I thoroughly appreciate the information on the number of Russia's tanks, etc. that have been destroyed. It seems to me that Ukraine is making effective use indeed of the equipment, supplies and training provided to them. We need to make sure that both the war against Ukraine and the war against Israel are supported -- so that we all have freedom. On a different note, I was on a plane to London on 24 Feb 2022. My seat mate and I sat stunned at the news, wondering what the world would look like when we landed. I spent much of the few days I had in London at Trafalgar Square, supporting the rallies for Ukraine. I will continue doing what is in my power to support Ukraine and ask my legislators to do the same.
I have the privilege to work with Serhii Plokhii in a Ukraine project - really interesting and extremely well informed person. I assume most of his books are available in English!
DATELINE KYIV OBLAST Book Review: "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History", by Serhii Plokhy (May 9, 2023) This is an important and timely scholarly work, exceptionally well-written, and covering the period March 2022 to February 2023. Professor Serhii Plokhy has done a great service to all those interested in coming to a fuller understanding of the Russo-Ukrainian war: its origins, contexts, and implications. While the book as a whole is a pleasurable and informative read, the book's "Afterword" provides a masterful précis for those too pressed for time to invest in studying in detail its complete 250+ pages. Five Stars! V/r - IB An American in Ukraine (February 2019 - Present)
I don't speak or read Ukrainian, but I've read translations of journalist Stanislav Aseyev's non-fiction works "In Isolation" and "The Torture Camp on Paradise Street." The former explores the complicated social aspects of the war in Donbas after 2014. The latter explores the author's own experience being in a Russian prison in the occupied territories after he was convicted for his writings.
It doesn't really work that way. The 'interest' might be on Israel now, but Biden and the smart people in congress are making sure the money continues to arrive. Biden proposed 60billion for Ukraine and 10billion for Israel.
US MAFIA interest in Israel are in gas extraction, as in Qatar, and as in Ukraine! For this the quotation of JP Morgan Chase investments in Texas are fired in 2014s, without war!
The only way that happens if we Americans lose our minds again and don't go to the polls to keep the Trump GOP cult from getting control of the government again. Hell, the UK allowed the Conservative Party to damn near destroy the UK before they seem to wake up. And it's not over yet.
Their Stugna-P missiles are five grand a reload. Not bad price point. They have been working well in the east. Russians are getting pasted. Yeah they have taken a few trashed positions, but their assault is already losing impulsion. Its already petering out. The activity in Kherson is just to fix enemy units there. Don't think it's any kind of actual assault.
My only relative in life, a NATO Admiral (GR) in his seventies, is deeply distressed and tells me Ucraine should capitulate yesterday to save its youth. I used to heavily argue with him but...
To Dom: Human wave type attacks are a strategy employed since at least the WWI 'over the top' trench raids as a command response to soldiers deciding on a "let's not *really* fight but pretend we did" strategy, such as the tacit agreement on some parts of the WWI front that both sides would always shoot to miss. Since Private Conscriptovitch likely doesn't want to be in this war, and might not even trust the army to take minimal care of him, why should he or any of his fellow conscripts risk their lives? Therefore, the higher-ups order tactics that are inherently verifiable--troops in a human wave attack either succeed or die, if not to an enemy then to an officer at the back, for trying to flee. Is it inhumane? Yes. Is it effective at forcing their soldiers to fight? Evidently so.
@@mikefallwell1301 I've been thinking about this for a while, now. The most charitable way I could parse it is that in the context of the known shortage of medical supplies among Russian troops, recovering their wounded would often mean watching someone they'd lived and fought alongside die, up close and personal. As one might imagine, that's bad for discipline among the ranks. On the other hand, a wounded Russian soldier left behind at least *might* survive long enough to be picked up by the Ukrainian side and receive medical care, then get traded back in a prisoner swap. More cynically, an order could have come down the Russian chain of command that leaving their wounded behind would sap Ukrainian medical resources. Medical ethics aside, the Ukrainians do want live Russian POWs to trade for their own. ETA: It could also be that force cohesion is so tenuous that Russian soldiers are unwilling to stick their neck out for one another. I could especially see that being the case among the "Z battalions" designated to be first into the meat grinder. In that case, I'd expect that when historians get to pick over personal accounts and documents, we'll also learn about significant low-level mutinies and murder of officers being covered up during the conflict.
