An Entire Team of Russian Recon Soldiers Kill Each Other During a Firefight
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FAQ
*1. Why didn't they just drive through the ambush?*
*2. Why are Ukrainian soldiers wearing American patches?*
*3. Sabaton*
*A1.* I asked myself that question because it wasn't obvious from his email why they didn't and I neglected to ask about it in my follow-up email. I suppose he might have expected my own military knowledge would fill in the blanks. The only thing he did say is that they didn't fire on the medevac vehicle, which is likely the reason it was the only vehicle able to drive away. But after considering it, unless their SOPs for that situation were in fact to engage with the enemy (which seems unlikely during a medevac), the possible reason is that rubber tires don't hold up well against 12.7mm machine gunfire. Until I can get clarification back from Cap, I can only assume the first vehicle was crippled and unable to continue driving. I didn't want to animate that as an obvious fact in case it wasn't true. Once the first vehicle was down, whether the rear vehicle was also crippled or not, I doubt it was the standard operating procedure at that point to abandon half his platoon to die, so they stayed on to protect them and engage with the enemy. And also, as much as these stories drag out for minutes in the retelling, it's likely all of this happened in a matter of seconds, with the rockets completely disabling the vehicles.
*A2.* The American flags seen on various Ukrainian soldiers' helmets in this video are simply IR (infrared reflective) patches, used for nighttime identification with NVGs. They were possibly purchased from or supplied to the Ukrainian Army from the US, hence the American flag. They are very common patches among US forces and are available for purchase online to anyone.
Link to a reference photo: cdn2.picryl.com/photo/2017/08/21/a-ukrainian-observer-coach-trainer-looks-on-as-soldiers-cce0f0-1600.jpg
*A3.* For my fellow Sabaton fans, I wish I could claim I came up with that little tribute, but it was inspired by this, which is still awesome: ua-cam.com/video/VKtG9fkdmSw/v-deo.html
Will the Ghost of Kyiv or The Ukrainian Reaper be a feature of future videos?
Any chance you can turn this vid in to a fundraiser for medical supplies for the people of Ukraine? I know that you spend a lot of time creating these amazing vids, but at least you're not getting shot at. Tastefully done, by the way. Thanks.
@@Tu49 I mean, who would say no to that? I certainly want to believe. Just have to see how those stories pan out.
Because of the obscure nature of war, past legends like that (i.e. Simo Häyhä) can often only report their own kills, along with confirmation from their comrades. And their kills are often verified by the enemy bodies being recovered and recorded. The Ghost is hardpressed to provide evidence of his actions, and I would wonder if he ever would. Do men like that seek fame? I have no idea how they would verify who shot an enemy plane down unless someone came forward to report it. And in either case, I imagine both men would remain very much out of the public eye for some time.
@@WartimeStories if you do tackle the Ghost, I recommend reaching out to Lucas Ricciotti, he does great musical scores for Ace Combat, DCS, and the like as well as doing a tribute to The Ghost themself
@@thepom88 done and done. Thanks for making me aware that this was possible.
I think 99% of the commenters missed that this happened in 2015... Not the current conflict.
In 2015 this was the same conflict we have today, moron.
It's the same conflict not a different one Russians troops been invading since 2014
Wow. Justin took the truth and immediately twisted it into a lie.
And 99% of the commenters are the same morons who believe whatever the television tells them.
@@brunneng38 yep, he completely ignored the coup led by us in 2014
I am Russian, living in Finland for 30 years now, I have a family, kids. Life wasn’t easy at first, hearing how much Fins hate Russian, kids calling ather kids ”ryssä”. Now as things have been going well, this shit had to happen, now we Russians who live abroad, working, paying taxes, going to armies, plegde the oath, getting citizenships etc. getting so much hate for that Putin doings. We are all against that war, I even have relative on both sides fighting each other, on BOTH sides relatives, this is so fucked up…. my wife is half Ukranian half Estonian, I have Ukranian blood in me. Our families have been living in such a shame and stress over this situation. I am so sorry and ashamed that this happening to Ukraine and I hope people will find understanding and try to hate us ordinary people who just want to live in peace. Stay strong.
Russian citizens should not be geting the brunt of the west being kicked off the swift system, I mean geez, the west wants to kick even ordinary Russian people not even a part of this conflict off the internet and sites for just being Russian
I was speaking to a Vietnamese gentleman in December. I was somewhat surprised, but no less saddened to hear that even among his own family, and even after almost 50 years, there remains a hatred between those of his family members who supported North Vietnam in the war, and those who supported South Vietnam. There is likewise hatred still in America regarding a Civil War that happened over 150 years ago.
I know why evil exists in the world. But as you say, I hope people will find understanding and bring this conflict to an end.
I personally don't blame Russian civilians and anyone who does is an idiot. Its all one mad man you can't blame civilians for that
@@cjvaye99 better tell that to the cooperations and banks because they are actively targeting Russian civilians despite it.
@@thertsfan yeah I don't understand why those are more targeted. they should only be targeting the Russian oligarchs not civies.
my guess is they got attack by some sort spec ops division of a foreign military that was never officially there
or my funnier guess is they got attacked by the predator
i'd wager a guess that something paranormal happened, like the spirits of the dead in the platoon cap was in kinda just took over their bodies and had them kill each other.
Yeah, I just thought SAS (or other foreign variant)!
@@herstoryanimatedthey’ve been confirmed to be in country currently but I doubt back in 2015
@Ekdrink as I said, not suggesting it was definitely the UK SAS, but any country's equivalent. I wouldn't put it past the Russians to have had their own special forces do it, if they were trying to cover up something in the area.
@@herstoryanimated I’m just saying they’re there as a cool fact.
EXCELLENT STORYTELLING by you & Cap!
Such a tragic string of events but very well done!
I pray for all of the men, women, and children that are suffering & experiencing such tragedy, pain, and loss!
Stop the war!
Stop the violence!
Stop the slaughter!
