Battle for Kharkiv: German MG3 jams forcing border guards to retreat 

Isn’t there well known overheating/ barrel problems with the mg42-43 platforms?

the bad artisan always blames his tools for poor performance.....a bit what Zelensky is doing on a repetitive basis...blames everyone but his and his generals and oligarchs corruption and incompetence

@@larrylightfoot8738 nah thats the mg3 it has less fire rate and is made for short controlled bursts then no problem

Or it could be it’s seen A LOT of wear an tear. I’ve heard other stories of the MGs jamming due to extreme use on the Ukrainian front.

@@JeanLucsNerdBrain cope

True it sucks when they like to scare people with these type of titles Ukraine knew the Russians were coming but they couldn’t use the western weapons they got at the moment the us has allowed Ukraine

Stop calling this boyscouts natotrained

Well the ukrainian border guard surely didn't look prepared.

@@bluewizzard8843 The west literally had ukraines hands tied. While Russia was amassing troops at the border, Ukraine wasnt allowed to hit them until they crossed into the border due a stupid policy the west has where ukraine cant strike into russia

It's like they've been talking about an offensive for months lol

Touch grass

И те и другие нацисты.

Так же как и в 1943 ем году,будет hoholpig бежать быстрее пули😂😂😂

​@@user-uz7rl4wy5uYou're getting things mixed up. The fascist regime that is invading other countries is now sitting in Moscow and German weapons are supporting the fight for freedom against the aggressor.

mmmmmh just that they defend against the east now, instead of attacking it!

These guys are border police. They have all the kit, but they are not military trained. But the lack of preparation in the area suggests something has gone very wrong, because this has negligent or corrupt leadership all over it.

@@DJSockmonkeyMusic Or . . . THEY ARE BORDER POLICE! There job is to look at passports and stop smugglers.

Since you know so much why don't you go fight ? You know .. instead of being a couch commander 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

NATO trained, what do you expect

Very easy for you to commentate from the comfort of your home

I believe things like what we see in this video, are the reason the Ukrainian commander of this direction got removed from his post. ^^ Such severe under-training is far from widespread.

Nevertheless, the Ukrainians knew early enough what was coming and could have acted much earlier and mobilized and trained their people! The same applies to the defense line that is currently being built; this could all have been done much earlier.

they are border guards and not regular military so that is probably why.

it's what happens when the only troops they can find are people who dont to be there, and who they literally kidnapped on the streets, forced into a van and brought them to the frontline

@@user-eq4fe7zu9b The same could be said about Russia and its African soldiers, and minorities from Asia.

​@@z0h33yThe difference is they do not drag peoples whithout their consent from the street

@@z0h33yTrue but the conversation is about Ukraine not Russia. Every time someone says something bad about Ukraine they reverse the conversation to Russia and saying how they do it 2x worse which is not true.

How often have you been in combat? Trench mudhole combat like this?Thought so. I guess in Iraq no weapons ever jammed. And that was hardly filthy muddy trench battles. Mud and water are worse than sand mr expert.

Being worried about reputations when you fighting for your life against a genocide is a wild take 😂😂

except for the Russians its showing the power of Russia did you see there fking satalite missle what are we doing messing with Russia U.S. should be creating friendship not enemys

@@scottp8461 he still has a point. Yes its war, yes they were under fire. There are a lot of variables that we don’t see in the video. That being said. Training and maintenance is a must wherever or in whichever war you are in. Function checks is a thing, probably not test fire as they are on the line. Take care of your equipment and it will take care of you. Most of the time. The attacking force, for the sounds of it did not have a mg as well. Perhaps, claymores could have also supplanted their defense. Either way, we are all sitting here and don’t really know the situation.

​@@SK-if1ycRuzzians are building NATO to new levels. The war ends when they drop their weapons and walk home.

They didnt lost. Their main job is to be a scout or alert. Basically they are not in the main defensive line.

​@@jeffnaval4894They run away 😅

Ukrainian border guards job is just to scout ? ....no its to defend and hold the line preventing russians from further advancing into the donbas region. So yes, if the defending gaurds, retreat and are no longer defending then.....they lost, no ?​@jeffnaval4894

@@sinisterbrook7499 The scout is near the border and they only put small troops near the border knowing they won't be able to hold it. Their main job is not to defend the position but just to report & slow down the russians. They doing slow retreat and head to the main line and that gives more time for reinforcement to arrive at the 1st main defensive line.

@@jeffnaval4894 My main point is that they don't know which direction to retreat to! Watch the video. They don't know where they are going. And no, they are not just scouts. They are border security and are used as regular units. They don't have enough men to deploy regulars there.

