@@grosey11 Yes - anything is possible. But the F-16's won't be risked for this 'political' advance into Russia. Look at it - in terms of it being a potential 'bargaining chip' in whatever negotiations occur. But this move by Zelensky is a mostly _'political' gamble that is very unlikely to change anything.
@@grosey11 the border guards slowed the advance and reinforcements were able to arrive. It will all be over soon with Ukraine advancing backwards as usual.
@@saeed7099 Against the broader history of this conflict & the failed 'advances' by Ukraine's forces - I can only reason - that this new attempt will also achieve nothing. It's a gamble since there is no way that taking that tiny bit of Russia is going to force Putin to concede anything. Depending on how you assess Russia's initial reasons for 'invading' Ukraine - you will think this is some sort of _'tete a tete'_ or a bargaining chip. Russia - despite the preposterous claims of Western Media & politicians has a set of very clear objectives - namely the annexation of those southern parts of Ukraine that are predominately filled with Russian speakers.
Both my great grandfathers who took part in the Battle of Kursk as part of the 40th and 48th armies would be grabbing a rifle right about now had they still been alive
@@Will-ts5ij They are grabbing any way they can to get out of Ukraine or leave the AFU. Mercenaries are now doing the heavy fighting. Ukrainians know better.
Dont forget that this is a war of atrittion, RUAF doesnt hold defensive positions to the last man. This is going to make the AFU overextend and not be able to hold positions, and then the sumy counter offensive will take place.
I still maintain that this has to be a diversion, if not, it is just monumentally stupid. Russia is going to chew up anything Ukraine has sent within weeks at most. And Ukraine *really* cannot afford to lose this many soldiers and this much equipment.
Ukraine is opening a huge front in the Kursk to capture large territory and start negotiations. But that is very stupid because Russia will easily destroy that new offensive and the Ukrainian army will be very vulnerable. Russia could even open up a new front.
Russia is not destroying anything easily in this war Their progress is slow af and if they continue in this manner its gonna take years for them to even capture Donbass alone. Ukraine tends to get bigger gains on the ground when they get gains.
@@andraslibal did you look at the map how little ground that is compared to the whole Ukraine? Its like taking 1 Meter in 1 Kilometer for comparison. You have to zoom in a couple of times to even see what they took on the map. Its literally snails pace.
@@saellenx3528you think the rest of the defenses in ukr are comparable to donesk? Once donetsk falls there's nothing but natural defense lines with the odd complex here and there to stiffen it up, next place thats even remotely close is kiev and the defenses there are half the density. The problem will be manpower anyway, the land means nothing with nobody to defend it.
You do understand ru already lost nummerous pows? Not even speaking about killed and destroyed hardware. Not even speaking about the shame and nerves this bring to ru and putin.
@@schepvogelk5971 So what they lost 10-20 armored vehicles, they have thousands more. Ukrainians only took about 50 POW which is nothing, Russia has thousands of Ukrainians so they can be exchanged. When you say this will bring nerve to Putin, like he is Russia, it will not it galvanize Russian population even more.
Russia is not escalating faster enough. On this channel, and others, I read about this massive Russian offensive so many times. It never happened. And now in two days, Ukraine get a lot of Russian territory. Putin still didn't understand that he is at war against NATO. If they sit down tomorrow at the table, Putin will do enormous concessions to achieve peace. People think he will not, but he will do. He will give away the entire Donbas to get in a peace agreement.
@@Leny1777He said a brigade and a couple of battalions in the video. That's something like 1x3k and 2x1k people. Although that's at full strength and it's highly unlikely their units are at full strength.
Ive watch a lot of different people covering this since the beginning, i settled with you about a year ago due to, i dont find you favor either side regardless of how you personally feel. Great job
Classic case of the right hand not talking to the left, Elensky and Budanov believe in magical warfare as espoused on them by Neuland while the army itself continues to die a slow agonizing death.
The further they advance beyond the border, the higher the risk. Seems RU is bombing the rear to depreive of further reinforcements and supplies reaching.
A couple of days at max. I wonder if RF is just waiting to observe the supply route until they take them out - the more troops UAF sends, the more supply they need - that's clearly a suicide-mission
@@saellenx3528 Never, because they never lost territory. That's just a kamikaze-like attack - totally pointless. That's Russian territory, not fortified Ukrainian territory.
For the Russians, they would probably allow the Ukrainian offensive here to gain more land deep into Kursk but not wide. I believe they'll try to get most of these invading forces encircled through an offensive on the flanks of the boarderland or of the offensive itself. For a while, I said the Ukrainians would probably attack kursk next, but it really wouldn't help their situation.
Ukrainians say that they do not have enough people at the front, but at the same time they are pulling the existing brigades from the front to attack Kursk. This is stupid, Russia has the strength to cover this front and stretch it, and the Ukrainians are simply sacrificing the main front for a couple of days of media victory
Encircled with what troops? This is just what 1000 Ukrainian troops are capable, imagine if they invaded with 20k , brought the Patriots close by and F-16s. Russia can’t do anything. If they move troops from the south, the Ukrainians would take advantage. This is a dilemma for Russia.
The obvious goal of this offense is to force Russia to redirect troops and equipment meant for Kharkiv to Kursk region, and then simoultaneously retreat in Kursk and counterattack in Kharkiv.
Its PR or a distraction, they cannot hold it so it has no negotiation value, in fact it has the opposite effect as it makes clear more buffer area is needed.
Google's search engine monopoly was just found to be illegal by a US judge. Let's hope their video monopoly can be broken as well. Then people will be free to communicate and write pro Russia comments if they want.
From forever-fascist-spain many of us love Russia too. They were the only ones to help when the fascist coup happened, that hasn't eneded yet. Francoism (fascism ) was made hereditay by the murderous dictator.
Russia needs to send in the Belarus army to deal with it. Ukraine hasn’t made an official statement about what the hell is going on and some of them are referring to them as “allies”. If Ukraine is going to escalate then Russia should escalate too, Putin needs to stop being scared and actually do something because his “red lines” are being broken everyday
Chill out. Nothing has changed. Whatever forces participate in this raid, they could have been deployed elsewhere. This will only weaken the other fronts, and then Russia will push them out anyway in a couple of weeks. This war is going to last until next year, when Trump is swore in so, everything is still going as planned.
yes as russia is currently fighting only in donbass and there is plenty of other border regions like kursk now and even from belarus !. if im in command there would not let a single km of border left untouched and ukraine army would be even more spread !