Do you think it's possible that just one (or more) of those Russian soldiers went off and somehow saw his comrades as enemies? It is possible that someone can just snap in such a high-stress environment like war.
considering what happend to the russian imperialist baltic fleet. yes
@@tyj9175what happened to the baltic fleet
@@stumblin_bummblin9774they mistook British fishing boats, shadows, each other and probably even oddly shaped waves as Japanese torpedo boats and began shooting. Of all the shots they fired (inching the one battle they were in) I’d bet more than half the ones that actually hit were friendly fire
Fog of war, one guy was probably not right in the head or wanted to defect. But it was likely internal strife in that unit that did them in.
A recent video submerged from a Russian drone capturing Ukrainians retreating to a trench and are met with friendly fire by people down the line, after that grenades starts flying and total chaos ensues. So I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened here even tho it wasn't the same type of terrain.
So there is a theory that exists around other situations that have similar components. One note that was made in Vietnam was a hallucinienic affect that happened to those around flame throwers. The theory that came from this was the flames/heat aerosoled fungus or similar organic material that had hallucinigenic properties, and was inhaled by those around them. As the Russian forces were in the forest, they possibly could have been exposed to this in the immediate area.
I cavate this with that there is no substantiating proof, only theory and hypothesis here.
This is mindblowing, even if it's "just" a theory!
I doubt it
1. The bumblebee is a self contained weapon, no chance of the gas escaping the weapon unless it was defective and even then it might not fire.
2. Even if that is the case, why were all the men affected at once. Once again just a theory
@Lee McCotter blue bloods vs red bloods.
Elites r blue blood hybrids and common folk are the red blooded natural man.
But the thermobaric rocket only exploded after they flew far from the firing position.
It's just plain impossible for this heat-sensitive hallucinogenic fungus to activate considering that the explosion MUST happen far enough from the firing position for safety consideration alone.
It is a theory sure, but it makes no sense, in Vietnam scenario, we see the fact that the Amis use portable flamethrower, where the heat begun as soon as the fuel left the pressurised spray nozzle, so the heat may began from near the G.I, but the nature of thermobaric rocket doesn't support your theory.
It is a Rocket with Thermobaric warhead. Not a literal flamethrower like in vietnam where fire is sprayed out from the nozzle. The former weapon system is nicknamed as flamethrower.
Just heard Resist and Bite by Sabaton, and it is just so endearing.
Thank you for using Sabaton in the small music scene
I noticed the same thing around the 3:40 mark.
Awesome to hear them, I did a "Waaaiiit.. was that Sabaton!?!"
The letter to that man’s Mama had me in absolute tears. This was a rollercoaster, but thank you so much for sharing all of it ♥️
I was told this. “Don’t ask how your enemy died mysteriously, take that blessing and say thanks and walk away to live another day.”
TWU
Your talent for sound design is incredible.
PS. "Present status unknown. Presumed to be kicking ass" - that made my day.
@Xhade Brinsbane Sold out to who? Putin?
Present status well known now.
Losing BIGTIME!!
10x the losses Russia is facing.
The NAT-C regime of kiev will face the same fate as Berlin.
@@luffebassen actually, if we go by reliable statistics, the Ukrainians are inflicting a casualty rate of roughly 2 Russian soldiers for every 1 Ukrainian soldier. However, the numbers are probably even more skewed in Ukraine's favor due to being able to treat their wounded more effectively. Also if we go by Ukraine's numbers, which so far have been pretty reliable, that 10x loss ratio is in Ukraine's favor.
@@gamermccoolman9312 HAHAHAHA okay if you want to believe direct nonsens, then there is no reason to talk.
Russia has 3x the population of Ukraine.
Russia has manufactoring of Tanks, Nukes, Super sonic missiles.
Planes and ALL kinds of equipment under the Sun.
Ukraine has ZERO!!!!
They rely on supply from NATO and also money from the West.
As soon as this stops, then the war stop.
Russia has 10x the amount of artillery and YET you want people to believe that will ALL of this, then Ukraine are still inflicting more damage with fantasy power?? 😂🤣
Just keep playing COD.
You clearly are not suited for talking about real world stuff.
@@luffebassen Russia can't even take a city of 20,000 less that 100 miles from the border. Russia is taking loses per land gained to the Germans.
Thank you for sharing this with us Cap!!!😌✨
Crossfire friendly fire with an advance, how crazy. I bet this is more common than most of us think in war history. How interesting!
It reminds me of the scene in Predator,where Dutch( Arnold) asks Billy what happened to the previous task force. Billy said it doesn't make sense ,that they were shooting in all directions.
I believe that someone or something did some type of telepathic suggestion on them to kill each other
Exactly what I thought. Super weird!!!
Whatever they saw positioned itself between the soldiers drawing crossfire that resulted in the soldiers shooting and killing each other.
"Iwo Jima, Cambodia, Beirut. Drawn by heat and conflict. He's on safari. The lions. The tigers. The bears. Oh my!"
"There's something out there...... and it ain't no man"
Possibly the use of de-sensitizing psychological programming combined with amphetamine use for endurance and alertness combined with combat stress and adrenaline caused one or more of the SRGs to have a psychotic episode. Once one or two started shooting at each other, the others thought it was a counter ambush and panicked.
honestly the most sound answer here
Although one of them could have survived that.
@@jacobridgeway2849 unscathed? Probably not. They checked the bodies
That doesn't explain how all 8 killed each other. If one man acted psychotic then the rest would shoot his direction and kill him and he would manage to kill maybe a few of his comrades. Unless the psychotic one killed 6 of his comrades and the last 2 soldiers standing managed to fire their last shots at exactly the same time and both hit each other killing the last 2 remaining soldiers in the group. Not likely.
@@H.A.. Sure, but you can also be fatally wounded and still fire a weapon. I dont think that obscure story transpired but alright
For anyone wondering what that song was in the BTR they were playing "Resist and Bite" by Sabaton, W Song.
Thank you Luke. This story fascinates me. Listening to it for 3rd or 4th time
I coudnt let go of this story...it took me almost 4 hours of digging but i found tiny pieces of evidence in the Reports of the AFU about a small group of soldiers from the 31st been killed by an unknown force mid fight....possibly self inflicted....ITS A TRUE STORY....IM SO AFFRAID
What all did you find out? Or can you provide source?
I think @robertbismark347 is talking nonsense. How would the Russian have known that it was a unknown force, and not just the Ukrainians.
Even if they send out a search party, they would just discover that they have been shot. And the Ukrainians only know what happened.
