looks like this is what informational warfare is nowadays.
@@studgud3345That’s true, but barely mentioning the “huge losses” and failures of Ukraine while continuously mentioning Russia’s is a big problem in of itself. It gives the illusion that Ukraine is still at optimal strength while Russia’s military is in shambles when it isn’t the case at all. Now when they recap 2024 they’re going to look like fools as everything said in this video will make AH seem uncredible which is unfortunate as UA-cam already has a thing against history channels and losing the trust of the views is the last thing they need.
Ukraine 2023 counteroffensive is a reminder for everyone not to PUBLICIZE YOUR WAR STRATEGY LIKE AN UPCOMING JAZZ CONCERT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. It rly gave me anxiety even before rgey kicked off. Such a blunder,, Ukr really undone themselves there.
Agreed. Russia's strategy the whole time has been to wait for the West to get bored of Ukraine and move onto something else, which it has done. All of Ukraine's effort had to be forced into proving tangible gains to keep attention on them, and stop the Republican narrative that America is just getting involved in another unwinnable war - hence the ridiculous clickbaiting of their entire counteroffensive for months beforehand. Of course, arguably, even success in Zaporizhzhia would not have swayed the West to take Ukraine more seriously. Russia is still doubling down and further gearing up their economy for a long war, and Trump is determined not to allow Biden to claim any foreign or domestic policy successes over his term to boost his own chances of re-election - as everyone can see from the Republicans consistently blocking Ukraine aid, and even increased spending countering illegal immigration. Idk what this year is going to bring, but I imagine the West pressuring Ukraine to accept a ceasefire - and we all know how well Russia accepts internationally brokered ceasefires (Minsk II ahem ahem)...
@@joestephen3756 Obama: Crimea goes back to Russia, Donbass become sovereign states Trump: Ukraine loses to militia in Donbass, no Russian intervention Biden: Special military operation in Ukraine You better hope Trump wins in November because the alternative is long war with 10% for the big guy and more quid pro quo with the aid money. "If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the billion dollars" - Joe Biden to Ukraine, Jan 2020
Somebody on major Reddit thread called something like “Russians knew about counteroffensive plan”wrote on comment section that got highest number of likes He just wrote: “Did Russian leadership followed Ukrainian MoD’s twitter account” I still find it so funny how true it kinda was, cause making so many claims and where they will aim to attack was told by leadership…
"According to NATO, Russia lost 5 times more then Ukraine in Bakhmut" So, by very smart and definitly modern and unbiased (as we can see in the 2023 planning for counteroffencive) NATO experts think that a numerically inferiour force, but with higher firepower suffered heavier casualties and won then numerically superiour force that lacked firepower that lost. Also, do note how quickly the counteroffencive changed from "we are going to capture Crimea" to "we are going to capture a small village of Robotino", which they lost already, btw
NATO gets most of their Casualty statistics from Ukrainian Intel so it's no Surprise. Bahkmut was a mini Meat grinder for both sides shoveling Conscripts. Prigozhin definitely wasn't happy with the numbers and how Wagner was treated.
One asks North Korea for munitions after losing 3,000 tanks to a small country like Ukraine. This war shouldn’t have happened, just like Putin being elected.
well watching this now with Ukraine shortage of manpower and reopening Kharkiv front is pretty much a "take a grain of salt" trip from people who really following the war to this very day
The way to Kharkiv is not so far could be that the russians try to encircle it and ukranians can only do something against by deploying large forces and reserves which makes them vulnerable at other parts of the frontline. If Kharkiv falls ukranian morale will be severly damaged
@@mk18397 UA litterally have nothing to put there. They said that they put last reserves there which many of them are just 40% ready. Also new UA mobilisation law makes you think a bit. They already lost, its just agony for them but money must flow to USA you know.
@@ShadowReaper-pu2hxah yes the non strategical city, that became Stalingrad for zelensky and throwing every man and best brigade to defend the city no matter the coast
yeah kinda sad, he is using British and Ukranian MOD, as a source, while they are known to spread complete lies like shovels, trees and bushes disrupting UKR counteroffensive and what not, I doubt we will get a realistic casuality count from either side for atleast the next 20-30 years
Not really good recap of 2023 it was the worst years for Ukraine with this one as well, the offensive in the kherson region was a total failur gaining 30km^2 of Land for 3/4month of fighting while russia is regain those Land and gaining Land faster than Ukraine.
@@GuestKid511 Lossing all of your best and elite divisions in the battle of Bakhmut just so to not have enough forces for the grand summer offensive (the one that Zelensky has proudly proclaimed to the entire world) is not a win or brilliant in anyway like what the video is trying desperately to show. Anyone with a working brain can clearly see this is a death trap from the start, NATO's advisors have repeatedly warned Zelensky and we all know what happened in the end.
0:14 I am tired of this narrative about Russia expecting to take the whole Ukraine in a matter of day. When did a russians officials or even Poutine say such a thing ? Russia at the beginning of the war had like 150-200k soldiers. It's clearly not possible to take the whole Ukraine country in a matter of days with this amount of soldiers. Ukraine is a very big country. Russia wanted to pressure Ukraine enough to bring them to the negotiation table and they succeeded. Russia and Ukraine were engaged in a negotiation process in Istanbul. Until Boris Johnson came and shut down the whole process. Anyway this narrative that Russia expected to take the whole Ukraine in a matter of days is just plain BS. This n'arrive doesn't make any sense for anyone who try to understand those events.
In 2014, Russia took Crimea with minimal effort. It's not unlikely the Russians expected another easy victory considering Russian troops we're making dinner reservations in Kiev.
The truth is they wanted to replace the government and when they accomplished it it would be all over. It could have taken them 3 days but they failed.
@@foxymetroid Crimea not only is WAY smaller than the rest of Ukraine but Russia already has a military base in Ukraine and Ukraine didn't expect Russia to take over the whole ukrainian peninsula. Also the vast majority of crimean People are ethnically russian. This is the reason they took over Crimea that quickly without firing a single shot. Also you forget that there was a civil war in Ukraine in the Dombass region for 8 years. And Ukraine heavily fortified this region during this war. And this time the US warned Ukraine about Russia invasion. So it was 2 differents situations.
How are they cherry-picking? Russia didn’t have that many victories in 2023 compared to Ukraine. Remember, this video is dedicated solely to the war’s progress in 2023. Russia’s renewed offensive is not part of that time frame.
@@ExtantPersonOverall they undermine Russia's successes and make it seem as if Ukrainian forces capturing some settlement or tiny village was a major blow to them, not only that but any defeat the ukranains have they always credit it to ''bad weather'' or some other circumstance belittling the Russian army
Biased aside its quite impressive how little amount of civilians have been lost less then 20k for 2 yrs of war unlike usa 1m civ casualties in Iraq for 1 year
Casualties are not all necessary deaths. I'm not sure about that number for Iraq, but it is possible. 1 million deaths in 20 years, but I'm not sure about total casualties.
Well of course there are less civilian casualties. Ukraine conscripted pretty much every civilian near the front. There are simply not enough civilians near the front to lose more than 20k
@@mikhailclark7529 it's not about population. Avdiivka was one of the so called "fortress cities" (e.g. Bakhmut). Those cities very HEAVILY fortified before the war all the way back since 2014! if you go on google maps and see old satelite photos, you can still see bunkers and trenches there. This conflict is MUCH deeper and longer than you think brother :)
Important to note that Western Europe has struggled to keep supplying Ukraine with ammunition, as the arms industry for producing artillery shells for wars that last years, simply doesn't exist anymore and the governments have no desire to fund them. Whilst Russia is willing to force it's own industries to craft ammunition, whilst also taking advantage of trading with ammunition factories in China, Iran and even African countries.
Important to note that Ukraine still refuses to allow exhumation of bodies of Wołyń genocide and started trade war against their western neighbours while asking these same neighbour for support in war
@@nacelnikprosiak1260 I didn't know that about Wolyn. That's messed up. And even today, banderist thugs are strutting around Warsaw, Lodz, harassing people, etc. smh
To think this happened while i am alive is actually unreal, i still feel like he's talking about a war from 80 years ago or smth
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Good summary, with magnificent animation; It's a shame that unlike the previous video, you treated the topic with too much focus on highlighting the Ukrainian merits in a year in which things went disastrously for them and in the process you dedicated little time to mentioning the achievements, successes and improvement in adaptation of the Russian army in the conflict (something that takes away the objectivity of the video). Also missing is an explanation of the Russian fortification measures in the South, which ended up leading the Ukrainian counteroffensive to failure. =/
When your army is leaded by a literal economist (at least now) and old soviet autocrats serfs (for 2023 and before) whose biggest achievement has been an around 20km penetration in the 2 years ans 3 months special millitary operation so far against less than 10 percent of Natos budget,partially of old stock, its hard to find victories and be "less biased" against hordes who even suck at imperialisim beyond killing everything with artillery and glide bombs then send in the infantry in waves until they run out of bullets or enery at a turtles pace.
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@@alexcorvuscazador5596 Be careful, underestimating an enemy is the main reason why you lost wars like Vietnam. Not all countries have the same mentality and the same willingness to make sacrifices, regardless of the multiple reasons, which for some are more valuable than for others; To think that the Russians would become discouraged for the same reasons that a NATO country would, is a huge mistake and they may regret it sooner or later. Recognizing the strengths and victories of your rivals, regardless of how they are obtained, is the greatest weapon you have to defeat them later, as is recognizing your own defeats; If you don't understand it, I recommend reading someone like Sun Tzu, because then you will understand that knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure you win a thousand battles.
Who is you? I am not even american. I am not underestimating them I am looking at the facts they have moved 20km on the widest point in in 2 years and 3 months. If you need a history lesson and read books please do so as the US stopped out Vietnam due to polical pressure , look at the casualties its not even close. If they had stayed longer and lost that would be another issue. Underestimation is the reason why Russia has extended this special millitary operation to three years and their adapting has not translated to any gain as long as their leadership remains as corrupt a ever. As long as Ukraine has will and manpower nothing sill change based on Russias autocratic charatheristics.
