There are four strategically important achievements: 1)Nukes didn’t fly. 2) Russian didn’t strike countries who provided weapons to attack Russia territory 3)No increase in mobilization of Russians: they really don’t care 4) Putin will not be able to say: Let’s have a peace discussion based on current situation.
"Russian didn’t strike countries who provided weapons to attack Russia territory". Those countries are part of a nuclear armed alliance. Ukraine is not.
actual dumb achievements... focusing on lets see how much we can push till russia nukes a country, typical western mindset, so please do not be the first to cry about russia using tactical nukes on ukraine if it ever happens because this previous comment will make you look like a dumbass and if it ever happens (all of us hope not) russia might gain a strategically important achievement in your thought process, that the west isn't willing to end all of civilization over a country they aren't even allied with rather focus on their actual achievements, element of surprise, the fact they can actually take russian land and put them on the defensive
@@seancidy6008this is a reference to a Russian red line spoken by Putin. The idea is that the bluff was called. I would also say that Ukraine forced the West to allow them to use Western weapons in Ukraine by using them before asking.
This is definitely a case study in the value of OPSEC, intelligence, counterintelligence, and EW. I don’t know know how this operation will end, but one thing is certain: It will be very educational.
My understanding is that UKR intelligence was publicly bitching about a Russian concentration north of Kharkiv potentially attacking Sumy, and publicly announced reinforcements to Sumy. Russians didn't realize that was potentially an offensive force until at best 3 days pre-operation, and that it was a serious op until 2-3 days after. They expected a the Russian Legion type attack. This is a good intelligence operation. Show the opponent what they expect to see and they won't think further.
The Russian doctrine is this way of war. Just think about it, they have elite Ukrainian soldiers with best equipment served on Russian fields and roads with 0 fortifications and tranches, instead of hard slow, and deadly push into Ukrainian heavily fortified stronghold and endless tranches. Russians are not naive as represented... This is the way they wining wars.
There were agreements between Russia, NATO, the US and Ukraine that the conflict should not go beyond the current borders. As we see, once again the West has broken its own promises. The Russians have not yet done anything like that and have not attacked Kyiv or bases in Europe. But with such a Western policy, it is a matter of time.
@@tommytomas-fr3sh the strategic story of this war is the west gets the domestic interest in rearmament + NATO expansion + free reign in Ukraine and Russia loses its entire stockpile of Soviet equipment + basically all of its experienced soldiers + becomes 100% dependent on China instead of being an ally. Ukraine loses some territory lots of manpower and in exchange gets to join the west. As an American that seems like a great deal for me. Not such a great deal for Ukraine or Russia but from our perspective this is awesome. The 2 losers here are Russia and Ukraine the biggest winner is NATO and the next biggest winner is China who gets to turn Russia into its bitch. The US army lost zero manpower will end the war with more equipment than it started and its second biggest adversary reduced to not being able to defend its own borders.
@@drewmalesky9869except that people in former Ukrainian regions voted willingly since there's not a single video of anyone being forced to vote for the "right" option
THAT was the best trick! Ukraine said they feared a Russian advance to Sumy, so their build up of troops near Sumy convinced the Russians they were just preparing an assault from the Kursk region. Instead, they were preparing an assault on the Kursk Oblast. It caught the Russians totally by surprise. 😂😂
Thanks for the video Preston. Ive been in Ukraine since may 2022 helping their military with training. Tactical and medical side of the house. The major problem is OPSEC. They used it greatly and effectively however it only last a few weeks. I swear you still see soldiers in the trench lines broadcasting their position with cellphones. However its mainly because there no "coms gear". I truly hope this can show that Ukraine's shouldn't have phones on the lines and show how to properly push an objective, planning. Where so many units fail at in Ukraine. Being soviet is still hard on the command element. Keep up the great work, brother.
Totally agree with you, I was in Ukraine from April 2022 to October 2023, serving in the Ukrainian International Legion, in 3-ОБСпП, (3rd Special Purpose Battalion) Well, at first I was assigned to the 1st Battalion, but right after my first deployment to Donbas region and my first combat operation at Severodonetsk. Me and two other Americans were transferred to the 3rd Battalion. Where I continued to serve until May 19th, 2023, that's when I was wounded by a shrapnel during routine artillery bombardments of our positions. Our company consisted mainly of Americans and Canadians, there were also a few Poles, but the commanders and officers were all Ukrainians. We also most of the time worked along with Ukrainian units. I'm a US Army combat veteran myself, with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Therefore I was also bewildered when at first I saw soldiers using their cell phones to call back home, to their girlfriends, wives, mothers, or whoever. Making calls on their cellphones out of our front line trench positions. Lots of times even officers used their cell phones to call back to their command post back in the rear, and unlike mobilized soldiers or volunteer 20 year olds, Officer indeed knew the dangers and tried all sorts of tricks like crawling out our position little farther out to make a call. They all acknowledge that this is all due to the lack of adequate equipment. Otherwise they are the bravest, boldest, straight forward, "Bring it on!" type of guys. It was a pleasure knowing, serving and fighting amongst them. If you have been to Ukraine training/helping them to win this war of Russian aggression. You probably noticed their will to fight for their homes, their families, freedom and purely their right of existence. Therefore I think Western countries need to do everything what they can to help them win this war. Putin is like a Hitler of the 21st century, and if Russia wins over Ukraine. Ukraine was just a start for them. So all western countries must do everything possible to help Ukraine, to finally stop Russia in its tracks of their imperial ambition and push them back behind their borders. If or when I bring myself back to 100% being healthy after my injury on May 19th, 2023 and when I feel that I'm capable of, and if by then it's not over yet. I definitely will go back. But with all my heart, I wish peace to Ukraine will come soon. (Only on Ukrainian Terms though) Or in another word, I hope Ukraine emerges as a victor in this meetgrinder of a war that Russia started. Glory to Ukraine. Слава Україні!
@@SectorSos you're calling Putin a Hitler, but you killed million civilians in Iraq, and sponsored Taliban. I heard, that there are no smart Americans in army, but for the god sake, you're something new
@@Игорьсуздальский Nope, I don't take offence to something so childish. You know, I think we all agree these "good countries" as you put it, are not actually good countries. Its the leaders that make these sorts of decisions, shame you agree with yours in this case.
@@Игорьсуздальский This removes the easy out that Putin would have of freezing the conflict. Now that Ukraine has a part of russia it gets complicated.
