Id Like to see a vid bout this: NATO and EU should Send more Their old and new ww1 interwar ww2 COLD WAR etc equipment and tech to ukraine aswell As thousands to millions of volunteers
@@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative3235 Ukraine do not want or need volunteers. They were a thing only early in war where they need help with setting defenses. Now what Ukraine need most, is ammunition.
From my general observations. Russia consistently overvalue they power, blaming NATO lizardman for every failure. Attack on north was actually not a surprise. Putin give order few months ago, exactly to size the Kharkiv until military parade. It just ended the exact same way as this entire war.
Using this logic one would think that Berlin, a city of 4.3 million people, will never fall. In reality, every army has a breaking point, and Berlin fell in two weeks ... From what we can see, RuAF numbers and strength are increasing, while AFU is on its back legs.
All this garbage about "HURR DURR 40000000000000000 PEOPLE CITY" is just propaganda meant to make it seem like the Russians have some impossible task, it's meant to calm down pro-Ukriane people. The population of the city isn't going to fight, they will all just evacuate once the Russians actually come. And the Ukrainian army within the city will only have the advantage of the Russians having to travel bigger distances to get anywhere. If Ukraine can't spare enough men to defend the city, then it doesn't matter how big it is. Just because the city is 20 times or whatever bigger than Bakhmut, doesn't mean that Ukraine has 20 times as many men in it.
Berlin is a capital city and that fight came at the climax of WW2. You're forgetting that Putin's orcs tried and failed to take Kyiv. Then ran a copium operation to pretend as if they were never trying to take Kyiv
My guess is that it's not about taking land. It's about exhausting Ukraine's military and draining as much soldiers as possible. Russia had the troops and economy to play the long game.
I actually completely agree : ) Just want to add hes squirming on camera for campaign contributions sounds like a 12 year old adult in body of 15 year old adult somehow. Not sure how else to describe him like a vampire of decency. None of those are original ideas or personal feelings instead they are those of his contributors. He was jag in air force but wasnt deployed. He was very good "friends" with John Mccain who was POW. He defended Mcaain while running for president against slander by Trump. After Mccain passed Graham became big Trump supporter and got his Chairmanship in Judiciary. Now hes just hawking everywhere. He would literally speak exactly as you typed if those were circumstances. He may regardless if bread was being buttered by them thats all it takes. Watching him in Ukraine telling them to mobilize was just so uncomfortable. He talks like hes a general.
@@ryanphelan6861 Trump did not slander this 🐛 of a man. He’s a neoconservative - a creature who admires Leon Trotsky; a Trotskyite. Get it right, brother.
The offensive may not be massive, but considering offensives near adviika and chasiv yar still on going, and Ukrainian artillery, manpower shortage, this further stretches already worn out Ukrainian army making them pull troops and equipment out of already undermanned army.
As a completely impartial person from the Texas oblast, I can say that those Ukrainians have already lost the war, and the USA isn't going to help them. And I know this because my name is John and I love baseball and apple pie. Да.
I like how the creator of the channel defends Ukraine not fortifying its borders, even though they had already spent money saying that they used it to buy wood and concrete to fortify those borders.
Kharkov is too big to capture and too big to defend too. My assumption is that should Russia decide to take the city, it should and probably will come up with some unconventional plan like they did with tunnel digging in Avdiivka.
Versus the “Ghost of Kiev”, the “Magic Missile that shoots down hypersonic missiles”, the Snake Island “Heroes” and “we don’t target civilians nor hide equipment in schools”… 🫤🙄
@@tristinjudd2595 prove that they did it. Give me the timeline and reference photos. I know the bodies all had the Russian supplied bags and people had white bands on their arms signifying they were Russian partisans so you can shove that lie wherever you choose.
I think Russia is not in a hurry. Maybe it will take more than a year, but to protect Belgorod, Karkov need to be under Russian control. Altough the first goal is in Dinbass...
@@Davids6994 it’s a war of attrition and logistics which favours Russia unless the west are stupid enough to continue supplying Ukraine but even that won’t be enough
@@Cunat121 Does it favor Russia? Remember that Russia already has to Shanghai foreigners to get troops for the war and the Russian military is forced to use motorcycles and golf carts to move its troops. That shows that things are pretty dire for Russia in attrition...
Dont let the haters and bots get to you Binkov. This video was comprehensive and devoid of bias. I remember watching your videos years ago before russia invaded Ukraine. Now as a soldier in the war, you videos are some of the few un bias sources i can turn to for an actual analysis.
what do you expect from a clown who uses a puppet on his hand. and btw for many years praised the russian army before this war happend, and told us they would just roll over europe before usa would come into the battle...face it . this channel is just trash
@@exposett246from what i recall, in his video before the start of this war he analysed it and his analisys of what would haplen was the most accurate although he too thought that Russians would have more success than they did.
@@shuathe2nd Yeah im here, hazing these military "experts" who played Red alert and battlefield1942 makes me smile :) , they somehow figured out they must create a youtube channel telling us how this war plays out... and it deserves to be laughed at.
It's a war of attrition. I think Russia is happy to wait it out and inflict steady losses until the front line will collapse in some areas. Taking Kharkiv will just mean unnecessary losses unless they see low resistance, which I highly doubt.
@@najkraemer3117 they do care this is not the soviet union in a war of anihalation today is not comparable to ww2 however russia has alot more equipment and that will win the war for them
Russia is also pressed for time though as they have a pretty limited amount of money to throw at their military industrial complex. Their military budget for 2024 alone is supposedly roughly 115bn USD, and for a country with a similar GDP to Italy, that's a lot of money. Not to mention the loss of the 300bn USD in frozen assets, which made up a pretty massive chunk of their total state savings is gone and never coming back. Also couple that with the possibility of having of Russia for the first time becoming a net importer of petroleum due to ukrainian attacks on oil refineries and the added possibility of western countries applying further sanctions to close the loopholes Russia is using to sell its crude abroad, and you're looking at some serious future issues for the Russian economy, and by extention, their war effort.
A bold choice of words, that thumbnail. "Kharkiv is safe". Certain qualifiers to that statement seem rather prominent in their absence, such as "for x amount of time." But let's hear this out... Okay, heard it out. "Not any immediate danger, [...] nor in the coming months". Sure, sounds reasonable.
keep in mind these are the fresh troops without any combat XP, that were stationed to "defend" Belgorod, with exception of those FPV Squad dudes Beavers(Bobri) that wreak havoc in Vovchansk.
@@SM-qo9gr "XP". God damn, that is some severely cursed vocabulary. But yeah, I did think Binkov spent a bit too long talking about how hard it would be for the Russians to take Kharkiv/Kharkov/whatever and very little about how hard it would be for the Ukranians to defend it. Still, at the pace even this offensive is going, "months" seem a reasonable assessment, especially given how wide a margin of error that leaves.
@@odinsrensen7460 To the fact that Russia has not said anything about taking kharkov in its current offensive I doubt it will be taken this year. Also why is "XP" cursed its shorthand for experience that is used in video games.
@@Orcram I know the short-hand, I just don't like video game lingo being used in real-world contexts. We already have a proper way of writing "experience", experience is a very different thing from the concept of XP used in video games, and "XP" isn't even a proper acronym.
I don't think the Russians have the capacity to take Kharkov this year, they likely are intending to force Ukraine to overextend it's already depleted force in the hopes of more breakthroughs like at Ocheretyne. Russia's problem is that she lacks both the quantity and quality of forces to effectively exploit such breaches in the line to make significant territorial gains. Though I suspect that may change if either Ukraine's military becomes too weak or if the Russians start handing out copies of Isserson to every officer Captain and above. Ukraine's big problem is infantry, they expended quite a lot of it in their failed counter-offensive last summer that petered out once they ran out of line infantry and have not ever been able to replace either the numbers or quality of personnel lost. Which is why the mobilization debate was so important and so controversial as many in Ukraine see being mobilized into the infantry as a one-way trip as there is still no end date for how long a mobilized person will serve and casualties have been horrendous. Russia's solution to this same problem was to throw money around until they found enough people willing to go over the top again and again, which works but has also had two important knock-on effects. The first of which is inflation, as these soldiers and their families are flushed with cash and pushing up prices and wages everywhere in Russia have had to be increased to compete with army pay which leads to the second effect which is armaments factories have found it difficult to hire enough extra workers in Russia's tight labor market as people are being drawn by the higher pay in the Army and private sector which has probably seriously impeded weapon production. This war may actually help Russian inequality long term as these higher wages are being paid primarily in rural and underdeveloped regions and essentially represent a wealth transfer from Moscow( and its corrupt oligarchs and Gazprom) to the rest of the country which means long term if Russia wins the war, takes Eastern parts of Ukraine with its industry and resources and has a cash rich population they may see long term growth and perhaps demographic recovery, particularly if they resettle ethnic Russians to depopulated eastern Ukraine as the primary factor limiting Russian family size has always been money.
Except in addditoin to the massive casualties Russia has suffered well over a millon military age Russian males hav eleft the country. Russia is now a country of old women.
@@johnmortin5603 That exodus certainly affects issues like the tight labor market and inflation and is why the Russian government has been loathe to conduct another mobilization wave in fear of triggering another exodus that would seriously damage the economy. But Russia still has men as evidenced by the 20-30,000 recruits they get every month, which the agreed figure among Western intelligence and analysts and not just propaganda. Ukraine has seen a larger number of military age males flee the country which given her smaller total population represents a far larger percentage of recruitable soldiers than those that fled Russia in September 2022 so Ukraine's manpower problem is far more acute than Russia's which is to be expected given the disparity in pre-war populations.
During WW2, didn't the Red Army surround Kharkiv and wait for the Nazis to surrender? With modern precision munitions and drones, the Russians could make things rather uncomfortable for UAF, while minimizing collateral damage; meanwhile bypassing the city and expanding the border buffer zone.
Looks over at mariupol. Yeah, uh sure buddy. Whatever you say. Ru armed forces sure are famous for not simply flattening every city they try and siege 🙄
The Red Army needed over 1.1 million soldiers and suffered between 177,000 and 255,000 casualties (depending on the source) to surround and take Kharkiv by siege during the 4th Battle of Kharkiv. In addition, in WW2 the Red Army lost about 1,800 tanks in the siege. The Russian Army today does not have the resources to surround Kharkiv whilst maintaining offensive operations elsewhere in Ukraine. Kharkiv city now covers approximately three times the area that it did in 1943 and has a number of satellite cities and villages that would need to be captured. Each of those is around twice the area of Bakhmut. Additionally, the cities and villages surrounding Kharkiv tend to have more difficult terrain than the Donbas cities with upper and lower parts separated by steep inclines which aids in their defence..
