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0:29 you have my biggest respect for including the "I'm just a youtuber" part, I've seen it way too often that certain youtubers present a topic as if they did all the research and when it's pointed out in the comments that they're wrong (even with sources included) they either ignore it or get angry at the comment.
Dumb comment. There are plenty of quality channels that do actual research like Covert Cabal and Perun. Lazer pig has actual sources he uses for his videos. Not everyone regurgitates news sites.
Such a great video. Not biased and well put. You should also do a video on Yugoslavia in WW2. Generally a short invasion to cover as the main gains had taken place in the first 3 days.
An incredibly well detailed and well thought out analysis video. I especially appreciate that you admit that details are fuzzy and that some assumptions may be wrong, not enough people on the internet have that level of honesty and integrity. Kudos to you!
This is an outstanding video. The front lines in Ukraine always seemed somewhat arbitrary. Your use of terrain height + urban areas makes it way more understandable why the lines are where they are. Couple that with your usual excellent map animation, and this is one of best videos on this topic. This is one of my favorite channels. Keep up the great work!
It seems to you that the video is not biased because you often see much more biased videos. As for this video, watching it from Russia, I see that it is still biased. "The truth is the first thing that dies in war" is a very fair statement.
@@johnny_t. what parts of it? I sincerely want to know. Btw I look at Pro Russian Sources as well as Pro Ukrainian ones. I saw no problems as far as I know. Just want to have a debate
@@HH-pm6mj +1 to that. Its not like K&G which takes every second moment to remind people that the Russians are bad guys and its not like Douglas Macgregor who was claiming tha the entire Ukrainian army had died in April 2022. I find that there is so much "The Russians will collapse in a month" and "Ukraine will fall apart any day now" that's been going on for over a year that both sides think the phrase "this war will take a long time" is somehow a bias statement.
Whatever I write to you, it will cause controversy among other people. And I don't want to argue with anyone. I believe that finding out who is more right and who is less only supports this conflict. It seems to me that it is better to focus on the reasons why it needs to be completed. Even if I agreed, any of my comments on this video would not be short. The analysis of some phrases that the author of the video uttered in 20 seconds will turn into very long texts if you give explanations that are obvious in Russia, but not obvious in other countries. Let's limit ourselves to 14:35, the Russian army had no problems with conscription of men. Men were simply not called up. Those who really wanted to go themselves had such an opportunity by signing a contract for 6 months. By the way, are you familiar with the video at 14:40? The author for some reason did not show the ending. Of course, I may be wrong, but in it, by chance, the Ukrainian military does not shoot at a surrendered Russian lying on the ground? And before that, would they by any chance pick up a rifle lying next to this surrendered Russian?
@@johnny_t. If you're not willing to defend your point then why talk at all? Just shut up and sit in a corner, don't couch your arguments with "I don't wana elaborate because you'll be mad at me" right after disagreeing with someone. 14:35 Eastory says they had an ENLISTMENT issue not a conscription issue, IDK if you're ESL but those are very different things. He says later in the video that Russian mobilization/conscription allowed them to refill their frontline and solve their numerical issues. 14:40 is a video of a bunch of dudes sitting around with RPG rockets. I am not familiar with the entire video but you would have to have serious brain rot to think that Eastory is going to show an execution on his monetized youtube channel.
Suggestions: It would be nice to have a little bar scale at the bottom or some other solution for a sense of scale. During transitions like 15:13, it would be nice to have a smaller, secondary screen or a little box or such showing what part of larger scale Ukraine we are viewing. Great video!
I really like how the videos are progressively getting more professional in editing. Been here since quite a while ago, I'm happy for all your improvements.
Awesome video! A bit strange decision to use the lightly colored gradient to indicate higher height, as most elevation maps we see do the opposite and concentrate the color on mountains and peeks. At least for me it was bugging my brain to stop visualizing the terrain backwards. But anyways, again big ups for creating this video, don't stop doing what you're doing \m/
Love this coverage of the war. It’s been difficult to get a good perspective on the bigger picture, and this helped that. Appreciate the content and effort behind it.
@@dentoncrimescene Its crazy that we live in a time where we have first hand sources recorded on phones and sent all over the internet of Russian war crimes and sheer blatant provocation and get some still refuse to look at any of it and stick their head in the sand.
I already monitored the frontlines of the war almost daily, And it's interesting to watch this as a summary and try to remember what I was thinking and what I was curious about at the time.
I found it very weird how little coverage was dedicated to Popasna when the battle was raging in the town. Early summer it seemed like Ukrainians planned defense of Donbas anchored on Donets river and 2014 contact line fortifications. All future Russian advances near Lysychansk and later Bakhmut stem from the breakthorugh at Popasna, but very little coverage is available of what exactly happend there.
