Thank you very much dear friend for this one as well for all the other updates on the Ukrainian war. Excellent work!! Very much appreciated. All the best for you and your channel in the coming year!
ISW stated quite authoritatively that Kurakhove lost its strategic significance tonight and the same fate awaits Pokrovsk, Dnipro, Odessa, Kiev and Lviv.
In a way it makes sense, once the lines move beyond the place then that place stop having any significance for the new strategic situation, the problem is still how much the retreating side has to support its new situation, trained manpower, equipment, munitions.
@@cesargonzalez4146 No, it doesn't "stop" having strategic value, it's just that it's strategic value is now FOR THE "ENEMY". Like a logistics hub and highway roads, they don't stop having strategic value just because your enemy has captured their value. Otherwise, once you take ALL of Ukraine you could say that Ukraine has no strategic value to Ukraine, it makes zero sense. Would Ukraine wish it had control of that area instead of it's enemy? Would it be willing to pay some amount of money or lives to retake it if it believed it could do so? If the answer is "yes", then it still has strategic value. And believe me, Ukraine would spend $50 million and 100 lives if it thought that would retake Kurakhove, but would it pay $5 billion and 10,000 lives it can ill afford to lose? No and thus it's not throwing it's last reserves at it (as that'd risk total collapse).
A natural border between the two would be the Dnipro river This would align with the countries democratic voter split too...if you look at previous elections
I agree with that, it seems logical. I've seen a couple of reports though that discussed it not being optimal from an economy & security perspective and that control of both banks would be needed.
Thank you Weeb. I have been following the situation of the war between Russia and Ukraine for the past two years, and I have used your professional analysis as one of my sources. Happy New Year! I look forward to more wonderful analysis from you in the new year (2025).
Odessa is a key port town. This conflict already shows that Crimean naval base can easily be attacked from that point. It is highly unlikely that Russia will leave it in Ukranian hands.
Zelensky didn't try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honor and integrity. In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas. If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy. Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements. Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time. Russia's national security was compromised once NATO began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns. 20th September, 2021: Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO. NATO is not a defensive alliance. NATO illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter). We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster? Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest. Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland. Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens-theirs will hide in the basements”. Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it. Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country. Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. 13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list. There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence). The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present. Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave. Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) R.I.P. The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims). The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter. I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion. I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written. Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified.
Zelensky is simply a puppet for the US, it was the US that essentially denied any negotiations, it was the US that pushed Ukraine into a western idealism, it was the US that pushed for these two coups, in the end the United States needed a figurehead and that figure had turned out to be zelensky. NATO should have died back when the Soviet Union fell, that didn't happen, Russia asked if they could join NATO and NATO said no, and then NATO went against its promise and passed Germany. So I agree with you. This war is not as simple as big bad Russia decided to randomly invade a country and now NATO needs to save democracy, like the whole nonsense story they are telling everyone. It's more like Russia was pit in a corner because NATO was encroaching on their borders. Just like the United States almost throwing the world into a nuclear exchange because Russia had missiles in cuba. It was too close.
It’s stunning how little advantage billions $$ worth of NATO equipment bought for Ukraine. I have a feeling we will hear a lot of stories about some people getting very rich from this, after the fighting is over
We already did, quite a few generals and individuals that work closely with zelinsky were caught buying yachts and chilling on Tropical Islands while this war was being carried out. Remember that Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the world prior to this war, when you send it over 500 billion dollars and it still continues to lose, you know a lot of that money is going into pockets. Not even just Ukrainian pockets, the military industrial complex here at the US receives a huge chunk of that money so they can fabricate weapons for them. This war is making a lot of people rich and that's the only reason why it's being pushed and supported with all this propaganda, there isn't any real way to track exactly where 500 billion dollars goes. You could almost shave off 1 billion of that and share it amongst your friends and no one will ever find out. It's disgusting, thousands getting extremely rich while hundreds of thousands are being killed.
Szczesliwego Nowego 2025 Roku. Jezeli wojna sie zakonczy to watek sie skonczy, ale lepsze to niz tysiace zabitych zolnierzy i cywili. Oby to sie skonczylo jak najszybciej.