A film in the style of "if you were trained by British military , you have no chance of surviving in this case "

@@Gorsky69 These are Ukrainian militarized border guards - they were certainly not trained in the West. This does not change the fact that in Ukraine they were not taught the basics of survival on the battlefield. The important thing is that they survived... and I hope they will learn from it for the future.

@@veritaspk Really? More than 650 Ukrainian border guards have been trained in the UK under the Interflex program since the beginning of 2024.

@@Gorsky69 The entire armed forces of Ukraine currently consist of almost a million people - 650 people is not even a drop. Poor training of some units is the reality of this war - Russia pushes people to the front without caring about training and losses, and Ukraine, in order to survive another day, often has to send an equally poorly trained army. The Ukrainians are in a better situation because they defend in fortified positions where lack of training is less likely to end tragically. The Ukrainians were in a mess, but they withdrew from their position without any losses, and what happened to the attacking Russians who had no cover? They probably didn't gain this position without losses, and if they were unlucky and the MG3 worked, they would have been massacred.

@@veritaspk Dude, Ukrainian border guards undergo military training in Britain all the time, as well as joint exercises . More than 15,000 Ukrainians have received military training in Britain. In the summer of 2021, the State Border Service of Ukraine took part in the Ukrainian-British exercises "COSSACKMACE - 2021". The exercises involved joint planning and execution of battalion-tactical level operations. It was expected that the exercises would improve the coordination of actions of Ukrainian border units and NATO units during defensive and offensive operations. Russia trains its own soldiers in its own state , operates with small forces and therefore has minimal losses . Just look at the Ukrainian military cemeteries with graves to the horizon and look at the Russian ones. "I don't want to say anything against our partners, but they don't understand the specifics of our situation and how we act at all. Therefore, their training can be said to be useless," Opendemocracy said, quoting the statement of the senior sergeant of the reconnaissance company of the newly formed Ukrainian 41st mechanized brigade. That's what all Ukrainian soldiers and officers say . It is clarified that Western instructors had no experience in waging a real war and training recruits during conflicts that would be similar to the Ukrainian one. They don't know how to fight against Russia. "For many years, Western armies and their defense industry have been focused on fighting poorly armed rebels in the Middle East," the publication says.

did Putin sent his kids?

​​@@victorsmall7 кого? Двух дочек ?

@@victorsmall7better also check on all those tough guys in his circle and the propagandists on his tv networks saying “there is no greater honor that dying for the motherland as a man” a bunch of rich elites brainwashing there population into stalins playbook all over again…Putin will soon top the amount of dead Russians caused by Stalin before he dies…and he will consider that a honor before burning in hell for his countless sins

@@victorsmall7 Putin did not send weapons to Mexico to attack America as Johnson did in Ukraine

If you wonder that, you're an idiot

Nice and bright blue also , some kind of concealment to in that environment , might as well be neon orange

@@pq2015 yee its not a mandatory switch at that point, surely it can go longer and deffently would not worrie while in a fire figth. But i seen that amount from shooting burst doing a range day and seeing it being loser at evening maintenace. also barrel change every 150 shot if full auto, without cooling periodes. but in general i swapped spings several times on my sections lmg doing. an excercise. and daily doing live fire periodes, as it is a few cent item. and our kits had like 10 in the small box.

Lmfao!! So he has to do all this whilst under attack, shovel and washing machine chips the Russians are using don't have all this issues same with AK-47

both of them are ex soviet so familiar with PKM

Зачем такое оружие за которым надо постоянно следить!? Нежели ак-47 который пролежал на хранении 50 лет, и защищает тебя без отказно при любой пагоде.

To me it looks like that barrel was not proper lockd... har to tell in the dark video.

Do you have a compass?

@@andrewphillips8341 is he a soldier who is fighting in a war?

When using a compass and map, you need to know where you are and where you want to go. You can fix your present location on the map by sighting two known landscape features on the map and then know the compass direction to your destination. In a forest if you can’t see any land marks, you would be walking blind in a direct you hope is right. The soldier did have a compass in the translation in the video.

@@andrewphillips8341 It is morning and the sun rises in the East. These so-called soldiers really ought to know which way Ukraine is and which way Russia is.

@@Sifat_Rashid clearly not, who dead reckons under fire? 😂

Basic skills like land navigation are the same whether you are trained for counter insurgency or World War 1 trench warfare. I would say they folks had less training than what would be ideal. In a war like this, that happens.