@@ballenboy he wanted a peace from 2014, but he has more than enough sources, to play the longest part you ever seen. Ukraine got useless territories, and lost a chance for a piece, I don't think it's a problem, cause he isn't even mad about Ukrainian offensive
I knew they were definitely up to something but didn't want to say anything. They stuck to the most basic counter intelligence technique there is. Need to know. Russia still didn't realise it was a divisional size attack for nearly a week. Ukraine played it beautifully. Thanks Preston.
US government Compromising operational security of Ukraine's plans is a disgrace. We're supposed to be the best and at times we look like ridiculous clowns.
@@comentedonakeyboardno Greene and many if not most of the RNC crew are outing groveling cowards they constantly call for an end to aid and a ceasefire which Ukraine shouldn’t ever do you don’t give in to tyrants
Perfect pronunciation))) your videos are fantastic always, and I really like how you take care to learn new things even when they're little minor piddly s*** things like the one that I mentioned before, thank you for doing such great job being both a journalist and an analyst. As always, you are without a doubt one of the best outlets currently
I follow the information from all sides and views of this conflict and I don't know if Preston does the same, but from all reasons Preston stated as to why Russia did not prepare he didn't mention the main reason being pointed from the the camp of analysts considering themselves as realists like colonel Daniel Davis, Mearsheimer, prof. Glenn Diesen, and etc., they all say Russia didn't prepare and didn't take the signs seriously because such invasion wouldn't make any sense for Ukrainian in terms of achieving strategic success.
Thank you Preston for constantly keeping us updated with non biased accounts of whats happening around the world, could I ask you put up a community post with all the sources /telegrams you get all your info from? I know you put article sources in descriptions but I'd love to have all your favorite sources named in one place. Especially links to things you can't show on UA-cam as iv gone to follow up on many, many aspects of this war and palastines, and am met with dead ends. I live in Canada and Bill C-11 actively filters my search results to what's favorable to the government. That's not my words that literally in the bill. So following up can be extremely hard as the first 10 pages or often more are filled with NOTHING but CNN, CBC, NBC, etc. You can search verbatim the headline and it will show me something "similar" from a major news network. So long shpeel short all sources in one place would make my life SOOOOO much easier. Thank you again man it's not lost on us how much you put into this mentally.
This area was the site of the largest tank battle for a reason. The Ukrainian battle plan has or had one thing Germany lacked, surprise. There was a good book on the subject “the Tigers are Burning”. It’s about the terrain. It’s a chock point. Mountain terrain to the north of the Kurst area and rivers and swamp to the south east. They have cut the west way by taking out those bridges. So strategy is set by terrain which limits the ability to counter the Ukrainian attack and consolidation of that area. As you said with the probing operations Ukraine got the tactical plan and exploited it. The Germans tried to take this area and failed for a reason. Once Ukrainian forces take and consolidate they too will have that advantage exploited by Russia in World War 2. Look closely and the bottlenecks will stand out. But I should say that I am only giving my opinion and like throw it up to see if it might find worth examination. “The Tigers are Burning” is excellent for terrain. There are several other books that discuss this area. To the point of Ukraine reaching the objective of isolating and consolidating this area. The choke points would create a fortress for the Russians to attack. A fortress that Ukraine will be able to put Russian on the respondent role. Which could cause a reallocation of force from the Eastern Ukrainian front. Which might be where the still unused western material is to be used.
" Mountain terrain to the north of the Kurst area and rivers and swamp to the south east. " Nice story, but one problem, they attack south-west. And they are already slowed down, while there was hardly defense. The Germans took a way much more east and they came from the north. "They have cut the west way by taking out those bridges." Sorry, they did attack from south-west, and they could have taken area you are talking about easily, there was no defense. ". Which could cause a reallocation of force from the Eastern Ukrainian front. " Why? they have forces who were already active in Ukraine still in Belarus. The target was NPP, that is why they did not take area west, south of bridges. But why does Ukraine want that area? You never heard about FAB's? " A fortress that Ukraine will be able to put Russian on the respondent role." Ukraine is losing fortresses in the East, why build a new one here? " Once Ukrainian forces take and consolidate they too will have that advantage exploited by Russia in World War 2. " Kursk was a disaster for Russia when you look at quantity. They had one advantage, they could bring new ones.
I dotn think you understand the situation very well, or the geography. The first week there were 400 ukrianian vehicles on video destroyed. Imagine the losses. The area they took are potato fields with tiny villages. Desroyign the bridges just made it into a pointless operation, because it means Ukraien wont advance.
@@LANeverSleeps " The town of Korenevo in particular looks like a massive bottleneck." Why? There are railways and no large bridges or tunnels for railway. When there are railways in those conditions it can never be massive bottleneck. Even trains can do it.
Looking at the map, there are in particular a lot of choke points to the northwest of the Ukrainian incursion. Hope they can find comparable ones to the east and south east.
Who would've thought that making a Hollywood level trailer about your counteroffensive was a really bad idea. Glad they went back to basics about OPSEC.
@@tommytomas-fr3sh what do you mean “MY war”? This isn’t MY war, it’s Ukraine’s. You really need to learn more about international relations and the difference between maintaining security vs out right aggression against neighboring states.
Using a bunch of companies and small detachments is kinda brilliant from a morale perspective too. All of those battalions and brigades have a bit of ownership of the success too. "That's our guys up there kicking ass."
An absolutely brilliant extrapolation of Napoleon Bonaparte's *Defeat in Detail* aka *How to Make Putin Have a Cow* Good overview,well presented, thanks Preston
Preston, could you comment on another Economist article titled “Vladimir Putin spends big” from the finance and economics section? I think it came out in the last economist issue.
Depends on the unit. Some conscripts that were held up in larger settlements and not scattered across border checkpoints fought very well before surrendering. Some may still be fighting. I guess it really depends on the confidence the conscripts have in their training, leadership, and equipment.
There werent many POWs. The 1 town the invasion stalled, was held by some units but they didnt surrender. They pulled out after a few days. I dotn get how this even makes the Ukrianian look good. They captured about a 100 border guards, and then they claimed thousands. Then they had to reinforce this attack 2 times to defeat those few units in sudza.
