Ukraine War BREAKING NEWS (20240510): Russian Starting Kharkiv Offensive!! ( Zelenskyy Announces)
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Wow, didn’t think it would happen, but here we are.
This has been really cooking in the last two months.
....why on earth wouldn't you think it was gonna happen? did you just start paying attention yesterday? lol
c'mon dude. 😑
@@Maplelust yes, you are right. Your power to predict events that are now in the past is astounding.
@@elvis3418 They were working in that direction for weeks
Thx JP!
Dang!
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There are 2 types of crazy: crazy like a fox, and crazy like this.
Yep, crazy like a fox and crazy like MTG.
@@LadaGaga93 You must be referring to Muscovy Traitor Queen
@@johnboie4964🍻🖖
I doubt this will give many results for Russia, it cost them tens of thousands of lives to take the small cities of Bakhmut and Adiivka, they will lose their entire army before they capture Kharkiv
You believe those number?
@@Srbazogo home to Russia comrade
Good morning, JP! It looks like Russian desperation in Kharkiv, there are troubled waters in the Orc military structure. Slava Ukraini!
Thanks for the update JP. Much appreciated.
If this a real attack, something tells me the number of Russian equipment destroyed is going to go in an upward trajectory.
It will not stop them. When EU was debating what and when to send equipment, Ruskie managed to turn their economy into war production.
This has been mentioned in military summery channel for weeks .
ATP Geopolitics only listens to CNN for his news.
A second incursion from the northern border has been talked about as far back was the winter of 2022.
@@awesomeiguy, Then why are you here? Why comment? Why do you care? Is someone paying you? Is this your job?
@@awesomeiguy, Where are you bro? Why won’t you answer my questions?
Thanks JP 👍😊
Looks like Greg was right. I thought he would know since Greg has been spending so much time in Ukraine.
Crikey... hopefully they won't get far.... so what does Putin know we don't? Escalation? I hope really everyone gets out sharpish if thats what is needed. Thats really worrying. 🇺🇦
Wouldn’t you ask what it is that Putin doesn’t know that we know? Who knows where Putin’s inner circle gets their intelligence from. If it’s front line commanders then it could be garbage in garbage out. Only time will tell. My heart goes out to the civilians caught in this new offensive. What a terrible war.
I hope Ukraine saw it coming and were prepared.
I wonder if Russia is well prepared regarding minesweeping, they have been using tanks with rollers, I wonder how many they have.
The fact it's been a few hours and no gains have been reported to be made by Russia it's safe to safe Ukraine was aware of the Russian build up
Tu saura d'ici la fin de la semaine 😂😂😂😂
@@mutedunknown2734 very very aware.
Take care team!
Thanks
Putin the mastermind. Wonder what the Russian soldiers were told. Something along the lines of you are defending your motherland. You will all die but your efforts will be remembered. I am sure they were well up for it. Praising Putin and so grateful they will receive a free headstone (not). The Russian people must be so proud to have a leader change his tactics every 3 weeks. If one doesn't work, try something else eh (instead of sticking to one vector and making some progress). I think this is good news but too early to tell. I'm sure the frontlines in the south will be ok with this.
@@Srbazo I will take hollywood but I would prefer mr awesome
That is literally what a video showed from briefing with soldiers. „You will all die, but You will be remembered as heroes by Motherland”.
The word is Titanic and we all know how that historically swam.
"I ordered some ice but this is ridiculous."
@@peterflohr7827 Wait for a hot day and add it to your Gin&Tonic. Very refreshing!
as western allies prohibided the use of weapon on russian territory it's easier for russian to accumulate equipment in some industrial places and to reach a huge quantity of it before launching an assault .... one more issue of the western rules !
arm chair generaling here, but this sounds like something dramatic and attention grabbing specifically designed to draw in all the tasty new gear and ammo being delivered to the front, in an attempt to give russian forces more time to achieve results on the eastern donetsk axis, similar in scope to the rope a dope the Ukrainians pulled in Kherson and Kharkiv 2 years ago.
Totemic is a better word, IMO.
Hardly aiming to take kharkiv.