The only thing that hurts me is that a Wikipedia page on Ukrainian incursion into Kursk will be called "Ukrainian Kursk Offensive (2024-2025)" instead of just 2024.
What military and political pressure are you thus proposing for NATO to use on Russia other than the ones that have ruined them and helped Russia to grow it's land surface, military and economy?
Anu' nou cu BUCURIE , Să faceți din sută mie , S-aveți parte de bucate , Să iubiți pe săturate !!! 🌹🤗🙏 La anu' , și La mulți ani !!! ❤💛💙 Happy New Year ! 👋
Happy New year to Weeb and all his followers.
What a gift for new years
It will only get better in Russian terms
Donetsk city is now pretty much completely free from artillery fire for the first time in 8years
Those are powerful shovels and washing machine missles.
Hypersonic ones lol 😂
You know the situation is bad for the Ukies if Weeb raises his voice...
С новым годом!
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Happy new year
happy new year everyone!
RUAF is only 2 km South from Central Point of Sudzha and 8 km East from Dnipropetrovsk Region
Tak for opdatering.
Godt Nyt Aar.
Are you posting in Basque?
@ZemanTheMighty Det er dansk, It is danish
kurakhove looked like a fucking bastion, especially with those massive fortified lines ahead, but it fell within 1 month
It WAS a fucking bastion. A fucking soviet era bastion, bro 😂
it was the main fortress of that area. south of pokrovsk and north of vuhledar
@@ayax2134As you mentioned V-Town. Lets see if things escalate again quickly like the time when V was gone
@@MaxFreibier look ahead, there are not that much heavy fortifired positions left at this part of the front...
@christian9125abd it is. good geo position + marinka + heights + ugledar and more + very good prom
Kurakhove and Terny have been 'liberated', NOT 'fallen'...
Thx for a year of reporting. Happy new year!
Happy new year. I send my prayers to all soldiers fighting tonight.
Regardless of the side.
May god protect you all.
Kurakhove has fallen, billions must cope
Only 1 billion in the west...the other 8billion are behind russia
It has not fallen, it is liberated. Happy new year!
@@makavelithedon801…and it was never important!
Thank you very much for your constant work.
Russia is not our enemy. Greetings from Australia.
B-B-But was told that Russia lost in 2024...
B-B-But was told Russia was fighting with shovels.......
@@daequation6300 and that they are relying on untrained, unmotivated conscripts.
ROFL 🤣 🎇Happy new year to you too 🎇
I thought they have lost already 2022, as they had only shovels left to fight with...
@@captaindak5119If the Russians are winning like this, then I can't even imagine how incompetent and useless the Ukrainian army is alongside NATO.
Thank you very much dear friend for this one as well for all the other updates on the Ukrainian war. Excellent work!! Very much appreciated. All the best for you and your channel in the coming year!
Best wishes for 2025 Weeb and thanks for your reliable reporting!
The proxy war in Ukraine is the first time NATO has tried to pick on someone their own size and NATO is getting humiliated.
They tried that in Georgia before in smaller scale.
that was a proxy war? not sure shipping out a handful of 40 year old cold war surplus is what thats supposed to be.
How? It’s 2 years and Ukraine is still around
@@thanksmaybe4103 Ukraine is around where
Happy New Year, I look forward to your continued coverage well into 2025!
Happy New Years, Weeb 🎉
"When two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one." - Nelson Mandela
Yes! Because the CIA was paying bribes to top Ukranian officials for 25 years before Russia finally had enough and put a stop to it.
I have another one. When you see two fish arguing at the bottom of the ocean, knew that the English passed there before.
@@filipkirovski5823 both are right
Thank you for this update on New Year's Eve!
Appreciation for your high-quality work, Weeb. Happy New Year to you.
Thanks Weeb 🙏. Happy new year 🎊
Thank you Weeb.. happy new year!.
Happy new year to Weeb Union and everyone in the comments, God bless you all, greetings from Serbia! ❤️
Happy new year 🎉
Dude! your russia is on fire... no really!
ISW stated quite authoritatively that Kurakhove lost its strategic significance tonight and the same fate awaits Pokrovsk, Dnipro, Odessa, Kiev and Lviv.