@@attilamarics3374defenders always have the advantage. Any attack against a well dug in enemy has to have twice the number of troops as the defenders. You also got to remember Russian forces matching on Kyiv were stopped citizens who were hours before handed a rifle and some ammo. Yes there were some Ukrainian forces around Kyiv but most of the Ukrainian military was out east fighting. Conscripts can defend but they'll be cannon fodder on the attack.
@@Klumsteryeah as much as it would suck for an inexperienced soldier to sit in a trench being assaulted by battle hardened veterans, it would and still always is far better and statistically safer then having to assault a well dug in heavily fortified position/s against anyone. Anyone who is very unaware of the reality of warfare has no concept of just how hard and dangerous it is for even the best of the best to assault enemy positions and the countless amounts of unknown possibilities that may or may not go wrong that you can’t plan for once it’s all in motion either. It takes a tough and determined effort for an assaulting element not to just panic and try to run away the minute people start dying and everything goes wrong, certainly the absolute worst scenario for any inexperienced conscript to potentially find themselves in.
I suggested this a couple months ago, commented about it, people replied it wasn’t practical, I don’t blame them, it sounded reasonable to me, I assumed they were right
Another great analysis. Thanks Preston I’m not a profit but when Russia invaded Ukraine i said It’s either the end of Ukraine or it’s the end of Putin. Since the war continued it seems like it the end of Putin In my opinion for 3 main reasons 1 west is supporting Ukraine 2 the Ukrainians are all on board for the fight 3 they have no other choice These are the same reasons israel is surviving an onslaught of so many enemies The ratio of killed and wounded is also lop sided in both places
TY Preston for superior coverage on what is a very important event of our times. Secrecy is best when doing things of this nature, an we saw the "push" results of non-stop advance. "GO DEEP ! Go long " surprise was achieved. * The 'other' Kursk push was famously well known before it happened.
Yeah, it was some private from the Massachusetts Air National Guard who somehow accessed a very secure server, read all about the Ukrainian plans, then posted them to Discord. Not because he was a spy, or hated the US, but just because he was trying to show off to his friends about how badass he was. Caused a LOT of handwringing in the US military, because A) this guy had a secret clearance when he was clearly an immature idiot. B) His bosses all noticed him poking his nose into servers he wasn't allowed to access and didn't shut him down right away. They just told him to "quit messing around" and of course he didn't. C) Then what's worse is they started lying about how serious it was to investigators when the real investigation started, they were trying to CYA. Bad deal all around.
One reason the Russian MoD (mainly Gerasimov) didn't believe there would be a direct attack on Russian soil was the myth that Ukraine wasn't allowed to use Western weapons to do such. I'm sure the planning took considerable time? But, it's interesting that they saw an advantage with Biden's retirement and decided then to launch their operation. Honestly, what else can the old man do but shrug his shoulders at this point? Regardless, so far, the results have been impressive and in all matters of war and politics; success is the only thing that allows you to continue.
Impressive turnaround for the Ukranians. I still believe Preston's initial prediction that this is a diversion for an imminent attack closer to Crimea with their recent American tech that's still gone essentially unused.
It's not a turnaround, it's a PR stunt. Ukraine still has horrible manpower shortages, Ukraine is still losing the ground in Ukraine itself, Ukraine is still terribly outgunned and the best Ukrainian troops are getting slaughtered in Kursk. How exactly can the Kursk offensive move Ukraine closer to victory? Because it sure looks like it's accelerating defeat
And what will happen? Even now, the Kursk offensive has not brought strategic results. For 8 years, Ukraine has been creating fortifications in the Donbas, which Russia is advancing head-on and seizing territories. And what will happen to Crimea? Now there is support from Sumy because of the direct land corridor, but in Crimea how will they ensure this?
so much better than their previous counter offensive..they learnt to actually keep quiet since i remember every western media outlet ranting about how ukraine is going to have a counter offensive with all these western weapons to take back crimea..and all they did was keep postponing their attack and when it happened so much was lost. looking at the broader situation though it is crazy, they are taking land in the north and russia is still taking land in the east
At least their previous offensive made military sense was meant to take Ukrainian land back. I'm not even sure if I can call Kursk offensive a success because nobody knows Ukrainian goals here other than to generate likes on UA-cam for milbloggers
@@jaxonl7810 so what's the military goal in Kursk? To draw Russian attention there, despite Ukraine having less soldiers and manpower shortages? That's dumb. To capture a power plant? That's evil and dumb. To embarrass Putin? It will only make Russians angrier at Ukraine so it's also dumb. So enlighten me please
@@klpd666 Ukrainian soldiers inside Ukraine itself agree with me mate. They gave interviews to western media where they complained about having greater shortages in manpower and ammo because of that PR stunt in Kursk
This is about twice as large of a bulge as the Battle of the Bulge in WW2 which features far, far more forces involved in that battle. This battle is very small in comparison but they took a lot more land. The Russian overconfidence is still notable. It took the Allies in WW2 a full three months to eject the Nazis from the land they took after they were stopped.
Ukraine send they best troops to Kursk incusion. They hold for now over 1250 square km. Will this gamble pay off ?? Niu- York already fall to russians and they enter in Toretck. Two cities Ukrainiens hold from 2014 just like Avdievka. That was last two cities with 2014 fortification lines russians could`t breach. Moreover , russians are only 10 km from very important ukrainien logistic hub - Pokrovsk.
Word from Russia is that Ukraine is currently invading the Bryansk Oblast in Russia which is on the Tri border area between Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
yeah i been seeing multiple reports of that today so i wouldnt be surprised. I was wondering if they were going to start incursions into different areas of RU to keep them guessing
Am I the only one that thought they should have done this last year instead of attacking prepared defense lines in the south? Wagner showed how weak the defense was in russia
Way over 300 captured there's a round 2000 and that was 6 days ago when Ukraine put that number out and since then they have captured a lot more and it has been around 4 helicopters taken down including 2 ka 52s. 1 mi28 1 mi8. And 1 su34
Oh, it's not even that the conscripts were lazy or bad they would basically be lighting a neon sign that said "Kill me" if they tried to use a machine gun on a tank.
Good grief, the trolling in this comment section is almost as impressive as the freaking war. Guys, it is extremely doubtful Ukraine intends to keep Kursk the way Russia is annexing Ukrainian territory, but they are forcing Russia to fight them along a longer front and that is already impacting the frontline in the Donbas. There is also the minor matter that Russia is advancing, but at an asinine cost in both men and materiel. Will they eventually get all of the Donbas? Maybe, but Russian women are going to have a lot fewer men to choose from - though, from what I understand of Russian men, they may consider this a net win. The only real risk here is western support fading, and more specifically, Donald Trump winning the US presidential election. For better or worse, the west is keeping Ukraine in the fight, but not letting them go after Russia hard, which means this thing will drag out until Putin gets tired of the political and economic costs. It's Afghanistan with better press coverage.
