Something Is Changing in Ukraine
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2024 has not exactly started well for #Ukraine. If just a year ago it was Kiev's troops who had the initiative, now the tables seem to have turned. Now it is the Russian army that is on the offensive. Specifically, #Russia is trying to gain ground with five offensives: in Kreminna, in Bakhmut, in Marinka, in Robotyne and, of course, also in Avdiivka, the last strategic enclave to fall.
But why did the counter-offensive really fail, why do things now suddenly seem to have changed so much, what does this new scenario mean for Ukraine, is all lost, how exactly are the war plans changing? We'll tell you about it!
Ukraine has been winning on social media, but things on the ground were opposite.
Russia has been winning so hard and so gloriously for the last two years, that somehow lost third of its Black Sea fleet, got a mutiny last year, and resorted to meat waves. And of course, moved 4km in 4 months in Avdiivka, loosing 17 000 men and 300 armor units.
@@wwlb4970 The only "meat" here is your smooth brain 😁
@@wwlb4970 Your local 'sports babe' repeater on TV tell you Russia is 'resorted to meat waves'?😂 Of all the surveillance footage recorded by both sides, there is no 'meat waves'. There are only groups of 10-16 soldiers who eventually split into smaller recon squads in short patrols. Most of those zigzag trenches on the Russian side are in fact empty, they make great targets for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to shell and cluster bomb, but not much else. A few patrols armed with Kornet Missiles stopped the 47th Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade, definitely not a 'meat wave' armed with shovels while carrying lugging looted washing machines.😂 The propaganda will let anyone dream up any story they please, it is good entertainment, just don't let your own intelligence service drink that cool aid. Or you'll end up NATO training Ukrainians to fight 'light brigade' style who will in turn subsequently loose all the Maxxpro's to mines.😂
@@wwlb4970 Yeah the meat wave thing is complete propaganda. There is legit 0 video evidence of it. Meat waves are infantry without armoured support running at enemy lines with no cover. There is no evidence of that taking place, actually quite the opposite. That whole meat wave thing has been thrown around since the 50s to justify losing battles, it makes it sound like your enemy lost despite pushing you back
@@wwlb4970source: Ukrainian MOD. Go cope more
NATO never simulated the scenario where the enemy would be using titanium space shovels and washing machines extracted from old soviet submarines...
One does not simply f*ck with Soviet washing machine technology. It's wild
They have vibranium shovels from the hidden reserve deep in Siberia
I wonder what Russians would've achieved, had they used actual weapons instead of shovels.
@@Finn_553 *Stalinium Shovels
@olegc.7877 better wonder what would Ukraine can achieve if they had at least half of weapon they ask, or what Russia have...
I thought Russia was supposed to run out of artillery rounds like over a year ago.
They did. It’s shovels flying around. Sometimes even on hypersonic speed
They're getting plenty from China, North Korea & puppet ex soviet states.
Their bought 1.5 million rounds from North Korea. About 6 months worth of sells, during which they made more and ramped production a fair bit.
NORTH KOREA, after Iran ,China and Syria...
I’ve no way to confirm this, but have read claims from several analysts that Russia’s ammo production capacity is 7x that of all of European NATO allies. They churn out seven times more ammo than all of NATO countries in Europe combined.
It's amazing how these people easily say that the war should continue after a short pause. It's like these young bloggers don't realize that people are actually dying there.
They get a cut of the profits if they promote any glimmer of hope for the Ukraine army
When your entire worldview consists of "Ukraine good, Putin bad", it will inevitably cloud your judgement.
It's amazing how people can act as if Ukraine made that choice. Russia can stop the war at every time and decides not to. It doesn't matter if they are able to win. You don't jut give up your country whenever another country wishes to rule over it...
@@jaro551 why would Russia stop? The Zelenskyy regime is and always was a NATO puppet to antagonise Russia and use as a proxy with and the longer the war goes on the better the terms get for Russia when peace is negotiated. Russia have zero insentive to stop especially after fighting such a bloody war. Ukraine has lost, the only thing to come of not negotiating and pro longing the war is more blood spilt for increasingly worse terms and less territory when it inevitably does end. Sad but it's true, this war is and always was fruitless.
these are all pr guys sprouting what's written on their script provided by their neocon gov
Remember when they said Russia was tearing down washing machines to make missiles?
and using showels because they run out of ammo?
And Putin's cancer? And Russia almost no more tanks? Or ammo, or Russia dead economy? Yep, a lot of big silly lies that some dumb people decided to belive.... but then a shovel appears, and it was the end of Ukraine dream, time to wake up, and time to pay the bill. Quite expensive, did you notice?
Considering the results. I would say Russians are pretty smart.
and lost almost 500 000 millitary personel?@@Tonyx.yt.
Now they buy them from North Korea and China
Considering Russia has been fighting with only shovels, they are doing pretty well
No one except ruSSian bots has even claimed this
Don’t forget the washing machines
@@maryanchabursky9148 You are wrong. It was claimed by the UK MOD. It was on sky news. They stated that russians were out of weapons and certain soldiers were caught with only shovels to fight with so that was how it started to spread.
@@PineApple-bs8rt And Ursula Van Der Leyen on washing machine for parts for rockets. Then why is Uktraine blaming the West for the semiconductors found in Russian weapons?
@@maryanchabursky9148 Also the washing machine comments got started because there were photos/videos of russian soldiers taking washing machines who knows what for but the media spread news saying us/western allies were no longer exporting chips to russia for their weapon systems so they were stealing the chips from inside the washing machines to compensate for the lack of chips. Obviously that wasnt completely true or if any part of it was true.
Announcing the target of your attack months beforehand is an interesting tactic.
in nowdays drones and satelites give enough info that you can be sure what when and where will be attacked before it is
Actually it was, because russian were really terrify....The only problem, is shortage and delay of supply.... Do you see ,everyone keeps talking about that, even after Russia fail few of their own conteroffense later...2 year of fight, and everybody blame smaller and weaker Ukraine, that it wasn't beat ex- superpower , with unlimited weapons and people as hard as someone expected....isn't it a bit weird...
@@aleczelensky5925 Ukraine is helped by whole NATO and US and somehow can't do one counteroffensive. What do you expect them to do when support gets tired and dwindles even more? They are fooked my friend. Time for peace talks stop pretending they can take crimea back or some shit...
Anime battles be like
zelenski believe he has a war inside facebook only
17:35 "Ukrainians are not asking anyone to fight for them."
Zelensky himself has begged to join NATO multiple times now. Everyone knows what that means.
one more bot, luckily people also read responses to comments debunking all those bs claims you guys make for a few rubels an hour
NATO isn't some fkn social club you can just randomly join, the process takes decades and putler sending his zombies only helped to kick off the process faster :)
Also he is fighting NATO expansion so great, he even stopped Finland and sweeden from joining! Oh wait... 🤡
And asking other countries to expatriate all Ukrainians back in Ukraine so they can be drafted. This is not the same as asking to send they own citizens to fight, but its close (illegal by international law and strip those countries of workforce and potential citizens)
The counteroffensive didnt fail, it was comprehensively defeated
Seriously, defeat is crumbling of front, and you call defeat that small army with short supply, didn't push one of biggest military as hard as everyone expected?... you genious😂
like the 3 russian offences since thenn?
@@legatilegions8055
There has been no offensive.