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@@alexcorvuscazador5596 You are wrong if you think that every victory translates into the total destruction of the enemy army, the fact that you degrade the achievement of Vietnam by ending up winning that war, regardless of the means or results, says a lot about you; victory is a victory in the end. You may not be American or even not from the European Union, but I perceive in you enough subjectivity with the subject not to be; It is true that Ukraine has achieved something impressive and that regardless of how it ends, Russia can now consider the war a failure because of what it has cost them and for not achieving the objective (which was not to conquer land, but to subjugate Ukraine to keep it under its control), however that is no reason not to recognize merits regardless of whether they are few or great. Aren't you aware of the War? The Russians have adapted little by little and are now attacking the North through Kharkov, succeeding in destroying the rear logistics by precision attacks with drones and artillery, something they lacked at the beginning (if they had had it before, they would have done more damage when starting the war). The point of recognizing the positive evolution of your enemy helps to carry out more effective countermeasures, but also in terms of the news that is given to the public, it also helps to convince people that this war is a serious matter and that therefore that must continue to be helped with more weapons. If he keeps talking only well about the Ukrainians, he will only make the allied countries fall into apathy. Furthermore, you talk about Russia, but since 2022 Ukraine has not been able to advance a higher amount of mileage than what you criticize the Russians for; On the other hand, Russia continues to expand its war economy, while Europe and the United States remain industrially hesitant and rather than gaining ground, they are losing it. Therefore, recognizing your rivals allows you to be objective in the end, not as you do when you only want to impose the perspective that Russia is just failures; They may be wrong, but even with those they have had successes and allied help comes better when you recognize your enemy's possibilities.
Have to say your animations are the absolute best like how can anyone not watch your videos the detail the animations the professionalism keep up the good work 👍
Take a look at whats happeneing this year so far. Russia is pushing further in all fronts albiet very slowly, a collapse on some front might happen. Or not idk I just look at the map changes
@@brydonthunderi think russias goal is to let ukriane and and the west exhuast it self of things like the counter offensive while only taking territory when they can do so with minimal casalites russia know eventual the west will have nothing left to send or ukranie will have no one left to send and they can get what they want at the table
2024: "Karkiv didn't have any strategic importance 2034: "Ukraine didn't have any strategical importance 2024: "Berlin, Paris and Washington didn't have any strategic importance 💀
I feel like too many people forget that the intial invading force was only 180,000 people, 1/3 of which were combat troops. The notion that Russia was looking to conquer all of Ukraine - a country of ~30 million - with 180,000 is laughable. The Russian assumption was that a quick invasion of Ukraine would force the Ukranian government to come to the negotiation table and renounce any desires to become a NATO member; of course, this turned out to be a total failure. Nonetheless, the costly Russian mistake of assuming the Ukrainians would give out quickly pales in comparison to the foolishness of the Ukranians to reach a favorable settlement early on in a war that was (or rather, will be) a Russian victory. Wars are determined by manpower and industrial output, neither of which Ukraine (or NATO countries) have. Years of outsourcing industry to other countries for cheaper labor has left the West vulnerable and without any surge capacity for rapid weapons production. Never mind training a professional workforce to man the factories to mass produce tanks, missles, and artillery shells like we did WWII, we don't even have the factories to send them to. This war was a doomed proposition from the Ukrainian side before it even started, and with the average age of a Ukrainian conscript being 43(!), there is serious risk of the Ukrainian nation ceasing to exist. What a waste of life.
Tell that to the trillions of rubles sunk into a war that's never, ever going to be cost effective no matter what can be exploited out of the country. Industry and manpower do win wars, but that's never, EVER, an absolute. Smaller nations have always proven that wars can be won when the invader suffers being bogged down for too long, no matter how authoritarian or tightened state security is. Russia is in year 3 of its invasion, forced to sink so much of its economy that has lost a lot of influence in its own backyard, and is becoming solely dependent on China and Iran, sacrificing its position as a major world power. It betrayed Armenia, it screwed its massive weapons exports market, its relying on older and older technologies of which some can't be replicated anymore because of how outdated it is, it no longer has access to western markets, the CSTO has proven to be absolutely useless and pointless, and its suffering an enduring rivalry with Turkey and China for influence that Russia SHOULD have intense establishment with. All for a war that could've been avoided had Putin just come to the negotiating table with all parties involved.
It can be a waste of life, but we need to understand that Ukranians will not give up their land so easily, and they will not bargain with Russia, not with actual "governant" who's want basically all of Ukraine... maybe more, and even if they agreed with all Russia demands, wich are unfair and many, its not garanted that will end here.
@@AgentLeonDeputyAmaral The Russian demands were for Ukraine to not join NATO, not to give up land. In 2014, the Donestk and Luhansk asked Putin to annex them, to which Putin told them that Russia would recognize their regional autonomy as \Ukrainian\ territories. The land annexations of this war are done out of situational necessity rather than a bid for establishing a new Russian empire. The Ukranians had a good deal in 2022, and they blew it.
@@jeanadams7387 Not really, as it left them completely at the mercy of Russia's will soon afterwards. Georgia certainly didn't get a good deal, neither did Chechnya through 2 freaking wars, and the Syrians were constantly bombarded by Russia because their government forces were on the brink of collapse.
@@Enclave_Engineer20k Russian casualties 😂 I believe your source is the ghost of Kyiv 😂. At this rate Russia would've ran out of soldiers but it's Ukraine who only suffers 30k losses in 2yrs according to Zelensky is running low on manpower with just 500k active soldiers currently after recruiting over a million men in late December 2022, what happened to half of the recruits from December 2022
@@MungorTV Country fighting for it's right to exist will obviously have general mobilization. Mean while in RUSSIA they will just randomly kidnap you of street to fight in a meatwave. Attacking power grid is a warcrime, but at least it's not randomly dying by itself like in corrupt Ruzzia where they steal maintenance money so dams just break.
this video is so wrong, in so many ways. Firsly, during the ukranian 'counteroffensive' in Kherson (2023) they didnt retake Oleshky, nor did they capture any amount of territory that comes close to what you showed; with them barely capturing any towns, and across very small areas. (like Krynki.) Secondly you say the RU suffered 5-1 casualty ratios in Bakhmut but this simply wasnt the case, with Bakhmut having 'destroyed' several ukranian brigades initially meant for the counteroffensive. You also completely forgot to mention the fact that Russian missle and strike capabilities grew massively during 2023. you also completely ignored the 'Fab UMPC' being used in bakhmut, which wouldve been somewhat understandable, but then also completely forgot to mention it all later on...? when this weapon is now being used in the hundreds a day (and has been since Oktober 2023, when they started to be used near Adveevka) You also massively understated just how much of a failure the Ukranian counteroffensive was, with so many forces being used in the completely ridicilous offensives near Bakhmut and the Vremsky ledge that lead to huge casualties in terms of armor, aswell as ignoring the fact that due to these forces (aswell as all their weapons) being destroyed in useless counteroffensives ukraine is now suffering a massive shortage in terms of reserves, weapons, and manpower, with RU now having captured more territory in 2024 near Kharkiv then ukraine in 2023 in total. You also ignored the total failure of ukranian air defense, but thats to be expected as that only became clear recently. Its amazing how wrong this video is on so many levels; yet you still manage to include the lancet. which i do like, because that (alongside the FAB and FPV drones) has been the most influential weapon in this war, destroying everything from tanks and mortars to aircraft a hundred kilometers away. Looking foward to a 2024 video a year from now where you have to admit that the reason for current ukranian failure is a badly-timed and planned offensive aswell as an increase of RU weapons production.
The video left me with the similar impression, it is trying to convince that Ukraine had sort of advantage throughout the whole 2023. It's absolutely not true.
@@quirklyquibble exactly. because while its true russia didnt achieve any ground; ukraine weakened itself enough with the senseless defense of bakhmut and stupid counteroffensive (where they announced where they would begin the attack too btw. im not even joking) aswell as ukraine losing support from more neutral countries, like poland and slovakia saying theyre not giving more weapons, exc. He also never adressed ukraines manpower issue, which is just another sign that this is solley a propaganda video meant to bolster support for ukraine. im used to him making unbiased videos, but now im starting to rethink all of his previous videos aswell.....
What is this? Die wochenschau? Ukraines war effort has been an absolute disaster, they lost bakhmut, avdivka and that summer offensive was ww1 izonzo level disaster, one from which Ukraine will never truly recover from
This video starts off so disingenuous. Russia literally started with 90k troops. No one with a brain would expect to "secure" Ukraine in 3 days with that amount of troops.
And no one in Russian MoD has ever said that. It is in fact general Miller of the Pentagon who said that. It seems someone deliberately uses disinformation to fool his own viewers.
@@guyman1570 90k bro... they just wanted to repeat the Crimea annexation and avoid long warfare, but NATO encouraged Ukraine to fight with everything they had. the Russians dug in and built a 7 layered line of defense along the frontline, which was one of the reasons for the failure of the Summer Counter Offensive for Ukraine.
@@superdjack5538ukraines force broke and ran to sepritist militas in 2014 i think that proby what led to the gross over confidince if he whould hae invaded with 5-600,000 troops i bet hed of won by now
I think you highly sugar coated the fact that Ukraine counteroffensive FAILED..Really badly.. they lost most of there equipment with only capturing small villages..and months later.. Russia took Adivika,a strategic town.
They recovered almost 80% of the equipment, compared to russias current rate of 30%. Adivika is about as strategically important as the alpine front between France and Germany in WW I.
@et9949 you have a serious mental disability considering that you managed to misidentify 99% of what I said. Kinda amazing. Hut also explains everything you said so far
I especially liked the part where you glossed over and barely acknowledged Ukraines neo-nazi problem before making a huge song and dance over Russia's supposed neo-nazi problem. Tell me, how much did Zelensky pay you to make this fine piece of totally unbiased and definitely not propaganda film?
Among all of the pro Ukrainian channels ACH is the most unbiased one (tbh maybe the most unbiassed amongst all political channels). The mere fact that it was acknowledged is huge. We must admit that rusich belongs to prison no less than azov rdg and kraken.
Did you even watch the video? He briefly mentioned both sides having far-right groups fighting and you just freaked out the second you heard him mention that russia has the same thing?
@@maxave7448 Its dishonest tho. Ukraien has nazi battalions, and national heroes. Meanwhile Russia has supposed groups that are that, but for wagner it was just a story, made up by a newspaper, without any evidence. Remember the "Russians" in the free russian legion? You can guess for what reason they joined Ukraine. They are that type of people.
This video was very surface level and objective in every way. Everything said in this video can be verified and matched against reliable data. You implying that you do not think this is accurate whilst also saying that you want to watch other videos means that you're okay with the other videos being objectively wrong? Which ends with you looking like a clown. "Lie to me in other videos, not this one" is not exactly a great take.
@@kruger7796 Or maybe modern on-going conflicts tend to be a more sensitive topic? With historical battles we have an easier time looking at them objectively because the fog of war is over and any bias on either side has long since past. Also no need to call him a clown. You don’t even know the guy. It’s possible to disagree without coming off as repulsive.
@@emperormiguel8327you pretty much said exactly what I meant, not the maze of circular logic set forth by our friend Kruger lol history has a chance to bear out facts that aren't presently available in the midst of the fog of war that encircles an ongoing conflict. Now if clowns the best you got I'm actually disappointed, I'm many worse things, to be sure......of course, absurd and clownish have been used as descriptors for me as well, so you may be onto something. Have a good night all.