@@jg2072 French military sappers are teaching Ukrainian sappers mine clearance in this way right now - to remove a mine from the ground, put it in a special container , take the container to the landfill and detonate it there . German tankers and sappers suggest that Ukrainians just go around minefields . Such fantastic stupidity exists only in Western armies , where they do not know what a real war is .

That is true, in my last year i felt that it was only us oldtimers that know how to fight in real war. But now they are back on track..

To determine where north, south, east and west is, I don't have to be a well-trained soldier. My daughter already knew how to find the direction during her first year of german school!

​@@m.e.k.8810 Она готова встать на защиту великой Германии от российского вторжения ядерным оружием!😅

Thank you for your insight mr armchair expert

There are some sort of less militarized border guards and now they got some poorly training with some guns they are not professional or even normal soldiers.

Morale in low in the ukrainian army. They are realising that they are losing.

@@bluewizzard8843 I agree with you !

​@@bluewizzard8843 That is not true, PRO-RUSSiAN🇷🇺🤣😆😆😆😂🇷🇺

They do. That’s what he says « we have a compass ». They want their geolocalisation. They don’t have gps because it is jamed on the front of course. A compass doesn’t tell you where you are.

And someone with some general knowledge doesn't need a compass! Moss always grows on the north side of the tree!

@@m.e.k.8810Not true

@@m.e.k.8810 Trust your life on that dude.

We the tribe never use compass or anything we have instinct😅

Settlements very close to the border, fortifying them was to be within reach of the Russians, workers and engineers cannot be put in danger.

@@iadestruction1260 And why didnt they mine the border?

Zelenskyy snorted the budget away.

​@@iadestruction1260lol. Yet Russians did it with the Suvorkin line. Remember the Western media making fun of it? Now everyone is asking what the hell was ukrane doing for the last two years.

@@havanasyndrome3024RUSSIAN TROLL

Geht mir genauso, 20 Jahre Bundeswehr und noch nie ein MG geschossen das versagt hat!

Ja genau das ist der Punkt. 20 Jahre Erfahrung mit dieser Waffe. Das da sind aber vielleicht Soldaten, die vor dem Krieg vielleicht etwas ganz anderes gemacht haben. Die hat man zwangseingezogen und ohne Ausbildung aus der Not heraus an die Front geschickt. Dazu kommt, dass die Bundeswehr Haufenweise alten Schrott in die Ukraine schickt. Auf dem Papier sind wir einer der größten Unterstützer, die Realität auf dem Schlachtfeld sieht aber anders aus! Ich kann nachvollziehen, wieso die ihre Stellung verlassen haben und die mangelhafte Ausrüstung zurück gelassen haben. Wenn mein Leben von einem Stück Schrott abhängen würde, würde ich genauso handeln!

das mg sieht wie geleckt aus, die müssen den gurt absolut fatal eingelegt haben damit sowas passieren kann

@@m.e.k.8810 Natürlich müssen die Kameraden auch gründlich ausgebildet werden. "Wir schicken denen mal ein paar MG" allein reicht nicht!

@@mrmarkymarcus Na ja, das Reinigen, Zerlegen und das Zusammensetzen der Waffe sollten sie auch können wenn sie schlecht ausgebildet wurden! Das ist doch das Erste was man bei der Infanterie lernt! Bei der Bundeswher machen wir das mit verbundenen Augen! (Kein Scherz)

I believe things like what we see in this video, are the reason the Ukrainian commander of this direction got removed from his post. ^^ Such severe under-training is far from widespread.

Yeah, the lack of directional sense was strange, but all the armchair warriors would do worse. Ever hunt in the woods? Even experts get turned around.

Ever heard of GPS jamming, and electronic warfare, It's neat stuff... Hence why they kept losing comms. Mouth breathers like you shouldn't be allowed a keyboard...

I am a hunter,i have in times got lost in the woods.They had the sun up,from what i see it was early morning,the sun is east. From that they should be' in a position to know where their camp is.If they do not know,go west away from the Russians coming from east nord/east.

The sun sets from the east. Seasoned fighter use both nature and tech to navigate. They are clearly not professional troops. It takes time to gain these experience

I believe things like what we see in this video, are the reason the Ukrainian commander of this direction got removed from his post. ^^ Such severe under-training is far from widespread.

Well some of the criticism is valid and im not surprise, ukrainian corruption have failed to setup a proper defence line and lack of man and time mean training get shorter and shorter.

​@@superknightlolboth Russia and Ukraine have corruption but you are right

This is so very true, and can be said in regards to a lot of footage I have seen. Thanks for commenting this!