Russia could turn Kiev to dust if that's what Putin wanted.
Get a hold of your 'n's.
@@MidnightMark12 sure bro...if they wish...but their real wish, was bringing troops under Kyiv, lost a tons if millitants and tech, and run away....that was a plan!
@@legatilegions8055 yeah, but somehow everybody keep speaking about how smaller and outgunned Ukraine, did hit exsuper power, with unlimited soldiers and weapons, not as hard, as someone expected...it's freaking TV show for them....
Information regarding horrible casualties suffered by the russians comes from ukranian sources mostly. Even if half of that data is true, then it seems that ukranians have already destroyed nearly 80% of the russian ground forces losing just 31000 men themselves (KIA only). This remarkable fact raises a couple of questions though, if things are really so then why its ukranians who want to draft 500000 men more this year while russians have no mobilization plans whatsoever and somehow are capable to remain on offensive with just a handful of exhausted drafties still alive.
💯 correct
The answer to your question is obvious.
Ukraine plans to march on Moscow an conquer it. Then they will double back and liberate Mariupol, before finally having a beach party in Crimea.
The expected losses for Russia during this campaign will be 5 to 6 million KIA.
No sources have cited 300k dead (they refer to injuries) a more realistic number is 150k KIA. For as Ukraine refuses to tell casualties a realistic number would be 90k-110k.
Putin is planning a conscription right after he is re-elected. that will be in March. So he Does have plans, after all.
@@SpinoDude88to be clear it’s 31K KIA for Ukraine and that was a number shared by Zelenski yesterday.
We are supposed to believe that Ukraine has averaged 42 KIA per day. Over the last 2 years?
The biggest under estimation that the NATO did was that it did not realise that they are fighting Russia and not some rag tag army. Russians are usually very slow to start any campaign but they eventually grind the opposition down.
Putin doesn't care what happens to Russia after the war
Crimean War?Russo-Japanese War?Afghanistan? Russia is not fighting with NATO if it dose war is end, tomorrow.
Wait, or you telling me NATO countries are running bombing runs against Russia?
How many B-52 and B-1 sorties have been conducted so far?
How many German, Spanish, Greek, Turkish troops are currently fighting on the front line?
Are the Norwegian and British navies engaging Russian vessels in the North Atlantic?
Did Poland, Germany and the Baltic states manage to keep Kaliningrad isolated?
@@Firahunwait, are you telling me that Paris has been nuked? That Germany is now a wasteland? That UK doesn't exist anymore?
@@FirahunHe is saying exactly the opposite, they underestimated the Russians, if you want to win against them you need to put your best effort, it will not be sufficient to give some weapons to another army and expect them to win, because they won't be facing some third world rag tag army.
Kiev success dates back to the times when 600 K Ukrainians fought 160 K Russians.
russians captured a lot used washing machins in ukraine. and now they made missiles from it
For months evryone who was saying the counter offensive failed was called a russian bot or putin simp
The real bots
Reality speaks for itself just sit back and watch as their narrative crumbles
What shall the Nazi bots do? All the facts and reality itself as usually stands against them.
It’s not claiming that it failed, it was claiming what the original goals were and the casualties that made you a putin wimp
Honestly, many were telling us it failed before it was clear that it was going to fail. So they were ready to condemn anything that was not mass desertions by Russians and a quick jog to Mariupol.
The video above is Western Propaganda 👆
It seems like all throughout this war it is only Russian that has lost men, Ukraine hasn’t lost a single person.
The power of propaganda
In the end many will sit and wonder why Zel suddenly is in dire need of new troops.
@@ChimpRiot I thought that is all about free and professional media.Propaganda is Eastern thing.
@@MetallicReg I don't know if that is true, but there are rumors about female soldiers in first lines.
@@BojanPeric-kq9et It is. They are openly admitting in taking as many females as they can. Not only as medical personnel.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated this week that Ukraine lost only 31,000 troops in the whole war, but still needs to mobilize 500,000 new troops? Right......
Wait for it, wars cost money and also BODIES. The loss of forces on both ends is slow, but it still is a on-going thing and monthly losses can go into the thousands if an attack is ordered
Yeah why?
Ukraine has suffered 600,000 deaths. Zelensky and his gang are now forcing people in their 60s and 70s into the front lines. The average age of an ukranian soldier is 42 years old now. Ukranians don’t want to die anymore. And yet this clown on his youtube channel argues that the war has to continue.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- George Orwell, 1984
so mentaly limited people. still have the same ideas
Replace "1984" with "2024" and "The Party" with "The Democrat Party", and old George was downright prophetic.
Yeah scary times. Dark times ahead for America and the world. Brought to you by "THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY".
The fact that you're using quotes from the book 1984 to defend russia and everyone in the comments is agreeing with you is so ironic it makes me lose all hope for humanity.
@@SillyBillyMale The fact that you're losing all hope for humanity makes me lose all hope for you. too
"we would be on vacation on crimea"?
lmao is it a parody of macarthurs "home by christmas?"
I am upset. The tickets I bought for the Crimea beach party did not get refunded.
well i was in vacation in Crimea this year, what the problem?
so mentaly limited people. still have the same ideas
@@trololoev after this war Russia is going to apologize just like the Germans did ?
@@HermanWillems gor what? For killing nazi? Of from defeating against grouping Europe again? Which time it is when Europa allied to attack Russia and failed? 5-th? Every 100 years Europe allied to attack Russia...
Ukraine didn't "withdraw" from avdikka , Russia made them run away for their lives and even captured thousands of troops
And captured insane stockpile of ammunition, when Ukraine desperately needs it. This is arguably hurt much more badly because Zelensky may draft every single human being in Ukraine but they dont defeat even a single Russian soldier if they go bare handed. And there is no real mass weapon production in Ukraine (its exploded)
"Everybody got a plan until they hit you on the chin!" (Mike Tyson)
It not a plan, it's shortage of supply, and everybody expectation that's with God and bravery, good will keep miracle fight evel, without any real help.
Everyone knows the quote is actually “ Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Apart from you obviously.
Mouth
"Everyone has a mouth until they get punched in the plan." Tyke Myson
@lensky5925 there was no shortage in the summer. Stop doing so much copium.
Ukrainian army was severly weakened in Bakhmut because of delusional comedy actor.
and then it was beaten even more at Robotine.
And now ukranian veterans are mostly gone, and russia is making drones and guided bombs in thousands.
it is not going to win a war, with NATO troops or without it.
Briefly:
-Is Russia winning in Ukraine?
-Yes
Stalemate, it's like a tide, rises and recedes momentarily. With Nato support this war will go on for a few more years. This is turning into another Afghanistan
There was no objective in Afghanistan that's why@@Shvetsario
but "kyiv in 3 days"?
@@player1GR That was a US agency words. There is no official statements on the other side.
@@player1GR but they never said so?
Amount of propaganda here is insane. You need to mention the Ghost of Kiuyuiv next
you can hear the pain in his voice 😂
As the second most powerful military in the world Russia is the master of WWI style trench warfare and WWII style human wave attacks & blocking troops to shoot those who retreat. These tactics are devastating against poor much smaller nations you share a border with, just look at how much progress Russia has made in two years.
Not as painful as losing almost an entire fleet with thousands of sailors.