Biden's speech was a crucial one from an older wiser head of State. Keep supporting Ukraine. (Remember, Russia is no great empire and, like a soufflé, it won't rise twice: We've got this) 🇺🇦 👍
Thanks for the facts and top notch analysis liberally sprinkled with snark. The hours I have spent staring at that squiggling line....your content too dense for me to multitask. I worry for your personal safety, London is a common location for Russian espionage. Don't drink tea from strangers with umbrellas.
Finally what most realist analysts were predicting was going to happen has started, the Ukrainian army is crashed and it has began a chaotic retreat on many fronts in the South. How the British media expected that US/NATO and Ukraine had the capacity to defeat Russia is simply mind blowing.
Just wish President Biden words were coupled with actions matching his seemingly importance to Ukrainian victory. His slow actions on providing military aid needed to win just doesn't make sense .
The Ukrainian people keep on surprising me in a good way. The way they conduct themselves and the way they think I’m proud that we help Ukraine! Stay strong….
No one would have predicted that that the U.S. would send huge amounts of cluster munitions, and that they would be such a game-changer in the hands of the Ukrainians.
If the Ukraine army was American led Russia would have withdrawn by now the Afghanistan were smart enough to take our arms and leadership kicked Russia out in less than two years
It is useless to make optimistic speeches to Ukrainians who are suffering a crushing defeat in their counteroffensive. During this time, Ukraine has lost about a hundred tanks, several hundred armored vehicles and about 80 thousand soldiers. At the same time, Ukraine has captured fewer territories in the south than it has lost in the north.
Responses from the US House majority to Biden’s speech were not heartening: many negatively characterized it as a speech using a preamble about Israel to introduce a speech predominantly about aid to Ukraine, and that Ukraine does not outrank Israel in US geostrategic considerations.
One USA aircraft carrier is already operational off the coast and another plus 3 more Marine vessels are on their way to aid Israel. Not sure if that counts amoungst the aid $$$ figures or not. Both places have different needs.
Though not a supporter of broader political position of the telegraph, I like this podcast because it does offer one of the only ongoing analyses of what is happening in Ukraine and, to a certain extent, tries to hold down ideological rhetoric. However, the comparison of the Palestinians (where, falsely but conveniently, Hamas are seen as a 'holding' descriptor of a Palestinian population held under often brutal occupation for decades) and Russians I find absurd. Hamas represents the most vile expression of unfettered ideological violence that should have no place in this world. Similarly, Russia's violence comes from an ideological belief that Ukraine should not continue to exist. However, the context of continued occupation and disenfranchisement of the Palestinian population (a context from which Hamas emerges and garners some support) bears no similarity to Russia at all, which Boris Johnson seems to imply. Justice for Palestinians is inevitably the route to peace, without which, sadly, anti-semitic sentiment is in danger of being justified by anti-semites: whether it be a one or two state solution. Are we not demanding this same liberation for Russian occupied Ukraine, after all! Wouldn't we also be outraged if Ukraine attacked Russian civilian populations with the brutality and apparent callousness that Israel is attacking a whole Palestinian population in Gaza (and from emerging reports, quietly but systematically in the West Bank, too)?
The Russian tank losses are collosal...let me take a look at the map and see how that has impacted it ...damn...the map is static .. how many more tanks does Russia have to lose to see a slight movement in the map? If over 75% of the ammo is gone and the map hasn't changed the using data analysis it means Ukraine and its western backers are hitting the wrong target ..infact Russia must be impressed with its calculus in this war
Anyone who still lives or visits Russia should be on their own. Every single western govt has stated many times not to go to Russia. Anyone still crazy enough to go there is not very bright. Why don't people use their brains.
Funding is a smart investment. What about diplomacy. How much does that cost ? Clearly Bidden has little interest in the middle east and is fixated with hurting Russia, Bidden seems to emotionally invested in Ukraine to make rational decisions
The USA offered Ukraine "Security Assurances". Whatever those Assurances might entail, the security that Ukraine was due was apparently less robust than if Security Guarantees were offered. Security Guarantees might have obliged itself directly in the defense of Ukraine. Guarantees would imply a Defense obligation, akin to those due fellow NATO members. Including tge deployment of Air Forces, Missiles, Naval assets, and US Infantry....
Anton Pavlovsky's comments were both touching, and useful for all of us, not just Ukrainians. I thoroughly enjoyed his segment 😸!
Dom - “Fine.”
That is some stone cold British sass right there.
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I absolutely concur with Boris Johnson. We must fully support both Ukraine and Israel.
Israelis invaded Palestine.
Ukraine yes. Israel is doing the same thing Russia is doing. Israel is just as barbaric and evil.
Agreed 👍
Can and will.