@@emperormiguel8327 Claiming you can't watch someones videos because the topic is not being covered objectively just to go on to say that you'd like to keep watch other historical videos is pure nonsense and thus my comment was very much warranted. Based on that comment I know all I need to know. Also, if you think bias fades with time then you're even more delusional than the guy you're running defense for. Clown.
What negotiations? If Russia didn’t invade in 2014 we wouldn’t have this war now. There would be peace and no death and destruction of Russia just left other countries alone
To be honest, this video sounds like it was biased or trying to push a pro-Ukrainian narrative. Every time Ukraine succeeds, it's always "thanks to its strength, its soldiers and its allies", but every time Russia succeeds, it's always because of Ukraine being hindered by "Bad weather, disagreements with allies, delayed weapons shipments, busy units, etc." You didn't seem to mention heavy Ukrainian losses in the counteroffensive, or the loss of the Leopards and Bradleys (Which became very famous, because before the counteroffensive a lot of people thought only Russian tanks can get destroyed), effectiveness of the Surovikin line, Russian fortifications, KA-52s, and only mentioned how Ukraine managed to capture a town - A whole 2 months after it started (Rabotino is back in Russian hands now btw) Only mentioning when Russia gets bogged down, like in Vuhledar, but not mentioning their success in other planes, like Avdiivka, Gazillion Russian soldiers killed for every Ukrainian, "Russia didn't took ukraine in 3 days hurr durr" when no Russian politician or official ever said they're going to take Ukraine in 3 days, when in fact it was an estimate General Mike Miley before the war began who was from the US military. Production quality is decent, but honestly, this video has got some insane double standards and is far, FAR from neutral.
its kind of sad AH skip small details like the soviet weapons depo inside Soledar that give Wagner an edge in supply chains as the weapons got use against the AFU and the confirmation of loses of NATO equipment in the ukranian counter offensive but the narration is good and the animation is absolutly beautiful now in 2024 the momentum is on Russia as the lost of Avdiivka made crack in ukranian defenses and the lack of trenches behind it made way for a russian advance towards Chasiv Yar and now the Kharkiv offensive seems to have put Ukraine on a precarious situation having stretch its forces, looking forward for the 2024 video animation
From what was supposed to be a super technological modern war, it turned into the poor version of the World War I, with some splashes of the World War II. I also see reminiscences of the Winter War, the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq War.
Honestly pretty expected considering the type of terrain it is. Iran-Iraq War is the best comparison albeit with drones too. It's not like Russia and Ukraine were gonna fight each other from space or something. That's a US & China war situation.
after the counter offensive the death ratio of russians and ukraine is no longer 3 to 1, but 1.5 to 1. explains so much about the death of boys just for robotyne and adiivka. the counter offensive took too much casualties man. with the critical manpower shortage rn, seems like 50 billion worth of Western weapons arent gonna shoot themselves dont they? all of these equipment with no one to operate will just go to storage and wait for it to be located and get iskandr'ed
@@evananthony1395 ukranians lost more then 1 million people already while BBC and UA SBU couldnt find more then 50 000 Russian names KIA. Another thing prooving this is new mobilisation law in Ukraine.
@@urdnotwrex6969 😂 Man I'm sorry but your numbers are a joke. Russia has lost at least 300 thousand men and Ukraine at this point has lost more like 650-750 thousand. I'm not pro-Kiev by any means but come on bro lol.
Yeah, it's a Ukraine proto-propaganda piece....Ukraine took twice the beating Russia did, evidenced by its continued loss on thr battlefield, but this propagandist only mentions Russian losses, while Ukraines are x2
@@billybob-wb9wy unless these are the 'correct' bots, that is. youtube auto deleting is a strange thing in general. I often see people complaining about having their comments censored for one word, while right below them is a bot promoting literal p3d0 content.
@patrickwelch3859 well the Soviet obejective in finland was to anex finland. They had to settle with taking the defensive line of finland and basically no important lands. And WW2 was what changed things, have WW2 not happen the effect of the winter war would have been just a russian humiliation and forcing finland to join the tripartite pact. So if the Ukranian war is going to mirror the winter war then expect russia ro settle for the Donbass and perhaps crimea after being humilliated and then Ukraine entering NATO. And expect if there's a ww3 somehow ends the same way as ww2 which is highly unlikely.
@asavelakuse6865. That's what Russians actually want to because it will reduce the casualties and also to trap Ukrainan. Hence most Ukrainan faces empty trenches and some even got mines on it. But I think Russians are not standing, rather advancing.....
@@user-rj4gu5oh3klmao russia got total air support, look the number of Fab-500 they drop on ukrainian position, the ka-50 destroying ukrainian ifv and transport troop on summer offensive
By that logic the Red Cross is evil because they have a snake. They're mercs, you'd be singing their praises and saying "that logo is sick AF" if they had joined Ukraine.
@@KAZVorpalAt this point, I'm pretty sure both sides are fielding extremist groups. Manpower is manpower in war. Similar to how most political parties attempt to cooperate more during war, best to win against a foreign power cooperate with your competition than losing your country.
@@gayorsomethingidk553 разница лишь в том, что на Украине это массовое явление, люди с нацистской символикой становятся героями и примером для подражания. А в России есть только ДШРГ Русич - небольшое подразделение, которое не героизируют на государственном уровне. Даже не упоминают об этом, будто бы стыдясь.
Hey, Armchair Historian (AH), thank you & the guys for making this update of the 🇷🇺 vs. 🇺🇦 war. I have a question to run by you, are you going to put this video upload (& even the other uploads) onto a DVD📀 for your audience to have for watching in their personal free time🤔?
Not bad on the whole, but one can sense a pro-Ukrainian stance: - far-right groups in Russia are called neo-Nazi, while in Ukraine they are called far-right; - it was said about the Russian military defecting to Ukraine, but not about the Ukrainian military defecting to Russia; - it was said that Russian attacks were carried out not only against military but also civilian targets, while Ukrainian attacks were carried out only against military targets. Although Ukraine also regularly strikes civilian targets in Donetsk and Luhansk; - the information about the dead military officials in the headquarters was provided by Ukraine. It would be good to point this out.
I've studied WWI for a long time, and seeing it being played out in Ukraine right before my eyes is crazy. There are so many parallels I can draw - both wars began with a surge by the invader toward key points. These surges failed, and they were kicked back to trenches. Now both sides wish to break the stalemate, but everything has failed. Attrition has become a key practice for both sides. New weapons are being deployed and tested. Bombings of major cities have become the norm, and refugees flee away from the battle lines. Radical ideologies have established themselves in armies of both sides. I can keep going. It's scary how alike these two wars are, and while I certainly hope Ukraine triumphs, I'm just scared that, like WWI, this war could be a gateway to a new, more radical and dangerous situation in both Ukraine and Russia, and any other countries or groups that get involved.
Just a recommendation, but a "timeline" graphic would be really nice. Especially if it was always on the screen. Another comment is that i really like when discussing a location (other then obvious ones) if its shown on a map
I'm dissapointed in you guys. You completely glossed over the fact that Ukrainian forces failed to even REACH Russia's main defensive line in their big offensive, being completely stopped by picket lines. They also lost most of their offensive capabilities in that offensive, hence why we've seen no major offensive operations since then. You also called out Russian Neo Nazis but completely glossed over that Azov is also neo nazi.
@@АндрейКутасевич-к1йthe symbol of azov is a spin off a nazi symbol, the fighters in azov are neo nazis (men with h1tler tattooed on them), and officials from around the world have accused them of violating human rights
The mere fact that Ukraine had the combat power in 2023 to launch any sort of counter-offensive, speaks volumes about the UA army's resourcefulness, their dedication, and their ability to recover even after months of costly defensive operations.
The proverbial meat grinder is a good description between the two nations since it's a strange mix of ww1 and ww2 tactics and strategies with modern technology.
13:54 - Where did you find that "Srpska dobrovoljacka garda" (Serb Volunteer Guard) participated in Ukrainian War? This a paramilitary group that was active in Yugoslavian War in present-day Croatia. It was disbanded years ago. I could not find a single source saying it is active in Ukraine.
@@jackjames7283 "King and Generals" DAMN, THAT'S ENOUGH. I tried to watch him and almost died from tonns of ukropium. Literally liquid salo split out of my PC monitor 😅
@@coltonbarnes7861 people like you make me ashamed to exist,theres no indication that he’s anything but male,if he isn’t then that should be clarified,don’t be mad at me for a clarification “they” haven’t made,also people like you are really annoying,it’s youtube i don’t have to care regardless
WW1, Iran-Iraq war, now this. I guess war really does never change. Rest in peace to the young men on both sides fighting for people who could care less about them.
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Please do a video on the battle of Guadalcanal when you get a chance now that’s a story that deserves to be told. What those Marines and Army Dogs went through is insane. Cut off and Completely surrounded by the Japanese Navy. 😅😬
your sources are obviousy exclusively western. this video is a waste of time, one might as well just watch CNN...
Man... You really pulled out all the stops on this one. Full blown cherry-picking cope.
I mean, yeah, sure, if you ignore all the men Kiev lost, and all the money and irreplaceable hardware the West has thrown away, and all of the territorial gains that have been negated by Russian advances in the past 3 months, sure, yeah, Ukraine is "still hanging on." Not to mention the sanction wars that have all backfired on the West. Meanwhile, the Russo-Chinese economic alliance is dethroning America all across the globe. But yeah, whatever. 🥴
Got to say Armchair historian is very Biased IN THIS VIDEO. Talks about how far right members are fighting in Donetsk military, MEANWHILE Barely MENTION OF AZOV BATTLION, Well known to be anti semitic far right battalion. Amnesty International put a statement out that UKRAINE used civilians as SHIELDS. I also thinks it’s hilarious that he has Ukraine attacking around Mariupol, while it shows Russia directly attacking apartment buildings is so propaganda, cause Ukraine also attacks civilians and example would be the bridge connects Crimea. Ukraine killed three civilians while trying to destroy the bridge. Meanwhile Russia has already rebuilt 65 percent of Mariupol and Men living there, don’t have to worry about being drafted in the meat grinder.
_Russia and Ukraine had so many casualties because they didn't use _*_NordVPN._* 💀
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Yes sirrrrrr
So true
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I'm crying.
I love how some of your animated maps look like mix of bf2 intro and cod mw mission intros.
