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- Ukrainian forces say the situation in the eastern city of Bakhmut is extremely tense - as Russian troops step up their assault. They say Russia is trying to cut Ukrainian supply lines to the city and force them to surrender or withdraw.
Bakhmut has become the scene of the longest-running battle in Russia's year-long invasion. The small mining city has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks. Capturing it would open the way for Russia to control urban centers in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region, and would represent the first major win for Moscow in months.
Ukraine's general staff said Russia intensified its forces in Bakhmut and was shelling settlements around the city. The fiercely contested area has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.
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I don't think it's just symbolic value holding Bakhmut, if the Russians aren't wasting ammunition on this town which is already unlivable then it will be the next town.
If they don't implode by then again.
That's actually a really good analysis not many people have brought up.
To add to that. You will need to defend anyways and a fortress is better than muddy fields.
The fairy tales of "we sacrifice the lives of our best soldiers here to spare the next town"...
Battles are fought at strategic points! If your commanders are foolish enough to apply something else your enemy is not!
@@haskalah Basically defending the undefentable .
There’s nothing wrong in Zelensky admitting the reality. Two weeks ago and a week ago I kept seeing Wagner head chef admitting they’re being resisted so hard he actually said it’s a “meat grinder”. Yeah both sides admitting the reality. Nothing wrong with that.
But you don't get to see the hundreds of Ukrainian bodies the Russians are picking up every day.
Not because they like you, the fact is things are warming up and those bodies decompose faster, causing disease.
Their reports taken from ID tags indicate the majority are from West Ukraine
That doesn't mean that he said it's a "meat grinder" for his side.
@@JohnSmith-sh1sy explain.
@@emailtat5860 what's there to explain? Wagner's "head chief" saying it is a "meat grinder" doesn't mean he is saying it applies to Russian troops.
@@JohnSmith-sh1sy you both have Credibility: had the 🤡 with orange wig confirmed?
Are you serious?
Lysychansk gave a boost of morale that the Russians got the entire Luhansk region.
As for Bakhmut, there are only plain fields until Kramatorsk and Russia can whip out the Napoleon strategy using all the roads from Bakhmut.
And you’re saying that it has no strategical importance?
Say that to the thousands of Ukrainians who are sacrificing their lives for this city.
Bakhmut is not particularly valuable strategically. Being a city on the way to an actual position of strategic value doesn't make it strategically valuable. Kramatorsk Is valuable. Bakhmut is just on the way to something that is valuable. It is a city, therefore it is defensible. If you don't defend here, then you will be defending at the next defensible position. You defend defensible positions until they become untenable then you fall back to the next defensible position. This is how defending works. There is not just fields to its west. Bahkmut is surrounded by hills to its west.
@@nicgb098what makes Kramatorsk valuable?
@Soviet Pigeon transportation node. Rail and highways. Controlling Kramatorsk and Slovyansk would weaken Ukraines ability to keep smaller positions like Izyum and Lyman supplied in the east, making it much easier for Russia to gain ground to the more naturally defensible position of the Oskil River. For similar reasons, we'll probably see a push on Pokrovsk sometime soon
Once the counter offensive comes from the Ukrainians, using western equipment and maneuver warfare this won't matter. Ukraine is just stalling and bleeding the Russians.
@@kieranharper261 it's a lost cause, boss. Anyone who thinks Russia can beat Ukraine backed by NATO needs another lobotomy. 😉
Actually they don't step up. It has been continues level for weeks now... western generals have warned against sticking to Bakhmut but it is a strategic and symbolic spot. One of the most fortified and a cover for Krematorsk...
There are a lot of mineral mines in and around the town. That is why Wagner has been pushing to take it.
It gives time, time is importante
Western generals have not warned against sticking with it nor is Bakhmut particularly valuable strategically. Being a city on the way to an actual position of strategic value doesn't make it strategically valuable. Kramatorsk Is valuable. Bakhmut is just on the way to something that is valuable. As for being told to not defend it? This is hogwash. It is a city, therefore it is defensible. If you don't defend here, then you will be defending at the next defensible position. You defend defensible positions until they become untenable then you fall back to the next defensible position. This is how defending works.
@@Bitchslapper316 😂😂😂 Is Russia is going to start mining minerals around bakhmut?😳
@@gandalfstormcrow8439 After the war if they still control it yeah.
Well, at least the medias are prepared to lose Bakhmut.
I'll.still waiting for media to say and deny that Russian are losing 🤣
The media isn't battling. If you're going to be a CCP bot, at least know who are the fighters,
us an Ukraine won't let that happen.bakhmut is a stepping stone to launching attacks further into the country.
*Russia🇷🇺 still occupied oblast Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Crimea.*
Russia must end occupation & keep peace!
So the narrative of Bachmut falling is already buildning up in past few days in all media channels.
Its kind of been talked about for months.
