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  • čas přidán 27. 01. 2023
  • Ukrainian troops have been battling Russian forces
    trying to pierce its lines across the eastern Donetsk region. Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelenskyy has described the situation at the front as "extremely acute."
    Fighting has thrown a new spotlight on Russia's Wagner Group -- a private military company led by a millionaire with links to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Many Wagner fighters killed in Ukraine were convicts who were promised freedom in exchange for their service.
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  • @Wilko11
    @Wilko11 Před rokem +78

    Instead of getting freedom, they get the death sentence. Bad deal.

    • @Wilko11
      @Wilko11 Před rokem +1

      @MSD Group Just like all the Russians killed in Afghanistan, before they pulled out of there. Soundly defeated.

    • @afnd4603
      @afnd4603 Před rokem +6

      Better than th gulags lol

    • @SK-hm3ze
      @SK-hm3ze Před rokem +15

      Good deal. Instead of wasting time and their health in prison. They got a chance to leave prison as a free man and earn enough money for their future. Damn, sounds like a military contract in the US army.

    • @StrongRespect
      @StrongRespect Před rokem +2

      They released already 150people

    • @JinxSwe
      @JinxSwe Před rokem +3

      @@StrongRespect 150 out of 40 000? Damn that's a good deal

  • @markusmuller6173
    @markusmuller6173 Před rokem +23

    French Foreign Legion, US Blackwater Academi, Russian Wagner Group...

  • @Sheddweller419
    @Sheddweller419 Před rokem +67

    There's no secret about this chef's recipe.
    People die , he gets richer.

    • @paulzx5034
      @paulzx5034 Před rokem +7

      Not richer. He spend a lot on his soldiers. More influental, yeah.

    • @Sheddweller419
      @Sheddweller419 Před rokem +3

      @@paulzx5034 Paul, I would suggest both.

    • @DarxKies
      @DarxKies Před rokem +4

      @@paulzx5034 More influential until he gets dangerous to putler. Then he flies out of a window. There are signs that putler is disappointed with his PMC and wants him gone.

    • @First-Last_name
      @First-Last_name Před rokem +2

      @@paulzx5034 his wagner group controls a lot of diamond, gold, and other mines in Africa as well as a lot of oil.
      They control the resources in Yemen, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Central Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, and now Mali.

    • @paulzx5034
      @paulzx5034 Před rokem

      @@First-Last_name Yes and no. Wagner do this in favour of other RU companies. I.e. African boxites exploited by RusAl corp., diamonds by AlRosa etc. Wagner not control these places, he guard them.
      Please... Russia not America, bro. Private or state-controlled - everything in Russia working according to Kremlin plan.
      Only small business actually "free". Over certain treshold you inevitably become part of the Machine.
      ---
      If we think like you and act like you do - we should be like you, and we are not.

  • @invernessfan3017
    @invernessfan3017 Před rokem +8

    I hope there is peace between Ukraine, Russia, the European Union, the USA, Africa, Brazil, India, China, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Australia. I support peace, democracy and human rights. I also want peace between Israel and Palestine. I beg for peace and freedom. I beg for an end to war.

    • @xa-12musk8
      @xa-12musk8 Před 7 měsíci

      Good mindset but that's like saying "I support immortality and permanent happiness"...a bit of a truism,so to speak.

  • @VictorNewman201
    @VictorNewman201 Před rokem +47

    Its pretty hilarious hearing a US official talk about "robbing countries of mineral wealth"🤣🤣🤣

    • @NineDiamont
      @NineDiamont Před rokem +8

      that’s just such a farce seeing the US talking about others undermining stable governments😂

    • @Emporium-Empire
      @Emporium-Empire Před rokem +4

      It hit me like a ton of bricks 🤷🏻
      I asked myself
      “Did the UNITED STATES just describe itself, in trying to describe someone else”🤷🏻🤦🏻🙈👀

    • @first-gordonchang9510
      @first-gordonchang9510 Před rokem

      Warmonger's Blinkie farting of his lips stealing $300 billions Russian wealth and Venerzuela stealing Citgo oil Americunt Warmongers long list of stealing.

  • @minotaur818
    @minotaur818 Před rokem +59

    No evidence of Wagner PMC as a criminal organization? People seem to forget the hammer incident(s)

  • @yourdaddy925
    @yourdaddy925 Před rokem +14

    Let's not forget the Blackwater

    • @SK-hm3ze
      @SK-hm3ze Před rokem +4

      Uncle Sam tells you to forget it or you will get canceled and labeled as a Russian bot.

    • @wokeaf1337
      @wokeaf1337 Před rokem +4

      Let's not forget about Whataboutism, oh u have an issue with a topic ? but what about that topic? and bingo we dont have to discuss about the initial topic anymore.

    • @yourdaddy925
      @yourdaddy925 Před rokem

      @@wokeaf1337 what are you on about ?:D

    • @wokeaf1337
      @wokeaf1337 Před rokem

      @@yourdaddy925 exactly :D

    • @wokeaf1337
      @wokeaf1337 Před rokem

      @LIZZYinTHECUT says the hypocrite LOL

  • @ryanvargus9456
    @ryanvargus9456 Před rokem

    Who is the guy in the fleece watch cap standing beside Prigozhin?

  • @h84gabor6
    @h84gabor6 Před rokem +71

    "...promised the convicts freedom, if they survive six months at the front lines."
    The catch is, they make sure they won't.

    • @First-Last_name
      @First-Last_name Před rokem +8

      They also tend to extend them another 6.