Do you honestly think Ukraine will have control of this land when negotiations happen? This isn’t going to bring Russia to the negotiation table that’s for sure😅
@@9ine1k17 probably, but I wonder how this is going on for the civ on site, that must have been quite a shock for them, and they are at risk of being used as human shield by the AFU if these villages were not evacuated, that will make it very complex for the RUAF to gain back these territories
C'est pour prendre des vidéos et montrer aux parrains qu'ils sont capables de faire Quelque chose et deux jours après, ils vont abandonner les morts et matériels
Weird what it is? Some deflection, distraction maneuver? Or some PR actions I do not get it what the point, capture open fields without fortifications. Okay how they plan to hold them?
Most likely PR as that’s always been Ukraines goal as it helps with funding. If they were serious about winning this war they would be sending these resources to stop advances in Donetsk region. In my opinion this is the perfect excuse for Russia to not hold back any longer as I have felt they’ve been too restrained.
@@rj_nbk I do not know it is confusing. Somehow battle of Krynky comes in to my mind to hold some pointless positions forever. Most likely two in one PR and distraction. As host of channel said in one day captured more than other side in days, sounds as PR to me some moral boost, feels as to kill two birds with one stone. is confusing, too hard for my mediocre brain.
They know what they are doing. This is a PR disaster for Russia. Even if they get beaten back, this will solidify the "Russia is a paper dragon, so with more aid Ukraine can turn this around" narrative in the west. Internally this will also cast doubt over Russia's MoD, considering that Ukraine managed to do in 2 days what Russia couldn't achieve in months in Kharkiv. Gerasimov at this point is a dead man walking, it's just a matter of when.
This is probably one of the last Ukrainian pushes we're going to see. They used the last of their best forces for this. They're basically out of steam, all they have left are barely trained conscripts who don't want to be there.
Guess those villages are free to take? Seems like Russia has not placed any big deffence lines there.. New frontline opened, waiting for Russias response..
How many troops?, how many tanks?, how many drone operators? How many F16's. Is there parity? Otherwise it becomes a graveyard for US plans, planners and politicians.
How so? That's like saying that Armenia was a graveyard for Russian plans and politicians just because they had supplied them with equipment and they lost to Azerbaijan anyway.
Very likely for propaganda purposes. So they can show that they are still able to capture large amounts of territory. I find it very likely that in the coming days when they face more resistance they’ll likely retreat back into Sumy. I don’t think they are stupid enough to launch an offensive in the wrong direction
Make no mistake, this is a massive offensive. This is Ukraine’s battle of the bulge. Throwing what ever men and material they have into a last ditch effort. It’s sad to see.
If they keep gaining ground than they’re going to have good negotiating leverage in the event of negotiations, if they lose this ground before any peace talks they are screwed beyond all hope
My main concern is will Russia hold the West responsible for use of their weapons on Russia instead of just the proxy war in Ukraine? This could easily spread to war outside Ukraine and Russia that might include nukes.
F-16 iš capa le to have nuke bombs. And that is according R nuclear doctrina is seen as nuclear weapon. According theresa doctrina It allows R To use nuclear arms. Very sad that Many europeans do not realiose it.
Saw RU flag flying over Niu York now....I guess no AFU will be around to stop that since all of them are up north trying to recreate the "Battle of the Bulge"???"
Difference between the Kharkiv vs Kurks offensives is that Russians have the resources and manpower to even grind down the ukrainians there whereas Ukraine in Kurks dont have much to show and soon the Russians will push the Ukrainians back. Ukraine has spent the last 60 billion aid to this offensive and after no more money meaning they can't hold much more these territories
Russia and Ukraine had a small observation military power there. They are supposed to dissuade attacks and keep each other at a distance in the region. They aren’t supposed to do much fighting. The real fighting is supposed to happen at the eastfront.
Because the Russians are on downhill terrain going up to higher terrain around Sumy. It a very bad place to attack from for Russia. For the ukies the initial attack might seem easy but they are moving into empty terrain with a dozen tiny abandoned villages, and there are very few forests andy other type of cover for them as they keep moving deeper into Russian territory. Once the Russians get their forces into the area the ukies with coming under heavy artillery, aviation and FPV attack with nowhere to hide.
The most important question is: where do they go from here. Kursk 1.0 had Von Manstein and Krebs, yet the baseball Mitt they ran into was a double envelopment none saw coming. Seizing territories for headlines is a New York state of mind..
@@a.m.armstrong8354 That as well. But I think so long as they can send the Russians into a spin and cause a lot of damage then the success of the mission will range from "successful" (as of now) to "extremely damaging" (if this becomes Krinky v2).
I suppose it's a surprise offensive that looks impressive, but I am not sure if it makes sense to waste equipment, ammunition and soldiers in this way unless the intention is to create a volatile situation to try and bring Russia to the negotiating table in a better position.
I'm curious if anyone else has already asked if this "Invasion" by the Ukrainian army might trigger a 'total' call-up of the general mass of the Russian Army?
This 'weak defense' reminds me of the Meat Grinder trap Russia created in Kharkov when the Ukrainians thought they were successful in their flash counter offensive. What really happened was Russia created a weak region baiting the Ukrainians to direct their counter offensive at the top end of the Frontline at the time moving personnel from other locations to the upper end of the front. Meanwhile there were only spotters and fell back once the counter began and the Kharkov region seemed empty and the Ukrainians moved into the trap and that is where the Ukrainians lost their first military force. Once the Ukrainians were in place Russia began the Meat Grinder operation and that is what will happen in this latest Ukrainian media campaign backfiring on them yet again. It's another pin prick move and terrorist nonsense against the civilians in this region. And all the mappers embracing this nonsense is just as comical as the theatrics of this useless move. Why not build up in real frontline if Ukraine was serious. They can't. It's just for the media and the mappers because they cannot think out of the box.
