How Russia Sowed 900 Miles of Ukrainian Frontline With Mines | WSJ
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- Ukraine’s push to retake territory back from Russia has been slow, as its forces face a deadly problem: landmines. Russian troops spent months fortifying the 900 mile-long front line with anti-tank ditches, concrete obstacles, trenches and minefields. How is the Ukrainian military adapting to account for these mines?
WSJ explains how Moscow created one of the largest minefields in the world in the occupied regions and what it means for Kyiv’s counteroffensive.
0:00 Tanks being destroyed with mines
0:46 Mined territory
1:36 How Russia mines the territory
2:32 How Ukraine adapts
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During the Vietnam War, the American army laid more than 270 million landmines on the border between Laos and Vietnam. 80 million of them are still lying there, taking their victims almost every day. The fact that it was the Americans who laid these mines is of course not worth a headline.
BUT WHAT ABOUT AMERICA!?
Its been 50 years, how about you move on?
Whataboutism.
@@joseaca1010 so why do the elites keep reminding us about how evil Hitler was and how he killed 6 million Jews 75 years ago
@@joseaca1010 Yes, when America commits atrocities we move on... When it's another it's a problem.
By the way, what were the North Vietnamese doing inside neutral Laos?
The name of the mine launcher is "Agriculture"? that was cold
yep... agriculture mine... i think both armies have them...
@@theaterofsoulsno, "agriculture" was presented in 2020
That's because they're planting seeds.
They are fighting on farmland, the world bread basket. look at those clearly defined plots of land
The Russian language is full of tongue in cheek expressions like that
"leading through minefields on foot" is their grand strategy... good luck.
Most AT mines won't detonate if a person steps on it
I still wouldn't trust it though
@@jamesparkes8776 Ah... the joy of clearing minefields on foot and under constant fire of enemy drones and artillery... what could passably go wrong...
thermal drone cameras are helping alot look into it more
@@jamesparkes8776 standard minefield strategy overlays AT and AP for these purposes.
@@littlehills739 big assumption is the enemy didnt add more mines since the last thermal scan - which is only effective at certain times of the day due to temp difference in land/mine.
Did you honestly think the Russians were just going to do nothing
Who Thought That ?
Thats not even being considered.
Obviously that NATO generals and the Western public had that kind of wishful thinking.
The retired clown Ben Hodges: "Russian army will collapse in a matter of weeks", "Ukrainians will completely liberate their territory by the end of 2022", "Ukrainians will enter Crimea by August" and so on.
@@botanozsan7843 yeah NATO Generals that study Strategy & Tactics all day , every day, did not factor into their calculations a Russian response.
@@joemosely9383 They just don't tell general public about it. Keep them confused and pacified. Biggest enemy is your own state propaganda machine for everyone.
and the Russian shovels😂
Please give us some media coverage on those legendary shovels💪🏻
Call Russia whatever you want, pour any propaganda mud, but they always knew how to make effective military shovels, you never know which one will explode next to you or fly into you, and which one is just watching you for now
Who needs leopards or CV90 when you got Russians with shovels.
Dude who cares? The Russian army is still a paper tiger.
@@madgavin7568 A paper tiger, but with those "shovels", according to Western media, that after 2 months NATO soldiers and weapons have not reached even the first line of defense. Unreal disdain like yours about Russian army sent a wrong message to many young men from several countries, they went naively to the front, believing those lies and propaganda, and then they couldn't make their way back, thinking that was a piece of cake, a picnic, and then they found out they were trapped in a meat grinder. And you know, many military experts from the U.S.A warned them, but their ego blinded them. Remember history, Russia is a total disaster when a war starts, but they learn about their mistakes, and at the end, well, we know the result of the wars for Russia, since more than 2 centuries ago. And on all those occasions their enemies said that Russian army was a paper tiger.
@@madgavin7568u seem got a better view from ur sofa😂😂
Few defending soldiers(with ATGM & MANPADS) + layered trenches + barbwires + anti-tank/anti-personnel mines + anti-tank ditches + tank traps + artillery supports + aerial kamikaze supports + surveillance supports + attack helicopter supports = NASTY🫠
I mean it's effective
I mean, if you take away the helicopters, and destroy the artillery, you can use mineclearing veichles, covered by tank and APCs capable of shooting down kamikazee drones, covering the tanks.
It is the only way.
That they have come this far without modern fighters and helicopters really says a lot about Ukraine's percistance and morale.
@davidcarlsson1396 If by "this far" you mean fighting for 3 months without even reaching the first line of Russian defenses and currently throwing the last of their reserves to do so than ok.
@@PaulV.while losing around 20-40k troops. But for the West, that’s good progress
@@lucks4fools978 dreamer
Ukraine is advancing fast enough, but towards Kiev.