True dat
EA and Microsoft totally waiting for the war to end to spam all those new Ukraine War games stuffed full of microtransactions.
it hghly reminds me of the WARGAME series :D
@@pll3827call of duty: Eastern Assault
@@pll3827 At least this time it's not some rogue general or ultranationalists that're the baddies, and just straight up the actual Russian military and govt XD
World war 1 colorized
For real
Iran Iraq war in eastern Europe
except ww1 didnt have nazis
WW1 but smaller trenches (seriously why tf are they so small you can barely walk in there)
You know what that means in a couple of years...
Germany military advisors told Ukraine MOD to "drive around the minefields". This is the top tier NATO grade advice.
Well, they don’t have any mind clearing equipment did you ever think about that? No, you’re dumb.
sorry
such a german thing to say
Shovel technology has really improved in 2 years
I know right alot of people were surprised even Russians
your losing to men with shovels
@@aber_kadaber1034Ukraine says that to Russia as a propaganda
1/10 ragebait way too used and its far from true
Literal ww1 tactics.
IF IT AINT BROKEEE DON'T FIX IT ORAHHHHH!
Am I the only one who thinks that AH has greatly improved on their quality, I mean look at that!
Yea fr this has been waaaaaay different like 5 years ago
Adolf Hitler?
@@deaghostyt2217Austria-Hungary
dunno man, seems to me he pretty much recycling a few of animation couple of times, and many of the animations just "there" without any meaningful point to support the narrative, sure it's pretty much better on graphics than back then, but for me it's pretty much enjoyable watching AH videos from couple of years ago
It looks like he got funding from some CIA cutout, to spew corporate propaganda that goes against what actually happened.
9:20 Hey, Vsauce, Michael here!
HOLY JESUS!
Vsauce for general
Yo lol
Or am I? 🤨
Isn't that Reznikov
I think drone war is one of the worst addition to warfare. War is war but watching a soldier trying to run for his life get blown to pieces by a drone, or two soldiers in pitch darkness on watch when one informs the other to retreat unaware that a drone just dropped and set a bomb trap in between them is just sad to watch.
I think every part of war is sad to watch
While I agree with you, people were saying the same thing when tanks, planes, machine guns, barbed wire, bolt action rifles, white gunpowder, assault rifles, dynamite, camouflage, trench digging and other advanced ordinances were introduced to the battlefield
I agree with you that drone warfare in itself is a bad addition as it turns the war into more of a game and limits the risks involved the the operator. But in causality drone warfare is cheap, easy, and reduces the risks to the user. It gives many more options and gains to the side that uses them unlike the wars of old that didn't have drones. Drones are the future that will be used in any conflict in our era and beyond there is no turning back. An we all know these very drones will be used on not only soldiers but on the very citizens of their own country in time. Any tool of war that's cheap, easy to use and can cause great effect will be highly sought after and used. What we see today is the infant stage of drone warfare, what comes later will be far more terrifying as more weapons are integrated for use on drones, AI is added and drone designs become more lethal though options and load outs.
How is a drone any different than someone getting shot by a sniper? Or an artillery shell hitting them? All kinds of things can happen when someone is running away or chilling on watch. Explosions and bullets are explosions and bullets dude drones are not that special. They're just annoying. The only thing that drones have really changed is that tanks are not as effective and everybody sees everything you can't really hide movements from the enemy. Other than that dying is dying you make it sound like dying to a drone is any different than anything else. It's not.
@@bestieswithtesties Sniper puts himself in danger by being on the field of battle with in range of the enemy to strike back at them if they see them or notice their location. They can be dealt with directly and quickly. Artillery is on the battle field with in X range. New tech can detect, track and locate and counter fire which makes artillery risky as a sniper. All things can happen to those that retreat and do not surrender you are fair game to be dealt with by any means necessary thats the fact of war. But in most wars expect those fought by russia and some 2ed and e3rd world countries. As a modern country they respect and accept surrendering combatants and follow the international laws that all countries should follow in war. Again not all countries do follow those rules those tend to be 2ed world and third world countries and warlords.
But what makes drones different. You are not actively in danger while operating and can be hundreds to thousands of miles behind the lines. Making it harder to track and eliminate the operator more so if they are mobile. Using said tech makes it feel like a vid game in how it operates an descentizes your thought process that you actually killed someone(s) and the reality check that you pulled the trigger on someones life. As the whole process seams unreal compared to seeing your results right in front of you while fighting on the line.
Lastly drones will become a cost effective norm over time in price, man power, efficiency and many advantages you normally don't have on foot and easily accessible. As our tech grows and advances less human interaction will be needed and drones are just the step in the right direction to use AI and simpler algorithms to do the same job as a well trained solider. It costs thousands to millions to train a solider fully and a min of 4 years for a skilled combatant. But a child of the age of 7yr old or older and less then 2-8 hrs of training can fly a drone and think it was a video game. We already have 3-4yr olds operating their parents tablets and cell phones to watch kid shows online. How hard do you think it would be for young children to get hooked on a cool flying sim you can crash your plane into things.
Side note: The real horror hasn't started yet with drones. We will soon see commercial drones being modified and being equipped with explosives and used for terrorist acts while being mobile and very hard to catch and locate due to mobility. Currently there are no countermeasures set up to defend against this. Unless something was set up in advance and even then the current tech isn't readily available. The world is seeing how effective drones are in Ukraine its just a matter of time before those idea's are used by bad actors only wanting chaos.
not mentioning that the ukrainian summer offensive was a complete failure which led to them loosing almost all their offensive capabilities is crazy
Yeah
He mentions it at the end of
Why on Earth did they launch that offensive without any air support?
@jacksontaylor290 foolish politicians demanding "results" I'd wager. The long war favored ukraine, mass assaults are a stupid idea for them.
@@stillcantbesilencedevennowwhy long war favored Ukraine though?
Don’t forget, Finland was accepted into NATO on April 4th, 2023.
that isn't going to make a major difference in the war
they were already defacto nato ngl
The snow speaks Finnish
Russia nominated for best NATO salesperson of all time
Yes, more insanity.
Ukraine Summer Counter Offensive was not successful at all, Russia mostly regained everything they captured in their offensive.
And the Ukranian soldiers uploaded videos about how inneficient and costly was the operation
@SniperFallen06 I know because I see Ukrainian soldiers in my work place. One thing I can say is that they are getting older and older. In 2022, the Ukrainians who came to our workplace were mostly men in 2030s now ( when I last saw them in 2023 ) were mostly 40s and some even 50s. It is tragic, and I find these western propaganda outlets pathetic. They want to fight Russia till the last Ukrainians.
What is funnier about all of this, not only Russia has regained most of the empty fields they grinded in 4 months but they have advanced more in 7 days in Kharkov than they did in 3 months in Zaporozhye LOL and only using recon groups, and those same people now are saying that the Russians failed LMAO
@RenanMendes-zd8hj they rather cover the sun with their hand and say " Look the sun is gone " .
The fact they only did that, and still not entirely while being the self proclaimed second best army in the world is not an achievement, but I guess the bar gets lower and lower while making Ukraines higher and higher. But I suppose they are "fighting all of Nato with shovels against the fourth reich reborn" so its justified. Each day the imperialist keeps at its 3 days very special millitary operation is a victory. But hey lets the whataboutisims, shovel comments and 😂😂😂 emojis start once more THIRD year in a row, that will certainly make their victory against less than percent of Natos budget more likely. Damn if I am willing to root for autocrats if that means sticking it to the current party in power in my country like a contrarian even I can stand against both equally
i dont want to be bias but 2023 was worst for ukraine after half of the year
It's taken a dip for sure. Shoulda took the US's tactical advice on this one waiting to regroup was the worst thing they coulda done. They needed to keep pushing while they still could.
Not only that but They only reached the 1st line of defense. Which Russia have 7 defensive lines.
Also 2024 is worst for them...
@@larrymunn5279didn’t help that Ukraine was so committed in taking Adveeka/Bahkmut, the US advised in not sending in so many men, but Ukraine’s military leadership continued on and it lost so many well trained, battle harden men, they really never recovered after that operation.
@@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521I think our us politicans are basically emptying out Ukraine so they can move there later because they like the demographics
@@xIcyStarzz-yz7myThey won’t be moving there, they just wanted a country to weaken Russia for the time being. Backfired horrendously.
Should've mentioned how Russia ultimately gained more territory in 2023 than they lost despite the Overhyped ukraine counteroffensive
How though? They lost Kharkiv and Kherson and lots of Land around it.
@@RenéSaussy those arent the only areas in ukraine...
@@RenéSaussythose were in 2022
@@RenéSaussy Russia relaunched attack towards Kharkov...
@@robertminigameg@@yfo copies about ucocane is insane😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great music usage on this one. It really goes with the visuals
Quite a positive spin on such a terrible year for Ukraine. The video conveniently refrains from mentioning Ukraine’s manpower shortage.
Yes, this is more of a dishonest propaganda piece, than honest and accurate history.
I assumed that the man power shortages was more prevalent in 2024.
I agree with the 2024 comment but still. Average DRAFT age is 43. They are not free volunteers lol
The biggest issue I have is the lack of criticism of Bahkmut hold out, and the part where he implied Russia is using NeoNazi units lol
@Sterlingcape Laughs in Azov. When has Putin ever said Bolshevik'ism/Stalin'ism was good. Shits crazy. He says "those with a heart miss thr USSR. Those with a brain would never want it to return".
Can you do the Balkan wars at some point?
thats an amazing idea tbh
There is a video about Yugoslav wars
@@mareksojak4726 He Might have Ment the Balkan Wars Between Bulgaria Serbia And Greece against the ottomans and then all of them teaming on bulgaria
youtubes not gonna like that lol
The comment section would be wild
Comments about to be a warzone
always my friend.......god damn everytime........
Probably because propaganda shouldn’t be masked as an objective recount
War works like that.
@@Alastair_Adana🥱
nah, its not going to be
take a look at the gaza video's comment section
Can you all imagine WW1 only with drones, heavy tanks, and TikTok? Oh wait we dont have to! Its happening right before our very eyes!
I hate to be THAT guy, but for it to be ww1 you'd need at least a total war beetwen European union and Russia. With nuclear weapons on the discussion it's impossible because both has it
To be fair they did have helicopters since 1907, the mk1-4 were heavy tanks, and they had gossip magazines by 1916. We're just seeing their evolved counterparts now.
@@ReikerForgeThey did not have helicopters since 1907. They did, however, have pigeons, airplanes, and zeppelins, which could be considered as predecessors
Ok, i understand if this video would be published in summer-autumn 2023 but now... Seriously? Although, i really like this narrative:
*Battle of Bakhmut:* Insignificant gains (including cities Bakhmut and Soledar), Russians lost 5 soldiers for 1 ukrainian according to NATO estimates (and only to it). Not a single word about ukrainian casualties during battle of Bakhmut and how it affected plans for counteroffensive, while mentioning all the problems of the russian army.