Ukraine is sacrificing thousands of troops on Bakhmut but apparently it holds no strategic importance.
Sybolism works great for the symbol-minded plebeians like us. Not sure if squandering lives and material like this will impress the Western decision makers who will write checks and supply ordnances.
Alot more Orcs being eliminated but they should definitely pull out because of how encircled it has gotten.
The only thing to consider is that Russia is burning through plenty of throw-away soldiers, and they are consuming tons of ammunition. However, the Ukrainians are paying a heavy price. It may not be strategic, but battles often happen in places and at times that make no sense. It's simply brutal callous killing.
There is no strategic importance, it just pays Ukraine off to hold it- they destroy enemy at much bigger numbers than they have losses. Simple cost-benefit analysis, however cruel that might sound.
@@nenukrc In what way do they destroy more? Ukraine has no advantage in artillery or weapons - except perhaps in the manpower that they constantly throw there like cannon fodder. The Wagner Group is working around Bakhmut. According to official statistics alone, they fire 15 thousand shells per day ..
Do you still think that the Russian army is being destroyed there? It looks different.
Damn this city was beautiful when I visited in 2017. Unbelievable war is bad for humanity. My condolences to all the innocent lives lost on both sides.
Fascism doesn't care about beauty, unfortunately. Putin is a warmongering dictator.
There are no innocent lives lost on the Russian side. Every soldier has chosen to take up arms and to go to war in a place where they should not be.
@@Bb-pw1zi Found the first Russian bot comment in this thread.
No such thing as an innocent Orc.
@@rons5319 NATO will be stronger than ever BECAUSE of this war. Many nations would cut funding for their armies if there was no conflict in sight but now the entire Europe is remilitarized. So yeah thank you Putin. Great plan. Works just as intended.
Ukraine’s casualties are so much higher than Russia’s. It’s a function of Russia’s overwhelming artillery superiority. It’s simply not possible that Russia’s casualties are anything like Ukraine’s.
Western media should be shame on to say bakhmut does only have symbolic importance
They also say that Ukraine is winning why are you surprise
The problem is if bakhmut is not important then why Ukraine keep pooring their troops to that region?
@@crushnevnikita8575 Try logic? Ukraine is defending in cover while ruzzians have to run fields...... who would poor more troops???? please try logic.....
@@JonesBeiges Comprehend before commenting
Bakhmut is not particularly valuable strategically. Being a city on the way to an actual position of strategic value doesn't make it strategically valuable. Kramatorsk Is valuable. Bakhmut is just on the way to something that is valuable. It is a city, therefore it is defensible. If you don't defend here, then you will be defending at the next defensible position. You defend defensible positions until they become untenable then you fall back to the next defensible position. This is how defending works.
the Russians just don't give up
This is how they've always fought wars. They lose hard and throw poorly trained and equipped conscripts at the enemy and wear them down.
@Rico Thampaty khabib isn't Russian retard
That symbolism will put them in their graves
More strange - that Donbass is the motherland for Lviv residents.........
Nothing new. People died, and will continue to die for symbolisms.
@@jameschristophercirujano6650 for holy mother America
@@andreyknyazev9179 Religions,
Country, Ethnicity and etc... America isn't the only one.
It's not just symbolic. Bakhmut lies right on the M03 highway leading right to Slovyansk and Kramatorsk. Taking that highway cuts off Lyman from supply, which would make it easier for russian forces to push to the Oskil River. Not to mention substantially straightening the line, lessening russias logistics problems. It's a long shot, but that's what I think russias goal in the immediate term is
Facts
The last part only becomes true once Bakhmut lies at least 70miles behind the front line. Russia can't really use Bakhmut as a supply point as long as it's still in HIMARs range.
They were not supplying Lyman from the Bakhmut direction you dingus
@Nick G. No. They're supplying Lyman from the West, the T0514 highway and the parallel rail line. Which is directly off of the M03 from Slovyansk. Taking *The M03 Highway*, like I said, would cut off Lyman. And where does the M03 go from Bakhmut? Slovyansk.
@@kieranharper261 So you are just ignoring the fact that your talking about a junction 25km away? A distance btw which is further than Russia has moved in this direction in 7 mo. Being on the same highway but 25km away from the strategic point on that highway, doesnt make Bakhmut strategically valuable. Your literally reaching over 25km to try and pretend Bakhmut has strategic value. Do you not see how ridiculous that is?
It's strategic communication for the war
We offer our sincere condolences to the grieving families and friends of these heroes. Indeed,what a great loss. How heart-breaking!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
in both sides
@@patriciaadansi no. not for agressors
Dying for no reason isn't much of a heroic act.
@@WiseOwl_1408 Isn't dying in defense of one's country heroic reason enough?
It's not Lord of the Rings. It's real life.
Right? The sickos gloating about slaughtering RUzzizzzian orcs are sickos who think real life is a Marvel movie.
Can't wait for a battlefield game of this war.