One time at band camp.... Apache reported IED planted in road. Info logged in. S-2 BOOKLET AND TOC log. Next day m1025u was ripped in half with 5 casualties ( 2 dead). E4 looks back at the logs and was the hand written report. Intel was not pushed to company level to PLT level.
The Ukraine army is simply far more professional and economical than the Russian army, the only reason they haven’t won is because they’re fighting with one hand behind their backs.
forreal, UA has been full of surprises nobody thought they would even last more than a month and look at em still kicking somehow even with their hands tied and limited aid. i wonder how long they will last inside RU and how far they will get. The problem is that they cant really sit still too much cuz theyll get stuck under artillery as i wouldnt be shocked if RU would shell its own cities to get UA out of them especially since they already evacuated most of the peoples
hey guys quick question to whoever knows this, for example 6:58 it writes 225th assault battalion, does that mean there are 224 other assault battalions before it? always wondered if the numbers are random or not.
The one leaked to the Russians may be the one where the Russians reached out to the USA and the USA reached out to Ukraine and told them what ever you’re doing don’t. I’m pretty sure you reported on that one. The news was vague about it a few months ago. That could be what it was.
I always wonder what that operation plan was to be. I imagine Ukraine was going to invade the occupied area of Moldova because there're rumors that there's enough stock of cold war munitions there to keep Ukrainian Soviet equipment in operation for years. Makes sense when the US was trying to figure out if they should send "supplies" to Ukraine or not.
Everyone can see F-16’s or Bradley’s…no one see’s logistics and battle planning staff attending NATO member War Colleges and doing the coursework at breakneck pace. No one can see combined maintenance operations. Keep’em Fighting!
I don't know all the details but it seems like the 1st Kinburn Spit, the Ukrainian OSINT/Military community seems to be real pissed about that one. It might be the one that was leaked...
Imagine driving your best forces into a kill box on the enemies territory where they have impunity and superiority in the air and on the ground to farm your units, while your main forces on the front line get bulldozed dropping territories left right and center. Oh wait, UKR and NATO did that lol, such a dumb play.
I wouldn't be surprised if that "aborted mission" was an offensive into northern Luhansk. During spring and early summer of 2023, there were a lot of similar shaping operations to the summer offensive in the south. Attacks on depots, airfields, air defense, fuel, and artillery. I had predicted they were going to copy the the fall 2022 tactic of telegraphing one offensive and being silent on a second. Alas, it never happened, which I thought very odd at the time
There are four strategically important achievements:
1)Nukes didn’t fly.
2) Russian didn’t strike countries who provided weapons to attack Russia territory
3)No increase in mobilization of Russians: they really don’t care
4) Putin will not be able to say: Let’s have a peace discussion based on current situation.
"Russian didn’t strike countries who provided weapons to attack Russia territory". Those countries are part of a nuclear armed alliance. Ukraine is not.
5) the willingness to fight amongst the Russian people and conscripts is next to none
actual dumb achievements... focusing on lets see how much we can push till russia nukes a country, typical western mindset, so please do not be the first to cry about russia using tactical nukes on ukraine if it ever happens because this previous comment will make you look like a dumbass and if it ever happens (all of us hope not) russia might gain a strategically important achievement in your thought process, that the west isn't willing to end all of civilization over a country they aren't even allied with rather focus on their actual achievements, element of surprise, the fact they can actually take russian land and put them on the defensive
@@seancidy6008...yet.
@@seancidy6008this is a reference to a Russian red line spoken by Putin. The idea is that the bluff was called. I would also say that Ukraine forced the West to allow them to use Western weapons in Ukraine by using them before asking.
This is definitely a case study in the value of OPSEC, intelligence, counterintelligence, and EW. I don’t know know how this operation will end, but one thing is certain:
It will be very educational.
My understanding is that UKR intelligence was publicly bitching about a Russian concentration north of Kharkiv potentially attacking Sumy, and publicly announced reinforcements to Sumy. Russians didn't realize that was potentially an offensive force until at best 3 days pre-operation, and that it was a serious op until 2-3 days after. They expected a the Russian Legion type attack. This is a good intelligence operation. Show the opponent what they expect to see and they won't think further.
The Russian doctrine is this way of war. Just think about it, they have elite Ukrainian soldiers with best equipment served on Russian fields and roads with 0 fortifications and tranches, instead of hard slow, and deadly push into Ukrainian heavily fortified stronghold and endless tranches. Russians are not naive as represented... This is the way they wining wars.
Nahh not the “ukr” bro💀
Guy has a great insight, read the last sentence of the comment again.
Why bitch about wether it's UKR or UA ffs
I concur
There were agreements between Russia, NATO, the US and Ukraine that the conflict should not go beyond the current borders. As we see, once again the West has broken its own promises. The Russians have not yet done anything like that and have not attacked Kyiv or bases in Europe. But with such a Western policy, it is a matter of time.
I see Preston can't stop smiling when he reads about some smart and bold moves by UAF, which panned out.
That's because Sideshow Preston is impressed with tactical success and doesn't understand the difference tactical and operational levels of war.
@@seanp9277Well, he's not so happy about the tactical successes of the Russians
@@tommytomas-fr3sh But it might be a psychological victory and that's a kind of strategic victory.
@@tommytomas-fr3sh the strategic story of this war is the west gets the domestic interest in rearmament + NATO expansion + free reign in Ukraine and Russia loses its entire stockpile of Soviet equipment + basically all of its experienced soldiers + becomes 100% dependent on China instead of being an ally. Ukraine loses some territory lots of manpower and in exchange gets to join the west.
As an American that seems like a great deal for me.
Not such a great deal for Ukraine or Russia but from our perspective this is awesome.
The 2 losers here are Russia and Ukraine the biggest winner is NATO and the next biggest winner is China who gets to turn Russia into its bitch. The US army lost zero manpower will end the war with more equipment than it started and its second biggest adversary reduced to not being able to defend its own borders.
My how the trolls are chattering today…
Not telling the Americans was the smarted part of the plan.