Oh what a shocking revelation. I thought Russia ran out of mines a year ago😂
😂
Lol
They are using shovels mines now. Didn't you hear? When a Ukrainian soldier steps on one the shovels slaps him in the face.
@@frankb5953🤣🤣 Hyper sonic shovels.
@@frankb5953 You have old data. Russians already developed Raker 2.0 anti-Ukrainian system 💥🪠
With so many mines in place, it is shocking to see the hysteria of some NATO and some western countries that Ukraine forces are not advancing fast enough.
That’s what happens when propaganda is used to portray them as superheroes and every single loss is spun as a victory.
@@ghostpiratelechuck2259ok thanks for commenting on propaganda, propaganda bot.
@@ghostpiratelechuck2259 how does it feel like to see so many russians die?
Yet, every invasion America has been involved since WW2 required air power to soften the target. The Ukrainians have no such air force.
@ghostpiratelechuck2259 This comment is hilarious, considering you are a propaganda bot. 🤣
Old WW1 defense doctrine still works fine.
There has not been serious wars since world war 2. Those tactics are effective.
There's no reason why it shouldn't with lacking airborne capabilities on Ukrainian side. Because air force is the power which makes the difference nowadays. Russia is keeping it away for a good reason. They will need it much more in a case broader conflict would emerge
@@grantavakjan9488 There is no way to develop an airforce for Ukraine potent enough to undergo such an operation. Would take years to train, and build up the logistics and even then the Russians would still have won in the air due to overwhelming amount SAM and Air to Air missiles. Only army on earth that can come close to attempt a breakthrough is the United States and even then it would be horrifically costly.
2:50: I see why they named it "Agriculture"
They laughed at russias defensive line, showing how easy they could push the teeth
they should use unicorn stick horse, they might just give up
Now they can't even reach the first defensive line 😂😂
World war tactics dont lie!!!
War is a place only for hysterical crazy laughter, if you laugh sincerely from your superiority and bravado, you are a corpse
Both sides make mistakes, but we need to look at the effectiveness and weight distribution of forces in the long term, and the force is not on the side of Ukraine until NATO itself starts fighting for them, then we will all be gone, even far from the place of conflict
@@raiyatulalam1124how the tables have turned
Lesson learned from ukraine, dont act like super power in a milti polar world. U dont poke a bear and expect nothing
Медведя разбудили. Теперь медведь проснулся. Слава России
Biggest? You forgot what us left in Vietnam 😂
Western media did criticized Russian line defense as weak and poorly prepared. But know western walking with Pikachu surprise face.
They sure were making fun of the dragons teeth. But to be fair.. I don’t believe they’ve even been tested yet.
Also saw a telegraph article showing cage armor being welded to Leos, praising it as “brilliant” 😂
The doublespeak is too much.
It did used to be weak.
@HateTheIRS come on dude. Moving the goalposts
@@Deadassbruhfrfr but it’s true. It did, used to be weak.
@@HateTheIRS The problem is reporting that over and over when it was clear they were entrenching themselves. Don't fall pray to its own bs.
WOW!!! And again Ukraine is first!! Biggest landmine field in the world!! Impressive 🎉
Yep!!! That's awesome! ))
How is the "second army in the world" doing?
@@alainpannetier2543dunno
Still annihilating NATO trained and supplied forces as it seems.
@@VIT-ey8wo Any subs left?
@@alainpannetier2543what?
I find it funny how we demonize this behavior but we did the same thing in Vietnam, which ended in defeat🎉!
Vietnam is thousand of miles away from USA borders.
Russian territory has continuity with captured territories, Russia isn't going to lose.
@@ajtexas1100they're not going to win either
@@HaloHamstur good luck retaking these territories
No way mainstream media is agreeing Ukraine is having a terrible time 😂meaning it's worse than it already is for Ukraine
You can blame this all on Boris Johnson and the US who put him up to it, by scuppering the peace talks in April of 2022.
Going back further, you can blame the CIA for enabling the maiden Coup in 2014 and in so doing installing a pro-western puppet.
Also, Zelensky and several NATO countries for tearing up the Minsk Agreement and using it for toilet paper.
Well almost everybody Ukraine included new that this offensive would be hard and costly so not too surprising
@@thefrenchbaguette919 But not everyone realized that it would be useless, the US once again scammed all partners and allies so not too surprising too
@@thefrenchbaguette919is there an offensive? They choked up on their own rope
@@user-bu8bo5gc4v yes there is one but anybody how know anything about military operations against heavily entrenched Fortification knows that they are long brutal and costly operations with very slow progress
Russian defense lines can be penetrated...
but at what cost?