Have any info you can share or any links/sources??
Guys,I don't know what you expect...it's a over 200 side long report over who did what in that time frame. But it include sensitive Material and that the main reason I can't go into detail. But if you look for yourself,with all the data from this video you can easily proof that everything he told you was real.
There are bible stories where God turns the enemies against themselves ...that may have happened here as God has his Elect that must live until his return soon.
The sabaton is giving me flashbacks to every piece of footage of Ukrainian armoured vehicles charging over road blocks. Love the channel. Hang in there Ukraine
I almost died laughing when I heard it.
Glad I wasn't the only one that caught resist and bite playing
Charging back to Kiev 😂
I think you guys are mistaken this is 2015 not current
Only thing that makes some kind of sense to me is one of them suddenly mistook a comrade for an enemy, shot him, then spooked everyone else who all started firing at each other.
Yes but then why did they stop shooting for a few seconds before going balistic on each other?
@@darius_alex2043 Maybe they momentarily tried to figure out what was going on and thought they were infiltrated or betrayed, panicked, and all fired at each other. It was in the dark afterall. I do doubt that it was supernatural, but that’s not out of the question either.
If that happened like that then it would be extremely improbably for them to put at least 5 rounds into eachother right? If they started shooting at eachother out of panic you would think there’s be a point where there’s only 2 left at which point 1 of them would kill the other or they both realize it’s FF and stop shooting at each other. Unless they stood in a circle and pointed their guns at the person to their left and shot at the same time? But then that wouldn’t explain the 5 rounds if all of them shot simultaneously someone would have recieved fewer wounds. It’s possible the last guy received multiple wounds that weren’t immediately fatal, finished off his own squad, then bled out perhaps…
My thought is I wonder if any of the wounds appeared self inflicted. He mentions that they took 12.7mm fire which means there was a machine gunner in the squad. That guy would have had an ammunition belt long enough to take out his own squad easily. I would speculate that perhaps it was a fragging-suicide incident by the machine gunner maybe.
By the way the narrator described the scene, it felt like he was describing something especially grisly. A body that’s taken 5 ak rounds to the chest wouldn’t really be a particularly “spectacular” sight (for lack of a better word) for someone fighting in war. It would just look like a couple holes in the uniform soaked in blood. rounds of 12.7mm which is the Russian equivalent to 50 bmg would scoop out fist sized chunks, 5 of them would totally mangle someone, collapse the chest cavity, or expose organs.
Fragging incidents are not unusual in the russian army, soldiers are treated poorly by superiors. Maybe the machine gunner decided to kill his squad mates for whatever reason, realized mid ambush that it was the best time to do so while everyone was engaging the BTRs, and started laying down hate on his own guys. Once a few guys start going down the rest of the squad figures out what’s happening and start focusing fire on him, inflicting a few wounds that are not immediately fatal, but by then it’s too late and MGer finishes them off. Then the guy either dies from his wounds or goes out on his own terms.
This at least makes a bit more sense to me than all the guys beginning to shoot at eachother Mexican stand-off style, one guy with a machine gun engaging the rest of the squad could make quick work of most of them before they even realized what was going on, and it’s not impossible that the remainder of the squad would have been able to land a few shots on him too, assuming there’s 3-5 guys left focusing fire on him despite being suppressed.
Maybe I’m reading too much into it or rambling but just a theory. Not a lot to go on here based on details provided so Im probably wrong.
11:23 exactly after you said that I got an ad 😂😂😂
“The first thing to die in any war is truth”
Propaganda takes its place untill the truth comes back
@@thertsfan If the truth survives.
@@marhawkman303 truth may take some time but it does always show upp
I call Cap!
@@thertsfan I mean, does it really count if it doesn't show up until the White Throne Judgement? It's too late for MEN to use it at that point.
This was well-timed and well-told. What an eerie thing. The only guess I have is that the Russians might have hesitated about killing the soldiers that got out on foot from the medivac vehicle, leading to a dispute in the ranks which escalated. We'll never know. Thank you to Cap and Luke for sharing the story. Cap, stay safe and I hope this madness ends soon.
This war... feels wrong. Why are the UN and NATO acting as they are? Then there's that oil pipeline that "mysteriously" failed... and the only military anyone has been able to link to it is.,... the US?!?!? Something is off here, we don't know what it is, but I'm not hopeful that it will turn out to just be nothing special. Will it be the "end of the world"? Is Doomsday coming? Doomsday may in fact be close at hand. "Repent ye workers of iniquity!" and all that stuff.
@@marhawkman303 I never saw a war that felt right. There's no question it's being artificially prolonged. After the two-decade-long Afghan boondoggle ended, US military contractors needed another payday, and by God they've found one. Now the hawks are calling for the US to give Ukraine F-16s. I'm sure those same hawks will be all *surprised Pikachu face* when Putin drops a tactical nuke.
@@Libbathegreat OOhh... hadn't thought of that angle. I'd temporarily forgotten about how many people Joe threw under the bus and left to die in Afghanistan. So many people who suddenly had nothing to do... yeah.... good point.
That makes sense, when they got quiet the first time they were probably having a really distracting conversation like maybe the leader lost their minds and was saying some insane stuff.
This is similar to my thought, caravan was medical in nature and perhaps some of the Russian force disagreed with engagement. They typically take orders well though.
I wasn’t sure from the title if I was even going to like this story and it wound up in my top 5.
Nice work sir, well done.
That brief Resist and Bite by Sabaton in the beginning was slick. I love Sabaton and your stories.
Ahhhh omg did you use Sabaton in your back-round😍?! Much love to you for your amazing work! And much love to Ukraine!
inspired by real events, of course: ua-cam.com/video/VKtG9fkdmSw/v-deo.html
I figured the song "Resist and Bite" was highly appropriate.
I knew I heard it too. Haha, nice
Nearly spit out my drink when I heard it
Even David defeated Goliath with a stone...holy Christ, that made my hair stand on end. God bless Cap, God bless all the Caps who are standing in front of an enemy army to defend the defenseless.
Now it is a Javelin instead of a stone....
I had the exact same happen!
Glory to Russia
@@Dezert_Fox Very edgy. What a good little edgy boi!!! Well done!!! You're being very contriversial, your mother must be so proud!!!!
