Regarding the murder of Kuleshov. As a resident of Kherson, I can say that this had a very big effect on the loyal Ukrainians in the city. Kuleshev was potentially the most dangerous among all collaborators, he was a former policeman, he was well-known among Kherson residents, and according to rumors, he was supposed to head the occupation police. Many public figures in the city before the war had a personal conflict with him, he could do a lot of harm. When he was removed in the first months of the war, I felt a great relief, because he could also have settle the score with me, for example.
This is so interesting to read about to be honest. Like these little very internal conflicts that a city has and how they come around in times of war like this. I know someone from Rubizhne who had to escape war and I started reading local groups, local chats etc. It was super interesting to learn that most of the younger population has left the city and most of the older people who remained actually semi-supported Russia and had a huge beef with one local politician lady - she is pro-Ukrainian and she escaped and I read in the comments of local groups that some people were happy she escaped, but some said they were actually actively trying to catch her when the war broke out lol! I'm happy you are safe, I'm proud for Kherson population - I followed all the protests you guys had against the occupiers and when the "referendum" results came in, I was like haha - these people couldn't vote this way.
The Christmas before the Invasion a friends grandmother (95 years old and living in Ukraine) only wanted an AK47 and two clips for christmas and of course her family gifted it to her. She said that she wanted to be ready if Putin invades. After the invasion she refused to flee the country as she wanted to cook for the soldiers fighting for Ukraine. Her comment was "I already survived Stalin and the Holodomor, so I will survive Putin as well". That's how badass these people are.
I am from Ukraine and subscribed to your channel. I am amazed at how deeply you are aware of the situation. I am very grateful to you for explaining everything that is happening to your audience. Your expertise is very accurate. I am surprised how a person from the other side of the planet can understand what is happening so well. I really support your work. Please continue. It is very important for us, Ukrainians, so that American viewers understand why they are helping us. We are very grateful to the USA for its support. Not only because the USA undertook such a commitment in the Budapest Memorandum. I believe that our countries are true friends and allies in worldview. We made our choice. To be part of a democratic world. We are real Europeans. So we have this conflict with an empire that is losing its influence. Thanks to the USA for the support. Thank you for your work🇺🇦🇺🇸
my grandfather was ukrainian (left after ww2) and has family there (i have got letters from the 90's translated.. hope they still exist - they were in western ukraine.. my grandfather jaroslav klowan) and my uncle said if he was still alive he would go back to help the fight against the russians.. he hated russians...
As a history buff, I never heard of the post ww2 insurgency within Ukraine. That is valuable context and I can’t believe I have never heard about it, great job
You should perhaps check out Lithuanian anti-soviet guerilla war as well. Almost 13k soviet soldiers were killed, up to 80-100k resistance fighters fought for a decade after end of WW2 in LT, some fighter giving up their fight in the 60's.
As a person with relatives in Mariupol, I can say that because of modern tech and the geography it's extremely hard to maintain partizan operations. Yet, stuff explodes there almost every day
I have not heard of anything exploding there every day. Like at all. Just lots of nice new buildings going up very quickly. Maybe someone dropped a nail gun.
@@HANUMAN7454 those 'nice' buildings and 30,000 Kalmyk people can go f themselves. Stuff does blow up very often, especially recently, ask any person living there
Well Insurgency is a tactic. But if you mean terrorism. The difference between a Ukrainian partisan vs a taliban Insurgent is that one fights for freedom while the other fights to take away freedom.
Interesting to note that there's anecdotal evidence from Ukrainian special forces doing sabotage in Russia that they use local contacts to facilitate attacks, and in some cases hand explosives and firearms over to Russian insurgents to do the job. We talk a lot about how paralysed Russian society seems to be to opposing the war, but there's definitely something going on there that we don't hear much about. The civilian railway saboteurs in Belarus got a lot more air time but it's happening in Russia too, it seems.
It is happening in Ukraine as well - especially in Donbass where locals are giving accurate info about movement of occupier's forces so Russian artillery can smash them. Also this gives a good pretext for Kiev leadership to remove politically sensitive people - anyone whom does not agree with the regime is branded as Russian spy and taken care off. Heck, they are even doing this in Poland today!
I follow the Free Russian Legion subreddit and there's often videos and photos posted there of sabotage attacks carried out inside Russia. How extensive and organized they are I don't know, but they exist and they're fighting against Putins government.
Also numbers of fire related incedents in Russia increased drastically since the start of invasion too. Russian insurgency and Ukraine symphatists working hard from shadows here.✌️
I lived in Co near the home base of the 10th SFG and all my neighbors had been in and out of Ukraine for years doing their thing. Don't let the official numbers fool you ... the JFO trained 400K Ukrainians over the last 8 years and quite a few got the best SOF training in the world. In the eyes of the US, Ukraine was expected to be taken over quickly, and thousands of Ukrainians were trained for just that kind of a guerilla / insurrectionist war.
Your journalism is extremely high quality. Every one of your videos on Ukraine are incredibly valuable. You have a lot to be proud of. And I'm happy to support you.
When I was in Ukraine last year, we were providing first aid training to Ukrainian conscript men. These were regular civilians prior to the war with zero training. We taught them, the basics of first aid like a gun shot wound, how to stop the bleeding, etc. the simple things they teach in the west if you’re in the military. But, it was a Ukrainian paramilitary that escorted us to the remote areas of the east of the country. These guys are just as elite as any military in the west. Having done 2 tours to Iraq, and 3 to Afghanistan, I was pleasantly impressed on how they operated. Ukraine will be free! 🇺🇦
People should also remember, at the height of Russia's supply issues, they were still shipping in tear gas to suppress the protests in Kherson. Those protests probably saved Ukrainian soldiers lives
Recall that one of the most effective acts of partisan sabotage occurred during the Normandy invasion. Two French teenage girls opened the drain taps on the lowbed railway transporters for the German Panzer division heading off to Normandy. This froze the train bearings, and meant that the tanks had to move by road, arriving at the front several days too late to halt the invasion. It is interesting to speculate what would have happened to the girls if they had been caught in the act.
They would have been killed if they were caught simple as that. During the French occupation, if some of the French resistance killed even one German, they would publicly hang people that had nothing to do with it just as a punishment and a message to the resistance this is what will happen if you fight us
100% agree. I've been enjoying Cappy (and team) for a couple of years now. Well before Ukraine. Love his sense of humor. He's a natural, lovable, funny guy. Entertaining. But... The more serious commentary that this channel been engaging in, and the research required to deliver a thoughtful perspectivehas been impressive. Keep going with it mate. We'll get back to the belly laughs when this conflict is done and dusted!
Regarding the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. After Russian agents killed Yevhen Konovalts (he opposed both the Nazis and the Soviets, considering them to be the same ideologies) in Rotterdam in 1938, the OUN split into two branches of the OUNB under the pretext of Stepan Bandera, who shared the ideas of Konovalts and was in favor of Ukrainian independence and the OUNM under the pretext Melnyk, who believed that the Nazis could be used for their own needs (he claimed that, unlike the Russians, they did not try to destroy the Ukrainians for the last several hundred years). The OUNM had a much smaller number than the OUNB. At the expense of the CIA, this is also a Russian thesis, there is information that USA hid those who fled from the Soviets. Sorry for my bad English.
OUNB believed in racial superiority and primacy of Ukrainian race. They were more Nazi than Germans themselves! I.e. they decided to create their own ideology, more Nazi than both German and Soviet one. One of the few things Stalin did good was to eliminate OUNB and later its leader - Bandera - whom was hiding in Germany - did world a big favor.
Russian soldiers, "be nice or face the consequences." Grandma, "I'll be a sweet grandma. Have some pie for protecting us." Russian soldiers, "We're winning hearts and minds. Grandma, "works everytime."
Ukrainian joke: OUN Paritsan was hiding in bunker for eighty years and now had been found. He asked: - is Ukraine still fighting with soviets? - Yes we are. - And where are you fighting now? - In Donbas region. - Oh You`ve pushed them far away.
I've been wondering about guerilla tactics in Ukraine and if they were being used much. Russia hasn't successfully finished the easy part, the invasion. If they think they'll survive occupying Ukraine they've forgotten what they learned from Afghanistan, and Americans also learned in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
False comparison. Russia and Ukraine share a common language and a deep shared history. The topography of the Ukraine is also not very conducive to guerilla warfare as it is mostly a flat steppe.
The grandfather of a friend of mine was a french fighter pilot during WW2. He was shot down twice by the Luftwaffe in his Morane-Saulnier. When France surrendered, he could have joined De Gaulle in the UK, he chose the maquis (French partisans) as he thought he would be more effective. They were critical in softening up the Germans behind the lines in preparation for D-Day. They inflicted damage to German logistics, blowing up trains and generally making life miserable for them. Partisans alone will not liberate a country in less than a decade, but in conjunction with a conventional army, they can be very effective.