In many ways, comparing ANY current situation with the past is just plain wrong. All the variables have changed completely with fairly recent advances in technology. IMHO, we are finally seeing the End of War. War is clearly shown to be pointless slaughter that benefits the war industries; without them we don't really have enemies.
@@SunriseLAW War will never end, it can transform because of nuclear threat, maybe AI robots will fight each other with occasional casualties among humans in 2568, but there will be war still, if humanity survives that long that is.
Kharkiv is to heavily defended and would require hundreds of thousands of troops and preparation. It cant be done on a whim. This is most likely a diversion to pull Ukrainian troops away from the front lines near Donbass . Russian has been slowly making progress village by village in that area. If they are able to capture surrounding villages near Kharkiv or even if they dont they take minimal losses and at the same time stretch out the Ukrainian troops on the front. Ukraine has more to lose in this offensive and does not have the manpower to manoeuvre or outflank Russians in the same way.
in 2022 they used 4 mechanized infantry divisions plus a few independent brigades, tahts over 75,000 men. They failed to break the line which is almost at the outskirts of the city. The current attack its done so far by 2 and a half divisions. not enough to capture it
@@dv2045 Yes I don't believe they are trying to capture it. It would take a considerable amount of men and firepower which would take time to gather and manoeuvre towards the vicinity of Kharkiv and would be hard to keep a secret from the Ukrainians.
@@dv2045 Thats why they are not taking Kharkiv. They are are taking location around Kharkiv. THat way, they can attack the city with Artilery while creating a buffer zone. Not a bad strategy actualy.
@@dv2045 That's how war works whether it is Russian or not. If you are not willing to sign a peace deal which is advantageous to the enemy, he is going to make you hurt more than he would profit from getting what he wants.
Your big mistake is basing your assessment on Bakhmut. That was a Wagner operation, which did not have the full support of the Russian MoD. A more accurate comparison would be Avdiivka.
That makes no sense, Russian airborne covered their flank and Russian MoD gave Wagner a 5:1 artillery fire advantage Don’t take hot dog man’s whining at face value
On the contrary, Wagner was prioritized over others for supplies and reinforcements. They held this until the tail end of the battle when Wagner began to beef with the MoD and make them look back, leading to the downgrading of priority and, eventually, the failed coup.
because the rest of Europe isn't surrounded in minefields and in a state of war "how can a lone gunman be a threat to a school if he isn't to a police station?"
I'm so confused on some of these comments about taking Kharkov. The goal is to establish a buffer zone and unless the Russians start doing things that make it look like its more than that, then we should assume they are telling the truth. It's not like it will make a difference in whether we believe they will push farther but still why say something that most likely won't occur for a year or two.
How about we just look at the multiple treaties they put forward to determine what it is they want? You know... the thing that Zelensky is suppose to sign with a list of things that Russia wants on it. Maybe the 'I want this' list might be a good start to determining 'what I want'.
whats concerning to me is why EVERYONE is so sure that this is not an offensive to capture kharkiv. Noone knows...and even if we do not see enough troops there yet it can always change. But every media is suddenly claiming its just a buffer zone. Thats worrying to me...
I think the Ukraine supporters are underestimating Russia. They saw Russia's early poor performance and assumed that nothing about them would change. They forgot that its normal for Russia to have a terrible start, but once they are on a war footing, they pull off the W. The problem with all the equipment and training we give Ukraine is that it's completely dependent on total air superiority. Ukraine doesn't have that.
Most pro-Ukrainian supporters I've seen are too emotionally invested, they are not able to see obvious propaganda from facts on the ground. It's a whole lot of wishful thinking while if you look at cold hard facts then almost every statistics favour Russia.
I find it hard to believe that Kharkiv isn’t in a tough spot when they have Russians on three sides of the city. Even if they don’t take Kharkiv, they’re still losing territory south. If Ukraine was still holding strong, they wouldn’t be trying to pass a 500k man call up for more conscripts. More than a year in, Ukraine still hasn’t created suitable manufacturing and training facilities and are entirely dependent on western support. Well, the stockpiles are spent, and it’ll take another 3 or more years to bring western production up to a war footing.
@@Thrainite And I don't think the western production can switch to war economy without actually be in a war, since many of the factories is corporate owned that prioritize profit over productions, they can't cut profit for the good of the country like Russia with their oligarch, the oligarch is controlled by the state in Russia, they can say to "produce 1k tank in a month" and that is exactly what the factory would do.
Also tanks. Also their pilots weren't trained enough to fly their planes. TH-cam channels have pushed all sorts of ridiculous nonsense and never admitted that they got it wrong. Which is unfortunate in the case of Binkov, as when the war kicked off he predicted the current battle lines. He's been too biased to get much right since though.
Depends how you define "running out". They keep producing/buying new ones, so their stock will never deplete to zero and nobody worth listening to ever did say it would. On the other hand, you don't use stuff like S-300 or anti-submarine missiles for ground attack if you have plenty of purpose-built ones.
They are running out of men. Losing almost 500 thousand men in a 2 year war, being the country with the lowest birth rate on earth. Tell me how are they winning the war when they retreated more than 600 kilometers from Kiev?
@@chrisbeer5685 They didn't use S-300's for ground attack. You've been listening to lies. The S-300's that struck civilians in Ukraine were Ukranian. Aimed at Russian missiles yes. Would they have been fired if not trying to hit incoming Russian missiles? No. That doesn't change the fact that they were Ukranian missiles, fired by Ukraine. The warhead on them is too small to destroy the vast majority of military targets and they're a valuable resource. Whatever people want to think about Russia, they're not stupid enough to go to the considerable difficulty (if it's even allowed by the command targeting software) to re-target the missiles from air defence to ground attack. As for the tanks. Yes, many TH-camrs like Binkov or Covert Cabal did postulate that Russia was indeed "Running out" of tanks to the point they would be defeated. Did any of that happen? No. Did they admit fault? No. Very few western commentators have admitted fault in their predictions when it comes to this war.
well considering that they have been seen using North Korean missiles with confirmed wreckage showing the hwasong has been getting used it looks like they really were running out and decided to find additional sources of weapons from the hermit state.
Russia can hardly make offensives against a nation 10x smaller than them, this is hardly an underestimate. In the past six months alone they haven't even taken a hundred thousand in pre war population worth of cities. That is less than .25% of Ukraine. They also haven't even come close to recovering how much they had at their peak in 2022.
@@donaldtrumplover2254 "RUSSIA IS WINNING THE WAR TOO SLOW!" How can you say that when the Ukrainian commanders are reporting the situation as dire? The russians are facing a new way of war, and no other nation has went to war with another nation with both sides having such high tech and weaponry, but theyve now adapted. Also, Russia isnt in a full panic mode, if they needed to truly end ukrainian statehood, they could smash ukraine albeit with absolute tragic amounts of uneeded deaths when they can just slowly wear ukraine out, thats their strategy, and its working. besides, ukraine will lose eventually sadly, I wish they could win but get real, stop believing out western media's cope. Im an American and I know the result of modern warfare will take a similar toll on our military. Just look at the losses of equipment in world wars, it happens, and it'll happen in WW3.
@@donaldtrumplover2254Tell me that you have 0 knowledge of war, without telling me that. You wester behave like you are gods of war, while you have no idea what is really war. You think that is game, conquere territories etc. Do research kid, you need education about war. Take history of war and learn, you will get it eventualy.
@@JeZZGro can you give me a historical example of a war of attrition being good than? You only do it if you are struggling. Forcing a nation to outright negotiate is always better.
Actually one of his "alternative" scenarios where Russia would attack Ukraine... which came into reality, rather matched what eventually transpired. If I recall, back then he was near certain of a Russian victory. At the start of the war, he was also saying, that Russia is winning against the mainstream media. I just guess, he did this to farm more views.
@@clone3_7 We all thought russia was gonna win. It was insane to think that the number 2 military in the world was gonna struggle in a land invasion with a much weaker border nation. It's just that now, no one is certain. It's crazy that russia still hasn't won after TWO years so who knows.
Since this war is thr most filmed ever. I would love to see a real time chronological order of the many battles along the entire frontline. It would be hours of explanation and footage of the fighting. including all the various narratives and news from both sides.
@@druisteen famous american leveling of europe post 1945 lol. Local whataboutism enthusiast is unable to fathom that Russia has a worse track record when it comes to relentlessly bombing shit when things aren't going 100% according to plan than probably any other country in the modern age
You literally have a generated username dude. It's funny. Y'all initially got called out for botting on Binkov's videos, so now you are playing neutral "ah look Ukraine bots vs Russian bots" Not as smart as you think you are :P
In Russian it is called Kharkov, so when it was under the Soviet Union they used the Russian spelling. Since Ukraine’s independence it’s been called Kharkiv, which is the Ukrainian spelling.
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It isn’t super up to date tho. Look at Chasiv Yar for example: according to the map it’s still fully under Ukrainian control, but they themselves admitted Russian troops have occupied parts of the city
@@yarnickgoovaerts Not true. According to DeepState (the most accurate map since summer of 2022), Russia is merely on the far eastern borders of Chasiv Yar
From the Russian perspective it looks like this: no one is going to capture Kharkov, an offensive in the north in several places is needed to further disperse the Ukrainian armed forces. This will make the front more vulnerable to a breakthrough in other directions. Ukraine has problems with mobilization, over these more than two years there are fewer and fewer people willing to go to the front, there are many videos of how Ukrainians are forced to go to the front. It is also worth noting that the amount of humanitarian aid is decreasing; there are not as many volunteers as there were in the first two years of the war. There are also big problems with military assistance. The last time it took about six months for military aid to be approved. It is unknown how long the next aid from the United States will last. All this negatively affects the morale of Ukrainians; moods are gradually beginning to change from the desire to return the borders of 1991 to negotiations on peace with the loss of territories. Plus, additional captured lands in the north will be a plus at the negotiating table.
Wake up. Even the Pentagon admits Russia today is WAY stronger than they were 800 days ago. U still believe they will be out of missiles by may-22? Muppet.
@@nathanspreitzer6738 How stupid is it possible to be? Why not google it before you reply like a muppet? Do you think +800 days of high intensity war gives no experience? Do you think 1000 new recruits per day dont matter? Of course it`s not for free, but IT IS a fact. Production is up 5x-40x. FFS even the air-force is much more capable.