Shouldn't have let NATO in
Wow, I just stumbled across your channel. Your content is excellent, narration skills are superb and stories are chilling. I look forward to further content. 😎👍
The quality of your content is top notch. You deserve at least more than a million subscribers. I'm glad I found your channel.
and i still can't believe he is under less than 400k subs
Hauntingly beautiful video and story. The clips at the end were a nice touch to add humanity to the tragedy that's unfolding.
I have to say, very timely.
I'm reminded of an extremely good supernatural movie called R-Point where our main characters (a South Korean unit deployed in Vietnam) nearly kill each other because they're (maybe) hallucinating ghosts and don't recognize each other. From the way Cap described it, it sounds like the SRG's thought something was coming their way, they fired, they thought it was still coming, and then may have accidentally killed each other in a crossfire with something they *thought* was there in their midst. Makes about as much as sense as anything else in this odd, senseless scenario. I definitely believe Cap; I 'm just as baffled as he is.
Non-fictional stories that are impossible to keep silent about
I'm sick and tired of this fucking stories, I can’t fucking listen to them anymore. One story is more awesome than the other.
@@salamander4668 our 🐘
@@salamander4668then why are you here?
@@laurenmontine you won't get it.
I loved the sabaton playing during the convoy at 3:30 esqe
I would have lost my mind if he had decided to put xs project. 🤣
inspired by real events, of course: ua-cam.com/video/VKtG9fkdmSw/v-deo.html
I figured the song "Resist and Bite" was highly appropriate.
The outro brought me to tears, and I thank you for featuring all the voices impacted by this war. The Ukranian and Russian people are going to go through hell and back, and for what? There's no words for it. I'll pray, for as much good as it will do.
And as always, I commend you for your storytelling. This channel in particular is unique for how you've created this place where people who have been/are going through war can share their story in a very personal manner. The dropback will always be politics, but the individual stories are not a *feature* to political commentary that we might find in journalism. It's just stories in and of themselves. I don't really know how to phrase it beyond it feels the most human to me, less abstract than talks about strategies and predictions and global impact etc etc etc. So the manner of storytelling, along with your narration and sfx is beyond outstanding. I hope this channel sees even more success, and I hope to be able to become a patreon myself once I have the means. Keep up the thoughtful and amazing work.
The Russians get land they occupy, as well as home appliances and other things they loot from civilians they murder. What bubble are you living in ? We are defending our homeland and families. That's our "for what"
Agreed
It’s the fault of the Russian people for allowing Putin to be in power and not doing anything about it, so don’t feel bad for Russians it’s their own fault
Very emotive piece of work there. Well done. Really well done.
Thank you for this.
Holy, this episode got me emotional. My heart goes out for both the Ukrainians fighting for life and land, and for the poor, delusional or naive soldiers who were blatantly lied to before being sent into this hell.
I got emotional as well.. so sad. We need you Lord Jesus.
You and this channel are literally taking the side of the corporate media. The current leaders of Ukraine are avowed socialists and are pro-globalist NATO (and also lynch ethnic Russians). While Putin represents traditional morality and values, and is against sexual degeneracy.
I don’t know about you, but I am taking the side against globalism socialism, and the side that is for traditional values. While I disagree with Russia’s tactics (I think they should just have taken Donbass), they are still fighting against the spread of globalism...
@@crazysilly2914 putin has started this war. You cant defend any human values when you are the one who started the war. 19 yr olds are being sent to ukraine to die.
Traditional values For you are starting brother wars. Causing thousands of deaths.
So sad for all involved. War never changes. 😔
You just described, blind patriotism🙄…………
Sounds like the Predator went in for his prey.
So heartbreaking.. War is heartbreaking. Cap, thank you for sharing your story.
You think Ukranians think it's heartbreaking?
@@azieldaly2965 So, if Cap personally told you his story ; you would respond to him with “You think Ukranians think it’s heartbreaking?” Hahaha! What?!
I appreciate the sacrifice soldiers make for civilians and their country. So, by you stating the obvious, just to be a wise ass, is in poor taste.
@@jennnava2769 It's not heart breaking story for Ukranians and those who support them. Your English is horriblr by the way.
@@jennnava2769 Ukranians and those who support them wouldn't think this story is heartbreaking. So yes I would say so. By your logic we should honour the German that fought for their country in WW2 even though cause was absoloutely immoral.
@@jennnava2769 Shed some tears for the people who are the actual victims. The Ukranians. This happened in 2015 so alot of those Russians soldiers were there willingly and as mercanaries before Russia officially declared war on Ukraine. So tough luck for them. They asked for it.
This story reminds me of the Predator movies and the fact that this same situation has happened durning every major war in the 20th century......
To me it seems like maybe the Russians soldiers where ambushed by something invisible and would explain to a point why they started shooting at each other as the thing attacked them...
What if the Predator movies where based on military stories like this?
And the fact UFO sighting just about triple durning war time who's to say that only humans enjoy hunting and the fact no footprints where found makes me think who or what ever travelled through the trees which was also in the movies CRAZY!!!!
Yikes, Hail Hydra.
I sadly recognize some of the sound footage in the end of the video because I have been following this war quite closely. Especially the part where there was 6 y.o Ukrainian girl who was killed and died in the hospital + the last message of a dead Russian soldier to his mom. Heartbreaking.
May all the civilians that hate war are safe in this madness and the war can stop a.s.a.p.
Another amazing video, man
No fuck the civilians man. Cowards who run away
English is my second language, though I understand very well what you tell, still I am so thankful to you for that captions. Auto subscribe!!
The fire stopping for a while leads me to think words were exchanged between the Russian soldiers before their deaths, so they must’ve heard or seen something else there
Considering the nature of the channel I feel comfortable saying this: There's a lot of weirdness about this whole mess,Russia isn't for some reason quite winning so easy and while that could be because of a very determined bunch of people fighting for their land....what happened in this story might also be a partial explanation of why that is.
A lot of Ukraine's died because of Russia in the 30's...maybe those dead people don't want the land to fall back into Russian hands.
So you're telling me a ghost did it ?
Could be ghosts, or a bit older closer to reality threat not determined yet that Russia sees in Ukraine
@@_scyas_1827 it rains frogs, people grow twins inside themselves for years. Weird shit you cannot and will not ever be able to explain happens cery day, and I like that.