I never expected Ukraine to try to invade Crimea, yet they did try. I always thought it made much more sense to threaten Moscow instead but, what do I know, I'm just a humble disciple of Zumalakarregi, who wanted to march on Madrid, a defenseless city, and was instead forced to besiege fortified Bilbao, which was never captured and had him killed anyhow. I'm also a humble apprentice of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong: attack where the enemy is weak, avoid him where strong.
When you spend 10 years+ specifically targeting & killing thousands of your own citizens using Nazi forces, within your own territories, just because they are of Russian extraction & you claim it is not ethnic cleansing or genocidal... Your apparent confusion stems from your miscomprehension of the Russian SMO - Special Military Operation. The term was first coined by UKRAINE in 2014 & they used it to differentiate their military actions vs citizens of Russian extraction in the Donbass-Lugansk+ regions from proscribed acts of war. This also involved them labelling civilians who resisted the US coup as 'terrorists'. Ukraine's SMO resulted in over 14,000 deaths, primarily citizens of Russian stock. THEN - in 2022, Russia began its own SMO, paying sarcastic homage to Ukraine’s use of the nomenclature. If Russia were at war, you would know the difference without needing to be told & Ukraine would have been ended years ago. The only humans on Earth with a contrary military view are Natonians, most of whom exist in a perpetual bubble of unrealities spun by their MSM. Russia's SMO is NOT intentionally targeted at the Ukrainian civilians, contrary to Ukraine's well-documented military approach since 2014 - as evidenced by the UN & countless CCTV & Ukrainian boasting videos showing thousand of military strikes on the residential areas of Donbass & Luhansk. A simple objective review of the SMO, so far, should make it obvious to any sane mind that Russia is not trying to carpet bomb Ukraine, Natonian style. So far, it has primarily been about demilitarizing Ukraine via attrition - which Russia did & does; only for Natonians to keep sending in more & more 'game-changing', super-duped-ya, weaponry which in turn also prove ineffective & are destroyed. Rinse & Repeat, Rinse + Repeat against the Russian meat-grinder. Would you happen to be vaxxed?
It's easy to capture but not to hold. Russia managed to capture and hold but I to think ukraine will not hold like the other 2 belgorod offensive and krinky
Its obious that that dont work like planed. From both sides. Russia catched with pants down. But the big arrow from Ukraine is only possible to enormous losses and the lack of propper defense lines. The last point will make it difficult for Ukraine to hold this ground against the oncomming counter attacks. I also believe the Ukrainians are surprised about their success here. Time will tell if they can benefit from their breakthrough
Im mostly wondering about the scale of defenses in the Kursk area. Sure there are no doubt some trenches and fortifications but those have likely somewhat fallen. The Ukrainians will probably be forced to fall back as they wont have the time to build up fortifications before a main Russian unit is actually brought in to stop them. Plus the current fortifications that have fallen are no doubt actually sighted in by Russian artillery and planes, leaving them way too open to hold due to FABs. Im also wondering how many forces the Ukrainians are willing to spend here. When they could be better suited to hold the Adviivka area or even the Niu-York area. I have a theory this is their Battle Of The Bulge, a last ditch effort to refocus Russian units away from other areas. They apparently have a 3 to 1 advantage in the Vovchansk area and yet the Russians are making progress... slowly. Idk, I just feel like the Ukrainians could have made a much better decision here.
I agree. I am convinced that they will go after Zaporizhzia power plant, (always have been) and simultaneously launch an enormous amphibious drone and missile attack on Crimea and the Black Sea fleet with missiles where the F16's will support troops trying to gain a foothold in Crimea. This is 'The last chance saloon'
Ukraine does not have enough troops to make this in an actual offensive. Russia has huge reserves in behind. The only reason Ukraine has been able to advance is because those reserves are not at borders but behind in cities so Ukraine wouldn't be able to take more then few villages on the border until Russia launches counter offensive against Ukrainian troops and push them back, Russia wouldn't rotate its troops from Donbass front becuase it has enough reserves in Russia already. So its a huge gamble by Ukraine, if they think this attack will force Russia to pull out troops from donbass front to Kursk front they are living in dreams. So for Ukraine its a matter of time until Russian reserves reach the border and counter attack.
The problem is that Krynky was a heavily fortified front line. This on the other had is wide open and there are no reserves in sight. It's a complete failure from the Russian MoD and Gerasimov. If they don't pull reinforcements any time soon, the gap will only widen.
Whatever happened, it is a shame for Russia. Those captured kids... This incapable Gerasimov, how is still on the board, the other incapable Shoigu at least was fired. Where is the big offensive, look what happened. Look how stacked Nothern front...Shame
It seems to me they are using NATO intelligence to invade a non defended area with light armoured assault vehicles in a hope to go as far as possible before the Russian army reacts. I have several doubts on how dense their defense is behind this first line. I guess that, if they really want to hold and push in this direction, they'll throw some thousands units to occupy it, but unless they are getting units from other countries, this movement doesn't seem to be their best option. This area is not really fortified, so they won't be able to hold on it for a long period of time. I won't use the word "collapse" for the east front, but the russians are advancing non-stop there, and the ukrainians have been proved unable to stop them, resulting in thousands of units/vehicles destroyed. They barely managed to stop the russians on the Kharkiv breakthrough, so this seems like a desperate move to divert forces from other fronts in a attempt to stop the russian advances and, perhaps, to pin some forces there in the hope a new offensive (perhaps towards Rabotyne general direction) won't end like the one we had last year, which was pure carnage. Using units to create a new a futile front while your forces are being destroyed along most of the current front lines, is not a good idea. We'll see in a few days, but this operation seems to be designed to recover international focus rather than a real military objective.
I find this interesting because if you remember, just a few weeks after Russia launched their attack on the Kharkiv region, there were thousands of russian troops in that exact place near Sumy where Ukraine attacked from, actively scouting the area and some claiming were preparing to launch another attack from, which they never did. But now Ukraine "surprise attacked" them from the exact same place? On-top of that there's not enough reservists in the area to defend the few trenches they had next to the border. Ukraine now has some solid foothold inside the Kursk region, compared to past cross border raidings, this is an actual invasion by Ukraine's armed forces backed by anti-air units and armored assault units. I wonder if Putin will actually do something now or just call in some extra reserves and fight there for months if not years, also it wouldn't surprise me if the russian MoD are lying to Putin to downplay this because they're scared to get fired over another failure lol.