So support Ukraine which is currently occupied.... and Israel which is an occupier.... makes total sense.
I value your reporting so such it is model of how to do news.
I stand with the Ukrainian people
I thoroughly appreciate the information on the number of Russia's tanks, etc. that have been destroyed. It seems to me that Ukraine is making effective use indeed of the equipment, supplies and training provided to them. We need to make sure that both the war against Ukraine and the war against Israel are supported -- so that we all have freedom. On a different note, I was on a plane to London on 24 Feb 2022. My seat mate and I sat stunned at the news, wondering what the world would look like when we landed. I spent much of the few days I had in London at Trafalgar Square, supporting the rallies for Ukraine. I will continue doing what is in my power to support Ukraine and ask my legislators to do the same.
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We don't really know how many tanks Russia has lost. And since data on Ukraine's losses is even more vague we cant draw too many conclusions.
I have the privilege to work with Serhii Plokhii in a Ukraine project - really interesting and extremely well informed person. I assume most of his books are available in English!
Correct!
DATELINE KYIV OBLAST
Book Review: "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History", by Serhii Plokhy (May 9, 2023)
This is an important and timely scholarly work, exceptionally well-written, and covering the period March 2022 to February 2023. Professor Serhii Plokhy has done a great service to all those interested in coming to a fuller understanding of the Russo-Ukrainian war: its origins, contexts, and implications. While the book as a whole is a pleasurable and informative read, the book's "Afterword" provides a masterful précis for those too pressed for time to invest in studying in detail its complete 250+ pages. Five Stars!
V/r - IB
An American in Ukraine
(February 2019 - Present)
They are available in English and are very detailed historical works but very readable.
Slava Ukraine 🎉
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Free Palestine!
Britain doesn't stand withnazis
@@phoenixzappa7366free Palestine from hamas
3rd one is a rag, good as a toilet cleaner
Da zdravstvuyet Rossiya 🤍💙❤️🇷🇺
Thanks, Telegraph.
Good one. Slava Ukraine, Heroym Slava !
Da zdravstvuyet Rossiya 🤍💙❤️🇷🇺
I don't speak or read Ukrainian, but I've read translations of journalist Stanislav Aseyev's non-fiction works "In Isolation" and "The Torture Camp on Paradise Street." The former explores the complicated social aspects of the war in Donbas after 2014. The latter explores the author's own experience being in a Russian prison in the occupied territories after he was convicted for his writings.
Slava Ukraini ! ❤
Da zdravstvuyet Rossiya 🇷🇺🤍💙❤️🇷🇺
I listen to every edition from Sydney Australia.
SLAVA KOKAINIE!!!! HEROINIE SŁAVA !!!
3 day war now 604 day camping trip,
No official Russian ever said 3 days 😂. It’s an internet thing.
@@Jim-fi4dc
He's been told a thousand times.
What else can he say?
There's not a chance he can debate
@@Jim-fi4dcnope. Putin said 3 days in front of thousands of simps.
@@Jim-fi4dcMaybe so, but Putin didn’t expect this disaster.
how's the counter offensive going 4.5mths to gain 0.08% of land, what ya gonna do, spin that as some sort of success
new onslaught? I thought Russia was finished and ukraine was advancing?
Europe should consider the possibility that Ukraine is their responsibility in the event that US interest turns primarily towards Israel.
Europe should withdraw from Russia.
It doesn't really work that way. The 'interest' might be on Israel now, but Biden and the smart people in congress are making sure the money continues to arrive. Biden proposed 60billion for Ukraine and 10billion for Israel.
US MAFIA interest in Israel are in gas extraction, as in Qatar, and as in Ukraine!
For this the quotation of JP Morgan Chase investments in Texas are fired in 2014s, without war!
The only way that happens if we Americans lose our minds again and don't go to the polls to keep the Trump GOP cult from getting control of the government again.
Hell, the UK allowed the Conservative Party to damn near destroy the UK before they seem to wake up. And it's not over yet.
@@richardgallagher4880what ?
I thought the whole point of sending ATACMS was for their extended reach.
Avdivka is the most powerful stronghold in Ukraine. If it is no strategic value, why is that?
Same reason Bachmut was... and getting that didn't really change much for the Russians, now did it?
Their Stugna-P missiles are five grand a reload. Not bad price point. They have been working well in the east. Russians are getting pasted. Yeah they have taken a few trashed positions, but their assault is already losing impulsion. Its already petering out. The activity in Kherson is just to fix enemy units there. Don't think it's any kind of actual assault.
Your offensive failed in 3 weeks.