    • @julianpetkov8320
      @julianpetkov8320 Před rokem +5

      There are more criminals in the Western Foreign Legions - Academy, ISIS, French Foreign Legion. Wagner has only 4%.

    • @g6g401
      @g6g401 Před rokem

      @@julianpetkov8320 Actually, every single member of Wagner is a criminal.

    • @phantomapprentice6749
      @phantomapprentice6749 Před rokem +3

      They don't have to , they know convicts have no place to go , no employment , so after 6 months they just start paying them and employing them full time.

    • @xcitemex6353
      @xcitemex6353 Před rokem

      Why would "they make sure they wont"??
      Don't you think its in their best interests to keep them. Currently its a "walk in the park " for them

  • @jeffsmith7369
    @jeffsmith7369 Před rokem +3

    I don't know what the difference is between the Russian army and Wagner. They are both carrying out atrocities against civilians.

    • @Chaldon-hl6yk
      @Chaldon-hl6yk Před rokem

      Wagner not exists

    • @peabase
      @peabase Před rokem

      To use an analogy, the Russian army would be like the Wehrmacht, which definitely had civilians' blood on its hands, whereas the Wagner Group would be the Waffen-SS, or more specifically, the latter's Dirlewanger Brigade. Bathing in civilians' blood, in other words. The eponymous Oskar Dirlewanger was a convicted criminal, too, just like Wagner's owner Prigozhin. Wagner's founder, Dmitry Utkin, sports SS tattoos and like to play dress-up in SS uniforms, too.

  • @Yutani_Crayven
    @Yutani_Crayven Před rokem +4

    Yeah, those 30 graves won't fit the 30,000 that they lost.

  • @totalplonker824
    @totalplonker824 Před rokem +59

    A country that depends on its criminals to fight their battles.
    How embarrassing 🤣

    • @Rjsjrjsjrjsj
      @Rjsjrjsjrjsj Před rokem +10

      Pathetic is the word I'd use. But embarrassing works.

    • @mickybroke1124
      @mickybroke1124 Před rokem

      Not at all. Putin wants to get rid of his inmates in a cheep and effective way by using them as cannonfodder.
      But the ukrainians keep on sending them back when they exchange POWs

    • @Foxvalleyproduction
      @Foxvalleyproduction Před rokem

      Don't drop the soap.

    • @handler007
      @handler007 Před rokem +1

      @@Foxvalleyproduction *cricket*

    • @jonnomarko7072
      @jonnomarko7072 Před rokem

      Can you tell us please how many rapists and murderers that were also conscripted by the corrupt Ukraina Govt .... you know the corrupt Ukraina officials that have just recently resigned their posts and all the bribes they accepted from the SUB operatives that paid the corrupt Ukraina officials $30,000 to avoid call up and be given a badge to hunt down unwilling Hungarian civilians to be dragged off to the front line as cannon fodder for ' Zeeloser ' . A country that is run by Western Criminals.
      Ukraina is now a failed state .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @mrsporty9669
    @mrsporty9669 Před rokem +3

    Peace ☮️

  • @polarstorm5986
    @polarstorm5986 Před rokem +3

    Why is the horizontal bar of most (not all) crosses at the cemetary angled? Is that some kind of reference to something?

    • @paulzx5034
      @paulzx5034 Před rokem +12

      Hi from Russia. This is Orthodox Cross. Angled bar referred to Christ feet also nailed to the cross.

    • @dudermcdudeface3674
      @dudermcdudeface3674 Před rokem +9

      That's the symbol of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

    • @polarstorm5986
      @polarstorm5986 Před rokem +2

      @@paulzx5034 Ah ok, thx. :) That means where it is an unangled cross those were not of orthodox believes, right?

    • @paulzx5034
      @paulzx5034 Před rokem +1

      @@polarstorm5986 Yes. 20% of Ukrainians are Catholics.

    • @polarstorm5986
      @polarstorm5986 Před rokem +2

      @@paulzx5034 but the crosses were for Wagner mercinaries from Russia not for Ukranians. Isn't it so that in russia almost everyone is orthodox? Ah, you know what, i will google that myself and read some wikipedia stuff n statistics about it. Thx again for explaining. :)

  • @argh159
    @argh159 Před rokem +1

    3:23 what an epic background. 2m tall boxes, abstract sculptures on top of it and an elephant on crack being the dj. 😄

  • @exoduslnx
    @exoduslnx Před rokem +1

    "but we just bought 1 flower for everyone..." ... "Yuri, the cameras are on..."

  • @stormynatero1385
    @stormynatero1385 Před rokem +4

    A rival PMC / Merc company .
    With serious delusions of grandeur?
    Lol.

  • @xXStickArmsXx
    @xXStickArmsXx Před rokem +83

    Being labeled as criminal organization starts to open them to being valid targets.

    • @dz2157
      @dz2157 Před rokem

      Name a more criminal organization in the world than US government? I'll wait...

    • @afnd4603
      @afnd4603 Před rokem +22

      They are soldiers, they are already targets

    • @samanthaw4955
      @samanthaw4955 Před rokem +20

      Same can be said for CIA, MI5 operatives working in Europe.

    • @psnaris
      @psnaris Před rokem +10

      @@samanthaw4955 Not to mention the US Defence Department contractors who provided 'security' to Iraq and Afghanistan and the NATO 'advisors' currently operating the HIMARS systems in Ukraine.