Binkov and it’s copium it’s making him loose almost every single prediction. I used to like this channel, now is just a propaganda account. Shame on you. This channel aged like milk.
@@shuathe2ndyou have to admit that it's funny though, I always chuckle when a I read shovels and washing machines 😂😂 It's the type of propaganda that I love lol
Ukraine has been launcing drones and artilleri into civilians in Belgerod. to prevent this the russians said they needed a bufferzone to stop this. they dont need to go all the way to kharkiv to do this because Ukrainien weapons except himars dont go that far. but you never know.
@@REgamesplayer@REgamesplayer And your "master" loves you, pays you well, and doesn't lie to you? The fact you even said that tells me all I need to know about you.
@@magmegmigmogmug1476 1) My master does love me. However, if we are talking about the nation, then western democracies always come up with far more generous social services. So yes, in fact it does care about me far more. 2) Yes. It pays me well. Without being a ruling class, I can aspire to and own over my lifetime a lot of property. House and second hand cars is something which I can expect if I'm doing what they want me to do. 3) Western media doesn't outright distort facts and is free. I can watch from any independent media outlet what I want to watch. Your master doesn't allow that.
"Kharkiv is safe" So was Bakhmut and Avdiivka, and that was despite the Ukrainians not abandoning the defenses of the surrounding cities like they did in Kharkiv.
@@realshot5172Bro really forgot that these small towns were the most heavily fortified for their size over the course 7-10 years and at least one of them were taken when Ukraine was better supplied. Basic Ukrop.
Kharkiv is 1.4 mln metropolis - trouble to take and maintain under military control under best of circumstances. Russia lacks forces to protect rear of assult on the city, much less to carry it out. Blocked is best case for Russia. Though prevaling opinion is that goal of operation is just to create buffer zone from Belograd border and as bonus, stretch Ukrainian forces elsewhere.
at least you learned the word Slava , ruff translation means Party , but with religious connotations , for most Slavic people it holds no special meaning but for South Slavic people Slava is a religious party , every foamily has its own , often a saint , so when the date of that saint comes , foamily calls up larger family members and friends to gather around and participate in it . Most of Slavic people had Slava . Not meaning glory , its more like glory to the saint , and angel protecting the house that respects it . But Westernization , and i mean Roman Empire Westernization almost eliminated that . For some time Capital of Roman Empire , Eastern Part was not Rome or Istanbul , Constantinople , its was places around Balkans , and they brough their kind of Religion that tried to eradicate Family Slava , but alas it failed . So we have general word Slava ,that you know from the propaganda , but there is also family Slava , and they all have names , for example Djurdjevdan , Nikoljdan ... those are all Slava's. And also we have the word Slova , that turned in to Slava , from where Slavic people take their name , it means knowing of letters and language , Sloviti means knowing the language . Germans were calls Nemci , from the root word Nem , it means , does not know letters , speechless and that is true to this day . From Czechoslovakia , Poland and Ukraine all east to Japan , all Slavic people understand each other , even tho its 100 nations . While west , its real hard , French dont speak German , Germans dont speak English , and so on . So now you know 3 different kinds of Slava , one meaning glory , the other party in a religious way , and third meaning knowing how to speak .. So now you know more .
@@Dman6779 Russia uses a lot of Germanized words . there was a lot of Germanisation in Northeastern Europe , so if you are asking why , its because your ancestors did not hold on to their beliefs like Serbian one did . Told me everything i need to know , even the calendar , Slavic people have a calendar , out own , and its 7533 , not 2024 that is modern Roman calendar . Some say , but i cant prove that that Slavic calendar dates to the Biblical Flood , but i have no proof of that , its what elders said . So take it or leave it .
@@dedskin1 "Slava" means "glory" (in earlier ages the meaning was wider, up to "rumors"). No clue where did you get _this_ from. Regarding so called "Slavic calendar", now is the year 7532 by the Byzantine calendar, which is counting years since the Biblical Creation (5508 B.C.). But I'm definitely sure where did you get _this_ from. Take my advice: be careful, sects are evil and misleading. Biblical Flood geographically occurred in Mesopotamia only. BTW it has no connection with the late Ice Age Flood, because the latter was up to 8000 years earlier (before the Biblical World was even created).
It’s because the western media doesn’t actually know the numbers and makes them to further their agendas because of them pro/Ukrainian very of their governments. Pro- Ukrainian bots, Ukrainian propaganda. My brother-in-law is in the Ukrainian army and often has said that media isn’t reporting what is really happening. They want to make us look as if we are doing better than we are. II isn’t true we are barely holding on. This what he told my wife who is Ukrainian.
If I had to take a guess, I don’t think Putin/Russia would try to invade the north/Kyiv again anytime soon. Imo, I imagine the goal will be to add all of Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts (as well as the remaining territory of the Oblasts they’re currently in) to give them a solid defensive position on both sides of the river and a big land border with Transnistria and Moldova. Not to mention that those four Oblasts all have size Russian minorities in them.
Ivan, it's probably hard to see from your basement, but the Russians have already lost over 3k people in less than a week to temporarily take over a few destroyed villages.
10 villages lost and the Ukrainians are getting their asses handed them? More than 2 years after Putin launched his SMO, the Russians celebrate with ecstatic joy the capture of that size of territory against a much smaller and weaker neighbor. How did Russian army-mistakenly regarded as the world's 2nd strongest military-came to this point? This is absolutely funny. 😂
@@Virgan1209Lmao "let's trust the numbers the Ukrainian MoD pumps out, they would never lie, why would they spread propaganda and inflate the enemy's losses?"
The Germans occupied Kharkov in 1941 with 25k guys, I think Russia could do it with 50k plus 25k Rosgardia for rear rechelon/policing It all depends on how much they can deplete Ukrainian manpower
This estimation is made without considering ukrainian loses and man power... If simple extrapolate loses in few years this offense can be much more easy to be done
Ukraine has lost far fewer troops and has much more people to recruit from Russia is struggling to get foreigners and prisoners 'recruited' into its army
@@christiandauz3742260 гектаров для одного кладбища под Киевом, это по твоему мало?:))) А сколько всего таких кладбищь на Украине, в одном только Львове кладбищ не меньше, чем в Киеве, если не больше.
@@christiandauz3742А про вербовку зеков из украинских тюрьм на мясо, упомянуть не хочешь? А то, что у РФ недостатка в личном составе нет - факт, каждый месяц подписывают контракт более 30к добровольцев.
Wow, Russian bots are heavy today, must mean this is a well made and highly informative video! In all seriousness though thanks for the clear eyed assessment Binkov.
Its so funny, they all act like the insane losses russia takes for each objective are all negligible. They lose their minds over acouple of Abrams losses, yet when another russian armored column gets blown up for a 1km advance it gets almost no attention because its "normal".
its like you lot use this bot claim to help you dismis the, frankly more compelling arguments put forward in russias favor. why dont you try to point by point rebuttal the examples you are referencing. im willing to bet you are not able to.
@@scatterlite2266 you are building a straw man argument. those who follow the footage and data in detail never argue that russia is losing columns per km at all. because the data doesnt support that. the satellite imagery of ukrainian mass grave creation supports a near 1 million death toll on the UAF's whilst nato sources most recently put russian deaths at under 100k. i bet you cannot counter my point with objective critique.
@@03056932 And here we see yet another bot, attempting to mimic human speech, but utterly failing to understand the context of the comment, or what the point of the comment is. Indeed, it only knows that "bots" have been mentioned and parrots out a pregenerated response thinking this sufficient to create doubt in the average viewers mind. The random numbers for a name is also a dead giveaway.
In what way? What he stated is the current state of affairs. To take Kharviv, Russia will need a lot more soldiers than it has committed, but as he also said, this may just be a shaping operation in support of another.
Well they cant seem to reach it. I think it might have to do with some "slight resistance" basically its just a static front now like all the rest, ukraine has digged in.
Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is a bot. If you really support Ukraine, you should realize that continuing the war is a waste of human life and will only result in more losses of people and territory for that country.
Kind of wild seeing the Russian comments telling others to 'cope' when the special military operation that was only meant to take a week has dragged on for more than two years with no end in sight against a much smaller adversary. I hope it is all worth it in the end...
The special military operation in which no one could predict what modern warfare would look like. Nato trained Ukrainian troops just lost this territory to FRESH TRAINED Russian troops that could be seen on camera not 100% sure of how to conduct themselves, so much for Russian bots, Ukraine is losing….
@@Freyia935 LOL Russia is (officially) spending 8% of its GDP on this war. Much more if you count old equipment that sat in storage. Russia is throwing all it can at one of the poorest countries in Europe and still has barely managed to gain any ground in over a year.
@@vacoff2717 Come on brother 🤣If you combine all Western military aid that Ukraine has received from the West it is still less than half of what Russia has spent on this war. Much less than half if you also count the Soviet stock that Russia is depleting. The Western military aid is not in cash, it is in equipment. No debt was taken out for that. How does it feel that your countrymen are dying because your 160cm tall dictator got a bit angry?
Если взять Волчанск и Купянск, то большая территория у ВСУ подвиснет в потенциальном котле около Великого Бурлука. Об этом возможном направлении удара говорится в 12:00, но без упоминания Печенежского водохранилища, которое сильно ограничит логистику ВСУ после уничтожения мостов и переправ и значительно облегчит задачу РФ. Вообще рисовать стрелочки без карты высот, без водных преград и построенных укреплений противником - бессмысленное занятие.
But Scott Ritter says Russia is going to take Kharkov, how does he square the circle, or is he simply talking to an unknowing audience while pulling Putin's sled.
Scud Ridder is a paid propagndist and mouthpiece. He regurgitates putin & gangs statements almost verbatim, there's a clique like him that are on russian payroll, colonel mcgregor and daniel davis are two others, they should be registered under the foreign agents act... either they were shunned by the establishments in their own country, or felt neglected / not listened to meaning they have some form of gripe, or in the case of ridder is not employable and turned bitter after his arrest & sentencing
There is nothing difficult or impossible about taking Kharkiv. Most of the people who are saying that it is are depending on experiences from 2022 and not looking at the war as it is being fought today. The most difficult position to take in the entire war so far was avdiivka. That place was arguably the strongest fortified area in the world and many people said it could never be taken. And yet in spite of that, they did take it. Kharkiv is just a large city. No different than many other cities that have been fought over in the war so far aside from its scale. They will take it block by block and street by street if that is what they intend to do. Ukraine can defend it, but the only way they will be able to defend it is by putting a disproportionate amount of military force there.