I agree, the reported amounts of concentrated forces seem to small to aim for capturing Kharkiv. Maybe their goal is to go down east of Kharkiv from Vovchansk to cut off the Ukrainian lines and to capture Kupiansk.
@@johnboie4964 I guess you could say ”hardly aiming to take Kharkiv in the short run since that is hardly possible ” :)
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The long awaited opening of the third front.
While battles are raging in the East, engagements have become more sporadic and localized in the South, with a significant buildup North of the border with massive missile strikes and glide bombs having somewhat shaped the battlefield in and around Kharkiv.
But - as was the case with the Surovikin-lines in Zaporizhzhia last year - Ukraine has had time to build fortifications and lay minefields all across the border, and they've prepared as best they can.
IMO the Russians will have as hard a time as the Ukrainians had during last year's offensive.
La différence c'est que la Russie dispose d'avions pour outre passer les champ de mines avec les forces aéroportée
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Et l'Ukraine dispose de la défense aérienne pour interdire ces avions d'approcher.
I think the goal is not Kharkiv but to move southeast to take the Luhansk region from the rear. Anything else would be hilariously overambitious.
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Could this be something similar to the "Ukrainian" incursions into the Belgorod region last year - a reconnaissance in force meant to harass, take out specific targets and force a relocation of forces and attention by the Ukrainians - while they increase pressure in the South-East to force some kind of breakthrough?
It is a great mistake. This escalative aggression gives ZELENSKY a good opportunity to collect a new army to save Harkiv and ask for additional support from western countries. And very probably he will get it.
I think not, Ukrainian men do not want to be on the Frontlines against an enemy with superior fire power and personnel. No one wants to die afterall
I believe that Ukraine should have prepared traps all around the northern border. We know exactly how Russia works. They sends small probing attacks everywhere and if they find a weakness, they pour in.
Saint javelin is returning
@@johnboie4964, “Superior Russian firepower” means more artillery. Russian artillery has outnumbered Ukrainian firepower by 10x since Putin started this invasion. However due to poor quality and poor training Russia needs a 10x artillery advantage to be even with Ukrainian artillery.
Russians simply have bad equipment and bad aim.
Imagine the small breakthrough they had recently on the eastern border north of Avdiivka. What does Ukraine wish they had set up in advance so it would be easy to retake that territory? Why not set whatever that might be up all over the place, then let a small incursion succeed so the Russians could pour right into a trap?
Thank you, J.P.! This is quite concerning. I pray for Ukraine! 🙏🇺🇦🙏
Taking the city may not be the plan. Might be to isolate it and go south of it rolling up defenders in Donbas. ?? But their tactic has been aggressive attrition. Maybe that's changing
not [possible
Does anyone remember the battle of the bulge...............the German winter offensive in 1944-45. This is a worse idea.................
I hope we are right it should be a bad idea, but if Russia has double agents or if Ukraine skips the building defense it will go badly
This attack is earlier than expected by most analysts.
One should not change horses in the middle of a major offensive. Pure speculation from my side: could the timing be an effort to save Shoigu/Gerassimov? There was a lot of talks about them being replaced.
Are the Russians advancing on motorbikes?
I saw a laughable clip where they're in formation like a cut price display team.
The Blyat Devils?
I heard that they had some success with it because it made attacks fast enough to do damage before the Ukrainians could react.
@@johnboie4964 trolls are boring
@@johnboie4964 And you don't.
@@johnboie4964And I am guy with a Ukrainian and German citizenship, living in Germany since 2 years old, wondering what this troll is trying to achieve. Why did you redicule my comment? I am following the war and stated something about what I heared is going on there. Is there a problem?
@@johnboie4964 np :)
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Algo!
Its just to drive Ukraine far enough to prevent them from shelling Belgorod
My fellow commenters hardly speak of the Russian perspective and their strategic/operational habits. After two years of following this war, what I see is the Russian army trying to find a weak spot that may be taken advantantage of. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@johnboie4964 may they soon find them 🤣🤣🤣
So far it looks like recon in force, looking for a weak spot.. but again, Ukraine didn't mine and fortify the eastern or south eastern front, hopefully they learned and got it done the last few months
I am surprised. The Russians just doubled the length of the front.
i just can't help but think this was a bad move by the Russians. Maybe they caught the Ukrainians off guard. But surely that's too tough.