    • @JWW799
      @JWW799 Před rokem +7

      @@afnd4603 That is not the point. Wagner troops are not exclusively used as soldiers in Ukraine. They act as mercenaries and security guards in several African countries for example. Labelling them as a criminal organization also allows prosecutors to go after their funding, freeze assets etc.

  • @Talinthis
    @Talinthis Před rokem +2

    Their role? Bullet sponge

  • @SDM496
    @SDM496 Před rokem +7

    Blackwater seems similar to Wagner.

  • @SK-hm3ze
    @SK-hm3ze Před rokem +37

    If the majority of those fighters are former prisoners, then it is good for the economy. Instead of feeding and caring about them in prison, they just cut those expenses and offered them a job.

    • @Bajtjr
      @Bajtjr Před rokem

      Technically yes but they are just sending them off to kill for the interests of the state and that state happens to be Russia which needs a lot of killing done and that does a lot of killing either way of civilians or military. Once this war is over Russia will soon find another country to invade.

    • @SK-hm3ze
      @SK-hm3ze Před rokem +3

      @@Bajtjr Sorry fella, nothing personal, just business. A bullet will not shoot by itself.

    • @MrWhitmen1981
      @MrWhitmen1981 Před rokem +1

      That’s on the assumption that prisoners will give it their all. So now you need to feed people in a harder way who may not as be inclined for success and just sheer acting out of survival. It’s a bold strategy cotton, let’s see if it pays off.

    • @viconichol
      @viconichol Před rokem +3

      Prisoners in Russia don't just sitting there. They work in prison, mostly just for food.

    • @SK-hm3ze
      @SK-hm3ze Před rokem

      @@viconichol Just like in any other prison, their labor is optional

  • @amazon4716
    @amazon4716 Před rokem +4

    Now they are recognized as a official military wing of Russia
    They all need to be held responsible for war crimes...

  • @BabarKhan-vf1wt
    @BabarKhan-vf1wt Před rokem +2

    Does blackwater ring a bell ,!??🤣🤣🤣

  • @emeliesolli5773
    @emeliesolli5773 Před rokem

    I’ve not noticed it before here so don’t know if it’s this specific recording, the “s” pronunciations sound very harsh and sharp.

  • @user-nq2sw6sg8q
    @user-nq2sw6sg8q Před rokem +10

    Because the political atmosphere in Europe is full of extremist thoughts, far left or far right, thus pragmatism voice, objective views or logical reasoning is not common or is being shunned by extremist voices. With that in mind, moderate news in the mainstream are not published. With wrong and ignorant views, it will only drag Europe into more conflict and unwise choices.

  • @labandonaldhock80
    @labandonaldhock80 Před rokem +2

    Let’s have a referendum in East Germany about going back to Russia.

  • @eliaslarson3565
    @eliaslarson3565 Před rokem +14

    The commandments of the fighter PMC Wagner - Protect the interests of the motherland always and everywhere. The honor of the Russian soldier is above all. Fight not for money, but out of principle! There is only one principle - victory! Do not surrender to enemies alive, but if you are captured, die, but take as many enemies as possible with you. Honor your dead comrades, do not dishonor their blessed memory, sooner or later you will meet with them. We are destined for death in battle, and not a weak old man on the bed! Be humble and don't boast of your craft, keep this secret! Never loot. In war and on business trips - prohibition! Keep your token.

    • @lostfox27
      @lostfox27 Před rokem +1

      Boo hoo poor dead fascist orcs wah

    • @vapeurdepisse
      @vapeurdepisse Před rokem +3

      Signed: convict used as cannon fodder

    • @JohnnyAlspaugh
      @JohnnyAlspaugh Před rokem

      🤙

    • @xa-12musk8
      @xa-12musk8 Před 7 měsíci

      Jingoist bogus. This is the kind of nonsense Europe used before to tell young men it was cool and fun to go to war-King and Country,Kaiser und Vaterland,etc. The reality is,Wagner soldiers are dying for money,freedom they never got to experience(cuz they're dead),more land for Путин,and in the past,Пригожин's leadership ambitions.

  • @michaelg8193
    @michaelg8193 Před rokem +5

    Wagner group or Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) what is the difference? It is 'potatoe, potato'. Eric Prince is pretty much the same as Prigoshin. Eric Prince's sister Betsy DeVos was in Trumps cabinet as a minister. Same old, same old.

    • @loupgarou-dj3tm
      @loupgarou-dj3tm Před rokem +3

      Yup. The lot of them should be locked up or worse.

  • @csonracsonra9962
    @csonracsonra9962 Před rokem +3

    It is crazy rather than say okay we quit because we tried and failed him and Putin would rather DoubleDown which literally equals dying. Why do they need to look so tough when it's clear that they're not and time will show that.

  • @corneliusantonius3108
    @corneliusantonius3108 Před rokem +4

    MERCHANARIES OF DEATH

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 Před rokem +13

    Putin's Wagner SS

  • @John-wx6wj
    @John-wx6wj Před rokem +5

    So what’s keeping these prisoners from escaping once they get to the front line? You become pow and don’t need to fight for 6 months.

    • @FrederikAbramson
      @FrederikAbramson Před rokem +1

      They’ve died before trying to raise hands

    • @viconichol
      @viconichol Před rokem +4

      Have you seen the video of the murder of a wagner soldier with a hammer? He surrendered. A video was made about him as he surrendered. Then the Ukrainians sent him back exchanged him for their soldiers. Wagners executed him.

    • @First-Last_name
      @First-Last_name Před rokem

      @@viconichol so the 1 time?

