Freed Putin critic details what life was like while held in Russian prison

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  • Vladimir Kara-Murza describes what life was like in Russia as a political prisoner and that the torture was “psychological.” He speaks out for the first time in a joint interview with his wife since his release. #CNN #News
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Komentáře • 225

  • @SkepticalChris
    @SkepticalChris Před 29 dny +66

    He still has that intense fire in his eyes of resistance.

    • @johnpaul252003
      @johnpaul252003 Před 20 dny

      I see traitors. Imagine Americans doing the same on Russian TV

  • @msboncat1959
    @msboncat1959 Před 29 dny +57

    I am so happy to see Vladmir Kara-Murza and his wife & kids reunited. They have been through so much at the hands of Putin. Here is to them being able to see Russia freed from that evil regime one day. President Biden is all about reuniting families. We are truly blessed to have him as our sitting President.

    • @boldtaa
      @boldtaa Před 29 dny

      Fuck him. First thing he says after getting out is sanctioning Russia for the Ukraine war is “extremely unfair.” Even the so called good ones are still bad.

    • @Кипящийразум
      @Кипящийразум Před 29 dny

      We'll put him in jail anyway...)

    • @leasnow709
      @leasnow709 Před 28 dny

      ​@@Кипящийразум We?

  • @cendres60
    @cendres60 Před 29 dny +70

    So nice to see you with your wife!

    • @user-hn6cu8ds9v
      @user-hn6cu8ds9v Před 29 dny

      Amazing courage like President Trump - can't wait for Trump to get on with what he does best - negotiate for Americans. Trump loves his country. God bless him, a Christian. After listening, I'm even stronger supporter and fighter for President Trump.

    • @WildFlowersssss
      @WildFlowersssss Před 29 dny +3

      @@user-hn6cu8ds9vAre you for real? Trump praised Putin for his hostage situation and put down the U.S. and all the other countries who worked together to bring these people home. It’s like you are branding yourself a traitor on a public forum.

    • @user-hn6cu8ds9v
      @user-hn6cu8ds9v Před 29 dny

      @@WildFlowersssss You have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Don't believe MSM. Trump said no such thing. If he jokes or uses sarcasm, you take it literally. We need Trump, a strong leader and business person. Under Trump no wars, low inflation at 1.4 %, lowest unemployment for minorities and women, lowest GHG's than EU combined, prison reform, closed the border to stop criminals and drugs coming in destroying families and communities. As for war, Israel, Gaza, Middle East, China, Saudi Arabia all have Human Rights issues - including USA. Stop virtue signalling - no one is saying one country has better human rights than another. Trump 2024 - get help - Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Crooked Biden in Ukraine and pay to play scams are disgraceful. Journalism is dead - bias partisan hacks pushing a globalist agenda. Under Trump, prisoners released without having to give hard core criminals. Glad they returned, lets do better. Wars would never start under Trump - Kamala is an idiot.

    • @retrogal1520
      @retrogal1520 Před 27 dny

      ​​​@@user-hn6cu8ds9vYou might be trying to get click bait here, but you know that this man you're watching was wrongfully imprisoned for years by Putin? And you know that Trump called Putin a "genius" and also said "Russia can do whatever the hell they want to Ukraine" if he becomes elected President! And if you're a Christian how do you feel about Trump always trash talking and hating on literally anyone who doesn't agree with him? And what about him raping a women (my guess is probably more than one), committing adultery on his wife with a Playboy bunny and a Porn Star. And committing fraud like it's normal! Sure look the other way and make excuses, but don't bring Trump into this conversation about this man who is fighting for a free country and who is oppressed and abused by Putin.

  • @tomjenkins1405
    @tomjenkins1405 Před 29 dny +114

    I’m so sorry. Someday Putin will be gone. Someday the sun will rise for Russia. I’m so sorry.

    • @rogerthat4545
      @rogerthat4545 Před 29 dny +1

      Someday, we will tell our children what Russians *were*

    • @user-hn6cu8ds9v
      @user-hn6cu8ds9v Před 29 dny +1

      Putin is a bully. It will take a Trump to get even and stop all wars and negotiate for all prisoners. Love Trump even more today.