They say they are claiming a city but I don't see any city left from those pictures...
Territory does not matter if the goal is to demilitarize Ukraine.
Destroyed city.
That's how they won it. They wiped it out. Obliterated it. More to come.
They would have us believe there are no civilians or civilian infrastructure and all targets were military. Hence the dubious claims of "demilitarisation".
You will understand if you watch "the most insane war" on You Tube. Also will get an wider idea about the reason for this war. Every White person must watch this video.
I thought Ukraine was winning the war 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They are...they have killed 25 million ruzzian troops, blown up 500,000 russian tanks and shot down 250,000 russian aircraft. Thats pretty good.
It looks pretty bad when a city went from " the fortress of ukraine" to disposable.
Wagner is a slowly crashing wave. Ukraine has their best units in Bakhmut, they held out for 7 months but its time to withdrawal.
Just look at Russia's losses. Daily losses are more than double what it was for the first year of the war, including tanks and artillery losses.
@@carpenter3069 We don't know what Russia's losses are. What we do know is that any Russian casualty figures provided by Ukraine and the West are exaggerated.
@@carpenter3069 is there some picture you're showing us cuz I don't see any
@Interglacial Optimist He's on that hope-ium. It's a powerful drug that can help you see things that aren't visible to anybody else.
Interesting how the AFU always claims the land is littered with Russian bodies, but there’s never video of it.
And no Ukrainian bodies.
I've seen a lot of videos of fields of Russian dead on reddit.
@@nicgb098 And no Ukrainians???? They must have superpowers.
So many sheeple in the comments. Learn about war both sides will lie and distort the truth
just like the so called Human Wave attacks yet no video....and Russia has been out of ammo and missiles since March...then December...
If you read a title like this in western media it means Bakhmut has fallen already
You're absolutely right.
Yeah, DW is very recognizable by their misleading titles.
When westerns media start crying it means PUTIN is wining
Or at least the fall is very close and inevitable
I never understood countries who border each other yet they hate each other. Imagine every European country be like Russia and Ukraine. western countries are actually very evil in creating such situations that a brotherly country invaded another brotherly country cuz their interests don't cross anymore. There were many ways out of this, but the west and the USA didn't want ways out. They want as much destruction as possible to make that war industry flow again.
The state of the buildings is astounding, it's looks like a natural disaster zone, I'm sure there was happiness there before....in some form or other.
Bakhmut surrounded, 30000 Ukrainian soldiers trapped
Yes 30k soldiers trapped😂. Maybe there is even Zelensky there?😂
@@frei6833 try to cope
@@willyvanroy3534 No I am just laughing at you 😂
Ukraine needed 600 tanks 6 months ago. Instead they got 100 tanks last second. I have been absolutely stunned by how little effort was made by Europe to supply them over the winter.
20 years ago we used to joke about how stingy Europe was with defense spending, but to see them ignore a war going on in what would be the equivalent of one U.s state away is just breathtaking.
because its not NATO war against the russians....
Even 1000 tanks will not stop the Russians and now they wanna use chemical weapons 😂😂😂
Nah americans wasted trillions just to lose. No worse military on earth than the sad war losing americans. How many all talk Texans does it take to stop a school shooter? I dont know but 376 wasn't enough in Uvalde Texas, right?
It will get worse, and again the US has to bail out our behinds!
politically ukraine is more like canada than a US state, it is part of nothing
Why NATO still see people dying but not send the troops to drive enemy away? Ukraine soldiers are doing that for you now!
because NATO has nothing left into their ARSENAL. thats why the only thing that US can do is shift blaiming to CHINA or to threat of sanctions, well thats only US good at blah blah blah,
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@@vladimirprotein1275 the fact is the war won’t stop if NATO soldiers still keep outside.
@@straybirdpei hey. If you are really from madagascar, why don't you mind your own business. What happens in the northern hemisphere will effect you very little. I happen to live up here. I prefer to breath air without extra radiation. Thanks much!
@@Thea-gj2oryeah, wish the war stop and more youtube news is about sports and entertainment just like good old days.
1:10 that unit had 50-60 wounded in a 9 month rotation before the war started.....
What's sad about this war is that Russians and Ukraines are the same people that are killing each other. I'm Bosnian and my parents fled during the Yugoslav war with the same scenario. Only difference is NATO was able to engage directly into the conflict and put a stop to the Serbs advancements.
In Ukraine there is Russia to stop this war
Did you ask u r mother if u r real father was a Serb?
NATO killed tens of thousands and took sides
It is extremely sad and it isn't like they really have a choice. If the Russians don't fight they are killed, if the Ukrainians don't fight they lose their homes. As sad as it is, Russia can't win.
@@StrongRespect From 2014-2022 there were about 14'000 casualties in this conflict. Since Russia joined it last year officially, over 200'000 people died in Ukraine. That is not how to stop a war. It is the complete opposite.