Cappy, as I understand it "guerilla warfare" is the tactic (irregular warfare by small groups of combatants vs a larger and more conventional military) whereas "insurgency" refers to an armed rebellion against authority (typically a state or occupying army) by fighters who USE guerilla tactics. They are often used interchangeably, since there is a ton of overlap, but "guerilla" refers to a person using certain tactics and "insurgent" refers to a participant in a certain kind of armed rebellion. Neither has any significant loaded negative connotation, in my opinion. Certainly nothing like the connotations around "terrorism" or "terrorist" (words which are much more loaded but also refer to a specific tactic - but that's a different discussion). Anyway, the reason why the Ukrainians fighting/resisting the Russians behind enemy lines are often referred to as "partisans" is because partisans are fighters who engage in some kind of insurgency (and therefore use guerilla warfare tactics) specifically against an occupying invading enemy army, behind their lines, often supporting their own military's objectives. Insurgents fighting against their own government or against other factions within their own country really wouldn't be classified as partisans.
The best part, since those are "civillians", their death would have counted towards war crimes, if you let the US count them. And their kills, no matter what methode they used, would has no effect on the credibility of the Ukrainian gov. as they are just rouge "partisans". Perfect tool for both strategical gains on the battle field and tactical advantage on the international deplomacy. Well, who cares if underarmed, undertrained and cut off from supply, which they never had in the first place, civillians get killed. Just one more scratch on the walls of war crimes to demand pay later.
Good try, but wrong. Sorry? Literally the term insurgent is the marriage of two words "in" & "surge." It denotes an invasion by external forces trained & equipped by a foreign government to destabilize a government. The most famous successful insurency was the CCP. ALL the core fighters & leaders were trained at special camps in Stalinist USSR. We know specifically which camps trained which leaders (to include Mao) today. The USSR trained & equipped the Marxist insurgents to overthrow the Chinese rulers (Chiang Kae Shek) & to establish a friendly communist nation to guard their Asian borders. When Japan invaded China, flocks of Chinese became communists just because USSR was the only nation giving them training and equipment to fight back. A similar thing happened in Yugoslavia vs the Germans. In Yugo, Brit, American & Soviet trainers all equipped partisan groups. Germany had such a nightmare there that they could not effectively control the tiny nation with EIGHTEEN divisions!
Main risk of these partisan groups is that they mostly thrive on the inability of the enemy state to exert their full effort on eliminating them. Russia is currently unable to handle multiple operational tasks and I don’t see them prioritizing anti-partisan efforts in the near term. But if they switch to purely defensive standing, they might start to take these individual groups more seriously/brutally
The FSB has been working on these Nazis for a time officially to. You don’t not see it is because you’re watching Nazi approved TV propaganda instead of getting real news. I wouldn’t call a terror attack every month or so an act of resistance movement especially not in comparison to the battalions of active partisans that we’ve seen in cases of genuine uprising. Remember the people have overwhelmingly voted to join Russia whenever they got the chance.
@@tomhenry897 security services won’t help. The time for capturing territory is over. Everyone needs to embrace the fact that this isn’t WWII anymore. If they move in anything, they will be dead
Ah, just put them gorilla fighters later on as civilian casualties and demand pay from Russia, so Ukrain can pay back US for all the aids and debts. Easy stuff, just some no-body who goes into the statistics. Who cares if they had a gun in their hand, they are after all not enlisted.
Molotov cocktails is a finnish invention. I heard stories like they dig a hole, so when a russian tank came over, they throw the underbelly and only protection was a blanket to protect from the fire blast. That how my uncles did against the tanks during ww2. He got medal of bravery from Mannerheim. He lost his left arm when a grenade shrapnel imploded. He always joked about it and said: at least I had my right arm.
Soviet foreign minister Molotov claimed that they weren't dropping cluster bombs on the Finns, but "breadbaskets", so the Finns responded in kind with "cocktails" that would pair nicely.
First used in 1871 Paris commune uprising, fun fact mostly used by women fighters known as "petroleurs", most famously by Louisa Michelle, usually milk bottles filled with petroleum and capped with cloth. Many a regime objects were set alight using petroleum bombs including the Royal palace at Tilleriuese
@Mike Wiki could be. Though I would imagine it is also just as likely to be poisonous mushrooms grabbed from a nearby forest. Could also be soviet era pesticides...
I've been following this war from the start and never heard of any evidence to back that story up so its mostlikely another propaganda story like the ghost of Kiev and island lies... even if true there are countless grandparents pissed at corrupt ukr gov for kidnapping their kids and sending them to the front to die... over 200k ukr lives lost thus far because of ignorant ppl simping for the most corrupt nation in europe (ukr) who f'ing caused this war with nato's help
@@jaybelle1909 i'm sorry, what? Last I checked Russia has nukes (therefore no need to fear invasion from NATO) and Ukraine is allowed to make it's own decisions? You do realize that Russia was planning on reinstating the old (even more) corrupt government after killing Zelensky right? If Ukraine wants to resist, that is up to them, we (The West) can do nothing but support their desire for autonomy... or is Ukraine being an autonomous nation also a threat to Russia? Realism has it's limits and it's limits are that the USSR died.
Man this whole thing sounds JUST like the stories I've heard from some of my relatives in Greece about how the partisans on Crete would fuck with the Nazi occupiers during WW2.
@@tomhenry897 afaik none(of my immediate relatives), though my great uncle told me some pretty gnarly stories about AFTER the war, when he and my grandfather fought to help keep the communists out it Crete. The Nazis DID, however, destroy LOTS of birth, marriage, baptismal, death, etc. Records to punish the locals and strike a blow to their cultural identity. To this day we don't know my grandfather and great uncles actual birth days, nor exactly how old they really were when they died.
Also very important to Ukraine's success was the Belarussian group that hacked the Belarussian train system that diverted Russian supply trains on the first days of the way. Bless them and I hope they are able to continue.
I’m glad you mentioned the brutality of the Russians toward civilians and partisans. I wouldn’t like to get caught - having heard about the torture chambers located throughout the occupied territories. These partisans have iron balls. Slava Ukraini
That is odd that people use Banderites slogan so flippantly. They obviously have only been fed one part of the history … not the mass murder and subsequent reprisals in the late 40s to 50s. The use of that term “Slava Ukrain” was done with a sieg hiel and is the same as saying “88” or “Hiel Hitler”. I wouldn’t do that and my ethnicity is German and Norwegian…
*The ability to use cell phones is a testament to the poor state of the Russian military* - Russia can't just eliminate the cell phone infrastructure in territory they control because they are dependent on it for their own communications.
When I was in the Naval Home Guard as a conscripted officer, we called it (the) General’s Communication. We just had to use civilian lines and networks, maybe with PGP on a good day. Plus some VHF. And waited, waited, waited for upgraded, long range HF crypto units with modems for vessels/units. They never came. This was during the ca 1995-2010 thaw. Whole units were shut down. Peace had arrived! But Putin had other plans. "Si vis pacem, para bellum" is still true. As a Russian neighbour a lesson is learned.
yeah, it's weird. there are still apps you can use on your cell phone with this purpose when regular comms are down to talk to each other, like briar (at least on android and other OS, not iphone tho), so i still think they could do some workaround
Why is Chris Cappy the number one source available for collated news on Ukraine right now? Not to demean what Chris and Task & Purpose is doing, this is great! Where the heck is everyone else when 'your average infantryman' is putting out better content than bachelor's graduates?
While guerrilla warfare is a really effective tactic, it has the demerit of not being able to hold ground. And usually, the longer a faction has to rely on guerrilla warfare, the more the civil population tend to suffer.
That's why it's so devastatingly effective in this war because they aren't relying on it. It's just something that's happening while professional. Armed forces are also performing defenses and striking in this where the gorilla tactics are being used to weaken at the enemy behind the front
@@Jakkgusa a group of 4 insurgents in Kherson were able to track the location of multiple Russian special forces officers and high level commanders to a hotel, send the report and soon after a rocket hit it, killing a majority of those devil worshipers. This ended up being a key reason for the Ruzzian “withdrawal”. Just imagine a country full of insurgents. The true fascist in Russia never stood a chance.
Surviving/Defending is still easier than conquering. Russia has to move forward, Ukraine has to only outlast them. The home team has the greater will to endure, to bleed, if necessary.
Depends on the ground you are trying to hold. Cities and towns? Guerrilla warfare shines and out-strips standard military forces. Open fields and 'countryside'? Modern military forces will hold sway. Guerrilla warfare CAN be effective in the countryside, but only against isolated things like supply stations/convoys, or patrols.