Great in this channel there is no discussion my comments are costantly deleted
Doubling the front is not necessarily a bad idea if your opponent has fewer manpower resources than you, forcing them to spread out their forces even more.
Mr JP, I just wanted to let you know. When I first heard that Russia started their Kharkiv offensive, your channel is the 1st place I went to for info & updates. Not CNN/FOX/etc. Not another YT source. You. That should say a lot. I still disagree & dislike your social politics, but I trust you'll do your best at disseminating the truth as best u can.
Thanks so much!
Two personal theories: 1) By opening a new area of operations, Russia hopes to take advantage of Ukraine's manpower shortage and find a weak or thin spot in the Ukrainian defense elsewhere on the front. 2) By taking Vovchansk, east of the river, Russia hopes to create a pocket roughly between Dvorchna, Pechenitny, and Vovchansk. If they can take over this area, it will allow them to then approach Kharkiv from the north and the east at the same time. Of course, both of these operational goals may be pursued at the same time.
Seriously mined and fortified (and manned, with appropriate cover by fire)? One way to find out!
Quick thought - how serious anti-radiation equipment is carried by those Russian attackers?
Ok this is ridicolus all my comments are getting deleted i am triyng to discuss the situation but you are censoring me. happy that my voice is silenced really
@@johnboie4964 well isn't a little bit strange that my explanation of why this could be a tactical move by russia instead of drunken russia incompetente getting cancelled let's see if this commenti stasera up
Dumb move. If this is a dumb move then why cannot Ukrainians get back those couple of lands? Why are they saying situation is worse than difficult? Because it is a full fledged russian breakthrough not a dumb move.
Um... It's just started. Also, the evaluation is not over 2 days but 6 months as a prediction. C'mon, be a LITTLE more thoughtful, Ivan
If Russia really attacks Karkhiv, it is likely to lose all of its troops.
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What starting it with less than 50k troops? That's awkward and sad.
50k may be the total number and not just offensive capability… they probably figured out they didn’t dedicate enough personal to logistics early on
They only need 10-20 km.
No one knows the composition, disposition, and total strength of Army group N except the Russians.
@@mtnregnar198 lol there are drones everywhere and satellites , dont forget the us said several weeks before the initial invasion that it was going to happen .so i would imagine there is little either side dont know
About half of UKs army
Why would Russia want to negotiate when they are winning on all fronts and the Ukraine military can barely put up a fight?
you think destroying cities is winning? that's actually called terrorism clown.
I wouldn't call it "winning" when they don't control 100% of their "annexed territory" with the exception of Luhansk.
What do you call it when one side is constantly advancing and the other side has shown it can’t hold a line? Is it winning when a country is forcing refugees into vans in other countries to fight on the front line? What’s winning for Ukraine? Russia has now achieved a land bridge from Crimea to Russia. Their only objective is to eliminate the Ukraine military and they have achieved that because without outside help Ukraine couldn’t function.
@@thomassoutherland8387 Without outside help??? Well for starters they used Belarusian land to invade Kyiv and spread Ukrainian forces into two fronts, they have been constantly getting stuff from N.Korea,China and Iran and there have been seen foreign soldiers fighting for Russia with the most recent example being a Chinese guy. Lastly ruZZia's invasion made two neutral countries to join NATO which blocks ruZZia from the Baltic sea and gave NATO the ability to have troops 100km away from Saint Petersburg. And the fact ruZZia lost half a million people doesn't help either.
Looks like a diversion though.
Unlikely. Divert what?
Could divert the meager Ukrainian reserves creating vulnerabilities in the Ukrainian defenses elsewhere
Big worry tactical nukes. NATO nations need to cover Ukraine skies so this can't happen
Why the hell hasnt Nato and the USA supplied thecweapons earlier..They are aware Ukraine need more weapons...to defend themrselves
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really sad news. 😞
Bear in mind it took the Russians over 6 months to amass the original attack forces in Feb 2022
Don't know much about war, apparently
@@oprrrah3498 Dont understand the comment? The build up of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border was seen all the way back into 2021
If rus had been accumulating a massive attack force to get to Kharkiv I would have expected Ukraine to be attacking those concentrations long before they launched the attack. Something funky here. Did Ukraine not get intel of enemy force accumulation? Did russia really do that good a job of hiding the forces?
oh no ATTACK RUSSIA, US will piss its pants,,,,again
They don't have anything big they can use in Belgorod
@@williammorris584 I saw a rumour that they were reserving newly produced tanks. They have recruiting of ~1000 per month.