It wasn't a ghost. Don't be silly.
It was obviously Bigfoot.
It was JFK jr
And nice touch on the color/shading for the background and a well played out narration. Your channel is among the best i've seen 😊
Thanks for the story, prayers for Cap and his men 🙏🏻
"EVEN DAVID DEFEATED GOLIATH WITH A STONE" 🥺❤️ your videos are absolutely amazing, i came across your video from mr ballen. he recommended bedtime stories and then i saw one of your videos as a "i might like" video and omg IVE BEEN OBSESSED! binged watched them all and now i impatiently wait for new ones lol.❤️
Thank you Luke and thank you Cap for this amazing story and narration. I will leave you both with two quotes "When the rich wage war, the poor who die" "Only the dead have seen the end of war.” God Bless us all !
So true my friend a lot of wealthy American politicians have been using the Ukrainian people and country as there playground causing pain and suffering inciting this conflict
I may not know the full details on what cause this war (as of now) but knowing that civilians are being targeted is beyond disrespect on a soldier's code of honor, let alone breaking rules of engagement.
Russia is a dying nation with dwindling population and fragile economy. In addition, Putin thinks NATO is a hostile force and wants to secure the eastern border of russia, which was left in shambles after the collapse of USSR. So why invade Ukraine, specifically now:
1. Prevent a large formerly-soviet nation from joining nato.
2. Pluck a massive hole in their defenses in east european plain.
3. Keep Ukrainian natural gas reserves underground, so they won't compete with russia.
4. Regain control of Ukrainian gas pipes, so they don't have to pay taxes for using them.
5. Secure Crimea, and their only port in the mediterranean.
6. Secure Putin's legacy as a unifier of USSR.
7. Do it while they still have money and manpower left.
'Course, he could've just tried to build friendlier relations with europe, but dictators be paranoid.
@Håkan Bergvall yes, it has been concluded without a trace of doubt that russia has been routinely commiting war crimes, russia started an unprovoked war and targeted civilians.
russians have no honor though, remember otto von bismarck and what he use to say about russians that seems to still be true today.
@Håkan Bergvall That’s what happens when you get conscripts and criminals who don’t won’t to be their.
@@micoolkidfilms3270 in every war civilians get killed and yes also by US soldiers
Great video.
Awesome, awesome work. Last 5 min were touching to say the least.
The Bumblebee, fully known as the RPO-A Shmel or Rocket-propelled Infantry Flamethrower-A Bumblebee, is a strange weapon. Some do consider it a rocket launcher, and technically that's true as it's similar to a LAW or AT4. Single use, disposable. Unlike the LAW or AT4, however, it doesn't have a armor-penetrating warhead. Instead, it fires one of three different warheads. A thermobaric one, a incendiary one, and one that makes smoke. The thermobaric warhead explains the "flamethrower" part. For some reason, Russia likes to call thermobaric weapons "flamethrowers", which I suppose is true to a point.
The way the firefight went also reinforces my and many other's belief that the Russians that are currently fighting in Ukraine are by and large third or second rate troops. Everything from the slow advance to the barely upgraded 1970s and 80s tech they're using to the fact they're letting vehicles with occupants whose intentions are unknown to get right up next to them. They just aren't fighting as well as they should if they were frontline troops.
Also, it's not just the Russians that use it. China (under license), North Korea, Georgia, India, Syria, Vietnam, and even Ukraine to name a few.
Slava Ukraini.
Reminds me more of the M-202 Flash, if not in construction, in role.
@@gabrielinostroza4989 You know, I'd forgotten about the M202. Yes, it's pretty much that, just single use and can use a couple different warheads.
Слава Україні!
yes, tbh i'm confused why the so called "invasion" is actually failing really bad
i think maybe it was an operation after all
they said the troops that were sent never expected or were told there is no invasion in planning
so most were unprepared
also their airforce wasn't deployed after the 1st cruise missile strike against the AA defense targets
idk if putin i going senile or he's planning to lose or just faked an invasion to get some political talk going (didn't happen yet)
Perhaps 1st rate troops are waiting in the wings to swipe at NATO forces? Distract the world with the fighting in Ukraine?
Wildly well done brother
my opinion is they were in the area of some kind of special operation and those operators heard the commotion , came to see what was going on, and ended up assisting the pinned APC then left before being discovered.
Yeah but how do you explain the wounds? The way they describe the bodies being shot by each other.. like what would’ve caused that?? Crossfire is one thing but whatever it was would have to be moving super fast between solders for them to hit each other so badly but not hit whatever it was they were shooting at..Yet there wasn’t anyone or anything else there with them in the death zone, just Russians
This channel is criminally under-watched and underrated. Well done! May the good Lord bless and keep the Ukrainian people. 🇺🇸🇺🇦❤️
That was eerie. Sounded like something out of a Predator movie. Thoughts are with Ukraine 😔
That's what I was thinking too something running on each one of them and the other one try to shoot it but it was too fast
Agreed.
I thought the same thing...the Predator movie!
"Commissar, I'd like to report an oopsie-dasies"
I had friends that lived in an apartment building in Kiev. When they sent me videos of what was happened. There was one night when a factor got blown up and it poured thick black smoke into the sky only about a mile from them whilst they and other civilians were sheltered with a few Ukrainian troops in a temporarily office container on a construction site. I dont have words to tell you the emotion I felt knowing that this beautiful poet and unique soul was in that situation. They eventually made it to Poland and got resettled. But it took a very long time. Sadly i dont talk to them anymore. But every day I hope they are well.
16:46
The way the kid screams in that clip always gets to me
Really well done, not the story we were expecting sure, but I'm glad you made this, very strange story. God bless you.
im not sure what you were expecting but this is exactly a wartime story
“Cloak engaged”…
Damn - what a great video! Well done all involved
I'm going to watch this tomorrow at work love your channel and voice
I've noticed a pattern with major conflicts and the paranormal. It's as if the paranormal gets stired up much like the ocean shallows during an earthquake or tsunami. Perhaps that's what this might be.
It was spirits/angels/luminaries/ that taught ment to war and forge iron weapons and breastplates of war
@@warmbeergamingdude It was The Watchers, Angels sent by God that were supposed to watch over and observe humanity. But they didn't.