From what I've gathered, so much arty that the Ukrainian lines just dissappeared. In a few interviews with separate guys defending Bakhmut, they all mention that the shelling is less than what got dropped on Popasna. From a casualty perspective, likely fairly light on kia but many many wia. Shell shock is a very real thing
Nothing extraordinary happened there. It's just that, with increasing pressure, there comes a moment when some point does not stand up. There would be no Popasna, there would be a breakthrough in another place. The breakthrough was not unexpected, it was expected. Only the breakthrough point was unknown. And when Popasnaya defense only faltered, the pressure on her immediately increased. The units that were ready for a breakthrough came up to her. And that's when the assault began. Artillery, bomb and missile strikes. All this has increased significantly. And the forces of the assault turned out to be enough to expand and deepen the breakthrough so much that the APU could not do anything about it.
@@Franfran2424 Друг бои за попасную шли 3 месяца там бойцы держались как могли. Старые политиканы и ЛГБТ идиоты с запад тянули с помощью когда она была так нужна из этого вытек снарядный голод
I don't know if its a "widely used" nickname or not, but I've heard the breakthrough does have significance to those that follow the war day by day. I believe some call it the "Popasna Flower" due to the resulting action after the breakthrough in the area looking like a flower, aka troop movements pouring out in every direction from Popasna.
You made the best ad for Ground news out of all the youtubers I watched. The 2nd best is Perun's natural speech style ad for Ground news, but your direct "Ground news helps with X regarding the video because Y and Z" Good job.
It's still hard for me to understand what exactly happened in Soledar. According to some guys from the 93rd Brigade of UAF, they were feeling pretty confident and were very successful in their defence of Siledar, but after the rotation and being replaced with the 46th Airmobile Brigade, things started going downhill. At first I believed that this was just a coincidence explained by other factors, but later one of the 46th Airmobile Brigade commanders was complaining about being given soldiers with very weak training which makes me believe that the replacement of the 93rd for the 46th might have been more significant in the Soledar troubles.
It's because VDV paratroopers made a dash towards the city from Yakolivka, destroyed parts of their artillery, and paved the way for Wagner to take the city.
46th has essentially been rebuilt. poorly. 93rd was still relatively untouched. I dont think they will be since they seem to be getting grinded down in bakhmt
The idea here was probably to save combat proven 93rd relatively untouched, so they could jump elsewhere if needed to be the firefighters or to save them for the coming counteroffensive. The 46th was just a filler considered enough to hold out in soledar, but battlefield verified those assumptions
A lot depends on whether an assault is underway, or you are under disturbing artillery fire and reconnaissance combat. It depends on what forces the assault is carried out. They could well believe that they had been stormed all this time. And that they were holding up well. They were shelled, they tried to knock them out of distant defense nodes. But their trouble was that it wasn't really an attack. It was preparation for the assault. Their fortifications and artillery positions were identified. When the assault began, the density of artillery fire increased significantly. Aviation joined the case. And their positions were already known by that time.
Like your work very much and the fact that you admit there might be many errors in your research makes your work even that more remarkable! Carry on with it 🙂
Hey Eastory, As for me watching your content since the beginning knowing that you should refer to the Ukrainian Offensives as Offensives not Counter Offensives. A counter-offensive is when the defending side immediately launches an attack on the attacking units.
the offensive word has a negative connotation (being the aggressor) while counteroffensive has a positive connotation (responding to the aggression of the other side) that is why this language is used
@@APMI-OFICIALA counter-offensive is a large-scale military offensive undertaken by a force previously on the defensive. To prove my Point this is a source from a dictionary I have in my house.
I'm impressed that you managed to cover the entire year of fighting without the tactics and explanations either getting too overly convoluted or complex, or dumbing things down too much for a general audience. This is a trap which many other TH-camrs and analysts have unfortunately fallen into, however this video was an exception to that! This felt just right with how it covered the conflict in the East. Great video!
This video has one of the best ads I have ever seen for ground news. Been seeing these ads for a few months now but this is the one that convinced me to get it
Extremely interesting. I’m in the loop of certain events, such as the Russian progress in the Bakhmut suburbs, but to have it visualised is so much more informative.
1. Make sure the army has strong logistics. 2. Avoid fighting in urban areas and natural obstacles as much as possible. 3. Attackers must have 5:1 advantage in manpower, keeping in view both have same level of technologies.
Around 20 division around Stalingrad, retreat to a defensible river position will give the German an advantage over the Russia and maybe counterattack later on down the line
No they will help probably figth to retreat them get send to stop the colaps of the centre-group wich would make them have more time to use Romanian oil and longer and more strengt to contain D-Day not stop it.