It's really a shame that so much of the world has to live with such bitter enmity, and odd that it's interwoven with so much normalcy. I imagine most of those Russians would rather just be at home.
I guess they should move back to Russia if they don't like the Ukrainian government. Just because they are a bunch of leftover squatters after the spectacular failure of the USSR doesn't give them the right to revolt. Genocide my ass. Plenty of ethnic Russians live in Ukraine without issue. Cope more for your failure motherland.
Real good thorough presentation of facts explained in a succinct manner. Thank you for educating myself and others on this important fact of an invasion.
That was an amazing summation of partisan/insurgent warfare. Dense & full of information. I really like your clarity and precise use of words. BTW -- I get the idea that you were not a typical grunt when you were in a battle zone. You had to be involved in intelligence and/or strategy. If not, you should have been.
Glad to hear the US Army has learned a great deal from all the guerrilla movements it’s ever fought. And is able to teach those tactics to others. Cuz the way this guy is explaining the Ukrainian guerrilla resistance, I get the feeling I’m listening to a Viet Cong tactical squad leader!
I was thinking same thing when he showed the US handbook for guerrilla warfare. We did learn and now taught others, as this type of warfare was obviously going to be used from day 1 of their invasion! The evolution of warfare!!
Of course it is a serious decision to teach such tactics to "others". Let's not forget that America taught Osama Bin Laden and his followers during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. The "Mujahedeen" was ridiculously presented to the American people as brave freedom fighters who America helped due to it's childish foreign policy of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Discussions of the difference between insurgents, partisans and terrorists actually entirely depends on who is being attacked. There are those of us who still remember America welcoming members of the IRA across it's borders to raise funds to purchase explosives to attack civilians in the UK !!!!!!
Wow the ability to see both American experience vs 'insurgent' in Afghanistan /, Iraq as parallel to the Russian experience vs 'partisan' Ukrainians, as well as the Open acknowledgment that insurgent or partisan is largely a point of view and they are not a materially different groups, they're made up of largely everyday people who find themselves compelled for largely personally moral reasons to fight what they perceive as an occupying force... Well.... Thank you, for reminding me that there are a lot of people in the armed forces who see things in a balanced way, reasonably free of some ideologies
Most vets now know Iraq was a lie and that we stayed in Afghanistan way past our welcome. The key difference from Ukraine being that the US was able to eventually admit the war was pointless and withdraw accordingly. In addition, the more restrained actions of US/NATO occupation forces and the avoidance of civilian casualties even if it left some troops more vulnerable means that those countries are still willing to maintain some kind of relations with the US despite being former enemies. Meanwhile the Taliban have outright refused any assistance to the Russians in Ukraine because even after 30+ years they cannot forgive the sheer horror, brutality and massacres the Russians inflicted on the local population during the Soviet Afghan War.
You are so good at what you do, I have learned so much in such a shirt time because of your concise delivery of important information for us to know much love and respect brother.
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I highly respect that you mention and compare the opponent in Iraq with the current partisans in Ukraine. Especially the part with the difference between insurgance and partisans. its a question about perspective and whos side one i on. The end result is the same Thank you chris for the so far one year of quite objective coverage of the conflict
Last summer I was working with a humanitarian organisation in Ukraine. While I was there, we got insight into/ experienced two "partisan" actions. I would like to share these with you, but am obviously not divulging sensitive data. The first was directed against us. We had a medical team working in a city that was being shelled heavily at the time. They set up a CCP primarily for civilians, but also treated wounded soldiers. After 2-3 weeks of operations, their building was marked via flashlight by what they presume was a russian collaborateur. They wanted to leave ~72h after the first of a total of 3 markings. 2h before their departure they were hit by artillery, including one long range missile. Luckily those missed and no one was more than lightly injured. The second we were told about by friends at a local security organisation. They caught two teenagers lurking near a strategic target, trying to take photos. Turns out the Russians paid them 500$ to do so, more than their families make in a year (according to said friends). They questioned them, took away their phones which had been used to establish the connection and released them. I'll never forget one of my friends looking at me, a mix of sadness and lostness in his eyes, asking what he was supposed to do. "They're kids. They'll get a new phone and probably try again. But you can't put kids in prison, can you?"
@@prestonzefereo4576 it's easy to distinguish russian speaking ukrainian from russian. Just like you can understand that someone is from Ireland or Scotland even though they speak english.
Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower said that the work the French Resistance did before the invasion of Normandy was worth fifteen divisions. Apparently that partisan warfare is very effective.
I 100% agree but then its not russias fault that they get paranoid and kill thousands of regular citizens because of the suspicion that anyone of them could mean harm to the russian soldiers. The cost on the Ukrainian side is immense since they put all of their fellow citizens in danger.
As a kid I imagined they meant ‘gorilla’ fighting. Since most of this occurred in the jungle , fighting off the American imperialism, it made sense to my teenage brain that these tactics were definitely ‘gorilla’ 😮
What territory did we take? We spent the twentieth century ending European wars and holding the line against worldwide communism. What territory did we keep?
Simply brilliant armed conflict analysis ! Light years ahead of all mainstream reporting/analysis of armed conflicts ! The overuse of the exclamation sign ! is appropriate here...lol Great Job Sir !!!!!!!
One of the only times I've seen Insurgences put down or at least weakened was the policy of mass collective punishment and encouraging neighbors to rat out each other to the occupier with benefits in the new regime. Might make it worse but hey its a gamble.
Russia doesn’t have the manpower for that because they’re still actively fighting a war. Insurgencies sue based on the idea that the insurgencies have no where to go, occupiers can go home if the occupation gets too difficult.
Stalin, you should know. Kadyrov is a very accomplished student of yours, what with burning the houses of a dissident's families with them in it. Putin's youth army campaign has seen some good results, with some students ratting on their teachers.
@@mgmurray100That is a sad fact yes I can agree but I’m simply rooting for them best as I can and this made me happy to hear it’s going their way and not the opposite. Sorry if you feel the need to rain on my parade.
Well there was Yugoslavia during WW2, but they weren’t alone. Though Yugoslavia is probably the closest a guerrilla force has ever gotten to defeating a regular army in combat. (Rather than just waiting the occupier’s patience away.).
Ukrainian partisans are working with Ukrainian armed forces. They also look a lot like Russians and many speak their language. It's no surprise they are very dangerous for Russian armed forces.
A unique, outstanding take on this war. Really great perspective when compared to the computer voiced, pot luck pictorial offerings by others on UA-cam. We'll done!
"Multiple simultaneous and timed successive strikes on different target locations to open an offensive operation is such a potent action! Deception combined with an attack! With this, you will keep your enemy always guessing where you will strike! Thus, creating disruption and confusion they don't know what to do and how to respond properly to this situation." Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander the Great's masterpieces.. 😊
Most guerilla warfare situations are horrible for the 'invader' or 'occupier'. Asymmetric warfare is very effective in urban areas and in forests, jungles, and mountains where the non-local invading forces are unfamiliar with the environment. This is the situation in Myanmar where the "rebels" almost always have the advantage in their controlled zones against the government forces.
I was on active service for 8 of my 24 years in the military and can totally agree with what your saying. An internal security partisan group is a nightmare for occupation forces
Had Germany invaded Britain in 1940, they would not have experienced much peace. The country had been littered with highly secret and camouflaged bunkers, manned and equipped with the best weapons and explosives. They were to attack and disrupt the invaders. They were expected to only last a few weeks and were told this when being recruited, the fighters were trained and not allowed to tell anyone.
As your viewer from Ukraine - thank you for covering this topic. You're right - our partisan traditions last for 100+ years, we've fought russians before in the Carpathians and not only. My grandpa and grandma were members of "УПА" (Ukrainian Insurgent Army). And now we will fight till victory!
I keep saying this to anyone who will listen. Even if portions of Ukraine are held by Russia, the fighting in those regions will continue to smolder for years.
This was explained to Putin by his generals for years. They told him that russia doesn’t have the resources to hold the stolen lands. Now he goes around pretending that capturing equals to winning. There is no such thing as holding.
Excellent explanations! To all of you Americans who justify Russias invasion and occupation of Ukraine saying that they attacked a Nazi state have NO clue about European history and the effect on former states who broke out from the USSR (Soviet union). As a Swede growing up with all the states/countries who either resisted/liberated and protected their freedom from Russia, they know very well how bad it is to be under its ruling! Freedom is a powerful force!