@@brainrot4919 nope, not the watchers, Azazel.
Thank u for sharing
Amazing video
Good story, I appreciate your rationale neutral position. I’m sure we will see all sorts of comments from all the Ukraine and Russia experts from Reddit and there incredible insight from the 2 weeks they have spent reading about it on Twitter lmfao
And as much as I respond to them and ask for clarification on their statements, they also engage in hit and run-post and ghost-tactics.
My worst critics never seem to respond to my sincere requests for clarification. I cannot tell you how frustrating that is.
Eastern Ukraine has been attacked by their globalist leaders in the capital for around 9 years.. Ukraine is attacking ethnic Russians mostly civilians but are citizens of Ukraine.. azov is especially fond of this.. along with torture and rape.. they consider anyone not ethnically Ukrainian as sub humans.. nato has been supporting them for years.. Russia is resisting the globalist cabal and thus is an enemy.. WE are the bad guys.. look to Trudeau the Traitor here in Canada for example of what the globalist cabal thinks of ordinary people. Cheers and God bless from a PureBlood Canadian part of the fringe minority holding unacceptable views according to Trudy.. the wef/nwo is the problem and the great reset/agenda 2030 is their plan.. stand firm stay strong and keep vigilant brothers and sisters..👍🙂❤🇨🇦
In Vietnam War these is a Bigfoot who attacked soldier
I hoped the director make a Vietnam War horror movie
Outstanding presentation.
I thought this story sounded a little bit far fetched at first.
But then i remembered about the time that i caught Santa Claus beating up my next door neighbour and it all suddenly seemed more plausible ! ? ! ?
Quite intriguing!
Timely.
I'll say, listening to that translated message from the Russian soldier. Holy shit. Good luck to the Ukrainians, and let's hope the Russians get orders to pull back soon.
Do you have the link to that ? Like UHL, I'd be interested in listening to it
@@slimrummy4616 ua-cam.com/video/qhQ5P_u4g-M/v-deo.html
Be warned though, this could make you extremely sad and angry
They will get the withdraw command after 500,000 soldiers die or maybe they will throw a million at this one. This is not Afghanistan.
That order will *never* come.
That last bit gave me the chills. Good work. Thank you.
The end with the news reports from last year made me cry.
It brought back the memories from the refugee trains arriving in my town.
I hope that cap is alive and driving the russians out of his Fatherland, i pray for his safety.
It's obvious that there was some sort of disagreement that went down between the Russian soldiers. It's not too hard to fathom that mid firefight, an argument could escalate quickly resulting in guns being turned on each other. In such close quarters, it'd be very likely that no one would survive
In these times can be one of the most darkest times that is happening. And now i'm praying for Ukraine.
Luke, you've done it again. Excellent! Thank you, Cap...I hope you and your men are safe & victorious.
Not only was this story very intriguing, but Mr. Lamana! You even do the animation!? This whole sha-bang (sp?) Is an absolute work of art. Everything. Keep doing what you are doing kind sir! And my mama would whoop my ass if I didn't thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. Truly appreciated as are your services here.
i love his stories the voices of the soldiers and the background noises and everything in ALL his videos are just top tier!!!
It has been a year...my heart hurts for Ukraine, but also endless admiration for those defending their country and doing everything they can to help one another. May you be victorious
The people defending themselves are in Donbas not Ukraine.. The Minsk agreement makes that pretty damn obvious, but you're happy with being ignorant..
@@Validboy people in donbass who want to be russian...are free to cross the border into russia and become citizens. No one would stop them. Especially russia im sure would be happy to welcome them across the Ukrainian border into russia. russia has a lot of land to accept these people.
But No, russia only wants to use donbass to play 'Victim' and invade Ukraine
@@Validboy the Minsk agreement was that Russia and America would agree to protect Ukraine, but Russia decided to piss on it in 2014. He is not ignorant, you are simply arguing in bad faith.
@@Validboy u havent even read them you stupid orc
@@sirdickkickerthefirst9611 America isnt part of it, no.. its between Russia and Ukraine actually.. The agreement was for Ukraine to seize fire on Donbass and Russia wouldnt interfere.. Ukraine kept bombing.. Didnt you hear Angela Merkel admit that it was only signed to stall Russia?
So Russia accepted the invitation of the people in Donbass to rescue them from their government and crossed the boarder.. Aka Ukraine provoked this for 8 years..
As someone with 0 experience in combat, my initial reaction was that blowing up a vehicle full of guys and hearing them burn alive, and then being told to execute the remaining survivors who survived the second blast would cause a refusal from me. I imagine the russian military doesn’t take kindly to “no”. There’s your conflict amongst the group. Idk tho they sounded like badass super assassin killers idk why there would be a moral issue brought up at THAT moment. It’s strange but i don’t think anything supernatural happened.
Yeah we should be skeptical of supernatural stuff, it's unproven. Some supernatural stories are interesting though lol
The Russians in a moment of sudden self-awareness, self-destructed. A crisis in an epiphany of knowing they are the bad guys. Sounds unlikely, but stranger things have happened.
What? This is the army and they were at war. That's what they sign up for, to kill. It's not like they opened fire on a school bus full of children, they were firing at enemy soldiers. A reality check once in a while never hurt nobody, I recommend one. smh
They have NO actually elite units. They are a myth.
“Would cause a refusal from me.”
Hard NO. You have absolutely NO idea what you would do in that situation and I promise you that.
The ending killed me. My very heart and soul aches for all the people and soldiers in this war. I wish with all my heart that the fighting will cease. I cannot help but cry for every single person who has been hurt, killed and/or displaced over this bs. May the universe send you all love and healing 💕
Yes propaganda is meant to spark the most powerful emotions in humans. Thats what u felt. This is no fault of Russia if thats what u think.
Sure Russia is no pure country.
But they did not want this war and tried avoiding it many times.
That's a lot of crying
@@luffebassen Putin has been planning on taking back Ukraine for 21 years. He is the one who invaded, twice in fact. He has a nasty habit of invading his neighbors.
@@timrider682 More like America has a habit of making coups in former Soviet allie states and have them join NATO so they can weaken Russia and then Putin has to go and correct this due to their national security and the victims are all the small former Soviet allies.