@@Fr4ncMtrue, it was painful for Ukraine to lose all its fleet in first several hours
@@innelator6941 😂
@@Fr4ncM haha, Bro on the second comment got you.
Only 31000 Ukrainian casualties ?! !? Wow ! They must be winning. ??
Wow... they people from blood and meat, they can't win empty-handed....for you it a TV show.... and their military more than 31K, don't even mention of civilian....but still somehow they deliver numbers close to 1 Ukrainian to 3 Russian....for your entertainment
It is also claimed that Russia has lost over 500k troops. The lies being told are obvious if you use your brain instead of listening to the experts.
Мгм. Верим верим 3 к 1. Когда по факту под 400к с обеих сторон@@aleczelensky5925
They must not be counting volunteers and conscripts.
@@aleczelensky5925
In just one failed counteroffensive, Ukraine lost about 160 thousand killed and wounded. There are now almost 30 thousand prisoners in Russian captivity. Last year Ukraine had more than 1 million soldiers. This year there are about 500 thousand soldiers. Where did 500 thousand Ukrainian soldiers disappear in 1 year?
Unlike online and in the news you can't lie your way to victory on the battlefield.
most of the media coverage of anything involving war is a lie.
Media goes dark for the sake of op sec.
anything else is purely for morale or win the hearts and minds for supporters.
I'm interested in the secret war of it, the covert ops, the spy game.
You may find answers you're looking for there.
exactly, western media is real propaganda but time is revealing everything and people all over the world are starting to realize most of the lies they have been told.....
thats what putler realized after 2 years of failing to advance.
@@MadLemon poor thing, you still trying?
@@user-li5cr6wv5b Белгородская Народаня Республика и Курская Народная Республика incoming.
Will finally Europeans learn their lesson? Don’t count on anybody but yourself for your defense.
trust me, most people in europe aren't happy with our defense situation/problem.
decades of hippie bullshit propagnda ruined our defense politics.
problem is, hippies are pretty sucessful in politics and lobbyism.
We would, but after WWII and fall of iron curtain both Germany and Ukraine HAD to not arm themselves, destroy their nuclear arsenal.. and be dependant on the help of the US, this is the aftermath
To be fair all they are getting are weapons. If we got involved Russia would be retreating to the black sea in 😂😂
@@MightGuy15 I wouldn’t underestimate millions of underpaid drunk Siberian. We have modern weapons but no chain of production. Our artillery shells are more accurate but require way more manufacturing hours than the classic crap they produce. Finally they have large available ressources on which they have 100% control while we’re depending on imports. So yeah I hope Europeans are learning a serious lesson and take action instead of hoping that sb comes to help them.
@@Chemist2013 Good point
most military plans don't survive their first contact with the enemies
or reality
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face - Mike Tyson
A bad plan is one that cannot be changed
That is why ingenuity and adaptability are important skills to succeed.. The counteroffensive failure shows how the Russians were able to learn fast and improve!! While the fall of Avdiivka shows Ukrainians haven't learned from Bakhmut!!! Russian videos show the Ukrainians mass withdrawal densely marching a straight highway being peppered with artillery!!! Seems to me Ukrainian ground commanders don't have situational awareness they're pinched by the enemies.. Ukrainian Forces seem stuck/stagnant while Russian Forces are learning/improving...
more like military planners rotting as unamed corpses in an unknown field
Not to worry ... with only 310000 KIA out of 750 000 army plus 500 000 more to be recruited there will be a mass of UA to hold the front!! :) Those shovels must hurt badly ! " Russians are slow to saddle but fast to ride" - someone said in germany about 75 yrs ago .... If UA was to decide and remain neutral and not trying to join NATO and have US bases on its soil it would have been all avoided .... Can you please tell us with your wisdom what would have happened if Mexico was to decide and join Russian pact and allowed Ru to put bases and tactical missiles on the US border .... be honest about it as well !!!???
Cuba did that and we worked it out without invading and slaughtering civilians.
@@marklutz95Except the Ru missiles never reached Cuba.... And You did slaughter many many civilians in Iraq with no reason and no world outcry and sanctions on you .....
@@conan670431 No I didn't slaughter any civilians. Your comment is ridiculous.
The Russian army has limited competence. The only thing it does effectively is slaughter civilians. The entire Russian strategy is based on depopulating communities which oppose them. This is disgusting.
where the actually fuck did you get those numbers Ukraine or Russia have not lost that many soldiers
@@UnclebellenUA regular army was 250 000 to start with than they mobilized 500 000 more ... so if what Elensky said is true about the 31K KIA than they have ...... at least 700 000 strong correct but still stating they are running out of man to hold the lines ???
Guess what, 6x artillery advantage throughout the whole thing seems to be more important than GUR's capture the flag missions
Only 6? Even the Ukrainians admired it was a 10x advantage a year ago.
That was before North Korea entered the chat.
@@jonathanjacob5453 Ukraine likes to play victim card
@@konstantinpakhomov3910 professional victims like certain elements in America
@@konstantinpakhomov3910so who is the real victim then??
@@LiterallyMe2022humanity.
They didn’t “hand over” avdiivka. They lost it. just like how they lost bakmut. simple🤷🏻♀️
Yes, and ruzzia victoriously captured a town of Avdiivka after turning it into a pile of rubble in the middle of a field. And it only took them half a year and 50k soldiers, and tons of equipment losses. If they keep up the pace, by the year 2251 and 200 million dead soldiers, they might finally reach Kyiv.
@@aiviskri It's almost as if attacking a city is A HARD THING TO DO
@@IshijimaKairo attacking a city is hard, that's true. It is much more difficult than staying at home minding your own business, which the ruzzians could have done in the first place. Now a city of 30k people got turned to rubble. And that's just one city of hundreds of others the ruzzkis destroyed. So many lives ruined and destroyed, all for some dictator's sick ambitions.
@@aiviskri If Ukraine only stuck to Minsk this would've all been avoided.
@@IshijimaKairo haha sure, blame the victim, for sure it's Ukraine's fault that putin decided to invade it and murder the whole nation. Sure, Bucha was all because of some shit Ukraine did, of course.
sueing for peace is the most humane option.
Take pootin out with his gremlins, then maybe
I don't think that would be necessary@@Shvetsario.
1. Russia and Ukraine had already worked out a peace agreement in Istanbul in 2022 but Boris Johnson prevented it.
2. If Putin is killed who knows how bad it would get in Russia. Remember they have nukes.
Suing for peace every time an aggressor threatens you only encourages aggressors to continuously threaten, and ultimately destroy, the peace.
@@nickolasbrown3342threatening? bro they're at war, currently 20% of UA is occupied. an entire generation thrown into the trenches, millions of refugees.
"nah mate, let's fight to the bitter end" brilliant take.
@@nickolasbrown3342 Ukraine would have agreed to the Istanbul peace agreement. But the West prevented peace. It is not like Ukraine has a choice now.
It's no stalemate when the Russians move only in one direction: Forward.
nobody is moving forward or backward, go look at the timelapse of front changes on a map, it moved dynamically for a very short time in the beginning and then it was practictly in the same place all the time, a stalemate
"Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Every Day to 2024 using Google Earth" for example
Somehow it happened only when their enemies short on supplies
It does not matter where the frontline is moving because it is more about attrition that territory, the less it moves the better less damage will be done to infrastructure
@@deltaxcd oh my, really...if what Russia not care at all, it's about ruined any city, and bring it crumble....that where we see differences, wherever Ukraine advance most buildings in tucked , when Russia, they destroy everything..