1 village = 43000 dead Ukrainian soldiers
@@ibrahimtouman2279 ahahhahahaah dude if you realy believe that propaganda your not realy smart
@@lvdv4645tell us the numbers you believe than
500 ukraine troops = 1 day that's the real@@lvdv4645
At the cost of the loss of 3 Russian artillery/vehicles for every Ukrainian artillery/vehicles. I reckon personnel losses follow a similar pattern. Not bad as Ukraine is on the attack.
It's very simple. Russia had 9 months to mine entire front line and build multiple lines of defense. Now Ukraine simpe doesn't have enough demining and combined arms forces to make a breathrough.
It’s a war not a walk in the park like the corporate corrupt media trying to portrait Russia hasn’t even begin to fight Ukraine is doomed since the beginning it should ve sticked to the Minsk accords for her survival as a independent nation its not a good idea to try to fool a super power like Russia without suffering the consequences signing a peace agreement and later reneging on it brought upon what’s happening to the people of Ukraine
And the worst part is, once they have cleared a certain area, Russians can go back and mine the area again. Such a vicious cycle.
All it takes is a strong magnet and the mines are done though.
@@theuniverse2268lol doesn’t work like that, you think they’ll be able to operate a giant magnet in a war zone? 😂 with drones over head watching their every moves? be realistic bro
@@theuniverse2268there will be artillery waiting . Drone everywhere
You have only taken one village 4 months into the offensive!!! We need our money back😂😂
Bot. They took Neskuchne, Storozheve, Makarivka, Novodarivka, Staromaiorske and Robotyne and this is just the set up for the break out after the Surovikin Line.
@@MEYanZavthey didnt took robotyne more like half of robotyne
We win the long game though in a game of spending the US can outmatch the Russians, I thought they would learn from the Cold war but I guess not.
@@chanut5678 There's already combat on the approaches to Novoprokopivka. Robotyne is taken just not completely secured liked Makarivka is for example.
@@moneyman2595this aged well.
The US nearly experienced a shutdown over the issue of spending on Ukraine. Support for Ukraine has been halted for 45 days.
And the oil reserves seem to be drying up ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
that is the first time i hear an euratlantic media stating the truth, and talking about serious stuff professionally without incurring in "ukrainan kamikaze goats" or videogames clip.
well done.
what are ukrainian kamikaze goats?
and yeah the usa should admit that they stole Alaska from Russia. Russia should get it back. But the Euro-American say they bought it. Yeah for 1 Penny the squaremile. That's stealing for me.
It just became clear that Zelensky was an empty shell and would not achieve anything.
@@konstantinbush295 Kostas, like Biden. But when will Russia take back Alaska?
@@konstantinbush295 not being able to magically advance to and take a large defensive line = empty shell?
It’s clear your skull is but an empty case sorry
Why take back something they legally sold?@@captainchaoscow
World biggest minefield is still in Laos……
And yet not everyone talked about it
@@carllang5098 because it’s not Europe…..
@@ahadabdul6263bosnia has largest minefields not laos
Cambodia
Wow that's some good usage of shovels and washing machine chips 😂
Also don't forget how Russia weaponize the weeds and shrubs with it's Gardener battalion.
Not only slow down the Ukrainian military. But also has been stopped the offensive
As far as I know, Ukrainians have also succeeded in mining and use remote mining systems, last year they mined Donetsk, a city with civilians, with PFM-1 "Petal" mines that tear off the foot
there is even video evidence on that
Но в Донецке живут мирные, зачем там минировать? 😳😳😳
WSJ will be selectively blind to Ukraineon mining activities and the cluster bombs they use ...
You have to look at glories of the previous year to celebrate any UKrainian "victory"
@@fitgirl8812 war crimes 101!
Half bake Stories ,they didn't say how many Ukrainian Souls eliminated due to this defenses and mines
Great, Thanks, WSJ! Where can I send my next check for this highly important war?
So far this war will end up costing every American taxpayer about $1,200.00. Keep in mind only about 1/2 of America pays income tax.
it's called your taxes
It is called theft when it is being laundered from the IRS to the military industrial complex and then back into the politician's pocket by their donors from the military industrial complex.@@bobulousgaming5353
That isn't what is happening. The US is giving Ukraine aid in the form of vehicles, weapons, equipment, etc. The dollar values you see on the news are simply how much that equipment is worth. A lot of it is outdated equipment that has been collecting dust and is expensive to store. Other times, it's something being produced by American companies, which means the money is going to the US, not Ukraine.
It's like buying a cake for your friend. If the cake costs $10, it doesn't mean you handed him a $10 bill. That $10 value attached to the cake is simply how it was worth when it was sold.