@@lonniesides9302 lol dude its only been 2 days of this ukry summer offensive and some already cheer like its a major victory...lets talk after a week and see what happens
It looks desperate. But they had been amassing forces there for months under the pretense of an attack from the Russian direction. I think this is a hostage attempt wether for American resources or Russian negotiations time will tell.
Has anyone analyzed the roads that are in that territory? From what I've seen, it's just dirt paths until the Rylsk-Korenevo road. No good border crossings were taken. Unless they can take a good crossing, I think they'll be stuck to an area slightly larger than what was taken so far.
There is one highway which they managed to reach and where one of their columns got annihilated. It seems as though they are making a staggered attack where one column moves as far forward as possible and then another column moves in and captures additional territory. The problem is that it is all open terrain with few places to hide. Once Russian FPV-drone operators start operating it will be a complete turkey-shoot.
@user-vf9pb5oc6m But even that 2 lane country road "higway" has to be gotten to through small dirt paths. That's just a recipe for disaster in my books. It's a huge bottle neck now, but what if it rains. So I agree, it's a PR stunt
This Ukrainian offensive into Russian territory occurred due to the lackadaisical approach to this war by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, with his romantic nostalgia about Kiev an its place in Russian history and culture. Instead of launching a new offensive towards Sumy or into the Donbas to preemptively stop any new Ukrainian offensive. The Russian president is committed to a slow motion offensive in the east. This allowed the Ukranians to gather a reserve force in the rear to launch a surprise offensive somewhere on the vast Russian Frontier. Inexcusable!
*Ukraine advances into Russia* --------- It's one thing to take territory ---------- *It's another thing to hold onto it*
@@grosey11 Yes - anything is possible. But the F-16's won't be risked for this 'political' advance into Russia. Look at it - in terms of it being a potential 'bargaining chip' in whatever negotiations occur. But this move by Zelensky is a mostly _'political' gamble that is very unlikely to change anything.
@@grosey11 the border guards slowed the advance and reinforcements were able to arrive. It will all be over soon with Ukraine advancing backwards as usual.
@@PaxAlotin-j6rbold conclusions when lacking clear information. I don’t say you’re wrong. The certainty is what I question
@@saeed7099 Against the broader history of this conflict & the failed 'advances' by Ukraine's forces - I can only reason - that this new attempt will also achieve nothing. It's a gamble since there is no way that taking that tiny bit of Russia is going to force Putin to concede anything. Depending on how you assess Russia's initial reasons for 'invading' Ukraine - you will think this is some sort of _'tete a tete'_ or a bargaining chip. Russia - despite the preposterous claims of Western Media & politicians has a set of very clear objectives - namely the annexation of those southern parts of Ukraine that are predominately filled with Russian speakers.
Your teachers must be so proud of you what a interlect !
2 videos in 7 hrs, bro is working hard
Ukranian success😂
ukrainian summer offensive
I guess you're not an og viewer. Back in the day he would do videos as he got the updates. Not waiting for a few to build up
@@robbygood3458 yeah I only started watching his videos at the end of last year
@robbygood3458 I am. Lately Russians had a lot of success all across the front and we didn't get updates so often. That's wierd🤔
We all know how this will end for Ukraine.
No. We dont.
@@allankvist6741 I will not be here to tell you I told you so. So I just do it now. I told you so.
@allankvist6741 We know from previous experiences.
@@allankvist6741 take a good guess
For a half a milion of Russian soldiers we know, about the future we dont know for now, Ukraine almost have a new oblast!
Both my great grandfathers who took part in the Battle of Kursk as part of the 40th and 48th armies would be grabbing a rifle right about now had they still been alive
Yes that is what I thought what can motivate the Russians to fight? Hearing that Kursk is under attack again?
If Ukrainians in WW2 would know what Russians were doing in Ukraine now they'd be grabbing rifles too buddy...😂
@@Will-ts5ij They are grabbing any way they can to get out of Ukraine or leave the AFU. Mercenaries are now doing the heavy fighting. Ukrainians know better.
@@Will-ts5ij what are they doing? Liberating the Russians from a nazi regime that killed 14,000 civilians in their own country?
@@Will-ts5ij You have no Idea what the heck you are talking about "buddy"
Dont forget that this is a war of atrittion, RUAF doesnt hold defensive positions to the last man. This is going to make the AFU overextend and not be able to hold positions, and then the sumy counter offensive will take place.
What about russian civilians?
sure sure, we all remember Kherson
@@alfran1 They were evacuated in several ways. Recently, Russia closed off a number of villages in this very region.
@alfran1 join military.
@@alfran1 Most of Russian civilians already evacuated from this area
Ukro-Kamikaze
no these are free russian people
@@kroooassant9899 LOL ... no ... these guys are _pretending_ to be Russian :)
@@kroooassant9899 it's the 82nd and some russian separatists last I heard
*Noice*, fren!*
Ukramikaze?...
*apologies to RIP Curly Howard ;-)
Using US military gear? 😂😂😂
Lots of Ukraine equipment being wrecked on telegram.
You for real? Big oof moment if that's true.
Prove it
Which channels? I know Kalibrated show some of those.
The ones I'm on are are showing videos of them on the move not many destroyed vehicles though but many textposts lol
@@Extra-Celestial7 military summary
I still maintain that this has to be a diversion, if not, it is just monumentally stupid. Russia is going to chew up anything Ukraine has sent within weeks at most. And Ukraine *really* cannot afford to lose this many soldiers and this much equipment.
Ukraine is opening a huge front in the Kursk to capture large territory and start negotiations. But that is very stupid because Russia will easily destroy that new offensive and the Ukrainian army will be very vulnerable. Russia could even open up a new front.
Russia is not destroying anything easily in this war Their progress is slow af and if they continue in this manner its gonna take years for them to even capture Donbass alone. Ukraine tends to get bigger gains on the ground when they get gains.
@@saellenx3528 not that slow lately that the Ukrainian front is breaking in multiple places
@@andraslibal did you look at the map how little ground that is compared to the whole Ukraine? Its like taking 1 Meter in 1 Kilometer for comparison. You have to zoom in a couple of times to even see what they took on the map. Its literally snails pace.