You should add a scale to the side of the video, it's hard being unfamiliar with specific terrain to understand the size of areas in the video. Love your vids :)
Thank you for your concise and informative video. This has really helped put the conflict in perspective and explains why certain things happened. I know that while the facts may not be fully known, you have done your best to give us as accurate and unbiased summary as humanly possible and I sincerely appreciate that. So thank you again for an amazing video and I can’t wait for your next one. :)
That advertisement wasn't necessary, but it was GENIUS. Thanks for explaining clearly what happens in Ukraine strategically, it's really hard to find documentation on this war because of the bias, we never know which town really got taken, and maps do not really show why or how cities are taken.
About retreat from Hirske-Zolote - i do not have sources at hand, but it was actually partially encircled when retreat began, and many Ukranian units had to retreat through the gaps in Russian encircling units (solid front wasn't yet established). This was often done by small groups of infantry. And quite a lot got captured. So, Ukrainians lost many men and many of their withdrawn units were fragmented and in chaos.
The info that quite a lot got captured was mostly from russian sources, and wasn't backed up by photos of ukrainian captured (it is pretty safe to assume that russians would brag about such captures with photos of groups that they captured). It is true that the reatreat was done by small groups of troops, but there are no evidence that there were many captures. Additionaly there was hypothesis that a major part of ukrainian troops retreated before partrial encirclement, and only rearguard remained to retreat after partial enciclement.
Most men actually were able to escape but they couldn't take their heavy equipment with them. Quite a lot of vehicles were lost in the chaotic retreat and the units were so disorganized that they couldn't establish a coherent defense of the refinery which was one of the best defensive positions in the area
@@theepashmani6474 Yeah, precisely. It could definitely be that the Ukrainians could withdraw, but could not organize the units from Zolote-Hirske in time, so they had to draw on units from Lysychansk and the area west of it. They managed to succeed in this endeavor however, and the Russian advance was stopped long enough that they could evacuate Lysychansk-Sievierodonetsk. That's what I think
Thanks for the explanation. War in Ukraine is a very popular and discussing topic today. Let's have more content about war in Ukraine! More and more! We want to have a Kherson campaign too!
1:20 The ukrainians mobilized 800k soldiers, so even if initially the russians were winning with their 200k against the ukrainian 200k, they eventually started losing griund as reservists entered the war 12:20 As russians didnt mobilize yet, and ukrainians did, the defense became increasingly solid while attack was increasingly weaker, so advances became increasingly slower Great video overall, much more objective that most
@@igorfoxly2555 This is untrue. Russia has sustained more casualties, as most sources agree. It is generally impossible for the defender to have more casualties if the attacker has no serious advantages.
@@igorfoxly2555Both have heavy losses only ukraine is the one being invaded so the war support is much higher and they also have the backing of pretty much every western country.
@@booperdooperproductions2545 no, in modern warfare the one who have superior firepower got less cassualty. Just look at Iraq, they are at defense and now compared their cassualty with coalition army.
At the beginning of the war, the Russian army had the same number of men as the Ukrainian army. The information on losses is contradictory, even in the Western media, but the author adheres to the version that Russia has more losses than Ukraine only because the Russians are attacking, but forgets that the Ukrainians are also attacking in many parts of the front. The Ukrainians were able to mount a successful counter-offensive because they had an overwhelming numerical advantage when they started, thanks to forced mobilisation. And of course not a word about the losses incurred in the process. And the weaknesses in the Russian defence were not because of losses, but because from the beginning the Russian command did not calculate the forces. 200,000 men were too few to hold such a long front line. And the credibility rating of the media, which is loyal to the White House on all key issues, says nothing.
"Russia has more losses than Ukraine only because the Russians are attacking" and also because this is directly derived from the equipment losses and russians' constant seething about it.
I am from the north-east of Ukraine, I saw and could talk with Russian troops for example at checkpoints, many of them were 18-20 years old (They were going from Sumy to Kyiv). Basically, they were recruit soldiers, they were very afraid of this,they not ready for this,very hungry etc because they thought it will last in 3-5 days, and if they didn’t lie, they didn’t know where they were going, the leadership took away their phones, many of them died due to their inexperience.
Nice video, just what we needed... Also Thank god Eastory is fluent enough to pronounce those Russian style city names ... I can't even dare to try pronounce them
From the very start you got your info wrong. Russians were outnumbered 3 to 1 for an entire year. Only recent months it became something like 1,3 to 1 still in favor of Ukraine. Only in number of equipment Russian have more numbers, but as you said the defensive advantage gives Ukraine the edge again. It's not only defensive advantage but 8 years of building bunkers, tunnels, underground fortresses, etc...