*Summer Counteroffensive:* well, ukrainians did defended themselves, destroyed some russian ships and even though they didn't reconquered HUGE chunk of territory, still, they DID achieve tactical gains. Not a single word about russian gains. Bro, you even animated RDK raids on Belgorod and Krynki operation, while not saying a single word about Bradley square or Robotino. You haven't even shown battle of Avdievka on map and how it ended, while stating that "Russia lost a lot of soldiers and had huge issues". Hell, you haven't even shown this offensive and it's results on map, and i'm not even mentioning the results of 9 days russian offensive in Kharkiv oblast, which saw more territorial gains, than whole ukrainian summer offensive in 4 months.
Im not saying that it's all good and great with the Russian army. There is a great number of issues and problems with it, but such biased view on this conflict is just disguisting. That's not history, that's propaganda.
Still, looks like this is what informational warfare is nowadays.
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Bro he’s only talking about what happened in 2023, many of these battles such as avdiivka ended in 2024
Well he western so if he side with Russia, western people will cancel him so he nor say much about Russia 😅
@@studgud3345That’s true, but barely mentioning the “huge losses” and failures of Ukraine while continuously mentioning Russia’s is a big problem in of itself. It gives the illusion that Ukraine is still at optimal strength while Russia’s military is in shambles when it isn’t the case at all.
Now when they recap 2024 they’re going to look like fools as everything said in this video will make AH seem uncredible which is unfortunate as UA-cam already has a thing against history channels and losing the trust of the views is the last thing they need.
Every time I try to make comments like this I get banned from commenting for a few days.
I have a feeling the counteroffensive was far more fatal to Ukraine"s war effort than anyone is letting on
Ukraine 2023 counteroffensive is a reminder for everyone not to PUBLICIZE YOUR WAR STRATEGY LIKE AN UPCOMING JAZZ CONCERT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. It rly gave me anxiety even before rgey kicked off. Such a blunder,, Ukr really undone themselves there.
Agreed. Russia's strategy the whole time has been to wait for the West to get bored of Ukraine and move onto something else, which it has done. All of Ukraine's effort had to be forced into proving tangible gains to keep attention on them, and stop the Republican narrative that America is just getting involved in another unwinnable war - hence the ridiculous clickbaiting of their entire counteroffensive for months beforehand. Of course, arguably, even success in Zaporizhzhia would not have swayed the West to take Ukraine more seriously. Russia is still doubling down and further gearing up their economy for a long war, and Trump is determined not to allow Biden to claim any foreign or domestic policy successes over his term to boost his own chances of re-election - as everyone can see from the Republicans consistently blocking Ukraine aid, and even increased spending countering illegal immigration. Idk what this year is going to bring, but I imagine the West pressuring Ukraine to accept a ceasefire - and we all know how well Russia accepts internationally brokered ceasefires (Minsk II ahem ahem)...
@@joestephen3756 Obama: Crimea goes back to Russia, Donbass become sovereign states
Trump: Ukraine loses to militia in Donbass, no Russian intervention
Biden: Special military operation in Ukraine
You better hope Trump wins in November because the alternative is long war with 10% for the big guy and more quid pro quo with the aid money. "If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the billion dollars" - Joe Biden to Ukraine, Jan 2020
Somebody on major Reddit thread called something like “Russians knew about counteroffensive plan”wrote on comment section that got highest number of likes
He just wrote:
“Did Russian leadership followed Ukrainian MoD’s twitter account”
I still find it so funny how true it kinda was, cause making so many claims and where they will aim to attack was told by leadership…
"According to NATO, Russia lost 5 times more then Ukraine in Bakhmut"
So, by very smart and definitly modern and unbiased (as we can see in the 2023 planning for counteroffencive) NATO experts think that a numerically inferiour force, but with higher firepower suffered heavier casualties and won then numerically superiour force that lacked firepower that lost.
Also, do note how quickly the counteroffencive changed from "we are going to capture Crimea" to "we are going to capture a small village of Robotino", which they lost already, btw
Thank you, our being one of the very few sane people in the room.
NATO gets most of their Casualty statistics from Ukrainian Intel so it's no Surprise. Bahkmut was a mini Meat grinder for both sides shoveling Conscripts. Prigozhin definitely wasn't happy with the numbers and how Wagner was treated.
One asks North Korea for munitions after losing 3,000 tanks to a small country like Ukraine. This war shouldn’t have happened, just like Putin being elected.
well watching this now with Ukraine shortage of manpower and reopening Kharkiv front is pretty much a "take a grain of salt" trip from people who really following the war to this very day
Wars like these usually last 5-6 years with the decisive years being the 4th and 5th one. We've yet to see what's actually going to happen.
The way to Kharkiv is not so far could be that the russians try to encircle it and ukranians can only do something against by deploying large forces and reserves which makes them vulnerable at other parts of the frontline. If Kharkiv falls ukranian morale will be severly damaged
@@mk18397 UA litterally have nothing to put there. They said that they put last reserves there which many of them are just 40% ready. Also new UA mobilisation law makes you think a bit. They already lost, its just agony for them but money must flow to USA you know.
pretty funny to hear how much he glossed over the immense failure of Ukraines 2023 Summer Offensive
@@volgabvm it's because he's pro Ukrainian. Soon it's gonna be funny to watch him not make more videos about this
Ukraine advancing backwards and Russians retreating forward.
Why did he make it sound like bachmot was a Ukrainian victory? And in general very Ukrainian sided
Don’t you know? Bakhmut was only strategically important UNTIL Russia took it.
@ShadowReaper-pu2hx And with Avdiivka
@@ShadowReaper-pu2hxah yes the non strategical city, that became Stalingrad for zelensky and throwing every man and best brigade to defend the city no matter the coast
Another youtuber who says “strategic withdraw” when it comes to UA retreat and “front collapse” when RU are retreating
I guess this is nice quick recap from Ukrainian/Western point of view.
Won't help tho since we don't live in the past
yeah kinda sad, he is using British and Ukranian MOD, as a source, while they are known to spread complete lies like shovels, trees and bushes disrupting UKR counteroffensive and what not, I doubt we will get a realistic casuality count from either side for atleast the next 20-30 years
Lets look at the russian point of view: nazi, nazi, naziiiii.
Done
Not really good recap of 2023 it was the worst years for Ukraine with this one as well, the offensive in the kherson region was a total failur gaining 30km^2 of Land for 3/4month of fighting while russia is regain those Land and gaining Land faster than Ukraine.
@@kg7162Ukraine managed to pull off two major offensives before that.
You are giving Ukraine way to much credit for their "successes" and didn't convey just how desperate the situation is for Ukraine.
well, have you watched the video?
@@GuestKid511 Lossing all of your best and elite divisions in the battle of Bakhmut just so to not have enough forces for the grand summer offensive (the one that Zelensky has proudly proclaimed to the entire world) is not a win or brilliant in anyway like what the video is trying desperately to show. Anyone with a working brain can clearly see this is a death trap from the start, NATO's advisors have repeatedly warned Zelensky and we all know what happened in the end.
@@viethoangtruong54 diviosns? what are you talking about, Ukraine had brigades there not entire divisions
@@AnthonyLopez-lb2bdok but still they Lost entier brigade
Remember that this is strictly about 2023. The situation was looking a lot more hopeful for Ukraine then than it is now.
0:14 I am tired of this narrative about Russia expecting to take the whole Ukraine in a matter of day. When did a russians officials or even Poutine say such a thing ?
Russia at the beginning of the war had like 150-200k soldiers. It's clearly not possible to take the whole Ukraine country in a matter of days with this amount of soldiers. Ukraine is a very big country.
Russia wanted to pressure Ukraine enough to bring them to the negotiation table and they succeeded. Russia and Ukraine were engaged in a negotiation process in Istanbul. Until Boris Johnson came and shut down the whole process.
Anyway this narrative that Russia expected to take the whole Ukraine in a matter of days is just plain BS. This n'arrive doesn't make any sense for anyone who try to understand those events.
In 2014, Russia took Crimea with minimal effort. It's not unlikely the Russians expected another easy victory considering Russian troops we're making dinner reservations in Kiev.
The truth is they wanted to replace the government and when they accomplished it it would be all over. It could have taken them 3 days but they failed.
@@foxymetroid Crimea not only is WAY smaller than the rest of Ukraine but Russia already has a military base in Ukraine and Ukraine didn't expect Russia to take over the whole ukrainian peninsula. Also the vast majority of crimean People are ethnically russian. This is the reason they took over Crimea that quickly without firing a single shot.
Also you forget that there was a civil war in Ukraine in the Dombass region for 8 years. And Ukraine heavily fortified this region during this war. And this time the US warned Ukraine about Russia invasion.
So it was 2 differents situations.
Well they expected the government quickly to collapse and the ukrainians seeing the rusdians as liberators.
@@sH-ed5yf Again when did they say that ?
As soon as I saw the video in my notifications tag I immidietly clicked off of what I was about to watch to come here
Same lol
😅same
other title for the video: cherrypicking victories in the ukraine war
Absolutely, crooked perspective
Honestly, I was shocked
Yes, Bakhmut was a cherrypicked Ukranian victory...
How are they cherry-picking? Russia didn’t have that many victories in 2023 compared to Ukraine. Remember, this video is dedicated solely to the war’s progress in 2023. Russia’s renewed offensive is not part of that time frame.
@@ExtantPersonOverall they undermine Russia's successes and make it seem as if Ukrainian forces capturing some settlement or tiny village was a major blow to them, not only that but any defeat the ukranains have they always credit it to ''bad weather'' or some other circumstance belittling the Russian army
Biased aside its quite impressive how little amount of civilians have been lost less then 20k for 2 yrs of war unlike usa 1m civ casualties in Iraq for 1 year
Casualties are not all necessary deaths. I'm not sure about that number for Iraq, but it is possible. 1 million deaths in 20 years, but I'm not sure about total casualties.
Really. It's police op. Main target - notorious narcodealer in old green t-shirt.
Russia didn't immediately take out all civilian infrastructure like us did in Iraq
Well of course there are less civilian casualties. Ukraine conscripted pretty much every civilian near the front. There are simply not enough civilians near the front to lose more than 20k
This video stinks of Nafo cope
And now Russia has Avdiivka under control... All that rigid defense for nothing.
Yeah, Black Rock is loosing. Lol!