Smartest* 🤦
@@JohnWick-stardawg thx
US & UK are controlling there air alerts with AWACS. It's not possible for them not to know
Ofcourse they knew. How do you think they get there air alerts. US or UK see everything
@@nativeamerican7563 If they knew - this will be in NY Post and Guardian weeks before...
Oh look! The Ukrainians have liberated the people’s republic of Kursk. They must hold a referendum to determine their fate!
I suppose just like what Russia did?
@@ethimself5064woooosh
@@ethimself5064yes, he's being sarcastic. Referendums held at gunpoint mean next to nothing.
@@drewmalesky9869except that people in former Ukrainian regions voted willingly since there's not a single video of anyone being forced to vote for the "right" option
@@drewmalesky9869 Glad to hear they were being sarcastic.
Whoever saw the report that said Ukraine army is gathering and did nothing better stay away from windows.
Personally I would defect
Looks like another round of the Defenestration Virus coming to Moscow.
THAT was the best trick! Ukraine said they feared a Russian advance to Sumy, so their build up of troops near Sumy convinced the Russians they were just preparing an assault from the Kursk region. Instead, they were preparing an assault on the Kursk Oblast. It caught the Russians totally by surprise. 😂😂
Thanks for the video Preston. Ive been in Ukraine since may 2022 helping their military with training.
Tactical and medical side of the house.
The major problem is OPSEC. They used it greatly and effectively however it only last a few weeks.
I swear you still see soldiers in the trench lines broadcasting their position with cellphones.
However its mainly because there no "coms gear".
I truly hope this can show that Ukraine's shouldn't have phones on the lines and show how to properly push an objective, planning. Where so many units fail at in Ukraine. Being soviet is still hard on the command element.
Keep up the great work, brother.
Totally agree with you, I was in Ukraine from April 2022 to October 2023, serving in the Ukrainian International Legion, in 3-ОБСпП, (3rd Special Purpose Battalion) Well, at first I was assigned to the 1st Battalion, but right after my first deployment to Donbas region and my first combat operation at Severodonetsk. Me and two other Americans were transferred to the 3rd Battalion. Where I continued to serve until May 19th, 2023, that's when I was wounded by a shrapnel during routine artillery bombardments of our positions.
Our company consisted mainly of Americans and Canadians, there were also a few Poles, but the commanders and officers were all Ukrainians. We also most of the time worked along with Ukrainian units. I'm a US Army combat veteran myself, with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Therefore I was also bewildered when at first I saw soldiers using their cell phones to call back home, to their girlfriends, wives, mothers, or whoever. Making calls on their cellphones out of our front line trench positions. Lots of times even officers used their cell phones to call back to their command post back in the rear, and unlike mobilized soldiers or volunteer 20 year olds, Officer indeed knew the dangers and tried all sorts of tricks like crawling out our position little farther out to make a call. They all acknowledge that this is all due to the lack of adequate equipment. Otherwise they are the bravest, boldest, straight forward, "Bring it on!" type of guys. It was a pleasure knowing, serving and fighting amongst them. If you have been to Ukraine training/helping them to win this war of Russian aggression. You probably noticed their will to fight for their homes, their families, freedom and purely their right of existence. Therefore I think Western countries need to do everything what they can to help them win this war. Putin is like a Hitler of the 21st century, and if Russia wins over Ukraine. Ukraine was just a start for them. So all western countries must do everything possible to help Ukraine, to finally stop Russia in its tracks of their imperial ambition and push them back behind their borders.
If or when I bring myself back to 100% being healthy after my injury on May 19th, 2023 and when I feel that I'm capable of, and if by then it's not over yet. I definitely will go back. But with all my heart, I wish peace to Ukraine will come soon. (Only on Ukrainian Terms though) Or in another word, I hope Ukraine emerges as a victor in this meetgrinder of a war that Russia started. Glory to Ukraine. Слава Україні!
@@SectorSos you're calling Putin a Hitler, but you killed million civilians in Iraq, and sponsored Taliban.
I heard, that there are no smart Americans in army, but for the god sake, you're something new
@@Игорьсуздальский Hello Ruski. Calm down and learn to live with your fellow humans.
@@laf5537 did I offend you?)
Oh, sorry, we are not killing civilians for fun, as people from "good countries")
@@Игорьсуздальский Nope, I don't take offence to something so childish. You know, I think we all agree these "good countries" as you put it, are not actually good countries. Its the leaders that make these sorts of decisions, shame you agree with yours in this case.
This is genius. Now Putin can't say let's have a ceasefire and keep the borders where they are right now.
True, but on the other hand Putin can start mass mobilization
Do you understand, that it's not a problem?)
That's a reason to get more territories for Russia.
@@Игорьсуздальскийanyone with a “user-numbers” is a Russian bot.
@@Игорьсуздальский This removes the easy out that Putin would have of freezing the conflict. Now that Ukraine has a part of russia it gets complicated.
@@ballenboy he wanted a peace from 2014, but he has more than enough sources, to play the longest part you ever seen.
Ukraine got useless territories, and lost a chance for a piece, I don't think it's a problem, cause he isn't even mad about Ukrainian offensive
Props again for patience you and Perun are really good for that as in waiting a while to do a bda
I knew they were definitely up to something but didn't want to say anything. They stuck to the most basic counter intelligence technique there is. Need to know. Russia still didn't realise it was a divisional size attack for nearly a week. Ukraine played it beautifully. Thanks Preston.
A very interesting analysis of the Kursk operations. Thanks Preston.
Thanks Preston! Have a great weekend dude!
Thanks for the great content. I love your objectivity, we need more of that.
“Objectivity” yet he didn’t once say anything about the Americans fighting in russia hahaha go back to cnn or Fox News
Thanks, Preston.
US government Compromising operational security of Ukraine's plans is a disgrace. We're supposed to be the best and at times we look like ridiculous clowns.
Putin supporters in the government like major Taylor green who was talking the Kremlins talking points that Ukraine is nasis
Don-old has to make money somehow mate …trust him it’s only a few top secret documents
@@bluebanditescorect me if i'm wrong, but she is in the oposition, right?
@@comentedonakeyboardno Greene and many if not most of the RNC crew are outing groveling cowards they constantly call for an end to aid and a ceasefire which Ukraine shouldn’t ever do you don’t give in to tyrants
America and nato should stay out of Ukraine and Russia, problem solved.