Overall they are outnumbered but they aren't necessarily outnumbered on the front. Ukraine has to station troops everywhere to defend multiple locations across the country while Russia can stick all their troops on the front
@@eliasziad7864 if you’r in defense Usually it does . When you’re in building you’r less visible and you see terain than people who don’t . Yes it depends but on average it does .
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Man I was chewing my fingernails for this one! THANK YOU EA
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0:29 you have my biggest respect for including the "I'm just a youtuber" part, I've seen it way too often that certain youtubers present a topic as if they did all the research and when it's pointed out in the comments that they're wrong (even with sources included) they either ignore it or get angry at the comment.
"What do you mean parroting Deutsche Welle does not make me a journalist"
Dumb comment. There are plenty of quality channels that do actual research like Covert Cabal and Perun. Lazer pig has actual sources he uses for his videos. Not everyone regurgitates news sites.
As a wise man once said
"I'm only human after all"
‘All the research’ they talk as if they were god watching from the clouds and reading everyone’s mind
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A current conflict analyzed by Eastory. Can't think of anything better.
This conflict no longer being current would be better.
What about no conflict at all?
@@Lord_Lambertas a Ukrainian I second this 😢
I can: there being no current conflicts for Eastory to analyse.
@@nikolaylysenko8837 Slava Ukraini
Such a great video. Not biased and well put.
You should also do a video on Yugoslavia in WW2. Generally a short invasion to cover as the main gains had taken place in the first 3 days.
he did that in his ww2 mediteranian war 1940-1941
@@ckhpersonal670 Just checked, I missed that part. Thanks
Belgrade in 3 days
The invasion was short, but then there were the Partisans
you mean when the Germans took Yugoslavia, the Yugoslavian rersistance or when they helped Russia win the war 1944-1945.
An incredibly well detailed and well thought out analysis video. I especially appreciate that you admit that details are fuzzy and that some assumptions may be wrong, not enough people on the internet have that level of honesty and integrity. Kudos to you!
Best war map I have seen so far on this conflict. Thank you!
Jomini the west
Well, looks like you haven't seen much.
Weebunion and Defense politics asia, best maps out of everyone
This is an outstanding video. The front lines in Ukraine always seemed somewhat arbitrary. Your use of terrain height + urban areas makes it way more understandable why the lines are where they are. Couple that with your usual excellent map animation, and this is one of best videos on this topic. This is one of my favorite channels. Keep up the great work!
Unironically this video helped me understand basic military strategy on the local level. Amazing
Logistics, logistics and high ground. Yes you passed modern tactics 101
@@Dayvit78 Logistics are generally above the tactical level. More like operations and strategy 101
Terrain is definitely a tactical concern tho.
@@Dayvit78 "logistics high ground tactics"
These words mostly do not mean what you seem to think they mean.
I love that this is unbiased. You are definitely one of the most dedicated channels on TH-cam.
It seems to you that the video is not biased because you often see much more biased videos. As for this video, watching it from Russia, I see that it is still biased. "The truth is the first thing that dies in war" is a very fair statement.
@@johnny_t. what parts of it? I sincerely want to know. Btw I look at Pro Russian Sources as well as Pro Ukrainian ones. I saw no problems as far as I know.
Just want to have a debate
@@HH-pm6mj +1 to that. Its not like K&G which takes every second moment to remind people that the Russians are bad guys and its not like Douglas Macgregor who was claiming tha the entire Ukrainian army had died in April 2022.
I find that there is so much "The Russians will collapse in a month" and "Ukraine will fall apart any day now" that's been going on for over a year that both sides think the phrase "this war will take a long time" is somehow a bias statement.
Whatever I write to you, it will cause controversy among other people. And I don't want to argue with anyone. I believe that finding out who is more right and who is less only supports this conflict. It seems to me that it is better to focus on the reasons why it needs to be completed. Even if I agreed, any of my comments on this video would not be short. The analysis of some phrases that the author of the video uttered in 20 seconds will turn into very long texts if you give explanations that are obvious in Russia, but not obvious in other countries. Let's limit ourselves to 14:35, the Russian army had no problems with conscription of men. Men were simply not called up. Those who really wanted to go themselves had such an opportunity by signing a contract for 6 months. By the way, are you familiar with the video at 14:40? The author for some reason did not show the ending. Of course, I may be wrong, but in it, by chance, the Ukrainian military does not shoot at a surrendered Russian lying on the ground? And before that, would they by any chance pick up a rifle lying next to this surrendered Russian?
@@johnny_t. If you're not willing to defend your point then why talk at all? Just shut up and sit in a corner, don't couch your arguments with "I don't wana elaborate because you'll be mad at me" right after disagreeing with someone.
14:35 Eastory says they had an ENLISTMENT issue not a conscription issue, IDK if you're ESL but those are very different things. He says later in the video that Russian mobilization/conscription allowed them to refill their frontline and solve their numerical issues.
