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LOL, what offensive? they have less land now than when they started lol, and they are now making their females and children fight as well due to the horrendous losses.
@@greenhat7618 I made the joke in jest since I was in the US Military. The problem is that they are just now bringing this into operation when the drone problem has been an issue for years at this point.
'Hey, don't worry about those landmines, just drive around the minefields'. I think i even heard something like that from an instructor in one of the DW reports when he was asked about it
So true. Half the NPCs in the west still believe the propaganda - this video was full of delusional thinking based on propaganda only. Talking about 350k Russian casualties as a success when Ukraine TV admitted they have lost 1.2m, so only 350k for Russia is a major disaster for Ukraine, not a success.
@@RUTHLESSambition5didnt russia say they'd take kyiv in less than 4 days and all of ukraine in less than a month or two? They've lost half of the territory they took and most offensives have failed but in yet they have convinced themselves they are winning the war outright. The russian government has even said they have blown up all the himars sent to ukraine too when in reality ukraine has lost no himars
That is not underestimating. That is lying blatantly. remember all the time western media was claiming that Russia is losing badly? They kept on lying until the bitter end. And here we go, Ukranian minister announced they lost 500k men, and when we look at the map, do you see any advancement? Even this clown is one sided....Better check Douglas Macgregor or Judge Napolitano or even Mearsheimer....
Yes first thing i tought as well , peoples aside even most of the media outlets were making fun of Russian fortifictions. In a way they looked ww2 style ,outdated and shouldn't work at modern era but it did worked big time. I think there was also bit of a ecstasy of victory , Ukraine won massive victories at Kharkiv and Kherson so after that peoples tought those fortifictions were piece of cake. Gotta give big credits to Sergei Surovikin , retreat is one of the hardest maneuver to pull off sucesfully and Kherson wasn't easy place to retreat from. Supplying Kherson wasn't easy but leaving it also wasn't easy both physically and mentally. They could have struggled there and lost so many , i think it would hugely favor Ukraine. Anyway sucesfull retreat there and building mass fortifictions at zaporizhia looked pathetic back then but it actually became turning point of the war. Now Ukraine preparing defenses who knows where this war will go...
The greatest lesson here is that one should never underestimate one’s enemy. I remember last year when everybody was making fun of Russia, saying they had already lost the war. The expectations of this counteroffensive were through the roof because they were based on the assumption that the Russian army was weak and inferior. The West also has this same mindset with regard to China, and so we have to be cautious here too.
You sir are correct. But we also must admit that our media has not told the truth or dont "know" the truth of what happened at the start of the conflict. There seems to be a peace deal made that tricked russia to back off. Evidence UK prime minister visit at time and also putin has it on paper, who knows.
Before the offensive, the generals launched 8 combat simulations. They used a special computer called CORA for this. -Well, it seems they played it on "easy" settings...
The American military is extremely arrogant. You can just tell the overall culture of arrogance by seeing our track record in recent wars. We haven’t triumph in a conflict since 1991 because we think military force console, fundamentally, political and social problems and we make the assumption that anybody who doesn’t think and act like an American, and want to join the American side and would oppose us is only doing it because they’re a stupid barbarian for no reason.
71 Leopards?! Really? That's hardly two armored regiments or battalions! It's delusional thinking to believe that just two armored regiments can be the spearhead of a strategic counter-offensive.
Maybe if they were going to be used as pure Armored units, but they were used in correlation with IFVs that the West had sent them. Enough to give them one solid Brigade. When compared to the Armies of WWII, one Brigade at the right place could with the right conditions really mess up the opposing force day.
Ukraine is short on equipment, facing an existential threat, heavily reliant on assistance from fickle allies, and fighting a war significantly different from those of the past, both due to proliferation of drones and the fact that the opposing militaries are only _partly_ modern. While the Ukrainians' plans _might_ have been delusional, believing yourself qualified to make that call almost certainly is. And even if you _are_ one of the vanishingly few people in possession of the necessary information and expertise, then commenting on this video is stupid. Intelligence agencies get nervous when people in possession of classified information engage in public discussion on the topic, whether they reveal that information or not.
Troops trained in Germany for a rapid advance were greatly slowed by muddy terrain in the Ukraine? Seems like I read about a similar story that occurred about 80 years ago. I must be mistaken though, otherwise the US leadership advisers would look really foolish.
Lesson one: you can't fight companied arms warfare without combained arms Lesson two: you can't just run through minefields with tanks and without mineclearing equipment Lesson three: you can't go on offensive without proper airforce for offensive of this level
@@Insideman666 The main problem, that USA and EU has enough money, they don't have factories and workers to build equipment. All Production lines now in Asia, where Russia has support.
One is winning the propaganda war, another is winning the actual war. Kings and generals was a good channel. Thanks for all the great videos of ancient battles.
Given KaG coverrage of current history, I highly doubt they ever did a good job at covering ancient history. So I dont think they ever used to be a good channel
Yeah that channel ruined its credibility. The BS videos on Ukraine made ,e question every video they did😂😂😂😂 They push OBVIOUS lies and so does this channel. Sad sight
@@ottersirotten4290they had me fooled until I saw the Ukraine videos then I stopped watching, good lord it was hard to watch. Every video they did was BS. Made up facts 😂😂😂
Yeah I remember articles and videos showing simulations of the Russian defensive lines. Ukrainian tanks ramming the dragon teeth out of the way. Stormshadows knocking out Russian airfields and British Challengers moving ahead impervious to Russian antitank fire. The internet has made the average man and journalist to look at war as if its a action movie.
You mentioned Russian losses, and efforts to compensate, but I missed the part about Ukrainian losses, and what measures they might be taking to fill their ranks. Are they being dragged off the street and sent to fight? What age groups are they conscripting?
This is the root cause of the failure of the counteroffensife, believing in one's own propaganda instead of facing reality. If they had listened to Zhaluzny they would've been in a better position today. That man is an excellent General
I like Cappy and this channel, but this seems to be a major blindspot for them, to the point where I think it's somewhat intentional. The war is going badly for Ukraine but a lot of Pro Ukraine people don't want to admit it. I remember earlier videos where they claimed that the small gains made during the earlier offensives weren't that bad because the advancements made after D-Day were small too. Now a lot of Ukrainian gains are being whittled away by the Russians proving the skeptics right.
The American military geniuses who were really running the show have never gone into a battle without overwhelming air cover. The Russians have surveillance drones spotting anything that moves. They also had plenty of artillery and ammunition. The Ukrainian soldiers were told that when they contact Russian soldiers, the Russian would run away. They didn’t. What a disaster.
Very different than fighting Iraqis who were under sanctions for years and had a military completely devoid of any modernity.. Russia is a different level.. But Americans do not care. It’s not their soldiers dying. But Slavs. Who are not humans to the U.S.
The comment about air power on demand is false. Many times guys had to fight a determined sizable force in Afghanistan with no air power to be heard of, and zero artillery either. Facts
@@jeremyhansen8186 we are not talking about small units fighting, we are talking about a major offensive planned by the Americans in Ukraine. Washington would never send its soldiers to break through a strong line of defense without air supremacy; Ukrainian soldiers are another matter. Ukrainian soldiers for the US are cannon fodder, expendable material with the help of which they want to harm Russia and weaken it. There are no other reasons for direct U.S. involvement in this conflict.
It was said " To the sea of AZOV by 9 June and in Crimea by the end of June on the beach , didn't get to the Surovikn first line , actually didn't get further than 10km from where they started from , I bet the people saying Russian weapons were junk are shocked.
The minefields made the difference. Offense is always harder than defense, which is why the Ukrainian leadership was trying to moderate optimistic Western expectations going in - they knew it was going to be hard going, though nobody expected the minefields to be as dense as they were. Point to Russia, they've adapted to what they have to work with. The back-and-forth continues...
@@etienne8110 ...problem is, the pro-RUS side has been proclaiming over and over that the war is essentially over/won for the past year+, and it keeps not happening. Neither side is capable of making a decisive breakthrough, and neither side really has the option of even entering negotiations, since Putin needs a decisive victory over UKR in order to not appear "weak" (which could be fatal to him as de facto tsar), UKR knows even a ceasefire in place works towards the eventual RUS resumption of the conflict down the road, and the only outcome RUS would consider acceptable is UKR becoming reduced to the status of a vassal state again. It's a real mess without any end in sight right now, once one lays aside wishful thinking and the propaganda by each side.
Dude, most pro-UA youtubers were laughing at Russian defensive lines prior to the offensive xD. They called them stupid and not knowing how to create trenches etc, look how that turned out. Mines are one thing, but there are other weapons that contributed heavily to Ukrainian losses (Ka-52, FPV drones, lancets, ATGMs, artillery etc).@@TomG1555
@cl1ntonbodycount652 Define clearly what "beat Russia" means, otherwise discussion of it goes nowhere, since everyone's interpretation of that is different and leaving it vague tends towards "no, what I *really* meant is..." moving-the-goalposts waste of time.
After twelve weeks they breached Russia's first line... Three months. It took three months to beach a defensive line that Russia would have expected to have been broken within days. No matter what shine you try to put on it, the offensive was already a failure before it was a month old. A catastrophic failure paid for in blood by young Ukrainian men.
@@davidagudelo2435 i wasn't talking about bahkmut or avdiivka. Do your have an actual point? Feel free to explain why your whataboutism makes the deaths of so many Ukrainians less pointless or tragic.
@@davidagudelo2435also when we can take prigozihin as an source did he claim that 10k regular russian soldirs died in bakhmut,10k prisoners and atleast 50k ukraniens confirmend, believe it or not but prigozihin talked honestly about the loses even if its an absolut disaster and even western like to quote him because he was the only russian than oppenly and confindent speak against the regime
@@davidagudelo2435 why would it be a failure? Russia is conquering the most fortified cities in the region, Avdivka is the place where the Ukrainians use to 💥 civilians in Donetsk, even their tactics were better than the Ukrainian, in both cases the Russians secured the flanks advancing first in the high ground and then imposing a tactical encirclement, forcing the Ukrainians in the most dangerous supply lines, furthermore, the Ukrainian continue to do the same mistakes, they defend at all costs, Zaluzhny was dismissed because he wanted to pull back from Avdivka, but Zelenskystein don't listen to his generals. Russia fights tactical battles, Ukrainians fight propagandized battles with political objectives
People love to talk about air superiority, but how are you going to get air superiority against an enemy with huge number of air defences. Just look at what happened in Vietnam. USA lost 10k aircraft thanks to Soviet air defences. You get air superiority only against starving countries
Air Defenses are not the end all be all to counter air superiority, look at the Gulf War or OIF. advancements in technology and intelligence allowed for Air power to effectively and accurately target anti air instalations and batterys. I'm confident that western Air power beats soviet Anti air in a modern war today.
Look at the iraq war, thats the example you should look at, not the vietnam war, the rolling thunder campaign was unsuccessful not due to military reasons but political reasons, the vietnam war didnt really have standoff weapons against enemy defensive systems but now we do, + most aircraft were lost due to gunfire because they flew at low altitudes to avoid missiles, autocannons arent really used as anti aircraft now a days, + US air doctrine is much more refined, youre forgetting that the vietnam war was one of first with jets and missiles together
@matthewvargas2264 The Iraq army had hundreds of SAM and anti Air batteries... my father was in the air guard during the gulf War and OIF and can attest that the air cover was no match for western stealth jets and bombers but it was definitely not a slouch of air cover
I was one of the people who landed across Kherson. Lost my arm. We didn't have covering artillery fire for way to long, and the Moscovians just kept shelling us and we didn't even have trenches. We were told to not even being sleeping bags lol. Freezing nights, no shovels. Exciting boat trip though.