Love the content man keep it up 🩵
Thx, always great reporting
Appreciate that!
Perfect pronunciation))) your videos are fantastic always, and I really like how you take care to learn new things even when they're little minor piddly s*** things like the one that I mentioned before, thank you for doing such great job being both a journalist and an analyst. As always, you are without a doubt one of the best outlets currently
Means a lot, thanks so much for the kind words!
Quality, informative, factual no nonsense reporting…… thanks 🇺🇸
Fantastic information! Keep up the good work. I appreciate what you’re doing. It helps me hold conversations that makes sense.
I like your Ukraine war clips. Very solid, thanks 👍❤
I follow the information from all sides and views of this conflict and I don't know if Preston does the same, but from all reasons Preston stated as to why Russia did not prepare he didn't mention the main reason being pointed from the the camp of analysts considering themselves as realists like colonel Daniel Davis, Mearsheimer, prof. Glenn Diesen, and etc., they all say Russia didn't prepare and didn't take the signs seriously because such invasion wouldn't make any sense for Ukrainian in terms of achieving strategic success.
Thank you Preston for constantly keeping us updated with non biased accounts of whats happening around the world, could I ask you put up a community post with all the sources /telegrams you get all your info from? I know you put article sources in descriptions but I'd love to have all your favorite sources named in one place. Especially links to things you can't show on UA-cam as iv gone to follow up on many, many aspects of this war and palastines, and am met with dead ends. I live in Canada and Bill C-11 actively filters my search results to what's favorable to the government. That's not my words that literally in the bill. So following up can be extremely hard as the first 10 pages or often more are filled with NOTHING but CNN, CBC, NBC, etc. You can search verbatim the headline and it will show me something "similar" from a major news network. So long shpeel short all sources in one place would make my life SOOOOO much easier. Thank you again man it's not lost on us how much you put into this mentally.
Thanks for the overview, good report.
Thanks!
Brilliant review 👏👏
This area was the site of the largest tank battle for a reason. The Ukrainian battle plan has or had one thing Germany lacked, surprise. There was a good book on the subject “the Tigers are Burning”. It’s about the terrain. It’s a chock point. Mountain terrain to the north of the Kurst area and rivers and swamp to the south east. They have cut the west way by taking out those bridges. So strategy is set by terrain which limits the ability to counter the Ukrainian attack and consolidation of that area. As you said with the probing operations Ukraine got the tactical plan and exploited it. The Germans tried to take this area and failed for a reason. Once Ukrainian forces take and consolidate they too will have that advantage exploited by Russia in World War 2. Look closely and the bottlenecks will stand out. But I should say that I am only giving my opinion and like throw it up to see if it might find worth examination. “The Tigers are Burning” is excellent for terrain. There are several other books that discuss this area.
To the point of Ukraine reaching the objective of isolating and consolidating this area. The choke points would create a fortress for the Russians to attack. A fortress that Ukraine will be able to put Russian on the respondent role. Which could cause a reallocation of force from the Eastern Ukrainian front. Which might be where the still unused western material is to be used.
I see what you mean. The town of Korenevo in particular looks like a massive bottleneck.
" Mountain terrain to the north of the Kurst area and rivers and swamp to the south east. "
Nice story, but one problem, they attack south-west. And they are already slowed down, while there was hardly defense. The Germans took a way much more east and they came from the north.
"They have cut the west way by taking out those bridges."
Sorry, they did attack from south-west, and they could have taken area you are talking about easily, there was no defense.
". Which could cause a reallocation of force from the Eastern Ukrainian front. "
Why? they have forces who were already active in Ukraine still in Belarus.
The target was NPP, that is why they did not take area west, south of bridges.
But why does Ukraine want that area? You never heard about FAB's?
" A fortress that Ukraine will be able to put Russian on the respondent role."
Ukraine is losing fortresses in the East, why build a new one here?
" Once Ukrainian forces take and consolidate they too will have that advantage exploited by Russia in World War 2. "
Kursk was a disaster for Russia when you look at quantity. They had one advantage, they could bring new ones.
I dotn think you understand the situation very well, or the geography. The first week there were 400 ukrianian vehicles on video destroyed. Imagine the losses. The area they took are potato fields with tiny villages. Desroyign the bridges just made it into a pointless operation, because it means Ukraien wont advance.
@@LANeverSleeps " The town of Korenevo in particular looks like a massive bottleneck."
Why? There are railways and no large bridges or tunnels for railway. When there are railways in those conditions it can never be massive bottleneck. Even trains can do it.
Looking at the map, there are in particular a lot of choke points to the northwest of the Ukrainian incursion. Hope they can find comparable ones to the east and south east.
Surprise, speed, violence of action...
The logic thing for the conscripts is not to fight at all!!!
With their lack of weapons, equipment and training they could not fight anyway, even if they wanted to.
No bull shit reporting, love it may your channel grow to inform many more ❤️🙏🏻
Who would've thought that making a Hollywood level trailer about your counteroffensive was a really bad idea. Glad they went back to basics about OPSEC.
Let is not forget to say “F#€% Mike Johnson,” for his role in US Congress of holding up Ukrainian aid.
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And all the other MAGA republicans like marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert
The Republican party are nothing but a bunch of god damned seditious, treasonous sell outs.
There’s a forever war on the homeland perhaps you allocated something toward that for a while.
@@tommytomas-fr3sh what do you mean “MY war”? This isn’t MY war, it’s Ukraine’s. You really need to learn more about international relations and the difference between maintaining security vs out right aggression against neighboring states.
Using a bunch of companies and small detachments is kinda brilliant from a morale perspective too. All of those battalions and brigades have a bit of ownership of the success too. "That's our guys up there kicking ass."
Do you mean to tell me that the Russians had all of their Glide Bombs in one basket? LMAO
Thank you for the commentary.
Great summary Sir!
Great coverage
An absolutely brilliant extrapolation of Napoleon Bonaparte's *Defeat in Detail* aka *How to Make Putin Have a Cow* Good overview,well presented, thanks Preston
Thank you Preston!
Preston, could you comment on another Economist article titled “Vladimir Putin spends big” from the finance and economics section? I think it came out in the last economist issue.
Good one!
Awesome episode
Depends on the unit. Some conscripts that were held up in larger settlements and not scattered across border checkpoints fought very well before surrendering. Some may still be fighting. I guess it really depends on the confidence the conscripts have in their training, leadership, and equipment.