In a way it makes sense, once the lines move beyond the place then that place stop having any significance for the new strategic situation, the problem is still how much the retreating side has to support its new situation, trained manpower, equipment, munitions.
@@cesargonzalez4146 No, it doesn't "stop" having strategic value, it's just that it's strategic value is now FOR THE "ENEMY". Like a logistics hub and highway roads, they don't stop having strategic value just because your enemy has captured their value. Otherwise, once you take ALL of Ukraine you could say that Ukraine has no strategic value to Ukraine, it makes zero sense. Would Ukraine wish it had control of that area instead of it's enemy? Would it be willing to pay some amount of money or lives to retake it if it believed it could do so? If the answer is "yes", then it still has strategic value. And believe me, Ukraine would spend $50 million and 100 lives if it thought that would retake Kurakhove, but would it pay $5 billion and 10,000 lives it can ill afford to lose? No and thus it's not throwing it's last reserves at it (as that'd risk total collapse).
@cesargonzalez4146 if you reread what you just said, would you be able to understand how silly your statement is?
Its hard for something to have strategic value when you're not employing any strategy
Yes maybe over 100 years 😂😂😂
America out of Ukraine now
😂
A natural border between the two would be the Dnipro river
This would align with the countries democratic voter split too...if you look at previous elections
I agree with that, it seems logical. I've seen a couple of reports though that discussed it not being optimal from an economy & security perspective and that control of both banks would be needed.
Thank you Weeb. I have been following the situation of the war between Russia and Ukraine for the past two years, and I have used your professional analysis as one of my sources. Happy New Year! I look forward to more wonderful analysis from you in the new year (2025).
Happy New Year Mr Weeb.
Happy new year WEEB!🎉
Happy Healthy New Year to Weebie and all the followers 🎉🎉🎉😊
Steiner is still planning his counter
Epic 😄
Thanks again pal...for what you do. Happy New Year.
Kurakhove has fallen, billions must build a new defensive line
Thanks for a well-informed series of updates. Best New Year wishes.
Thanks for all the reporting in 2024. Best wishes for 2025!
Odessa is a key port town. This conflict already shows that Crimean naval base can easily be attacked from that point. It is highly unlikely that Russia will leave it in Ukranian hands.
The trouble is Putin loves Odesssa. It’s a very beautiful city. I really don’t think he wants to destroy it.
@@paulveenings6861 he could pressure ukraine
Surrounded.
And independence.
After local elections.
Happy New Year!
Thankyou Weeb, Happy New year to you and to everyone who watches your update daily 😊
I can't believe washing machine chips made this possible
Also, happy new year!
Kinda makes one disappointed with their own washing machine......what a waste of potential lol
Don’t forget the shovels as well
Zelensky didn't try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honor and integrity.
In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas.
If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy.
Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements.
Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time.
Russia's national security was compromised once NATO began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns.
20th September, 2021: Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO.
NATO is not a defensive alliance. NATO illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter).
We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.
Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster?
Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest.
Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland.
Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed.
Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens-theirs will hide in the basements”.
Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it.
Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country.
Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. 13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list.
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list.
There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence).
The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present.
Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave.
Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) R.I.P.
The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims).
The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter.
I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion.
I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written.
Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified.
Zelensky is simply a puppet for the US, it was the US that essentially denied any negotiations, it was the US that pushed Ukraine into a western idealism, it was the US that pushed for these two coups, in the end the United States needed a figurehead and that figure had turned out to be zelensky.
NATO should have died back when the Soviet Union fell, that didn't happen, Russia asked if they could join NATO and NATO said no, and then NATO went against its promise and passed Germany. So I agree with you. This war is not as simple as big bad Russia decided to randomly invade a country and now NATO needs to save democracy, like the whole nonsense story they are telling everyone. It's more like Russia was pit in a corner because NATO was encroaching on their borders. Just like the United States almost throwing the world into a nuclear exchange because Russia had missiles in cuba. It was too close.
С наступающим Новым Годом, друзья!🍾🥂🕛🎊
Thanks Weeb. Happy new year
Happy new year Weeb
Thanks weeb!
Happy new years!
Happy New Year to you, bro! 🤗
Good luck for the next year weeb union ! 🏆🎀🎉
Keep up the good work. Your impartial coverage of the conflict is a refresher compared to Reuters, ISW, CNN and other "producers of fog".