@@saellenx3528you think the rest of the defenses in ukr are comparable to donesk? Once donetsk falls there's nothing but natural defense lines with the odd complex here and there to stiffen it up, next place thats even remotely close is kiev and the defenses there are half the density. The problem will be manpower anyway, the land means nothing with nobody to defend it.
@@saellenx3528 After Donetsk there arent any more defenses. You ahve to admit that the ukrianian losses are growing each day.
This shows that Russia will push them back and will force them to create a buffer zone until the kiev direction
@@Movietheatre1991 😂😂😂😂
You do understand ru already lost nummerous pows? Not even speaking about killed and destroyed hardware. Not even speaking about the shame and nerves this bring to ru and putin.
@@schepvogelk5971 So what they lost 10-20 armored vehicles, they have thousands more. Ukrainians only took about 50 POW which is nothing, Russia has thousands of Ukrainians so they can be exchanged. When you say this will bring nerve to Putin, like he is Russia, it will not it galvanize Russian population even more.
@@schepvogelk5971 You are overstating what happened. Dont cope.
Russia is not escalating faster enough. On this channel, and others, I read about this massive Russian offensive so many times. It never happened. And now in two days, Ukraine get a lot of Russian territory. Putin still didn't understand that he is at war against NATO. If they sit down tomorrow at the table, Putin will do enormous concessions to achieve peace. People think he will not, but he will do. He will give away the entire Donbas to get in a peace agreement.
When you cannot re-claim your own territory so you take your opponent territory...
When you cannot re-claim your own territory so you take your opponent territory...
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
How many attacked this time? 90 or 200 incompetent fools?
@@Leny1777COPE
base rush strategy
@@Leny1777He said a brigade and a couple of battalions in the video. That's something like 1x3k and 2x1k people. Although that's at full strength and it's highly unlikely their units are at full strength.
Ive watch a lot of different people covering this since the beginning, i settled with you about a year ago due to, i dont find you favor either side regardless of how you personally feel. Great job
This is a PR stunt. They can't spare men for Donbass now they suddendly have men to attack Kursk? Let them try.
Classic case of the right hand not talking to the left, Elensky and Budanov believe in magical warfare as espoused on them by Neuland while the army itself continues to die a slow agonizing death.
Kind of reminds me of Operatrion Citadel and Operation Greif.
This is like the battle of ardennes the germans launched. Forever doomed for failiuer
Thank you Weeb , excellent work
Bro... haven't watched the war since like a month, and came to see this.
Defence is collapsing in Donbas since past 2 months. It looks like a distraction maybe
That is why they are doing this but for PR
Captured is a stretch, lets see how long they hold it first
The further they advance beyond the border, the higher the risk. Seems RU is bombing the rear to depreive of further reinforcements and supplies reaching.
How long they can capture this teritory ?
A couple of days at max.
I wonder if RF is just waiting to observe the supply route until they take them out - the more troops UAF sends, the more supply they need - that's clearly a suicide-mission
@@shadowbanned247When has Russia ever regain territory in couple of days since this war started?
@@saellenx3528 Never, because they never lost territory.
That's just a kamikaze-like attack - totally pointless.
That's Russian territory, not fortified Ukrainian territory.
For the Russians, they would probably allow the Ukrainian offensive here to gain more land deep into Kursk but not wide. I believe they'll try to get most of these invading forces encircled through an offensive on the flanks of the boarderland or of the offensive itself. For a while, I said the Ukrainians would probably attack kursk next, but it really wouldn't help their situation.
Ukrainians say that they do not have enough people at the front, but at the same time they are pulling the existing brigades from the front to attack Kursk. This is stupid, Russia has the strength to cover this front and stretch it, and the Ukrainians are simply sacrificing the main front for a couple of days of media victory
Encircled with what troops? This is just what 1000 Ukrainian troops are capable, imagine if they invaded with 20k , brought the Patriots close by and F-16s. Russia can’t do anything.
If they move troops from the south, the Ukrainians would take advantage.
This is a dilemma for Russia.
@@danielc9967 откуда у украинцев 20 тысяч на такие операции? Они и так подтянули туда множество систем ПВО
@@danielc9967russian doctrine is to avoid numerous losses.
It's already widened. What are you talking about? Check out the map first.
Успешная атака, но это бригады смертников, они не вернуться домой.
The obvious goal of this offense is to force Russia to redirect troops and equipment meant for Kharkiv to Kursk region, and then simoultaneously retreat in Kursk and counterattack in Kharkiv.
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Looks like Denys blood pressure has gone down a bit too
Reminds me of the Storm gate series - Russians also used inexperienced unit to draw the enemy out of hiding to pummel them with artillery and bombs...
Its PR or a distraction, they cannot hold it so it has no negotiation value, in fact it has the opposite effect as it makes clear more buffer area is needed.
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Google's search engine monopoly was just found to be illegal by a US judge. Let's hope their video monopoly can be broken as well. Then people will be free to communicate and write pro Russia comments if they want.
From forever-fascist-spain many of us love Russia too. They were the only ones to help when the fascist coup happened, that hasn't eneded yet. Francoism (fascism ) was made hereditay by the murderous dictator.
Battle of the Bulge is in full swing! End game is coming!
Russia needs to send in the Belarus army to deal with it. Ukraine hasn’t made an official statement about what the hell is going on and some of them are referring to them as “allies”. If Ukraine is going to escalate then Russia should escalate too, Putin needs to stop being scared and actually do something because his “red lines” are being broken everyday
Chill out. Nothing has changed. Whatever forces participate in this raid, they could have been deployed elsewhere. This will only weaken the other fronts, and then Russia will push them out anyway in a couple of weeks. This war is going to last until next year, when Trump is swore in so, everything is still going as planned.
@@thiefsleef6752 exactly!!
yes as russia is currently fighting only in donbass and there is plenty of other border regions like kursk now and even from belarus !. if im in command there would not let a single km of border left untouched and ukraine army would be even more spread !
In football they call this a Hail Mary...
Yup
My guess they are taking this territory to use in and future negotiations
Do you honestly think Ukraine will have control of this land when negotiations happen? This isn’t going to bring Russia to the negotiation table that’s for sure😅
Russia won't negotiate until ukraine capitulates. This was a statement by a russian official I forgot the name of.