@@filosov чи можете ви принаймні говорити краще мовою. Контрнаступ на півдні успішний поки що, поки його тримати. але схоже, можливо, нам доведеться повернутися назад.
@@Irewiking88 mogę mówić lepszym językiem. Problem w tym, że w kontronastup włożono dużo pieniędzy. I pieniądze nie wasi, a europejskie i amerykańskie. Ale nie ma rezultatu. Dlaczego więc Europa powinna inwestować pieniądze na Ukrainie jeśli to nie przynosi rezultatu?
In other words they send you in to a suicide mission so western media can report positive about that doom offensince ?!? Not a single country from the Nato would did this "counter offensive" because the generall would go in to jail after this.
Im sorry your leaders did this to you. You must inspire other Ukrainians to march on Kiev and remove zelensky. How can anyone support a section of the line being held by only women? Or support pregnant women being in combat? Women storm squads? It's pure evil from the leaders.
No, they lost so many troops because NATO and the Biden regime sabotaged the peace steel worked out in March 2022. Since then Ukraine has lost hundreds of thousands of its best and bravest men and the war
@@samuellopesbaule5745 Did you even watch the video?? Ukraine literally didn't do what the west recommended and went with their own plan which didn't work.
It is often repeated that the 1939 war between the USSR and Finland was won by the latter. In reality, Finland had to accept the peace agreement proposed by the USSR, which included the delivery of 11% of its territory and 30% of its economy to Russia.
This. So many times I heard this lie as a Swede. How the brave finns won against the USSR. They were offered a deal which they refused, war ensued, at the end of the war they had to concede much more than the initial suggestion, which you do not do if you win.
@Wifyish regretfuly that might be the end for Ukraine but you cant blame them: if a thug enters your house and you have a gun you defend it. Ukraine might ask for terms but not yet
Almost. The goal of the invasion was to take over Finland and make it another "Socialist Republic". That failed. So Finland won in the sense that they kept their independence.
@@chainoadfinland totaly surrender to the red army and they president and 2k of they highest people was send to a prison or a gulag, just because stalin wanted them as a bufferzone are the reason why they get not occupied
I think everyone who knew anything about the conflict realized that the counter offensive was going to be hard to pull off. Without airpower, you can't really assault positions like that. Desert Storm still provides so many lessons to this date. The reason why the ground forces has such an easy time of it in Desert storm was the intensive bombing campaigns that destroyed 70% of Iraq's artillery before the first US troop had an engagement. The Iraqis also built a massive series of defensive lines, with mines and layers of trenches (however I don't think anyone has ever built a minefield like the one in Ukraine, this is Crazy Ivan level of mines) but they were bombed all up and down the trenchline and in front and in back. After the first set of works was breached, the tank drivers said they just used the plows on the tanks to bury the soldiers hiding in the trenches and rolled on. In Ukraine, you cant get within sight of the defensive works before artillery has spotted you and started firing. The Anti tank weapons of today are ahead of the armor in the forever arms & armor race and neither side really has a competent airforce capable of effectively performing hunter killer missions against enemy support units, like artillery and air defense, or performing substantial bombing attrite the defensive lines. The only long range fires either side has is artillery or cruise missiles. Sure they CAN drop bombs and do, but I'm talking about a high tonnage over a relatively short time. You'd want to have 70% attrition on that first defensive line before you even start the offensive.
Like your posting makes sense, also artillery is critical to the longer range fighting on front line The 😊drones are now the greatest danger as we all see the Ukraine RPG straped to a drone & explosion 💥boom turret toss of the Toss 1 , thermobaric weapon million dollars to build destroyed by a 10 dollar RPG strapped to a Drone Boo🎆
I closely followed the actions of the armed forces of Ukraine, they did what they can - methodically destroying all logistic they could reach, all air defence and artillery to make at least a little easier to ground forces to push... But minefields were really crazy. Also Ka-52 helicopters were serious threat to ground forces as their rockets can be fired from small atittude from 12-15 km distance. AFU have destroyed big quantity of these helicopters only when received ATACMS in October (a way too late)
@@daejavue69 Yeah, drones have changed warfare. It seems very hard to stop the sheer number of drones and they provide a cheap form of guided weapons and reconnaissance compared to what used to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions to produce something with the same capabilities 10-15 years ago. Still, it doesn't replace the tonnage that is dropped by a capable airforce. Of course artillery is crucial and with drone spotters its become deadly accurate, but the way you counter artillery is by destroying them from the air. The little FPV drones with Rpgs just dont have the range to strike the backline support units, nor are they able to lift and drop tons of ordinance to decimate enemy force concentrations.
The tankman in the first shots, wearing a helmet and goggles. That's a friend of mine. Sergeant Vyacheslav Bashta. He rammed an enemy BMP-2 on this mine trawl. He fought in the 25th Airborne Brigade. The photo was taken during the offensive in Kharkov region. He was a very good friend and soldier. He died a brave death in the autumn of 2022 near Liman.
The WaPo article was also scrutinized by Ukrainian war correspondents. There was also a third direction of the offensive towards Vasylivka, to cover the western flank of the operation. In hindsight, Gen Milley’s idea to concentrate all of the available forces in the main direction of Robotyne would have been a huge gamble that would have also failed but with bigger losses because of the exposed flanks. Regardless, the elephant in the room is that the amount of military aid to Ukraine is absolutely inadequate for conducting offensive operations, despite the huge stockpiles of weapons the US has accumulated during the Cold War. The US has over 6000 tanks, over 11000 IFVs, 1400 MLRS, and so on. The fraction it has made available to fight Russia is so minuscule makes you question its intentions in supporting Ukraine. WaPo article also has an element of a political request to shift the blame to the Ukrainian army. But how do you expect a combined arms offensive to work without air support and without combined arms? Ukraine simply did not have enough armor in the direction of Robotyne: 100 Bradley’s, 18 Leopard 2s, and Soviet tanks. This is nothing. And, drones were apparently an even bigger problem than mines.
yes I thought I was the only one who detected an implication between the lines in that article that "if only the US generals had been followed" "if only american plans were followed then it would have been a success" we have no way of knowing what would have happened if that was the case and we have zero evidence to support it wouldnt have been worse
@@falconeaterf15 If they are, they're not doing as well of a job. And even if they were, they'd still lose, just as Germany lost, and for the same reasons. 🤷
Ukraine isn't supposed to win. They are given enough equipment to stay in the fight but not enough to defeat Russia.They are being used to degrade Russias military capabilities. Everything else is secondary to that mission. U
@@huntergatherer7796 suppose that’s the strategy of Jake Sullivans et al (the very cohort of Kissinger students who led to this mess). So “degrade” not by defeating it, but just a little nibble😂? Don’t you sense the nonsense in this? Russian army is getting hardened on the battlefield, adopting to new tactics, has gained advantage in drone warfare, and its munitions factories are working in three shifts. And the fact that Poland is preparing for a possible war with Russia is also telling.
This is a good teachable moment for the US Military. When you can't do combined arms, what do you do? Ukraine has done a good job with the forces they have. I'm sure in the future there will be a lot of What If History channels asking what if F-16's were present during the counterstrike. Also I wonder who will get the contract for a demining system that can handle the mine density the Russians laid down.
At that phase, that really bothered me that there was a sense of outrage that Ukraine had rejected a combined arms doctrine that they were physically not able to do. Hindsight is 20/20, but the process of transferring F-16s should have began the moment they were requested. Hell, I would have pushed for F-35s, but I suppose that's why they don't let me make important foreign policy decisions.
F 16s would have been pointless since Ukranian and Russian military doctrines both operate on the assumption that they will not have air superiority. The problem was that Ukranians and their Western backers started to actually believe their own hype. The real opportunity for Ukranians was immediately after the Kharkov offensive when they should have struck in the direction of Crimea instead of getting bogged down defending Bakhmut.
@@NonEuclideanTacoCannon How funny you are... Russia uses 5% of their army, has economy growth of 5%, military production inhrease of 10fold. Your economies are plummeting and warehouses being emptied... yet here you are wet dreaming 🥲.
Lessons from "counteroffensive": 1. Don't run headfirst into a f*cking concrete wall for 6 months. 2. Don't take the advice from "superpowers" who only punched down at farmers and goatherds armed only with soviet surplus for the last 80 years and still managed to lose most of those. 3. Don't drink your own Koolaid.
There is not element of surprise in todays battlefields. Satellites, drones, awacs, etc. are aware of all movements and make it impossible to amasse enough forces in a limited area to break through russian defenses.
I've been thinking the same these past few years. With modern technology such as drones and satellites, coupled with the fact that every nation is basically spying on one another at all times, is the element of surprise even *possible* in today's world with modern technology? Seems extremely difficult to maintain the element of surprise, if not outright impossible.
@@dmitriyzhukov9193It is possible that that country was not caught by surprise. They have a reputation for having one of the best intelligence agencies in the world, especially when used against their enemies. I suspect it's true they weren't surprised. By they, I mean the people in power.
@@dmitriyzhukov9193 The thing is, not many people believe that Israel was caught by surprise. There is strong evidence that the Israeli government were warned numerous times, yet didn't do much to prevent it. Same sort of situation as Pearl Harbor and 9/11. The government knew an attack was being planned and was coming, but for whatever reason, they failed to take the appropriate measures to protect against it. I do not personally believe that the Israeli government and IDF 'upper brass' were legitimately caught by surprise. That's just my own personal opinion though.
@@dmitriyzhukov9193 I think we are talking about different things. I am talking about a war between two peer armies fighting each other, not about a group of militants attacking a line border. By the way!! Israel got information about Hamas preparing an attack from different sources (Egypt inteligence) and decide to do nothing .
No way 300k lost. More like they need to refresh the troops in the front to rest until Spring and Summer to keep pushing. They know Russia either will lack in manpower and they need to entrenchment the frontline.
When we compare the amount of armor that Germany used in 1941 in Ukraine to the amount of armor Ukrainian forces were given to break through Russian defenses we can only conclude that Ukrainian forces will need nearly a thousand tanks to break through. The Ukrainian army has to be able to absorb the loss of dozens of tanks in an attack and not even blink. Unfortunately the West has been fighting small conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan where small units were predominantly used. Well guess what, this is a war on the scale of WWII in the Eastern Front.
They don't have the manpower anymore. You can give them all the equipment you want, but if there are no men to man that equipment then it is a waste of time..
The US has thousands of tanks in storage. We gave them what, a few hundred? Which we still won’t let them use (perhaps because it looks bad for Russians to kill US tanks?).
The USSR left Ukraine as a gift in 1991 (in addition to vast territories and nuclear power plants) more than 6,000 of the world's best tanks and more than 1,100 military aircraft and military factories that produced both tanks and aircraft carriers (!!!). As of January 1, 2013, Ukraine had more than 2,300 tanks, 3,780 armored vehicles, 3,100 artillery systems, 500 combat aircraft, 120 attack helicopters.
no kidding, US has 11,000 IFVs, it donated 200+ to Ukraine. Meanwhile Russia deploys its entire Cold War stock of weapons to murder people in Ukraine. US is not serious. US is confused. And it’s receding on the world stage.
The Ukrainians downfall was to allow nato officers to train them. How can someone who hasn’t dodged a grenade before teach you how to escape a grenade? Everything they teach them only works in Afghanistan and Iraq but not in a real war against an enemy in the stature of Russia.
The counteroffensive was the most telegraphed military move of all time and there was zero chance of hiding its targets from Russia. Concentrating as much as possible was the only play and I don't understand why the Ukrainians thought differently.