"It was real in my mind"
Russian losses are over exaggerated in western media, in Adeyevka they are at 6000 KIA according to an BBC funded MediaZona, and those losses are perfectly sustainable, Russia has 1000 recruits every day, even if they loose 1000 soldiers a day it's sustainable. Russian loses are not unsustainable. Never underestimate your enemy.
As for the vehicle losses, a lot of losses are not full blown loses, a vehicle can be damaged and not destroyed, abandoned, but later recovered and repaired, there are cases of a vehicles exchanging hands a couple of times, and being repaired multiple times, yet being counted as a loss every time, on both sides.
PS: Not a Russia supporter, just citing the reality of it.
"Russian losses are over exaggerated in western media, in Adeyevka they are at 6000 KIA according to an BBC funded MediaZona, and those losses are perfectly sustainable"
Mediazona says no such thing. 6 thousand KIA is the Russian losses during the ENTIRE TIME that the fighting in Avdiivka has been ongoing, along ALL the frontlines. Not just Avdiivka.
Russian losses in TOTAL is less than 35 thousand Russian military.
"Russia has 1000 recruits every day, even if they loose 1000 soldiers a day it's sustainable."
Russia isn't losing anywhere remotely close to a thousand per day however. Their losses is closer to 500 per WEEK. Overall, Mediazona's tracking goes up by 1 thousand every 2 weeks. And we have several other sources showing that to be roughly realistic.
"As for the vehicle losses, a lot of losses are not full blown loses"
About 80% of the claimed Russian vehicle losses, are FAKES. For example, Russia had ZERO T-64s in Ukraine. Ukraine started 2022 with over 1800 of them. And yet we're supposed to believe that Russia has lost hundreds of them, while Ukraine has NOT?
More importantly, Ukraine armored BRIGADES today generally have less tanks than an armored COMPANY. Despite western propaganda claiming they have MORE tanks today than at start of SMO.
Meanwhile, Russian units have their full complement of tanks pretty much all the time. And even after taking large losses, the units are back up to strength 2 weeks later.
But above all else, the damn oryx have been propagandised beyond belief. Despite the fact that already summer 2022, it was established and PROVEN that most of their "photographic evidence" was complete BS. Most common were Ukraine vehicles repainted before being photoed as Russian, and of the FEW Russian vehicles they actually did take control of, taking photos of them in different places and from different angles and pretend every one is a unique vehicle.
"PS: Not a Russia supporter, just citing the reality of it."
Why would you want to be anything but a supporter of Russia.
Why do you think people in Ukraine has put up at least two statues of Hitler since 2014?
Yanukovich had over 70% popular support when USA together with Ukraine nzs comitted the 2014 coup.
And as in particular Angela Merkel has admitted openly last year, the war against Russia was PLANNED FROM THE START by the west.
Joe Biden needs to say hello to a hangmans noose, because he has been the boss behind the Ukraine bioweapon programme, he's behind the Ukraine use of chemical weapons in 2022 and 2023. And he appears to be behind the Ukraine plans to start massproduction of nuclear weapons.
You know? Like Zelensky BRAGGED about at the Munich conference in 2022, how Ukraine was getting their own nukes and how they were going to solve all their "eastern problems" with them.
Conspiracy to start war is a crime against humanity by the Geneva convention.
Using weapons of massdestruction falls roughly in the same category.
They do this to keep the public in the dark and to keep morale high. War and fabricating reality goes hand in hand.
Russia does not get 1000 recruits a day, those numbers are from Putin's propaganda. There were a number of volunteers in Russia at the beginning of the war, but everybody who did want to join the Russian army has already done so. By now recruiting speed has slowed to a trickle and the new recruits are not people who want to fight, but people who desperately need money. Many of them are alcoholics and drug addicts, so not only it's way fewer than 1000 men a day, the average quality of those men is abysmal. This will change to some extent when Russia begins its next draft, which will happen after Putin's "election" in the middle of March. Putin will be able to get a few hundred thousand units of cannon fodder, but that won't be top quality either. Russian army isn't exactly famous for providing top-notch training to its recruits before sending them into the fight - their typical "training" lasts about a couple of weeks. In addition to that, with each draft Putin increases the risk of unrest in his country, and he knows it well - that's why he hasn't conducted new drafts since 2022.
@@DIREWOLFx75oryx was founded by the same people that was working for bellingcat, who got their money from NGOs funded by glow in the dark US government
Sure they are bro, Russia only lost a couple of tanks and shot down a dozen F-16 too.
if the offensive in 2023 didn't work, then why will it work in 2025?
Dont think about it, just let these people keep coping
Because in 2024 they are going to invent a new weapon that will turn it all around.
Either that or they will assemble 1 million drones in basements all around the country.
What makes them think Ukraine will even be a thing in 2025. And for Ukraine to able to form another offensive would take 5+ years atp
Name one major war the western powers won without setbacks and defeats.
Like any Nazis, the Nazis of the 21st century will come up with "wunderwaffe".
WHICH US DEFENSE CONTRACTOR DO YOU WORK FOR?
Good question.
One that manufactures artillery shells I'd guess.
Thats a very good question 😂😂
The issue is that all claims of high Russian casualities have nothing to back them. So all the talk of high human cost is pointless, as no proof was ever provided, it is just the claims Ukraine makes to keep morale up.
russian trol
@@eliotness4029 nafto bot
Remember, the Pentagon leak showed that Ukraine was losing far more men than Russia, and the arrest of the Air National guard proves, that the leak was real, and was not modified by Russians.
I agree with you, it doesn't make sense that Russia who has 5x the firepower will be losing more soldiers compared to Ukraine. Russia is firing about 10k shells a day, Ukraine can barely shoot 2k shells a day, but someone is here telling me that Russia is the one losing more men. It's just laughable
@@eliotness4029broken nato bot
for all who is interested in WHY ? 2km away from Avdeevka is the largest train interchange link in the world , it couldn't be used due to constant direct shelling . 74 rail lines . its most crucial point in all the ukraine and the avdeevka was the most fortified ukraine defender stronghold. Yasynuvata Rail Hub
Well idk if I’d say it’s the most important point in all of Ukraine, tbh. I mean it’s more important than Bakhmut to be fair, but I think you’re overstating it. You’re acting as if now that Russia has taken Avdiivka suddenly they’ll send troops on trains to Kyiv and Ukraine will fall in a week. Obviously though it is bad that Ukraine lost avdiivka and we westerners need to provide much more support to Ukraine. Personally I’m at a point where even if it were to negatively impact our living standards a little bit I think it’s worth it, but I recognise most people are selfish and don’t think like that…
We don’t have bombs raining down on us but god forbid you need to cook your own meals instead of eating out a little bit more than you’d like… not saying you’re like that but a lot of westerners are
Very interesting. Care to elaborate? What interchange is it?
@@FilAnd01 well thats the thing, no matter how much money you pour into ukraine, this is a war ukraine cannot win.