@@IronWarrior86 I talk about war. I don't care about what politicians say. There are various people on all sides suggesting that this operation is a feint designed to lengthen the line and draw away Ukrainian forces from other areas. But only time will tell on that point. What I have said is that taking Kharkiv isn't impossible from a military point of view.
I’ve seen some say that Russia may just want to get in artillery range of the city to pressure it (or at least use the threat of that possibility to redirect Ukrainian troops.
A comment that doesn’t take into account russian casualties and Russia having to beg North Korea and Iran (and now China) for arms. Another comment that will age like milk
@@mediocremodeler5174 Russia is buying the weapons from those nations. If it pisses the US off in the process, that is just a bonus. DPRK is a creation of the old Soviet Union, Iran is a neighbor, China is the largest manufacturer in the world and they buy OIL... -- yeah.. cry about it.. Russia has friends.
@@mediocremodeler5174 Sorry but you can't seriously compare Russian casualties and it ability to replenish to that of Ukraine nor Russia relience on other countries VS that of Ukraine. Ukraine mobilized several times and already depleted it troops now it's facing a big crisis. Russia didn't even start mobilization yet and half of its current army is not even inside Ukraine yet. Russia manufactures the overwhelming majority of its equipment despite thousands of economic sanctions. On the other hand Ukraine relies entirely on western aid militarily and economically, the minute that aid stops it will collapse immediately.
The losses of both sides are uncertain and there is concealment by both sides about their losses and an exaggeration of the opponent’s losses But according to what it seems to me, Russia’s losses, including the losses of the territories it annexed, amount to 90k dead . Ukraine’s losses are not confirmed but in most cases they are equal to or slightly more than Russia’s losses
Just a comment (or you could call it a warning, I suppose) for Comrade Binkov... while what you are saying about the strictly military issues associated with a possible Russian siege and attempt to occupy Kharkiv is probably (mostly) correct, you are not factoring in the corrosive effect on morale that would be caused by repeated Ukrainian defeats (and forced retreats) in the areas north of the city. Western war toys notwithstanding, Ukrainian army morale (as near as we can assess it with publicly available evidence) seems to be in the doldrums, and it could collapse altogether if Ukrainian front-line units on the line of combat contact, start disintegrating (or running). In that scenario, all bets would be off, regarding "what can the Russian army accomplish, with so few troops". As I seem to remember, in 1940, General Gamelin was pretty sure that the Wehrmacht didn't have enough soldiers to defeat France and occupy Paris.
Time isn't an issue for Russia. This war could last 10 years and Russia will still be fighting. How much longer would the west continue to support Ukraine? I think Russia's goal is to out last the west's support for Ukraine.
What makes you say that? Russia fought and lost in Afghanistan after 10 years, with only about 10,000 kia. I don’t see this thing lasting more than MAYBE 2 more years, if that.
Agreed. But there's some carryover. The institutions. The people running those institutions. The culture and learned norms that led to establishing those institutions. USSR to Russia wasn't a clean slate.
@@sabprogroup8623 Well, let's consider it: A lot of the underlying factors that produced WW2 also existed for WW1. The rule of the Nazi party, despite being quite distinct from anything before or since, didn't start with a clean slate. And didn't pass on a clean slate. Let's take a quick look at the influence of Operation Paperclip in USA. Some of those Germans became major influences in NASA, RAND corporation, Brookings Institution, and Hudson Institute. Which then go on to have an impact on US policy. Now back to Germany. Instead of a few foreign scientists, imagine EVERYONE in EVERY company being a holdover from the WW2 era. How to say it? Wounds heal but scars remain.
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Id Like to see a vid bout this: NATO and EU should Send more Their old and new ww1 interwar ww2 COLD WAR etc equipment and tech to ukraine aswell As thousands to millions of volunteers
@@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative3235 Ukraine do not want or need volunteers. They were a thing only early in war where they need help with setting defenses. Now what Ukraine need most, is ammunition.
@@TheRezro and money
From my general observations. Russia consistently overvalue they power, blaming NATO lizardman for every failure. Attack on north was actually not a surprise. Putin give order few months ago, exactly to size the Kharkiv until military parade. It just ended the exact same way as this entire war.
@@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative3235Would be a short video, Russia would lose and in the counter attack Russia would deploy tactical nuclear weapons.
i miss when we talked about fictional wars :,(
fr, those alternate future scenarios were goated, too bad they became real
The shovels are coming 😎
Like ww1?
have fun with the rising gas prices 😂
@@zhihao1 i have money i do not care XD
You guys do have a fetish for shovels don't you?
@@HeichE944 yes they are lovely
Using this logic one would think that Berlin, a city of 4.3 million people, will never fall.
In reality, every army has a breaking point, and Berlin fell in two weeks ...
From what we can see, RuAF numbers and strength are increasing, while AFU is on its back legs.
It took a million Soviet soldiers to take Berlin against a force of about 100,000 Germans.
Binkov and logic? LOL
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Thats true but we'll see who really wins the war, i still think neither Russia or Ukraine, there will be some kind of negotioation at the end..
All this garbage about "HURR DURR 40000000000000000 PEOPLE CITY" is just propaganda meant to make it seem like the Russians have some impossible task, it's meant to calm down pro-Ukriane people. The population of the city isn't going to fight, they will all just evacuate once the Russians actually come. And the Ukrainian army within the city will only have the advantage of the Russians having to travel bigger distances to get anywhere. If Ukraine can't spare enough men to defend the city, then it doesn't matter how big it is. Just because the city is 20 times or whatever bigger than Bakhmut, doesn't mean that Ukraine has 20 times as many men in it.
Berlin is a capital city and that fight came at the climax of WW2. You're forgetting that Putin's orcs tried and failed to take Kyiv. Then ran a copium operation to pretend as if they were never trying to take Kyiv
My guess is that it's not about taking land. It's about exhausting Ukraine's military and draining as much soldiers as possible. Russia had the troops and economy to play the long game.
If Lindsey Graham was Russian...he would say nuke Kharkiv and call it a day.
I actually completely agree : )
Just want to add hes squirming on camera for campaign contributions sounds like a 12 year old adult in body of 15 year old adult somehow. Not sure how else to describe him like a vampire of decency. None of those are original ideas or personal feelings instead they are those of his contributors.
He was jag in air force but wasnt deployed. He was very good "friends" with John Mccain who was POW. He defended Mcaain while running for president against slander by Trump. After Mccain passed Graham became big Trump supporter and got his Chairmanship in Judiciary. Now hes just hawking everywhere. He would literally speak exactly as you typed if those were circumstances. He may regardless if bread was being buttered by them thats all it takes. Watching him in Ukraine telling them to mobilize was just so uncomfortable. He talks like hes a general.
@@ryanphelan6861 Trump did not slander this 🐛 of a man.
He’s a neoconservative - a creature who admires Leon Trotsky; a Trotskyite.
Get it right, brother.
@@ryanphelan6861 We should send that porky Graham to the front lines
The offensive may not be massive, but considering offensives near adviika and chasiv yar still on going, and Ukrainian artillery, manpower shortage, this further stretches already worn out Ukrainian army making them pull troops and equipment out of already undermanned army.
As a completely impartial person from the Texas oblast, I can say that those Ukrainians have already lost the war, and the USA isn't going to help them. And I know this because my name is John and I love baseball and apple pie. Да.
Спасибо, Джон из Техасской области
Ukraine has oblasts too.
Somebody with a brain from the US 😅
@@ikaustraliaJust like your understanding of the reality of Russia’s untenable economic position, this joke flew completely over your head.
The russian trolls are out in force to hope Russia in these comments!
I like how the creator of the channel defends Ukraine not fortifying its borders, even though they had already spent money saying that they used it to buy wood and concrete to fortify those borders.
Russia does not want to encircile Kharkiv nor take over Kharkiv but to make it under Russian artillery threat.
Kharkov is too big to capture and too big to defend too.
My assumption is that should Russia decide to take the city, it should and probably will come up with some unconventional plan like they did with tunnel digging in Avdiivka.
How long did they dig is Avdiivka?
I read today that there is now a referendum for Kharkov to join the Russian Federation…
@@mikebond3210
They didn't dig. They found some larger pipe that allowed them to bypass the Ukrainian defense at the Southeast of the city.
"We have no intention of capturing Kharkiv for now" - Putin yesterday
"We just want to exercise 200.000 troops near the border for fun."
-Putin, 23.02.2022
Versus the “Ghost of Kiev”, the “Magic Missile that shoots down hypersonic missiles”, the Snake Island “Heroes” and “we don’t target civilians nor hide equipment in schools”… 🫤🙄
@@WDLC1911 Dont cry about civilians after Russias bucha maasacre
@@tristinjudd2595 prove that they did it. Give me the timeline and reference photos. I know the bodies all had the Russian supplied bags and people had white bands on their arms signifying they were Russian partisans so you can shove that lie wherever you choose.
I think Russia is not in a hurry. Maybe it will take more than a year, but to protect Belgorod, Karkov need to be under Russian control. Altough the first goal is in Dinbass...
Remind me why Russia isn't in a hurry
@@Davids6994they need time to build up the strengths to take the city
@@Davids6994 it’s a war of attrition and logistics which favours Russia unless the west are stupid enough to continue supplying Ukraine but even that won’t be enough
@@Cunat121
Does it favor Russia? Remember that Russia already has to Shanghai foreigners to get troops for the war and the Russian military is forced to use motorcycles and golf carts to move its troops.
That shows that things are pretty dire for Russia in attrition...
Dont let the haters and bots get to you Binkov. This video was comprehensive and devoid of bias. I remember watching your videos years ago before russia invaded Ukraine. Now as a soldier in the war, you videos are some of the few un bias sources i can turn to for an actual analysis.
Your measurements are off. Double what they should be. 20km isn’t 25 miles
what do you expect from a clown who uses a puppet on his hand. and btw for many years praised the russian army before this war happend, and told us they would just roll over europe before usa would come into the battle...face it . this channel is just trash
@@exposett246 and yet here we are...
@@exposett246from what i recall, in his video before the start of this war he analysed it and his analisys of what would haplen was the most accurate although he too thought that Russians would have more success than they did.
@@exposett246looool
@@shuathe2nd Yeah im here, hazing these military "experts" who played Red alert and battlefield1942 makes me smile :) , they somehow figured out they must create a youtube channel telling us how this war plays out... and it deserves to be laughed at.