Maybe they were too over confident, maybe they wanted the russians to think that it would be a repeat of the kherson offensive that was hyped and then ukraine hit another front too that they didnt anounce
Because while it gives you a higher chance at a successful counteroffensive, it also gives you a higher chance of catastrophe if your counteroffensive fail and your enemy attacks elsewhere.
That's BS. Intelligent people know it does not matter if you throw 1 or 10 battalions into a sea of mines. In hindsight the correct move would have been to just not try a fast attack at all and do it the slow infantry way from the start. Or attack somewhere with less mines. The real shocking mistake is that they where surprised by the amount of mines. Why was that not known?
Так в комментариях правы. Но все совершенно забыли одну очень важную вещь: к этой войне Украина готовилась последние 8 лет. Её накачивал "весь цивилизованный мир" оружием и инструкторами. Даже уже давно есть "налог на войну" на Украине. Так же ещё все забыли, что сама же Украина заявляла, что у неё "ВТОРАЯ АРМИЯ В МИРЕ/ЕВРОПЕ"!!!))) И первой была не Россия....)))
I really appreciate the Ukraine content. As the Middle East enters the spotlight, attention is fading toward the most important war of the century. I really hope that soon we can get some good news about the European front.
Result. The Ukrainian offensive completely failed, it was an ordinary PR campaign paid for with the lives of Ukrainian soldiers. * New* NATO equipment or equipment from the USSR is nothing when the fields are mined and dozens of drones and Lancets are flying over you. The Russian army is slowly but inevitably moving forward, and the Ukrainian command, after 2 years of war, remembered that it was necessary to build defensive structures in winter (when the ground freezes). Oh yes, there is also a Ukrainian landing party on rubber boats, which is pressed to the bank of the Dnieper River and is being destroyed by the Russian artillery. The author of the video calls it *a small victory for the Ukrainian army*. OK:) Now think about why the Russians are not trying to eliminate this suicidal breakthrough of the Ukrainian infantry completely? But they give new and new Ukrainian soldiers the opportunity to arrive on this small piece of land. There is no doubt that the most combat-ready brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been lost, their defenses will be broken by the superior forces of the Russian Army next year, then peace negotiations on the terms of the Kremlin.
I'm not sure why they keep talking up the amphibious landings on the Kherson side. Russia hasn't cleared out the beaches because it's better for them to keep letting Ukraine send troops over that they can destroy.
Clearly War is very complicated. The planners and strategists carry a heavy burden as well as the soldiers having their legs and other body parts blown off. Your videos helps a simple person like myself almost understand how complicated and horrific war can be. Thank you for your excellent work.
@@kingsman3087did you know that they can also participate in disaster relief and emergency rescue response? I just learned that military not only kills but, they can save, such as the coast guard. 😮
Counter offensive failed, bro. They didnt even take their minimum objective, which was the city of Tokmak. And honestly tho, mines did play a role. But Russian KA-52s, recon and ATGM teams ate the bulk of Ukrainian offensive. What is it with westerners always trying so hard to minimize Russian resolve. "oh.... it was just the mines". Bro, even the mine laying is commendable. But you go for mines, because its the furthest from any direct prowess. Kinda pathetic. This is "Russian winter" and "burning of Moscow" all over again. ThAtS thE OnLY RAeSon ThEy wOn! lol.
Regarding the captured Bradley; there's a video on YT of a museum in Russia containing captured western military equipment. Some of them are vintage, but there's a large display of equipment captured in Ukraine including drones, various tanks, and Bradleys.
@@lorddaquanofhouserastafari4177Lets talk about the losses according to OSINT then and tell me which side has lost more vehicles. Visually confimed 😂😂😂
@@davidagudelo2435referring to proven low-quality / fake Oryx numbers? Same Oryx that announced stopping their work after the failed counteroffensive 😂
@@mrdoerp Funnily enough, I still seem their numbers done after the offensive, and until you show me a visually confirmed database other than Oryx I will trust them more than "Telegram authored post number 7" and "salty ruzzian troll number 3 on youtube". :*
You are correct. See W2 Battle of Kurst. The Russians todays type defensive system that their Soviet grand parents used to defeat the Russian combined with modern high tech communications, drones precision guided missile..
@@scouterstu5856 I'd compare it more to the german hindenburg line from WW1 as Kursk were mainly temporary fortifications while the Surovikin line just as the hindenburg line have a more permanent character. It remains to hope that just like the allies in 1918 Ukrainian tactics catch up with the defense. The Hindenburg Line was broken, among other things, by the fact that the Entente only "bit out" a kilometer or so at a time, fortified it and then waited for the Germans to counterattack, which led to higher losses for the Germans and, in combination with material superiority and a better supply situation, ultimately led to Germany's defeat. Whether Ukraine will have the same conditions depends on whether Russia's puppets in the West, such as the AFD in Germany or Orban in Hungary, do not achieve a majority after all.
Western armies training Ukrainian army how to lose a war. As if western armies won in Vietnam, Afghanistan and other other parts of the world. Pathetic.
Kinda hard to have combined forces movements when you lack half of the combined forces types. With their initiative blown, and no air power there was absolutely zero chance of success raming through minefields and entrenched bunker systems. Lacking air power eliminated any hope of success. And lacking long range missles means the opposite side can stack their defence tight to the front.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD So in other words, you can only fight when conditions are perfect. Also, American and other NATO officers not only helped plan and signed off on the Ukrainian counter-offensive, but have since admitted that the results were much worse than they expected. Expected. They knew that the Ukrainians didn't have air power, and expected them to win anyway.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I think you'll find I stated that there is no quick way through a minefield and entrenched positions. But with the air space under control it would allow the mine clearing to be done without artillery falling on your head.
@@garethmartin6522 the point of combined forces is that it allows movement in less than ideal conditions. Where 1 part is disadvantaged another has an advantage. This working together results in a more likely advance. Also, US and NATO pushed for a different strategy than what Ukraine wanted to do (and did do). Good thing too because if they went with the US plan (lacking air cover as they did and do) 5he mechanized losses would have been huge. And infantry would have been worse. The US and NATO are so used to air supremacy for so long that they don't understand using ground forces without it. Had the F-16s been in theater with trained pilots things may and I say may have been different. But 2 miles deep minefields will be a problem if the opposing force can offer even limited resistance.
Imagine if NATO was fighting this war,bearing in mind how badly you've done against little Ukraine in 2 years? The only reason NATO hasn't gone in is Putin's finger on his nukes.
Lol everyone know who isnt read propaganda ukraine cant break through. But zalenszkij have no other option because if they didnt attack they wont get money
@@adamzuraitis3267 I like this channel for the video reviews of new military tech, but i find him very unreliable about actual wars. i read the NYT & WaPo articles about UKR every day, as well as listen to two podcasts from the Russian side. T&P is in line with the rose-tinted goggles WaPo has - pure UKR bias. Don't believe him. For pro-NATO stuff, NYT at least reports when bad things happen to UKR. Even if they get their $60 billion, it's over.
What update? The real update is that Ukraine has lost and they better start negotiating for peace. If you want actual interviews with Ukraine soldiers, check out the BBC.
It's amazing how few people understand that war isn't about what you have on paper or what your doctrines are so much as the 'snowball effect' of a mobilized society.
Oh the irony of this comment. As if Russia has won every war in Its history. Maybe you should dust off the old history books and give it a good read to freshen up your knowlege.
The biggest problem Ukraine faces in this war is a constant underestimating of Russian capabilities and minimization/dismissal of their military might. That goes for almost everyone involved in "cheering" for Ukrainians. The West thought Russia would collapse under sanctions - they were wrong. Then the constant propaganda where almost no Ukrainian losses are painted to an average viewer, but Ukrainians know what kind of hell they are in. There are more examples, but Russia took almost everything it wanted. Now we have a meatgrinder where neither side can make any significant advances. This is terrible news for Ukraine. A quarter of their country is under Russian control and human life is degraded to cannon fodder! Not so promising
Oh Russia does simply not care to make advances. It's an offensive defense. You create a heavily fortified wall and then just attack from there. Even when you see in videos in the regions around the lines on the map, those are just scout unites.
Lesson 1: you cannot be "slightly" at war. To win you need to provide all required materials and scale up production accordingly and be 100% committed as allies. No political games, nothing.
@@martincerny3294 wait. You said the Ukrainians are still where they stopped. I've given you a list of villages that the Russians liberated in November and December 2023
@@Paladingarold yes, in terms of counteroffensive which is what we're talking about. Or do you expect me to ramble about random places on the map like you do?
Maybe the US military industrial complex should start producing some of those old Russian shovels and chips from washing machines? I’m starting to think Russia might have its own military industry in that big farmland of theirs 🤔
But at the end of that much-hyped counterthing, it turned out that Ukraine had lost more square km than it had gained. Could you explain that, Mr. Expert?
A lot of officers tried to attack on a concentrated front in WW1. It was clear after huge losses that the only way to have a chance at defeating such vast mutually supported trench systems is to attack on a wide front with adequate preparation. At least the Ukrainians knew not to concentrate their force, likely saved many lives.
Like you said, "without Air support". The West never came good with Air support. Ukraine still needs the jets to carry out successful offensives. Nato would never go into offence without air support. It's like sending the troops out with rubber bullets and saying. Hey, get on with it. Ukraine needs more Bradleys, Leopard 2s, F-16s, and Grippen fighter jets. Let's be real. Why does everyone ignore how much Ukraine has achieved without airpower or a Navay?
@@Mortablunt 8 to 1 is what the lying midget in Kremlin said. CIA estimates around 1 to 2 casualties, in Ukraine's favor. And even at worst of times, when Ukraine went to on its failed offensive, they destroyed Russian equipment at twice their own losses, according to Oryx. Oryx cannot lie, they only count kills that have video or photographic evidence. For the whole course of the war, Ukraine has lost around 440 tanks, Russia has lost 2,200 of 3,500. Parade army
Probably would have been a good idea to back Ukraine in the peace talks in March 2022. Instead we told them to keep fighting and now they will never get the deal that was on the table back then. This is what no one wants to admit in the West: the initial Russian invasion was not designed to occupy Ukraine, they only attacked with 190k troops. The Russian invasion and attack towards Kiev was intended to push Ukrainians to the negotiating table. They 100% succeeded in their goals. Ukraine started negotiating in March and even initialed a peace deal.
@@Djushie ? It’s actually the West that pretended to accept the Minsk deal when in fact they used the time to build up the Ukrainian Army. Russia has been direct and honest about its policy towards to Ukraine. It’s the West that has lied and misled them about our intentions. I would say friends don’t let friends get into wars they can’t win, and then friends certainly don’t sabotage peace talks that could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths and the destruction of an entire country.
@@Djushie actually it was Ukraine who pulled out of this treaty and was producing anti-Russian narratives long before 2014. Like their chief propagandist Arestovich said, they were behaving like stupid aggressive food.
They crossed the river not against all odds but at any cost! Played right into Russian playbook. Look at the comment of the guy who actually crossed.. they were played by the Kiev.
There is a more recent article (think it was WaPo as well) with soldiers from Krynki who (again) confirm the obvious, which is that droves of them are dying (even during the crossing) for what can only be described as a PR campaign
It’s crazy how people get lied to.. making them think they actually stand a chance.. that’s just baffling to me.. don’t people know what world we live in and that their lives really don’t matter in the greater scheme of things.. just crazy to me …🤔🤔🤔🤔
Well the tschetschens did it. And so did the afgahns. Russia is not an unbeatable force. They failed to take all of ukraine and while using basicly all their military force, they barly hold on to 1/5 of ukraine
@@sH-ed5yf u must be living under a rock all this years… it’s 2024 basically.. it’s a new era my man… new weapons technology.. Russia is fighting against all of NATO.. can u count how many nations that is lol.. guess who’s wining ?? Guess who’s going to win.. let me give u a heads up 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
This video seems more optimistic on Ukraine's chances of building a defensive line than what I would give them with Russia not only having more troops, but vastly more access to ammunition and air dominance of the region.