    • @tayler2396
      @tayler2396 Před rokem

      I suppose it's pretty hard to avoid getting shot in the back for deserting while trying to convince the other side that you're running toward them to surrender.

    • @tayler2396
      @tayler2396 Před rokem

      @@First-Last_name Yes, the one rather dramatic show.

  • @csonracsonra9962
    @csonracsonra9962 Před rokem +3

    That is a weird graveyard can someone explain it because it's not done that way here in America why are there mounds of dirt rather than their being holes dug and then the person put into the hole and it being flat afterwards?

    • @lawrencekling8598
      @lawrencekling8598 Před rokem +1

      Yes I noticed it too. That's strange alright

    • @Liamv4696
      @Liamv4696 Před rokem

      Easier to dig up a lot of dirt with an excavator, put it in a pile, then put it on top of each body, versus digging individual graves.
      Eventually, you end up just putting the bodies in the big hole, and covering them all simultaneously. Depends how badly the war is going.

    • @the-weirdest
      @the-weirdest Před rokem

      Things are done differently in different countries, it's not okay to assume that things should be done else where as in America

    • @justinwallace390
      @justinwallace390 Před rokem

      Probably convenience and costs. I'll echo another commentor on here. Dirt will settle over time. Different countries and cultures do different things.

  • @BD-uw1kq
    @BD-uw1kq Před rokem +1

    Low rent, low level mercenaries who murder the defenseless and run like cowards from anyone who stands and fights. Typical

  • @TMM-N
    @TMM-N Před rokem +2

    One word:
    Blackwater

    • @fernandocruz4877
      @fernandocruz4877 Před rokem

      @Coma White you've meet your match, unlike weak countries you invaded before and brought them to chaos and anarchy.😂🤣

  • @MixologistMilo
    @MixologistMilo Před rokem +4

    Forget wagner group, nice Audio setup Marina!

    • @christophejergales7852
      @christophejergales7852 Před rokem +2

      Exactly, I wonder what her salary is.

    • @TitanX54
      @TitanX54 Před rokem

      Yeah haha, when she started talking, I couldn't help but be drawn to attention to the speakers. 😅

  • @RoccosVideos
    @RoccosVideos Před rokem +38

    So war is business for them? We have the same types of companies in the US. They’re called defense contractors even when they’re the ones making war.

    • @martinhoude3518
      @martinhoude3518 Před rokem +6

      The difference is who is on the front lines. The US defense contractors are behind the lines, where most of the bad stuff happens. They're all too happy to leave front line fighting to the regular US forces. Wagner does it differently, because Russia's regular forces cannot do it.

    • @omaral-maitah181
      @omaral-maitah181 Před rokem +8

      Shhh don't expose them, they want to continue believing that they are the heroes and angles of this world, so they can sleep good at night

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 Před rokem +1

      They operate behind the lines as body guards not front line infantry

    • @mweskamppp
      @mweskamppp Před rokem +8

      @@martinhoude3518 As far as i know most US contractors are former soldiers who mostly do protection jobs of facilities and do bodyguard and escorting jobs. Sometimes in a very criminal way as we know from Irak. They also do teaching jobs for police and military units and sometimes even police duties. Logistics and maintenance is another area. They are also sometimes hired by big corps for their facilities in countries with a security problem to do some security counseling, contact to locals and other things so as teaching offroad driving skills.

    • @omaral-maitah181
      @omaral-maitah181 Před rokem +13

      @@tomhenry897 have you ever heard of Blackwater, and their role with the US in iraq ??

  • @charleneterrell
    @charleneterrell Před rokem

    I was basically lured and taken as a hostage.

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 Před rokem +1

    They don't sound very cool.

  • @simonac688.
    @simonac688. Před rokem +5

    proffesional Murderers inc.!

  • @oviokta4063
    @oviokta4063 Před rokem +3

    Glory wagner group

    • @f-35lightningii6
      @f-35lightningii6 Před rokem

      Russia fails, Ukraine captured wagner group Helmet-Mounted ‘Spider’ Laser Detection Device That Can Identify Drones & Snipers Seized secret give to American how technology from Russia Wagner mercenary group.

  • @trinolopez7809
    @trinolopez7809 Před rokem

    I thought Anthony Blinken was talking about the "School of the Americas."

  • @jimgauth
    @jimgauth Před rokem

    Nobody is asking Russia for their opinion anymore.

  • @Scar626
    @Scar626 Před rokem +5

    0:22 - Yup, like the Soviet Penal battalions of WW2.
    I don't get the shock, we've been here before. In the West prisoners sit in prison and get fed by the state, not so in Russia.
    It is cruel however, but like you said there they we're given the choice. Die in prison or fight and die for you country (potentially getting the chance to leave prison).

    • @lawrencekling8598
      @lawrencekling8598 Před rokem

      That's interesting info

    • @user-os2em5hg9p
      @user-os2em5hg9p Před rokem

      Что за бред. Они получают не свободу, а помилование. Даже выйдя на свободу из тюрьмы, люди до конца жизни будут в базе бывших преступников. Их права будут ограниченны ( их не будут брать на нормальную работу, и т.д.) Помилование - это чистый лист. Они становятся обычными гражданами это две разные вещи. Эта право на нормальную жизнь после "контракта с родиной"

  • @sergiodominguez9558
    @sergiodominguez9558 Před rokem +25

    Since Russia has already said they consider foreigners joining Ukraines army as mercenaries, would Wagner forces being mercenaries be okay to strike? Like in a technical sense. Or are mercenary groups directly affiliated with the country of origin.