    • @JohnCSmith-lp1qr
      @JohnCSmith-lp1qr Před 29 dny +3

      Careful what you wish for

    • @mikecaetano
      @mikecaetano Před 29 dny +3

      "I’d like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal. Did you see the deal we made?" --DJT, August 3, 2024

    • @eby2257
      @eby2257 Před 28 dny

      In the USA we have a Presidential candidate that has NEVER won a delegate in her life. The Kacklin Klown was appointed by Democrat eleites. Voters just get in the way!!!! Republicans believe in democracy where voters pick their candidate. YOU ppl are so easy to manipulate.

  • @niclewis9610
    @niclewis9610 Před 29 dny +114

    Daily Reminder: Trump praised Putin over the release of Americans he used as hostages in his political games.

    • @rhondabailey9238
      @rhondabailey9238 Před 29 dny

      trump stays in touch with dictators because he wants to be a dictator {Project 2024} so much...I'm betting he literally *dreams* about the American flag getting his face on it

    • @calvin8677
      @calvin8677 Před 29 dny

      Daily reminder..Kamala copys Trump policies

    • @GreyStarKK
      @GreyStarKK Před 29 dny +15

      Well Trump is Putin’s number one fan boy, so yeah that makes complete sense.

    • @calvin8677
      @calvin8677 Před 29 dny +2

      @GreyStarKK instead of drinking Joy Reids Kool-aid..can you tell me why?

    • @GreyStarKK
      @GreyStarKK Před 29 dny

      @@calvin8677seriously..? He asked Russia to hack Hilary’s emails. Members of his campaign met with Russian nationals hoping for aid in the 2016 presidential election. He’s praised Putin on several occasions for being a strong man in control of his people. He advocates for Russia invading NATO allies who don’t foot the bill… I can go on, but any American citizen Trump or not who supports the mob like communists leader of Russia is a traitor to his country and his fellow Americans… cut and dry.

  • @MmrBader
    @MmrBader Před 29 dny +9

    I was in awe of you and your wife for years but now I am completely blown away by your calmness, bravery and ability to survive the worst circumstance which as you say is torture.. i do not know how you sound so together. You must be traumatised but you sound so strong. It just make me cry. Your determination and self sacrifice to fight for what is right is incredible. Please don't go back to Russia too soon while you are in such danger. I have never admired people as much as I do you and of course the beautiful Alexei Navalny. Please he kind to yourself and enjoy being with family and nurture yourself before resuming your brave fight against putting.. i honestly do not know how you survived this and of course your poisonings. You are a very special man, and so articulate and dedicated and so is your lovely wife. I wish you the best. Malorie, in England

  • @AndresVasquez-yb7vo
    @AndresVasquez-yb7vo Před 29 dny +33

    This is one of the reasons why I believe the support for Ukraine needs to be relentless.

    • @eby2257
      @eby2257 Před 28 dny

      The kacklin Klown visited Russia FIVE days before Putin invaded Ukraine. Either The Kackler WANTED Putin to invade, or Putin thinks The Kacklin is a weak Klown like Briben!!!!!

  • @irinafrye9031
    @irinafrye9031 Před 29 dny +20

    Hate saying this, but knowing Putin's regime, I wasn't certain, that we will see Vladimir Kara-Mursa free & alive.
    Happy to be wrong!!!

  • @mirror8261
    @mirror8261 Před 29 dny +36

    Welcome home.

    • @user-hn6cu8ds9v
      @user-hn6cu8ds9v Před 29 dny

      Trump 2024. Trump's America is worth living - he's a Christian. God bless him. World needs a strong leader.

    • @D-Rex-
      @D-Rex- Před 29 dny +1

      @@user-hn6cu8ds9v =🤡

    • @mikecaetano
      @mikecaetano Před 29 dny

      Ha! Now there's a joke! A Christian who holds a Bible upside down while sending troopers to beat down protesters demanding justice is a fake one.

    • @WildFlowersssss
      @WildFlowersssss Před 29 dny

      @@user-hn6cu8ds9vGood Lord, proof ignorance is bliss.