@@keith48993 oh my god fr, not many people will get your point, but so fr!
addivka has a population of 20,000 before war. idk if that really matters
@@mikhailclark7529 it's not about population. Avdiivka was one of the so called "fortress cities" (e.g. Bakhmut). Those cities very HEAVILY fortified before the war all the way back since 2014! if you go on google maps and see old satelite photos, you can still see bunkers and trenches there. This conflict is MUCH deeper and longer than you think brother :)
not for long
38 seconds, my new record
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Important to note that Western Europe has struggled to keep supplying Ukraine with ammunition, as the arms industry for producing artillery shells for wars that last years, simply doesn't exist anymore and the governments have no desire to fund them. Whilst Russia is willing to force it's own industries to craft ammunition, whilst also taking advantage of trading with ammunition factories in China, Iran and even African countries.
Important to note that Ukraine still refuses to allow exhumation of bodies of Wołyń genocide and started trade war against their western neighbours while asking these same neighbour for support in war
@@nacelnikprosiak1260
I didn't know that about Wolyn. That's messed up.
And even today, banderist thugs are strutting around Warsaw, Lodz, harassing people, etc. smh
@@nacelnikprosiak1260Stop yapping
What? Ahahahha@@nacelnikprosiak1260
To think this happened while i am alive is actually unreal, i still feel like he's talking about a war from 80 years ago or smth
Good summary, with magnificent animation; It's a shame that unlike the previous video, you treated the topic with too much focus on highlighting the Ukrainian merits in a year in which things went disastrously for them and in the process you dedicated little time to mentioning the achievements, successes and improvement in adaptation of the Russian army in the conflict (something that takes away the objectivity of the video). Also missing is an explanation of the Russian fortification measures in the South, which ended up leading the Ukrainian counteroffensive to failure. =/
When your army is leaded by a literal economist (at least now) and old soviet autocrats serfs (for 2023 and before) whose biggest achievement has been an around 20km penetration in the 2 years ans 3 months special millitary operation so far against less than 10 percent of Natos budget,partially of old stock, its hard to find victories and be "less biased" against hordes who even suck at imperialisim beyond killing everything with artillery and glide bombs then send in the infantry in waves until they run out of bullets or enery at a turtles pace.
@@alexcorvuscazador5596 Be careful, underestimating an enemy is the main reason why you lost wars like Vietnam. Not all countries have the same mentality and the same willingness to make sacrifices, regardless of the multiple reasons, which for some are more valuable than for others; To think that the Russians would become discouraged for the same reasons that a NATO country would, is a huge mistake and they may regret it sooner or later. Recognizing the strengths and victories of your rivals, regardless of how they are obtained, is the greatest weapon you have to defeat them later, as is recognizing your own defeats; If you don't understand it, I recommend reading someone like Sun Tzu, because then you will understand that knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure you win a thousand battles.
Who is you? I am not even american. I am not underestimating them I am looking at the facts they have moved 20km on the widest point in in 2 years and 3 months. If you need a history lesson and read books please do so as the US stopped out Vietnam due to polical pressure , look at the casualties its not even close. If they had stayed longer and lost that would be another issue. Underestimation is the reason why Russia has extended this special millitary operation to three years and their adapting has not translated to any gain as long as their leadership remains as corrupt a ever. As long as Ukraine has will and manpower nothing sill change based on Russias autocratic charatheristics.
@@alexcorvuscazador5596 You are wrong if you think that every victory translates into the total destruction of the enemy army, the fact that you degrade the achievement of Vietnam by ending up winning that war, regardless of the means or results, says a lot about you; victory is a victory in the end. You may not be American or even not from the European Union, but I perceive in you enough subjectivity with the subject not to be; It is true that Ukraine has achieved something impressive and that regardless of how it ends, Russia can now consider the war a failure because of what it has cost them and for not achieving the objective (which was not to conquer land, but to subjugate Ukraine to keep it under its control), however that is no reason not to recognize merits regardless of whether they are few or great.
Aren't you aware of the War? The Russians have adapted little by little and are now attacking the North through Kharkov, succeeding in destroying the rear logistics by precision attacks with drones and artillery, something they lacked at the beginning (if they had had it before, they would have done more damage when starting the war). The point of recognizing the positive evolution of your enemy helps to carry out more effective countermeasures, but also in terms of the news that is given to the public, it also helps to convince people that this war is a serious matter and that therefore that must continue to be helped with more weapons. If he keeps talking only well about the Ukrainians, he will only make the allied countries fall into apathy.
Furthermore, you talk about Russia, but since 2022 Ukraine has not been able to advance a higher amount of mileage than what you criticize the Russians for; On the other hand, Russia continues to expand its war economy, while Europe and the United States remain industrially hesitant and rather than gaining ground, they are losing it. Therefore, recognizing your rivals allows you to be objective in the end, not as you do when you only want to impose the perspective that Russia is just failures; They may be wrong, but even with those they have had successes and allied help comes better when you recognize your enemy's possibilities.
@@alexcorvuscazador5596 You are clearly a illegal US immigrant or a Ukrainian untralnationlist based on how you are conducting yourself.
Have to say your animations are the absolute best like how can anyone not watch your videos the detail the animations the professionalism keep up the good work 👍
Shkeebeedee thoiylit
Please do a video on the Battle of Guadalcanal when you get chance. Important and interesting lesser known campaign of ww2
Watch K&G
If you think this is depressing, imagine what watching "War in Ukraine Summarised 2033 | Animated History" will feel like.
Russia too has a military industrial complex to feed
Take a look at whats happeneing this year so far. Russia is pushing further in all fronts albiet very slowly, a collapse on some front might happen. Or not idk I just look at the map changes
Trump will end it Q1 2025.
@@brydonthunderi think russias goal is to let ukriane and and the west exhuast it self of things like the counter offensive while only taking territory when they can do so with minimal casalites russia know eventual the west will have nothing left to send or ukranie will have no one left to send and they can get what they want at the table
"why the ninth battle of bakhmut will be the breaking point of the Ukranian army"
2024: "Karkiv didn't have any strategic importance
2034: "Ukraine didn't have any strategical importance
2024: "Berlin, Paris and Washington didn't have any strategic importance 💀
Russian bot, just look at the name lmao
You used “2024” again. 🤡
Kharkiv is secured and the russians holded or thrown back in that region
Hopefully, the suffering there will end soon. Thank you for the video.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️
Well there's lots of pro Russians and pro Ukrainians in comments
I feel like too many people forget that the intial invading force was only 180,000 people, 1/3 of which were combat troops. The notion that Russia was looking to conquer all of Ukraine - a country of ~30 million - with 180,000 is laughable. The Russian assumption was that a quick invasion of Ukraine would force the Ukranian government to come to the negotiation table and renounce any desires to become a NATO member; of course, this turned out to be a total failure. Nonetheless, the costly Russian mistake of assuming the Ukrainians would give out quickly pales in comparison to the foolishness of the Ukranians to reach a favorable settlement early on in a war that was (or rather, will be) a Russian victory. Wars are determined by manpower and industrial output, neither of which Ukraine (or NATO countries) have. Years of outsourcing industry to other countries for cheaper labor has left the West vulnerable and without any surge capacity for rapid weapons production. Never mind training a professional workforce to man the factories to mass produce tanks, missles, and artillery shells like we did WWII, we don't even have the factories to send them to. This war was a doomed proposition from the Ukrainian side before it even started, and with the average age of a Ukrainian conscript being 43(!), there is serious risk of the Ukrainian nation ceasing to exist. What a waste of life.
Tell that to the trillions of rubles sunk into a war that's never, ever going to be cost effective no matter what can be exploited out of the country. Industry and manpower do win wars, but that's never, EVER, an absolute. Smaller nations have always proven that wars can be won when the invader suffers being bogged down for too long, no matter how authoritarian or tightened state security is. Russia is in year 3 of its invasion, forced to sink so much of its economy that has lost a lot of influence in its own backyard, and is becoming solely dependent on China and Iran, sacrificing its position as a major world power.
It betrayed Armenia, it screwed its massive weapons exports market, its relying on older and older technologies of which some can't be replicated anymore because of how outdated it is, it no longer has access to western markets, the CSTO has proven to be absolutely useless and pointless, and its suffering an enduring rivalry with Turkey and China for influence that Russia SHOULD have intense establishment with. All for a war that could've been avoided had Putin just come to the negotiating table with all parties involved.
It can be a waste of life, but we need to understand that Ukranians will not give up their land so easily, and they will not bargain with Russia, not with actual "governant" who's want basically all of Ukraine... maybe more, and even if they agreed with all Russia demands, wich are unfair and many, its not garanted that will end here.
great comment
@@AgentLeonDeputyAmaral The Russian demands were for Ukraine to not join NATO, not to give up land. In 2014, the Donestk and Luhansk asked Putin to annex them, to which Putin told them that Russia would recognize their regional autonomy as \Ukrainian\ territories. The land annexations of this war are done out of situational necessity rather than a bid for establishing a new Russian empire. The Ukranians had a good deal in 2022, and they blew it.
@@jeanadams7387 Not really, as it left them completely at the mercy of Russia's will soon afterwards. Georgia certainly didn't get a good deal, neither did Chechnya through 2 freaking wars, and the Syrians were constantly bombarded by Russia because their government forces were on the brink of collapse.
Guy is trying his best to explain why Ukrainians lost their counteroffensive
Still had massive success in two previous ones. Meanwhile Ruzzia managed to capture a 20,000 population town with 20,000+ loses.
@@Enclave_EngineerOK so what if they had 2 good offensive the Germany had many good offensive but they still lost.
@@Enclave_Engineer20k Russian casualties 😂 I believe your source is the ghost of Kyiv 😂. At this rate Russia would've ran out of soldiers but it's Ukraine who only suffers 30k losses in 2yrs according to Zelensky is running low on manpower with just 500k active soldiers currently after recruiting over a million men in late December 2022, what happened to half of the recruits from December 2022
@@Enclave_Engineer meanwhile ukies have general mobilization and no electricity
@@MungorTV Country fighting for it's right to exist will obviously have general mobilization. Mean while in RUSSIA they will just randomly kidnap you of street to fight in a meatwave.
Attacking power grid is a warcrime, but at least it's not randomly dying by itself like in corrupt Ruzzia where they steal maintenance money so dams just break.
this video is so wrong, in so many ways.
Firsly, during the ukranian 'counteroffensive' in Kherson (2023) they didnt retake Oleshky, nor did they capture any amount of territory that comes close to what you showed; with them barely capturing any towns, and across very small areas. (like Krynki.)
Secondly you say the RU suffered 5-1 casualty ratios in Bakhmut but this simply wasnt the case, with Bakhmut having 'destroyed' several ukranian brigades initially meant for the counteroffensive.