If they were planning to attack in the north they would need a new force.
Earlier today I read that they had really started attack there. Now I am waiting to hear more.
@@williammorris584 ATP Geopolitics is now talking about a distraction attack towards Kharkiv and and attack towards Kyiv that Zelenskii has announced: czcams.com/video/g7Xs1iGh7o4/video.html
yeah but they may still have a 3 to 1 advantage an with little ammo it could go bad.i hope not but there's already indications they dont have enough units to hold them back for long
No problem for Ukraine 🇺🇦 because Ukraine have alot of the money support from the US government over 60,000,000,000 usd!
not what it seems
Sie greifen Charkov gar nicht an. Erst nach einer Einkesselung .
Dann brauchen die Kiever für dieVerteidigung 50 000 Soldaten, die sie dafür nicht übrig habe
Erstmal geht es um Kupjansk.
Kharkiv: apparently 400 tanks and 900 armoured vehicles. How do we justify the daily Russian loss figures now then?
Russia had thousands of tanks before the war began
If past experience tells us anything about the present, Russia will lose roughly all 400 tanks in just the first month of the offensive!
Maybe but what I find surprising is that they have that many to devote to this new axis given the huge losses that they’ve supposedly incurred. I am wondering whether the daily loss figures that we get given each day and the cumulative totals aren’t vastly inflated when I hear that the Russians can line up that much equipment in Kharkiv.
@@jameshaas3533 they've been planning this for a long time so they've probably taken from reserve
Easy, because they keep taking ground and Ukrainian villages.
Diverting Ukrainian reinforcements. Ukraine now has to send troops north instead of east to reinforce thier thier lines that are already crumbling. I don’t think this is about taking Kharkiv. It’s about the what I said and preventing Ukrainians raids into belogorod and Kursk
Whatever the aim of the Russians is, its certainly going to stretch the Ukrainians further
They stretch themselve too. It goes both ways.
Seems like a feint. Regardless, the Russians would only have to semi encircle Kharkov to take it, which has been done before.
mmmm but they didnt take it.....
Slava ❤ Russia 🇷🇺
Slava torture, murder, and 100,000 war crimes is what you really mean.
ukraine is still losing
Leave the reporting to the serious channels!
Troll alert!!!1!
And which channels would those now John? TASS?
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Just responding:
his morals have nothing to do with his ability to run the country. The reason he is loved by so many is precisely because he isn’t a “conservative”. He is the most moderate republican president in American history by any objective standard.
Either you really don’t understand The Constitution and American politics or you’re really leaning into the partisan politics regarding comments like that on project 2025. It’s irrelevant what the underlying motivation is on your part because either way it creates a dynamic where I can’t trust your analysis. It makes me feel like you view everything, including the genocide in Ukraine, through a partisan lense. I get the sense that you’re a good guy but have gotten so wrapped up in your beliefs about Trump that you seemingly let it define your world view. I get that America finally having a true two party system is scary to a leftist after decades of the GOP just rolling over to the Democrats but the system we are seeing now is the balanced politics The Founders envisioned.
Viewed another way, if you think Trump is so bad then what does that say about how out of alignment your views are compared to the American electorate views people like Biden, Hillary, Romney, and other establishment American politicians?
I mean for goodness sake a recent CBS / NPR / PBS poll found that a majority of independent voters believe Biden is a greater threat to democracy than Trump.
Biden: 53 percent
Trump: 42 percent
The poll sampled 1,199 Americans from April 22-24 with a 3.6 point margin of error.
Whenever that other poster says “your kind” he is simply asking you to acknowledge that your views represent a radical left wing portion of a political system (Europe) that is already nearly as far to the left on the political spectrum as one can be without being a communist. That shouldn’t be an objectionable request when trying to have intellectual discussion on geopolitics.
Heroyam slava.
