Ukraine's Kursk Invasion Stalls as Russian Forces Advance Towards Pokrovsk in Donbas | Gen GD Bakshi
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- The summer months have seen significant developments in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine launched a surprise offensive on August 6, advancing into Russia’s Kursk region with the intent of forcing a redeployment of Russian troops from the Donetsk front. Despite initially catching Moscow off guard, the Ukrainian incursion has not achieved its strategic objective. Russian forces continue their relentless advance in the Donbas region, specifically towards Pokrovsk, a crucial logistical hub for Ukrainian defenses.
In this video, Maj Gen GD Bakshi (Retd) sheds light on Ukraine's advance in Kursk and how it has slowed significantly, failing to draw Russian forces away from their offensive in Donbas. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the Ukrainian attack as ineffective, stating that it did not disrupt Russia’s operations in Donetsk. The British Ministry of Defence warns that the fall of Pokrovsk would complicate Ukraine's supply lines and weaken its defensive capabilities in the region.
As Russian troops close in on Pokrovsk, less than 10 kilometers away, the battle for control of this strategic town is expected to intensify. The loss of Pokrovsk would be a significant setback for Ukraine, impacting its ability to maintain a robust defense in the Donbas region.
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12:25 our lines of defense in the Kursk region were and are, the Ukrainians did not reach them at all. Ukrainians crossed the state border and fought with the border guards. You are a military man and you know that the main army is never located on the state border line, but is located further from the borders. Which helped lure the elite NATO forces of the PMCs of Ukraine to a part of the Kursk region, where there is a small population and a flat landscape. The aviation and artillery of Russia did a good job - 11,000 piglets, only in this area for 30 days. It is more convenient to work here than to lure them out of the NATO territories fortified over 10 years in densely populated Donetsk and Luhansk regions with industrial cities and mines. We Russians are not prone to emotional PR, the main thing for us is to achieve our goals while optimizing costs and human losses on our part. We are not really interested in the opinion of the world community, because other countries have not faced the full force of NATO economically, militarily, technologically and informationally, and they cannot even fully realize HOW our Russia is destroying NATO by devouring it piece by piece.
God bless you.
Not to the same extent but we have also faced the wrath of NATO. Pakistan is to India what Ukraine is to Russia!!!
Is it true the Isssshelbwas builting the new issrail in that area in ukrenis. Hun i see.....nights in Kievrest
Sir, your analysis best, common man can easily understand the reality. Now I understood how the USA and west using Ukrain to defeat Russia. Here Ukrain has become scapegoat.
It is called a proxy war.
Thanks for the update and discussion around the context of truth.
Truthful presentation. Well done. Good effort.
Are you GD Bakshi in pseudo name ?
@@masumabid4883Why muslims hates army and nationalist?
You are certainly uninformed of Ukrainian history since 2014.
Sir yours analysis is very rare.
Rare, but High in quality.
Other defence expert's analysis is not neutral।
Very rare to find someone so ignorant
I always wait expectantly for General Bakshi's podcasts. As a military man, he always knows what he is talking about, unlike a lot of pontificators.
He may know but his information are full of BS.
Mr Bakshi
Big respect from me
I am Macedonian, and Macedonia was part of Yugoslavia .
When I was child, I remember watching very friendly relationship between Mr Nehru and Tito. And since then I always had soft spot for Indian people, and always liked them.
A country who has great history and culture.
I will not comment about the front lines, but I want to share something with your followers, something only a few people know.
- In 2013 , 3 western big energy companies wanted to buy the ukrainian Naftagas.
Naftagas is ukrainian energy company.
So those 3 companies( one British shell, and 2 american), wanted to invest more than 20 billions of dollars.
The reason for that- Ukraine has the biggest gas deposits in Europe, many trillions of dollars worth.
But, Yanukovic didn't want to sell.
Remember, that happened in 2013.
We all know what happened in 2014 at Maidan square in Kiev.
When some chechen snipe_r men were shoo_ ting at the civilians and policemen from Ukraina hotel room. Around 100 people lost lives, of whom 17 policeman.
Some western journalists were in the hotel, and knew what is happening, but kept quiet about it.
The western politicians and weasel media were quick to accuse the police as guilty party.
That is another story.
But, there was a problem.
Problem for the 3 western corporate energy companies.
Those gas deposits ( also oil deposits, and various minerals)
Are based in Donbas area, and around Crimea cost.
So, Mr Bakshi, the rest is ONGOING history.
All the best
you say it !
Nice to know
Greetings, I am Macedonian too. I would only add to your text: NEVER NORTH ONLY MACEDONIA!
That's a good point. The resources in Ukraine were part of the plan but just limited to businessmen's interests.