    • @erosgritti5171
      @erosgritti5171 Před rokem +9

      It's a meaningless question, because all nations have always had groups of mercenaries. It has never been anything strange.

    • @NewBeginnings413
      @NewBeginnings413 Před rokem +18

      @@erosgritti5171 Wagner Group is a private contractor that is getting paid by the Russian government. Not the same as random civilians that fight with little to no pay and are not part of any government.

    • @viconichol
      @viconichol Před rokem

      Since Russia has already said they consider ukraine's territory as belong to them, is it okay them to use nuclear weapon to protect that territory? Since Russia has already said they considered eastern europe as a sphere of its interest does it mean the eastern countries must leave NATO?

    • @sergiodominguez9558
      @sergiodominguez9558 Před rokem +3

      @@viconichol apples to oranges my friend.

    • @IAmThe_RA
      @IAmThe_RA Před rokem +8

      @@viconichol "Nuclear weapons to PROTECT that territory" how ironic 😅

  • @newborn6
    @newborn6 Před rokem +2

    USA spokesman literally talking about its self in its past wars lol

  • @ssir5927
    @ssir5927 Před rokem +2

    I find it hilarious that DW doesn't allow comments on any piece they do on Israel and Palestine. What are they afraid of?

  • @DarxKies
    @DarxKies Před rokem +49

    "Most experienced in the world" 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @josh77577
      @josh77577 Před rokem +6

      Its true. They have criminal experience for a criminal war. They lack discipline and all traits to being a good soldier though.

    • @paulzx5034
      @paulzx5034 Před rokem +12

      Hi from Russia. I understand your scepticism, but not many soldiers in the world has real experience of brutal close range urban combat.

    • @DarxKies
      @DarxKies Před rokem +3

      @@josh77577 They lack way more. They lack meanwhile around 75% of their "soldiers" which were obliterated taking Soledar. So no. It is not true.

    • @heyho4770
      @heyho4770 Před rokem +10

      @@paulzx5034 What Special training did they enjoy? Pretty much none. Most of them don't last long on the battlefield. Especially the convicts. If you promise to release someone from prison after 6 months of combat duty you make sure he doesn't survive those 6 months

    • @garydean0308
      @garydean0308 Před rokem

      @@paulzx5034 You have obviously never herd of the United States Marine Corps. We would mop up those shitbirds in a week.

  • @louisleprince5573
    @louisleprince5573 Před rokem +20

    The Wagner Group will learn what Karma means.

    • @firstnamelastname9918
      @firstnamelastname9918 Před rokem +2

      Karma is just a human description of one aspect of the perfect accounting system the Universe seems to have. It seems to waste nothing and nobody "gets away with" anything. But the whole phenomenon of all of our collective "bad choices" is something I really ponder (especially in light of my own).

    • @badmonkey2222
      @badmonkey2222 Před rokem

      They've been learning it they have been getting completely smashed did you see that graveyard!? That's just one of many and that's just the bodies they have collected because their known along with regular Russian army for not collecting them I just leaving them in the field abandon, the Ukrainians themselves have collected them by the thousands wagner are a freaking joke. Put them up against a capable force and every time they will get obliterated.

    • @WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq
      @WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq Před rokem

      We actually don't know if there already paying. Formal Russian soldiers are protected by international law, but the unrecognizable Russian mercenary surrounded by a potentially very angry guard aren't

    • @julianpetkov8320
      @julianpetkov8320 Před rokem

      Wagner have been delivering Karma to the Kiev Junta for months now.😃

    • @Hussainpiplodwala
      @Hussainpiplodwala Před rokem +6

      If USA despite of destroying so many countries from iraq, syria, libya, afghanistan, venezuela, vietnam, yugoslavia, yemen and many more never saw the wrath of karma then i dont think so WAGNER would

  • @paulreynolds7103
    @paulreynolds7103 Před rokem +9

    It's simple their the real Russian army.

    • @user-os2em5hg9p
      @user-os2em5hg9p Před rokem

      Ну они убивали американцев в сирии, французов в африке. Официальной армии нельзя так делать. Сразу третья мировая. Весь мир в труху.

  • @Calm142
    @Calm142 Před rokem +2

    Wagner is JUST A copycat of another famous organization that started with a "B" 😂😂

  • @k.nh.9711
    @k.nh.9711 Před rokem

    the guy have from wish military jacket😂😂 i saw same

  • @oxtristynxo583
    @oxtristynxo583 Před rokem +3

    "most experienced army that exist today" 🤣Ray Liotta laughing in goodfellas gif

    • @trumpforever6706
      @trumpforever6706 Před rokem

      The most experienced army is the one considered the No. 1 in the world, the one that after twenty years of war and billions spent in vain, was forced to flee in front of a gang of Taliban ragamuffins armed only with AK47s and a few pickups with machine guns . At least the Russians are fighting a real army supported by major Western powers.

  • @allines6470
    @allines6470 Před rokem +11

    Who decides they are criminals? They are Russian citizens defending enemies of its country! At free will!

    • @marshallmintz7564
      @marshallmintz7564 Před rokem +4

      Who decides? Any person with a double digit IQ and internet connection. BTW.....what "defense" of Russia is occuring in Ukraine? Protecting from what?

    • @allines6470
      @allines6470 Před rokem +2

      @@marshallmintz7564 Ukrainian people with help of Russia are fighting NATO occupation of Ukraine territory and Natzi Kiev zelensky military junta!