You also completely forgot to mention the fact that Russian missle and strike capabilities grew massively during 2023.
you also completely ignored the 'Fab UMPC' being used in bakhmut, which wouldve been somewhat understandable, but then also completely forgot to mention it all later on...? when this weapon is now being used in the hundreds a day (and has been since Oktober 2023, when they started to be used near Adveevka)
You also massively understated just how much of a failure the Ukranian counteroffensive was, with so many forces being used in the completely ridicilous offensives near Bakhmut and the Vremsky ledge that lead to huge casualties in terms of armor, aswell as ignoring the fact that due to these forces (aswell as all their weapons) being destroyed in useless counteroffensives ukraine is now suffering a massive shortage in terms of reserves, weapons, and manpower, with RU now having captured more territory in 2024 near Kharkiv then ukraine in 2023 in total.
You also ignored the total failure of ukranian air defense, but thats to be expected as that only became clear recently.
Its amazing how wrong this video is on so many levels; yet you still manage to include the lancet. which i do like, because that (alongside the FAB and FPV drones) has been the most influential weapon in this war, destroying everything from tanks and mortars to aircraft a hundred kilometers away.
Looking foward to a 2024 video a year from now where you have to admit that the reason for current ukranian failure is a badly-timed and planned offensive aswell as an increase of RU weapons production.
The video left me with the similar impression, it is trying to convince that Ukraine had sort of advantage throughout the whole 2023. It's absolutely not true.
@@quirklyquibble exactly.
because while its true russia didnt achieve any ground; ukraine weakened itself enough with the senseless defense of bakhmut and stupid counteroffensive (where they announced where they would begin the attack too btw. im not even joking) aswell as ukraine losing support from more neutral countries, like poland and slovakia saying theyre not giving more weapons, exc.
He also never adressed ukraines manpower issue, which is just another sign that this is solley a propaganda video meant to bolster support for ukraine.
im used to him making unbiased videos, but now im starting to rethink all of his previous videos aswell.....
@@enzicoxe people liek to claim this huge losses but nobody can prove them. It makes me question the legitimacy of all of these 'history' youtubers.
What is this? Die wochenschau? Ukraines war effort has been an absolute disaster, they lost bakhmut, avdivka and that summer offensive was ww1 izonzo level disaster, one from which Ukraine will never truly recover from
They are still a country. Fighting all of Russia
@@niixodus not for much longer, let me guess, zelensky is waiting for Steiner's counter attack?
@@christianworkman8108 Time will tell.
@@niixodusEven Ukrainian commanders are saying if Russia opens another front in the Sumy region they are fucked.
Lmfao, remember ukraine doing trailer for their counter-offensive?
Also, this IS 2023, not 2024.
Ukraine was "fine" and "stable" in 2023.
Worst mistake of my life was clicking on "show most recent comments" 💀
Ukranian and russian bot everywhere
Facts bruh but it’s funny to read 💀💀
@@evanh.9420 Need to agree. Had a good laugh with some of them lol
They deleted my comment mocking the bots
Lancets are the new AKs of drones
Want skibidi toilet
Incredible to see the continuous improvement in animation and quality.
This video starts off so disingenuous. Russia literally started with 90k troops. No one with a brain would expect to "secure" Ukraine in 3 days with that amount of troops.
And no one in Russian MoD has ever said that. It is in fact general Miller of the Pentagon who said that. It seems someone deliberately uses disinformation to fool his own viewers.
Russia literally did thought they'd do it, and they failed specularly.
@@guyman1570 90k bro... they just wanted to repeat the Crimea annexation and avoid long warfare, but NATO encouraged Ukraine to fight with everything they had. the Russians dug in and built a 7 layered line of defense along the frontline, which was one of the reasons for the failure of the Summer Counter Offensive for Ukraine.
Why would you make a play for all major Ukrainian cities then?
@@superdjack5538ukraines force broke and ran to sepritist militas in 2014 i think that proby what led to the gross over confidince if he whould hae invaded with 5-600,000 troops i bet hed of won by now
I think you highly sugar coated the fact that Ukraine counteroffensive FAILED..Really badly.. they lost most of there equipment with only capturing small villages..and months later.. Russia took Adivika,a strategic town.
They recovered almost 80% of the equipment, compared to russias current rate of 30%. Adivika is about as strategically important as the alpine front between France and Germany in WW I.
@@AlphaHorst 80% recovery.. you really believe that number..80% of destroyed equipment were recoverable...sure thing bud bakmut wasn't strategic, adivika isn't strategic..Krasnohora/riftka won't be strategic strategic,,nor Chas avir
@et9949 you have a serious mental disability considering that you managed to misidentify 99% of what I said. Kinda amazing. Hut also explains everything you said so far
in that counter offencive the ratio of ukraine deaths and russia deaths were 30,000-110,000 (UN sourse) while the kremlin says it was 44,000-48,000
Ukraine will be deploying the 62nd reddit tank brigade, and the 71st twitter motor rifle company to plug the gaps.
As an major fan of your previous videos i cannot even explain the disappointment I have with this video. Cmon man
Almost like creating history videos about very recent events is not a good idea
To not say Ukraine’s counter offensive wasn’t defeated by the Russians not just failed is crazy
Prigozhin's rebellion, surrender, and death have this weird filler arc energy to them.
I especially liked the part where you glossed over and barely acknowledged Ukraines neo-nazi problem before making a huge song and dance over Russia's supposed neo-nazi problem.
Tell me, how much did Zelensky pay you to make this fine piece of totally unbiased and definitely not propaganda film?
Among all of the pro Ukrainian channels ACH is the most unbiased one (tbh maybe the most unbiassed amongst all political channels). The mere fact that it was acknowledged is huge. We must admit that rusich belongs to prison no less than azov rdg and kraken.
Did you even watch the video? He briefly mentioned both sides having far-right groups fighting and you just freaked out the second you heard him mention that russia has the same thing?
Bro he mentions that
And do you think russia also doesn't post propaganda?
@@maxave7448 Its dishonest tho. Ukraien has nazi battalions, and national heroes. Meanwhile Russia has supposed groups that are that, but for wagner it was just a story, made up by a newspaper, without any evidence.
Remember the "Russians" in the free russian legion? You can guess for what reason they joined Ukraine. They are that type of people.
I want to keep liking your channel, please leave ongoing conflicts by the wayside unless you cover them objectivelly.
This video was very surface level and objective in every way. Everything said in this video can be verified and matched against reliable data. You implying that you do not think this is accurate whilst also saying that you want to watch other videos means that you're okay with the other videos being objectively wrong? Which ends with you looking like a clown. "Lie to me in other videos, not this one" is not exactly a great take.
@@kruger7796
Or maybe modern on-going conflicts tend to be a more sensitive topic? With historical battles we have an easier time looking at them objectively because the fog of war is over and any bias on either side has long since past.
Also no need to call him a clown. You don’t even know the guy. It’s possible to disagree without coming off as repulsive.
@@emperormiguel8327you pretty much said exactly what I meant, not the maze of circular logic set forth by our friend Kruger lol history has a chance to bear out facts that aren't presently available in the midst of the fog of war that encircles an ongoing conflict.
Now if clowns the best you got I'm actually disappointed, I'm many worse things, to be sure......of course, absurd and clownish have been used as descriptors for me as well, so you may be onto something. Have a good night all.
@@emperormiguel8327 Claiming you can't watch someones videos because the topic is not being covered objectively just to go on to say that you'd like to keep watch other historical videos is pure nonsense and thus my comment was very much warranted. Based on that comment I know all I need to know. Also, if you think bias fades with time then you're even more delusional than the guy you're running defense for. Clown.
9:06 You call a surface to air missile hitting his plane, "A Plane Crash" ?!?!?!
the plane (in the end) did indeed crash
_"plane crash"_
Its was offically a "Plane Crash" as stared by russian officials. But we all know hat happened
iirc the most credible reason for the plane crash was a hand grenade that was set off mid-flight
I believe it was a bomb on board of the plane. Could be wrong
Imagine how much death and destruction could have been avoided if negotiations had taken priority over fighting.
Thanks to Boris Johnson and NATO
You cannot negotiate with a tiger WHEN YOUR HEAD IS IN IT'S MOUTH!!!
@@brunorossini9337thanks to Putin
What negotiations? If Russia didn’t invade in 2014 we wouldn’t have this war now. There would be peace and no death and destruction of Russia just left other countries alone
@@tsdocholiday8965negotiations were afforded around spring 2023. Ukraine didn't took the offer and are now suffering the consequences of it.
To be honest, this video sounds like it was biased or trying to push a pro-Ukrainian narrative.
Every time Ukraine succeeds, it's always "thanks to its strength, its soldiers and its allies", but every time Russia succeeds, it's always because of Ukraine being hindered by "Bad weather, disagreements with allies, delayed weapons shipments, busy units, etc."
You didn't seem to mention heavy Ukrainian losses in the counteroffensive, or the loss of the Leopards and Bradleys (Which became very famous, because before the counteroffensive a lot of people thought only Russian tanks can get destroyed), effectiveness of the Surovikin line, Russian fortifications, KA-52s, and only mentioned how Ukraine managed to capture a town - A whole 2 months after it started (Rabotino is back in Russian hands now btw)
Only mentioning when Russia gets bogged down, like in Vuhledar, but not mentioning their success in other planes, like Avdiivka, Gazillion Russian soldiers killed for every Ukrainian, "Russia didn't took ukraine in 3 days hurr durr" when no Russian politician or official ever said they're going to take Ukraine in 3 days, when in fact it was an estimate General Mike Miley before the war began who was from the US military.
Production quality is decent, but honestly, this video has got some insane double standards and is far, FAR from neutral.
This vidioe is more from the Ukrainian prospective tbh
@@Smokrylio Doesn't matter in the end! After all, Russians will win by a long shot, as they have done since the beginning of the smo. 😇
Well said.
A town it was more a settlement and still russia regain the 30km^2 of Land Ukraine took
Yeah, pretty sad it doesn't really give out any insight into the war, just another piece of media that regurgitates the most common Pro-Ukraine views
its kind of sad AH skip small details like the soviet weapons depo inside Soledar that give Wagner an edge in supply chains as the weapons got use against the AFU and the confirmation of loses of NATO equipment in the ukranian counter offensive but the narration is good and the animation is absolutly beautiful now in 2024 the momentum is on Russia as the lost of Avdiivka made crack in ukranian defenses and the lack of trenches behind it made way for a russian advance towards Chasiv Yar and now the Kharkiv offensive seems to have put Ukraine on a precarious situation having stretch its forces, looking forward for the 2024 video animation
This is a clearly propaganda video, he will only praise one side of the war so to speak.
The counteroffensive was halted also by the Surovikin line
From what was supposed to be a super technological modern war, it turned into the poor version of the World War I, with some splashes of the World War II. I also see reminiscences of the Winter War, the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq War.
War. War never changes.
Honestly pretty expected considering the type of terrain it is. Iran-Iraq War is the best comparison albeit with drones too.
It's not like Russia and Ukraine were gonna fight each other from space or something. That's a US & China war situation.