14:40 is a video of a bunch of dudes sitting around with RPG rockets. I am not familiar with the entire video but you would have to have serious brain rot to think that Eastory is going to show an execution on his monetized youtube channel.
Suggestions: It would be nice to have a little bar scale at the bottom or some other solution for a sense of scale. During transitions like 15:13, it would be nice to have a smaller, secondary screen or a little box or such showing what part of larger scale Ukraine we are viewing. Great video!
Too true, I was having the same issue.
I've been your fan since your video 1941.
Your channel is amazing.
1941? ive been his fan since 1939!
@@ckhpersonal670 nice
I’ve been his air conditioner since 1985
12:32 You’re the first channel that integrates an ad in a non-intrusive and actually useful way 💯
Fabulous work here. Likely as close to the truth as we will get right now.
Fascinating stuff. It's great seeing so much content on current conflict given its relevance
That is your best video. The combination of daily info from Balkan Mapping and your few Ukrainian videos per year is the best source of informations.
Just opened TH-cam and saw this and this fricking made my day, I love these videos especially on modern wars
I really like how the videos are progressively getting more professional in editing. Been here since quite a while ago, I'm happy for all your improvements.
Awesome video! A bit strange decision to use the lightly colored gradient to indicate higher height, as most elevation maps we see do the opposite and concentrate the color on mountains and peeks. At least for me it was bugging my brain to stop visualizing the terrain backwards. But anyways, again big ups for creating this video, don't stop doing what you're doing \m/
True! I read the map wrong and should have returned the video 10 seconds
I liked it. The higher you go the lighter it gets. Sorta like real life. But yeah, I know it runs reverse to what we're accustomed to.
You provide better information than the mass media. Thanks
Incredible - very well explained and engaging. Shame it ends on a cliffhanger!
The unbiased narration is what I like most about this Channel.
This video is super interesting and educational! I especially like that you choose to highlight the higher ground and the urban areas.
Love this coverage of the war. It’s been difficult to get a good perspective on the bigger picture, and this helped that. Appreciate the content and effort behind it.
Love the geographic and logistical emphasis of the video
Thank you for this overall summary of how the Russo-Ukrainian War has gone, so far. Keep up the good work!
This isn’t a war, this is special operation, if russian start war, noone will survive, they have not begin yet to fight seriously
@@mappingtheshit Выздоравливай
@@mappingtheshit of course, no one will survive (specifically talking about the russian army)
Great content, as always!
I love unbiased videos. Nowadays, you can not find unbiased videos about war. Everybody became emotional.. Thank you
It's so daft people becoming emotional over indefensible wars and war crimes.
@@dentoncrimescene Its crazy that we live in a time where we have first hand sources recorded on phones and sent all over the internet of Russian war crimes and sheer blatant provocation and get some still refuse to look at any of it and stick their head in the sand.
@Bampa I saw many more war crimes against the civilians of Donbas from the Ukrainian side than Russians. Let's speak the truth here.
Lol
@Bampa You clearly forgot about Syria, Yemen, Libya, which have hundreds of thousands of hours and combat footage of Merican war crimss.
I love this channel, good work man. wonderful.
Great analysis. The most detailed and unbiased narrative of the war I've seen yet.
I already monitored the frontlines of the war almost daily, And it's interesting to watch this as a summary and try to remember what I was thinking and what I was curious about at the time.
I found it very weird how little coverage was dedicated to Popasna when the battle was raging in the town. Early summer it seemed like Ukrainians planned defense of Donbas anchored on Donets river and 2014 contact line fortifications. All future Russian advances near Lysychansk and later Bakhmut stem from the breakthorugh at Popasna, but very little coverage is available of what exactly happend there.
Thats because ukrainain media doesnt share ukrianian defeats. for obvious reasons, to keep morale higher and avoid doomers
From what I've gathered, so much arty that the Ukrainian lines just dissappeared. In a few interviews with separate guys defending Bakhmut, they all mention that the shelling is less than what got dropped on Popasna. From a casualty perspective, likely fairly light on kia but many many wia. Shell shock is a very real thing
Nothing extraordinary happened there. It's just that, with increasing pressure, there comes a moment when some point does not stand up. There would be no Popasna, there would be a breakthrough in another place. The breakthrough was not unexpected, it was expected. Only the breakthrough point was unknown. And when Popasnaya defense only faltered, the pressure on her immediately increased. The units that were ready for a breakthrough came up to her. And that's when the assault began. Artillery, bomb and missile strikes. All this has increased significantly. And the forces of the assault turned out to be enough to expand and deepen the breakthrough so much that the APU could not do anything about it.