The cooperations which make and replace those weapons for the will get rich. Then they will donate a portion of that wealth to the senators and congressmen who supported this war so they can get them reelected. These reelected will then turn the next regional conflict into a major war so the arms industry can make another pile of cash. @@wilson6904
USD 200 Billion achieved what?
Only six miles in three months Ukraine has advanced in that direction and they are operating in the gray zone before the first main line of Russian defense, really? That sounds more like a static front to me than anything else. Of course, any defense can be penetrated, but at what cost? If the Ukrainians keep moving at this rate, they will run out of men before they reach the Azov Sea coast.
PS The Ukrainians not only "lost some Western military equipment." (That’s downplaying the numbers) They lost up to 20 or 25% in the initial days of the offensive. That’s a huge amount of men and equipment in only few days.
War is not like a video game. The Ukrainian people don't want to live under the yoke of Russian oppression. They know full well that Russia will never honor a peace treaty so long as Putin is in power.
@@fr2ncm9 and who messed up Minsk agrrements? Ukr + Angela Merkel admitted they even were not going to follow them, just spare some time for reinforsment
To the last ukrainian
What’s your source on that last fact?
@@softdrink-0he made it up 😂😂AFU isn't running out of bradleys or western vehicles any time soon
You won't talk about how the Ukrainian Nazis sowed the fields of Donetsk with cluster bombs, I take it. Or the depleted uranium.
Russia used Cluster bombs in syrien and ukrainian cities from day one. And as long as they are used against orcs. Good.
Btw stop falling for the nazi narative
@@sH-ed5yf The Nazi narrative of people painting swastiskas on their helmets going to war, doing Hitler salutes and burning people alive in a trade union house? That's not a narrative.
@@sH-ed5yf Plus you're telling me to stop "falling for the Nazi narrative" while you're calling the Russians "orcs." Nice one.
@@loveandforward If somebody Lots your homes, kills your friends, steals your stuff, while beeing so stupid to fall for the simplest propaganda, how else can I call them.
@@sH-ed5yf The Ukraine Nazis have been murdering the civilians in Donetsk since 2014.
They are renaming their public streets in honor of a Nazi collaborator and war criminal.
They have surgeons going on social media encouraging the castration of all Russians seeking care in their hospitals.
The Azov Nazi batallion follows suit torturing, castrating and murdering their Russian prisoners.
And you are talking to me about the fake Nazi narrative.
Shame.
Col. MacGregor: "Ukraine has been turned into a CEMETARY, there's no one left to fight" Thanks NATO !!!
You misspelled Russia.
Lol yeah, all of Ukraine is dead. The Russians haven't captured any ground since they took Bakhmut but somehow everyone is dead. Seems legit.
?????? what ??@@alainpannetier2543
dead ukrainians total from june to september is 90k while rusia is only 4.5k in total.@@alainpannetier2543
... And the Lancet drones and the "Alligator" helicopters, made with pride in Russia.
...and shovels!
Kamov has always made impressive helicopters
@@cosimobrandizzi7922 - - I like their solution to use 2 big coaxial rotors, instead of the usual configuration.
Ka-52s? You mean those things that have been dropping like flies sonce the start of the invasion? Heck one of them was shot down and then captured practically intact by Ukraine in the first day of the invasion
Did you know on the security council the entire world including Russia voted to ban and stop the use of mines except two countries and that is why still mines are being used?
Those two countries were USA and Israel.
Do you need to cope more? Russia is the main user of Mines since the start of the war. At least the USA admits it'll use mines (that are timed to go off after a period of time). All Russians do is lip service because treaties, documents and promises and their word means nothing.
Thanks for the information.
You LIE , no country has ever banned mines, just cluster bombs and particular plastic mines which doctors cant remove because the shrapnel is plastic
no country has ever banned mines, just cluster bombs because their bomblets cant be mapped and tend to be attractive to kids and particular plastic mines which doctors cant remove because the shrapnel is plastic
Russia liberaly used cluster on civilians in syria and has mines in Ukraine so what was your point?
99% chance what you said is pure bs but I'm too lazy to google it
Don't forget the shrubs. They are the second most invasive in hindering the counter offensive. Which took only a few dozen kilometers so far.
And the concrete blocks are called dragon's teeth. They are meant to obstruct the movement of mobile armors to a crawling speed, enough to be accurately hit by artillery or drones.
OMG, invincible NATO foiled by pernicious shrubbery! Don't tell me it is so!?