Russian president always plays a tough guy. Such stunts won’t be tolerated before the negotiations, those advances will be negated first
@@ТанмайПанде Sounds like Medvedev would say that.
@@Hapotecario yeah, I can't remember, or maybe it was lavrov.
Imagine the reaction of veterans who fought in Kursk hearing that it is again under attack by Nazis
Well, that's a change
just a distracton because dombass defense collapsed
@@9ine1k17 probably, but I wonder how this is going on for the civ on site, that must have been quite a shock for them, and they are at risk of being used as human shield by the AFU if these villages were not evacuated, that will make it very complex for the RUAF to gain back these territories
Been hearing that for a year now @@9ine1k17
@@rwan3583 around 90% civilians have been evacuated
Russian officials
@@Dima-2468 Then there would still be 10 % of the civilians left: not many, but still, they wouuld be there.
C'est pour prendre des vidéos et montrer aux parrains qu'ils sont capables de faire Quelque chose et deux jours après, ils vont abandonner les morts et matériels
Thank you Weeb for updating us this front in detail.
Weird what it is? Some deflection, distraction maneuver? Or some PR actions I do not get it what the point, capture open fields without fortifications. Okay how they plan to hold them?
Most likely PR as that’s always been Ukraines goal as it helps with funding. If they were serious about winning this war they would be sending these resources to stop advances in Donetsk region. In my opinion this is the perfect excuse for Russia to not hold back any longer as I have felt they’ve been too restrained.
@@rj_nbk I do not know it is confusing. Somehow battle of Krynky comes in to my mind to hold some pointless positions forever. Most likely two in one PR and distraction. As host of channel said in one day captured more than other side in days, sounds as PR to me some moral boost, feels as to kill two birds with one stone. is confusing, too hard for my mediocre brain.
@@blackduck9867 agreed, it is a bit too early to tell. Time will tell I guess!
Headlines are what really matters reality does not matter. When Ukraine has totally lost they will win everything and be totally victorious.
@@Sedona-cl6eg You think as previous gentlemen in comments who shared that is some ritual to attract sponsors too?
So they decide to break into RF territory instead of sending them as reinforcements to Vovchansk...they're dumb
They know what they are doing. This is a PR disaster for Russia. Even if they get beaten back, this will solidify the "Russia is a paper dragon, so with more aid Ukraine can turn this around" narrative in the west.
Internally this will also cast doubt over Russia's MoD, considering that Ukraine managed to do in 2 days what Russia couldn't achieve in months in Kharkiv. Gerasimov at this point is a dead man walking, it's just a matter of when.
This is probably one of the last Ukrainian pushes we're going to see. They used the last of their best forces for this. They're basically out of steam, all they have left are barely trained conscripts who don't want to be there.
Guess those villages are free to take? Seems like Russia has not placed any big deffence lines there.. New frontline opened, waiting for Russias response..
How many troops?, how many tanks?, how many drone operators? How many F16's. Is there parity? Otherwise it becomes a graveyard for US plans, planners and politicians.
How so? That's like saying that Armenia was a graveyard for Russian plans and politicians just because they had supplied them with equipment and they lost to Azerbaijan anyway.
Thanks Weeb, could result in a huge cauldron?
What is the objective? To provoke Russia to use tactical nuclear weapons?
Might be the last swan song
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Very likely for propaganda purposes. So they can show that they are still able to capture large amounts of territory. I find it very likely that in the coming days when they face more resistance they’ll likely retreat back into Sumy. I don’t think they are stupid enough to launch an offensive in the wrong direction
I knew something was about to happen as soon as little dictator in sweat pants started talking about peace negotiations
What is amazing is that he thinks this stupid stunt will make any difference. This is desperation.
Make no mistake, this is a massive offensive. This is Ukraine’s battle of the bulge. Throwing what ever men and material they have into a last ditch effort. It’s sad to see.
A few brigades and a few thousand men does not equal to 3 German Armies (2 of which were panzer armies) including 500 thousand troops
@@briish4615those were paper numbers they were lucky to have 100k Ukraine may just dedicate that many to an area they hold
@@off6848 true the germans had mostly "paper" armies but from a quick breeze in wiki to check it appears the germans had around 500 thousand troops
None will ever return, bro..
History Legend will milk this. Oh yeah baby.
Who is this history legend? What are his qualifications?
cant wait for his video about this "situation"
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Thanks. Suspect you're right about creating negotiating leverage. Hard to believe tactical surprise is possible in this ISR environment. All the best
If they keep gaining ground than they’re going to have good negotiating leverage in the event of negotiations, if they lose this ground before any peace talks they are screwed beyond all hope
Monumental stupidity when an actor try to play Alexander the Great.
Ardennes-style offensive, which in the end will became a disaster
The most stupid move ever they will pay for this big time!
Finally something interesting, this whole thing about which village taken or lost is so boring, this has potential to get interesting.
Russia: Find a way to Attrition Ukrainian Army
Syrskyi: Let me cook!
Now let’s see if the Ukrainians outrun their logistics.
My main concern is will Russia hold the West responsible for use of their weapons on Russia instead of just the proxy war in Ukraine? This could easily spread to war outside Ukraine and Russia that might include nukes.
F-16 iš capa le to have nuke bombs. And that is according R nuclear doctrina is seen as nuclear weapon. According theresa doctrina It allows R To use nuclear arms. Very sad that Many europeans do not realiose it.
Saw RU flag flying over Niu York now....I guess no AFU will be around to stop that since all of them are up north trying to recreate the "Battle of the Bulge"???"
Advance is not capture ...anyway this will end like the countless Ukrainian PR stunts
Ukraine's Battle of the Bulge.
well we all know ukr wont be able to hold for to long
Throwing those reserves into this doomed offensive, lol is just stupid😂
A tempest in a teapot…..
For Russians Kursk region is the same as Donetsk region, both are Russia.
Difference between the Kharkiv vs Kurks offensives is that Russians have the resources and manpower to even grind down the ukrainians there whereas Ukraine in Kurks dont have much to show and soon the Russians will push the Ukrainians back. Ukraine has spent the last 60 billion aid to this offensive and after no more money meaning they can't hold much more these territories
The most important question is why the Russian's didn't do this themselves from that position?