Weird how it wasn't the number one target for the last 2 years then
@@joelrios3704 That just isn’t true, Ukraine’s main issue is a lack of armaments, specifically artillery and anti-air. Even if I were to grant you that Ukraine can’t win, which as I said I don’t even agree with, we should at the VERY LEAST make sure they can negotiate in the strongest position possible for them and do our best to prevent Putin from being able to claim this war as a victory. If we were to grant Putin anything which could be remotely construed as a victory then it would embolden other autocrats like Xi Jinping and definitely spark a war with China. I’m sure both of us would rather not that america and China go to war over Taiwan, and the best way to prevent that is to signal that you can’t just conquer land like if this was the 1800s.
And I hope you know we don’t really send Ukraine any money but rather we send them weapons we make domestically which is actually good for bringing back manufacturing to the west.
VisualPolitik eating humble pie everyday... I'm here for it. ❤️😂✌🏽
Im with you, on that one!
I wonder does anyone really believe that the loss ratio can be directly opposite (or just much different) to the ratio of shelling/bombing intencity in a war where 90+ percent (and here all kinds of sources from both sides agree) of casualties are made by bombs and artillery shells? Like who actually steps on whose corpses given that 1 to 10 ratio in shelling and zero to hundreds per day ratio in heavy guided bombs landed?
They think people are SO stupid ot what?
No they don't think people are stupid they just have one job: to create biased fake news as one sided as possible picking only those facts that are favorable for that objective. Thinking is not their job at all. That's us who want to know the truth.
Igor, They really DO think people are that stupid!
It was the Thermobaric Dishwasher that turned the tide.
ua is mostly fighting a defensive war. in such a scenario it's not hard to get advantagious kill/death ratio's.
the actual number's we're unlikely to see this century.
@@nonyabisness6306Yep, it may be a factor during short periods of massive assaults. Like the first 3 days of Avdeevka battle (from the russian side) or hot episodes of summer counteroffensive from ukrainian. The rest of time both sides maneuver in forests and tranches in front of each other trying to get to better recon position to target big guns on the opponent. So offensive side is not that much offensive most of time. And the defensive side has to be somewhat offensive too, as just by sitting on positions without counterattacks and maneuvering you cant apply any significant damage to your opponent and just waiting for a shell a bit sooner or later.
But you are right - a couple of generations after us history enthusiasts will still argue about that.
These ukrainians think they are playing call of duty by focusing on kills. Haha
They have these images where they show the amount of Russian losses in armaments. Not realising that those armaments have been more than replenished by Russian production.
I read Zaluzhny's interview with The Economist. 2:20 a few months ago. He was competent and realistic. Russia has been surprisingly resilient despite international sanctions. Russia still has its industrial base and they are manufacturing ammunition faster than they use it. The US and UK used up years worth of missiles, missile systems etc. VisualPolitik guy is right about the importance of air support even with modern western tanks. The United States needs to provide assistance to the United States. We spend more on defending Ukraine's borders than our own. Can't go on forever.
"Russia has been surprisingly resilient despite international sanctions."
Really? Russia's economy is doing BETTER THAN EVER! It's literally booming to the point where their only real problem is that they've run out of unemployed people to hire. And that's the CIVILLIAN economy.
The Russian military has incrased production from 6 to 300 times depending on product.
"modern western tanks"
You mean the ones that keep on burning up?
It's been morbidly amusing to find that, despite weight 50% more than the Russian tanks, it's the Russian tanks that have a better chance to survive a hit...
"We spend more on defending Ukraine's borders than our own. Can't go on forever."
Uh, i think you missed the part where USA overthrew the legal government of Ukraine, then Joe Biden ordered the opposition to the coup to be eliminated by whatever means necessary, causing the civil war.
During which, USA has invested AT LEAST 10 billion USD per year since 2014.
All for the sake of destroying Russia. Which failed epic level.
@@DIREWOLFx75 Euromaidan was America's fault now? Was there no one in Ukraine who had their own earnest motives?
@@User1754The USA economy is 34 trillion in debt, it is a house of cards, especially in blue states where lack of order is driving out businesses and increasing predatory taxes on those remaining. The USA economy is long due for a severe correction and this will impact its ability to fund wars
@@User1754 "The claim that the civilian economy of Russia is booming is completely wrong."
Even the fricking IMF disagrees with you.
You know, that organisation completely controlled by the west?
"The US never overthrew the legal government of Ukraine, it was the people of Ukraine who did. It may have been funded by the US, but that doesn't mean that the US caused it."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Riiight... So, while the president has over 70% popular support, "the people" overthrows him.
A coup locally comitted by the Svoboda party. And fancy that, the coup was in fact so unpopular that Svoboda since then has lost 80% of its voter support.
Yes, the "people of Ukraine" which just happened to include several hundred foreign mercenaries hired by USA.
Very local support, sure.
"And you think that since Russia isn't completely collapsing right now, it means that it is booming!!!"
No, because i've actually bothered to read the economic data.
Which shows it without the slightest question.
To the point, AGAIN, that even biased western institutions have been forced to admit it.
And it's bloody obvious WHY as well.
With the sanctions, suddenly a massive amount of imported consumer goods from the west needed to be replaced domestically.
Which is why for example, the softdrink industry quadrupled in production in less than a year. And that's just the preliminary estimate.
"It has enough oil and resources in its country to keep producing things, but once those things run out, that is when Russia collapses"
*ROFLMAO!!!*
Dear gods... How mentally challenged can you get?
Russia is the biggest commodities reserve on Earth. EVERYONE ELSE IS GOING TO RUN OUT FIRST.
Only exception MAY be oil, as Venezuela has huge reserves and isn't producing much comparatively. A few other places MIGHT last longer as well, but Russia is still finding additional oilfields...
"I'm gonna debunk the tank claim with one word. "Quantity.""
And that completely and utterly failed to debunk anything as i can't even figure out what you're trying to debunk or how.
@@jonathanspilhaus3165 "The USA economy is 34 trillion in debt, it is a house of cards, especially in blue states where lack of order is driving out businesses and increasing predatory taxes on those remaining. The USA economy is long due for a severe correction and this will impact its ability to fund wars"
AND, the current conflict is moving the world away from both the petrodollar and the dollar as a reserve currency.
Once the threshhold is reached, that will cause a massive devaluation of the dollar, which in turn will make the national debt even worse.
Only reason it has not happened yet is because Russia and China are cooperating to avoid having it crash too severely, as that would hurt too many of their allied nations around the world.
And of course, USA is ALSO at the same time getting a harder and harder time selling their debts, which means they are becoming more expensive very rapidly.
The combined effects could end up crashing the dollar by anything from 50 to 99%.
But that's still a few years in the future, most likely.
Thoughts and prayers go out to the little guys on the ground of both sides, who are tired, cold and just want this shit over.
Can finish easily if simply Russia go back inside its own borders… that nobody is contesting by the way. Please don’t come here giving us disguised Kremlin propaganda
One of those little guys are defending their homeland, the other side of those little guys commited massacres in Bucha, Irpin, and they have invaded a sovereign nation and right now are murdering innocent people for a few fields of land. So no, no thoughts and prayers to both sides, they are not the same.
One side has rather motivated volunteers soldiers and mercenaries. Other side is fielding abducted grandpas reluctant to be on the front and they obviously want this nonsense over asap.
This is the actual point, most normal people do not want war, no matter what labels are put on them
You take the pay in rubbles, you take the risk fyi
Esthonian plan is missing one key moment: everything Ukrane is supposed to do to soften Russian war machine during 2024 (like targeting key object behind frontline etc) Russia can do to Ukrainian forces in a much greater scale, as it does alrealy.