@@Franfran2424 Друг бои за попасную шли 3 месяца там бойцы держались как могли. Старые политиканы и ЛГБТ идиоты с запад тянули с помощью когда она была так нужна из этого вытек снарядный голод
I don't know if its a "widely used" nickname or not, but I've heard the breakthrough does have significance to those that follow the war day by day. I believe some call it the "Popasna Flower" due to the resulting action after the breakthrough in the area looking like a flower, aka troop movements pouring out in every direction from Popasna.
Damn, that was a amazing. I haven't been following the details of the fighting and this vid has given a perfect overview. Thank you!
I love how unbiased this is, thanks so much for this amazing video!
Thank you for not being biased as the other youtubers
"Just a TH-camr". You're a living legend mate.
Good job. You’re putting together the 2nd draft of history. As time goes on we’ll learn more and more. Thank you for the contribution.
Great job pronouncing the names of the various towns and villages. Yet another example of your effort to convey accuracy.
You made the best ad for Ground news out of all the youtubers I watched. The 2nd best is Perun's natural speech style ad for Ground news, but your direct "Ground news helps with X regarding the video because Y and Z" Good job.
Great video as always! It's still a bit weird seeing the number 2022 / 2023 in the corner
It really is!
That was the most effective use of a sponsor that I've ever seen. Well done Sir.
The Blyatkrieg = you advance 25km in 4 months, then lose 100x more on the flanks in 2 weeks.
Bachmut was taken using only shovels and Ukraine won the counteroffensive and took Crimea?
The only time line of the way battle ground I have really understood,thanks
"The Donbas Industrial Area". I didn't really get just how urbanized this area was. The amount cities and towns present in this area is staggering.
more than 90% of the urban population, but mostly these are sovov slums, in which it is inconvenient to live
Ukraine has been using artillery against it for almost a decade
Best explanation of the conflict I've found so far
would love to see this style but with the siege of Mariupol
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I think the only problem is the details are very fuzzy surrounding it. There’s not many who can really say what happened.
Man this was really excellent. Thank you for that.
It's still hard for me to understand what exactly happened in Soledar. According to some guys from the 93rd Brigade of UAF, they were feeling pretty confident and were very successful in their defence of Siledar, but after the rotation and being replaced with the 46th Airmobile Brigade, things started going downhill. At first I believed that this was just a coincidence explained by other factors, but later one of the 46th Airmobile Brigade commanders was complaining about being given soldiers with very weak training which makes me believe that the replacement of the 93rd for the 46th might have been more significant in the Soledar troubles.
It's because VDV paratroopers made a dash towards the city from Yakolivka, destroyed parts of their artillery, and paved the way for Wagner to take the city.
46th has essentially been rebuilt. poorly.
93rd was still relatively untouched. I dont think they will be since they seem to be getting grinded down in bakhmt
The idea here was probably to save combat proven 93rd relatively untouched, so they could jump elsewhere if needed to be the firefighters or to save them for the coming counteroffensive. The 46th was just a filler considered enough to hold out in soledar, but battlefield verified those assumptions
Probably the fall of Yakovlivka strategic position.
A lot depends on whether an assault is underway, or you are under disturbing artillery fire and reconnaissance combat. It depends on what forces the assault is carried out. They could well believe that they had been stormed all this time. And that they were holding up well. They were shelled, they tried to knock them out of distant defense nodes. But their trouble was that it wasn't really an attack. It was preparation for the assault. Their fortifications and artillery positions were identified. When the assault began, the density of artillery fire increased significantly. Aviation joined the case. And their positions were already known by that time.
Like your work very much and the fact that you admit there might be many errors in your research makes your work even that more remarkable! Carry on with it 🙂
many thanks for this visualisation
Hey Eastory, As for me watching your content since the beginning knowing that you should refer to the Ukrainian Offensives as Offensives not Counter Offensives. A counter-offensive is when the defending side immediately launches an attack on the attacking units.
Actually, this is a good point. But since everyone refer to it as "counteroffensive", then I used this word in the video.
the offensive word has a negative connotation (being the aggressor) while counteroffensive has a positive connotation (responding to the aggression of the other side) that is why this language is used
@@APMI-OFICIALA counter-offensive is a large-scale military offensive undertaken by a force previously on the defensive. To prove my Point this is a source from a dictionary I have in my house.
Контрнаступление это наступление на наступающего противника,а не на обороняющегося.
This is very well made and gives a far better overview than any news channel, very based.
I'm impressed that you managed to cover the entire year of fighting without the tactics and explanations either getting too overly convoluted or complex, or dumbing things down too much for a general audience. This is a trap which many other TH-camrs and analysts have unfortunately fallen into, however this video was an exception to that! This felt just right with how it covered the conflict in the East. Great video!