Shrubs with icesickles
...pretty scary stuff
Russia should ditch all their elaborate trenches, mines and dragon's teeth for the new state-of-the-art shrubs
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. We're now in the phase where the western invader of Russia begins to acknowledge Russia isn't a meme and is grudgingly admitting that the Russians are somewhat competent and know how to fight, with some wiser heads grasping with dawning dread they are in big, big, big trouble. 1943 to 2023. NATO better hope 2024 doesn't echo 1944. That was the year the Russians truly broke the back of the German army.
You are living in a fantasy.
Soviets and Germans split Poland first and then Germany invaded the territories that came to in the Soviet Union then they reached soviet Russia. (There’s much more history before the war etc, but this is CZcams comments, I don’t have that kinda time)
Russia invades Crimea, Russia controls eastern portions of Ukraine, Russia attempts to take of the Ukrainian government in Kiev…
Russia invades Ukraine and Ukrainians defend their homeland.
Two entirely different wars. Totally different in scale and nature and location and who is the aggressor.
You live in a Strange world where you don’t know history and don’t know current reality.
Delusional?
That why Ukraine have to win quickly use every thing they got before Russia stops playing around but when ?
The brain rot is strong with this one
very wisely put
also, ukrainians are just being used as lab rats
Russia is weak as during ww2.
Wow they got some fancy shovels! Impressive they were able to do this while their leader has cancer and their economy fell apart 😂
Oooh what a beautiful sight to behold....
I am surprised by the story about the Russian minefields. This was probably shocking news for the NATO operational headquarters, they did not know this before))))
Sarcasm?
@@vyros.3234 Да
Not sure which is worse, NATO not knowing what Russia did in broad daylight for 6 month, NATO did know and deliberately sent Ukrainians to commit mass suicide, or NATO did know and their command so dumb they thought it'll be fine.
But the media said ukraine was on the verge of victory 😟
@@sambankman-Zelensky looks like there's a first for everything
On point
Can someone link me the speech from the commander that has 3.2M views? I can't type Ukrainian so I can't find the video, but I really want to watch it with auto subtitles.
So Russia isn’t planning to go further because mines don’t discriminate if they want to cross they also need to get rid of the mines.
It's very likely that they gave up on invading Ukarine and only want to keep the territories they stole. I can't imagine that ruissians would be de-mining their own mines just to continue their invasion of Ukarine
Россия не ставила задачи забрать Украину, как вы не поймете 😂 ей нужна денацификация и демилитаризация. С этими задачами Россия практически справилась, осталось лишь удержать позиции, а это ей по силам. Кроме того, русские не дураки, они не будут разбрасываться людьми, так как готовятся к большой войне.
@@fitgirl8812а с Киева почему отступили? Россия была поражена тогда когда отступила от наступления на Киев. Путин сам говорил, что хочет свергнуть само правительство в Киеве
@@adelaida7871 русские из Киева отступили, так как подписали Стамбульские соглашения и все должно было решиться мирно. На следующий день к Зеленскому приехал Борис Джонсон и Украина свою часть соглашений опять не стали выполнять - заокеанский приказ, украинцы продолжили войну.
Вы там в вакууме живете? Это еще в начале сво было, во даете 😳
May be the minefields partly explain the slow advance of Ukrainian army in the south but it completely doesnt explain their major retreat in the north. Something that all corporate media just doesnt seem to notice at all. I wonder how long that state of denial and all that "Ukraine is winning" nonsense will last?
Could you explain that please and with evidence? A major retreat doesn't show on any of the military maps not even the Russian ones.
@@simmorg290Major retreat is too loaded a word. But the situation in Kupyansk has become extremely critical for Ukrainian forces.
как только у зеленского отберут кок...аин
Real life Dota2 Techies Nightmare. Mines everywhere
End of video so funny!!!) Especially last sentence
'Can be penetrated'?! The ukrainian troops are yet to reach the first line of defence of many more lines of defence. Wsj is in day dreams 😅
It's too late now because the weather is entering rainy season unless they are goingto push using their own legs
They don't have mines, those are the showels...
Impressive
This way, it's almost impossible for Ukraine to succeed the counter offensive.
Fact.
@@boobasaba yes, but it's tough mate...
throwing bodies and equipment to some minefiled isnt gonna solve the problem mate@@boobasaba
ну почему же? они добились утилизации своего населения. Это и есть план наркомана зеленского
3:25 WSJ omits Russia has advanced on the frontline by capturing a few Ukrainian villages including Novoselivske.
The west : We have the best weapons
The very next minute you they’re being stopped by something it was invented 100 years ago 😂😂😂
Few weeks ago a RPG -6 rocket which cost 2500 dollars damaged the Swedish infantry vehicle which they is the best & modern in the world 😂😂😂 ! Russians captured the vehicle later
@@user-tx5es2hg4x but sir they have lost 2100 tanks. keep that in mind as well.