If Bakhmut is so strategically unimportant, then why does Zelensky say it is? Why are so many AFU being sent to defend it? Why did NATO spend 8 years fortifying it?
Bakhmut is not particularly valuable strategically. Being a city on the way to an actual position of strategic value doesn't make it strategically valuable. Kramatorsk Is valuable. Bakhmut is just on the way to something that is valuable. It is a city, therefore it is defensible. If you don't defend here, then you will be defending at the next defensible position. You defend defensible positions until they become untenable then you fall back to the next defensible position. This is how defending works.
@@nicgb098 well, then I would say that would categorize Bakhmut as “strategic?” Why didn’t NATO spend 8 years fortifying Kramatorsk?
@ericp1139
Well, that's your opinion, but it doesn't correspond with reality. You'd just be taken as a fool by anybody who actually knows anything about the topic. NATO didn't spend 8 years fortifying Bakhmut. If NATO had spent 8 years fortifying Bakhmut, Russia would not have gotten within 80km of Bakhmut.
Because all Ukrainian cities are not important for the west. It is just a proxy war.
Reporter: "I dont think losing Bakhmut will change the course of the war"
Nope it only means one less city Russian army has to conquer to bag all Donbas
Yeah this small, insignificant city they have spent over 7 mo fighting over must definitely be worth the tens of thousands of dead. LMAO yeah then watch Ukraine retake it in a matter of days just like Lyman and Izium.
Russia might capture 1 small city in 9 months, but it also lost 3 major cities in 1 month
@@souliswinter1024 ...First Soledar now Nakhmut :( elensky must be wearing diapers in that bunker
@@souliswinter1024 Damn, if you really think Russia lost, you are lost, holy molly they have enough ammo and manpower to prolong this war for years to come, Ukraine is on lifesupport western money keeps ukraine's heart pumping no more soviet tech lmao not only that Ukraine will get demilitarized whole europe will too all its weaps will be destroyed inn Ukronazistan
@@souliswinter1024 That is, in your opinion, is it better to dig in the cities and use civilians as a shield? It is obvious that the Russian army does not act like terrorists who will not live there later.
It is sad that they are sacrificing lives of young Ukrainian soldiers for the sake of pride of few leaders. There is nothing wrong with stratagic retreat.
It's better to withdraw and come back stronger.
Not anymore, Ukraine loses manpower something West can not replace.
@@nobodyfromnowhere3597 not ukraine but NATO lmao
@@juliooocesar8170 If NATO goes to Ukraine it’s GG. I’m switching my career path to become a warlord.
@@nobodyfromnowhere3597 ok. So u can 24/7 live streaming with an AK and make money from tik tok n u tube.
@@wieariwibowo1775 Not sure if being a streamer is an option but getting your hands on a weapon is easy part the hard part is becoming a leader of marauders.
Had the Russians also used aerial carpet bombing of bhakhmut, like USA armed forces used to do carpet bombing on japenese cities of tokyo, German cities like dresden and munich, and in Korea this bhakmut city, could have been taken in few days Or weeks especially using cheap bombs like barrell bombs which USA used in Vietnam War.
They're Desperate Hypocrites.
So if they used extremely outdated and dumb technology? LMAO Russia does with its artillery what they western allies did with bombers. Russia is failing because the west has advanced in their technology. What a fool to bring up conflicts over 70 years old with no idea of the things you are talking about.
Nick contradicts himself in one breath.
Yes, it would be funny to have more Scottish and Aussies as reporters, so it's hard to understand those guys.
What city Are they fighting for again? The city looks completely destroyed.
I've one and always listened to this news station. It's nice to actually see the faces behind the voice. Thank you for all the news. I started listening 1.5 years ago via my Google morning new nes update. I say "hey Google, give me my morning news update."
The humilation of Putin goes on. Sad for the number of dead, just because of one man. Such a sad event
hows humiliation when Russia is winning?haha
´Humiliation´ 😂
Artemivsk is about to get ´cauldroned´.
30,000 AFU trapped in that city.
@@vladimirprotein1275 Winning what? 🤣 Killing your own people in a war putler can't even call it a war? 😂😂😂
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@@livingtribunal4110 It is humiliating and pathetic to get hyped over killing people after losing the "3 days war". 🤡
Bakhmut is the second defend line and very fortified by all means. So it’s not only symbolic but strategic after the defeat of the Ukrainian forces in Bachmut there is a free go for Russian forces. Other defence lines are not strong as Bachmut to stand against the Russian army. The DW doesn’t tell the full and true story it’s a mouth piece….
Your assessment is correct. Russia is engaging a significant number of Ukrainian forces in a pitched battle and inflicting losses that cannot be absorbed at this point. When Ukraine eventually has to withdraw from that area, there is going to be a significant amount of surrounding territory that cannot be defended due to the lost or displacing troops not being able to face the Russian opposition.