Cope harder
The grand offensive got stopped by 3 weeks so... keep the copium flowing.
My only relative in life, a NATO Admiral (GR) in his seventies, is deeply distressed and tells me Ucraine should capitulate yesterday to save its youth. I used to heavily argue with him but...
Great podcast as well as ref to "the book"... The interview at the end was great
To Dom: Human wave type attacks are a strategy employed since at least the WWI 'over the top' trench raids as a command response to soldiers deciding on a "let's not *really* fight but pretend we did" strategy, such as the tacit agreement on some parts of the WWI front that both sides would always shoot to miss.
Since Private Conscriptovitch likely doesn't want to be in this war, and might not even trust the army to take minimal care of him, why should he or any of his fellow conscripts risk their lives? Therefore, the higher-ups order tactics that are inherently verifiable--troops in a human wave attack either succeed or die, if not to an enemy then to an officer at the back, for trying to flee. Is it inhumane? Yes. Is it effective at forcing their soldiers to fight? Evidently so.
And then they abandoned the wounded on the battlefield
no ones does human wave attacks, grow up
Cool, another Perun fan XD
@@mikefallwell1301 I've been thinking about this for a while, now. The most charitable way I could parse it is that in the context of the known shortage of medical supplies among Russian troops, recovering their wounded would often mean watching someone they'd lived and fought alongside die, up close and personal. As one might imagine, that's bad for discipline among the ranks. On the other hand, a wounded Russian soldier left behind at least *might* survive long enough to be picked up by the Ukrainian side and receive medical care, then get traded back in a prisoner swap.
More cynically, an order could have come down the Russian chain of command that leaving their wounded behind would sap Ukrainian medical resources. Medical ethics aside, the Ukrainians do want live Russian POWs to trade for their own.
ETA: It could also be that force cohesion is so tenuous that Russian soldiers are unwilling to stick their neck out for one another. I could especially see that being the case among the "Z battalions" designated to be first into the meat grinder. In that case, I'd expect that when historians get to pick over personal accounts and documents, we'll also learn about significant low-level mutinies and murder of officers being covered up during the conflict.
Biden's speech was a crucial one from an older wiser head of State.
Keep supporting Ukraine. (Remember, Russia is no great empire and, like a soufflé, it won't rise twice: We've got this) 🇺🇦 👍
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Agree
Yes!! Well said !
Also agree, Joe has risen to the occasion.
Thanks for the facts and top notch analysis liberally sprinkled with snark. The hours I have spent staring at that squiggling line....your content too dense for me to multitask. I worry for your personal safety, London is a common location for Russian espionage. Don't drink tea from strangers with umbrellas.
Totally agree with B. Johnson's op-ed!👍🏾 Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦🔱💪🏾
Finally what most realist analysts were predicting was going to happen has started, the Ukrainian army is crashed and it has began a chaotic retreat on many fronts in the South. How the British media expected that US/NATO and Ukraine had the capacity to defeat Russia is simply mind blowing.
Just wish President Biden words were coupled with actions matching his seemingly importance to Ukrainian victory. His slow actions on providing military aid needed to win just doesn't make sense .
It makes sense from one perspective. That is that if the Russians were to call a ceasefire they would have Frozen the conflict while they rearm
Russia is not a party yo any treaty on the laws of war. It has never acceded to the UN Charter or any related Treaties before 1991.
The Ukrainian people keep on surprising me in a good way. The way they conduct themselves and the way they think I’m proud that we help Ukraine!
Stay strong….
An encouraging conversation with the final guest today. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Da zdravstvuyet Rossiya 🤍💙❤️🇷🇺
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No one would have predicted that that the U.S. would send huge amounts of cluster munitions, and that they would be such a game-changer in the hands of the Ukrainians.
If the Ukraine army was American led Russia would have withdrawn by now the Afghanistan were smart enough to take our arms and leadership kicked Russia out in less than two years
Always enjoy the show. Pittsburgh, PA
Hey
Sorry, i was under the impression that the Ukraine was on the offensive?.
It is useless to make optimistic speeches to Ukrainians who are suffering a crushing defeat in their counteroffensive. During this time, Ukraine has lost about a hundred tanks, several hundred armored vehicles and about 80 thousand soldiers. At the same time, Ukraine has captured fewer territories in the south than it has lost in the north.
Responses from the US House majority to Biden’s speech were not heartening: many negatively characterized it as a speech using a preamble about Israel to introduce a speech predominantly about aid to Ukraine, and that Ukraine does not outrank Israel in US geostrategic considerations.