It's a war of attrition. I think Russia is happy to wait it out and inflict steady losses until the front line will collapse in some areas. Taking Kharkiv will just mean unnecessary losses unless they see low resistance, which I highly doubt.
sure, they did that in Bachmut also? thats not the russian way. They did the same with Berlin. They dont care about high losses.
@@najkraemer3117 they do care
this is not the soviet union in a war of anihalation
today is not comparable to ww2
however russia has alot more equipment and that will win the war for them
Russia is also pressed for time though as they have a pretty limited amount of money to throw at their military industrial complex.
Their military budget for 2024 alone is supposedly roughly 115bn USD, and for a country with a similar GDP to Italy, that's a lot of money.
Not to mention the loss of the 300bn USD in frozen assets, which made up a pretty massive chunk of their total state savings is gone and never coming back. Also couple that with the possibility of having of Russia for the first time becoming a net importer of petroleum due to ukrainian attacks on oil refineries and the added possibility of western countries applying further sanctions to close the loopholes Russia is using to sell its crude abroad, and you're looking at some serious future issues for the Russian economy, and by extention, their war effort.
@@najkraemer3117, Russia has not been in Berlin. That was the Communist USSR.
@@cossacks_vodka_enjoyer, 😵💫😀😅😂🤣
A bold choice of words, that thumbnail. "Kharkiv is safe". Certain qualifiers to that statement seem rather prominent in their absence, such as "for x amount of time." But let's hear this out...
Okay, heard it out. "Not any immediate danger, [...] nor in the coming months". Sure, sounds reasonable.
keep in mind these are the fresh troops without any combat XP, that were stationed to "defend" Belgorod, with exception of those FPV Squad dudes Beavers(Bobri) that wreak havoc in Vovchansk.
@@SM-qo9gr "XP". God damn, that is some severely cursed vocabulary.
But yeah, I did think Binkov spent a bit too long talking about how hard it would be for the Russians to take Kharkiv/Kharkov/whatever and very little about how hard it would be for the Ukranians to defend it. Still, at the pace even this offensive is going, "months" seem a reasonable assessment, especially given how wide a margin of error that leaves.
@@odinsrensen7460 To the fact that Russia has not said anything about taking kharkov in its current offensive I doubt it will be taken this year. Also why is "XP" cursed its shorthand for experience that is used in video games.
@@Orcram I know the short-hand, I just don't like video game lingo being used in real-world contexts. We already have a proper way of writing "experience", experience is a very different thing from the concept of XP used in video games, and "XP" isn't even a proper acronym.
I don't think the Russians have the capacity to take Kharkov this year, they likely are intending to force Ukraine to overextend it's already depleted force in the hopes of more breakthroughs like at Ocheretyne. Russia's problem is that she lacks both the quantity and quality of forces to effectively exploit such breaches in the line to make significant territorial gains. Though I suspect that may change if either Ukraine's military becomes too weak or if the Russians start handing out copies of Isserson to every officer Captain and above.
Ukraine's big problem is infantry, they expended quite a lot of it in their failed counter-offensive last summer that petered out once they ran out of line infantry and have not ever been able to replace either the numbers or quality of personnel lost. Which is why the mobilization debate was so important and so controversial as many in Ukraine see being mobilized into the infantry as a one-way trip as there is still no end date for how long a mobilized person will serve and casualties have been horrendous. Russia's solution to this same problem was to throw money around until they found enough people willing to go over the top again and again, which works but has also had two important knock-on effects. The first of which is inflation, as these soldiers and their families are flushed with cash and pushing up prices and wages everywhere in Russia have had to be increased to compete with army pay which leads to the second effect which is armaments factories have found it difficult to hire enough extra workers in Russia's tight labor market as people are being drawn by the higher pay in the Army and private sector which has probably seriously impeded weapon production.
This war may actually help Russian inequality long term as these higher wages are being paid primarily in rural and underdeveloped regions and essentially represent a wealth transfer from Moscow( and its corrupt oligarchs and Gazprom) to the rest of the country which means long term if Russia wins the war, takes Eastern parts of Ukraine with its industry and resources and has a cash rich population they may see long term growth and perhaps demographic recovery, particularly if they resettle ethnic Russians to depopulated eastern Ukraine as the primary factor limiting Russian family size has always been money.
Except in addditoin to the massive casualties Russia has suffered well over a millon military age Russian males hav eleft the country. Russia is now a country of old women.
@@johnmortin5603sure buddy that’s why the average age of Ukraine soldiers are in their 40s
@@johnmortin5603 That exodus certainly affects issues like the tight labor market and inflation and is why the Russian government has been loathe to conduct another mobilization wave in fear of triggering another exodus that would seriously damage the economy. But Russia still has men as evidenced by the 20-30,000 recruits they get every month, which the agreed figure among Western intelligence and analysts and not just propaganda.
Ukraine has seen a larger number of military age males flee the country which given her smaller total population represents a far larger percentage of recruitable soldiers than those that fled Russia in September 2022 so Ukraine's manpower problem is far more acute than Russia's which is to be expected given the disparity in pre-war populations.
@@johnmortin5603 I wanna smoke whatever you are on 😂
@@rickysampson8759 average age of russian soldiers isnt nuch different ...
During WW2, didn't the Red Army surround Kharkiv and wait for the Nazis to surrender? With modern precision munitions and drones, the Russians could make things rather uncomfortable for UAF, while minimizing collateral damage; meanwhile bypassing the city and expanding the border buffer zone.
Looks over at mariupol.
Yeah, uh sure buddy. Whatever you say. Ru armed forces sure are famous for not simply flattening every city they try and siege 🙄
The Red Army needed over 1.1 million soldiers and suffered between 177,000 and 255,000 casualties (depending on the source) to surround and take Kharkiv by siege during the 4th Battle of Kharkiv. In addition, in WW2 the Red Army lost about 1,800 tanks in the siege. The Russian Army today does not have the resources to surround Kharkiv whilst maintaining offensive operations elsewhere in Ukraine. Kharkiv city now covers approximately three times the area that it did in 1943 and has a number of satellite cities and villages that would need to be captured. Each of those is around twice the area of Bakhmut. Additionally, the cities and villages surrounding Kharkiv tend to have more difficult terrain than the Donbas cities with upper and lower parts separated by steep inclines which aids in their defence..
lets hope that just like in the past, russia prevails against the german tanks with those hideious black crosses and superior technology.
Comparing Soviet Union during its peak capabilities with a country that has just a fraction of that power is incredibly naive.
True, but Ukraine is getting thousands of new shells in artillery and rockets
To compare modern Russia with 1942 Sovjet Union and Ukraine with WW2 Germany is just wrong
Who compared it?
In many ways, comparing ANY current situation with the past is just plain wrong. All the variables have changed completely with fairly recent advances in technology. IMHO, we are finally seeing the End of War. War is clearly shown to be pointless slaughter that benefits the war industries; without them we don't really have enemies.
@@SunriseLAWfuture internet archeologists will laugh Their butt off to comments like this.
It's just the battle itself, not ideological.
@@SunriseLAW War will never end, it can transform because of nuclear threat, maybe AI robots will fight each other with occasional casualties among humans in 2568, but there will be war still, if humanity survives that long that is.
Kharkiv is to heavily defended and would require hundreds of thousands of troops and preparation. It cant be done on a whim.
This is most likely a diversion to pull Ukrainian troops away from the front lines near Donbass . Russian has been slowly making progress village by village in that area.
If they are able to capture surrounding villages near Kharkiv or even if they dont they take minimal losses and at the same time stretch out the Ukrainian troops on the front.
Ukraine has more to lose in this offensive and does not have the manpower to manoeuvre or outflank Russians in the same way.
in 2022 they used 4 mechanized infantry divisions plus a few independent brigades, tahts over 75,000 men. They failed to break the line which is almost at the outskirts of the city.
The current attack its done so far by 2 and a half divisions. not enough to capture it
@@dv2045 Yes I don't believe they are trying to capture it. It would take a considerable amount of men and firepower which would take time to gather and manoeuvre towards the vicinity of Kharkiv and would be hard to keep a secret from the Ukrainians.
@@dv2045 Thats why they are not taking Kharkiv. They are are taking location around Kharkiv. THat way, they can attack the city with Artilery while creating a buffer zone. Not a bad strategy actualy.
@@jefurihartono1630 Russian thinking 101 "if I dont have it nobody will". He will make it another destroyed ukranian city if the UAF dont evacuate it
@@dv2045 That's how war works whether it is Russian or not. If you are not willing to sign a peace deal which is advantageous to the enemy, he is going to make you hurt more than he would profit from getting what he wants.
Your big mistake is basing your assessment on Bakhmut. That was a Wagner operation, which did not have the full support of the Russian MoD. A more accurate comparison would be Avdiivka.
That makes no sense, Russian airborne covered their flank and Russian MoD gave Wagner a 5:1 artillery fire advantage
Don’t take hot dog man’s whining at face value
@@looinrims is said no “full” support. My comment wasn’t edited either.
On the contrary, Wagner was prioritized over others for supplies and reinforcements. They held this until the tail end of the battle when Wagner began to beef with the MoD and make them look back, leading to the downgrading of priority and, eventually, the failed coup.
A city even smaller than bakhmut?
@@scatterlite2266 you mean the strongest fortress Ukraine had.
How can Russia be a threat to Europe if they can’t even take one city 25 miles from Russia border?
The most defended city in the whole of Europe though.
Hey stop noticing things ! Only Russian bots and Nazis notice things !
because the rest of Europe isn't surrounded in minefields and in a state of war
"how can a lone gunman be a threat to a school if he isn't to a police station?"
Shhhh, you're breaking Western propaganda rhetoric with that comment
@@override367 T-27B3's generally aren't fast enough to sweep through entire countries before said countries put up a couple minefields.
What? Another victory? Do we set goals that were not planned and then call it a failure?
About the best info out there, Thanks!
You only look at a city in terms of population not fortifications. Bhackmurt was a fortress since 2014
What is Bhackmurt?
I'm so confused on some of these comments about taking Kharkov. The goal is to establish a buffer zone and unless the Russians start doing things that make it look like its more than that, then we should assume they are telling the truth. It's not like it will make a difference in whether we believe they will push farther but still why say something that most likely won't occur for a year or two.