There were rumors of a Sumy offensive for months. Which will now likely happen once Russians reclaim their territory.
Russia and Ukraine had a small observation military power there. They are supposed to dissuade attacks and keep each other at a distance in the region. They aren’t supposed to do much fighting. The real fighting is supposed to happen at the eastfront.
Because the Russians are on downhill terrain going up to higher terrain around Sumy.
It a very bad place to attack from for Russia.
For the ukies the initial attack might seem easy but they are moving into empty terrain with a dozen tiny abandoned villages, and there are very few forests andy other type of cover for them as they keep moving deeper into Russian territory.
Once the Russians get their forces into the area the ukies with coming under heavy artillery, aviation and FPV attack with nowhere to hide.
The most important question is: where do they go from here. Kursk 1.0 had Von Manstein and Krebs, yet the baseball Mitt they ran into was a double envelopment none saw coming.
Seizing territories for headlines is a New York state of mind..
@@a.m.armstrong8354 That as well. But I think so long as they can send the Russians into a spin and cause a lot of damage then the success of the mission will range from "successful" (as of now) to "extremely damaging" (if this becomes Krinky v2).
UKR walking into a trap.
Prediction:
The Ukrainian gains will last 4-5 days.
With horrendous losses..😮😮😮
I think it will last longer. Extension of line. In 2 weeks it will be another meat grinder. The worst one.
A major turning point. And the f16s a gamechanger!
I suppose it's a surprise offensive that looks impressive, but I am not sure if it makes sense to waste equipment, ammunition and soldiers in this way unless the intention is to create a volatile situation to try and bring Russia to the negotiating table in a better position.
A storm in a teacup...
I'm curious if anyone else has already asked if this "Invasion" by the Ukrainian army might trigger a 'total' call-up of the general mass of the Russian Army?
Thanks :)
This 'weak defense' reminds me of the Meat Grinder trap Russia created in Kharkov when the Ukrainians thought they were successful in their flash counter offensive. What really happened was Russia created a weak region baiting the Ukrainians to direct their counter offensive at the top end of the Frontline at the time moving personnel from other locations to the upper end of the front. Meanwhile there were only spotters and fell back once the counter began and the Kharkov region seemed empty and the Ukrainians moved into the trap and that is where the Ukrainians lost their first military force. Once the Ukrainians were in place Russia began the Meat Grinder operation and that is what will happen in this latest Ukrainian media campaign backfiring on them yet again.
It's another pin prick move and terrorist nonsense against the civilians in this region. And all the mappers embracing this nonsense is just as comical as the theatrics of this useless move. Why not build up in real frontline if Ukraine was serious. They can't. It's just for the media and the mappers because they cannot think out of the box.
diversionary move... a sign of dying army... battle of the bulge all over again...
Never expected Ukraine to invade Russia
They basically announced it on Western media.
We are listening for months how Ukraine is now allowed to attack within Russia.
I never expected Ukraine to try to invade Crimea, yet they did try. I always thought it made much more sense to threaten Moscow instead but, what do I know, I'm just a humble disciple of Zumalakarregi, who wanted to march on Madrid, a defenseless city, and was instead forced to besiege fortified Bilbao, which was never captured and had him killed anyhow. I'm also a humble apprentice of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong: attack where the enemy is weak, avoid him where strong.
Severely undermanned area.. and I guess they were sick of losing in the main battleground
When a bunch of your towns are occupied by a foreign military but you are told you are not at war....
When you spend 10 years+ specifically targeting & killing thousands of your own citizens using Nazi forces, within your own territories, just because they are of Russian extraction & you claim it is not ethnic cleansing or genocidal...
Your apparent confusion stems from your miscomprehension of the Russian SMO - Special Military Operation.
The term was first coined by UKRAINE in 2014 & they used it to differentiate their military actions vs citizens of Russian extraction in the Donbass-Lugansk+ regions from proscribed acts of war. This also involved them labelling civilians who resisted the US coup as 'terrorists'.
Ukraine's SMO resulted in over 14,000 deaths, primarily citizens of Russian stock.
THEN - in 2022, Russia began its own SMO, paying sarcastic homage to Ukraine’s use of the nomenclature.
If Russia were at war, you would know the difference without needing to be told & Ukraine would have been ended years ago.
The only humans on Earth with a contrary military view are Natonians, most of whom exist in a perpetual bubble of unrealities spun by their MSM.
Russia's SMO is NOT intentionally targeted at the Ukrainian civilians, contrary to Ukraine's well-documented military approach since 2014 - as evidenced by the UN & countless CCTV & Ukrainian boasting videos showing thousand of military strikes on the residential areas of Donbass & Luhansk. A simple objective review of the SMO, so far, should make it obvious to any sane mind that Russia is not trying to carpet bomb Ukraine, Natonian style. So far, it has primarily been about demilitarizing Ukraine via attrition - which Russia did & does; only for Natonians to keep sending in more & more 'game-changing', super-duped-ya, weaponry which in turn also prove ineffective & are destroyed. Rinse & Repeat, Rinse + Repeat against the Russian meat-grinder.
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Battle of the bulge
Stupid move .
It's easy to capture but not to hold. Russia managed to capture and hold but I to think ukraine will not hold like the other 2 belgorod offensive and krinky
Its obious that that dont work like planed. From both sides. Russia catched with pants down. But the big arrow from Ukraine is only possible to enormous losses and the lack of propper defense lines. The last point will make it difficult for Ukraine to hold this ground against the oncomming counter attacks. I also believe the Ukrainians are surprised about their success here. Time will tell if they can benefit from their breakthrough
This explains a lot the manpower shortages in the east. Big gamble, either this will pay out big or it will cost far more then it was worth.
They just lost there last troops Ukraine doing this
The Russians are practically inviting the Ukrainians in lol.
That ain't gonna end nice for AFU.
90km sq? Count the corpses & check your sources!
Im mostly wondering about the scale of defenses in the Kursk area. Sure there are no doubt some trenches and fortifications but those have likely somewhat fallen. The Ukrainians will probably be forced to fall back as they wont have the time to build up fortifications before a main Russian unit is actually brought in to stop them. Plus the current fortifications that have fallen are no doubt actually sighted in by Russian artillery and planes, leaving them way too open to hold due to FABs.