Trenches aren't that hard to dig with basic manpower, nor minefields to lay, as Russia has demonstrated. Russia has shown the ability to do limited area offensives with their better troops backing up basically wave attacks of prisoners, but nothing on a wide front since the first stage of the war - too many areas being held by conscripts, who are fine for holding trenches, but offensives are a whole different level of difficulty (as UKR knew going into the summer). It's all at a standstill, and likely will be so for the next few months.
Cope, Ukrainians are digging trenches in the middle of winter and they lack heavy equipment to create those trenches effectively (as opposed to Russia that has a lot of such equipment) @@TomG1555
The first month of offensive looked mostly Ukranian Armored Forces vs handful Russian Artillery Spotters. Which went as good as we saw. Because it is hard to detect 2-3 men team that do not fire at you and just inform big guns behind their back 40-60 km away. When Ukranians decided to send infantry without armor those spotters were easily pushed out and Ukranians started to gain land but increased casaulties for Ukranians armed forced greatly.
Body counts are not combat assessment. They are generally used to show progress when better measures of success are not showing positive indicators. We did this sort of thing in Vietnam and Afghanistan. IMO, it is deeply telling that the administration decided to release this particular metric.
you have to look at the strategy to determine what is the best indicator of success. West use land, but for the Russians it's men lost. The goal of Ukraine, is to regain their land. The goal of the west is to weaken Russia. The goal of Russia is to protect it's people and to improve their ability to defend against the west. The war style of Russia is attrition. The Ukraine on the other hand, is of desperation. Russia looks at men lost, because they are larger and have more men, and they are fighting a war of attrition. Land maybe their ultimate goal. but they want to weaken their enemy, before taking land. The last reliable source is that Russia is way out killing the Ukrainians. it's long ago, but the pentagon leak, has been verified as legitimate, by the arrest of the air national guard. Ukraine on the other hand is seeing even more land being lost. and the west can show progress in the war to justify even more donation to Ukraine. and the ultimate goal of the west is even worse. We are out of Ammo, while Russia is firing 10X more ammo than Ukraine, and we now know their factories can replace all lost tanks and fighters lost in the war and more. and the press is desperate to show the Russian economy is crashing, by saying the increase in GDP is only war time expenditure, and that their egg prices went up 40%, which is so out of touch, since my Egg prices more than double, and was told to expect it to keep going up. oh in your case, the best indicator is the support of the people. which I mention early . We lost the war, because the Vietnamese hated us more and willing to keep on dying. while out civilians was tired of deaths and so we had to pull out. Here is how it stacks now. Russia has a strong support for war. US , funding is being held back because more and more people are skeptical of the war. Europe is has gain one more anti-war head of state that join Hungary and Poland, is seeing more resistance. We might see continued support from Europe in the near future, but US might end soon. Ukraine civilians opinion might be moot, since by what I see, all the men are no longer civilians and they are running out.
@@slewone4905 You make some good points. Russia is able to use a metric like body counts because Ukraine is not able to fight a different type of war. If Ukraine was able to shatter Russia's logistics, for example, body counts would be irrelevant because they would not be able to sustain the fight for long. If they could shatter Russian morale and C2, the results would be almost instant. From your comment, it sounds to me that you're Ukrainian, and if that's the case I want to apologize, for my country (America), and the West in general. We should have threatened direct military intervention at the start. Russia would have never invaded if they thought they would have to fight America directly. Failing that, we should have given you all the material you needed from the start. Aircraft, tanks, missiles etc. without any restrictions on firing into Russia. I wish I could change our feckless leaders, who refuse to show strength against people like Putin, but unfortunately, there is little I can do but go on the internet and try to convince people we could be doing things a better way.
What a waste of our money for a country that doesn’t matter for the American people. Russia’s military is FAR larger and superior than it’s been since before the fall of the Soviet Union. Ukraine has suffered far, far more than Russia by multiple times the KIA/WIA. But western media of course rarely mentions that and most definitely never lists the actual horrifying numbers. What a shit show and shame for both countries. But, more importantly for us in the US, America is the biggest loser of this war. We’ve only gotten weaker on the world stage and more in debt than we already were.
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1:20 the invasion did not begin in 2024 but in 2022!
If you get your information from The Washington Post you sir are just a y.t propagandist like them
Experience*
LOL, what offensive? they have less land now than when they started lol, and they are now making their females and children fight as well due to the horrendous losses.
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"Don't worry about drones, we never had to deal with those in Iraq and Afghanistan"- Most of the US senior leadership.
Uh no? They literally just got a new air defence system DE M-SHORAD specifically for drones and other small projectiles?
@@greenhat7618Vs guys with Ak47?
@@anxel- what?
@@greenhat7618 I made the joke in jest since I was in the US Military. The problem is that they are just now bringing this into operation when the drone problem has been an issue for years at this point.
'Hey, don't worry about those landmines, just drive around the minefields'. I think i even heard something like that from an instructor in one of the DW reports when he was asked about it
Lesson number 1: Do not drink your own koolaid, dont believe in your own propaganda.
So true. Half the NPCs in the west still believe the propaganda - this video was full of delusional thinking based on propaganda only. Talking about 350k Russian casualties as a success when Ukraine TV admitted they have lost 1.2m, so only 350k for Russia is a major disaster for Ukraine, not a success.
This video was hard to watch😂😂😂the cope is amazing. Broke Ukraine wants to come up with it's own defense line in a month. They are done for
@@RUTHLESSambition5 cope
@@RUTHLESSambition5didnt russia say they'd take kyiv in less than 4 days and all of ukraine in less than a month or two? They've lost half of the territory they took and most offensives have failed but in yet they have convinced themselves they are winning the war outright. The russian government has even said they have blown up all the himars sent to ukraine too when in reality ukraine has lost no himars
@@cliftonjames785 no they never said that 😅😅
I remember when there was so much mockery of Russia's defensive lines. I guess the worst thing go do is underestimate your enemy
That is not underestimating. That is lying blatantly. remember all the time western media was claiming that Russia is losing badly? They kept on lying until the bitter end. And here we go, Ukranian minister announced they lost 500k men, and when we look at the map, do you see any advancement? Even this clown is one sided....Better check Douglas Macgregor or Judge Napolitano or even Mearsheimer....
Ukraine I can assure you know their enemy very well. They've been fighting them on and off for centuries.
Yes first thing i tought as well , peoples aside even most of the media outlets were making fun of Russian fortifictions. In a way they looked ww2 style ,outdated and shouldn't work at modern era but it did worked big time. I think there was also bit of a ecstasy of victory , Ukraine won massive victories at Kharkiv and Kherson so after that peoples tought those fortifictions were piece of cake.
Gotta give big credits to Sergei Surovikin , retreat is one of the hardest maneuver to pull off sucesfully and Kherson wasn't easy place to retreat from. Supplying Kherson wasn't easy but leaving it also wasn't easy both physically and mentally. They could have struggled there and lost so many , i think it would hugely favor Ukraine. Anyway sucesfull retreat there and building mass fortifictions at zaporizhia looked pathetic back then but it actually became turning point of the war. Now Ukraine preparing defenses who knows where this war will go...
Me too
Well, there mere fact that Ukraine decided to confront Russia was a joke of itself. Even with NATO help.
It was not the russian surveilance drones and spies that gave away the axis of attack. IT WAS UA MOD THAT POSTED A FREAKING TRAILER FOR IT LMFAO
🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫lol
The greatest lesson here is that one should never underestimate one’s enemy. I remember last year when everybody was making fun of Russia, saying they had already lost the war. The expectations of this counteroffensive were through the roof because they were based on the assumption that the Russian army was weak and inferior. The West also has this same mindset with regard to China, and so we have to be cautious here too.
Exactly..... like we lost or forgot history from WW2 and Napoleon how tough Russia is. Smh we cant seem to learn.
You sir are correct. But we also must admit that our media has not told the truth or dont "know" the truth of what happened at the start of the conflict. There seems to be a peace deal made that tricked russia to back off. Evidence UK prime minister visit at time and also putin has it on paper, who knows.
@@Jupiterxice
They believed that zelensky is better than Hitler and Napoleon combined
@@mohamedmido4866 Like sliced bread?
Russia is weak actually
However their nukes aren't
Before the offensive, the generals launched 8 combat simulations. They used a special computer called CORA for this.
-Well, it seems they played it on "easy" settings...
Creative mode was left ON
@@marinblaze lol 🤣🤣
Did you miss the part where Cora gave them only a 50/50 odds of success?
@@ronn9853Nop, Cora give 100% win
So true, just like your kid wanted to play Warzone and DMZ, finishing dead each time he launched a game.
I like how US planers just ignored civilian drones during planning just because US don’t use them😂
The American military is extremely arrogant. You can just tell the overall culture of arrogance by seeing our track record in recent wars. We haven’t triumph in a conflict since 1991 because we think military force console, fundamentally, political and social problems and we make the assumption that anybody who doesn’t think and act like an American, and want to join the American side and would oppose us is only doing it because they’re a stupid barbarian for no reason.
In russia it was exact the same issue.
High command totaly underestimate importance of drones at battlefield.
But it seems - lesson has been learned.
Because at any time the U.S. military wants it can focus satellites onto the battlefield and read nametags
@@HubertofLiegesummon the piss rain on enemy positions with super secret zaza technology stolen from ancient Egyptians?
@@mikhailkh8560yep Russia uses shaheeds like cruise missiles instead of tactical weapons which never made sense to me
"I recommend you check out the Washington Post article" - said with a straight face 😂
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Great comedy.
71 Leopards?! Really? That's hardly two armored regiments or battalions! It's delusional thinking to believe that just two armored regiments can be the spearhead of a strategic counter-offensive.
Its all propaganda media game for them. Forgot about real world and that no one actually cares.
Maybe if they were going to be used as pure Armored units, but they were used in correlation with IFVs that the West had sent them. Enough to give them one solid Brigade. When compared to the Armies of WWII, one Brigade at the right place could with the right conditions really mess up the opposing force day.
Zey ar Wunderwaffen!
Ukraine is short on equipment, facing an existential threat, heavily reliant on assistance from fickle allies, and fighting a war significantly different from those of the past, both due to proliferation of drones and the fact that the opposing militaries are only _partly_ modern. While the Ukrainians' plans _might_ have been delusional, believing yourself qualified to make that call almost certainly is.
And even if you _are_ one of the vanishingly few people in possession of the necessary information and expertise, then commenting on this video is stupid. Intelligence agencies get nervous when people in possession of classified information engage in public discussion on the topic, whether they reveal that information or not.
And only 50 of these were in place them, Spanish and Swedish Leopards 2s arrived very late.
Troops trained in Germany for a rapid advance were greatly slowed by muddy terrain in the Ukraine? Seems like I read about a similar story that occurred about 80 years ago. I must be mistaken though, otherwise the US leadership advisers would look really foolish.
The incompetent disaster known as General Mark Milley was involved.
Nato training is a joke
Why is nobody referencing that? FFS, it took place exactly where the current conflict is happening
Lmao. Rasputitsa strikes again! Hot damn!