How about we just look at the multiple treaties they put forward to determine what it is they want? You know... the thing that Zelensky is suppose to sign with a list of things that Russia wants on it. Maybe the 'I want this' list might be a good start to determining 'what I want'.
These NPC 🤡s don’t pay attention. They don’t read transcripts of Putin’s speeches. They don’t read ANYTHING from Russian leadership so they are dumb.
Good video Binkov, the data presented all appears well researched, and your analysis well reasoned. Earned yourself a new subscriber
whats concerning to me is why EVERYONE is so sure that this is not an offensive to capture kharkiv. Noone knows...and even if we do not see enough troops there yet it can always change. But every media is suddenly claiming its just a buffer zone. Thats worrying to me...
Well Putin said they do not intend to capture the city, but to simply create a buffer zone. So that’s there if you want to take his word
True. That guy Putin is clueless. How could he say with absolute conviction that this operation is not about capturing kharkiv?
@@rainieresguerra6519 or maybe U are the one that is clueless.
Ukraine is advancing backwards and Russia is retreating forwards!
I feel sorry for all the Russian widows and their families who will never receive support or closure from the penny pinching Kremlin
@@ShadowPhoenixMaximusthe same can be said about Ukrainian ones as well
@@ShadowPhoenixMaximus Thanks you care about Russia.
Ukraine is crying for your sympathy 😅
They already have resources for that.
One way or another we shall see in a few months.
Russia just needs to get its artillary in range.
I think the Ukraine supporters are underestimating Russia. They saw Russia's early poor performance and assumed that nothing about them would change. They forgot that its normal for Russia to have a terrible start, but once they are on a war footing, they pull off the W.
The problem with all the equipment and training we give Ukraine is that it's completely dependent on total air superiority. Ukraine doesn't have that.
Most pro-Ukrainian supporters I've seen are too emotionally invested, they are not able to see obvious propaganda from facts on the ground. It's a whole lot of wishful thinking while if you look at cold hard facts then almost every statistics favour Russia.
I find it hard to believe that Kharkiv isn’t in a tough spot when they have Russians on three sides of the city. Even if they don’t take Kharkiv, they’re still losing territory south. If Ukraine was still holding strong, they wouldn’t be trying to pass a 500k man call up for more conscripts. More than a year in, Ukraine still hasn’t created suitable manufacturing and training facilities and are entirely dependent on western support. Well, the stockpiles are spent, and it’ll take another 3 or more years to bring western production up to a war footing.
Plus they used Wagner troops heavily at the start of the war
@@Thrainite And I don't think the western production can switch to war economy without actually be in a war, since many of the factories is corporate owned that prioritize profit over productions, they can't cut profit for the good of the country like Russia with their oligarch, the oligarch is controlled by the state in Russia, they can say to "produce 1k tank in a month" and that is exactly what the factory would do.
Literally nobody, Russian MOD included, thinks they're going to take Kharkiv with this offensive
I wonder how this is going to age.
westoids propaganda usually has expiration date, just like milk
like lizz truss
@@stayhungry1503 they've stalled in Vovchansk and are being counter attacked near Hyboke
@@AnthonyLopez-lb2bd
And now the Russians are being encircled in Vovchansk!
wtf are these comments?
people are waking up
I thought Russ ran out of missiles two years ago?
Also tanks. Also their pilots weren't trained enough to fly their planes. TH-cam channels have pushed all sorts of ridiculous nonsense and never admitted that they got it wrong. Which is unfortunate in the case of Binkov, as when the war kicked off he predicted the current battle lines. He's been too biased to get much right since though.
Depends how you define "running out". They keep producing/buying new ones, so their stock will never deplete to zero and nobody worth listening to ever did say it would.
On the other hand, you don't use stuff like S-300 or anti-submarine missiles for ground attack if you have plenty of purpose-built ones.
They are running out of men. Losing almost 500 thousand men in a 2 year war, being the country with the lowest birth rate on earth. Tell me how are they winning the war when they retreated more than 600 kilometers from Kiev?
@@chrisbeer5685 They didn't use S-300's for ground attack.
You've been listening to lies.
The S-300's that struck civilians in Ukraine were Ukranian.
Aimed at Russian missiles yes.
Would they have been fired if not trying to hit incoming Russian missiles? No.
That doesn't change the fact that they were Ukranian missiles, fired by Ukraine.
The warhead on them is too small to destroy the vast majority of military targets and they're a valuable resource.
Whatever people want to think about Russia, they're not stupid enough to go to the considerable difficulty (if it's even allowed by the command targeting software) to re-target the missiles from air defence to ground attack.
As for the tanks. Yes, many TH-camrs like Binkov or Covert Cabal did postulate that Russia was indeed "Running out" of tanks to the point they would be defeated.
Did any of that happen? No.
Did they admit fault? No.
Very few western commentators have admitted fault in their predictions when it comes to this war.
well considering that they have been seen using North Korean missiles with confirmed wreckage showing the hwasong has been getting used it looks like they really were running out and decided to find additional sources of weapons from the hermit state.
Incredible how some channels still underestimate the Russians…
Have you not seen what these guys are able to do with shovels & washing machine parts?
Facts
Russia can hardly make offensives against a nation 10x smaller than them, this is hardly an underestimate. In the past six months alone they haven't even taken a hundred thousand in pre war population worth of cities. That is less than .25% of Ukraine. They also haven't even come close to recovering how much they had at their peak in 2022.
@@donaldtrumplover2254 "RUSSIA IS WINNING THE WAR TOO SLOW!"
How can you say that when the Ukrainian commanders are reporting the situation as dire? The russians are facing a new way of war, and no other nation has went to war with another nation with both sides having such high tech and weaponry, but theyve now adapted.
Also, Russia isnt in a full panic mode, if they needed to truly end ukrainian statehood, they could smash ukraine albeit with absolute tragic amounts of uneeded deaths when they can just slowly wear ukraine out, thats their strategy, and its working. besides, ukraine will lose eventually sadly, I wish they could win but get real, stop believing out western media's cope. Im an American and I know the result of modern warfare will take a similar toll on our military. Just look at the losses of equipment in world wars, it happens, and it'll happen in WW3.
@@donaldtrumplover2254Tell me that you have 0 knowledge of war, without telling me that.
You wester behave like you are gods of war, while you have no idea what is really war.
You think that is game, conquere territories etc.
Do research kid, you need education about war. Take history of war and learn, you will get it eventualy.
@@JeZZGro can you give me a historical example of a war of attrition being good than? You only do it if you are struggling. Forcing a nation to outright negotiate is always better.
Before we begin to take this channel seriously. Is this channel one of those who said Zelenski would be in Moscow by the end of 2022, or not?🤔🤔🤔
No
@@bo1bo1bo1unlosodehe's one of the clowns that was hyping ukraine's counteroffensive and then went silent when it failed.
@@lancerevo9747 but he did not
Actually one of his "alternative" scenarios where Russia would attack Ukraine... which came into reality, rather matched what eventually transpired. If I recall, back then he was near certain of a Russian victory. At the start of the war, he was also saying, that Russia is winning against the mainstream media. I just guess, he did this to farm more views.
@@clone3_7 We all thought russia was gonna win. It was insane to think that the number 2 military in the world was gonna struggle in a land invasion with a much weaker border nation. It's just that now, no one is certain. It's crazy that russia still hasn't won after TWO years so who knows.
Thank you Mr. Sock puppet for more entertainment!
Since this war is thr most filmed ever. I would love to see a real time chronological order of the many battles along the entire frontline. It would be hours of explanation and footage of the fighting. including all the various narratives and news from both sides.
a little goulish there - hundreds of thousands are dying and being maimed,
You probably will a year or 2 after the war ends
11:30
"Lesser of two weevils"
I didn't know Binkov enjoyed Master & Commander
What if Russia just wants to level it flat?
What if Moscow was returned to nature?
it"s mostly an american tactic
@@druisteen Grozny, Mariupol and Bakhmut just called and would all like to what the fuck you are talking about lmao
@@cossacks_vodka_enjoyer What about post WW2 Europe
@@druisteen famous american leveling of europe post 1945 lol. Local whataboutism enthusiast is unable to fathom that Russia has a worse track record when it comes to relentlessly bombing shit when things aren't going 100% according to plan than probably any other country in the modern age
Thanks!
Imposible to surround and conquer Kharkiv with a mere army corp
Bots about to complain about “Russian bots” in 3..2..1..
This is not what people in 60 imagined Robot war will be 😢
Look at Newest Comments you'll see Nafo bots there
What isnt called a bot nowadays?
russian bots working overtime today to compensate for lack of Russian air defense the last few days 😂
You literally have a generated username dude. It's funny. Y'all initially got called out for botting on Binkov's videos, so now you are playing neutral "ah look Ukraine bots vs Russian bots"
Not as smart as you think you are :P
Karkhiv is safe because: "Russi@ has already lost the war" - Joe Biden April 23
This is one of those videos that will definitely not age well.
7:18 in the video you have the 20 mil and 25 km switched
Yeap, because the ghost of Kiev is protecting the city.
The aim of this operation appears to be not to take Kharkiv, but rather to prevent it from being a supply hub for the Ukrainian forces in Donbas.
Binkov and it’s copium at it again 😂
When speaking about WW2 isnt it called Kharkov?
In Russian it is called Kharkov, so when it was under the Soviet Union they used the Russian spelling. Since Ukraine’s independence it’s been called Kharkiv, which is the Ukrainian spelling.
Good job giving an unbiased take. Dont listen to all the russian and chinese troll bots.
0:47 such a cute little general ❤😊
I love my Adjutant and have for years now. The only reason I don't have more is that my wife won't let me. Thank you Binkov team for creating the Binkov plushie, he is a beloved member of my family!
Nyawh! ☺
Had to stop the video because I needed to comment that I absolutely LOVE the map you are using for the video.
It isn’t super up to date tho. Look at Chasiv Yar for example: according to the map it’s still fully under Ukrainian control, but they themselves admitted Russian troops have occupied parts of the city
@@yarnickgoovaerts Not true. According to DeepState (the most accurate map since summer of 2022), Russia is merely on the far eastern borders of Chasiv Yar
@@dragonrykr there’re videos that say otherwise
From the Russian perspective it looks like this: no one is going to capture Kharkov, an offensive in the north in several places is needed to further disperse the Ukrainian armed forces. This will make the front more vulnerable to a breakthrough in other directions. Ukraine has problems with mobilization, over these more than two years there are fewer and fewer people willing to go to the front, there are many videos of how Ukrainians are forced to go to the front. It is also worth noting that the amount of humanitarian aid is decreasing; there are not as many volunteers as there were in the first two years of the war. There are also big problems with military assistance. The last time it took about six months for military aid to be approved. It is unknown how long the next aid from the United States will last. All this negatively affects the morale of Ukrainians; moods are gradually beginning to change from the desire to return the borders of 1991 to negotiations on peace with the loss of territories. Plus, additional captured lands in the north will be a plus at the negotiating table.