Ww1 but with drones
@@VR36030us & china and i Hope not, will be the equivalent of the Pacific War 2.0 with super Sonic missile, island hopping campaing, cyber Warfare
How all of you youtubers will be shocked when all the figures for casualties will be revealed. From both Sides
after the counter offensive the death ratio of russians and ukraine is no longer 3 to 1, but 1.5 to 1. explains so much about the death of boys just for robotyne and adiivka. the counter offensive took too much casualties man. with the critical manpower shortage rn, seems like 50 billion worth of Western weapons arent gonna shoot themselves dont they? all of these equipment with no one to operate will just go to storage and wait for it to be located and get iskandr'ed
@@evananthony1395 ukranians lost more then 1 million people already while BBC and UA SBU couldnt find more then 50 000 Russian names KIA. Another thing prooving this is new mobilisation law in Ukraine.
You mean in like 20 years? No way in hell either side is admitting how many men they lost now
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Man I'm sorry but your numbers are a joke. Russia has lost at least 300 thousand men and Ukraine at this point has lost more like 650-750 thousand.
I'm not pro-Kiev by any means but come on bro lol.
@urdnotwrex6969 oh yeah, Russia has only lost 50k.... cmon dude. At least try.
There's some video in your bias
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Yeah, it's a Ukraine proto-propaganda piece....Ukraine took twice the beating Russia did, evidenced by its continued loss on thr battlefield, but this propagandist only mentions Russian losses, while Ukraines are x2
The animation is amazing! Love the hard work you all put in! Cheers 🍻
Lmao, the number of people complaining about ‘Russian bots’ is greater than the number of alleged Russian bots. Kinda speaks for itself
youtube autodeletes comments it thinks are from bots, simple as.
@@billybob-wb9wy unless these are the 'correct' bots, that is.
youtube auto deleting is a strange thing in general. I often see people complaining about having their comments censored for one word, while right below them is a bot promoting literal p3d0 content.
this comment section is filled with pro-russia people
This channel is becoming kings & generals when it comes to Ukraine
Even Kings and Generals is better than this
@@Potentate_ This is a very strong statement.
In my opinion the Crimean war video is one of the best by armchair history
Winter War: Part 2 Electric Boogaloo
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Notably Finland was on its own throughout the Winter War. Not so much here. Not even close.
@@VR36030Not completely on their own, many volunteers from all over Europe (especially Sweden, Norway and Denmark) came to Finland's help
@@patrickwelch3859 Meh. Choose your overlord. I'd rather NOT be tied to russia/china/iran.
@patrickwelch3859 well the Soviet obejective in finland was to anex finland.
They had to settle with taking the defensive line of finland and basically no important lands.
And WW2 was what changed things, have WW2 not happen the effect of the winter war would have been just a russian humiliation and forcing finland to join the tripartite pact.
So if the Ukranian war is going to mirror the winter war then expect russia ro settle for the Donbass and perhaps crimea after being humilliated and then Ukraine entering NATO.
And expect if there's a ww3 somehow ends the same way as ww2 which is highly unlikely.
@@fearlesspotato3429 now now. It's entirely plausible ww3 will end with suns being dropped, just like ww2.
Wow you underplayed the Ukrainian summer offense failure so much
The simulations forgot to consider one thing. What if the Russians don't run away and stand their ground instead
@asavelakuse6865. That's what Russians actually want to because it will reduce the casualties and also to trap Ukrainan. Hence most Ukrainan faces empty trenches and some even got mines on it.
But I think Russians are not standing, rather advancing.....
They also gained more land than Ukraine does in summer offensive.
The only reason why either side hasn’t had a breakthrough is because neither side has air support so its just WW1 all over again.
@@MirariJataas-p7fanother bot account I see.
Kherson region. Kharkov.
@@user-rj4gu5oh3klmao russia got total air support, look the number of Fab-500 they drop on ukrainian position, the ka-50 destroying ukrainian ifv and transport troop on summer offensive
You showed zero russian gains ....
He did. It just doesn't look like it on a map because the amount of land gained is tiny
@@p00bix go be a bot somewhere else :(
he hates Putin
I’m gonna be honest, the gains are tiny on the map, just about a mile every few days. War sucks.
@@p00bix Ukrainian gains are and were even smaller... also Oleshky was never taken by Ukraine.
A lot of the time I just think of these modern wars as just the occasional skirmish or something of the like. Now I see this is a full-fledged war.
Can't wait to see the Armchair Historian's conclusion to this war.
"We are not the baddies."
Them literally having an enormous evil-looking skull on their huge pitch black flag.
How about the actual Nazi symbols for the Ukrainian actual Nazi battalion?
By that logic the Red Cross is evil because they have a snake. They're mercs, you'd be singing their praises and saying "that logo is sick AF" if they had joined Ukraine.
@@KAZVorpalLARP Nazies
@@KAZVorpalAt this point, I'm pretty sure both sides are fielding extremist groups.
Manpower is manpower in war.
Similar to how most political parties attempt to cooperate more during war, best to win against a foreign power cooperate with your competition than losing your country.
@@gayorsomethingidk553 разница лишь в том, что на Украине это массовое явление, люди с нацистской символикой становятся героями и примером для подражания. А в России есть только ДШРГ Русич - небольшое подразделение, которое не героизируют на государственном уровне. Даже не упоминают об этом, будто бы стыдясь.
Hey, Armchair Historian (AH), thank you & the guys for making this update of the 🇷🇺 vs. 🇺🇦 war.
I have a question to run by you, are you going to put this video upload (& even the other uploads) onto a DVD📀 for your audience to have for watching in their personal free time🤔?
Not bad on the whole, but one can sense a pro-Ukrainian stance:
- far-right groups in Russia are called neo-Nazi, while in Ukraine they are called far-right;
- it was said about the Russian military defecting to Ukraine, but not about the Ukrainian military defecting to Russia;
- it was said that Russian attacks were carried out not only against military but also civilian targets, while Ukrainian attacks were carried out only against military targets. Although Ukraine also regularly strikes civilian targets in Donetsk and Luhansk;
- the information about the dead military officials in the headquarters was provided by Ukraine. It would be good to point this out.
Thanks for telling us the truth man
I've studied WWI for a long time, and seeing it being played out in Ukraine right before my eyes is crazy. There are so many parallels I can draw - both wars began with a surge by the invader toward key points. These surges failed, and they were kicked back to trenches. Now both sides wish to break the stalemate, but everything has failed. Attrition has become a key practice for both sides. New weapons are being deployed and tested. Bombings of major cities have become the norm, and refugees flee away from the battle lines. Radical ideologies have established themselves in armies of both sides. I can keep going. It's scary how alike these two wars are, and while I certainly hope Ukraine triumphs, I'm just scared that, like WWI, this war could be a gateway to a new, more radical and dangerous situation in both Ukraine and Russia, and any other countries or groups that get involved.
Just a recommendation, but a "timeline" graphic would be really nice. Especially if it was always on the screen. Another comment is that i really like when discussing a location (other then obvious ones) if its shown on a map
Putin is taking his time. The map around Kharkiv is at risk now, Ukraine is losing.
Black Rock is loosing. ✌
Puting "Taking his time" is literally what the US wants, they want Russia to be at war as long as possible to drain their supplies.
The last 3 words sound like starv harvs bad translations
I like The Armchair Historian, there is no bias on any side and gives full detail. Wonder how the 2024 summarized will look?
Russia is losing the war and that is a fact "not their not if only if you searched on google"
I'm dissapointed in you guys. You completely glossed over the fact that Ukrainian forces failed to even REACH Russia's main defensive line in their big offensive, being completely stopped by picket lines. They also lost most of their offensive capabilities in that offensive, hence why we've seen no major offensive operations since then.
You also called out Russian Neo Nazis but completely glossed over that Azov is also neo nazi.
Explain how is Azov neonazi?
@@АндрейКутасевич-к1йthe symbol of azov is a spin off a nazi symbol, the fighters in azov are neo nazis (men with h1tler tattooed on them), and officials from around the world have accused them of violating human rights
The mere fact that Ukraine had the combat power in 2023 to launch any sort of counter-offensive, speaks volumes about the UA army's resourcefulness, their dedication, and their ability to recover even after months of costly defensive operations.
now they got nothing
The proverbial meat grinder is a good description between the two nations since it's a strange mix of ww1 and ww2 tactics and strategies with modern technology.
13:54 - Where did you find that "Srpska dobrovoljacka garda" (Serb Volunteer Guard) participated in Ukrainian War? This a paramilitary group that was active in Yugoslavian War in present-day Croatia. It was disbanded years ago. I could not find a single source saying it is active in Ukraine.
Who said it was supposed to days? And there was no stalemate
You, comment viewer.
Here's your hazmat suit.
I respect anyone willing to cover this topic with nobias, thanks guys
he's bies at least he, not as bias as Lazerpig.
I love those animations they are so cool
Love these vids!
Nice to see yoir videos again
He is my favourite history UA-cam channel they are always interesting and cool
I find it quite crazy how desensitized we are to war now because we been learning about it in school about the world wars and civil war.
You don't have to say "oblast", you can say just region because that's what word oblast means. It means region.
Doesn't really matter, both are interchangeable since as you said, theyre the same thing
For every crap-up of Ukraine he got a card "However, Russia..."
I know you’re used to Russian propaganda but this is called unbiased media
@@fireironthesecond2909 Yeah, defenetly pro-western and pro-Ukrainian media in youtube is the place for unbias opinion. Keep belive in that.
@@fireironthesecond2909armchair historian is one of the trashiest biased channel on youtube
@@fireironthesecond2909 tell that to king and generals
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"King and Generals"
DAMN, THAT'S ENOUGH. I tried to watch him and almost died from tonns of ukropium. Literally liquid salo split out of my PC monitor 😅
Love your content man,keep up the good work 👍
Dont assume gender
@@coltonbarnes7861 can’t i just tell a person good job?
@@Sovietmapper9390 yea, just dont assume gender, its 2024, were past this
@@coltonbarnes7861 people like you make me ashamed to exist,theres no indication that he’s anything but male,if he isn’t then that should be clarified,don’t be mad at me for a clarification “they” haven’t made,also people like you are really annoying,it’s youtube i don’t have to care regardless
@@coltonbarnes7861He’s a guy. Cope
We need to watch this before it gets taken down by UA-cam
Why would UA-cam take down CIA propaganda?
@@keith48993he's not from the Cia stop liying
Would love to see your take on the Eritrean War of Independence (1961-1991) and the border war with Ethiopia (1998-2000)!
WW1, Iran-Iraq war, now this. I guess war really does never change. Rest in peace to the young men on both sides fighting for people who could care less about them.