Im also wondering how many forces the Ukrainians are willing to spend here. When they could be better suited to hold the Adviivka area or even the Niu-York area. I have a theory this is their Battle Of The Bulge, a last ditch effort to refocus Russian units away from other areas. They apparently have a 3 to 1 advantage in the Vovchansk area and yet the Russians are making progress... slowly. Idk, I just feel like the Ukrainians could have made a much better decision here.
I agree. I am convinced that they will go after Zaporizhzia power plant, (always have been) and simultaneously launch an enormous amphibious drone and missile attack on Crimea and the Black Sea fleet with missiles where the F16's will support troops trying to gain a foothold in Crimea. This is 'The last chance saloon'
Ukraine does not have enough troops to make this in an actual offensive. Russia has huge reserves in behind. The only reason Ukraine has been able to advance is because those reserves are not at borders but behind in cities so Ukraine wouldn't be able to take more then few villages on the border until Russia launches counter offensive against Ukrainian troops and push them back, Russia wouldn't rotate its troops from Donbass front becuase it has enough reserves in Russia already. So its a huge gamble by Ukraine, if they think this attack will force Russia to pull out troops from donbass front to Kursk front they are living in dreams. So for Ukraine its a matter of time until Russian reserves reach the border and counter attack.
Infiltration in russian territory is something from which russia need to learn. They r not invincible.
I think you are over reading into this optics ...soon you will be back and telling us how they have been forced back....we saw this in Krynky
The problem is that Krynky was a heavily fortified front line. This on the other had is wide open and there are no reserves in sight. It's a complete failure from the Russian MoD and Gerasimov. If they don't pull reinforcements any time soon, the gap will only widen.
Whatever happened, it is a shame for Russia. Those captured kids... This incapable Gerasimov, how is still on the board, the other incapable Shoigu at least was fired. Where is the big offensive, look what happened. Look how stacked Nothern front...Shame
Cool down.such things happen in wars...Israel was hammered by Hamas last October.Ossam bin Laden hammered Washington 9/11...don't you know..???🤣
It seems to me they are using NATO intelligence to invade a non defended area with light armoured assault vehicles in a hope to go as far as possible before the Russian army reacts.
I have several doubts on how dense their defense is behind this first line. I guess that, if they really want to hold and push in this direction, they'll throw some thousands units to occupy it, but unless they are getting units from other countries, this movement doesn't seem to be their best option. This area is not really fortified, so they won't be able to hold on it for a long period of time.
I won't use the word "collapse" for the east front, but the russians are advancing non-stop there, and the ukrainians have been proved unable to stop them, resulting in thousands of units/vehicles destroyed.
They barely managed to stop the russians on the Kharkiv breakthrough, so this seems like a desperate move to divert forces from other fronts in a attempt to stop the russian advances and, perhaps, to pin some forces there in the hope a new offensive (perhaps towards Rabotyne general direction) won't end like the one we had last year, which was pure carnage. Using units to create a new a futile front while your forces are being destroyed along most of the current front lines, is not a good idea.
We'll see in a few days, but this operation seems to be designed to recover international focus rather than a real military objective.
offensive tiktok
Putin: "Russia has no borders." Ukraine: "Okay then..."
I find this interesting because if you remember, just a few weeks after Russia launched their attack on the Kharkiv region, there were thousands of russian troops in that exact place near Sumy where Ukraine attacked from, actively scouting the area and some claiming were preparing to launch another attack from, which they never did. But now Ukraine "surprise attacked" them from the exact same place? On-top of that there's not enough reservists in the area to defend the few trenches they had next to the border.
Ukraine now has some solid foothold inside the Kursk region, compared to past cross border raidings, this is an actual invasion by Ukraine's armed forces backed by anti-air units and armored assault units. I wonder if Putin will actually do something now or just call in some extra reserves and fight there for months if not years, also it wouldn't surprise me if the russian MoD are lying to Putin to downplay this because they're scared to get fired over another failure lol.
Maybe. Let's see what the status of this territory is in 2 weeks, does Ukraine have the resources to hold this area?
What happened to that 100K russian army that was supposedly hiding in Sumy?
Ask the Ukrainian defense minister
@WeebUnionWU Well, I guess he found out.
@@lonniesides9302 lol dude its only been 2 days of this ukry summer offensive and some already cheer like its a major victory...lets talk after a week and see what happens
I mean they arent gonna teleport lets wait and see
No they didn’t. They have a couple hundred guys spread out. This is a raiding party.
It looks desperate. But they had been amassing forces there for months under the pretense of an attack from the Russian direction. I think this is a hostage attempt wether for American resources or Russian negotiations time will tell.
What a move! What a move!
Has anyone analyzed the roads that are in that territory? From what I've seen, it's just dirt paths until the Rylsk-Korenevo road. No good border crossings were taken. Unless they can take a good crossing, I think they'll be stuck to an area slightly larger than what was taken so far.
It's a weakly defended non strategic area. Perfect for a publicity headlines stunt.
There is one highway which they managed to reach and where one of their columns got annihilated.
It seems as though they are making a staggered attack where one column moves as far forward as possible and then another column moves in and captures additional territory.
The problem is that it is all open terrain with few places to hide. Once Russian FPV-drone operators start operating it will be a complete turkey-shoot.
@user-vf9pb5oc6m But even that 2 lane country road "higway" has to be gotten to through small dirt paths. That's just a recipe for disaster in my books. It's a huge bottle neck now, but what if it rains. So I agree, it's a PR stunt
This Ukrainian offensive into Russian territory occurred due to the lackadaisical approach to this war by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, with his romantic nostalgia about Kiev an its place in Russian history and culture. Instead of launching a new offensive towards Sumy or into the Donbas to preemptively stop any new Ukrainian offensive. The Russian president is committed to a slow motion offensive in the east. This allowed the Ukranians to gather a reserve force in the rear to launch a surprise offensive somewhere on the vast Russian Frontier. Inexcusable!
@L.w.8740 Militarily this incursion makes no sense unless these are expendables, bro..
You are clueless
Ukr just ruined any chance of negotiations