This video has one of the best ads I have ever seen for ground news. Been seeing these ads for a few months now but this is the one that convinced me to get it
Extremely interesting. I’m in the loop of certain events, such as the Russian progress in the Bakhmut suburbs, but to have it visualised is so much more informative.
bahmut doesn't really matter. it's just farming)
@@xDeiMx no you’re right it doesn’t, and Ukraine will probably withdraw from it very soon.
@@willlongley1657 the most interesting will be in Melitopol
I am from Russia, if you are interested in something, I can tell you)
Always making fantastic videos my friend.
Very informative, thank you!
This is exactly what I needed!
1. Make sure the army has strong logistics.
2. Avoid fighting in urban areas and natural obstacles as much as possible.
3. Attackers must have 5:1 advantage in manpower, keeping in view both have same level of technologies.
East key is quickly becoming my favorite youtuber for a variety of reasons! Keep up the great work
Such a great summary! Really looking forward to a potential follow-up
This channel is literally the best thing to come out of the Baltics, ever.
imagine how many lives would be saved if such tactical retreats were done in ww2
Around 20 division around Stalingrad, retreat to a defensible river position will give the German an advantage over the Russia and maybe counterattack later on down the line
No they will help probably figth to retreat them get send to stop the colaps of the centre-group wich would make them have more time to use Romanian oil and longer and more strengt to contain D-Day not stop it.
I have been eagerly awaiting this video!! Thank you very much
Four months after the fall of Bakhmut(if it ever happens), we would still be talking about the Battle for Chasiv Yar.
You should add a scale to the side of the video, it's hard being unfamiliar with specific terrain to understand the size of areas in the video. Love your vids :)
Thank you for your concise and informative video. This has really helped put the conflict in perspective and explains why certain things happened. I know that while the facts may not be fully known, you have done your best to give us as accurate and unbiased summary as humanly possible and I sincerely appreciate that. So thank you again for an amazing video and I can’t wait for your next one. :)
That advertisement wasn't necessary, but it was GENIUS.
Thanks for explaining clearly what happens in Ukraine strategically, it's really hard to find documentation on this war because of the bias, we never know which town really got taken, and maps do not really show why or how cities are taken.
its very nice to see the most talented estonian to upload videos
This was the best TH-cam ad I've ever seen. Except for NordMan.
Excellent presentation & easy to understand. Thanks a Lot!👍🏻
I cannot commend you enough for the professionalism that went into this video. Well done!
Very informative video. Truly unbiased. 👍
This was amazing perspective, thanks for your work.
About retreat from Hirske-Zolote - i do not have sources at hand, but it was actually partially encircled when retreat began, and many Ukranian units had to retreat through the gaps in Russian encircling units (solid front wasn't yet established). This was often done by small groups of infantry. And quite a lot got captured. So, Ukrainians lost many men and many of their withdrawn units were fragmented and in chaos.
The info that quite a lot got captured was mostly from russian sources, and wasn't backed up by photos of ukrainian captured (it is pretty safe to assume that russians would brag about such captures with photos of groups that they captured).
It is true that the reatreat was done by small groups of troops, but there are no evidence that there were many captures.
Additionaly there was hypothesis that a major part of ukrainian troops retreated before partrial encirclement, and only rearguard remained to retreat after partial enciclement.
@@jerzyjj4 i also heard the rearguard story the most, i heard maybe 50 or so rearguard troops were captured but i could be wrong
Most men actually were able to escape but they couldn't take their heavy equipment with them. Quite a lot of vehicles were lost in the chaotic retreat and the units were so disorganized that they couldn't establish a coherent defense of the refinery which was one of the best defensive positions in the area
@@jerzyjj4 but it coinsides with sudden collapse of lysichansk oil refinery.
The retreat was definately not good and it did cause chaos.
@@theepashmani6474 Yeah, precisely. It could definitely be that the Ukrainians could withdraw, but could not organize the units from Zolote-Hirske in time, so they had to draw on units from Lysychansk and the area west of it. They managed to succeed in this endeavor however, and the Russian advance was stopped long enough that they could evacuate Lysychansk-Sievierodonetsk.
That's what I think
Two minutes in im hooked 😲 very informative video 😁 #subscribed
As a hoi4 player, this does way more sense to me compared to the news
Who else's day is made when Eastory uploads A video
No ammo shortige , shovels doin great job.
Russian Final Boss of Bachmut:
m.th-cam.com/video/LxxXw83ifaU/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUPU2hvdmVsIHRocm93aW5n
Ok, I'll admit. That was a really smooth transition to your sponsor.
Edit: wording.