@@chiman75which they can replace. And that number may not even be true. I see a lot of people using Onyx as the source, but Onyx is VERY biased towards Ukraine. They like to use the same tank destroyed, but the pictures taken from multiple angles, to say that it’s multiple tanks, and they cover up Ukrainian Soviet era tanks (T-64s, T-72s, etc) and say it’s Russian. Only now that Western equipment is being used, that they said they’re shutting down. They literally can’t hide it anymore.
@@lucks4fools978 let's assume it's half that number. Yes they can replace it with t55 or t60 from 60 years ago. Also there is probably even more ones there is no visual confirmation of
@@chiman75 Ukraine will or probably did lost double that during this suicide operation
Good ...
To the last Ukrainian, as long as it takes.
i have to say, this was actually an impressive report, coming from the wsj, considering it's a pro-west propaganda agent. the report was very honest & objective.
it's only a 3min video, and the point of the video: Ukraine is losing - big time.
the question now, is not will Ukraine lose this war, but when? thus: how many men does Ukraine have left?
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Yehaa, Ukras won a half dozen villages after TWO Months! 👏🏻👏🏻 They are winning, no doubt about that 😆
я русский. Украинцы верят своему обнюханному кока...ином фюреру зеленскому, который всех решил их сделать 200. А ведь Путин говорил им вначале не надо с нами воевать - клади винтовку и пошли есть борщь.
Keep walking those mine fields
yes, Russian defense can be penetrated but at what cost? remember, Russia's main objective is to destroy the Ukrainian army's ability to conduct war in the east and NATO's ability to continuously support a country that is not their member. This Ukraine summer offensive is the best way for Russia to achieve it and they can achieve this with fewer casualties on their side.
What is different between Russian minefield and other countries is that Russian minefield is plotted carefully by the Russian and only they know the exact location of it and this apparently work in reducing Ukraine's ability to attack.
Nato wanted to weaken Russia but it works the other way it seems...
It's very Good.
By digging holes, chucking a mine in and covering it up again. Does it need 3 or 4 mins of video?
Zelenski forgets to talk about depleted Uranium. A gift from the west !
But the Ukraines were telling the Russians about the offensive… why would they do that?
A) You can't keep an offensive that size hidden in the age of satellites and cameras everywhere
B) It's obvious they would anyway, you are presuming that Russia wouldn't have mined and fortified the territory they held if the Ukrainians hadn't said they would do a counter-offensive?
C) This is a political consideration, it shows that Ukraine is serious about taking it's territory back and signals the need for offensive international aid, not just defensive
But obviously a CZcams general knows more about these things than the non-NATO country that has defended itself and embarrased/decimated what was once thought of as the second most powertful army in the world....
IKR? The Russia would've never figured it out on their own 🤦🏽♀️
@@baratoplata7050
No, just desperate propaganda to keep Ukrainian mothers feeding their sons to the grinder.
@@springbloom5940 IF IRAQ HAD THE WEAPONS UKRAINE GOT FROM THE WEST. IRAQ WOULD HAVE ERADICATED THE AMERICANS IN IRAQ.
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@@springbloom5940 THINK OF ALL THE HALF JEWS ERADICATED IN UKRAINE. PRICELESS,.
how? wsj brought challenger and m1a1 tanks
2:51 advanced sapping technique
Funny!. WSJ never mention how the left millions od landmines and unexploded ordinance in SE Asia during thw Vietnam War. It took 20 years to remove 2 percent of landmines in Laos and Cambodia.
Whataboutism.
@@madgavin7568By your comment. You must be Mark Walberg.
@@jetblack6850 😂
@@madgavin7568hypocricy
@@madgavin7568It is a fact and a crime .
Nevermind that half the mines are ukrainian also 😂
One man causes devastation and family’s separation. What a tragedy !
🔥🔥🔥
In 3 months of offensive
Ukraine has lost 45k soliders and 60% equipments given by western countries and they havent reached the 1st line of russian defence.
After 18 months of short "special military operation",
Russia has lost more troops and equipment than you can count, Kyiv is still standing, Zelensky government is still in power, there was almost an armed coup in Moscow, and nobody even knows what goals Russia is trying to reach if they have any 🤷
Got a source on that? 🤢😲
these numbers are false, go home bot.
@@Blashmacksurrender now and u will live Ukraine
@@Blashmack
20% of Ukraine occupied by ~500,000 enemy troops, 6 cities destroyed, 3 cities and countless villages erased, hundreds of thousands of casualties, full mobilization, losing ~5000 personnel per week, half the country without utilities 70% of the time, budding insurgency, negative GDP, abject dependency on foreign charity...