Maybe their military from late 2021, but its gone...
Wake up.
Even the Pentagon admits Russia today is WAY stronger than they were 800 days ago.
U still believe they will be out of missiles by may-22? Muppet.
@@111076tomstronger? XD I’ll have what your smoking
Баклажан и стыдоба. Балет сидит над грозой. Не пали контору.
@@nathanspreitzer6738 How stupid is it possible to be? Why not google it before you reply like a muppet?
Do you think +800 days of high intensity war gives no experience? Do you think 1000 new recruits per day dont matter?
Of course it`s not for free, but IT IS a fact. Production is up 5x-40x. FFS even the air-force is much more capable.
@@nathanspreitzer6738 FFS even the Pentagon admits it. Why not just Google it before leaving a fools comment?
Binkov and it’s copium it’s making him loose almost every single prediction. I used to like this channel, now is just a propaganda account. Shame on you.
This channel aged like milk.
You're saying that Russia winning the war is inevitable? I'm not sure how that makes sense.
I always enjoy seeing a Binkov notification!
Ok, let's see
I've heard this analysis somewhere before...like the rest of the occupied territories .
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why Binkov has legs?
They only need inexpensive shovels and used washing machine ics..
is this the flex you think it is?
@@shuathe2ndyou have to admit that it's funny though, I always chuckle when a I read shovels and washing machines 😂😂
It's the type of propaganda that I love lol
Russia is not 1942 Red army, ukraine is not peak whermact.
Thanks Captain.
Not for the lack of trying.
Ukraine has been launcing drones and artilleri into civilians in Belgerod. to prevent this the russians said they needed a bufferzone to stop this. they dont need to go all the way to kharkiv to do this because Ukrainien weapons except himars dont go that far. but you never know.
You chose the poor master. One which doesn't love you, pay you well and lie to you.
@@REgamesplayer@REgamesplayer And your "master" loves you, pays you well, and doesn't lie to you? The fact you even said that tells me all I need to know about you.
@@magmegmigmogmug1476
1) My master does love me. However, if we are talking about the nation, then western democracies always come up with far more generous social services. So yes, in fact it does care about me far more.
2) Yes. It pays me well. Without being a ruling class, I can aspire to and own over my lifetime a lot of property. House and second hand cars is something which I can expect if I'm doing what they want me to do.
3) Western media doesn't outright distort facts and is free. I can watch from any independent media outlet what I want to watch. Your master doesn't allow that.
@@REgamesplayerБатрак батат огурец артишок! Погулять и визжать над потолок!
@@REgamesplayer 😵💫😂🤡🎪🤡
"Kharkiv is safe"
So was Bakhmut and Avdiivka, and that was despite the Ukrainians not abandoning the defenses of the surrounding cities like they did in Kharkiv.
bro is saying taking small 20k towns is the same as taking a 1,5m city. Average vatnik.
@@realshot5172Bro really forgot that these small towns were the most heavily fortified for their size over the course 7-10 years and at least one of them were taken when Ukraine was better supplied. Basic Ukrop.
@-el_banditoЖигули купи. Самосвал на руках не помер. Храм гуляж и атмосфера!
@@realshot5172Блок стена и гипсокартон. Поля светит и хлам.
Kharkiv is 1.4 mln metropolis - trouble to take and maintain under military control under best of circumstances. Russia lacks forces to protect rear of assult on the city, much less to carry it out. Blocked is best case for Russia. Though prevaling opinion is that goal of operation is just to create buffer zone from Belograd border and as bonus, stretch Ukrainian forces elsewhere.
Kharkiv is too big... to be defended by Ukraine.
So many biases, this is must be a Pro Zelensky's Slava Ykrainie Propaganda Channel.
at least you learned the word Slava , ruff translation means Party , but with religious connotations , for most Slavic people it holds no special meaning but for South Slavic people Slava is a religious party , every foamily has its own , often a saint , so when the date of that saint comes , foamily calls up larger family members and friends to gather around and participate in it . Most of Slavic people had Slava . Not meaning glory , its more like glory to the saint , and angel protecting the house that respects it .
But Westernization , and i mean Roman Empire Westernization almost eliminated that . For some time Capital of Roman Empire , Eastern Part was not Rome or Istanbul , Constantinople , its was places around Balkans , and they brough their kind of Religion that tried to eradicate Family Slava , but alas it failed .
So we have general word Slava ,that you know from the propaganda , but there is also family Slava , and they all have names , for example Djurdjevdan , Nikoljdan ... those are all Slava's.
And also we have the word Slova , that turned in to Slava , from where Slavic people take their name , it means knowing of letters and language , Sloviti means knowing the language .
Germans were calls Nemci , from the root word Nem , it means , does not know letters , speechless and that is true to this day . From Czechoslovakia , Poland and Ukraine all east to Japan , all Slavic people understand each other , even tho its 100 nations .
While west , its real hard , French dont speak German , Germans dont speak English , and so on .
So now you know 3 different kinds of Slava , one meaning glory , the other party in a religious way , and third meaning knowing how to speak ..
So now you know more .
cope
Hemetskii, "man who doesnt know words" hence why we use немецкий instead of германский @dedskin1
@@Dman6779 Russia uses a lot of Germanized words . there was a lot of Germanisation in Northeastern Europe , so if you are asking why , its because your ancestors did not hold on to their beliefs like Serbian one did .
Told me everything i need to know , even the calendar , Slavic people have a calendar , out own , and its 7533 , not 2024 that is modern Roman calendar .
Some say , but i cant prove that that Slavic calendar dates to the Biblical Flood , but i have no proof of that , its what elders said .
So take it or leave it .
@@dedskin1 "Slava" means "glory" (in earlier ages the meaning was wider, up to "rumors").
No clue where did you get _this_ from.
Regarding so called "Slavic calendar", now is the year 7532 by the Byzantine calendar, which is counting years since the Biblical Creation (5508 B.C.).
But I'm definitely sure where did you get _this_ from. Take my advice: be careful, sects are evil and misleading.
Biblical Flood geographically occurred in Mesopotamia only. BTW it has no connection with the late Ice Age Flood, because the latter was up to 8000 years earlier (before the Biblical World was even created).
7:30 what's up with the random numbers here??
It’s because the western media doesn’t actually know the numbers and makes them to further their agendas because of them pro/Ukrainian very of their governments. Pro- Ukrainian bots, Ukrainian propaganda. My brother-in-law is in the Ukrainian army and often has said that media isn’t reporting what is really happening. They want to make us look as if we are doing better than we are. II isn’t true we are barely holding on. This what he told my wife who is Ukrainian.
If I had to take a guess, I don’t think Putin/Russia would try to invade the north/Kyiv again anytime soon.
Imo, I imagine the goal will be to add all of Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts (as well as the remaining territory of the Oblasts they’re currently in) to give them a solid defensive position on both sides of the river and a big land border with Transnistria and Moldova.
Not to mention that those four Oblasts all have size Russian minorities in them.
Damn the NAFO 31st mechanised TH-cam brigade working overtime today 🤣🤣
Are you part of the Russobots 31st mechanized youtube brigade?
@@imfromisrael489 you could of at least comed up with a different name XD
@@AspieTrips Maybe you could use your brain and realized that its not "comed" and rather it's "came"
@@imfromisrael489 Who cares this isn't a spelling bee. You copied his joke and i was just kidding but you're probably a boomer so ill let it slide.
@@AspieTrips I am 18 years old. And so what if I did copy his joke? It isnt a stand up comedy show is it?
Ukraine is getting their asses handed them
Ivan, it's probably hard to see from your basement, but the Russians have already lost over 3k people in less than a week to temporarily take over a few destroyed villages.
10 villages lost and the Ukrainians are getting their asses handed them?
More than 2 years after Putin launched his SMO, the Russians celebrate with ecstatic joy the capture of that size of territory against a much smaller and weaker neighbor.
How did Russian army-mistakenly regarded as the world's 2nd strongest military-came to this point?
This is absolutely funny. 😂
@@Virgan1209 im sure you have great evidence for these numbers right?
@@Virgan1209Lmao "let's trust the numbers the Ukrainian MoD pumps out, they would never lie, why would they spread propaganda and inflate the enemy's losses?"
@@Botzorzall the fallen on the battle field is a pretty conclusive form of evidence.
The Germans occupied Kharkov in 1941 with 25k guys, I think Russia could do it with 50k plus 25k Rosgardia for rear rechelon/policing
It all depends on how much they can deplete Ukrainian manpower
When they took kharkov, the Soviet army was pretty much in full collapse, what are you on about?
There are 2 millions of people living that that city.
@@ivanbrezina7632
Not anymore.
@@ivanbrezina7632 Many leave.
@@ivanbrezina7632your ears are not working
Where is binkov from?
Croatia.
@@МИЛОШ-ч8и thanks
Are you sure with that info?@@МИЛОШ-ч8и
looking forward to the tutel tonk video 🐢
This estimation is made without considering ukrainian loses and man power... If simple extrapolate loses in few years this offense can be much more easy to be done
Ukraine has lost far fewer troops and has much more people to recruit from
Russia is struggling to get foreigners and prisoners 'recruited' into its army
@@christiandauz3742260 гектаров для одного кладбища под Киевом, это по твоему мало?:))) А сколько всего таких кладбищь на Украине, в одном только Львове кладбищ не меньше, чем в Киеве, если не больше.
@@christiandauz3742А про вербовку зеков из украинских тюрьм на мясо, упомянуть не хочешь? А то, что у РФ недостатка в личном составе нет - факт, каждый месяц подписывают контракт более 30к добровольцев.
@@christiandauz3742А про вербовку иностранцев и пленных изо всех сил ты услыхал случаем не от Помойки-ВВС, тогда становится ясно:)))
@@christiandauz3742 Even the dumbest propaganda works on you huh
You made a plushie and it's not a puppet? That's a missed opportunity if I've ever seen one.
Wow, Russian bots are heavy today, must mean this is a well made and highly informative video!
In all seriousness though thanks for the clear eyed assessment Binkov.