Still remember stories from horrible fightings in Bakhmut and Soledar from my father's best friend. He died in January, defending Soledar
Wonderful! Exactly what I was waiting for 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for the explanation. War in Ukraine is a very popular and discussing topic today. Let's have more content about war in Ukraine! More and more! We want to have a Kherson campaign too!
Russia won
@@Никитаартемьев-э6и Do not deceive yourself, please
Thank you so much for your video and your work.
You failed to mention that Ukraine actually had some of its forces encircled and captured at Hirske-Zolote, at least 500 of them.
He said something went wrong with the withdrawal.
I was hoping you'd make a video recently, thank you!
1:20 The ukrainians mobilized 800k soldiers, so even if initially the russians were winning with their 200k against the ukrainian 200k, they eventually started losing griund as reservists entered the war
12:20 As russians didnt mobilize yet, and ukrainians did, the defense became increasingly solid while attack was increasingly weaker, so advances became increasingly slower
Great video overall, much more objective that most
Exactly! Ukraine have heavy loses in comparison to Russia. It was not mentioned at all
@@igorfoxly2555 This is untrue. Russia has sustained more casualties, as most sources agree. It is generally impossible for the defender to have more casualties if the attacker has no serious advantages.
800k was said about all people in national guard, army, police and security groups, more then half even not on front
@@igorfoxly2555Both have heavy losses only ukraine is the one being invaded so the war support is much higher and they also have the backing of pretty much every western country.
@@booperdooperproductions2545 no, in modern warfare the one who have superior firepower got less cassualty.
Just look at Iraq, they are at defense and now compared their cassualty with coalition army.
Thanks!
Russia isn’t in an ammunition shortage, it’s supply like railroads were destroyed and needed to be rebuilt
Thank you very much for this video
At the beginning of the war, the Russian army had the same number of men as the Ukrainian army. The information on losses is contradictory, even in the Western media, but the author adheres to the version that Russia has more losses than Ukraine only because the Russians are attacking, but forgets that the Ukrainians are also attacking in many parts of the front. The Ukrainians were able to mount a successful counter-offensive because they had an overwhelming numerical advantage when they started, thanks to forced mobilisation. And of course not a word about the losses incurred in the process. And the weaknesses in the Russian defence were not because of losses, but because from the beginning the Russian command did not calculate the forces. 200,000 men were too few to hold such a long front line. And the credibility rating of the media, which is loyal to the White House on all key issues, says nothing.
"Russia has more losses than Ukraine only because the Russians are attacking" and also because this is directly derived from the equipment losses and russians' constant seething about it.
outstanding video. eagerly await more like this
a lot better than kings and generals and not as biased actually
Very few sources do i trust on this war. Eastory is one such trusted source
Do you trust oversimplified?
I am from the north-east of Ukraine, I saw and could talk with Russian troops for example at checkpoints, many of them were 18-20 years old (They were going from Sumy to Kyiv). Basically, they were recruit soldiers, they were very afraid of this,they not ready for this,very hungry etc because they thought it will last in 3-5 days, and if they didn’t lie, they didn’t know where they were going, the leadership took away their phones, many of them died due to their inexperience.
dude at least try to make it believable
@@tipvs Good luck to shot troops directly and not get killed after this) XD
@@tipvsTheres videos of exactly that which the whole world saw about a year ago. What are you doubting here? Reality?
Love your content.
Nice video, just what we needed...
Also
Thank god Eastory is fluent enough to pronounce those Russian style city names ... I can't even dare to try pronounce them
i liked the usual frontline style like how the red line moves across the blank terrain map, but still a good video
From the very start you got your info wrong. Russians were outnumbered 3 to 1 for an entire year. Only recent months it became something like 1,3 to 1 still in favor of Ukraine. Only in number of equipment Russian have more numbers, but as you said the defensive advantage gives Ukraine the edge again. It's not only defensive advantage but 8 years of building bunkers, tunnels, underground fortresses, etc...
Overall they are outnumbered but they aren't necessarily outnumbered on the front. Ukraine has to station troops everywhere to defend multiple locations across the country while Russia can stick all their troops on the front
@@a.t6066 Then that means Ukraine doesn't have to station troops all around if there are no enemy troops in that location.
@@eliasziad7864 🤦♂️
@@eliasziad7864 are you a child or are you from NCD...?
@@a.t6066 A child.
Amazing, Thank you!
being on the defensive dosent mean that you will take less casualties
Usually it does.
@muffinskake Absolute does not, people who say that have little understanding of how war works.
@@stc3145 Not true. Casualties depend on firepower And equipment.
@@eliasziad7864 if you’r in defense Usually it does . When you’re in building you’r less visible and you see terain than people who don’t .
Yes it depends but on average it does .
When your enemy makes meaty attacks on fortified structures, as was the case in Bakhmut, then, of course, the attacker will lose more.