Dw is one of western media outlet, remember that! So the they only say what's serves them rather than the truth
Hope there will be no extraction by Abramovich this time.
I feel like they are holding bakhmut because kramatorsk and sloviansk arent fortresses like bakhmut
Or theyj just want to buy time to build up defences. They have bought 6 months.
Bakhmut is just another spot Ukraine has dug in & is pouring men in at a constant rate, Russias original goal was not to hold ANY land, they want to destroy ukraines army, any town is as good as the next for this. Attrition is much easier if its confined to one area. They originally planned for DPR_LPR to be independent countrys that acted as a buffer.
But it’s battle in place where limited civilian casualties for Ukrainian people. The Ukrainians need to hold and buy time and even if that costs casualties it’s worth it. Because the western tanks are coming and when that happens Russia could be hit hard. The goal for the west is to slow Russia down to a loss but not so fast it causes a collapse of the state.
You are saying that as if Russia wasn't wasting hundreds of lifes daily to take this town.
@@ffffuchs 90% of Wagner losses are unwanted prisoners, 100% of Ukranian losses are brave Ukranian Soldiers, You see how russia can make this trade easily?
So nice to learn new ideas from competent people in the comments.
You know so much..... you must be in among the Russian army
I have a bad feeling that father Taras will be conscripted soon.
Bakhmut is the focus of the entire battlefield, both sides have consumed a lot of personnel and supplies here, and losing it will be a huge blow to the morale of the Ukrainian army. Ukraine's battlefield defeat will also greatly weaken the confidence of the West in continuing to support Ukraine. Importantly, the tactics Russia used to attack Bakhmut proved to be effective, and the same tactics can be used in the next Ukrainian city. How should Ukraine resist?
Was that British para at the last scenes of funeral?
Blame evil nato for all this mess.
think you mean putin for his fantasy
Sad to see young men lay to rest on both sides, whats it for.....
they have to make an agreement to each other and stop the war , people are dying ,
it's not good
This is 14 days old video. I've seen it earlier.
It is from world war 2.
Are the Russians still trying to take Bakhmut?
For 8 months now?
6 month on 😂 “Second army in the world”
How long would US army take to surround or over run that same city, when intelligence and weapons is given directly to its enemy?
Wake me up next year.
They are taking it this week. In Telegram Ukrainians are already pulling out. Which is important to not get fully encircled.
So many people died yet the US still refusing to allow Ukraine to negotiate a cease fire agreement. Russia will uses nuclear weapons when they run out of conventional weapons. This war will not end well without a peaceful negotiation.
Bakhmut was lost 2 weeks ago and you report it as news now?
you can't hide an awl in a bag
To quote a popular Milblogger “Russia will capture Backmut , but they will find that they haven’t gained a city but a tomb”
101 - Grapes are sower ?
@@shahrahman4368 sour?
After Bakhmut is on to the next city until they bag the whole Donbas but yea ok Bakhmut has no strategic value
@@matiasd.c9949 I wouldn't sound to excited. Kramatorsk and it's sister cities have been fortified for months. From what I've seen, it's likely far more fortified than Backmut and will be harder to take. The Russians will pay dearly just to get the hope of taking it. Backmut took 8 months and Russia had to send in 40k of convicts just to start the process. Doubtful they'll find 40k of convict volunteers again.
@@RenegadeElite101 bakhmut has been fortified for years.
More helmets from Olaf would definitely have helped in the current situation.
According to western media this small town worth nothing, yet so much effort put into this town
Russia is running out of missiles, that was the narrative 🤣🙃
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The reality is they are not fighting the Russian army but PMC they are loosing to WAGNERS.
What is the point to report from Kiev? Nothing is happening there 😕
Bakhmut - historical reference:
The first official mention of Bakhmut dates from 1571, when Ivan the Terrible - Ivan IV, in order to protect the southern border of the Russian State from Crimean-Nogai slave raids, ordered the creation of border fortifications along the Seversky Donets rivers. The settlement was described then as a guard-fort named after the nearby Bakhmutovka River, a tributary of the Seversky Donets.
In 1547, Ivan IV assumed the title of “Tsar and Grand Duke of all Rus", The Tsar of the "Great Russian Tsardom", as it was called in the coronation document, by Constantinople Patriarch Jeremiah II and in numerous official texts....
Ukraine didn't exist yet.
In 1924, the city's name was changed from Bakhmut to Artyomovsk in honor of the Russian Bolshevik Communist Revolutionary figure known as Artyom who lived and worked in the city in the early years of the Revolution.
Very true
You are catching up to what most people already knew. Its called a cauldron in Russia
Except it hasnt happened yet. They are describing the thing that Russia has been trying to do for about 7 months now.
Mariupol 2. The West forgets a basic siege takes time. Russia cares about its men, so they don’t waste them in a bum rush like the AFU does.