Ukraine is winning 🥳
So far +$160Billion to Ukraine, $700 per household in Lahaina. Enough is enough no more money to Ukraine!
Russia running out of mines and missiles:
Also russia:
Intercontinental ballistic Shovels
Nobody ever claimed they are out of mines kid.
And yes they are basicly out of missles. That is why missle attacks are so rare now
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They did in the start of the offensive
@@deidresable nobody ever claimed russia to be out of mines.
I would ask you for proof but I know you are just lie.
So come back of you have actuall content to give.
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Watch CNN or any pro ukraine media from last year.
They even mock russia trenches and mines are useless.
Ukraine will pass through melitopol and counquer moscow in a week time ..... Zelensky 2022
Working with extreme people you need extreme measures unfortunately in defense so if you surround that are also with extra explosives and let time do it's work and see is it still useable area after that? At the moment it's no good anyway
Wow
oh, time to give them Ukrainians more mine sweeper equipment.
They have and the got blown up hahahahahaha
That’s the point
- who is best mine sweeper ?
- Ukrainian !
The problem with American equipment being supplied to Ukraine is that Russian soldiers bring megaphones and shout the wrong pronouns and the US vehicles immediately break down (they'd cry if they weren't machinery).
Hilarious....🤣🤣🤣
The machine spirit in western machinery is so woke
absolute facts brother
why dnt day just use a big magnet and pull them all up out the ground and destroy them or disable them
They must have used a lot of captives for these works also, don't forget that!
If they are randomly placed highly sensitive mines, are they designed to be very unstable? I am curious if mines can be stable when fired off rockets light that. They have to be sensitive to trigger itself. And they have to be very adoptable to random landscapes. What would happen to the mines when winter come? Will a rapid change in climate set off the mines?
Mines can be very stable when fire off a system like that, and designed to self-destruct after a certain amount of time, months. These mine laying artillery/missiles have been around for decades already. Ukraine has also used them (supplied by NATO).
Microprocessor controlled mines can be activated or deactivated and destroyed using a software system. It's really not difficult to do this as the battery backup system is so small and like many movement activated systems already incorporated into say, dashboard cameras, they can remain in low power standby mode for months possibly years.
Not from the UK and top secret and not for publication.
Stop switching off your phone because we can still hear you.
Please forget the above as its classified.
Pressure mines. They need tons of pressure to explode.
@@Blashmackif not nato it’s Soviet
@@Blashmack So you really think Russian mines won't be active for decades?
As we know from Western news outlets, the Russian soldiers had only sapper shovels and trophy household appliances.
Shovels were used to dig trenches, toasters and microwaves are used as mines, and washing machines are pillboxes.
Ждём появление украинских космодесантников в Крыму к сентябрю....
Al final hasta ellos mismos caen en.las minas
Any defensive line is penetrable BUT at what cost??
Exactly generally it take a lot to get through a well set up defensive line.
Can we have a documentary on how USA turned Iraq, Libya, Afghanisthan into a failed state ??
Not now.. Ukraine is being supported and supplied by the USA.. Now they need to be portrayed as the "good guys"...😊
We are not discussing old mistakes from other country’s, we are discussing what is happening now and these wars are not even closely related to invading another country to expand territory.
Talk again when you see the US invading Mexico or Canada to expand territory.
There are also documentary’s enough, you can just look it up, also negative ones from mainstream media that did not have to spend fifteen years in prison for inconvenient news.
To be fair, Afghanistan has been a failed state since before the Russians invaded. Iraq and Libya were doing well before western intervention though.
Well that never happened.
TO THE LAST UKRAINIAN.
It would be a cruel joke if the US helps de-mine Ukraine before it helps de-mine Laos, the largest mine field in the world. Which they created by 80 or so million unexploded bombs.
Yeah, Ukraine can do it. The Little Choo-Choo Who Thought He Could did it.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cluster 1-2-3 🎉
I am led to believe that Americans are the most capable de-mining experts in the world. Why not send them in to do clear the mines? In case you are worrying that America is going to be accused of direct involvement in the war, be rest assured that it is not. De-mining is a humanitarian activity to save lives. But while stop there, why not send Jens Stoltenberg and Zelensky in as well ?
they sent plenty of demining machines and equipment from NATO, but it doesn't help, as they continue losing those machines daily. they are not working there, not effecient at all
We are already directly involved.
Imagine someone believing we are not already directly involved.
I wouldn't mind if FRS and ICF directors and owners would de-mine fields by running across them.