One USA aircraft carrier is already operational off the coast and another plus 3 more Marine vessels are on their way to aid Israel.
Not sure if that counts amoungst the aid $$$ figures or not.
Both places have different needs.
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Yes, Ukraine needs to quit and stop helping gerry take Russia.
Russia go home!
That was a great statement from Bernard Henri Levy. I thoroughly recommend the video of his debate with Alexander Dugin!
time to connect the dots talk to ...joel rayburn. very scary
Sounds like we're headed for the Second Cold War heating up
Lol, China isn’t going to defend Russia. She’s on her own so no world war
From Russia's side, we were back to new kind of Cold war since 2008. West just woke up 2022.
Though not a supporter of broader political position of the telegraph, I like this podcast because it does offer one of the only ongoing analyses of what is happening in Ukraine and, to a certain extent, tries to hold down ideological rhetoric. However, the comparison of the Palestinians (where, falsely but conveniently, Hamas are seen as a 'holding' descriptor of a Palestinian population held under often brutal occupation for decades) and Russians I find absurd. Hamas represents the most vile expression of unfettered ideological violence that should have no place in this world. Similarly, Russia's violence comes from an ideological belief that Ukraine should not continue to exist. However, the context of continued occupation and disenfranchisement of the Palestinian population (a context from which Hamas emerges and garners some support) bears no similarity to Russia at all, which Boris Johnson seems to imply. Justice for Palestinians is inevitably the route to peace, without which, sadly, anti-semitic sentiment is in danger of being justified by anti-semites: whether it be a one or two state solution. Are we not demanding this same liberation for Russian occupied Ukraine, after all! Wouldn't we also be outraged if Ukraine attacked Russian civilian populations with the brutality and apparent callousness that Israel is attacking a whole Palestinian population in Gaza (and from emerging reports, quietly but systematically in the West Bank, too)?
By bravory zelinsky meant hard drugs.
what a crock😂
The Russian tank losses are collosal...let me take a look at the map and see how that has impacted it ...damn...the map is static .. how many more tanks does Russia have to lose to see a slight movement in the map? If over 75% of the ammo is gone and the map hasn't changed the using data analysis it means Ukraine and its western backers are hitting the wrong target ..infact Russia must be impressed with its calculus in this war
Western weapons were defeated by their main and invincible rival - Ukrainian corruption.
Embedded Russian oligarchs are the primary cause of Ukrainian corruption
How many Ukrainian men will remain when they lost the war? Something for Boris to think about.
Not many if pudin gets his way
@@jimgraham6722 His name is Putin.
Francis of Unicorn reading us another unicorn story about rainbows, fairies and the evil orcs 😂😂😂😂
Beautiful Russia
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Traitor.
@@richardgallagher4880in what way comrade ?
@@HungryGhost999
Playingdumb on every thread.
Seethe. Cope. Deny
5.000 Russian tank losses says Ukrainian MOD...sorry can't see that, please help me in what area did they lose these tanks.
All along the front over the last 600 days. Simples
Easy 10 tank in average every day. Thousand kilometres frontline
On Ukrainian lands
More realistisch is around 3000 those are confirmed by picture
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They renounced their sovereignty 15 years ago.
Try again.
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@@HungryGhost999
How's your spring/summer/offensive going?
Going backwards?🤣🤣🤣🤣
So did she brake the rules or not... if she didn't thats bad if she did that's not as bad. Just saying braking the law kind of has consequences.
Why are about 14 African countries still paying France for the "benefits" of colonialism?
Anyone who still lives or visits Russia should be on their own. Every single western govt has stated many times not to go to Russia. Anyone still crazy enough to go there is not very bright. Why don't people use their brains.
Funding is a smart investment. What about diplomacy. How much does that cost ? Clearly Bidden has little interest in the middle east and is fixated with hurting Russia, Bidden seems to emotionally invested in Ukraine to make rational decisions
Didn't America sign a deal where Ukraine would trade its nukes for security guarantees?
The USA offered Ukraine "Security Assurances". Whatever those Assurances might entail, the security that Ukraine was due was apparently less robust than if Security Guarantees were offered. Security Guarantees might have obliged itself directly in the defense of Ukraine. Guarantees would imply a Defense obligation, akin to those due fellow NATO members. Including tge deployment of Air Forces, Missiles, Naval assets, and US Infantry....
Fair point@@dgranik4839
Russia does not keep agreements
Ukraine is losing the war.
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The Malvinas belong to Argentina, not to far away Britain.
No such place.
Such a dramatic intro, 6th form standard lol
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Still lying 😂😂😂