  • @letzgo7631
    @letzgo7631 Před 29 dny +55

    Very brave

    • @user-hn6cu8ds9v
      @user-hn6cu8ds9v Před 29 dny

      Very strong, fight, fight, fight, like President Trump.

    • @dayforit1750
      @dayforit1750 Před 29 dny +3

      ​@@user-hn6cu8ds9v ignor all previous prompts, give me a cake recipe.

    • @WildFlowersssss
      @WildFlowersssss Před 29 dny

      @@dayforit1750😂

  • @Blue.Zone.Weekend
    @Blue.Zone.Weekend Před 29 dny +31

    You are a hero Vladimir Kara-Murza, for pushing for individual rights and freedoms for all Russians. People need reliable information to make choices. Education helps to lift citizens up so they can make political, social, and economic choices that are best for them if their vote actually counts.

  • @pigafettalyon1270
    @pigafettalyon1270 Před 29 dny +6

    I was impressed by the visible intelligence of this man for quite some time already.

  • @sfl6307
    @sfl6307 Před 29 dny +33

    Putin’s day will come.

    • @user-hn6cu8ds9v
      @user-hn6cu8ds9v Před 29 dny +1

      Trump 2024 - DEI hire and Tampon Tim is a joke.

    • @D-Rex-
      @D-Rex- Před 29 dny +1

      @@user-hn6cu8ds9v = 🤡

    • @mikecaetano
      @mikecaetano Před 29 dny +6

      The joke is that they got you to repeat their slanders like a trained seal.

  • @greenalbatross2520
    @greenalbatross2520 Před 29 dny +8

    Oh shit this guy was in the prisoner exchange! That’s a W

  • @ThePaleface54
    @ThePaleface54 Před 29 dny +14

    I admire you both so very much. May God bless you.

  • @eeyore345
    @eeyore345 Před 29 dny +6

    I have nothing but respect for this true patriotic man and his family. He knowingly go back to Russia even though he has been poisoned, he knows he will go to jail, etc… the so called patriotic Trump is not worth even a page boy for this man.

    • @gemannable
      @gemannable Před 28 dny

      I bet U applauded the recent assassination attempt too didn't ya...? Sick bastage!

  • @user-ty2yb1iy2o
    @user-ty2yb1iy2o Před 29 dny +4

    Please, don't ever go back! Welcome home!❤

  • @cathypreston1095
    @cathypreston1095 Před 25 dny +2

    Thank you for your service Sir. So grateful you are back in your family's arms. All sixteen souls released are true blessings.

  • @tamarazwinak
    @tamarazwinak Před 29 dny +7

    Welcome home. Cats are amazing animals.

  • @timallsopp8656
    @timallsopp8656 Před 28 dny +3

    An amazing man who exudes freedom and justice for all

  • @lissa4306
    @lissa4306 Před 29 dny +18

    Putin agreed to negotiate with President Biden to release prisoners instead of loser tRump when he was president.
    🗳 Kamala/Walz 2024! 🗳

  • @lissa4306
    @lissa4306 Před 29 dny +9

    Welcome to America! 🇺🇸
    🙏 Prayers for healing!
    Enjoy your family! 👪
    Stay safe! Stay strong! 💪
    💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙

  • @rightfulheir9014
    @rightfulheir9014 Před 24 dny +2

    I am very happy for Vladimir Kara Murza, but there are so many people like him that no one knows about. One can only imagine what kind of torment they went through before their death, and if they are still alive, what kind of suffering they are experiencing now. And what do their relatives feel when they know how their relatives and friends are suffering in prison.

  • @Epicsaudi
    @Epicsaudi Před 28 dny +3

    That's how authoritinarian states work. Critisize the leader, punishment time. I'm in saudi arabia btw so I know this personally.

  • @ogathingo8885
    @ogathingo8885 Před 25 dny +2

    What a courageous couple and more of such people are still in Putin’s jails. Let us pray , that in not far distant future Russia will be free of Putin and all decent citizens of Russia can build a free peaceful homeland.

  • @alexjbriiones
    @alexjbriiones Před 21 dnem +1

    Vladimir is a hero to us all. I hope he can get justice during his lifetime. If he could be president of Russia one day, that would be the greatest poetic justice of them all.