@@nicgb098 Russia is in no hurry, this is already obvious. This war of attrition, Zelensky throws more and more untrained civilians there like cannon fodder.
@@ericp1139 lol you haven't watched videos of endless russian human waves assault haven't you?
Death ratio is 25/1..ukraine lost more than 500k troops...and more than usa during ww2...Russian military performance is impressive.
Pull back and hit them when they take the city.
More like pull back and run to Poland.
ukraine has no chance in Bakhmut. While Zelkensky is making billions $ from western donations, ukrainian soldiers are dying. Who needs this? There should be an immediate ceasefire everywhere. Negotiations are the only way to end this
Russia is rapidly becoming a laughingstock. LOL : )
Where are the report on mass protest in Europe?
The mass protesters are all in Gulag now for 15 years. What protests your talking about?
Life is all about choice. It’s all about live, leave, or die.
Should have a choice to be born or not
What pipeline ?
Let it rain... Just take cover, and when it stop.. attack!!!
shame on you china...
What does China have to do with this?
@@ericp1139 because china is helping the russians, under the table.
and therefore agrees with this genocide.
you should know a little more about what's going on in ukraine.
@@ThePaulobraveheart I think you know little about US/China Relationship, you know little about China/Taiwan Relationship. China don't support the independence of East Ukraine. But US is supporting Taiwan independence. What a double standard!
China's position is because of US, NOT Ukraine. China is NOT benefit from the endless War between Russia and Ukraine. BUT US is benefiting from the war.
This is US proxy war to harvest Europe and Russia. Wake up.
@@bonnie7898 Beijing never support Russia's territory claim. In fact, Beijing support Ukraine that both Donbas and Crimea are Ukraine's Territory. The only reason China financial support Russia is because of US.
China know what's US goal. US want to weak Russia and German. US don't want EU become independent from US. Weaking German and EU will make EU dependent on US . IF US successfully defeat Russia, the next target will be China. The war in Taiwan will be inevitable.
China doesn't want Taiwan to be another Ukraine.
Ukraine has made a valiant defense of Bahkmut, but it may be time to make a tactical withdrawal. The last supply road into the city is now within artillery range.
Its only 2 kilometer left for complete encirclement. The trapped soldiers must choose between surrender or massacre, its hard to fight with no food supply or clean water.
Yea lose 80% of your army then make a tactical retreat? lol
No tactical withdrawal, they should run for their dear lives.
Groups of AFU are being caught escaping towards Chasiv Yar and some of them are surrendering on their own.
there is nothing wrong with a tactical retreat, the u.s. retreated from afghanistan, russia retreated from some cities in ukraine, and you can leave this city behind =)
Force them to suwenda or witdrar?
You cannot defend indiscriminate shelling especially the ones that are meant to level down everything
It’s war and the Ukrainians use every structure they can to their advantage. When you fight this way the whole place get levelled .
actually you can, in fact easily, Ukranian army gave weapons to ordinary people, they armed the civilians, in some cases they even forced them, and they fight among the residential areas, using civilians as shield, thus all residential areas and civilians are legitimate target for Russians
@@yener2006 go away Russia bot
@@richardwainwright507 are you a NATO bot?
They can and they will. Those people are barbarians.
Give top guns to Ukraine: they need them, and they deserve them !
I urge Ukraine to not wait until they can't withdraw. Live to fight again, you've forced Russia to pay a huge price for little gain. You've done better than could be expected and there is no shame in preventing your troops from being surrounded. Slava Ukraine!
The gain would be a game changer in Russian advantage, that's certain.
@@ricothampaty4345 My wife and her family are Ukrainian. They happen to be native Russian speakers since their mother was Russian. They all tell me what you can do with your short history.
Yea 25 % of the whole country is a little gain , stop believing what the western media feed you !
Remember Bakhmut.
That's heavy.
So F heavy
When your priest is suffering with ptsd.
So, am I correct that Wagner ( primarily) has taken 6-8 months or more to win 2, and maybe 3 small but symbolic ( and with some strategic influence) eastern villages which are all but rubble? All the while losing man after man and ripping through inventory?
You couldn't be any more wrong😂😂
Is Wagner releasing daily reports of casualties. I’d love to know how you know they’re losing “man after man”
@@Mongezi44 it's his Source" trust me bro I heard from someone"
@@shadowkill1420 Nothing more gutless than calling every person you meet bro, like I dont know you stop kissing up like runty rogan. Have some pride.
@@shadowkill1420 Do you have a source that they're wrong? Post your own proof if you're gonna call people liars
“The less emphasis the Western media places on Bakhmut's strategic importance, the more important it is to Russia. Why would the Ukrainians fight so hard for it if it wasn't that important? It has devolved into a meat grinder, in their own words. If it wasn't that important, they could have given up and launched a counterattack to retake other more important Russian-occupied cities.” - Douglas Macgregor
Nah
the Ukrainians hold on, because it still makes sense. The russians are attacking fortified positions with human waves, losing more troops than the Ukrainians.