I agree Melitopol almost Certainly will be the Target of the Next Huge Ukraine Offensive for the reasons you mentioned! I feel like Ukraine is waiting for a Significant number of the Leopard tanks, Stryker Vehicles and other Western Armor that will give them probably an almost Unstoppable force for a Thunder Run to Melitopol..
In order to defeat a guerilla group in opposing nation,you have to gain trust of their ppl,be justified within reason/morally and/or saturate each town and city with your 100s of thousands troops or trusting police,maybe checkpoints,random block searches,US did in WW2,but failed to commiting in later ones, Russia did it well during the Soviet times but failed during Afghan war,this new Russia govt. Won't be able to control Ukraine.
Not when you exucute and remove large parts of the population Then resettle your own people in their land That’s why the Donbas has a high Russian population
Luckly for the united states during WW2 they mostly occupied areas that were being "liberated" and only did minor amounts of occupation of opposition areas. After the war, there were occupations, but with a general understanding by both the occupiers and the occupied that the war was over and that partisan efforts weren't in any interest of the people. I imagine, if the us had to invade the home islands of Japan, there would have been a crazy amount of partisan and para-military problems.
This is why Americans need their AR-15's and 30 round magazines. If our government thinks to go full blown tyrannical, it can expect the same Guerilla Warfare as Russia. With all the corruption, political and cultural division, it may not be far off.
@@davidty2006 ...Someone has never been shot at and had to return fire in combat have they. Even a sniper with a bolt action has a security or sniper team with them to lay down suppressing fire. A spotter and flankers are normal support. Shotguns are great for close quarter combat and breaching entryways, but not a double barrel. As to the crossbow, well that is just stupidity and combat teams use suppressors if they have to be somewhat quiet. A firearm has better options like penetration and a faster rate of fire and reload time. Lol, a crossbow. If that's the case, I guess Ukraine can do just fine with your listed items, but I bet if you told them that, they would tell you to go forth somewhere quietly and multiply with yourself. Problem solved, problem staying solved. Infantry leads the way.
@@rdt970 and you are bot for who??? America, England maybe Germany, or maybe you like when Bandera Ukraine soldiers make Wolin masakar to your people.Blind man with short members
I enjoyed the NBC news documentary on the Kherson partisans. The group of 3 young friends that spontaneously decided to be partisans, became their own resistance group and did surveillance of Russians to give coordinates to the Ukranian intelligence, then watched them get blown up. One of the guys even started going round assassinating Russian soldiers in dark alleyways with knives and guns. Totally lethal.
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A partisan wins by not losing, an occupier loses by not winning.
@@officecomputer8887 Grade A copeium lol
@@officecomputer8887 you okay bro?
@@officecomputer8887 Fucking facist keep telling us this for a year now comrade vatnik
U forgot to post that Ukrainian website link
Regarding the murder of Kuleshov.
As a resident of Kherson, I can say that this had a very big effect on the loyal Ukrainians in the city. Kuleshev was potentially the most dangerous among all collaborators, he was a former policeman, he was well-known among Kherson residents, and according to rumors, he was supposed to head the occupation police. Many public figures in the city before the war had a personal conflict with him, he could do a lot of harm. When he was removed in the first months of the war, I felt a great relief, because he could also have settle the score with me, for example.
I'm glad you are safe and free.
This is so interesting to read about to be honest. Like these little very internal conflicts that a city has and how they come around in times of war like this. I know someone from Rubizhne who had to escape war and I started reading local groups, local chats etc. It was super interesting to learn that most of the younger population has left the city and most of the older people who remained actually semi-supported Russia and had a huge beef with one local politician lady - she is pro-Ukrainian and she escaped and I read in the comments of local groups that some people were happy she escaped, but some said they were actually actively trying to catch her when the war broke out lol! I'm happy you are safe, I'm proud for Kherson population - I followed all the protests you guys had against the occupiers and when the "referendum" results came in, I was like haha - these people couldn't vote this way.
@@MyDomesticChiffchaff That's pretty cool. Thanks for the share.
Slava Ukraine.
So a lot of people wanted him gone
The Christmas before the Invasion a friends grandmother (95 years old and living in Ukraine) only wanted an AK47 and two clips for christmas and of course her family gifted it to her. She said that she wanted to be ready if Putin invades. After the invasion she refused to flee the country as she wanted to cook for the soldiers fighting for Ukraine. Her comment was "I already survived Stalin and the Holodomor, so I will survive Putin as well". That's how badass these people are.
is there a way to contribute to her ammo fund?
Holy shitballs. Give that granny a Javelin!
@@dadtheladnext call of duty: granny warfare
@@weaverjoshuab tends to happen when in bed with Russia for any amount of time.
Do NOT mess with hardened Babushkas!! ❤My prayers to her and the oppressed citizens.
I am from Ukraine and subscribed to your channel. I am amazed at how deeply you are aware of the situation. I am very grateful to you for explaining everything that is happening to your audience. Your expertise is very accurate. I am surprised how a person from the other side of the planet can understand what is happening so well. I really support your work. Please continue. It is very important for us, Ukrainians, so that American viewers understand why they are helping us. We are very grateful to the USA for its support. Not only because the USA undertook such a commitment in the Budapest Memorandum. I believe that our countries are true friends and allies in worldview. We made our choice. To be part of a democratic world. We are real Europeans. So we have this conflict with an empire that is losing its influence. Thanks to the USA for the support. Thank you for your work🇺🇦🇺🇸
Much love from America, I wish you and your family safe and lovely lives.
It is an HONOR to be of help to Ukraine.
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my grandfather was ukrainian (left after ww2) and has family there (i have got letters from the 90's translated.. hope they still exist - they were in western ukraine.. my grandfather jaroslav klowan) and my uncle said if he was still alive he would go back to help the fight against the russians.. he hated russians...
As a history buff, I never heard of the post ww2 insurgency within Ukraine. That is valuable context and I can’t believe I have never heard about it, great job
You should perhaps check out Lithuanian anti-soviet guerilla war as well. Almost 13k soviet soldiers were killed, up to 80-100k resistance fighters fought for a decade after end of WW2 in LT, some fighter giving up their fight in the 60's.
It was active up to middle of 50-s and was mostly targeting soviet NKVD forces.
huh. you should look up the "forest brothers". if WWII was your thing, you definitely would have heard of them...
Ukraine's history has been buried, I'm glad it's finally coming out
it was part of operation paper clip, no one likes nazi ties, so it's not often taught.
As a person with relatives in Mariupol, I can say that because of modern tech and the geography it's extremely hard to maintain partizan operations. Yet, stuff explodes there almost every day
Are they still living in Mariupol? wasnt the city 90% leveled to the ground some months ago?
@@davisoares7174 Putin moved the people to some apartment complex.
I have not heard of anything exploding there every day. Like at all. Just lots of nice new buildings going up very quickly. Maybe someone dropped a nail gun.
@@davisoares7174 it's being leveled down now. Majority of buildings are damaged beyond repair. And yeah, they are still there
@@HANUMAN7454 those 'nice' buildings and 30,000 Kalmyk people can go f themselves. Stuff does blow up very often, especially recently, ask any person living there
"One man's insurgent is another man's freedom fighter."
Insurgency is a tactic.
yep I just posted almost the same thing, your statement is better. its all about context... just listen to the propaganda...
Well Insurgency is a tactic. But if you mean terrorism. The difference between a Ukrainian partisan vs a taliban Insurgent is that one fights for freedom while the other fights to take away freedom.
Unless they are ruzzian. Then they should be a dirt pile
That's a slippery slope though, once one takes arms they become combatant and a legal target
Interesting to note that there's anecdotal evidence from Ukrainian special forces doing sabotage in Russia that they use local contacts to facilitate attacks, and in some cases hand explosives and firearms over to Russian insurgents to do the job. We talk a lot about how paralysed Russian society seems to be to opposing the war, but there's definitely something going on there that we don't hear much about. The civilian railway saboteurs in Belarus got a lot more air time but it's happening in Russia too, it seems.
It is happening in Ukraine as well - especially in Donbass where locals are giving accurate info about movement of occupier's forces so Russian artillery can smash them. Also this gives a good pretext for Kiev leadership to remove politically sensitive people - anyone whom does not agree with the regime is branded as Russian spy and taken care off.
Heck, they are even doing this in Poland today!
@@officecomputer8887 Russia’s army is so pathetic that they got their ass kicked by smth fictional fr o_O
It’s either that or saboteurs. You pick.
@@officecomputer8887 lol.
I follow the Free Russian Legion subreddit and there's often videos and photos posted there of sabotage attacks carried out inside Russia. How extensive and organized they are I don't know, but they exist and they're fighting against Putins government.