Based😂
WSJ claims defensive structures have been breached where none are ... very interesting
DEPLETED HE SAID! BAHAHAHA! WELL KNOWN FACT HE SAID! BAHAHAHAHA!🤣🤣🤣 My bro, the russians are not even using their reserves and the ukrainians already activated the 82nd brigade to try to capture Robotyne! @@jbouchard6458
@@jbouchard6458 It is well known where and what? The cemeteries of leopards and bradleys are well known and they are still far from the first line of defense of the Russians.🤣
@@SERGEGRANDBLR i can hear your fear
i can hear your cope@@coolyoutubechannel5891
@@jbouchard6458if the russian army is so depleted why did the ukrainians fail the offensive? did they fight ghosts?
Where are tanks? I see only few MRAP's
Just takes a few clusters
Now even WSG also knows western are loosing this war. 😂😂😂
Putin and Lvova-Belova to the Hague.
Р-36М first 😂
Please put ON 08202023. Today's date. Because the system for check IN required F..
Mad
Mines work both ways. Russia won't be able to advance either.
Not really. Russia knows where the mines are, so it can drive across them. Besides, it can quickly demine an area and advance if it needs to. Ukraine on the other hand, either has to look for the minefields or has to keep advancing until it runs into one.
Goes to show where Russia is now: it has accepted it won't make any further gains and is desperately holding on to its pathetic gains as its army bleeds to death.
@@moshoodbakare1210Russian soldiers dont know where mines are. They sprayed whole fields with mines. Ive seen Russians get blown by their own mines.
They will advance through the area they dont spread the mines...look at kupyansk
The Russians do not plan to advance along this front, but rather to advance further north towards Kharkov and Kupiansk and to continue their advance in the central part of the Donbas.
They had already tried to advance in the south and it is simply too difficult, too much cost for too little and this is more a war of attrition, the more soldiers and equipment they lose in the south, the more possibilities they have to advance in the north and center approaching Kiev or Kharkov.
ok im pretty sure this is facts without fact checking..as much as Ukrainians are brave they are not dumb..nato training is specifically concentrated on air dominance..why is even ukraine training from nato when they have more experience than fighting from a farmers in Vietnam and iraq
well trained by america Afghan regiments joined Taliban, others were falling down from plane landing gears when americans were fleeing away, that would be the faith of Ukraine
@@aleksandrvasyuk2030 well, if you think the Americans where fleeing, at least they captured all of Afghanistan and reached their goals, killing Bin laden and defeating Al Quaida.
Than according to your ideas Russians fled from Afghanistan and never captured more than 20% without reaching any of their goals.
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@@janenmarelia acctually americans didnt capture anything in Afghaniatsn but were sitting only in their bases awaring to move away because of IED, u can compare it on the map with soviet controlled territories
Ahhh. yes....one more thing-america fixed up a good route of supplying heroin to europe from afghan
defeating Al Quaida ??? very strange as Al Quaida was a baby of America)))
@@aleksandrvasyuk2030 keep dreaming.
The fact is that the Taliban had to hide in their holes until the US decided to leave.
Fact is, the Taliban where never the goal, Bin Laden and Al Quaida where the goal and they defeated them.
They never intended to capture Afghanistan, you have a very mixed up version of the truth.
@@aleksandrvasyuk2030 And we don't have to talk about Kabul Airport event that didn't going well right?
No mines . Only shovel
Nope mines. Stupid simple mines that the sovjet union had millions of
Things did of course not go according to the plan, at some point somebody should fire the planners for incompetence because their plans always fail.
All plans fail, since the opposition also has a vote. One makes a plan, using the best assumptions one can, then you try to keep it adaptable since the enemy can react in unforeseen ways
@@sap268 Setbacks are not the same as abject failure.
Without the support from Soo many nations, Ukraine would have fallen by now .
it has fallen before it even begun. it is the laundromat.
Ukraine was the biggest military in Europe pre invasion and even with all the western help they're still losing hard 😂
russia have never ever fought in any war with honour and honest ! They sent millions of their own nation to death just for a dream of a psychopath . The history can’t recall a russian army who fought for a good cause . If you say russia army the world is thinking on Evil !
Ukraine has russia where they want them. Russia can't conscript an infinite amount of soldiers into the trenches and the more men that get sent in to die puts more pressure on the putin regime.
True I remember Germany donating 5000 helmets as a good will gesture. Not to anger Russia. When did the first western weapons arrived. After the successful Charchiv offensive?
But I know what you mean. Without the West there wouldn't be some countries. India for example is a fake country. It is a subcontinent with hundreds of gods and languages. The British made it one country. Good for Pakistan to get out. Without Russian technology India would loose Kashmir years ago. They can barely fight with hygiene. Now they are supported with cheap Russian oil. They should send some troops the help Russia. But those guys are just ungrateful. Big L for Britain to give them a pseudo-country.