The main point is this, the West strongly hold to their hegemony of petrol dollar. Every leader who tried to find an alternative option was murdered. Col. Gaddafi for example, tried to drop the dollar, and the rest was history.
BRICS emerged with Russia taking the lead, and this was a huge challenge, but the West had no option other than to kill Putin, destroy Russia. Otherwise, it collapses the petrol dollar hegemony and creates a multipolar world, as opposed to the One World Order or NWO the West are aiming to establish.
The whole premise is off
It was not a total surprise to Russia. A month earlier local officials & even Duma reps were openly wondering why Putin was ignoring the build-up, but then shrugged it off saying the top leadership knew best.
What surprised and annoyed Putin & the Russian Security council was the breadth & depth of the incursion as well as the number of troops committed to the incursion.
The plan was to allow a limited incursion to stretch the depleted troopa defending Pokorovsk.
Additionally, this gambit backfired politically on Putin, as most Russians (like the rest of the world) who thought the Kremin was caught unaware, saw Putin as weak and unprepared, and worse dreaded a new mobilization to retake Kursk, when they saw Russia maintain its numbers inside Ukraine.
So dear General, much as I respect most of your analysis, I have to say you were off on this one.
Russia was NOT.taken by surprise. However the decision to allow Kiev to take Russian territory aided its push towards Pokorvsk (important logistics hub) but was a PR disaster with poor optics that made Putin & his Security Council look weak & vulnerable, apart from giving Kiev a boost in its pleas for weapons & lifting restrictions on the ones it has been gifted.
PS: I am posting from Russia & this comment is based on reliable info on my local contacts.
That was the stupidest rant I've heard in a while. What the narcissistic west leaders think is irrelevant to most westerners let alone Russians. Get over yourself.
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What is the view of the elected opposition in Russia regarding the conflict?
But it was a superb tactics , Ukraine had entered only 1000 km and was halted and now Russia had retaken 350 km area . What's your take on it ?
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The opposition (communists and Liberal Democrats) are much more belligerent than the ruling party.
By far my favorite analyst
Beautiful presentation and analysis. Thank you. Please post more.
This is the first India truly News without propaganda
Extraordinary.
Wonderfully articulated.
Only a soldier can describe what war is not the people sitting in news reading rooms.
well said🙏🙏🙏🙏
All fact. and all is real true 👍🏻. Hi from Europe Croatia 🇭🇷🍀🇷🇺✌
This is the best unbiased analysis I have never heard on social media.
You haven't been on Social Media for long then? There's nothing here that hasn't been reported by various outlets throughout this conflict.
but you are biased and call bias opinion umbiased
You are a world 5 star retired general I must confess. Not America and British retired paper generals with no substance comments on Fox, CNN, Sky, BBC, etc. Thank you for your unbiased analysis.
Well analysed. You've been right since 2022.
background music is very annoying. Focus should be on the voice of the person speaking. This is not a documentary to have background music.
Do some meditation 🧘♂️. Background sound can only be annoying if your mind is troubled.
@@Agent_Paul looks like you don't know the meaning of meditation. That's why you are ok with your mind scattered between background music and talking. You infact need medication not meditation.
Always happy to hear from GD Bakshi
Your sharing is 100% correct ❤❤❤
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Very unbiased thank you
very well understandable and explained the total scenario of this war.
Actually America thinks for itself as best strategist and this put Ukraine into the current state. Russia actually allowed the entry to make the donbas defense weak but smart Americans thought the kursk is weak and ordered to enter. The result is both places lost.
I agree and find it hard to believe Russia didn’t know. At the risk of sounding like a “conspiracy theorist” or brilliant military strategist. I’m starting to believe it was a setup to entice a battle that would cost Ukraine dearly.
Educative unbiased analysis I think.
Thank you very much for thorough analysis!
All the best from Russia!
Om Namah Shivaya 🕉️🙏
These tactical insights are very very valuable and right on target.
As a USMC operations officer with both urban and desert warfare experience and training I could not agree with you more.
As the Russians experience ECW over-watch it requires that the ground units move forward in a very conventional door to door manner. It is old school and expensive but the only other country that does this style of warfare as a primary approach is China. The USA fights over the horizon and far away so we can not typically mass in the numbers required to fight in this manner as our primary approach. We tend to believe in agility and high tech (look at out reformulation of our South China Sea defense). We spend way more high tech dollars, use fewer people and try to destroy less infrastructure (unless we have to). The IDF Iron Dome is an example of this approach in a defensive posture. But guess what, when your tech fails or is neutralized or over matched it always comes down to the infantry and armor going inch by inch.