Also Ukraine doesn't have the men, knowledge, resources or money to build an industrial base to make their own stuff. The US isn't going to fund it, certainly not in an election year because it means a loss of US jobs. Anyway any industrial site in Ukraine will be blown to smithereens when it's almost finished.
That's another reason why one can call it the Estonian plan. Because it's detached from reality and more than a year late to the table.
why are these petty Baltic countries picking a fight with Russia. They shouldn't feel safe, because US is behind them. Russia will steam roll these countries, before the west can react. I can understand France and Germany. Russia has to travel through another country to get to them, and they have far more military.
@@slewone4905 Why are there tiny Baltic countries?
@@Cl0ckcl0ck Due to sprat and Russophobia?🤔
Why do people think $60 billion will make a difference if $200 billion did not make a dent? Is there something special about there this $60 billion?
russian trol
@@eliotness4029winning Russian troll
@@taniadavenport2939 winning Russian troll !
@@eliotness4029 hahaha! That’s quite unoriginal. How about you respond with facts? What is special about this $60 billion that will make it more effective than the $200 billion that’s been received?
How on earth can you go on an offensive withou air support? It's like playing a game of soccer with one-legged team against full-bodied opposition, and hoping to win on a penalty shoot out. 😂😂😅😅
@mahlomolamokhoanatse2147 Russia wiped out all the air support. That's how.
@@davidryke113 Ukraine still has most of its pre-war air force, do you think they launch cruise missiles with a trebuchet? Neither side is putting their aircraft very close to the front as they both have functioning air defences against aircraft.
@spankeyfish Their are no cruise missiles at the front line now... Ukraine lost 62 aircraft in 2022 and 7 more in 2023. Their airforce got wiped out like I said earlier. If it wasn't wiped out then it would be on the frontlines like the Russians.
Not gonna help , Russia has best AA in the world.
Very simple. Fast movement. Hide as much as possible. When air attacks come you hide in trenches/dugouts. That easy see 👍 Also prey you are fast enough when running.
I wish people talked more about the human suffering more than tactics and money
true specially the ukranian populace stuck in between
Suffering not suffrage
Yes. Voting rights of ukrainians are very important. The comedian is postponing elections and denying "suffrage" to ukrainians.
imperialist and colonialists don’t care about human life, on both sides.
@@homersimpson5899 defending your country is not imperialist or colonialist..
Is being out gunned by 1-10 is a stealmate?
exactly
Stalemate is Ukraine/NATO's cope word to explain their losing situation...
@@tackytrooper fr
As long as you aren't making significant gains? Yes.
The question is not "Is Russia going to win?" but rather "WHEN is Russia going to win?"
They are taking their time. Their strategy is not for land. They want to wipe out Ukrainian man power and Western stockpiles. The host is lying. The reason they went after adveeka, was that they can surrounded the Ukrainian and exact a disproportionate amount of deaths.
hopefully never
@@Solaxe 🤣
And what will it cost us?
Remember when Russia run out of ammo and weapows for 182838292828th time 😂😂😂
LOL The first minute was a mixture of copium and a vain attempt to hold onto the pearls of western talking points.
So Russia's not collapsing after all?
This is an artillery war and Russia has five to 10 times the fire rate, but also 10 times the casualties please make it make sense.
losses are 10 times greater than those of Ukraine? Don't you think this is absurd?
@@redsun2589 People are more likely to believe a big lie rather than a small one. The more absurd something sounds the easier uneducated people are to believe it. "It sounds so stupid and unbelievable, it can't be a lie"
Sounds like the general that was fired because he saw the situation and wanted to negotiate actually had some sense.
russian trol
From the beginning, I said that Ukraine can't sustain itself if Russia persists.
Let Ukraine fend for themselves
The failed 2023 AFU offensive seems to have a few parallels with the 1943 Kursk offensive. The objective was too predictable, the Russians had massive defence in depth, & the offensive equipment was not ready, in terms of quantity and quality. The Estonian plan offers the best hope for Ukraine to recover and reassume the offensive eventually. The AFU should however be wary of trying to defend every inch of ground or spending mass resources on defending ground which is not vital (both serious mistakes made by Hitler in 1944/45). With sufficient manoeuvre assets and air cover, a flexible defence involving counterstrokes, and then reassumption of the offensive, should be possible in due course.
How nice of you to compare nazis with neo-nazis, and their mistakes 😂
@@OleDiaBole Ah, another Putinist troll, I see.
Il est trop tard l’Ukraine a déjà perdu. Il faut se rendre à l'évidence. + de 30% du territoire et la Crimée.
@@luclasnier7147This is NOT to regain territory, but to RETAIN the nation.
@@luclasnier7147 L’Ukraine n’a pas perdu tant que le peuple ukrainien ne décide pas qu’il a perdu.
Wait , Russia was running out of missiles in March 2022, I clearly remember our media telling us this non stop.
oh, they probably forgot abt that. No biggie
So you must remember well how in the same media they said the Russians were building rockets by taking apart washing machines and refrigerators....
“Withdraw to favourable positions” Avdiivka was the city Ukraine was banking on and they lost it, they don’t have any more “favourable” defensive lines than that.
No NATO army would ever consider an offensive as requested by US without air superiority..
Also the 150km ATACMS missiles to destroy the anti tank helis in reach of the frontline where allowed only AFTER the first offensive failed and MBTs and IAVs got destroyed/ halted in the minefields and by the K52 helis.
And US has currently around 4million shells marked as end of live time in their stocks but did not deliver them.. while the EU has emptied their stocks up to a blank (to few ammo stocks and late refill orders are EUs biggest current historic shortsight) and rebuilding production lines and starting mass producing takes time (therefore the Estonian plan).
It seems that Ukrainian forces need to loose first a significant battle before better equipment is allowed (now 300km ATACMS, maybe Taurus f.ex) as with the MBTs, ATACMS or F14 before..
Totally agree with your first sentence. I find this completely staggering. The West is guilty in this respect of encouraging Ukraine to fight an offensive without providing anywhere near sufficient support. It's just drip drip drip.
Ukraine is fighting for its very survival as a state yet the best Western politicians seem to be able to muster is stern language, bad advice and outdated weaponry. If we're going to back Ukraine we need to back them properly.
Air superiority is a thing of the past. as too many ways to easily shoot down enemy jet fighters. Several Russian jets shot down in just a week. No one wants to fly near their enemy anymore. The only safe flying object are unmanned drones
@@benghiskahn3673 some of us never supported ukraine and were not ok with handing free shit to one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.
No NATO army can gain air superiority against a peer power.. deal with it. NATO is used to fighting goat herders and rice field farmers.
USA told them not to do it actually
Kherson and KHARKOV WERE NOT Ukrainian “victories” they were strategic withdrawals
Yes. It seems those withdrawals have tricked the Ukrainians in committing big amounts of soldiers to storm Russian defenses. A big mistake.
😂
Does this "Estonian plan" include an exit plan in the shade of the mushroom clouds? I think, some "revert" or "cancel" button should be included into the gaming freedom, considering the Russian nuclear stockpile.