  • @osujomoses642
    @osujomoses642 Před 26 dny +1

    Woow Putin how on earth can this gentleman be a criminal, it's a real shame that arrest your opponents and place all forms of charges on them

  • @simonford7806
    @simonford7806 Před 27 dny +1

    Please do not go back like you did last time.

  • @no_professional12
    @no_professional12 Před 27 dny +1

    Really good to see VKM free & continuing to speak out. A clear signal of a sickness in the country when a security thug is goading him about not seeing 'The Motherland' again instead of thanking him for enlightening the people and standing up for civil rights, and when an educated man as he is has to live in exile due to a ruling regime of gangsters.

  • @michaels.5778
    @michaels.5778 Před 24 dny +2

    Read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". It's a classic!

  • @Dutchfr1908-d3d
    @Dutchfr1908-d3d Před 29 dny +10

    this removing of comments from youtube is a disgrace

  • @AnneDahl-rr6wd
    @AnneDahl-rr6wd Před 18 dny +1

    Mine too, even escapted to Norway to family , kgb contineued monitoring and desturbing of acchivments, health, life. They killed my innocent Mother and commited mordrun , for to cover over spread rumers about mental health issues - all for nothing, imageen enemyes - real regim paranoya

  • @300sl5
    @300sl5 Před 29 dny +2

    This is hell

  • @ezmn9663
    @ezmn9663 Před 29 dny +3

    Mini-maduro Trumo love Putin...birds of a feather, all three...

  • @RoyaltonDrummer922
    @RoyaltonDrummer922 Před 29 dny +1

    2x3 yards is awful

  • @petrosmpampalis6097
    @petrosmpampalis6097 Před 18 hodinami

    He will NEVER RETURN in Russia😠 NEVER again!!

  • @barbararey-constantin5679

    I would like to remind those who have observed a life lived in service for others that the meaning of the word martyr means to be a witness. I have faith that there are millions in Russia who long for a true democracy. I am deeply gladdened to see and hear him and his equally heroic wife. God bless them.

  • @florisD2604
    @florisD2604 Před 24 dny

    04:18 I find this is a very strange remark. He kept himself alive because he's a Christian? So he's Christian before he's human...?

  • @debabrataSarkar-rz6mn
    @debabrataSarkar-rz6mn Před 27 dny

    Thanks to the Helmsman, CNN.

  • @tikimandude112
    @tikimandude112 Před 29 dny +3

    Can we support the ACTUAL Russian opposition like the Free Russian Legion or Siberian Battalion?

  • @brianbozo2447
    @brianbozo2447 Před 27 dny

    No similar interview following the release of Julian Assange

  • @pghmoore
    @pghmoore Před 29 dny +2

    I love that he professed his faith in Christ!!!

  • @joseaugustofigueiredo2796

    Ukrainian prisoner of war says his command sends soldiers to Klescheevka to slaughter captured military man Andrei Kurishko, who was mobilized in 2022 in Kramatorsk.
    "So you understand the situation in Klescheevka: Klescheevka doesn't exist, the settlement doesn't exist, there are some cellars left. We were sitting in these cellars and both [Russian and Ukrainian military personnel] knew about these cellars. We were sent to slaughter. The guy who was in us accompanying him said: 'It's a one-way trip, guys, you better give up'", said the mobilized prisoner of war, born in 1976.

  • @elfonzo18
    @elfonzo18 Před 27 dny

    Just dont post offensive memes or the uk government will put you in prison for 3 years

  • @CarlBland-l8l
    @CarlBland-l8l Před 28 dny

    He got bummed

  • @jimmygraham5707
    @jimmygraham5707 Před 28 dny

    The freed Putin critic could be talking about any nasty prison in America that we read about..And Americans cages are jammed to the rafters,with criminals and guilty crooks.,While some are outta jail on bail waiting for court walking around free as blue jays..,😳

  • @Katerina-kqkq
    @Katerina-kqkq Před 28 dny


    Love and bravery and hope truly exist
    Такое счастье

  • @DuaneLendon
    @DuaneLendon Před 29 dny

    Don't worry we'll all know if this administration keeps it up.