    • @allines6470
      @allines6470 Před rokem

      @@marshallmintz7564 Ukrainians and Russians lived together in one State for more than 300 years...Read history books.

    • @allines6470
      @allines6470 Před rokem +1

      @@marshallmintz7564 Ukrainians and Russians speak same language!

    • @allines6470
      @allines6470 Před rokem +1

      @@marshallmintz7564 Ukrainians and Russians follow same religion!

  • @brett4264
    @brett4264 Před rokem +1

    She's cleaned up her eyebrows a bit. Looking good!

  • @vernondan4697
    @vernondan4697 Před rokem

    Wow

  • @tominmtnvw
    @tominmtnvw Před rokem +3

    What is the Wagner group , Not who is the Wagner group

  • @notaspy1227
    @notaspy1227 Před rokem +8

    Wagner? Those are the guys who can't take Bakhmut right didn't they also get lit up by SF IN Syria?

    • @dzokavaac7307
      @dzokavaac7307 Před rokem +13

      I see assad is still in power, after every western leaders saying assad must go. They did job very good :)

    • @DarxKies
      @DarxKies Před rokem +2

      And lost 40.000 from 50.000 troops in the process. 😂😂😂😂

    • @DarxKies
      @DarxKies Před rokem

      @@dzokavaac7307 So killing Syrian kids and innocents in general is for you a good job? 🤡

    • @notaspy1227
      @notaspy1227 Před rokem +4

      @@DarxKies If the target isn't civilian Wagner has been known to struggle.

    • @mrchoudhury6611
      @mrchoudhury6611 Před rokem +10

      Soledar gone , or yet you need confirmation from lolensky...
      Just wait for Bakhmuth...
      Truth must win over falsehood...

  • @andynjau8982
    @andynjau8982 Před rokem +1

    Why don't you tell us the truth,, wagner campany is more than what ukrainians expected

    • @rolandb.1866
      @rolandb.1866 Před rokem

      They are more than anyone expected to be honest.

  • @user-ux7xs6vr2n
    @user-ux7xs6vr2n Před rokem

    And where is the report "What role do Polish mercenaries play in the 404th"?

  • @ashcarrier6606
    @ashcarrier6606 Před rokem +3

    The Wagner Group represents what the professional Russian army would act like if it was reasonably paid and equipped.

    • @g6g401
      @g6g401 Před rokem

      The Wagner Group is the professional Russian Army.

    • @peabase
      @peabase Před rokem

      @@g6g401 The Wagner Groups lacks a lot of capabilities that the Russian Army has. For a start, Wagner is not self-sustaining. Time and again, Prigozhin has to ask his Kremlin masters to order the Russian Army to support his troops. When he's not receiving the support he thinks he's entitled to, he'll openly criticize the top army brass, stooping as low as calling them names. I wouldn't surprise me a bit if the army 'frags' Prigozhin when he ventures to the front.

  • @RustyShackleford9000
    @RustyShackleford9000 Před rokem +28

    Why would they name it Wagner, after a German composer? They could have named it Tchaikovsky, at least he was a Russian composer lmao

    • @emmisysquire9684
      @emmisysquire9684 Před rokem +30

      Boi do I have news for you about Wagner’s political leanings

    • @paulzx5034
      @paulzx5034 Před rokem +21

      Hi from Russia. Initially they were a small group (few dozens) former specops volunteers fighting in Donbass since 2014. Wagner is a codename of field commander. So they were "Wagner boys". Why Wagner? Russian "Vagner" similar to "Vajny" = VIP or boss.

    • @Daguhl
      @Daguhl Před rokem +14

      Wagner was a nationalist and fascist.

    • @jrdsm
      @jrdsm Před rokem

      @@paulzx5034 they should call themselves vagina group

    • @Wilko11
      @Wilko11 Před rokem +6

      Maybe fans of Robert Wagner the actor☺️.Putin was a big Steven Seagal fan and made him an honorary Russian citizen a few years ago. Seagal went to Russia and accepted it.

  • @theshadowman1398
    @theshadowman1398 Před rokem +1

    What Blinken just summed up is what the hillbillies are doing in Syria.

  • @Drganguli
    @Drganguli Před rokem +1

    Wasn’t Wagner a German composer?

    • @First-Last_name
      @First-Last_name Před rokem +1

      Yes, adolfs favourite.

    • @WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq
      @WhatHappenedIn-vt3vq Před rokem

      Yup. When I heard explanations for the name it was allegedly so they can blend in on German channels and they liked the WW2 reference, but they hire a ton of skin heads and there's alot of rumors about mobile crematoriums and gas chambers everywhere they enter

    • @tayler2396
      @tayler2396 Před rokem +1

      Yes, an anti-Semite as well.

  • @Rjsjrjsjrjsj
    @Rjsjrjsjrjsj Před rokem +3

    "This graveyard was once an empty piece of land"
    Yeah. Most of them were. 🙄

  • @xibemboys7919
    @xibemboys7919 Před rokem +6

    How many Ukraine soldiers died in war

  • @MixNMatcch
    @MixNMatcch Před rokem +2

    Even Mozart too dying for Ukraine

  • @dudermcdudeface3674
    @dudermcdudeface3674 Před rokem +1

    Live by the sword etc. etc.

  • @miken7629
    @miken7629 Před rokem +9

    Just because a man is wealthy doesn't mean he is a good military commander. Remember the civil war in US when plantation owners were colonel's. They brought men and financial resources, but that is all, no way they are qualified military commanders. Saw a lot of cocktail generals and officers in Washington DC. They hit political and social circuit but who would trust them with their lives. To those officers, men are expendable. Our saying in the Army was "Take care of yourself because no one else will".