Also numbers of fire related incedents in Russia increased drastically since the start of invasion too. Russian insurgency and Ukraine symphatists working hard from shadows here.✌️
1 year of Task and Purpose!! Learned a lot about geopolitics watching your vids. Keep it up
Insurgency hard mode: Enemy shares your language and ethnicity, is living next to your country, and may already feel that he has nothing left to lose.
but most of your troops dont understand there language
another reason why they shouldve never done it
I warned russians in Internet about this prior to big invasion. I said Ukraine is 40 times bigger than Chechnya.
And guess what was their reaction?
@@AliShuktu "Hold our vodka, comrade..."
@@AliShuktu "Rush B"
I lived in Co near the home base of the 10th SFG and all my neighbors had been in and out of Ukraine for years doing their thing. Don't let the official numbers fool you ... the JFO trained 400K Ukrainians over the last 8 years and quite a few got the best SOF training in the world. In the eyes of the US, Ukraine was expected to be taken over quickly, and thousands of Ukrainians were trained for just that kind of a guerilla / insurrectionist war.
Guerrilla wars demoralize the participants fighting the war, but then again, wars are immoral....
@@Mortablunt lmao y’all need to work on your bait
@@Mortablunt This is really, REALLY bad bait man
@@Mortablunt But the medium telling people that the Russian army has 10 million Oaks, and they attack Ukraine shoulder by shoulder
@@Mortablunt You sorta suck at this job if it is your job. Maybe find a new one. Good luck with that in russia lol.
Your journalism is extremely high quality. Every one of your videos on Ukraine are incredibly valuable. You have a lot to be proud of. And I'm happy to support you.
When I was in Ukraine last year, we were providing first aid training to Ukrainian conscript men. These were regular civilians prior to the war with zero training. We taught them, the basics of first aid like a gun shot wound, how to stop the bleeding, etc. the simple things they teach in the west if you’re in the military. But, it was a Ukrainian paramilitary that escorted us to the remote areas of the east of the country. These guys are just as elite as any military in the west. Having done 2 tours to Iraq, and 3 to Afghanistan, I was pleasantly impressed on how they operated. Ukraine will be free! 🇺🇦
People should also remember, at the height of Russia's supply issues, they were still shipping in tear gas to suppress the protests in Kherson. Those protests probably saved Ukrainian soldiers lives
And considering their trucks arn't even somewhat armoured they are easy targets for a smashing.
Так мы убиваем гражданских или используем слезоточивый газ?
Recall that one of the most effective acts of partisan sabotage occurred during the Normandy invasion.
Two French teenage girls opened the drain taps on the lowbed railway transporters for the German Panzer division heading off to Normandy.
This froze the train bearings, and meant that the tanks had to move by road, arriving at the front several days too late to halt the invasion.
It is interesting to speculate what would have happened to the girls if they had been caught in the act.
I'm replying in case anyone has more info on that, that is really interesting.
Interesting, the reason the panzers were late is because Romel was on vacation and no one wanted to disturb Hitler about news of the landing 🙄
@@KaelanF This is true about Romel, I don't know anything about any girls, please elaborate.
They would have been killed if they were caught simple as that. During the French occupation, if some of the French resistance killed even one German, they would publicly hang people that had nothing to do with it just as a punishment and a message to the resistance this is what will happen if you fight us
I bet they regret that now if they lived long enough to see that Africa ended up colonizing France.
You've really taken your channel to a new level with videos like this. This one especially is jam packed with info.
100% agree. I've been enjoying Cappy (and team) for a couple of years now. Well before Ukraine.
Love his sense of humor. He's a natural, lovable, funny guy. Entertaining.
But...
The more serious commentary that this channel been engaging in, and the research required to deliver a thoughtful perspectivehas been impressive.
Keep going with it mate.
We'll get back to the belly laughs when this conflict is done and dusted!
Regarding the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. After Russian agents killed Yevhen Konovalts (he opposed both the Nazis and the Soviets, considering them to be the same ideologies) in Rotterdam in 1938, the OUN split into two branches of the OUNB under the pretext of Stepan Bandera, who shared the ideas of Konovalts and was in favor of Ukrainian independence and the OUNM under the pretext Melnyk, who believed that the Nazis could be used for their own needs (he claimed that, unlike the Russians, they did not try to destroy the Ukrainians for the last several hundred years). The OUNM had a much smaller number than the OUNB. At the expense of the CIA, this is also a Russian thesis, there is information that USA hid those who fled from the Soviets. Sorry for my bad English.
OUNB believed in racial superiority and primacy of Ukrainian race. They were more Nazi than Germans themselves! I.e. they decided to create their own ideology, more Nazi than both German and Soviet one.
One of the few things Stalin did good was to eliminate OUNB and later its leader - Bandera - whom was hiding in Germany - did world a big favor.
Very true and extremely vital information. Good job fellow friend. Молодець друже Богдан! Так тримати, фронт йде не тількі фізично але й в Інтернеті.
Russians seem to be acting like nazis so hopefully they are all gone soon so I can turn the motherland into a Walmart parking lot
no need to apologize your english is good
@@leonleeoff2216 Why? Only a Nazi would like to kill people.
Besides OP is about Ukrainian Nazi - nothing to do with Russians.
Russian soldiers, "be nice or face the consequences."
Grandma, "I'll be a sweet grandma. Have some pie for protecting us."
Russian soldiers, "We're winning hearts and minds.
Grandma, "works everytime."
Grandma: “dumb orks won’t taste the arsenic “
Yeah, the grandma story is complete bullshit tho
@@dirtmcgirt6531 idk maybe true maybe not
@@dirtmcgirt6531 prove that it’s fake
Russian Soldier: "Mmmm, this pie is great. What's your recipe? Do I taste almonds?"
Ukrainian joke:
OUN Paritsan was hiding in bunker for eighty years and now had been found.
He asked:
- is Ukraine still fighting with soviets?
- Yes we are.
- And where are you fighting now?
- In Donbas region.
- Oh You`ve pushed them far away.
>Soviets
Guerilla warfare is terrifiying because even the most professional armed forces can fall to these tactics.
For example Ukraine army in 2014 in their counter terrorist raids
@Christian Constitutionalist exactly no standing army can be fully trusted not even our own.
Why Our military needs to teach gorilla tactics hell practice it
@@demnbrownThey need to work with more Silverback Specialists
Just learn from the Taliban who are the best at it.
I've been wondering about guerilla tactics in Ukraine and if they were being used much.
Russia hasn't successfully finished the easy part, the invasion. If they think they'll survive occupying Ukraine they've forgotten what they learned from Afghanistan, and Americans also learned in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
False comparison. Russia and Ukraine share a common language and a deep shared history. The topography of the Ukraine is also not very conducive to guerilla warfare as it is mostly a flat steppe.
Dude, why Russia need to remember Afghanistan? They have Crimea. Since 2014. Its a lot of experience.
@@AaSs-ln9mm most of the Russians who saw combat in Crimea were killed in Ukraine six months ago and the experience died with them
@@tomk3732 i expect alot of the pro ukrainains left between 2014 and 22 also
@@TonyCox1351 the southern part of Ukraine belongs to the Crimean Tatars not the Slavs
The grandfather of a friend of mine was a french fighter pilot during WW2. He was shot down twice by the Luftwaffe in his Morane-Saulnier. When France surrendered, he could have joined De Gaulle in the UK, he chose the maquis (French partisans) as he thought he would be more effective. They were critical in softening up the Germans behind the lines in preparation for D-Day. They inflicted damage to German logistics, blowing up trains and generally making life miserable for them. Partisans alone will not liberate a country in less than a decade, but in conjunction with a conventional army, they can be very effective.
Cappy, as I understand it "guerilla warfare" is the tactic (irregular warfare by small groups of combatants vs a larger and more conventional military) whereas "insurgency" refers to an armed rebellion against authority (typically a state or occupying army) by fighters who USE guerilla tactics. They are often used interchangeably, since there is a ton of overlap, but "guerilla" refers to a person using certain tactics and "insurgent" refers to a participant in a certain kind of armed rebellion. Neither has any significant loaded negative connotation, in my opinion. Certainly nothing like the connotations around "terrorism" or "terrorist" (words which are much more loaded but also refer to a specific tactic - but that's a different discussion).
Anyway, the reason why the Ukrainians fighting/resisting the Russians behind enemy lines are often referred to as "partisans" is because partisans are fighters who engage in some kind of insurgency (and therefore use guerilla warfare tactics) specifically against an occupying invading enemy army, behind their lines, often supporting their own military's objectives. Insurgents fighting against their own government or against other factions within their own country really wouldn't be classified as partisans.
He never implied guerilla and insurgent refers to the same thing. He said "insurgent" and "partisan".