"Either you really don’t understand The Constitution and American politics or..."
You would need to substantiate this.
My views about Trump define my views about Trump, and those in the MAGA movement who I see as morally compromised. He is not a nice human, and if a person who is not a nice human is in charge of a country, this is a problem. If we understand him as a narcissistic transactional autocrat with a penchant for dictators, then we can understand his behaviour when he was POTUS and beyond. We understand Helsinki, we understand his attempted blackmail of Zelenskyy, we understand his position on Ukraine. etc etc.
I suggest you read three books that look at him in this light:
1) How Fascism Works buy Jason Stanley
2) On Tyranny / On Ukraine by Timothy Snyder
3) Fascism by Madeleine Albright
You read them, and you start to understand who he is and how he works.
Look, if 40 out of 44 of the people around him in his administration are not endorsing him, but you are, you have to consider whether it is me or you who are wrong.
I have read extensively on him and have written extensively on him, and am very comfortable with my analyses of him. And, you know what, I listen to him every single day after his court cases, whining pathetically, and I know I've got my evaluation correct.
On that poll, it's worth noting that 63% of independents have an unfavourable view of Trump compared to 57% for Biden.
But then 51% of independents are leaning Trump in that poll as opposed to 44% Biden. So I would like to know the make up of these independents and where they are.
In The Hill/ Decision Desk HQ’s (DDHQ) latest average of polls, Biden is now winning. Biden leads Trump in latest Wisconsin 2-way race. By 6%.
Personally, I think a mix of the mere exposure effect and the power of FOX to dictate the narrative should not be underestimated. i would also, as pollsters are, be looking very carefully each successive year at polling issues (who answers telephone polls - "non-response bias", though that underestimated Trump in 2016).
The thing is, if Trump had his court cases for the documents case, Jan 6th, and Georgia, then the public really would know who is more of a threat to democracy. FOX will spin it another way (goodness, they could do with Jessica Tarlov back of maternity leave to put the rest of the five in their places), but the reality is that Trump has been an assault on democracy and would continue to be so.
Dude you dont understand a bit about war.
Dude, you just assert stuff with no justification!
❤ Russia 🇷🇺
the terrorists and Nazis of the world agree with you!
king of bull shit
thanks for your westen view
using a russian map as the main source. right. of course. you silly billy!
Ukraine will never regain the Donbas or Crimea, that was obvious a very long time ago. They only serve to lose more land, people, and assets the longer they drag this out, until they formally accept Donbas and Crimea as Russian territory. Kharkov is predominantly pro-Russian, albeit still an extremely complicated operation to gain control of it. Bakhmut was entirely different, a pro Ukrainian fortress built up and fortified for nearly a decade before large scale conflict began, and even still Ukraine lost it- Just my thoughts 🤷
OK Ivan.
@@roberto_8162 Aww, baby gonna cry😥... And it's Alex, American by the way. Derpa Der.
Ok, Alexei
@@roberto_8162 Roberto is the name of any guy never trusted around kids driving a white van around in his free time on the prowl.. Or a Ukrainian bot. Epic fail either way.. Yikes 😬
@@SincereSentinel A defeatist American.
1. Ukraine will never regain the Donbas or Crimea: Oh, please, don't get ahead of yourself! Ukraine has already regained some territory in the Donbas region and is still fighting to
reclaim more. And as for Crimea, well, let's just say that whole "annexation" thing didn't exactly go according to plan for Russia...
2. They only serve to lose more land, people, and assets: Oh boy, you're really good at this! I mean, who needs to actually look at the situation on the ground or consider the
complexities of an ongoing conflict when you can just make sweeping generalisations like that?
3. Until they formally accept Donbas and Crimea as Russian territory: Um, I think you might be getting a little too comfortable with your " predictions." Ukraine has made it clear that it will not be recognising Russia's territorial claims, and the international community largely agrees.
4. Kharkov is predominantly pro-Russian: Oh really? That's news to me! I mean, I'm sure the people of Kharkov just love being occupied by Russian forces and having their city bombed left and right...
5. Bakhmut was entirely different: Yeah, because nothing says "entirely different" like a city that's been under constant bombardment and siege for years...
why 10min video to say nothing?