Exactly
Are yes the great "western media" plot. Please get real. The place is defended because it is part of Ukraine. It is defended hard because it has given the Ukrainians an opportunity to kill and wound a disproportionate number of Russian occupiers.
That is rubbish, it is sybolic for both sides, bujt even if Russia takes it , it's a phyrrhic victory and will not sit well with the unheard Russian people at home. Russia can't sustain victories like this!
What's the point nothing left
If it's not a strategic place why defend it 🙄 Why spending men and equipment in an non strategic location 🙄🙄
Over 30 countries fighting just one country and that one country is Capturing Bakmut.
"Over 30 countries fighting just one country"
Really, Bwana? Apart from Ukrainians (and a handful of freedom-fighters in the International Brigade), WHICH other nations' soldiers are fighting in Ukraine? No Africans - that's for sure !
@@marvinc9994 The Polish legion is 20,000 people, this is to start counting. American official statement
@@totoshaebosha7983
"The Polish legion"
Is currently being formed - and is not yet in Ukraine. Let's hope it contributes to the struggle against the monstrous evil that is Putin's Russia as quickly as possible. I'm sure you'll agree ?
Bakhmut went from "paramount importance" to "merely symbolic as a victory". That says lots about media fables.
Nobody claiimed it was of paramount importance. Where is this quote from? Bakhmut is not particularly valuable strategically. Being a city on the way to an actual position of strategic value doesn't make it strategically valuable. Kramatorsk Is valuable. Bakhmut is just on the way to something that is valuable. It is a city, therefore it is defensible. If you don't defend here, then you will be defending at the next defensible position. You defend defensible positions until they become untenable then you fall back to the next defensible position. This is how defending works.
Remember when Russia abandoned Kherson and the MSM said they lost a "key strategec city? Whenever Ukraine wins it's important. Whenever Russia wins it has no value and they expect to get taken seriously.
@@josephshields2922 Kherson is a little different just by the mere fact that the city alone is four times the size of Bakhmut. Ukraine also didn't just gain the city but all the lands and settlements in Kherson oblast that are west of the Dnepr.
Very interesting how all western media have an exact same script with key words that they repeat and emphasize
the soldiers staying to defend the town are heroes, but even heroes need to know when to pull back and save their lives for another day, if they stay they will get encircled and killed or tortured its a matter of time, they need to retreat and regroup now before its too late!
FRIENDS, BROTHERS FROM EUROPE, ASIA AND AMERICA🇺🇦🇵🇱🇺🇸🇩🇪🏴🇫🇷🇨🇦🇮🇹🇪🇸🇨🇿🇹🇷 ❗ UKRAINE NEED YOUR SUPPORT IN BAKHMUT, IMPORTANT BATTLE IS COMING, WE FIGHT WITH AGRESSOR ❗ THANK YOU, SLAVA UKRAINE 💙💛🙏
You war monger don't deserve to use asia name. I am from asia and i condemn nato especially the US for being the sources of all atrocities on this planet.
@@priapulida russian trash
Russia is fighting the agressors
You got that wrong
@@StrongRespect bull. On 28 february 2014 at 8am your agents shot dead police in front of the donetsk and lugansk city halls and started your wsr of secession you did the same thing in moldova in 1995 and in georgia in 2008
@@StrongRespect and ley me point out that nato never said that it was going to invade you, and never fired one shot into russia. You have killed 250 thousand ukrainians, 100 thousand of you own men - and you think that this is good.
Russia has lost or almost lost the entire population of the city trying to take it. Y OU CAN'T WIN THAT WAY!
They will comeback when bakhmut is taken by Russia.. They runaway because of Ukraine shelling..
@@crushnevnikita8575 WOW I didn't know rocks could typ
@@crushnevnikita8575 isn't time for your feeding, attach your lips directly to the tsar's backside and wait for the borsht, seems to be all the russian citizens feed on these days.
Mostly they have evacuated. Majority of people remained in that town are Ukrainian soldiers.
But they are winning and will continue to.
when a person dies , he/she DO NOT know/feel anything ONLY those around will feel the grief ... the same goes for stupidity .... when you have clowns to run your country from inside and outside
The media said russia was weak 🙄
It is 🤣
have spent over 7 mo and tens of thousands of dead to take a small, insignificant city. 🤣
@@nicgb098 Unfortunately Ukraines elite units have been holding, their numbers are heavily reduced, they are running out of experienced soldiers
@@Frog13799 so you mean Ukraine is weak now, then Russia should finish them
@@mrhawu6697 it's a bit of a logistic stalemate but if the West is scurrying to send tanks it means Ukraine is in trouble.
@thefrog634
This is the nature of war. The longer you fight it the more likely you are to be killed in it. Ukraine has far better training and morale, so being able to replenish troops is better on their side.