Officer quality, tools and support
There werent many POWs. The 1 town the invasion stalled, was held by some units but they didnt surrender. They pulled out after a few days. I dotn get how this even makes the Ukrianian look good. They captured about a 100 border guards, and then they claimed thousands. Then they had to reinforce this attack 2 times to defeat those few units in sudza.
@@attilamarics3374defenders always have the advantage. Any attack against a well dug in enemy has to have twice the number of troops as the defenders. You also got to remember Russian forces matching on Kyiv were stopped citizens who were hours before handed a rifle and some ammo. Yes there were some Ukrainian forces around Kyiv but most of the Ukrainian military was out east fighting. Conscripts can defend but they'll be cannon fodder on the attack.
@@Klumsteryeah as much as it would suck for an inexperienced soldier to sit in a trench being assaulted by battle hardened veterans, it would and still always is far better and statistically safer then having to assault a well dug in heavily fortified position/s against anyone.
Anyone who is very unaware of the reality of warfare has no concept of just how hard and dangerous it is for even the best of the best to assault enemy positions and the countless amounts of unknown possibilities that may or may not go wrong that you can’t plan for once it’s all in motion either.
It takes a tough and determined effort for an assaulting element not to just panic and try to run away the minute people start dying and everything goes wrong, certainly the absolute worst scenario for any inexperienced conscript to potentially find themselves in.
I suggested this a couple months ago, commented about it, people replied it wasn’t practical, I don’t blame them, it sounded reasonable to me, I assumed they were right
Another great analysis. Thanks Preston
I’m not a profit but when Russia invaded Ukraine i said
It’s either the end of Ukraine or it’s the end of Putin.
Since the war continued it seems like it the end of Putin
In my opinion for 3 main reasons 1 west is supporting Ukraine 2 the Ukrainians are all on board for the fight 3 they have no other choice
These are the same reasons israel is surviving an onslaught of so many enemies
The ratio of killed and wounded is also lop sided in both places
Apparently Bryansk is nice this time of year. 😂
TY Preston for superior coverage on what is a very important event of our times. Secrecy is best when doing things of this nature, an we saw the "push" results of non-stop advance.
"GO DEEP ! Go long " surprise was achieved. * The 'other' Kursk push was famously well known before it happened.
Combined arms just works
Great video
why should they inform america, last time it was leaked on a freaking game servers, that could have cost Ukraine thosuands of lives.
Yeah, it was some private from the Massachusetts Air National Guard who somehow accessed a very secure server, read all about the Ukrainian plans, then posted them to Discord. Not because he was a spy, or hated the US, but just because he was trying to show off to his friends about how badass he was. Caused a LOT of handwringing in the US military, because A) this guy had a secret clearance when he was clearly an immature idiot. B) His bosses all noticed him poking his nose into servers he wasn't allowed to access and didn't shut him down right away. They just told him to "quit messing around" and of course he didn't. C) Then what's worse is they started lying about how serious it was to investigators when the real investigation started, they were trying to CYA. Bad deal all around.
@@jimthesoundman8641 Not like ukriane didnt advertise it themselves.
Thanks
One reason the Russian MoD (mainly Gerasimov) didn't believe there would be a direct attack on Russian soil was the myth that Ukraine wasn't allowed to use Western weapons to do such.
I'm sure the planning took considerable time? But, it's interesting that they saw an advantage with Biden's retirement and decided then to launch their operation. Honestly, what else can the old man do but shrug his shoulders at this point?
Regardless, so far, the results have been impressive and in all matters of war and politics; success is the only thing that allows you to continue.
They probably didnt believe it, because its nonsensical. Just like they didnt believe when Krynky happened. Because it made no sense. Remember Krynky?
I’m sorry but the entire 2023 counteroffensive was leaked by that stupid teenager in the US army. How are people so unaware of this?
The issue is, why did he have the info in the first place.
@@modarkthemaulerhe had a top secret security clearance
Impressive turnaround for the Ukranians. I still believe Preston's initial prediction that this is a diversion for an imminent attack closer to Crimea with their recent American tech that's still gone essentially unused.
It's not a turnaround, it's a PR stunt. Ukraine still has horrible manpower shortages, Ukraine is still losing the ground in Ukraine itself, Ukraine is still terribly outgunned and the best Ukrainian troops are getting slaughtered in Kursk. How exactly can the Kursk offensive move Ukraine closer to victory? Because it sure looks like it's accelerating defeat
@@yellowtunes2756 copium
And what will happen? Even now, the Kursk offensive has not brought strategic results. For 8 years, Ukraine has been creating fortifications in the Donbas, which Russia is advancing head-on and seizing territories. And what will happen to Crimea? Now there is support from Sumy because of the direct land corridor, but in Crimea how will they ensure this?
@@robrobertson9070lies
@@robrobertson9070 the eventual goal is to either make this war too costly for Russia, or to drive them out of Ukraine, no?
The flying skull sounds so cool
Thanks, Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Yes 🙌
Sun Tzu: Attack where they are weak...
Awesome coverage like always Preston! 🔥🇺🇦🇺🇸
Thanks a lot!
Reminds me of an analysis of the 1st Gulf War where it was said of the Iraqi Army, its size structure and effectiveness was grossly exaggerated.
so much better than their previous counter offensive..they learnt to actually keep quiet since i remember every western media outlet ranting about how ukraine is going to have a counter offensive with all these western weapons to take back crimea..and all they did was keep postponing their attack and when it happened so much was lost. looking at the broader situation though it is crazy, they are taking land in the north and russia is still taking land in the east
At least their previous offensive made military sense was meant to take Ukrainian land back. I'm not even sure if I can call Kursk offensive a success because nobody knows Ukrainian goals here other than to generate likes on UA-cam for milbloggers
@@yellowtunes2756 copium
Just the fact that you are whining about it means it is a succes.
@@jaxonl7810 so what's the military goal in Kursk? To draw Russian attention there, despite Ukraine having less soldiers and manpower shortages? That's dumb. To capture a power plant? That's evil and dumb. To embarrass Putin? It will only make Russians angrier at Ukraine so it's also dumb. So enlighten me please
@@klpd666 Ukrainian soldiers inside Ukraine itself agree with me mate. They gave interviews to western media where they complained about having greater shortages in manpower and ammo because of that PR stunt in Kursk
Great report
This is about twice as large of a bulge as the Battle of the Bulge in WW2 which features far, far more forces involved in that battle. This battle is very small in comparison but they took a lot more land. The Russian overconfidence is still notable. It took the Allies in WW2 a full three months to eject the Nazis from the land they took after they were stopped.