    • @viconichol
      @viconichol Před rokem

      He has good former officers. He is a good manager himself. There are not many good managers in Russia.

    • @First-Last_name
      @First-Last_name Před rokem

      You know the south was winning but nobody would trade with them so they ran out of resources for war? For a while only 1 Union general was able to win battles, he did so by accepting tremendous casualties.
      The confederates were making ground until they were running on fumes.

    • @mishacol
      @mishacol Před rokem +2

      South almost won the war.

    • @draker769
      @draker769 Před rokem

      He is not commander he hired them

    • @JohnnyAlspaugh
      @JohnnyAlspaugh Před rokem

      He’s not a good military leader...he’s an excellent one

  • @zumbakurt9961
    @zumbakurt9961 Před rokem +9

    "No basis for their claims" lol Peskov is such a clown

    • @johnlenin830
      @johnlenin830 Před rokem +5

      The lying clown is Scholz, who said that Germany was supplying weapons to the Kiev regime because Germany had no choice.

    • @zumbakurt9961
      @zumbakurt9961 Před rokem +2

      @@johnlenin830 Oh your a Z guy mad about the tanks? I can see why.

    • @mactiredubh8707
      @mactiredubh8707 Před rokem

      Noch lustiger ist, wie Scholz von Biden, dem Clown, gedemütigt wurde, eine Wurst ist eine Wurst.

    • @mactiredubh8707
      @mactiredubh8707 Před rokem

      Pumba Kurt. Der Zeichentrickfilm, Timon und Pumbaa.

    • @mactiredubh8707
      @mactiredubh8707 Před rokem

      Was bist du, die Zeichentrickfigur, ein kleines Wildschwein, aber im Grunde ein Schwein.

  • @drtg101we7
    @drtg101we7 Před rokem

    0:00 What a head of hair on that guy in the picture

  • @alenmorandl5104
    @alenmorandl5104 Před rokem +1

    It is not hard to show graves of Ruskis but what about Ukraine.... they are not immortal and they do also have new graves cemeteries just for dead solders.

  • @diazvirdani1059
    @diazvirdani1059 Před rokem +6

    *Russia🇷🇺 still occupied oblast Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Crimea.*
    Russia must end occupation & peace!

  • @Alex-gu8hx
    @Alex-gu8hx Před rokem +3

    Haha, you know your special forces are bad when they've been outdone by mercs (America)

    • @DerJuvens
      @DerJuvens Před rokem

      Wow, you should probably rephrase that to make more sense, my dude.

  • @CatLikeSleep
    @CatLikeSleep Před rokem

    aha 1:32 ya sure?

  • @madshiny
    @madshiny Před rokem +1

    The way this female reporter pronounces "S" is so annoying, it actually hurts my ears it's so high pitched

  • @daraa151
    @daraa151 Před rokem +4

    They can’t be any worse than Blackwater!!

  • @warsil3735
    @warsil3735 Před rokem +3

    Most experienced 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @sergioaugusto416
      @sergioaugusto416 Před rokem

      Is true. Who has more experience than them right now and where this experience was acquired ?

  • @cat-tzu1234
    @cat-tzu1234 Před rokem

    Have there been no sanctions on the money bags backer?

  • @caglarkarademir
    @caglarkarademir Před rokem

    so?

  • @dipin2
    @dipin2 Před rokem +10

    Because of Wagner Assad is still in power

    • @DarxKies
      @DarxKies Před rokem +3

      It is because putler supports Assad with whatever he needs.

    • @mickybroke1124
      @mickybroke1124 Před rokem +1

      Assad, king of the ruins

  • @sonkoabasi6365
    @sonkoabasi6365 Před rokem

    As it matters

  • @larsthorwald3338
    @larsthorwald3338 Před rokem +3

    "What is Wagner's role?" ...stopping bullets with their bodies, apparently.

    • @peterlaing6661
      @peterlaing6661 Před rokem +5

      Trying to downplay Wagner they are beating Ukraine army even if you make fun of them

  • @ianmitchell1165
    @ianmitchell1165 Před rokem +6

    Up the wagner group ✌️

  • @pitdog75
    @pitdog75 Před rokem

    Oh, an audiophile I see.

  • @Elmachable
    @Elmachable Před rokem

    Outsorcing War Crimes

  • @javierruiz9774
    @javierruiz9774 Před rokem +16

    I'd love to see those Wagner guys against a couple of U.S Marines. They wouldn't last a day ...

    • @dudermcdudeface3674
      @dudermcdudeface3674 Před rokem +5

      There was a battle in Syria where Russian mercs took on some US advisers and allies. It did not go well for the Russians. American air support made them reexamine their choices in life.

    • @ancovanbeukering1171
      @ancovanbeukering1171 Před rokem +5

      Happend in Syria and get slaughtert.

    •  Před rokem +8

      Without air support, your us marines won't last a day

    • @javierruiz9774
      @javierruiz9774 Před rokem +4

      @ says Chinese bot.... Try going for Taiwan and see what happens. Oh no! I forgot. You scared of the eagle 🦅

    •  Před rokem +6

      @@dudermcdudeface3674 it was air force that done the job, not the ground soldier of us allies

  • @ronaldwhite1730
    @ronaldwhite1730 Před rokem

    Thank you . ( 2023 / Jan / 30 )

  • @markgrift1917
    @markgrift1917 Před rokem +1

    Nobody cares who they are.