But i understand why you say what you do.
The Brainwash in the west where i live myself, has been strong for many decades.
@@timrider682 Former US grand strategist Zbignew Brzezinski said: “It is IMPERATIVE that no Eurasian challenger emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America”. Because the US has just 4% of the world’s population, and it’s isolated from the Eurasia continent which has 70% of the world’s population, or 87% with Africa included. Defensively, it’s an advantage to the US, but economically, it’s a handicap. That’s why economically, Eurasia is a competitor to the US and the Euro is a threat to the dollar.
How does the US with an isolated and just 4% of world’s population maintain its position as the world’s biggest economy? The dollar must stay as the world’s reserve currency. This allows the size of the US economy to be highly scaled up, instead of being sized according to the fundamentals.
To be the world’s reserve currency, the dollar must be circulated in the world. The US created a huge consumption-based economy and shifted manufacturing outside, so that dollars flow out of the US to product suppliers like China or Japan. To make products, China and Japan need energy. The US created the Petrol-dollar scheme, so that dollar is circulated to Saudi. With the US stock and financial market much more lucrative than other countries, the dollars from Saudi are attracted back to the US. Money printed in the US to exchange for goods from outside eventually ends up with the Wall Streets, where the rich gets richer. And that completes the cycle of circulation of the dollars.
The American Dream attracted top talents around the world to strengthen the US’ science and technology sectors, and a technological gap is maintained between the US and other major economy like China, so that the US benefits from highly lucrative high-tech product/patent exports, while low profit manufacturing sector is outsourced to China and Vietnam. This is why world leader in 5G, Huawei, are banned in 2019.
If China or Japan bring back all the dollars and exchange to their local currencies, it inflates the local currencies, making their exports expensive. So, China and Japan use some of the dollars to buy US debts (treasury bonds). That’s why the US, a rich country, is in-debt to China which has just 1/5th of the US’ GDP per capita.
And by holding US treasury bills, China and Japan have to support the US dollar, for if the US dollar collapses, their hard earn money would become worthless. After Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” in 2011, which aimed to contain China, China introduced the Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in 2013 and diverted some of the dollars into it to reduce the risk of putting all eggs in one basket, and hoping that after these countries are developed, China would have a wider trade market.
With a huge population, if Asia and Africa develop rapidly, the share of the US’ economy shrinks, then the Euro could replace it as the world’s reserve currency. When that happens, the US would no longer be able to print money out of nothing without a hyper inflation like Venezuela. Then the size of the US economy has to fall back to the fundamentals, which today is quite a lot smaller than the inflated economy. That’s why no country in Eurasia is allowed to catch up with the US’ economy. When Japan was catching up fast on the US in the 1980s, they were knocked down to a three decade stagnancy by appreciating the Japanese Yen. And in the last 30 years, the US created conflicts, wars and color revolutions in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa to destabilise the Eurasia-Africa supercontinent.
When the US prints a lot of money, other countries’ foreign reserves in dollars shrink in value. Furthermore, to prevent exports to the US becoming expensive, these countries have to print money too, which devalues the savings of the people, and causing inflations in these countries. It’s estimated that our savings devalue by 6-9% per year after the abolishment of the gold-backed Bretton Woods system, after which the US prints money based on just the creditability of the dollar.
North America is relatively easy to defend, yet the US has a military budget more than the total of the next 9 countries in the top 10, to protect the dollar with its 800 military bases worldwide.
For the record, the US had no mercy on threats to the dollar:
* In 2000 Saddam Hussein said he would start selling oil in Euros not Dollars.
>> Saddam was hanged by the US.
* In 2009 Gaddafi made Libya export oil in Gold Dinars, not in dollar or Euro.
>> Gaddafi was killed by US-backed NTC.
* Syria had an independent Central Bank NOT under Federal Reserve controlled Bank of International Settlements.
>> Obama attempted to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
* Iran has been trading oil in currencies other than US dollars since 2011.
>> Iran was being sanctioned by the US.
* After being sanctioned in 2014, Putin started to trade in non-dollar. In 2019, Putin (1) completely ditched dollars in oil trades, (2) sold almost all the US treasury bonds, (3) is now the forerunner in de-dollarization.
>> The US tried to topple Putin by supporting Alexei Navalny. And now the Ukraine war to weaken Russia.
* China (1) introduced the BRI in 2013 which helps many countries to develop and speed up the integration of Eurasia, (2) used non-dollar in oil trades with Iran and Russia, (3) introduced the CIPS, an alternative to the West’s SWIFT system which has been weaponized by America, (4) China’s economy and high technology are catching up fast.
>> China has become the US’ #1 target.
If a country supports the dollar, it’s being looted; if a country doesn’t support the dollar, the government is changed by the US. This is financial slavery.
The Fed has printed 80% of all US dollars in existence since Jan 2020. There was $4.02 trillion dollars in circulation at the beginning of 2020. The number reached $20.08 trillion by Oct 2021. This amounted to an astronomical 30 trillions debt. Coupled with a global rising urge to diversify into non-dollar reserves caused by the US’ sanctions to 39 countries, the dollar is in a creditability crisis. This is the major development which shapes geopolitics in the world today.
The US cannot have direct wars with Russia and China because they are nuclear armed. Proxy wars put the battlefields outside of the US, and the US would looked like an outsider. Remember in the 1980s, the US supported the Afghan Mujaheddin in a proxy war against the USSR. Russia and China have clearly defined their redlines. US would use its collaborators Zelensky and Tsai to push across the redlines to trigger the wars, and it would sell weapons to its allies in NATO and AUKUS, and get them to support the wars.
After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, US President Bill Clinton had two choices: (a) to integrate Russia into Europe and abolish NATO, OR, (b) to slowly alienate Russia to keep Russia and Europe divided. Clinton chose the latter, because if there’s no more Russia “threat”, there would be no more NATO to control Europe. As the first NATO Secretary General, Lionel Ismay described the military role of NATO: “To keep America IN, to keep Russia OUT, to keep Germany (Europe) DOWN”. NATO also allows the US to place missiles in Europe, so if a war break out in Europe, missiles would be flying between Moscow the East and Lisbon in the West, while the US remains safe across the Atlantic.