Geting training from an army that hasnt fought a proper war since 1945
Lesson one: you can't fight companied arms warfare without combained arms
Lesson two: you can't just run through minefields with tanks and without mineclearing equipment
Lesson three: you can't go on offensive without proper airforce for offensive of this level
Just to be clear I am not blaming Ukraine they did best they could with what they had
Solution: send more money
@@Insideman666 And this is not happening. Ukraine defeated - qed.
@@Insideman666 The main problem, that USA and EU has enough money, they don't have factories and workers to build equipment. All Production lines now in Asia, where Russia has support.
whsat?
One is winning the propaganda war, another is winning the actual war. Kings and generals was a good channel. Thanks for all the great videos of ancient battles.
well said
Given KaG coverrage of current history, I highly doubt they ever did a good job at covering ancient history.
So I dont think they ever used to be a good channel
Yeah, that's basically all that Russia has at this point. Propaganda.
Yeah that channel ruined its credibility. The BS videos on Ukraine made ,e question every video they did😂😂😂😂 They push OBVIOUS lies and so does this channel. Sad sight
@@ottersirotten4290they had me fooled until I saw the Ukraine videos then I stopped watching, good lord it was hard to watch. Every video they did was BS. Made up facts 😂😂😂
I knew the offensive was not going to go well once European news outlets started referring to it as “the big push” like it was WWI again
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I don't get this none of the news agencies I watched said this. They just called it a counteroffensive with very moderate success
The big attacks coming too, the one that gets the Americans mad.
@@JoeyP946 But success never the less 🤣
Yeah I remember articles and videos showing simulations of the Russian defensive lines. Ukrainian tanks ramming the dragon teeth out of the way. Stormshadows knocking out Russian airfields and British Challengers moving ahead impervious to Russian antitank fire. The internet has made the average man and journalist to look at war as if its a action movie.
You mentioned Russian losses, and efforts to compensate, but I missed the part about Ukrainian losses, and what measures they might be taking to fill their ranks. Are they being dragged off the street and sent to fight? What age groups are they conscripting?
Apparently the Bradleys saved all those inside despite looking completely burnt out from the photos.
😂😂😂😂
This is the root cause of the failure of the counteroffensife, believing in one's own propaganda instead of facing reality. If they had listened to Zhaluzny they would've been in a better position today. That man is an excellent General
@@simonpriest4345yes probably with the crews losing one of their feet or Arms
I like Cappy and this channel, but this seems to be a major blindspot for them, to the point where I think it's somewhat intentional. The war is going badly for Ukraine but a lot of Pro Ukraine people don't want to admit it. I remember earlier videos where they claimed that the small gains made during the earlier offensives weren't that bad because the advancements made after D-Day were small too. Now a lot of Ukrainian gains are being whittled away by the Russians proving the skeptics right.
The American military geniuses who were really running the show have never gone into a battle without overwhelming air cover. The Russians have surveillance drones spotting anything that moves. They also had plenty of artillery and ammunition. The Ukrainian soldiers were told that when they contact Russian soldiers, the Russian would run away. They didn’t. What a disaster.
Very different than fighting Iraqis who were under sanctions for years and had a military completely devoid of any modernity.. Russia is a different level.. But Americans do not care. It’s not their soldiers dying. But Slavs. Who are not humans to the U.S.
The comment about air power on demand is false. Many times guys had to fight a determined sizable force in Afghanistan with no air power to be heard of, and zero artillery either. Facts
@@jeremyhansen8186Total nonsense. The Air Force is the backbone of the US way of war
@@jeremyhansen8186 we are not talking about small units fighting, we are talking about a major offensive planned by the Americans in Ukraine. Washington would never send its soldiers to break through a strong line of defense without air supremacy; Ukrainian soldiers are another matter. Ukrainian soldiers for the US are cannon fodder, expendable material with the help of which they want to harm Russia and weaken it. There are no other reasons for direct U.S. involvement in this conflict.
@@johnlenin830US sacrificed Ukraine on the altar of global hegemony. It did not please the Gods.
Wait, so a huge resource-rich country, with an advanced space program and aerospace industry, can make drones? SHUT UP! I don't believe it. 🙄🙄🤣🤣
Making several thousands of them per month too.
It was said " To the sea of AZOV by 9 June and in Crimea by the end of June on the beach , didn't get to the Surovikn first line , actually didn't get further than 10km from where they started from , I bet the people saying Russian weapons were junk are shocked.
The minefields made the difference. Offense is always harder than defense, which is why the Ukrainian leadership was trying to moderate optimistic Western expectations going in - they knew it was going to be hard going, though nobody expected the minefields to be as dense as they were. Point to Russia, they've adapted to what they have to work with. The back-and-forth continues...
@@etienne8110 ...problem is, the pro-RUS side has been proclaiming over and over that the war is essentially over/won for the past year+, and it keeps not happening. Neither side is capable of making a decisive breakthrough, and neither side really has the option of even entering negotiations, since Putin needs a decisive victory over UKR in order to not appear "weak" (which could be fatal to him as de facto tsar), UKR knows even a ceasefire in place works towards the eventual RUS resumption of the conflict down the road, and the only outcome RUS would consider acceptable is UKR becoming reduced to the status of a vassal state again. It's a real mess without any end in sight right now, once one lays aside wishful thinking and the propaganda by each side.
Dude, most pro-UA youtubers were laughing at Russian defensive lines prior to the offensive xD. They called them stupid and not knowing how to create trenches etc, look how that turned out. Mines are one thing, but there are other weapons that contributed heavily to Ukrainian losses (Ka-52, FPV drones, lancets, ATGMs, artillery etc).@@TomG1555
@cl1ntonbodycount652 Define clearly what "beat Russia" means, otherwise discussion of it goes nowhere, since everyone's interpretation of that is different and leaving it vague tends towards "no, what I *really* meant is..." moving-the-goalposts waste of time.
@cl1ntonbodycount652 Are you trying to claim that Russia killed 2 Million Ukraine conscripts in the past 2 years?
After twelve weeks they breached Russia's first line...
Three months. It took three months to beach a defensive line that Russia would have expected to have been broken within days.
No matter what shine you try to put on it, the offensive was already a failure before it was a month old. A catastrophic failure paid for in blood by young Ukrainian men.
Not many young men left. More like middle aged.
@@davidagudelo2435 i wasn't talking about bahkmut or avdiivka. Do your have an actual point?
Feel free to explain why your whataboutism makes the deaths of so many Ukrainians less pointless or tragic.
@@davidagudelo2435also when we can take prigozihin as an source did he claim that 10k regular russian soldirs died in bakhmut,10k prisoners and atleast 50k ukraniens confirmend, believe it or not but prigozihin talked honestly about the loses even if its an absolut disaster and even western like to quote him because he was the only russian than oppenly and confindent speak against the regime
@@davidagudelo2435 why would it be a failure? Russia is conquering the most fortified cities in the region, Avdivka is the place where the Ukrainians use to 💥 civilians in Donetsk, even their tactics were better than the Ukrainian, in both cases the Russians secured the flanks advancing first in the high ground and then imposing a tactical encirclement, forcing the Ukrainians in the most dangerous supply lines, furthermore, the Ukrainian continue to do the same mistakes, they defend at all costs, Zaluzhny was dismissed because he wanted to pull back from Avdivka, but Zelenskystein don't listen to his generals.
Russia fights tactical battles, Ukrainians fight propagandized battles with political objectives
@@davidagudelo2435
Lol look at the map now dude .
People love to talk about air superiority, but how are you going to get air superiority against an enemy with huge number of air defences. Just look at what happened in Vietnam. USA lost 10k aircraft thanks to Soviet air defences. You get air superiority only against starving countries
Exactly. Well said
Air Defenses are not the end all be all to counter air superiority, look at the Gulf War or OIF. advancements in technology and intelligence allowed for Air power to effectively and accurately target anti air instalations and batterys. I'm confident that western Air power beats soviet Anti air in a modern war today.
Look at the iraq war, thats the example you should look at, not the vietnam war, the rolling thunder campaign was unsuccessful not due to military reasons but political reasons, the vietnam war didnt really have standoff weapons against enemy defensive systems but now we do, + most aircraft were lost due to gunfire because they flew at low altitudes to avoid missiles, autocannons arent really used as anti aircraft now a days, + US air doctrine is much more refined, youre forgetting that the vietnam war was one of first with jets and missiles together
@@ikbalshaikh3614 iraq is a horrible example bro . The iraqi army was a complete joke .
@matthewvargas2264 The Iraq army had hundreds of SAM and anti Air batteries... my father was in the air guard during the gulf War and OIF and can attest that the air cover was no match for western stealth jets and bombers but it was definitely not a slouch of air cover
I was one of the people who landed across Kherson. Lost my arm. We didn't have covering artillery fire for way to long, and the Moscovians just kept shelling us and we didn't even have trenches. We were told to not even being sleeping bags lol. Freezing nights, no shovels. Exciting boat trip though.
Шо, сынку? Помог тебе твой контрнаступ?)
@@filosov чи можете ви принаймні говорити краще мовою. Контрнаступ на півдні успішний поки що, поки його тримати. але схоже, можливо, нам доведеться повернутися назад.
@@Irewiking88 mogę mówić lepszym językiem. Problem w tym, że w kontronastup włożono dużo pieniędzy. I pieniądze nie wasi, a europejskie i amerykańskie. Ale nie ma rezultatu. Dlaczego więc Europa powinna inwestować pieniądze na Ukrainie jeśli to nie przynosi rezultatu?
In other words they send you in to a suicide mission so western media can report positive about that doom offensince ?!? Not a single country from the Nato would did this "counter offensive" because the generall would go in to jail after this.
Im sorry your leaders did this to you. You must inspire other Ukrainians to march on Kiev and remove zelensky. How can anyone support a section of the line being held by only women? Or support pregnant women being in combat? Women storm squads? It's pure evil from the leaders.
Biggest lesson, don't underestimate your enemy. Ukraine lost so many troops for such a small achievement.
No, they lost so many troops because NATO and the Biden regime sabotaged the peace steel worked out in March 2022. Since then Ukraine has lost hundreds of thousands of its best and bravest men and the war
The western taught Ukrainians how to look down and underestimate Russian army and they got hammered down, 😂😂😂😂😂
@@samuellopesbaule5745 HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Hammered down? This "2 day special operation" was hammering???
@@b2seriousпрояви свой интеллект и узнай источник этого заблуждения который вы так яростно смакуете
@@samuellopesbaule5745 Did you even watch the video?? Ukraine literally didn't do what the west recommended and went with their own plan which didn't work.
It is often repeated that the 1939 war between the USSR and Finland was won by the latter. In reality, Finland had to accept the peace agreement proposed by the USSR, which included the delivery of 11% of its territory and 30% of its economy to Russia.
This.
So many times I heard this lie as a Swede. How the brave finns won against the USSR.
They were offered a deal which they refused, war ensued, at the end of the war they had to concede much more than the initial suggestion, which you do not do if you win.
@Wifyish regretfuly that might be the end for Ukraine but you cant blame them: if a thug enters your house and you have a gun you defend it.
Ukraine might ask for terms but not yet
Almost.
The goal of the invasion was to take over Finland and make it another "Socialist Republic". That failed. So Finland won in the sense that they kept their independence.
@@chainoad source?
@@chainoadfinland totaly surrender to the red army and they president and 2k of they highest people was send to a prison or a gulag, just because stalin wanted them as a bufferzone are the reason why they get not occupied
If you've listened to "The Duran" and "The New Atlas" you would have seen this failed offensive miles away.
Those guys are consistently pro Russia , they'll never admit a single defeat of Russia.
This time they were right but many times they have been wrong
@@sababugs1125Very important to read and watch both sides (and yes propaganda) to keep oneself “honest”.