The best part, since those are "civillians", their death would have counted towards war crimes, if you let the US count them. And their kills, no matter what methode they used, would has no effect on the credibility of the Ukrainian gov. as they are just rouge "partisans". Perfect tool for both strategical gains on the battle field and tactical advantage on the international deplomacy. Well, who cares if underarmed, undertrained and cut off from supply, which they never had in the first place, civillians get killed. Just one more scratch on the walls of war crimes to demand pay later.
Thank you for expanding further on these points.
Good try, but wrong. Sorry? Literally the term insurgent is the marriage of two words "in" & "surge." It denotes an invasion by external forces trained & equipped by a foreign government to destabilize a government.
The most famous successful insurency was the CCP. ALL the core fighters & leaders were trained at special camps in Stalinist USSR. We know specifically which camps trained which leaders (to include Mao) today. The USSR trained & equipped the Marxist insurgents to overthrow the Chinese rulers (Chiang Kae Shek) & to establish a friendly communist nation to guard their Asian borders. When Japan invaded China, flocks of Chinese became communists just because USSR was the only nation giving them training and equipment to fight back.
A similar thing happened in Yugoslavia vs the Germans. In Yugo, Brit, American & Soviet trainers all equipped partisan groups. Germany had such a nightmare there that they could not effectively control the tiny nation with EIGHTEEN divisions!
@@davidfisher5140 Excellent research!
Main risk of these partisan groups is that they mostly thrive on the inability of the enemy state to exert their full effort on eliminating them. Russia is currently unable to handle multiple operational tasks and I don’t see them prioritizing anti-partisan efforts in the near term. But if they switch to purely defensive standing, they might start to take these individual groups more seriously/brutally
Surprised security services haven’t been moved in yet
The FSB has been working on these Nazis for a time officially to. You don’t not see it is because you’re watching Nazi approved TV propaganda instead of getting real news.
I wouldn’t call a terror attack every month or so an act of resistance movement especially not in comparison to the battalions of active partisans that we’ve seen in cases of genuine uprising.
Remember the people have overwhelmingly voted to join Russia whenever they got the chance.
@@tomhenry897 security services won’t help. The time for capturing territory is over. Everyone needs to embrace the fact that this isn’t WWII anymore. If they move in anything, they will be dead
i remember that the US deployed IIRC a full battailon of Infantry to neutralice a handful of vietkong , maybe 5 all together
Ah, just put them gorilla fighters later on as civilian casualties and demand pay from Russia, so Ukrain can pay back US for all the aids and debts. Easy stuff, just some no-body who goes into the statistics. Who cares if they had a gun in their hand, they are after all not enlisted.
I've rewatched a good amount of your Ukraine coverage. Man you are really good at this.
Molotov cocktails is a finnish invention. I heard stories like they dig a hole, so when a russian tank came over, they throw the underbelly and only protection was a blanket to protect from the fire blast. That how my uncles did against the tanks during ww2. He got medal of bravery from Mannerheim. He lost his left arm when a grenade shrapnel imploded. He always joked about it and said: at least I had my right arm.
Soviet foreign minister Molotov claimed that they weren't dropping cluster bombs on the Finns, but "breadbaskets", so the Finns responded in kind with "cocktails" that would pair nicely.
First used in 1871 Paris commune uprising, fun fact mostly used by women fighters known as "petroleurs", most famously by Louisa Michelle, usually milk bottles filled with petroleum and capped with cloth. Many a regime objects were set alight using petroleum bombs including the Royal palace at Tilleriuese
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It's a glass bottle full of fuel with a rag in it. Not really an invention you can tie back to anyone
And it's not "Molotov cocktail" - it's "Cocktail for Molotov" ("Коктейль Молотову")
Another solid posting, Cappy. Your production values have become better and better, and your delivery is excellent. Well done.
You always have high-quality, interesting videos, but this one was especially well done. Thank you!
you know things are serious when Grandma starts racking up the kills...
@Mike Wiki could be. Though I would imagine it is also just as likely to be poisonous mushrooms grabbed from a nearby forest. Could also be soviet era pesticides...
I've been following this war from the start and never heard of any evidence to back that story up so its mostlikely another propaganda story like the ghost of Kiev and island lies... even if true there are countless grandparents pissed at corrupt ukr gov for kidnapping their kids and sending them to the front to die... over 200k ukr lives lost thus far because of ignorant ppl simping for the most corrupt nation in europe (ukr) who f'ing caused this war with nato's help
@@jaybelle1909 i'm sorry, what? Last I checked Russia has nukes (therefore no need to fear invasion from NATO) and Ukraine is allowed to make it's own decisions? You do realize that Russia was planning on reinstating the old (even more) corrupt government after killing Zelensky right? If Ukraine wants to resist, that is up to them, we (The West) can do nothing but support their desire for autonomy... or is Ukraine being an autonomous nation also a threat to Russia? Realism has it's limits and it's limits are that the USSR died.
@@adam346 yeah that Soviet era pesticides are very lethal, it can kill more people than radiation poisoning
Man this whole thing sounds JUST like the stories I've heard from some of my relatives in Greece about how the partisans on Crete would fuck with the Nazi occupiers during WW2.
And how many civilians got shot for it
@@tomhenry897 "civilians"..
@@tomhenry897 afaik none(of my immediate relatives), though my great uncle told me some pretty gnarly stories about AFTER the war, when he and my grandfather fought to help keep the communists out it Crete. The Nazis DID, however, destroy LOTS of birth, marriage, baptismal, death, etc. Records to punish the locals and strike a blow to their cultural identity.
To this day we don't know my grandfather and great uncles actual birth days, nor exactly how old they really were when they died.
It's the same now the ruzzians have their own swastikas on their shit box vehicles too!
helped rescue and hide ANZAC soldiers as well.
Also very important to Ukraine's success was the Belarussian group that hacked the Belarussian train system that diverted Russian supply trains on the first days of the way. Bless them and I hope they are able to continue.
As same as there were drone attack on russian radio-scouting plane in Machulichi
I’m glad you mentioned the brutality of the Russians toward civilians and partisans. I wouldn’t like to get caught - having heard about the torture chambers located throughout the occupied territories. These partisans have iron balls. Slava Ukraini
Slava Ukraine!
worst thing, no one is gonna get you out.
They have huge COJONES
I think I would carry one last grenade....for me....rather than get captured by the Russians. Fight to the death....or ?
That is odd that people use Banderites slogan so flippantly. They obviously have only been fed one part of the history … not the mass murder and subsequent reprisals in the late 40s to 50s. The use of that term “Slava Ukrain” was done with a sieg hiel and is the same as saying “88” or “Hiel Hitler”. I wouldn’t do that and my ethnicity is German and Norwegian…
You seem to be confusing Russia and the USSR?
The grandma that laced the pie and poisoned 8 russian soldiers is just incredible 😆
Ah, yes. Murder. What an incredible thing.
@Long Long Time I source?
@@Jorvaskrr truly is incredible isnt it
The quality and presentation of your analysis always improves. You’re Great!
*The ability to use cell phones is a testament to the poor state of the Russian military* - Russia can't just eliminate the cell phone infrastructure in territory they control because they are dependent on it for their own communications.
When I was in the Naval Home Guard as a conscripted officer, we called it (the) General’s Communication. We just had to use civilian lines and networks, maybe with PGP on a good day. Plus some VHF. And waited, waited, waited for upgraded, long range HF crypto units with modems for vessels/units. They never came. This was during the ca 1995-2010 thaw. Whole units were shut down. Peace had arrived! But Putin had other plans. "Si vis pacem, para bellum" is still true. As a Russian neighbour a lesson is learned.
Russia has its own satellite system
@@seeker296 *Your low information on display,* cell phones primarily rely on cell towers, easily searched.
@@seeker296 which is absolute garbage unless it's using the GPS satellites
yeah, it's weird. there are still apps you can use on your cell phone with this purpose when regular comms are down to talk to each other, like briar (at least on android and other OS, not iphone tho), so i still think they could do some workaround
Damn, T&P is putting out high-quality content at a high rate!!!
Goebbels is stealing Adolph’s vitamultin.
I wouldn't call propaganda high quality
Why is Chris Cappy the number one source available for collated news on Ukraine right now?
Not to demean what Chris and Task & Purpose is doing, this is great!
Where the heck is everyone else when 'your average infantryman' is putting out better content than bachelor's graduates?
Because said PBI has firsthand experience?
@@HeIsAnAli Great job missing the point of what I said by ignoring the context entirely
@@jeffbrownstain ...fair enough.
love your content. unbiased, factual. It's always good to hear insights from someone who has been in thick of it. Keep making them
While guerrilla warfare is a really effective tactic, it has the demerit of not being able to hold ground. And usually, the longer a faction has to rely on guerrilla warfare, the more the civil population tend to suffer.