And politically, the EU is an American creation, as much as a European one. It’s much easier for Washington to control ruling elites at Brussels than having to control all politicians in Europe. The EU is used an ally or a sacrificial depending on the geopolitical needs of Washington.
The proxy war in Ukraine: 1.Divided Europe from Russia and divided Eurasia. 2.Killed Nord Stream II gas pipeline and German firm Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg has signed up for gas from America Venture Global LNG for 20 years. The US gained control over energy supply to Europe. 3.Created continuity for the Military Industrial Complex after pulling out of Afghanistan. 4.Most importantly, the war strengthened the dollar. Dollar against Euro is now the highest since NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in Mar 1999 (happened two months after the official launch of Euro as the currency of the EU, which threatened the dollar). A strong dollar together with the Fed’s interest rise in 2022 cause capitals from all over the world to flow into the US’ economy, while collapsing other economies, like Sri Lanka.
Else where, two months after ignoring a warning from Washington against his visit to Moscow, highly popular Imran Khan was ousted from the PM post of Pakistan on 9 Apr 2022. A month after ignoring Biden’s demand to increase oil production, secretary-general of OPEC, Mohammad Barkindo died unexpectedly on July 6 2022.
The US isn’t relinquishing its privilege to loot. Remember after WW II, Europe and Asia were devastated, but the US emerged as the world leader and the dollar became the world’s reserve currency.
The music blasting in the apc got me good
This is the second time listening to this story and I almost think they had some type of experimental chemical weapon on them that backfired on themselves. Making each other out to be the enemy or some type of monster. Btw you read off one of my stories once on ufo’s. I shared it with everyone from my job at the VA hospital and all my family. You have an amazing thing going with giving props to the story tellers. I served in Iraq 08/09 army infantry. Stars just don’t look the same anymore after being over there. It’s hard for me to describe to someone that’s never left the states how beautiful the night sky is in a place without as much light pollution. Take care bud and merry Christmas
I appreciate the Sabaton in the BTR. Nice touch. Only thing I can offer as an explanation is that maybe in the heat of the firefight, one of the Russians accidentally shot another, which caused the others to panic thinking that Ukrainians had managed to sneak up on/flank them or that there were traitors amongst them.
Yep, there was probably a dispute among them that had been building for a while and when one guy shot the other it spiraled out of control
Fog of war kinda situation.
Love the Sabaton reference in the background, "Resist and Bite" is such a good song.
Only thing i can think of is that someone tough they were on the same side of the road somehow and started shooting, and it created a chain reaction. But still seems really odd to me.
I love the fact you got a sabaton music in the video 3:32 I wonder if his until actually had this playing when they where driving
Further excellence from your stellar channel mate...God's blessings upon Cap and Ukraine in this unfortunate war, as well as yourself for the telling of such captivating & bewildering stories...And you Sir have my heartfelt, personal thanks for your own service!!
Interesting username! I was watching The Brood two nights ago. Even now I still think it's a very odd but brilliant horror movie
Sounds like tensions in the unit may have already existed, and a fight between the leader and one of his subordinates got out of hand. He shot him, in return he was shot by another team member, and it quickly went south. Wouldn't say it's paranormal tbf. War is mentally exhausting, everyone has their limits.
shit when you say quickly went south at the end id say when the first one got shot either a sub or the commander who knows but when that happened likely they were near each other so there was a group who maybe got hit the the rounds when the commander sprayed the sub guy likely tagging the other which resulted in the others returning fire for being reckless and that who shit went south was like INSTANTLY spray wait what happened ohhhhh shit spray scream spray spray spray silence once they kinda teamed up on each other it was like angle shooting where you had to find the next guy but he got you then they got him and by that time everyone was hit
Hope your channel hits 100,000 subscribers soon.
This used to be very common in russian/soviet war with Afghanistan and the first chechan war, because of the extremely brutal prison style lifestyles they lived since basic
The most rational explanation I have is that at least more than one in the group was a turncoat, and between the sudden infighting everyone of them was hit, they could have been waiting until the fighting was nearly over to spring their attack on their comrades. Kind of like fragging.
My thoughts as well. First thing that came to mind and the only thing that’s logical
Only thing is with the Russian SRT groups, they train side by side for years...they are a close knit unit. Somewhat similar to USSF, Rangers or SEAL team members. They train and hone their "craft", so they become one fighting unit, depending on each other. Is it possible they turned on one another ( possible can't rule it out)...but the screaming and automatic weapons fire ...at one another...especially among a highly trained group such as them...leads many questions to the unanswered...wth happened?
@@davidjames7382 I found a comment saying that there might be another special forces of Russians that came by and friendly fired them on accident. I am confuse why this man didn’t share his story to the press otherwise I have a theory that the Americans were testing special physiological warfare against the Russians 🤷
Love the epic flyby of the Ghost of Kiev in the end there. Standing as a guardian angel watching over his people.
@Xhade Brinsbane i know it is but still an epic legend
@@josevictorionunez9312What are the ghost of Kiev?
Thank you for the end monologue. I have lost too many to this war.
great episode
Rationally, it sounds like a failure of a combination of Russian performance enhancing drugs and/or steroids and adrenaline for that elite attack team. Super soldiers sound great in theory and on paper, but the human body and mind can do weird stuff on altered chemistry.
My thoughts exactly, it reminded me of the scene from the movie “Jacobs ladder” when the American unit in Vietnam turned on one another. 😎
God bless the people of the Ukraine I don't think I've ever seen such bravery we the US could learn a thing or two about what it means to love your country. Thank you Luke well done. 🤔😔
yes, that’s one of our problems. We have too many people living in america that hate america. everyone knows who they are.
Racists, homophobes, misogynists, Ku Klux Klan, Trump supporters, implanted agents for terrorist groups, spies, chauvinists, you name it.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Funny, the only people trying to destroy the U.S. are democrat voters.
@@michaelandreipalon359 you forgot those marxist in BLM and Antifa.
@@darrengilbert7438 That depends on who's hardline and irredeemable there.
You tell a very good story. 😎
Your animations are awesome despite their simplicity
I love the video. The way is was done was very real. I don't see the bias others have tried pointing out for the video or the broadcasts at the end. The reports felt more like an eerie continuation of the end of the email.