The worst part of such plans "Let's spend a year for increasing our production and prepare troops" is that the enemy will also be having that year for preparing, producing, etc :) wtf. Why do they think they will outproduce russia
As an Estonian i can safely say that the vast majority of people here hate our government, which got in power through illegitimate means and even was sued for it. They are in the pockets of Brussels and Washington and our glorious female PM is the most hated PM of all time in Estonia.
as is Washington ever wanted this war to end quickly XD
Never ever underestimate Russians resilience... Napoleon and Hitler learned it hard way, now US and NATO are learning it.
Bro, I respect Russia but c'mon, neither the US nor NATO as a whole is fighting Russia directly, be realistic and realize that even if Russia was as powerful as most of the people here think it is, it would lose a direct conflict with the US and NATO, we are talking about 32 countries , with almost 1 billion population and 8,5 million military personal. (were talking about a war scenario like the one in Ukraine where no nukes play role)
What people seem to get wrong is that NATO and the US only sending weapons, equipment and ammunition.
at 14:05 your said the Russian new offensive as early as summer of 2023, do you know what year it is? are you ok?
this dude is on high copium lmao
@@games4us132 troll
Anyone who thought Ukraine had a chance to win this war trust their kids w Biden on an island 😂
We are not losing! we are just... not winning. lmao
😂 be fair though it's possible both sides are hurting
Thats how losers would alwayz put their weakness. Putin is eating his fish.
Stalemate mate
Yes 😂😂😂😂 sure
You say that ironically, but that is genuinely how many wars have been won. For instance, the reason the north vietnamese won the Vietnam war had nothing to do with casualty numbers or military effectiveness (the US was better at both of those by orders of magnitude) but rather because they simply kept fighting for so long that it wasn't worth it for the US anymore.
As an American, it bothers me to hear Ukraine act like they are entitled to our money and gear.
i hope so. u guys better stick your nose in your own business.
It's not our war. No money or weapons for Ukraine or NATO.@@utvm6748
Well, Victoria Nuland signed them for sucide mission against Russia, they hoped they at least have all material help from USA they would want
The way we in the west like to to peddle the narrative is amazing.
Even this guy who I assumed wasn't part of the larger Mainstream media somehow speaks like a CNN or BBC reporter.
Note in the very opening remarks he states that Russia "sacrificed thousands of men to obtain their objectives" while in contrast he only glosses over Ukraine and states that "They withdrew from Avdyivka"
Always emphasizing Russian losses while minimizing or just not saying anything at all in the same sentence about Ukraine's losses.
I suppose that 'they just decided to withdraw from that useless insignificant city which isn't strategically important anyway' right?
Listening to our western media non stop for a few weeks can destroy your ability to think independently or critically. It's amazing how everything and everyone whether knowingly or not seems to be fully controlled.
What does "Withdraw" really mean? Do you Withdraw willingly or under pressure too great for you to carry on?
8:27 Again with the tired propaganda trope of the "suicidal wave attacks" smh...
Considering that there were 150,000 Kia, it meant that Ukraine had already won. If we add the casultys to this, Russia should not have a single soldier left standing. This is just an over-exaggerated figure that is far from reality.
The amount of sugarcoating of Ukrainians, in this video, is mindboggling.
I don't like Russia at all, I'm an east european, but facts are facts. Russia is winning, big time - there isn't even room for question.
please explain why you don’t like Russia, what has it done to you personally?
@@redsun2589 As another person from the former eastern block: Russia fucked us in the ass for years. As in personally however, I have to live in the aftermath of what the Soviet Union did to my country.
Russia? Maybe you meant the Soviet Union? Or the Russian Empire?
If we talk about the USSR and its control over Eastern Europe, then from a political point of view there is nothing unusual here. The USSR lost 27 million people in the war with the Nazis (for whom and for whose benefit all of Europe fought and worked) and after the victory, the USSR naturally pushed its borders as far west as possible.
The economic model of communism and ideological restrictions that are inconvenient for you are understandable, but this is a consequence of the Cold War, which the United States and Great Britain began against the USSR, immediately after the Second World War, and specifically in 1946. Because they were too afraid of the military and ideological influence of the communists.
But now the USSR has not existed for 30 years, no one is going to restore it, and we have people in power of a completely different format. Moreover, our government tried its best after the collapse of the USSR to build friendly relations with the West. The only response is proxy war on our borders and constant provocations.
If you look back, the Russian people have the right to hate literally all the countries of Europe, because throughout their history they attacked us. But for some reason, despite the fact that throughout history everyone has fought with everyone, they only hate Russians. For what? Because they didn’t allow themselves to be killed, didn’t lose in wars and defended their country?@@fritzier5475
Russia is frankly not winning, russia has never been winning and oftentimes forces its allies to help, or retreats all the way back to their "screw it" tactics
@@redsun2589прикольный у тебя ник, товарищ
Remember when they said Russia was losing with the spring offensive, were out of men, missiles and had resorted to using shovels for weapons. Surely Ukraine would have been better to have become neutral and not join nato.
Butthurt much? Russia has figured out how to advance when all seeing eyes are all seeing. They overwhelm the battlefield with massed armies all along the front, then they attack where Ukraine isn't. Ukraine on the other hand has no idea where to reinforce. So that's not a meatwave attack its brilliant strategy.
VisualPolitikEN literally gets all of its news and talking points from CNN and the BBC
Does this guy have any access to reliable information? We will have to wait for the end of hostilities before we know anything verifiable.
It’s a very well put together presentation.. I’m just wandering where all this facts are coming from and who’s drawing the conclusions..
Interesting how this report fails to cast any doubt on Ukraine's claims about Russian losses, despite them objectively not making sense.
No one gonna talk about how Zelensky replaced a general for not telling him what he wanted to hear? That happens in the Kremlin too. No wonder the world is losing it's appetite for this conflict.
Ecsacly...world losing appetite in conflict....for you it's a TV show, you see how Ukraine doing mirracles empty-handed in beginning , you people take a pop, bring your buts on won't chair, and keep watching...and now when it's coming up, that Ukrainians are people from blood and meat, when this show about struggle, pain and tears, about million of destroyed live....and what even worse, it about doing something, you people " lost appetite "....
Putin doesn't care how many Russians are killed or how bad Russia's economy plummits
"That happens in the Kremlin too"
You have any evidence for that?
@@MeinungMann Putin is entirely surrounded by Yes-men and he only does interviews he is comfortable with, because no dictator likes to be asked uncomfortable questions. He is trying so hard to put the good boy face to the people of Russia while he hides in his bunker palace.
You call that a disagreement.
In the Kremlin, people get fired because they didn't tell the leader the truth, which is the exact opposite situation my friend
where are all the game-changer military equipment sent from the west xD?
At 15:05 you forgot one very minor and unimportant thing: You need people to fight the war. It amazes me how everybody only talks about weapons and supplies but ignores the fact that people are dying there. Do you think they are trying to draft 500k people just for fun? Wanna guess where the last 500k are now? It's despicable how little we actually care about the people that we like to call our 'Ukrainian friends'.
One of the reason why Ukraine has switched NATO's plan in favor of old tactics was because NATO's playbook started to fail right away and they weren't taking chances if it'll start working or not. That was also the reason why USA wasn't happy with Ukraine at the very start.