I think everyone who knew anything about the conflict realized that the counter offensive was going to be hard to pull off. Without airpower, you can't really assault positions like that. Desert Storm still provides so many lessons to this date. The reason why the ground forces has such an easy time of it in Desert storm was the intensive bombing campaigns that destroyed 70% of Iraq's artillery before the first US troop had an engagement. The Iraqis also built a massive series of defensive lines, with mines and layers of trenches (however I don't think anyone has ever built a minefield like the one in Ukraine, this is Crazy Ivan level of mines) but they were bombed all up and down the trenchline and in front and in back. After the first set of works was breached, the tank drivers said they just used the plows on the tanks to bury the soldiers hiding in the trenches and rolled on. In Ukraine, you cant get within sight of the defensive works before artillery has spotted you and started firing. The Anti tank weapons of today are ahead of the armor in the forever arms & armor race and neither side really has a competent airforce capable of effectively performing hunter killer missions against enemy support units, like artillery and air defense, or performing substantial bombing attrite the defensive lines. The only long range fires either side has is artillery or cruise missiles. Sure they CAN drop bombs and do, but I'm talking about a high tonnage over a relatively short time. You'd want to have 70% attrition on that first defensive line before you even start the offensive.
Like your posting makes sense, also artillery is critical to the longer range fighting on front line
The 😊drones are now the greatest danger as we all see the Ukraine RPG straped to a drone & explosion 💥boom turret toss of the Toss 1 , thermobaric weapon million dollars to build destroyed by a 10 dollar RPG strapped to a Drone Boo🎆
I closely followed the actions of the armed forces of Ukraine, they did what they can - methodically destroying all logistic they could reach, all air defence and artillery to make at least a little easier to ground forces to push... But minefields were really crazy.
Also Ka-52 helicopters were serious threat to ground forces as their rockets can be fired from small atittude from 12-15 km distance. AFU have destroyed big quantity of these helicopters only when received ATACMS in October (a way too late)
@@daejavue69 Yeah, drones have changed warfare. It seems very hard to stop the sheer number of drones and they provide a cheap form of guided weapons and reconnaissance compared to what used to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions to produce something with the same capabilities 10-15 years ago. Still, it doesn't replace the tonnage that is dropped by a capable airforce. Of course artillery is crucial and with drone spotters its become deadly accurate, but the way you counter artillery is by destroying them from the air. The little FPV drones with Rpgs just dont have the range to strike the backline support units, nor are they able to lift and drop tons of ordinance to decimate enemy force concentrations.
copium, not how yall talked before it happened
@@devilik3692 Well, I thought so anyways. The offensive came too late and without the tools they needed to be successful.
The tankman in the first shots, wearing a helmet and goggles. That's a friend of mine. Sergeant Vyacheslav Bashta. He rammed an enemy BMP-2 on this mine trawl. He fought in the 25th Airborne Brigade. The photo was taken during the offensive in Kharkov region. He was a very good friend and soldier. He died a brave death in the autumn of 2022 near Liman.
RIP
He probably killed 70 Russians and saved 1000 children while dying... Am i right???
May he rest in Peace. Niech spoczywa w pokoju. PL🤝 UA
Slava Russia!
@@genem895 Wow you are so cool, baysed, smegma mail, giga chode
The WaPo article was also scrutinized by Ukrainian war correspondents. There was also a third direction of the offensive towards Vasylivka, to cover the western flank of the operation. In hindsight, Gen Milley’s idea to concentrate all of the available forces in the main direction of Robotyne would have been a huge gamble that would have also failed but with bigger losses because of the exposed flanks. Regardless, the elephant in the room is that the amount of military aid to Ukraine is absolutely inadequate for conducting offensive operations, despite the huge stockpiles of weapons the US has accumulated during the Cold War. The US has over 6000 tanks, over 11000 IFVs, 1400 MLRS, and so on. The fraction it has made available to fight Russia is so minuscule makes you question its intentions in supporting Ukraine.
WaPo article also has an element of a political request to shift the blame to the Ukrainian army. But how do you expect a combined arms offensive to work without air support and without combined arms? Ukraine simply did not have enough armor in the direction of Robotyne: 100 Bradley’s, 18 Leopard 2s, and Soviet tanks. This is nothing. And, drones were apparently an even bigger problem than mines.
yes I thought I was the only one who detected an implication between the lines in that article that "if only the US generals had been followed" "if only american plans were followed then it would have been a success" we have no way of knowing what would have happened if that was the case and we have zero evidence to support it wouldnt have been worse
Erwin Rommel was quite good at using defensive tactics as a means of attriting a numerically superior force. Maybe Ukraine is playing his game.
@@falconeaterf15
If they are, they're not doing as well of a job. And even if they were, they'd still lose, just as Germany lost, and for the same reasons. 🤷
Ukraine isn't supposed to win. They are given enough equipment to stay in the fight but not enough to defeat Russia.They are being used to degrade Russias military capabilities. Everything else is secondary to that mission. U
@@huntergatherer7796 suppose that’s the strategy of Jake Sullivans et al (the very cohort of Kissinger students who led to this mess). So “degrade” not by defeating it, but just a little nibble😂? Don’t you sense the nonsense in this? Russian army is getting hardened on the battlefield, adopting to new tactics, has gained advantage in drone warfare, and its munitions factories are working in three shifts. And the fact that Poland is preparing for a possible war with Russia is also telling.
I think you’re more of pro Ukrainian than neutral commentator.
A smart man
It’s the only way he can be monetized.
This is a good teachable moment for the US Military. When you can't do combined arms, what do you do? Ukraine has done a good job with the forces they have. I'm sure in the future there will be a lot of What If History channels asking what if F-16's were present during the counterstrike. Also I wonder who will get the contract for a demining system that can handle the mine density the Russians laid down.
At that phase, that really bothered me that there was a sense of outrage that Ukraine had rejected a combined arms doctrine that they were physically not able to do. Hindsight is 20/20, but the process of transferring F-16s should have began the moment they were requested. Hell, I would have pushed for F-35s, but I suppose that's why they don't let me make important foreign policy decisions.
F 16s would have been pointless since Ukranian and Russian military doctrines both operate on the assumption that they will not have air superiority. The problem was that Ukranians and their Western backers started to actually believe their own hype. The real opportunity for Ukranians was immediately after the Kharkov offensive when they should have struck in the direction of Crimea instead of getting bogged down defending Bakhmut.
@@NonEuclideanTacoCannonPutin said nato jets in Ukraine will only escalate this whole thing.
@@NonEuclideanTacoCannon How funny you are... Russia uses 5% of their army, has economy growth of 5%, military production inhrease of 10fold. Your economies are plummeting and warehouses being emptied... yet here you are wet dreaming 🥲.
@@mw9297 "Putin said..." :D
Lessons from "counteroffensive":
1. Don't run headfirst into a f*cking concrete wall for 6 months.
2. Don't take the advice from "superpowers" who only punched down at farmers and goatherds armed only with soviet surplus for the last 80 years and still managed to lose most of those.
3. Don't drink your own Koolaid.
There is not element of surprise in todays battlefields.
Satellites, drones, awacs, etc. are aware of all movements and make it impossible to amasse enough forces in a limited area to break through russian defenses.
I've been thinking the same these past few years. With modern technology such as drones and satellites, coupled with the fact that every nation is basically spying on one another at all times, is the element of surprise even *possible* in today's world with modern technology? Seems extremely difficult to maintain the element of surprise, if not outright impossible.
Thats not true. Look how Israel got suprised.
@@dmitriyzhukov9193It is possible that that country was not caught by surprise. They have a reputation for having one of the best intelligence agencies in the world, especially when used against their enemies. I suspect it's true they weren't surprised. By they, I mean the people in power.
@@dmitriyzhukov9193 The thing is, not many people believe that Israel was caught by surprise. There is strong evidence that the Israeli government were warned numerous times, yet didn't do much to prevent it. Same sort of situation as Pearl Harbor and 9/11. The government knew an attack was being planned and was coming, but for whatever reason, they failed to take the appropriate measures to protect against it.
I do not personally believe that the Israeli government and IDF 'upper brass' were legitimately caught by surprise. That's just my own personal opinion though.
@@dmitriyzhukov9193 I think we are talking about different things. I am talking about a war between two peer armies fighting each other, not about a group of militants attacking a line border. By the way!! Israel got information about Hamas preparing an attack from different sources (Egypt inteligence) and decide to do nothing .
Ukraine is mobilising 500,000 including women to an already 1,000,000 army... so the figure of 300,000 lost is probably not far off
No way 300k lost. More like they need to refresh the troops in the front to rest until Spring and Summer to keep pushing. They know Russia either will lack in manpower and they need to entrenchment the frontline.
lol, they recently banned demobilization and lowered the age of conscription. Are you still sure they couldn't have lost 300k?@@mariano98ify
@@mariano98ify Russia will lack in manpower?!😂
@@scale6977 in young people as skilled workers, yes.
When we compare the amount of armor that Germany used in 1941 in Ukraine to the amount of armor Ukrainian forces were given to break through Russian defenses we can only conclude that Ukrainian forces will need nearly a thousand tanks to break through. The Ukrainian army has to be able to absorb the loss of dozens of tanks in an attack and not even blink. Unfortunately the West has been fighting small conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan where small units were predominantly used. Well guess what, this is a war on the scale of WWII in the Eastern Front.
They don't have the manpower anymore. You can give them all the equipment you want, but if there are no men to man that equipment then it is a waste of time..
They already lost. This is propag
The US has thousands of tanks in storage. We gave them what, a few hundred? Which we still won’t let them use (perhaps because it looks bad for Russians to kill US tanks?).
@@Ordoabchao-x9kEveryone lied.
The USSR left Ukraine as a gift in 1991 (in addition to vast territories and nuclear power plants) more than 6,000 of the world's best tanks and more than 1,100 military aircraft and military factories that produced both tanks and aircraft carriers (!!!). As of January 1, 2013, Ukraine had more than 2,300 tanks, 3,780 armored vehicles, 3,100 artillery systems, 500 combat aircraft, 120 attack helicopters.
So the counteroffensive has clearly failed 👍👍👍
no kidding, US has 11,000 IFVs, it donated 200+ to Ukraine. Meanwhile Russia deploys its entire Cold War stock of weapons to murder people in Ukraine. US is not serious. US is confused. And it’s receding on the world stage.
Reporters have near zero caution in sharing those images and recordings, and it makes their interviewees less safe.
Not only that but the hype for the offensive was too much
"The results might have been different with a different plan" Pure genius! 🤣
The Ukrainians downfall was to allow nato officers to train them. How can someone who hasn’t dodged a grenade before teach you how to escape a grenade? Everything they teach them only works in Afghanistan and Iraq but not in a real war against an enemy in the stature of Russia.
Smell like coping, river crossing doesnt change anything and they just stay in there
And in the end they were slaughtered, Ukraine must surrender
The counteroffensive was the most telegraphed military move of all time and there was zero chance of hiding its targets from Russia. Concentrating as much as possible was the only play and I don't understand why the Ukrainians thought differently.
Maybe they were too over confident, maybe they wanted the russians to think that it would be a repeat of the kherson offensive that was hyped and then ukraine hit another front too that they didnt anounce
Because while it gives you a higher chance at a successful counteroffensive, it also gives you a higher chance of catastrophe if your counteroffensive fail and your enemy attacks elsewhere.
Gathering a concentration of forces for an offensive in secret is practically impossible nowadays with recon drones and satellite remote sensing.
That's BS. Intelligent people know it does not matter if you throw 1 or 10 battalions into a sea of mines.