"Withdrawr"???
You mean what russia did in Kherson?
WithdRAWR xD
@天月🌚 Like Kyiv and Snake Island 🤡
I think the media is grossly overplaying the symbolic significance of withdrawing from Bakhmut. Zelensky never gave the impression that the town would be defended at any cost to my knowledge. The truth is Bakhmut is a Ukrainian success even as they withdraw. The enemy has been stalled in a war of attrition for seven months and the battle is strategically insignificant. It is a despicable tragedy that families from both sides have to witness their young men going to the meat grinder in the process. But I have yet to see any serious criticism of Kyiv's tactic for the defense of Bakhmut. It's horrible but it is war and the situational is developing exactly as expected to my eyes and from what I've gleaned from expert commentators.
anything happend is Ukraine success. Lost so many lands, and huge deaths are also Ukraine success, because they are with justice. Is this the rule?
@@ghteo9766 seems to be the warmonger logic
withdrawal success? they lost ammunition even men defending a not strategically important city . 25% of ukrain territory is still lost .
@@WhyTho377 the attrition is a success because the enemy lost many times as many soldiers. The battle is lost but the goal was succesful
@@FrankHerfjord attrition is lost . instead of retreating to Kramatorsk which is more valuable strategically instead they defend a bhakmut losing men that can never be replaced . Ukrainians died in vain and for what ? defending city with no value according to everyone.
game over
Only 2 Bradley's would be enough to take back the whole town
Thank you for making me laugh.. 🤣🤣🤣
Bradley Walsh might go if asked nicely.
2 sherman is better
@Alex Tim Hahaha what's wrong ? Getting nervous my fellow Russian ? You should be , Bradley's on their way baby these badboys are no jokes. Give it 2 weeks and Ukraine will have mariupol back
This war make by NATO!
NATO always make a war in ther world.
I have been waiting for many months for the same thing to happen in Avdeevka to stop the shelling of civilian areas of Donetsk city once and for all.
0:13 suwwender or withdrawr?
That is what happen when you mess with big bear
They throw themselves at highly defensible positions, destroying the cities they claim to want to liberate, and dying in the tens of thousands? If the big bear wants to kill itself, by all means do so.
@@nicgb098 you are brainwashed by your media
Teddy bear more likely.
🤣Russia aint no big bear they are a cub who is yelling in confusion because its lost.
Ruzzias "Ukrainian Island Hopping Strategy" is going exactly as planned. Every city, village piling up losses like Iwo Jima.
250k by summer, 500k by years end. Ruzzias bleeding out!
Russia is gaining ground and burning Ukraine cities to ashes... You forgot to add that
You're delusional. Russia can draft 25 million men and womenif it wants to, Ukraine can NEVER win.
That's why we MUST give them nuclear weapons.
Guess you don’t read which side is shelling more than what it gets from begging
didnt you hear in this interview ? the Ukrainian medic said we get more than 60 wounded per day, thats not including the dead.
@@mattayele1906 Russia loses several hundred every day.
Hearing 600-800 estimated losses is not uncommon.
Ukraine will stay on the defensive and let the Russians come to them as long as possible.
Right now Russias use of artillery has slowed down. Russia needs to conserve it now, so instead waves of soldiers are used.
Russia has tiny gains every week at high costs to life.
What is left of Bakhmut to claim?
it is a staging ground not a claiming ground
Land.
What happened to Ukraine is winning sound???🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not as bad as RuSSian 3 day war🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣
If it has no importance it will not be cared by the Russians. It's in fact very important. If Bakhmut falls, the frontline will be pushed all the way to slovyansk and kramatosk. If these last 2 strongholds fell then there will be not much of big cities other than Kharkiv to stop the Russians from advancing all the way to dinipro River
that's what the russian trolls told med last year when Severodonetsk was about to fall 😄
Bakhmut is not particularly valuable strategically. Being a city on the way to an actual position of strategic value doesn't make it strategically valuable. Kramatorsk Is valuable. Bakhmut is just on the way to something that is valuable. It is a city, therefore it is defensible. If you don't defend here, then you will be defending at the next defensible position. You defend defensible positions until they become untenable then you fall back to the next defensible position. This is how defending works.
Bahkmut is highly strategic,it can be used as a launching pad,to take the Donetsk area in entirety.
Also good defensive spot as it is situated on a hill, overlooking the area around.
Any piece of the high ground around Soledar that the Russians already occupy would function as just as good a launching pad. The value of Bahkmut is mostly symbolic for both sides.
@@ballenboy It is in a river valley it is not on a hill.
Killing another 100.000 russians in process? Yeah.... The chanches are russia will implode sonner than later. Like the soviet union. russia already lost more soldiers in Ukraine than in all other wars since WWII.
@@jamesthomas4841 Its not Symbolic for Russia, its a part of the Donbass...and now Russia
How many have died and to what end.
Sadly, a lot more.