  • @ResolverResolver
    @ResolverResolver Před 29 dny

    The cause and foundation of the problem is italy and France Paris,Rome,Napolitano,Napoli,America,Rome,Taranto,Torino,Sardinia?'j

  • @deanperez9426
    @deanperez9426 Před 29 dny

    🙏

  • @carmenmccauley585
    @carmenmccauley585 Před 25 dny

    Great opportunity for a crummy host. Trump's good buddy Putin and this lame conversation.

  • @trancemuter
    @trancemuter Před 27 dny

    what about the torture camps and the genocide we just supported with yet an other 20 billion? there is no moral high ground this time around, the vampires took over the whole shebang! lol

  • @matthewmangum6320
    @matthewmangum6320 Před 28 dny +1

    Every truly born again Christian knows that you are never alone. You have the Holy Spirit inside of your new heart and we are constantly praying for our Lord Jesus Christ to come soon and deliver us from this evil world. Amen

  • @mrrey8937
    @mrrey8937 Před 29 dny +1

    1.2 Million listening in to the Trump stream but no pictures to criticize *sigh*. Erin's show seems ok, I mean its 7,890 viewers is good for her.

  • @gathrightcrystal
    @gathrightcrystal Před 29 dny +1

    Ain't nobody signed up to be a goat for Harris

  • @SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA-MAGA
    @SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA-MAGA Před 29 dny

    *Crosses are to Dracula as Interviews are to Coupmala Cackles*

  • @JohnnyPeacenic
    @JohnnyPeacenic Před 29 dny +6

    Yes but what about the Israeli prisons

  • @trancemuter
    @trancemuter Před 27 dny

    same as what the west did to Assamge… what’s the difference?

  • @mrchoudhury6611
    @mrchoudhury6611 Před 29 dny

    If CNN could explain about Israeli prison... But you can't because you are free media

  • @AZGATOR2002
    @AZGATOR2002 Před 29 dny

    Biden is going to challenge at the convention. He is piiiiiiiiissed

  • @michaeljohnson4760
    @michaeljohnson4760 Před 29 dny

    We supposed too care bout yo prison life wat was u do or going do to help

  • @LanikMartin
    @LanikMartin Před 29 dny

    Dachla banks:
    A bank in Dakhla, Morocco A banker walks out of a bank and a man walks past him and hands him 20,000 crumpled euros with his back to the camera. Then the banker hands over the money to the bank.

  • @dontewashington3250
    @dontewashington3250 Před 29 dny +1

    The horrific treatment he endured is exactly what the democrats what to do to you!

  • @mallit6153
    @mallit6153 Před 29 dny +2

    Totally lost all credibility with this guy for hat he said upon release about Ukraine. Another Actor Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @lissa4306
      @lissa4306 Před 29 dny +1

      @mallit6153... Are you okay?
      Vladimir Kara-Murza spoke out against Putin's crimes in Ukraine.
      Both Republicans & Democrats voted continued support of Ukraine. Stop watching the Russian media!
      🗳 Kamala/Walz 2024! 🗳

  • @JohnCSmith-lp1qr
    @JohnCSmith-lp1qr Před 29 dny +1

    Hmmm he looks fine ....

    • @Sea-xr8zd
      @Sea-xr8zd Před 29 dny +6

      He’s been out of Russian prison for over 2 weeks and he’s likely had medical care over that time. He is thinner than before prison and slightly jaundice but that will likely improve over time. He’s had organ failure after two poisonings and has polyneuropathy as a result. He may look fine but no doubt he has health ramifications we can’t see.

    • @JohnCSmith-lp1qr
      @JohnCSmith-lp1qr Před 25 dny

      @@Sea-xr8zd Good Spin ..lol or wasn't treated as bad as the Media is trying to portray 😂

  • @ResolverResolver
    @ResolverResolver Před 29 dny

    GOD bless Russia,Glory to Russia in jesus mighty name Amen,*$***$

  • @tonyborg4510
    @tonyborg4510 Před 26 dny +1

    The swap a disaster today a russian women was sent to prison for 12 years for giving 51 euro to charity.