In hindsight the correct move would have been to just not try a fast attack at all and do it the slow infantry way from the start. Or attack somewhere with less mines.
The real shocking mistake is that they where surprised by the amount of mines. Why was that not known?
@@L3v3LLIP Because mines are under the ground..?
Так в комментариях правы. Но все совершенно забыли одну очень важную вещь: к этой войне Украина готовилась последние 8 лет. Её накачивал "весь цивилизованный мир" оружием и инструкторами. Даже уже давно есть "налог на войну" на Украине. Так же ещё все забыли, что сама же Украина заявляла, что у неё "ВТОРАЯ АРМИЯ В МИРЕ/ЕВРОПЕ"!!!))) И первой была не Россия....)))
I really appreciate the Ukraine content. As the Middle East enters the spotlight, attention is fading toward the most important war of the century. I really hope that soon we can get some good news about the European front.
there doesn't appear to be much interest in the topic anymore from the viewers but I will continue to cover it anyway
Thank you Chris!@@Taskandpurpose
@Taskandpurpose thank you , this is a very important war and it cannot be forgotten about
Result. The Ukrainian offensive completely failed, it was an ordinary PR campaign paid for with the lives of Ukrainian soldiers. * New* NATO equipment or equipment from the USSR is nothing when the fields are mined and dozens of drones and Lancets are flying over you. The Russian army is slowly but inevitably moving forward, and the Ukrainian command, after 2 years of war, remembered that it was necessary to build defensive structures in winter (when the ground freezes). Oh yes, there is also a Ukrainian landing party on rubber boats, which is pressed to the bank of the Dnieper River and is being destroyed by the Russian artillery. The author of the video calls it *a small victory for the Ukrainian army*. OK:) Now think about why the Russians are not trying to eliminate this suicidal breakthrough of the Ukrainian infantry completely? But they give new and new Ukrainian soldiers the opportunity to arrive on this small piece of land. There is no doubt that the most combat-ready brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been lost, their defenses will be broken by the superior forces of the Russian Army next year, then peace negotiations on the terms of the Kremlin.
Yeah, no one talks about Yemen nowadays
Ukraine's military forces spent months flooding social media platforms with their Hollywood style counter offensive hype trailers.
Russia spent two decades polluting the internet with "ROSSYIA STRONK" propaganda.
@@ChucksSEADnDEADvery less evidence hav been found for that
I'm not sure why they keep talking up the amphibious landings on the Kherson side. Russia hasn't cleared out the beaches because it's better for them to keep letting Ukraine send troops over that they can destroy.
Hard to have the element of surprise when you publish your plans openly for months ahead of time.
Clearly War is very complicated. The planners and strategists carry a heavy burden as well as the soldiers having their legs and other body parts blown off. Your videos helps a simple person like myself almost understand how complicated and horrific war can be. Thank you for your excellent work.
US marines are nothing without war
@@kingsman3087 fast, small war with comfotable seat and happy meal
@Readthis880they have to walk back all the way to the Dnipro..
@@kingsman3087did you know that they can also participate in disaster relief and emergency rescue response? I just learned that military not only kills but, they can save, such as the coast guard. 😮
So many excuses for Ukraine’s complete and utter failure.
People can't accept failure and making 20 minutes vedio to only to make excuses for it it's basically ironic
Let them cope with the situation
Counter offensive failed, bro. They didnt even take their minimum objective, which was the city of Tokmak. And honestly tho, mines did play a role. But Russian KA-52s, recon and ATGM teams ate the bulk of Ukrainian offensive. What is it with westerners always trying so hard to minimize Russian resolve. "oh.... it was just the mines". Bro, even the mine laying is commendable. But you go for mines, because its the furthest from any direct prowess. Kinda pathetic. This is "Russian winter" and "burning of Moscow" all over again. ThAtS thE OnLY RAeSon ThEy wOn! lol.
Spot on
least obvious russian bot:
The info on how mines were stacked was very interesting to hear. Thanks for making this video, your content is great as always
Iraqis did that too in mid 2000s.
@@tieroneoperator635 well they learned that from the soviets.
They are not stacked but it is just a dense minefield. Instead of 1 per 2 square feet, Russia put 4 per 2 Square feet.
Regarding the captured Bradley; there's a video on YT of a museum in Russia containing captured western military equipment. Some of them are vintage, but there's a large display of equipment captured in Ukraine including drones, various tanks, and Bradleys.
The museum of NATO's shame.
All these ukranian fanboys won’t talk about the losses
@@lorddaquanofhouserastafari4177Lets talk about the losses according to OSINT then and tell me which side has lost more vehicles. Visually confimed 😂😂😂
@@davidagudelo2435referring to proven low-quality / fake Oryx numbers? Same Oryx that announced stopping their work after the failed counteroffensive 😂
@@mrdoerp Funnily enough, I still seem their numbers done after the offensive, and until you show me a visually confirmed database other than Oryx I will trust them more than "Telegram authored post number 7" and "salty ruzzian troll number 3 on youtube". :*
The thought of western militaries playing combat mission Black Sea would be funny, awesome and scary at all at once.
It's time the West starts showing some strength again. We have been weak and lazy for too long
Combat Mission is very heavily flawed to the point of being unrealistic.
6:40
I'm rewatching the Great War series right now (the week by week by thr great war channel) and god damn this feels familiar
You are correct. See W2 Battle of Kurst. The Russians todays type defensive system that their Soviet grand parents used to defeat the Russian combined with modern high tech communications, drones precision guided missile..
@@scouterstu5856 I'd compare it more to the german hindenburg line from WW1 as Kursk were mainly temporary fortifications while the Surovikin line just as the hindenburg line have a more permanent character. It remains to hope that just like the allies in 1918 Ukrainian tactics catch up with the defense.
The Hindenburg Line was broken, among other things, by the fact that the Entente only "bit out" a kilometer or so at a time, fortified it and then waited for the Germans to counterattack, which led to higher losses for the Germans and, in combination with material superiority and a better supply situation, ultimately led to Germany's defeat. Whether Ukraine will have the same conditions depends on whether Russia's puppets in the West, such as the AFD in Germany or Orban in Hungary, do not achieve a majority after all.
That channel really is exceptional
Cappy you do a great job mixing your experience and research and this video is a perfect example of this. Keep up this fantastic work!
I tried my best, thank you for watching glad some people found it valuable in some way
Western armies training Ukrainian army how to lose a war. As if western armies won in Vietnam, Afghanistan and other other parts of the world. Pathetic.
Western Armies know how to win… it’s just their methods need all the stuff Ukraine doesn’t have.
@@luigimrlgaming9484 bros trying to argue with russian bots
Kinda hard to have combined forces movements when you lack half of the combined forces types. With their initiative blown, and no air power there was absolutely zero chance of success raming through minefields and entrenched bunker systems. Lacking air power eliminated any hope of success. And lacking long range missles means the opposite side can stack their defence tight to the front.
Yes, there was zero chance of success, but the Americans encouraged to go forward and die for nothing anyway.
Air power does not disable mine fields.
Combined arms means the combination of arms, it doesn't require ALL types of arms.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD So in other words, you can only fight when conditions are perfect. Also, American and other NATO officers not only helped plan and signed off on the Ukrainian counter-offensive, but have since admitted that the results were much worse than they expected. Expected. They knew that the Ukrainians didn't have air power, and expected them to win anyway.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I think you'll find I stated that there is no quick way through a minefield and entrenched positions. But with the air space under control it would allow the mine clearing to be done without artillery falling on your head.
@@garethmartin6522 the point of combined forces is that it allows movement in less than ideal conditions. Where 1 part is disadvantaged another has an advantage. This working together results in a more likely advance. Also, US and NATO pushed for a different strategy than what Ukraine wanted to do (and did do). Good thing too because if they went with the US plan (lacking air cover as they did and do) 5he mechanized losses would have been huge. And infantry would have been worse. The US and NATO are so used to air supremacy for so long that they don't understand using ground forces without it. Had the F-16s been in theater with trained pilots things may and I say may have been different. But 2 miles deep minefields will be a problem if the opposing force can offer even limited resistance.
Did NATO seriously think that it could defeat the Russian army? 🐻
NATO isn't fighting the Russians
Didn't Russian tanks get stolen by fucking Sacha and his old soviet tractor?@@OniksR
@@joshjwillway1545 🤡
@@joshjwillway1545 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sure, they're just "advising"... Whatchu be smokin', Willis!??
Imagine if NATO was fighting this war,bearing in mind how badly you've done against little Ukraine in 2 years?
The only reason NATO hasn't gone in is Putin's finger on his nukes.
Spoken with a few war vets it’s the fact they’re human and not just robots.
Ranging from my grandpa in ww2 to the Yugoslav civil war.
Russians stopped the whole NATO and its subordinates in Ukraine. What a brave and smart defense!
Yall mfers are coping hard
what happened is they underestemated Russia and put to much fate in NATO equipment
Lol everyone know who isnt read propaganda ukraine cant break through. But zalenszkij have no other option because if they didnt attack they wont get money
Pretty sad when we can’t get updates like this from journalists… keep up the good work Cappy
You're right. Journalists actually take the time to learn how to pronounce city names (Ro-bot-any. Not "ROBO-TEEN". Jesus christ).
@@picklethepirate ah yes… pronunciation is always so easy
@@picklethepirate who am I kidding… nobody really cares how it’s pronounced, he’s actually reporting on it unlike the entirety of Western Media
@@adamzuraitis3267 I like this channel for the video reviews of new military tech, but i find him very unreliable about actual wars. i read the NYT & WaPo articles about UKR every day, as well as listen to two podcasts from the Russian side. T&P is in line with the rose-tinted goggles WaPo has - pure UKR bias. Don't believe him. For pro-NATO stuff, NYT at least reports when bad things happen to UKR. Even if they get their $60 billion, it's over.
What update? The real update is that Ukraine has lost and they better start negotiating for peace. If you want actual interviews with Ukraine soldiers, check out the BBC.
The cope of this video is off the charts.
The New York times.
Totally not propaganda.
100 percent safe and effective.
The NYT is a true game changer in the world of journalism.
Ukrainian is losing the war even though the media says the were winning..........(shocked face)😏😏😏
Can’t trust a thing general milley says.
Anyone who thought this conflict would end any other way but Russia coming out on top clearly hasn’t learned anything from history.
It's amazing how few people understand that war isn't about what you have on paper or what your doctrines are so much as the 'snowball effect' of a mobilized society.
Russia has lost most of its wars. But ok.
Oh the irony of this comment. As if Russia has won every war in Its history. Maybe you should dust off the old history books and give it a good read to freshen up your knowlege.
History? Like that of Chechnya, Afghanistan, Finland, Poland, Iran or Japan?
@@mopbot40k99 They have a better track record than the US in the last 100 years what are you talking about
The biggest problem Ukraine faces in this war is a constant underestimating of Russian capabilities and minimization/dismissal of their military might. That goes for almost everyone involved in "cheering" for Ukrainians. The West thought Russia would collapse under sanctions - they were wrong. Then the constant propaganda where almost no Ukrainian losses are painted to an average viewer, but Ukrainians know what kind of hell they are in. There are more examples, but Russia took almost everything it wanted. Now we have a meatgrinder where neither side can make any significant advances. This is terrible news for Ukraine. A quarter of their country is under Russian control and human life is degraded to cannon fodder! Not so promising
Oh Russia does simply not care to make advances.
It's an offensive defense. You create a heavily fortified wall and then just attack from there.
Even when you see in videos in the regions around the lines on the map, those are just scout unites.
Congrats on the engagement, sir!