@@superknightlol Do you even know why? Russians were shelling any kind of attempts to build a defence line, civilian builders died because of this, it's safer to build a defence line somewhere further away from the shelling radius than to sacrifice money and people for something so pointless.

And we're laughing at you, because the majority of critical comments are absolutely 100% true. And if you hadn't noticed, most of these critical comments come from former military personnel. So, I don't know what your issue is.

Hell even I noticed that, they crouched down and faced eachother wtf

So effective that on day 800 of the 3 day sPeCiAl miLiTaRy oPeRaTiOn they have lost half a million men, half of their fleet including their flagship, two AWACS planes, 5000 tanks, two thirds of their attack helicopters, a significant ammount of their fighter jets and pound their chest for taking a small village. 🤡

Maybe we have thermonuclear rakes in Russia in addition to combat shovels and flying washing machines?

Right - please read my comment to this topic. This tool was build for unjamming. KR from SW-Germany

Which NATO has dressed well

Do you call the Nazi army of Hitler's Germany experienced troops?

I believe things like what we see in this video, are the reason the Ukrainian commander of this direction got removed from his post. ^^ Such severe under-training is far from widespread.

@@elektrotehnik94 lets hope so.. although tbh I've seen similar mishaps in other positions.. lack of situational awareness.. not having gaps of at least few meters between soldiers to avoid mass-casualties, neither in trenches, nor whilst moving.. lax approach towards constantly surveying surroundings for enemy movement and possible secretive approaches.. I can understand that after months and months of seemingly unchanging situation soldiers tend to "relax" and get "comfortable" within their surroundings.. BUT, I think it is commander's job to make sure that your troops are ALWAYS ready, regardless of how "calm" it may seem.. I mean for all you know your enemy might be digging a tunnel under you and placing tons of explosives, or secretly and slowly putting snipers within their firing positions.. and all that because you were "relaxed" and didn't think constant surveillance was necessary.. Oh, and another strange phenomena I noticed was that during intensive firefight no one, and I mean NO ONE is even trying to spot an enemy.. both sides just firing away to what they think are "enemy positions".. usually grenades are the actual thing that injures or kills the most troops.. you would think that in ANY combat you would want to have few things.. number one, an overhead surveillance drone, or even two, that would relay EXACT position of the enemy, as well as any armor (tanks, etc) and enemy strength in general.. after drones I would definitely want a close-by mortar team, and depending on terrain, at least one sniper team.. these two assets could potentially suppress any overwhelming enemy force, or enemy's attempts at "breakthrough".. Anyways, lets hope Ukrainian warriors can continue to show bravery and fight valiantly.. lets face it, even the most "professional" armies in the world can make mistakes.. and tbh it is easy for us to talk about this stuff from the safety and comfort of our homes.. I'm quite certain that it is EXTREMELY different situation when you have to dodge artillery, drones and bullets in the heat of the battle.. SLAVA UKRAINI..!!!

That is because this is in the newly opend Kharkiv front. This was not an active front and ukraine did not have resources to invest right on the border as their air defences could not effectvly combat russian aircraft. Combined with that these troops are not proffesional soldiers and this attack came as a suprise thus no large amount of armoured vehicles and artillery. More fortifications are built further inland. Also remember this is not a american or western european militairy. There is no resources everywhere. Only on the active battlefield.this is not some marines in afghanistan. This is how active full scale war looks like. We in the west are just not used to it.

Not really. The russian forces are light troops. Not suplied with tanks or heavy air support. Artillery is there. But for russian levels. Very light. Ukrainian troops are forward borderguard. Fortifications are built further inland because of concerns about air defenses and these units have no heavy machinery nor artillery. When 2 of such groups meet. Especially with low line of sight it practically turns into a really tense airsoft match.

shooting aimlessly is not only in this footage but almost in every video i saw since the war started but no one wants to point at it for propaganda purposes.

You speak as if you would do better, keyboard warrior. They most likely fresh recruits. Im pretty sure if they could see them, they would take better aim. But it’s a dense forest, they cannot see them, nor do they know how many they are engaging, hence why they just fire in the Russians general direction.

@@sonwukong7077cope ukro bot

@@sonwukong7077 its called fire suppression,jeesh...probably the greenest troops defend the border...

Whats yur MOS ?

Are you a former German soldier? Not World War II, I hope?