As many experts have already said, NATO tactics rely on superiority in all aspects (and mainly air superiority), anything else is just a theory that was developed during Soviet times and relies on the fact that Russia is still the Soviet Union. While modern Russia does resemble Soviets in some aspects (like absurd endurance and keeping number advantage), but Soviet tactics cannot be applied to a modern-day Russia and even if it could apply them, there's no point in doing so.
Soviet Union never had these unga-bunga orkish tactics in the first place. NATO prepared to fight imaginary enemy straight out of their propaganda. And barely armed rebels, of course.
"old tactics was because NATO's playbook started to fail right away and they weren't taking chances if it'll start working or no"
IT feels like ppl making comments such as this have a memory span of golden fish, considering how destructive himars o'clock was.
« Russia… where life is cheap »
What an insulting statement coming from a mercenary called « general » who sent this soldiers to a meat grinders!
What became of the Ukrainian counteroffensive?
I remember they have been saying Russia has shortage of artilleries and missiles since day one. Why is the result almost always opposite? Thinking from the very beginning, is it wise to mess around with a nuclear giant? Is it advisable to encourage a friend holding a knife to fight with his neighbor with guns?
ketchup is 8 dollars a bottle. Screw Zelenssky we need our money here!
Where are they getting these casualty numbers?
At propaganda channels here on yt🙈
A Russian supporter who committed suicide stated that losses for Russia were at least 16,000
I put the losses at around 40,000, Ukraine does as well
Others at 30,000
@@F.R.E.D.D2986Ah a true man with authority, now I can sleep easy now that you have given your estimate
@@F.R.E.D.D2986thats such a unrealistic number its larger then the brigades that took part or are u really arguing that the brigades took over 100% casualty rates and kept going?
Use some common sense when trying to determine these things.
@@MrRjizz
Russia sent 20,000 in the initial offensive and sent two more detachments which consisted of 40,000 men.
That is half.
Also, is this the first time you've heard of war? Over 100% casualties happened, and it happened a lot.
The Soviet Union in Operation barbarossa, suffered 230% casualties during the six month operation, suffering 7 million losses despite starting with 3 million.
Those washing machine micro chips came in clutch for Russia.
Ukraine went from losing to losing.
Nothing changed.
Even with the American aid, it doesn’t mean Ukraine can win. Remember Russia has some good techs too.
Good tech? No, they are the furthest away from having good tech
Is Visualpolitik EN faster than Visualpolitik DE?
DE is vassal.
This aged well!
Russian shovels and washing machines must be working.
Kiev troops never had initiatives. The reason Russia retreated from Kiev is due to a peace agreement that Boris Johnson sabotaged
Estonia is famous for successful military plans and their implementation on battle field, it's a good idea to try to execute their plan
Famous? Like maybe in military circles. Like what famour military plan have they done?
all baltic states are very important states in between carlic states
This is so strange again Russia lost thousands of people to take avdiivka and that's while ukraine lost only 31k people for 2 years, how again Ukraine need 500000 fresh forces to just defend??? Why in Ukraine they hunt for people since start of the war??? They got 1 million army on Ukrainian side and only 640 thousands on Russian side. Why Russia still winning and they move forward after avdiivka??? They have heavy losses and shovels it's way strange that they don't need even a pause to take next defend belt 4 villages close to avdiivka?????
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- George Orwell, 1984
don't ask too much questions. it is democracy
the shovels are a big exaggeration and getting a few villages after months of fighting is hardly an accomplishment indicating you're winning a war.
On the side note, hey vatniks, you like asking questions, right? There you have them answered. After all, you don't fear the truth, right?
America left Iraq to go to Yemen, Syria, Libya then off the Afghanistan then abandoned them headed straight to Ukraine.
The moment everyone realized the offensive was less then pathetic, war was declared in Israel.
But Russia is the warmonger
There is no stalemate in Ukraine. Russia liberated the independent states then defended them as sovereign land.
Did everyone forget that there were apparently over 200 thousand Ukrainian soldiers on the Russian border before the war started? So how did russia walk straight through those Ukrainian troops and pushed so far?
"Victories in Kharkiv and Kherson" - you mean when the Russians decided they were overstretched and chose to pull out of these regions? That's not a victory.
It is informatioonal victory but not real hard won one like mariupol or in bachmut or avdiivka Russia had recntly.
It was part of grain deal, Russia got many benefits in return. And this propagandists know it.
@@TheLustmord88no, they were viciously repelled from Kharkiv, the fights on otskirts is the city were really hellish, the city is like 20-40 km from border and they couldn’t take it. As for Herson, we bombed bridges and other pathways in order to cut the offense. Though, they were thrown out, both cities are constantly bombed.
It’s laughable to believe that Russia did it not because they got their shit handed to them, but for some benefit. They said it for Kyiv too, like they left It only because it was a sign of a good will.
By your logic russian government thought yeah, it would be better to shit ourself publically by not taking any major city in order to get a grain deal
😂 "Russians decide they were overstretched." cope more. They were pushed back hard.
@@user-ik2tp4bd8d Nobody tried to fight for big cities, it was main problem, that na zis were sitting there covered by living shield. Counter-offence in Kharkiv was the only success for ukrainian army, they managed to outnumber russian army locally. But holding that positions made no sense anyway, it is better to fight away from big cities.
In 2023 ukrainian army tried to storm Dnieper and hoped to start counter-offence there. So they believed they can supply their army without bridges, for Russia it would be much easier. Grain deal included allowing russian metals to be bid on London stock market, release of russian ships with fertilizers and few other things.
Withdrawal from Kyiv was condition to start negotiations, but zelensky lied and forbid them.
So the plan from two years ago? Lol
So you're saying posting "slava ukraine" on your social media, and putting ukraine flags on your cars didn't actually help? Oh man.
Ukraine is counting on Russia's incompetence and Russia is counting on the West's. So far both sides have been right.
If both sides were right then there would be zero progress. However, one side is progressing, and thus less incompetent.
Actually Russia took land of Ukraine more than Ukraine took their land back or land of Russia so Russia is winning clearly and keep pushing still somehow for more. Amazing really Russia doing great 👏👏
Shovels won NATO lost
Learn to read maps@@AG-sx9ws
@@AG-sx9wswhat is progressing?
You mean Russian don’t fight with shovels anymore? Okay what about the washing machines chips? Russian don’t use that anymore too ? Dam
Russia does not produce any microchips . Never did . They don't have the technology. . China does nor produce the high end chips . They don't have the technology . Russia was using a stockpiled microchips which are running very low plus there are always blockade runners that will sell those chips for 5 times the cost. That's why Putin had to buy 500 drones from Iran . Putin didn't have even those low end chips to produce their own drones . In 2022 Russia had produced only 5 Su- 35 fighters instead of 500. No chips . And Ukraine has already achieved its goal which is to wear Russia down. Russian Ruble is worthles now (92.5 Rubles to one $), their oil sales has decreased very seriously, income went down ,Putin has lost a huge majority of his modern tanks , planes and helicopters , his best troop are all dead . Rusdia is ripe for NATO invasion , all thanks to Ukraine . NATO is made up of 31 countries with fresh troops versus exhausted Russians. Huge NATO advantage . Its time for NATO to strike . TODAY .
@@markjankiewicz2949 Amazing, you should do a job interview at BBC
@@markjankiewicz2949yeaaaaaah. And we got both nuclear winter after that. Sounds good, right?)