  • @mr.sept.5790
    @mr.sept.5790 Před rokem +9

    Blinken started his statement with "we heard"

    • @jonnomarko7072
      @jonnomarko7072 Před rokem +2

      He was breaking wind as he always does ..... so full of it ...... they were the only ones who heard ...... were they having a nightmare in their sleep ...... oh well one day ........

    • @tayler2396
      @tayler2396 Před rokem

      @@jonnomarko7072 Does it make you two really sad that your dislike for Blinken and the American government doesn't change anything at all? Do you feel impotent with rage? What about the 300 battle tanks going to Ukraine? Does that also make you sad and bitter?

  • @musiconabudget3712
    @musiconabudget3712 Před rokem +34

    They are defence contractors , there are many american equivalents examples like blackwater

    • @SK-hm3ze
      @SK-hm3ze Před rokem +1

      I saw a funny logic on a different CZcams channel. Blackwater committed not a single war crime because they were not at war but on a "defense contract". Applying the same logic to Russians, we can say that they did not commit war crimes because they are not at war but on a "special military operation".

    • @netiturtle
      @netiturtle Před rokem +6

      Private military contractors are illegal in Russia. So is releasing multi-time convicted criminals from prisons, its in jurisdiction of courts only. So is executing its own members

    • @Bajtjr
      @Bajtjr Před rokem +2

      Like @Tipsy Penguin mentioned PMC are illegal in Russia so is releasing prisoners under self determined conditions etc. Wagner is a government controlled and used group with special privileges and probably government funding that doesn't follow the same guidelines that the Russian army is obliged to (not that they do that much in the first place) hence they cant compare with a real independent PMC since Wagner has many privileges and power/control over compared to any real PMC existing today.

    • @overpope3510
      @overpope3510 Před rokem

      All actions of private military should be considered as actions of the State they are based in by default.

    • @ianmitchell1165
      @ianmitchell1165 Před rokem

      Issis also being one of them 👍

  • @ak_naral
    @ak_naral Před rokem +2

    *As an Indian, the Indian Accent was not necessary in such a sentimental reporting. Please use your wokeism wisely. Even I cringed. On the technical side, a pop filter and de-esser could be used. Seems like it was outsourced.*

    • @ak_naral
      @ak_naral Před rokem +1

      @@samrat_vrtrahan I would be equally annoyed if they put a person with a Chinese accent, or Thai or Vietnamese or Ecuadorian. Its not just us but we have to be self critical and not let these wokeism use us.

    • @ak_naral
      @ak_naral Před rokem

      @@samrat_vrtrahan I agree.

  • @anteantic986
    @anteantic986 Před rokem

    basically russia is not loosing troops only prisoners

  • @NZobservatory
    @NZobservatory Před rokem +19

    Watching Russia lose has been _hugely_ entertaining! 😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅

    • @Documentary477
      @Documentary477 Před rokem

      >>ᵗʰᵃⁿᵏˢ ᶠᵒʳ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵉⁿᵗ. ᵗᵉˣᵗ ᵐᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵇᵉⁿᵉᶠⁱᵗ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵗʰᵉ ᶜᵘʳʳᵉⁿᵗ ⁱⁿᵛᵉˢᵗᵐᵉⁿᵗ ᵒᶠᶠᵉʳ.

    • @sergioaugusto416
      @sergioaugusto416 Před rokem +33

      If losing is holding 20% of the ukranian terrain with half of the forces that Ukraine has then yeah. 😆

    • @tayler2396
      @tayler2396 Před rokem +3

      @@sergioaugusto416 In any case, Russia is losing and will lose.

    • @jimtalbott9535
      @jimtalbott9535 Před rokem +1

      I agree - though I still feel very bad for the regular people in Russia. Even patriotic Russians don’t deserve to be used up in this way.

    • @tayler2396
      @tayler2396 Před rokem

      @@jimtalbott9535 Yeah, I feel sorry for the ignorant Russian kids who believe the fight- for-the-motherland bs. Nevertheless, Ukraine must win.

  • @Tejinder_Singh1216
    @Tejinder_Singh1216 Před rokem +5

    Us spokesperson body language is not matching with his words

  • @JoseGonzalez-cy7nr
    @JoseGonzalez-cy7nr Před rokem

    Who talks about human rights

  • @awdrifter3394
    @awdrifter3394 Před rokem

    Ukraine is lucky that Russia don't have Juggernaut. The Wagner Group is like the Spearhead Squadron.

  • @AnonIllumi
    @AnonIllumi Před rokem +8

    answer...
    Private military contractor who's biggest customer is the russian government...

    • @DarxKies
      @DarxKies Před rokem

      The only customer since they belong to the russian army, unofficially.

    • @AnonIllumi
      @AnonIllumi Před rokem

      @@DarxKies no it's a PMC private company not owned in any way to the military, that is not how PMC work...

    • @DarxKies
      @DarxKies Před rokem

      @@AnonIllumi You do know that PMCs are illegal in russia right? So how come an illegal PMC operates in russia and Ukraine on behalf of russia? 🤡

    • @DarxKies
      @DarxKies Před rokem

      @MSD Group Another question: would there be a russian war with Ukraine with a PMC since the russian army failed since day one?

  • @singlendhot8628
    @singlendhot8628 Před rokem

    Pls replace journalists with such strong accents - cannot be understood!

  • @Richking213
    @Richking213 Před rokem +1

    Wagner making gains… now there’s full news segments on them.. that’s when know you pisst off those neocons 😂😂😂🤣