That's why it's so devastatingly effective in this war because they aren't relying on it. It's just something that's happening while professional. Armed forces are also performing defenses and striking in this where the gorilla tactics are being used to weaken at the enemy behind the front
@@Jakkgusa a group of 4 insurgents in Kherson were able to track the location of multiple Russian special forces officers and high level commanders to a hotel, send the report and soon after a rocket hit it, killing a majority of those devil worshipers. This ended up being a key reason for the Ruzzian “withdrawal”. Just imagine a country full of insurgents. The true fascist in Russia never stood a chance.
Surviving/Defending is still easier than conquering. Russia has to move forward, Ukraine has to only outlast them. The home team has the greater will to endure, to bleed, if necessary.
Depends on the ground you are trying to hold.
Cities and towns? Guerrilla warfare shines and out-strips standard military forces.
Open fields and 'countryside'? Modern military forces will hold sway.
Guerrilla warfare CAN be effective in the countryside, but only against isolated things like supply stations/convoys, or patrols.
@@Gwydion_Wolf
Guerillas take ground to take mental/psychological territory
Great work! Thank you for all that you do!
Locasta the Babushka and her poisoned pie! Pure gold.
It's really a shame that so much of the world has to live with such bitter enmity, and odd that it's interwoven with so much normalcy.
I imagine most of those Russians would rather just be at home.
I guess they should move back to Russia if they don't like the Ukrainian government. Just because they are a bunch of leftover squatters after the spectacular failure of the USSR doesn't give them the right to revolt. Genocide my ass. Plenty of ethnic Russians live in Ukraine without issue. Cope more for your failure motherland.
A lot of them are at home. Tens of thousands of DPR and LPR fighters are fighting within an hour drive of their own houses.
If they preferred to just be at home, they should have deposed Putin, its their fault he is still in power, they get what they deserve.
Real good thorough presentation of facts explained in a succinct manner. Thank you for educating myself and others on this important fact of an invasion.
That was an amazing summation of partisan/insurgent warfare.
Dense & full of information.
I really like your clarity and precise use of words.
BTW -- I get the idea that you were not a typical grunt when you were in a battle zone.
You had to be involved in intelligence and/or strategy.
If not, you should have been.
Glad to hear the US Army has learned a great deal from all the guerrilla movements it’s ever fought. And is able to teach those tactics to others. Cuz the way this guy is explaining the Ukrainian guerrilla resistance, I get the feeling I’m listening to a Viet Cong tactical squad leader!
I was thinking same thing when he showed the US handbook for guerrilla warfare. We did learn and now taught others, as this type of warfare was obviously going to be used from day 1 of their invasion!
The evolution of warfare!!
Of course it is a serious decision to teach such tactics to "others".
Let's not forget that America taught Osama Bin Laden and his followers during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.
The "Mujahedeen" was ridiculously presented to the American people as brave freedom fighters who America helped due to it's childish foreign policy of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
Discussions of the difference between insurgents, partisans and terrorists actually entirely depends on who is being attacked.
There are those of us who still remember America welcoming members of the IRA across it's borders to raise funds to purchase explosives to attack civilians in the UK !!!!!!
@@MKR5210 I hear you. This América did his GCSEs and A-Levels in England and despises the IRA!
@@chrisfrank2664
Teaching guerrilla warfare is a basic staple of the US Green Beret.
@@bobsullivan5714 Thank You Sir!
Mr. Sullivan! (Or Bob, if you prefer that ) appreciate you giving clarification!
All the Best! 🫡🫡🫡
Wow the ability to see both American experience vs 'insurgent' in Afghanistan /, Iraq as parallel to the Russian experience vs 'partisan' Ukrainians, as well as the Open acknowledgment that insurgent or partisan is largely a point of view and they are not a materially different groups, they're made up of largely everyday people who find themselves compelled for largely personally moral reasons to fight what they perceive as an occupying force... Well.... Thank you, for reminding me that there are a lot of people in the armed forces who see things in a balanced way, reasonably free of some ideologies
Fractidal wars is expensive.Russia chenen Georgian wars.
I just love how those people can no longer explain if the attacks on US military achieved anything.
Most vets now know Iraq was a lie and that we stayed in Afghanistan way past our welcome. The key difference from Ukraine being that the US was able to eventually admit the war was pointless and withdraw accordingly. In addition, the more restrained actions of US/NATO occupation forces and the avoidance of civilian casualties even if it left some troops more vulnerable means that those countries are still willing to maintain some kind of relations with the US despite being former enemies.
Meanwhile the Taliban have outright refused any assistance to the Russians in Ukraine because even after 30+ years they cannot forgive the sheer horror, brutality and massacres the Russians inflicted on the local population during the Soviet Afghan War.
You are so good at what you do, I have learned so much in such a shirt time because of your concise delivery of important information for us to know much love and respect brother.
Thank you. I've been confused about what the hell is going on with this war. I like your channel I'll be watching you more often.
DUDE you are almost at 1 million subscribers!!! Holy sh*t! I just got to give you a Early congratulations 🎉 you greatly deserve the success. Your channel & content is amazing.
Propaganda is entertaining
@@jaybelle1909 Working hard for that sack of pelmeni I see.
Greetings to our friends in Melitopol, keep up the good work. 👍
SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦
Thanks, T&P, for this detailed analysis. Excellent.
I highly respect that you mention and compare the opponent in Iraq with the current partisans in Ukraine. Especially the part with the difference between insurgance and partisans. its a question about perspective and whos side one i on.
The end result is the same
Thank you chris for the so far one year of quite objective coverage of the conflict
I love this channel! Straight information and truth! Thank you
I've noticed the videos are coming quicker, I dig it! Keep em coming and I'll keep watching and liking.
Good work Chris. Very informative as usual.
Last summer I was working with a humanitarian organisation in Ukraine. While I was there, we got insight into/ experienced two "partisan" actions. I would like to share these with you, but am obviously not divulging sensitive data.
The first was directed against us. We had a medical team working in a city that was being shelled heavily at the time. They set up a CCP primarily for civilians, but also treated wounded soldiers. After 2-3 weeks of operations, their building was marked via flashlight by what they presume was a russian collaborateur. They wanted to leave ~72h after the first of a total of 3 markings. 2h before their departure they were hit by artillery, including one long range missile. Luckily those missed and no one was more than lightly injured.
The second we were told about by friends at a local security organisation. They caught two teenagers lurking near a strategic target, trying to take photos. Turns out the Russians paid them 500$ to do so, more than their families make in a year (according to said friends). They questioned them, took away their phones which had been used to establish the connection and released them. I'll never forget one of my friends looking at me, a mix of sadness and lostness in his eyes, asking what he was supposed to do. "They're kids. They'll get a new phone and probably try again. But you can't put kids in prison, can you?"
500$ in a year? It is impossible, the average salary in Ukraine is 500$ per month
💔 thank you! 💙💛
Cappy, Thanks for your service!!
One of my favorite content creators out! Great humor
It is a joke for sure.
@@Deno2100 cope and seethe rusky bot
@@jacobhoward9069 Western drone.
Reminds me of the stories my grandfather told me about being part of the resistance against the Nazis during WW2
Thanks, you give great reporting and insight to the war to us civies.
Great episode as usual, Cappy!
Hard to fight an enemy that looks exactly like you do.
What do you mean?
And speaks the same language
@@prestonzefereo4576 Russians don’t understand Ukrainian though
Ukr ppls enemy is their corrupt gov and leadership who caused all this
@@prestonzefereo4576 it's easy to distinguish russian speaking ukrainian from russian. Just like you can understand that someone is from Ireland or Scotland even though they speak english.
Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower said that the work the French Resistance did before the invasion of Normandy was worth fifteen divisions. Apparently that partisan warfare is very effective.
They are not insurgents but fathers, husband's, brothers and sons who defend their homeland from foreign pestilence.
I 100% agree but then its not russias fault that they get paranoid and kill thousands of regular citizens because of the suspicion that anyone of them could mean harm to the russian soldiers. The cost on the Ukrainian side is immense since they put all of their fellow citizens in danger.
Hello from Ukraine 🇺🇦. I like your videos, thanks for them.
As a kid I imagined they meant ‘gorilla’ fighting. Since most of this occurred in the jungle , fighting off the American imperialism, it made sense to my teenage brain that these tactics were definitely ‘gorilla’ 😮
What territory did we take? We spent the twentieth century ending European wars and holding the line against worldwide communism. What territory did we keep?
Me too … and when I say kid I mean until I was late 20’s
If I'm not mistaken, I believe the term guerilla is derived from the Spanish "guerra" which means war.