Ukraine send they best troops to Kursk incusion. They hold for now over 1250 square km.
Will this gamble pay off ??
Niu- York already fall to russians and they enter in Toretck. Two cities Ukrainiens hold from 2014 just like Avdievka. That was last two cities with 2014 fortification lines russians could`t breach.
Moreover , russians are only 10 km from very important ukrainien logistic hub - Pokrovsk.
Cope
Word from Russia is that Ukraine is currently invading the Bryansk Oblast in Russia which is on the Tri border area between Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
yeah i been seeing multiple reports of that today so i wouldnt be surprised. I was wondering if they were going to start incursions into different areas of RU to keep them guessing
The signal to noise ratio in this comment section is crazy. It's more bots sophists and sock puppets than users.
Why wouldn’t every unit have anti-tank capabilities?
Am I the only one that thought they should have done this last year instead of attacking prepared defense lines in the south? Wagner showed how weak the defense was in russia
This was not on my 2024 Bingo card. What a wild thing.
Way over 300 captured there's a round 2000 and that was 6 days ago when Ukraine put that number out and since then they have captured a lot more and it has been around 4 helicopters taken down including 2 ka 52s. 1 mi28 1 mi8. And 1 su34
Oh, it's not even that the conscripts were lazy or bad they would basically be lighting a neon sign that said "Kill me" if they tried to use a machine gun on a tank.
The Russian conscripts fought in Sudzha and held back the veteran Ukrainians for 3 days.
Good grief, the trolling in this comment section is almost as impressive as the freaking war. Guys, it is extremely doubtful Ukraine intends to keep Kursk the way Russia is annexing Ukrainian territory, but they are forcing Russia to fight them along a longer front and that is already impacting the frontline in the Donbas. There is also the minor matter that Russia is advancing, but at an asinine cost in both men and materiel. Will they eventually get all of the Donbas? Maybe, but Russian women are going to have a lot fewer men to choose from - though, from what I understand of Russian men, they may consider this a net win.
The only real risk here is western support fading, and more specifically, Donald Trump winning the US presidential election. For better or worse, the west is keeping Ukraine in the fight, but not letting them go after Russia hard, which means this thing will drag out until Putin gets tired of the political and economic costs. It's Afghanistan with better press coverage.
Gen Syrskyi is a genius
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Also in Bryansk and also north of Kharkiv. The Ukrainian army is currently advancing.
Funny how different "Cross border raids" is reported on depending on the occupier
One time at band camp.... Apache reported IED planted in road. Info logged in. S-2 BOOKLET AND TOC log. Next day m1025u was ripped in half with 5 casualties ( 2 dead).
E4 looks back at the logs and was the hand written report.
Intel was not pushed to company level to PLT level.
The Ukraine army is simply far more professional and economical than the Russian army, the only reason they haven’t won is because they’re fighting with one hand behind their backs.
I'm not sure how ukraine pull this off. What i'm sure is that this incursion will be written in history books.
forreal, UA has been full of surprises nobody thought they would even last more than a month and look at em still kicking somehow even with their hands tied and limited aid. i wonder how long they will last inside RU and how far they will get. The problem is that they cant really sit still too much cuz theyll get stuck under artillery as i wouldnt be shocked if RU would shell its own cities to get UA out of them especially since they already evacuated most of the peoples
They are trying to save face. The space they're occupying, it's so minimal..
Not consulting the current U.S. administration, so shocking. (Sarcasm Alert for the sarcasm impaired.)
Well, they wouldn’t have consulted the Admin, but the DoD. It’s most likely that the DoD contacted them about their build up
@@deankruse2891 Their response to the DoD should have been, "Nothing to see here." Followed a day or two later by, "Hold my beer, now check this out!"
Why would they realy want to know? Safes them from political responsibility.
That's cool and all but i don't see the strategic value.
Bargaining land.
hey guys quick question to whoever knows this, for example 6:58 it writes 225th assault battalion, does that mean there are 224 other assault battalions before it? always wondered if the numbers are random or not.
No, it doesn't work like that.
The one leaked to the Russians may be the one where the Russians reached out to the USA and the USA reached out to Ukraine and told them what ever you’re doing don’t. I’m pretty sure you reported on that one. The news was vague about it a few months ago. That could be what it was.
I always wonder what that operation plan was to be. I imagine Ukraine was going to invade the occupied area of Moldova because there're rumors that there's enough stock of cold war munitions there to keep Ukrainian Soviet equipment in operation for years. Makes sense when the US was trying to figure out if they should send "supplies" to Ukraine or not.
Very damn good info. Keep it up.
Thank you sir.
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Everyone can see F-16’s or Bradley’s…no one see’s logistics and battle planning staff attending NATO member War Colleges and doing the coursework at breakneck pace. No one can see combined maintenance operations. Keep’em Fighting!
I don't know all the details but it seems like the 1st Kinburn Spit, the Ukrainian OSINT/Military community seems to be real pissed about that one. It might be the one that was leaked...
That was Nissan
Engineers are the actual tip of the spear.
Some of the conscripts captured at the border looked about 16 years old!
12:10 300 russian POWs? That must be a mistake because I heard of 1000-3000
Anyone else think the historians will call this the "detachment brigade"? ... I mean, as long as brigade is the right term.
Imagine driving your best forces into a kill box on the enemies territory where they have impunity and superiority in the air and on the ground to farm your units, while your main forces on the front line get bulldozed dropping territories left right and center. Oh wait, UKR and NATO did that lol, such a dumb play.
Cool story
@@jaxonl7810 it's a true story also XD
I wouldn't be surprised if that "aborted mission" was an offensive into northern Luhansk. During spring and early summer of 2023, there were a lot of similar shaping operations to the summer offensive in the south. Attacks on depots, airfields, air defense, fuel, and artillery. I had predicted they were going to copy the the fall 2022 tactic of telegraphing one offensive and being silent on a second. Alas, it never happened, which I thought very odd at the time
Preston dropping an F bomb 😮
from Soemy to Moscow is still a tough long road, 668 Kilometers or 415 Miles to be precisely
Can anyone tell me where the F16's are? I would like to see how they will be integrated into the war.
If we knew, russia would know