Desert Storm may be the last time a high tech Western force can soften the enemy to make the final assault a fast attack where the enemy surrenders in droves because they have been pounded into submission and really didn't want to fight. Today the fighters are duped into thinking it is as existential the end of the world if you do not die or win so they will fight too long (Hamas). They have no idea that they may be dying for media points and political currency. In the age of open source and cheap tech asymmetry will defeat superior spending and prolong conflict.
Russia will win in the Ukraine because the Ukraine will run out of Ukrainian blood to shed and US dollars to be made and the world really doesn't care to fight with or for them. It was never existential, the Ukraine could have survived if they had taken the initial peace deal offered at the start of recent hostilities (as you noted). It is now existential at the hands of Ukrainian leaders who are buying villas as they romp around pretending they know how to fight a war.
Where the West has High Tech superiority the Russians will use low tech indirect fire weapons, flatten the opposition and roll over them with frontal assault just like they have in every war, slow, unrelenting and expensive. Where there is tech parity or even some advantage Russia will be strategic and destroy at will. Low spend with greater mass will often win out unless you want to go WMD.
The only real way to stand up to them is face to face, and that will be a fight the West does not want to have. A proxy war is always sub-optimal and just gets lots of people killed for Pyrrhic show until the sponsors get kicked out: see Vietnam, The Middle East, Afghanistan and now Ukraine.....
Great job of analysis (you don't need the background music your voice is better :-) ) Be well...
I`m very impressed of this man because he has the right analysis of this war. Thank You!
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VERY INFORMATIVE ANALYSIS,THANK YOU!
Or , the Russians knew, also demine the area, and trapped the Ukrainian force, which are now being decimated.
that's a stretch too far in my view
Ideal analysis Sir. Please accept my gratitude.
JH Sir
100% the truth
Sir,
Your Analysis of Ukraine - Kursk ...Great
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Add Sri Lanka too to the list. India is being encircled by detabilized and compromised states, Modi is following a disastrous policy by promoting Sajith Premadasa to the detriment of Sri Lanka. Just imagine Chine comes enemy of India and Sri Lanka becomes Marxist failed State under Anurak Kumara or Sajith. Like the Houthies Sri Lanka can attack the ships to and from India. Stability and mature leadership like Ranil is very very important for Indias future.
Every India nation's nation hates india. Lmao
America did the same in Ethiopia, during the war between the Tigray rebels army and Ethiopia army, they supported the Tigray rebels by providing them information about the Ethiopian army positions by satellite tracking device which is supplied by UN and world food organization.
I hope that the Indian army and politics are led by much smarter people than this rediculous. And along the way he told a bunch of lies. If less than 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers participate in the entire operation, how can 3-5-10,000 be killed or wounded???
First time seeing the general. Brilliant analysis.
You are absolutely right. Excellent observations and analysis. 🌺✍️💚🙏-bmd
Excellent Report as always. Thsnk you Sir. Most apprectiated each time you share your thoughts.
Are you GD Bakshi in pseudo name ?
@@masumabid4883 Pardon.?
He always gives a frank honest ex military opinion.
Whether one agrees completely with his views is not the point. A propaganda free honest personal opinion founded upon decades of studying and observing conflict is what l look for. Emotional, Tribal thinkers too trapped in ideology to view things with a clear observant mindset l can do without. I hope that answers your question.
They achieved surprise because they attacked a point of no value that was weakly defended. The target was the nuclear facility in kirsk but they failed to reach it and now theyre stuck in bad terrain and surrounded. Last i heard theyve taken over 10k casualties.
You have captured what I've been telling ignorant people for years. You captured it well. I'll begin following your channel keenly because I've subscribed.
I agree with all the positive comments on this gentleman's reporting. Absolutely brilliant & thorough. He explains in an unbiased way. He explains what's left out by so many others. I finally comprehend why Ukraine was able to launch an offensive into the Kursk region. I also now am aware of the history especially involving the British (Boris Johnson) typical isn't it the British yet again acting cloak & dagger
Thanks
Pure military wisdom
great analysis. Thanks
You are a wise man. My respect.
Thank you and be blessed.. A lie can never overtake Truth. Thank you again.
Very informative talk by General Bakshi .
Interesting and unbiased analysis! Thank you General!
Is it a surprise for your enemy to make you think they are weak in one direction to trick you into walking into a strategic blunder?
Definitely the best analysis of the war thank you.
Russia has always been inclined to suffer enemy incursions, only to close the trapdoor once the enemy has committed its forces beyond effective retreat.