Its so funny, they all act like the insane losses russia takes for each objective are all negligible.
They lose their minds over acouple of Abrams losses, yet when another russian armored column gets blown up for a 1km advance it gets almost no attention because its "normal".
“Anyone who disagree with me is a Russian bot”
its like you lot use this bot claim to help you dismis the, frankly more compelling arguments put forward in russias favor. why dont you try to point by point rebuttal the examples you are referencing. im willing to bet you are not able to.
@@scatterlite2266 you are building a straw man argument. those who follow the footage and data in detail never argue that russia is losing columns per km at all. because the data doesnt support that. the satellite imagery of ukrainian mass grave creation supports a near 1 million death toll on the UAF's whilst nato sources most recently put russian deaths at under 100k. i bet you cannot counter my point with objective critique.
@@03056932 And here we see yet another bot, attempting to mimic human speech, but utterly failing to understand the context of the comment, or what the point of the comment is. Indeed, it only knows that "bots" have been mentioned and parrots out a pregenerated response thinking this sufficient to create doubt in the average viewers mind. The random numbers for a name is also a dead giveaway.
Russia is not after conquering some land but defeating Ukrainian forces by reducing numbers.
Keep coping meat wave!
when will you turn the page and start saying Kharkiv is not an important city to hold? LOL Keep coping.
Exactly.
Copium on your end brother
Diversion to fix Ukrainian reserves to the north and allow to a major push in the est?
diversion with possibility of free territories 😂
That seems more likely than a massive helping of urban warfare.
Binkov plushy? I will call him...Blinky
Binkushy?
@@looinrims Binkush 🚬
Love your videos.
Great analysis and video. Looking forward to the turtle tanks!
The copuim runs deep in you!
Trolls gonna troll.
Found the reprehensible despotic simp
In what way?
What he stated is the current state of affairs. To take Kharviv, Russia will need a lot more soldiers than it has committed, but as he also said, this may just be a shaping operation in support of another.
He's just theorizing what Russia is doing. He said they have taken more territory....... where is the cope?
Can't they besiege the city and wait for their surrender? Or is that too risky for Russia?
did you not watch the video? their approach towards the city itself would be heavily contested over open fields
Well they cant seem to reach it. I think it might have to do with some "slight resistance" basically its just a static front now like all the rest, ukraine has digged in.
@@sakariaskarlsson634 Ah yes, that makes sense.
in come the Russian bots
and shovels...
Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is a bot.
If you really support Ukraine, you should realize that continuing the war is a waste of human life and will only result in more losses of people and territory for that country.
@@cat_city2009And Russia does not lose anything?
@@HeichE944
Well no. You generally don't lose anything if you win a war.
@@cat_city2009 So no soldiers killed, equipment lost or economic damage? Aight bro
Kind of wild seeing the Russian comments telling others to 'cope' when the special military operation that was only meant to take a week has dragged on for more than two years with no end in sight against a much smaller adversary. I hope it is all worth it in the end...
The special military operation in which no one could predict what modern warfare would look like. Nato trained Ukrainian troops just lost this territory to FRESH TRAINED Russian troops that could be seen on camera not 100% sure of how to conduct themselves, so much for Russian bots, Ukraine is losing….
@@Freyia935If NATO trained and armed Ukrainian troops, the Ukrainians would have taken Moscow already.
@@Freyia935 LOL Russia is (officially) spending 8% of its GDP on this war. Much more if you count old equipment that sat in storage. Russia is throwing all it can at one of the poorest countries in Europe and still has barely managed to gain any ground in over a year.
@@JeffPar50well calculate the amount of western aid or to be exact western debt
@@vacoff2717 Come on brother 🤣If you combine all Western military aid that Ukraine has received from the West it is still less than half of what Russia has spent on this war. Much less than half if you also count the Soviet stock that Russia is depleting. The Western military aid is not in cash, it is in equipment. No debt was taken out for that. How does it feel that your countrymen are dying because your 160cm tall dictator got a bit angry?
Если взять Волчанск и Купянск, то большая территория у ВСУ подвиснет в потенциальном котле около Великого Бурлука. Об этом возможном направлении удара говорится в 12:00, но без упоминания Печенежского водохранилища, которое сильно ограничит логистику ВСУ после уничтожения мостов и переправ и значительно облегчит задачу РФ. Вообще рисовать стрелочки без карты высот, без водных преград и построенных укреплений противником - бессмысленное занятие.
Little question russian boy.
What makes you think you have the right to invade ukraine....
But Scott Ritter says Russia is going to take Kharkov, how does he square the circle, or is he simply talking to an unknowing audience while pulling Putin's sled.
Scud Ridder is a paid propagndist and mouthpiece. He regurgitates putin & gangs statements almost verbatim, there's a clique like him that are on russian payroll, colonel mcgregor and daniel davis are two others, they should be registered under the foreign agents act... either they were shunned by the establishments in their own country, or felt neglected / not listened to meaning they have some form of gripe, or in the case of ridder is not employable and turned bitter after his arrest & sentencing
There is nothing difficult or impossible about taking Kharkiv. Most of the people who are saying that it is are depending on experiences from 2022 and not looking at the war as it is being fought today.
The most difficult position to take in the entire war so far was avdiivka. That place was arguably the strongest fortified area in the world and many people said it could never be taken. And yet in spite of that, they did take it.
Kharkiv is just a large city. No different than many other cities that have been fought over in the war so far aside from its scale. They will take it block by block and street by street if that is what they intend to do.
Ukraine can defend it, but the only way they will be able to defend it is by putting a disproportionate amount of military force there.
@@Jim-Tuner But Putin has said they don't want to take Kharkov. Got to be a reason. So guess you all have to change your tunes?
@@Sparabara-bx6xi He is going to change the narrative now following Putin's statement.
@@IronWarrior86 I talk about war. I don't care about what politicians say.
There are various people on all sides suggesting that this operation is a feint designed to lengthen the line and draw away Ukrainian forces from other areas.
But only time will tell on that point.
What I have said is that taking Kharkiv isn't impossible from a military point of view.
I’ve seen some say that Russia may just want to get in artillery range of the city to pressure it (or at least use the threat of that possibility to redirect Ukrainian troops.
The problem with understanding Russians mastery of chess is the US wars of checkers 😉
@@historybuff07 let’s not pretend that the knuckle-draggers in Moscow know any more
@@norad_clipsare you quoting Hitler?
@@historybuff07 wut
@@norad_clipsСоль иголка для унитаза.
A video that does not take into account Ukrainian casualties and NATO's lack of ammunition. Another analysis that will age like milk.
A comment that doesn’t take into account russian casualties and Russia having to beg North Korea and Iran (and now China) for arms. Another comment that will age like milk
@@mediocremodeler5174 Russia is buying the weapons from those nations. If it pisses the US off in the process, that is just a bonus. DPRK is a creation of the old Soviet Union, Iran is a neighbor, China is the largest manufacturer in the world and they buy OIL... -- yeah.. cry about it.. Russia has friends.
@@mediocremodeler5174 Sorry but you can't seriously compare Russian casualties and it ability to replenish to that of Ukraine nor Russia relience on other countries VS that of Ukraine.
Ukraine mobilized several times and already depleted it troops now it's facing a big crisis.
Russia didn't even start mobilization yet and half of its current army is not even inside Ukraine yet.
Russia manufactures the overwhelming majority of its equipment despite thousands of economic sanctions.
On the other hand Ukraine relies entirely on western aid militarily and economically, the minute that aid stops it will collapse immediately.
@@starchild692 TL;dr
The losses of both sides are uncertain and there is concealment by both sides about their losses and an exaggeration of the opponent’s losses
But according to what it seems to me, Russia’s losses, including the losses of the territories it annexed, amount to 90k dead . Ukraine’s losses are not confirmed but in most cases they are equal to or slightly more than Russia’s losses
And now bhakmut is not important how interesting..
Just a comment (or you could call it a warning, I suppose) for Comrade Binkov... while what you are saying about the strictly military issues associated with a possible Russian siege and attempt to occupy Kharkiv is probably (mostly) correct, you are not factoring in the corrosive effect on morale that would be caused by repeated Ukrainian defeats (and forced retreats) in the areas north of the city.
Western war toys notwithstanding, Ukrainian army morale (as near as we can assess it with publicly available evidence) seems to be in the doldrums, and it could collapse altogether if Ukrainian front-line units on the line of combat contact, start disintegrating (or running).
In that scenario, all bets would be off, regarding "what can the Russian army accomplish, with so few troops". As I seem to remember, in 1940, General Gamelin was pretty sure that the Wehrmacht didn't have enough soldiers to defeat France and occupy Paris.
even many german generals thought that and warned of millions of casualties needed to win
Time isn't an issue for Russia. This war could last 10 years and Russia will still be fighting. How much longer would the west continue to support Ukraine? I think Russia's goal is to out last the west's support for Ukraine.
What makes you say that?
Russia fought and lost in Afghanistan after 10 years, with only about 10,000 kia.
I don’t see this thing lasting more than MAYBE 2 more years, if that.
@@nobodyherepal3292 That wasn't Russia, that was the USSR. They're different things, you know.
10 years of war economy are too much also for Russia...
@@borealis8uno Russia is fastest growing economy in Europe for 2023
@@solinvictus39 They are different, modern Russia is significantly weaker and less influential than the USSR.
Kharkiv push was to force ukraine to pull troops out of the donbass
Lets not confuse soviet union with russia. Its not the same entitiy.
Agreed.
But there's some carryover.
The institutions. The people running those institutions. The culture and learned norms that led to establishing those institutions.
USSR to Russia wasn't a clean slate.
@@shanerooney7288 So by that understanding, you can say same for Nazis Germany or Nazi in general.
You’re talking to people who believe this civil war started in 2022 😂
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Well, let's consider it:
A lot of the underlying factors that produced WW2 also existed for WW1. The rule of the Nazi party, despite being quite distinct from anything before or since, didn't start with a clean slate. And didn't pass on a clean slate.
Let's take a quick look at the influence of Operation Paperclip in USA. Some of those Germans became major influences in NASA, RAND corporation, Brookings Institution, and Hudson Institute. Which then go on to have an impact on US policy.
Now back to Germany. Instead of a few foreign scientists, imagine EVERYONE in EVERY company being a holdover from the WW2 era.
How to say it? Wounds heal but scars remain.
Both are Moscows empires.
ukraine is not fighting the same army from 2022
Russia is WAY stronger today than 810 days ago...
Even Pentagon admits that.