When mention hitler, you mention putin. Zelensky did not attack other country. putin did, like as hitler

​@@PeaceForEveryone91how many countries has the US/UK invaded illegally? Do you refer to their leaders as Hitlers? Let me guess - you can't call your owners that. 😁

@@PeaceForEveryone91 What? That is an oversimplification of the situation. Putin is exactly the opposite of Hitler. if he would be like Hitler he would have destroyed Ukraine in a few minutes. Yet as we know, less civilians perished in more than 2 years that in Gaza in 7 months. Putin is one of the last leaders with commons sense, honor and courage.

​@PeaceForEveryone91 putin is not coming anywhere close to what Hitler did. If he was like that ukraine was gone done in a few days. You guys really miss Hitler or something or have no history knowledge 😂

@@dissco.partysan3333 no I am not, but you are the person who oversimplified. You oversimplified hundred thousands life of both Russian and Ukrainian soldier and citizen which wasted by Russia invasion. You also oversimplified the actions such as attacking Ukraine dam by missiles on March 2024, or attacking social heating system in 2022&2023 winter, or shelling nuclear electricity factory etc. These activities executed under putin's command. I think you should go to Ukraine destroyed towns and tell to people at there that is the honor from mr.putin?

Wrong: It was 1969 !

Before it was MG42.

My fault... G3 is 1959, MG3 is 1969 I apologize

@@vaterunser3879 Eine persönliche Frage: Haben Sie gedient? Gruss aus dem Süd-Westen

Ага, накидали прямо как твоей матери за щеку

They don't know how to maintain it properly, of course something like that will happen

Germany's shameful experience forced her to fight Hitler's war again with Hitler's armaments by the hands of Ukrainians.

The Nazis are on the other side!

@@juri699 I only see these bandera nazis there

Er hat den Gurt von der falschen Seite eingelegt. Hast leider Recht mit der Ausbildung!?

😂😂😂😂😂

@@eckbertneugebauer Den Gurt kann man doch beidseitig einlegen!?

@@hugosbalder6139 Danke für die Antwort, wusste ich nicht, wider was gelernt. Danke!

@@hugosbalder6139 Kann man mit Gewalt, macht aber keinen Sinn, also eher nein

Because they built their dugout in a place where they cannot see anything due to all the trees and bushes.

Mind marking where the ruzzians are in this video for me? How are some of you so dumb...

thats actually very normal its estimated 150k rounds had to be spend in ww2 to kill one man in vietnam the usa estimated to fire 65 k rounds to kill an enemy

The machine gun is a multiplier. 1 machine equals 3 rifleman (firepower). Plus this looks like a hasty defensive position. This is NOT the main line of defense. You play too much call of duty, war is not rush the enemy and shoot everytime😂😂😂

@@Tikii_9 if this is was a video from Russian POV you would have been saying totally different things

silly fellow

@@simulify8726 No not really because this video is NOT of Russians. The Russians are “advancing” as of now, your just hurt that Russia has already lost it’s reputation as the almighty Russian Military everyone fear to only get held off by a neighbor for over 2 years and lost more casualties than the Americans did in the whole Middle East, Vietnam, and North Korean War combined. Russias eating dirt boy.😂

@@simulify8726 indeed

Not today, ruzz bot.

Take them pills

? yea repeating itself just in reverse, its the soviets that are invading, you are correct.

База

One of the "towns" the Russians flattened with a pair of fab500s was literally two farmhouses with small compounds full of chickens and goats. They killed more livestock than anything else, and couldn't even take the "town" in the end. Something is definitely not right in the Border Guard and the district defensive command. I'm not surprised Russia are doing this, but I expected some preparation. These guys are hopeless. They're very lucky to have lived, walking out of cover like that.

​@@DJSockmonkeyMusic😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂,you are monkey

​@@DJSockmonkeyMusiclol nice cope. Russia captured 9x as much land in 4 days as Ukrane did in 6 months of counteroffensive.

​@@havanasyndrome3024😂 where? Which offensive? This current one in the kharkiv region? Pff they've barely pushed into Ukrainian territory and if ur talking about the russian offensive for bahkmut or avdivka don't even get me started took since 2014 to take both those cities 😂😂

@@justinperry3791 clown, I'm talking about Russia capturing 12 villages in 4 days, which have an area 9x that of what ukrane captured (i.e. Robotyne out whatever that tiny village was called).

Which Country? Pakistan? Turkey? MG3 is old but simple. Please read here my comment. HK has nothing to do with that - do not compare apples with strawberries. Kind regards

agreed! are you british?

Do zadnjeg ukrajinca.

Lmao dumb bot

Давай, давай, борись до последнего украинца! А потом русские возьмутся и за тебя, козлина, и отомстят тебе и за своих, и за погубленных вами украинцев, они суки тоже русские!!!