Respect to you sir. For telling as it is
Thanks General ❤
Great analysis. Well done
West duped Russia, perhaps, that defensive troops sent to Sumy, but duped themselves more, into believing that taking undeveloped land in Russia' s Kursk region, would change Russia troops deployment on the frontline. Russia did not divert troops from the frontline, instead it turned the tables on West and stepped up it's operations on the frontline. Now Ukraine has lost significantly more ground, and more importantly it had its best troops and NATO forces allowed to concentrate in Kursk, trapping them in a cauldron in Kursk and obliterating troops and equipment in Kursk in their confined area, without air cover, making them easy defenceless targets.once their equipment wiped out. Also since the Ukrainian terrorised the civilians who refused to be evacuated, Russia show how the West and specifically Ukraine's showed their Russophobia, in its ill treatment and terrorism of Russian civilians. Russia had evacuated most civilians at the beginning of the Kursk invasion. Most civilians were safe, Western Troops could be safely contained, their supplies cut off and then bombed, without fear of injuring it's own civilians and without risk to their own Aerial defence. After first three weeks in Kursk the NATO' s plan had already been foiled. Never interrupt the enemy when it is making a mistake. This mistake has cost NATO and Ukraine significantly. To try and make a PR statement of a failed offensive is just just pure comedy. But one side believes in comedy. The other, in reality.
Excellently, explained, thank you
Excellent analysis.
What a great presentation of front reality
Superb sir...
Jai Mata Vaishno Devi ji
Peace may happen as soon as possible 100 percent...
Very fair and concise information thanks!
VERY AMATEURISH COMMENTRTY. THIS COMMENTATOR SHOULD VISIT KURSK
💯 spot on
Facts facts 👍🙏
background music is very annoying
they planned but failed at the end....watch
It was obvious it would fail. The Ukrainian army is not powerful enough to maintain and exploit that.
excellent narration terrific analysis👌🏻
All the gods of India cannot save the Ukrainians now or save NATO's honor.
A classical example of arrogance, brute force, and ignorance at play.
Yeah. It’s calls ruzzia.
Was waiting for you 🙏🙏🙏
Sadly our president is still in a dreamland
This well be call or remember in the military annals as "the dumbest tactical mission".
As a Brit we only hear propaganda
This Indian General is the best. A real credit to India. Wow. Objective and unbiased. Refreshing.
Gen Bakshi, your analysis is spot on. Great President Putin has always been easily duped by the US!
I have a serious problem with your analysis - the assumption that the Russians were surprised. You yourself listed the ways in which they could have observed the movement of troops at their border. Would it not have been a good plan to ALLOW the Ukrainians to divert and commit forces to an incursion that was doomed to fail while weakening the defense of Pokrovsk?
I think the incursion was not only a trap that Russia allowed Ukraine to create for itself but also a strategic defense blunder that Russia saw and allowed. What do you say to that?
Hard to say, the size of the incursion was an embarrassment for the Russian government. So if they really let the Ukrainians in, they didn't expect it to be as large.
Most intelligent man regarding the current situation in ukraine.
All other western so called experts are completely delusional about the real on ground situation.
Your analysis is what i thought long ago in 2014.
Another meaningful analysis of the war by the respected gen of india
most amazing realistic outlook. using modern language to share ideas and concepts. hope deaf could hear it and blind can see it. but being real probably not. like Zekensky said, "Until last Ukrainian." So very sad.
You are EXCELLENT, but the music is very intrusive.
Good analysis
The background noise is disturbing. Please tune it down a little more or remove it
Very useful information MG bakhshi.Putin keens favor from West but he has made a great mistake and has made the war long for three years.
F……. NATO(Ukraine) did it.
Too much background music/noise. Painful to listen to your analysis. Please remove it
Maybe it was not a surprise and was this a convenient move for the Russians. They blocked the ukrain troops so the objective (Kursk NPP) was not reached. In the mean time the Eastern front became weaker so the Russians could move on.
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Analysis and Evaluation is great and very realistic- thanks General.you're really a officer and a gentleman General.
Russia would henceforth be on lookout when next Ukraine talks peace
Capturing territory in itself is an exercise in futility. It serves no military purpose.
Arent you the old guy who said Ukraine would only last a couple of days!! 😂
If Boris Johnson didn’t stop the peace deal in March 2022 , he would’ve been right.
Russians made it to Kiev in a couple days , stopped, negotiated , pulled back, old Boris basically got the Ukranian to back stab the Russians on the deal.
Useless discussion. He's truly a 'general'ist'.
Such "general" nonsense. Atleast he stopped speaking to his audience like he is addressing his junior officers
And we're talking about the country with the biggest land mass on Earth, I don't know what uh trying to say
Ji,,,,Good knowledge 🙏👍 explained well
General my Indian friend he has next to the White House Bombay club restaurant in Washington DC he did open the place 1989 yeah it's a great great restaurant because you know when you eat Indian food all the eggs and spices you never get fat right now
Trechreous western culture...expected...
Russia set a trap and ukraine and nato fell for it lol