Lesson 1: you cannot be "slightly" at war. To win you need to provide all required materials and scale up production accordingly and be 100% committed as allies. No political games, nothing.
The defenders had the element of surprise
No plan would've succeeded... Russia had assessed all options and was prepared for all.
😆 So Russia humiliated themselves on purpose?
they're intentionally lettting the "3 day special military operation" extend by multiple years😂😂
This channel has so many smart people in the comments section, a couple of basic "three days" guys even doesn't ruin the impression.
The counteroffensive turned into a counter-retreat😄
They are still where they stopped, they didn't retreat mr Z. Or do you have some alternative facts? :D
@@martincerny3294 Mayorsk, Pavlovka, Opytnoye, Kurdyumovka, Khromovo
@@Paladingarold I thought we're talking about the counter offensive, not some random villages in different parts of the front. Lol.
@@martincerny3294 wait. You said the Ukrainians are still where they stopped. I've given you a list of villages that the Russians liberated in November and December 2023
@@Paladingarold yes, in terms of counteroffensive which is what we're talking about. Or do you expect me to ramble about random places on the map like you do?
Он с таким восхищением рассказывает про то, как украинцы обосрались, что начинаешь думать, что они не обосрались, а победили.
We saw what happened. They get demolished
American paper general with 0 war experience giving advice on strategy 😂🤡
This video aged so bad.
Maybe the US military industrial complex should start producing some of those old Russian shovels and chips from washing machines?
I’m starting to think Russia might have its own military industry in that big farmland of theirs 🤔
But at the end of that much-hyped counterthing, it turned out that Ukraine had lost more square km than it had gained. Could you explain that, Mr. Expert?
It's quite easy to explain really: Ukraine didn't loose more square km than it had gained. End of discussion.
A lot of officers tried to attack on a concentrated front in WW1. It was clear after huge losses that the only way to have a chance at defeating such vast mutually supported trench systems is to attack on a wide front with adequate preparation. At least the Ukrainians knew not to concentrate their force, likely saved many lives.
Like you said, "without Air support". The West never came good with Air support. Ukraine still needs the jets to carry out successful offensives. Nato would never go into offence without air support. It's like sending the troops out with rubber bullets and saying. Hey, get on with it. Ukraine needs more Bradleys, Leopard 2s, F-16s, and Grippen fighter jets. Let's be real. Why does everyone ignore how much Ukraine has achieved without airpower or a Navay?
@@MortabluntThats nonsense because nobody knows the casualty rates. You are obviously a Putin troll.
@Mortablunt you have that back to front
@@Mortablunt 8 to 1 is what the lying midget in Kremlin said. CIA estimates around 1 to 2 casualties, in Ukraine's favor. And even at worst of times, when Ukraine went to on its failed offensive, they destroyed Russian equipment at twice their own losses, according to Oryx. Oryx cannot lie, they only count kills that have video or photographic evidence.
For the whole course of the war, Ukraine has lost around 440 tanks, Russia has lost 2,200 of 3,500. Parade army
@@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 Go reference the MediaZona-BBC joint project. Even by their 'assumed' estimate, it's under 50,000. I'll wait. :)
@@dmitriyzhukov9193 Mom, that man hurt my feelings, what do I do?
Mom: Call him a Russian troll.
Ukraine has lost the war...dont you think properly?
Unfortunately, as soon as The Washington Post was mentioned as a source, the credibility immediately dropped.
Probably would have been a good idea to back Ukraine in the peace talks in March 2022. Instead we told them to keep fighting and now they will never get the deal that was on the table back then. This is what no one wants to admit in the West: the initial Russian invasion was not designed to occupy Ukraine, they only attacked with 190k troops. The Russian invasion and attack towards Kiev was intended to push Ukrainians to the negotiating table. They 100% succeeded in their goals. Ukraine started negotiating in March and even initialed a peace deal.
The Ukraine will go down in history as NATO's first sacrificial pawn in WW3. America used them the same way the fuhrer did lol.
Russian deals aren't worth the paper they are printed on. See the Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty of 1997.
Friends don't let friends trust Russia.
@@Djushie ? It’s actually the West that pretended to accept the Minsk deal when in fact they used the time to build up the Ukrainian Army. Russia has been direct and honest about its policy towards to Ukraine. It’s the West that has lied and misled them about our intentions. I would say friends don’t let friends get into wars they can’t win, and then friends certainly don’t sabotage peace talks that could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths and the destruction of an entire country.
@@Djushie actually it was Ukraine who pulled out of this treaty and was producing anti-Russian narratives long before 2014. Like their chief propagandist Arestovich said, they were behaving like stupid aggressive food.
@@Djushie yeah and the Ukraine went and had a coup and decided to join NaTO as well as disenfranchising ethnic Russians in the East.
the elemwnt of surprise is gone the moment they release a trailer about their counter offensive 😂😂
Congratulations! Lovely to hear that you've got engaged. Thanks for all your hard work and reporting.
He spreads Ukraine propaganda. Destroyed all his credibility for Ukraine views.
Even the Nazi Symbols and NATO equipment couldn't save them.
They crossed the river not against all odds but at any cost! Played right into Russian playbook.
Look at the comment of the guy who actually crossed.. they were played by the Kiev.
There is a more recent article (think it was WaPo as well) with soldiers from Krynki who (again) confirm the obvious, which is that droves of them are dying (even during the crossing) for what can only be described as a PR campaign
The soldiers I talked to said they expected one demining vehicle for 4 combat vehicles. The result was one demining vehicle for 70 combat vehicles.
7:10 Funny, on a map on that scale, a village so small like Robotyne would never appear as a dot.
Yep, he’s a pro Ukrainian bot, he still don’t get it, the USA proxy is doomed.
It’s crazy how people get lied to.. making them think they actually stand a chance.. that’s just baffling to me.. don’t people know what world we live in and that their lives really don’t matter in the greater scheme of things.. just crazy to me …🤔🤔🤔🤔
Well the tschetschens did it. And so did the afgahns. Russia is not an unbeatable force. They failed to take all of ukraine and while using basicly all their military force, they barly hold on to 1/5 of ukraine
@@sH-ed5yf u must be living under a rock all this years… it’s 2024 basically.. it’s a new era my man… new weapons technology.. Russia is fighting against all of NATO.. can u count how many nations that is lol.. guess who’s wining ?? Guess who’s going to win.. let me give u a heads up 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
the author of the video left CNN toilet, it’s hard for him to admit the mistakes of his “invincible USA”@@moonlander03
This video seems more optimistic on Ukraine's chances of building a defensive line than what I would give them with Russia not only having more troops, but vastly more access to ammunition and air dominance of the region.
Trenches aren't that hard to dig with basic manpower, nor minefields to lay, as Russia has demonstrated. Russia has shown the ability to do limited area offensives with their better troops backing up basically wave attacks of prisoners, but nothing on a wide front since the first stage of the war - too many areas being held by conscripts, who are fine for holding trenches, but offensives are a whole different level of difficulty (as UKR knew going into the summer). It's all at a standstill, and likely will be so for the next few months.
Cope, Ukrainians are digging trenches in the middle of winter and they lack heavy equipment to create those trenches effectively (as opposed to Russia that has a lot of such equipment) @@TomG1555
Russia has not demonstrated any offensive capablities since the first days of the war
@@JamesBond-ss8uy suuuure buddy, Russia captured more territory in 2023 in ukraine
The first month of offensive looked mostly Ukranian Armored Forces vs handful Russian Artillery Spotters. Which went as good as we saw. Because it is hard to detect 2-3 men team that do not fire at you and just inform big guns behind their back 40-60 km away. When Ukranians decided to send infantry without armor those spotters were easily pushed out and Ukranians started to gain land but increased casaulties for Ukranians armed forced greatly.
Where did you get this secret info?
You don't even need a scout team when you can send a small and cheap drone.
Tldw: Russians defended themselves very nice, the ucranian losses were unsustainable.
thx
The Russians were shocked to learn that they were playing the tutorial mission
Weeb union or military summary are a must for people who want to know the truth about Ukraine. You can check old videos to confirm they are objective
Body counts are not combat assessment. They are generally used to show progress when better measures of success are not showing positive indicators. We did this sort of thing in Vietnam and Afghanistan. IMO, it is deeply telling that the administration decided to release this particular metric.
Ah yes. The good ol' "We had more K/D ratio against the rice farmers with AKs!"
you have to look at the strategy to determine what is the best indicator of success.
West use land, but for the Russians it's men lost. The goal of Ukraine, is to regain their land. The goal of the west is to weaken Russia. The goal of Russia is to protect it's people and to improve their ability to defend against the west. The war style of Russia is attrition. The Ukraine on the other hand, is of desperation.
Russia looks at men lost, because they are larger and have more men, and they are fighting a war of attrition. Land maybe their ultimate goal. but they want to weaken their enemy, before taking land. The last reliable source is that Russia is way out killing the Ukrainians. it's long ago, but the pentagon leak, has been verified as legitimate, by the arrest of the air national guard. Ukraine on the other hand is seeing even more land being lost. and the west can show progress in the war to justify even more donation to Ukraine. and the ultimate goal of the west is even worse. We are out of Ammo, while Russia is firing 10X more ammo than Ukraine, and we now know their factories can replace all lost tanks and fighters lost in the war and more. and the press is desperate to show the Russian economy is crashing, by saying the increase in GDP is only war time expenditure, and that their egg prices went up 40%, which is so out of touch, since my Egg prices more than double, and was told to expect it to keep going up.
oh in your case, the best indicator is the support of the people.
which I mention early . We lost the war, because the Vietnamese hated us more and willing to keep on dying. while out civilians was tired of deaths and so we had to pull out.
Here is how it stacks now. Russia has a strong support for war. US , funding is being held back because more and more people are skeptical of the war. Europe is has gain one more anti-war head of state that join Hungary and Poland, is seeing more resistance. We might see continued support from Europe in the near future, but US might end soon. Ukraine civilians opinion might be moot, since by what I see, all the men are no longer civilians and they are running out.
@@slewone4905 You make some good points. Russia is able to use a metric like body counts because Ukraine is not able to fight a different type of war. If Ukraine was able to shatter Russia's logistics, for example, body counts would be irrelevant because they would not be able to sustain the fight for long. If they could shatter Russian morale and C2, the results would be almost instant.
From your comment, it sounds to me that you're Ukrainian, and if that's the case I want to apologize, for my country (America), and the West in general. We should have threatened direct military intervention at the start. Russia would have never invaded if they thought they would have to fight America directly. Failing that, we should have given you all the material you needed from the start. Aircraft, tanks, missiles etc. without any restrictions on firing into Russia.
I wish I could change our feckless leaders, who refuse to show strength against people like Putin, but unfortunately, there is little I can do but go on the internet and try to convince people we could be doing things a better way.
Sounds like reality is going to happen. Task & Purpose, prepare the speech for the unavoidable result.
Can't believe people still watch his bs 😅
Robo teen is a sick name for a town.
Milley calling the enemy and warning them may have been a reason for failure too.
What a waste of our money for a country that doesn’t matter for the American people.
Russia’s military is FAR larger and superior than it’s been since before the fall of the Soviet Union. Ukraine has suffered far, far more than Russia by multiple times the KIA/WIA. But western media of course rarely mentions that and most definitely never lists the actual horrifying numbers.
What a shit show and shame for both countries. But, more importantly for us in the US, America is the biggest loser of this war. We’ve only gotten weaker on the world stage and more in debt than we already were.
Lesson learned is that US strategy does not work against a formidable opponent. 😂😂😂
Against any worthy opponent.
Lesson learned is that US strategy does not work for countries without American levels of advanced equipment and manpower.