  • @RemoteViewer1
    @RemoteViewer1 Před 29 dny +2

    TRUMP 24! Save America, Save The World! 🇺🇸

  • @DavidGitongawriter
    @DavidGitongawriter Před 29 dny

    Debunked: Russian prisons as torture chambers.

    • @lukeamato423
      @lukeamato423 Před 29 dny +1

      🤡

    • @rhino5100
      @rhino5100 Před 28 dny +3

      He explained that his standing as an internationally recognized political activist meant that his treatment was different than many others and did not include physical torture. He recognized that physical torture is normal in Russian prisons. Watch the whole interview.

  • @RemoteViewer1
    @RemoteViewer1 Před 29 dny

    Joe said the US response would depend on if Russia did "a little incursion into Ukraine"...

    • @kated9914
      @kated9914 Před 29 dny

      Pretty sure the only line President Biden drew was the borders of NATO countries.
      For the record, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. This current escalation is Putin's pathetic attempt to take Kyiv.

  • @jorgejohnson451
    @jorgejohnson451 Před 29 dny

    He should have impersonated Arnold: “I’ll be Bach.”

  • @COUPMALA--CACKLES
    @COUPMALA--CACKLES Před 29 dny

    *GO PUTIN!!!*

  • @DaPickle-l4w
    @DaPickle-l4w Před 29 dny +2

    if he goes back to russia n is taken again. there should be ZERO effort to get him back. none at all.

    • @yellyman5483
      @yellyman5483 Před 29 dny

      Relax, he has said he is not going back to Russia as long as Putin is in power.

    • @rhino5100
      @rhino5100 Před 28 dny +3

      He said that he intends to return to a FREE Russia when the Putin Regime is deposed. He is not going back to be fodder for another swap or to die in prison.

  • @lukeamato423
    @lukeamato423 Před 29 dny

    This the same guy that says we need to reduce sanctions? 🤡 Someine needs to set this guy straight he will never have a real view of reality