It’s stunning how little advantage billions $$ worth of NATO equipment bought for Ukraine. I have a feeling we will hear a lot of stories about some people getting very rich from this, after the fighting is over
We already did, quite a few generals and individuals that work closely with zelinsky were caught buying yachts and chilling on Tropical Islands while this war was being carried out. Remember that Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the world prior to this war, when you send it over 500 billion dollars and it still continues to lose, you know a lot of that money is going into pockets. Not even just Ukrainian pockets, the military industrial complex here at the US receives a huge chunk of that money so they can fabricate weapons for them. This war is making a lot of people rich and that's the only reason why it's being pushed and supported with all this propaganda, there isn't any real way to track exactly where 500 billion dollars goes. You could almost shave off 1 billion of that and share it amongst your friends and no one will ever find out. It's disgusting, thousands getting extremely rich while hundreds of thousands are being killed.
what a new year present from the Russians , i was thinking they'd do something for the new year
"Our revenge will be the laughter of our children" Bobby Sahds
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Thanks Weeb! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Weeb.
Happy new year everyone :)
Happy New Year Weeb! 🎆🎆🎆🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🎆🎆🎆
Happy New Year
Szczesliwego Nowego 2025 Roku. Jezeli wojna sie zakonczy to watek sie skonczy, ale lepsze to niz tysiace zabitych zolnierzy i cywili. Oby to sie skonczylo jak najszybciej.
Happy new year, and a great year for truth.
Happy New Year Weeb! :)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! To WU and all here.
HAappy new year!!!
Happy New Year... 🎉 🎊🎆
Thank you!
Many thanks for your brilliant coverage and analysis of events, and Happy New Year...
I really appreciate how you don't zoom so quickly in the beginning of the video anymore, giving a strategic view of the map.
@@archyology yes!!!!
Thank you for info this year
Happy new years everyone God bless
After the recapture of Kursk, do you think they will march through Sumy?
They might, though it most probably won't be all that swift.
Redoubts, bunkers, strong holds, defensive works, entrenchments, etc. Fortified positions is good but some variety might be nice.
I was not expecting such advances that day.
Happy New year 2025!!!
Happy, Happy Weeb! 2025 will be another great Weeb year
Good timing from RUAF
People want to congratulate me on New Year. I had to make them wait for Weeb Union's video to end first.
What about Odesa,Nikolayev etc?
Happy New Year to All! 🕊️
Happy New Year 🎉❤
The only thing that hurts me is that a Wikipedia page on Ukrainian incursion into Kursk will be called "Ukrainian Kursk Offensive (2024-2025)" instead of just 2024.
HNY and Thanks :)
Happy New Year all, wherever you are! 🎉🍻
Happy New Year 🎆🎊
-xx24- 2025 be mindful many are offended by the terms: “collapsed” “encircled” “captured” “surrendered” “deserted” “occupied” “losing” etc.
especially if they are working the nato-money-circuit and dialing for ₴
especially if they are working the nato-money-circuit and dialing for грн
If we could just ask the citizens to provide their opinion anonymously if they feel occupied or liberated ...
What military and political pressure are you thus proposing for NATO to use on Russia other than the ones that have ruined them and helped Russia to grow it's land surface, military and economy?
Happy new year guys🎉
B-b-b ut the BBC told us Russia is armed with shovels 😮😂😂
The media also said Russia is relying on T-34s from museums that are forcing NATO to send more modern equipment 😱😱
Anu' nou cu BUCURIE ,
Să faceți din sută mie ,
S-aveți parte de bucate ,
Să iubiți pe săturate !!!
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Happy New Year ! 👋
I thought Russians were using chips from washers, and dryers...😂
My friends, it’s Kurakhover. GGWP.
*(insert YAOO sfx)*
Happy New Year... For some more then for others.
I knew it Kurakhove will fall on new year 😂
😊🎉❤happy 2025 ! I am on hospital for 10 days already..wish all the best to all ! 😊
Get well soon!
Now take time for yourself. Stop looking things up; take a break! 🎉
What Can I spect to get as a new year gift from weeb😅!!?