Simply brilliant armed conflict analysis ! Light years ahead of all mainstream reporting/analysis of armed conflicts !
The overuse of the exclamation sign ! is appropriate here...lol
Great Job Sir !!!!!!!
One of the only times I've seen Insurgences put down or at least weakened was the policy of mass collective punishment and encouraging neighbors to rat out each other to the occupier with benefits in the new regime.
Might make it worse but hey its a gamble.
Yup that right
Russia doesn’t have the manpower for that because they’re still actively fighting a war. Insurgencies sue based on the idea that the insurgencies have no where to go, occupiers can go home if the occupation gets too difficult.
Stalin, you should know. Kadyrov is a very accomplished student of yours, what with burning the houses of a dissident's families with them in it. Putin's youth army campaign has seen some good results, with some students ratting on their teachers.
Worked in Germany by the allies
thats exactly why the Jan 6th traitors had to be sent to prison en masse. For their failed insurgency against our nation
Thanks, I've been wondering about partisan activity in Ukraine.
Appreciate the breakdown cappy
Cappy, you have outdone yourself in your briefings. An outstanding job in letting ppl know whats actually going on.
Lol, it's mostly ukr simping propaganda. He's just banking off of ppl being wilfully ignorant
Cheering all pro-democracy forces big and small! You are the heroes!
Very informative piece and gave me the warm fuzzies inside that say Ukraine will indeed prevail and come out on top. Thank you!
Prevail is not a word I would use about losing 20 percent of your country.
@@mgmurray100That is a sad fact yes I can agree but I’m simply rooting for them best as I can and this made me happy to hear it’s going their way and not the opposite. Sorry if you feel the need to rain on my parade.
Any guerilla force is a nightmare for any army. On the other hand, no guerilla alone has ever defeated completely a regular army.
Prošlo je to vreme zemljače!
Well there was Yugoslavia during WW2, but they weren’t alone. Though Yugoslavia is probably the closest a guerrilla force has ever gotten to defeating a regular army in combat. (Rather than just waiting the occupier’s patience away.).
Ukrainian partisans are working with Ukrainian armed forces. They also look a lot like Russians and many speak their language. It's no surprise they are very dangerous for Russian armed forces.
American war of independence?
The American Colonies had regular armies fighting the Redcoats by the end, with supplies and naval support from France and training from Prussia
A unique, outstanding take on this war. Really great perspective when compared to the computer voiced, pot luck pictorial offerings by others on UA-cam. We'll done!
"Multiple simultaneous and timed successive strikes on different target locations to open an offensive operation is such a potent action! Deception combined with an attack! With this, you will keep your enemy always guessing where you will strike! Thus, creating disruption and confusion they don't know what to do and how to respond properly to this situation." Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander the Great's masterpieces.. 😊
Damn Chris, thanks for putting out so much informative content at such a high pace!
As Finn it is nice to hear that Molotov coctails are still used as they are meant.
Thank you and your country for inventing the devious little buggers. 👌 Very nice
Hey Cappy! do you think you'd ever do a Q&A? Love the content!
He won't because ppl would call him on his ukr simping
Would love to hear you cite your sources! I have heard many mixed opinions on this conflict, yours is the most compelling pro Ukrainian information.
Most guerilla warfare situations are horrible for the 'invader' or 'occupier'. Asymmetric warfare is very effective in urban areas and in forests, jungles, and mountains where the non-local invading forces are unfamiliar with the environment. This is the situation in Myanmar where the "rebels" almost always have the advantage in their controlled zones against the government forces.
this is one of the most informative narratives about Ukraine I've seen in a while. far reaching, very informative, complete, and concise.
Chris excellent reporting, just brilliant.
I was on active service for 8 of my 24 years in the military and can totally agree with what your saying. An internal security partisan group is a nightmare for occupation forces
Had Germany invaded Britain in 1940, they would not have experienced much peace. The country had been littered with highly secret and camouflaged bunkers, manned and equipped with the best weapons and explosives. They were to attack and disrupt the invaders. They were expected to only last a few weeks and were told this when being recruited, the fighters were trained and not allowed to tell anyone.
On ground Information is always gold on the battlefield.
As your viewer from Ukraine - thank you for covering this topic. You're right - our partisan traditions last for 100+ years, we've fought russians before in the Carpathians and not only. My grandpa and grandma were members of "УПА" (Ukrainian Insurgent Army). And now we will fight till victory!
зараз поляки налетять розказувати тобі за ""волинську різанину""
Slava 🇷🇺 from 🇺🇸
@@shvydryhailo646
А чому б і ні?
I keep saying this to anyone who will listen. Even if portions of Ukraine are held by Russia, the fighting in those regions will continue to smolder for years.
This was explained to Putin by his generals for years. They told him that russia doesn’t have the resources to hold the stolen lands. Now he goes around pretending that capturing equals to winning. There is no such thing as holding.
An excellent report ...Thank You....
This was very informative, thanks Boss🤝 Peace for Ukraine Freedom for Russia.
I salute you. Superb coverage and analysis. Tour de force!
Why not support an end to this? Ukraine does not have endless soldiers, russia has 2 million he could call on. We are toying with WW3
Excellent explanations! To all of you Americans who justify Russias invasion and occupation of Ukraine saying that they attacked a Nazi state have NO clue about European history and the effect on former states who broke out from the USSR (Soviet union). As a Swede growing up with all the states/countries who either resisted/liberated and protected their freedom from Russia, they know very well how bad it is to be under its ruling! Freedom is a powerful force!
I agree Melitopol almost Certainly will be the Target of the Next Huge Ukraine Offensive for the reasons you mentioned! I feel like Ukraine is waiting for a Significant number of the Leopard tanks, Stryker Vehicles and other Western Armor that will give them probably an almost Unstoppable force for a Thunder Run to Melitopol..
In order to defeat a guerilla group in opposing nation,you have to gain trust of their ppl,be justified within reason/morally and/or saturate each town and city with your 100s of thousands troops or trusting police,maybe checkpoints,random block searches,US did in WW2,but failed to commiting in later ones, Russia did it well during the Soviet times but failed during Afghan war,this new Russia govt. Won't be able to control Ukraine.
The Russians in WW2 just fucking killed anyone they suspected of being a partisan.
Not when you exucute and remove large parts of the population
Then resettle your own people in their land
That’s why the Donbas has a high Russian population
There is another solution for this, but this is considered a war crime and any civilized nation shouldn't go down that path...
So perfect for Ukraine to use!
Luckly for the united states during WW2 they mostly occupied areas that were being "liberated" and only did minor amounts of occupation of opposition areas. After the war, there were occupations, but with a general understanding by both the occupiers and the occupied that the war was over and that partisan efforts weren't in any interest of the people. I imagine, if the us had to invade the home islands of Japan, there would have been a crazy amount of partisan and para-military problems.
That granny that took out 8 soldiers ... A true badass.
Great topic, Cappy.
This is why Americans need their AR-15's and 30 round magazines. If our government thinks to go full blown tyrannical, it can expect the same Guerilla Warfare as Russia. With all the corruption, political and cultural division, it may not be far off.
you know a DB 12 gauge shotgun has the same effect right?
Or a bolt action rifle. Or heck a bloody crossbow.
@@davidty2006 ...Someone has never been shot at and had to return fire in combat have they. Even a sniper with a bolt action has a security or sniper team with them to lay down suppressing fire. A spotter and flankers are normal support. Shotguns are great for close quarter combat and breaching entryways, but not a double barrel. As to the crossbow, well that is just stupidity and combat teams use suppressors if they have to be somewhat quiet. A firearm has better options like penetration and a faster rate of fire and reload time. Lol, a crossbow.
If that's the case, I guess Ukraine can do just fine with your listed items, but I bet if you told them that, they would tell you to go forth somewhere quietly and multiply with yourself. Problem solved, problem staying solved. Infantry leads the way.
as always, great content. ThankYOU
hey Chris, Crimea is Ukraine, after one year of full invasion you don't need to take unspecified position 0:02
That is not full invasion
@@pavkovic77 yeah of course, you russian bot knows better
@@rdt970 and you are bot for who??? America, England maybe Germany, or maybe you like when Bandera Ukraine soldiers make Wolin masakar to your people.Blind man with short members
it’s been under control of russia for years,move on
I enjoyed the NBC news documentary on the Kherson partisans. The group of 3 young friends that spontaneously decided to be partisans, became their own resistance group and did surveillance of Russians to give coordinates to the Ukranian intelligence, then watched them get blown up. One of the guys even started going round assassinating Russian soldiers in dark alleyways with knives and guns. Totally lethal.