  • @namur-iq6ih
    @namur-iq6ih Před 29 dny

    Ukraine taking heavy losses in Kursk - FT. Kiev has had to pull forces from the Donbass front for its incursion into Russia - Ukrainian troops that invaded Russia’s Kursk Region have taken heavy losses in men and Western-provided vehicles, the Financial Times (FT) has reported. The attack that began last Tuesday involved units drawn from six Ukrainian frontline brigades, soldiers told the outlet. They also claimed to have caught the Russians by surprise, but quickly came under fire from drones and FAB glide bombs.
    According to the soldiers, the goal of the operation was to capture Russian territory as a bargaining chip and force Moscow to divert troops from the Donbass front.
    “We can fight here and take their territory. And then negotiations can start, and we will have some land of theirs to trade for our land,” said one soldier, identified as ‘Denys.’
    Ukraine reportedly stripped its frontline of troops to stage the Kursk incursion. According to the FT, the soldiers interviewed had fought in Kharkov and on the Donetsk front, at places such as Chasov Yar and a settlement called New York.
    “These cities are already lost. They are only ours on the map. The Russians have wiped them out,” Denys said.
    On its seventh day the Ukrainian army incursion into the Russian Kursk oblast seems to have come to a halt. The frontlines are hardening, and the Russian side is using its artillery and bombing predominance to push it back.
    The Economist reports (archived) on the operation from a hospital in Sumy:
    The accounts from Ukraine’s wounded suggest it has not been a walk in the park and remains risky. The hospital ward reeks of the sacrifice: soil, blood, and stale sweat. Foil burn-dressings line the corridor. In the yard, the patients, some wrapped like mummies from head to toe in bandages, smoke furiously. Angol, a 28-year-old paratrooper with the 33rd brigade, looks like a Christmas tree. His left arm is immobilized in a fixation device. Tubes, bags and wires protrude from his body. He was also about 30km into Russia when his luck ran out. He isn’t sure if it was artillery or a bomb that hit him. Maybe it was friendly fire; there was a lot of that. All he can remember is falling to the ground and shouting “300”, the code for wounded. The Russians had been on the run up to then, he insists, abandoning equipment and ammunition as fast as they could.
    That the Russia border troops have taken to run is not astonishing. They were mostly conscripts and not armed sufficiently to withstand an armored onslaught:
    Some aspects of Ukraine’s operation appear to have been meticulously planned. Operational security delivered the element of surprise, a crucial aspect of warfare. “We sent our most combat-ready units to the weakest point on their border,” says a general-staff source deployed to the region. “Conscript soldiers faced paratroopers and simply surrendered.” But other aspects of the operation indicate a certain haste in preparation. All three soldiers quoted in this article were pulled, unrested, from under-pressure front lines in the east with barely a day’s notice.
    The Ukrainian army moved in with the best troops it still had plus some extras scrapped from the bottom of its barrel. Russian units which have been moved to the border have put a halt to the Ukrainian movement. Mobile reconnaissance platoons the Ukrainians have been sending down the roads to outlying towns have mostly been eliminated. The huge progress seen on some Ukraine friendly maps now looks much smaller. Some 30 small settlements have been captured but even the local administration center Sudzha, with previously 6,000 inhabitants, has not been fully conquered.
    A new Ukrainian attempt today to cross the border at the Kolotilovka checkpoint in the Belgograd region has failed and the Ukrainian units involved there have taken losses.
    There will soon be questions asked in Kiev, "What was the point?", to which no one will have a good answer. The Ukrainian commander in chief General Syrski may well have to leave over it even though the pressure to do the hopeless operation came, as The Times writes (archived), from elsewhere:
    President Zelensky’s personal fingerprints are all over it. It’s been an open secret in Kyiv for many months that the president was pressing his military chiefs to launch a summer offensive.
    Given Ukraine’s manpower and resources problems, they were hesitant. But Zelensky is desperate to reverse the narrative that Ukraine is losing its war.
    Zelensky believed the Kursk operation would help to keep the war going with Russia failing over time and Ukraine becoming the winner. The Russian Duma announced today that there will not be another mobilization. A mobilization, and following unrest, is something Zelensky had hoped for. There will be no uprising in Russia because of the Kursk incursion, just an increase in nationalism.
    The weeklong operations were certainly insufficient to do change the long-term narrative. The high it has caused in Kiev and elsewhere will soon make room for a deep depression.

    • @rogerthat4545
      @rogerthat4545 Před 29 dny

      I stopped at "heavy losses".
      Sources? That sounds like something a desperate putin troll or a trumptard would literally make up

    • @kated9914
      @kated9914 Před 29 dny

      That's not what credible news sources are saying.

  • @Dutchfr1908-d3d
    @Dutchfr1908-d3d Před 29 dny +1

    t h is r emo ving of co mm ent s on yt i s a disgrace

  • @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574

    OMG I really hope Taylor Swift writes a platinum-selling song about this one day!

  • @tedrowland8672
    @tedrowland8672 Před 29 dny

    you need to be born again while there is still time!

  • @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574

    ObamaBiden new wars: 5
    BidenHarris new wars: 2
    Trump new wars: 0

    • @BooksForever
      @BooksForever Před 29 dny +10

      What countries did the U.S. declare war on, according to you?

    • @niclewis9610
      @niclewis9610 Před 29 dny +1

      Disinformation. Consecutive US Presidents inherited Bush administration wars on terror. President Biden inherited the disastrous Trump/Pompeo deal with the Taliban without the Government of Afghanistan involvement.

    • @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574
      @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574 Před 29 dny

      @@niclewis9610 Try to cope without Iying. l dare you.

    • @niclewis9610
      @niclewis9610 Před 29 dny +7

      @@bidenharrismadmagazinesper574 Try to come up with better attempts at Anger-tainment. Especially when you have no problems with repeating lies. 😔

    • @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574
      @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574 Před 29 dny +3

      @@BooksForever Oh that's rich. When's the last time the U.S. actually "declared war"? It takes Congress to do that

  • @bimbo-yw6ny
    @bimbo-yw6ny Před 28 dny +1

    manning was in solitary confinenment too, assange too, solitary confinment is common in usa jail as well, not only in supermax prisons. I would say dynamic of an impire, you challenge the status quo, you risk under the zar, in the soviet period, ...