How Russia Prepared for Ukraine’s Counteroffensive | WSJ 

"Hands, legs and heads cut off with axes, people torn by horses and nailed to doors, bellies cut open by pregnant women, wells filled with bodies - all this cruelty shown in the movie "Wołyń" can be taken literally. It was so." Quote from the article. The cult and fanaticism that surrounds the Nationalists of the OUN-UPA and SS Galizien in Ukraine, who are responsible for the genocide against Jewish and Polish civilians during World War II. Let us condemn the cult of cruelty and hatred.

The NATO Group has become the face of . . . .

Слава России!!!

​​@@lpaybacktimel you better shout now , soon russia is not existing 😂😂😂

​@@kimpedersen4746 if russia loses, it will still exist, if ukraine wins, it will be in ruins and the population are all happily living abroad

Так эти эксперты вынуждены говорить то, что хотят слышать те, кто проводят политику американского фашизма на Украине. Если эксперты скажут иное, то их лишат работы, доходов, есть риск того, что их убьют. Вот и вынуждены они, эти эксперты, говорить то, что хотят слышать реакционные, шовинистические круги финансового капитала США, проводящие политику открытой террористической диктатуры на Украине.

I mean this war is really interesting cuz we dont seem to understand (me aswell for awhile) that one or 2 small counteroffensives cant decide whole war these days Same with 2022s ukraine offensives where we thought Russia will be gone, same rn where ukraine failed and we think they will fall soon since this year didnt accomplish anything for them Both media are idiotic and the succeses are from parts we cant predict, for example Himars offensive

@@ConquestadorExplore Its really sad situation, because people are dying, its so stupid they didn't sign deal in beginning of this nonsense

@@user-yc1sk9mp1rстолько патетики про американский фашизм, но люди гибнут лишь там, куда русская свинья сунула своё рыло. Массовые захоронения гражданских видны из космоса считай возле каждого «освобождённого» рашистами города, или скорее его руин.

@@alexkon7111what deal in which nonsense?

They actually reached it, but ran against a freakin wall.

They reached the border of the 1st line of defense but their casualties in armour and soldiers are too high that they cannot continue and reach the city of Tomask.

@@overdrivelzma.9219 There is one location where the UAF have reached (and actually breached) the first defense line. This is in Zaporizhzhia region on the axis towards Verbove village. On the rest of the hundreds of kilometers long defense line they haven't even gotten close. Even without the high casualty rate they would never reach Tokmak. Google "Ukraine control map" there is a good map out there with OSINT on unit positions, engagement and exact locations of fortifications. The entirety of UAF offensive operations have taken place in the Russian security zone. An area of "no man's land" in front of the Russian lines where Rusia has been conducting a mobile defense. From the very start it has been clear (and verified by western and russian sources alike) that Russia would be more than okay with giving ground in this security zone if needed. The fact that several months into the counter offensive the UAF still hasn't pushed all they way through this security zone is saying more than enough. They haven't even been able to recapture an area which Russia was willing to withdraw from if needed. Imagine how they are going to fare against the Russian main defensive lines which Russia is NEVER going to willingly withdraw from? They only managed to push until the first such line in one place, they did that 2 months ago. Russia is currently on the offensive again in that specific place...

@@overdrivelzma.9219Tokmak

Correct, people forget that first line of defense is meant to be reached so they can be pounded.@@chimei-tekinaneko8318

Wonder on what sofa did those "experts" sit while theorizing

All these "Experts" are more wrong than right.

Ukrainian point of view: They are no thread. They just stopped us. But that's something completely different!

@@dimaker64 они просто не уточнили что "если на них не нападать"

Probably the same military experts of USA that used open source map to instruct Ukrainian troops...

And no one say about mine fields, that really stop tanks. Really, first class analysis 😂

this is just wishfull thinking in commentary of this video. everybody knew what will happen. and that ukraine will never defeat russia...

​@@non9886yep, but Russia already lost in the bigger war.

​@@mickeydave6528белый флаг вывесила, войска отступают? Вы там все кастрюле головые? Ваши СМИ самые честные!?😅

​@@mickeydave6528нет, не проиграла. В большой войне проиграл тот кто сейчас не воюет своими руками.

Putin fanboy 😂

@@tomaccino Bot

⁠@@tomaccinoLearn to accept the reality instead of calling others who do so as bots. Living in constant denial and propaganda can only help you upto a certain extent but not in the long term.

​@@tomaccinowhat are you, bot of nato, i dont get it. Ukrain is over. That was obvious from day one. But propaganda and restricted information in west still saying opposite. Ukrainian people suffer only becose old western idea to control Russia, this is i think 5 or 6 attempt of whole Europe to destroy Russia, and every time result is same.

I am from Afghanistan and I must say that unfortunately the minority Ukrainians clowns turned the beautiful Ukraine into worse than Afghanistan, and for what? It’s just absurd not to be neutral between Russia and NATO. They should have been smart but hey sometimes it’s good to learn from own experience;)

При том вручную))

And soon, Russian troops will change Europe map.

Не все поймут😂

Здравствуй фистинг в облаках! Данжен мастер в сапогах! Пропади моя нект доо! Вот он я, вэт тюнс ми он!

Армия - не просто доброе слово, а очень быстрое дело. Так мы выигрывали все войны 🔥

It was obvious this would happen and Ukraine could never defeat Russia as soon as 2022 ended and Russia has started to take it seriously, producing all they could instead of stealing all they could

Ako ze pre nic. Ved ide o pôdu co akoze kupili lichvari a chceli vzkriesit chanat. O pôdu sa bojuje Rusko o ich vlast a lichva by chcela vybudovat novy chanat.

Most funny thing that we want to make a deal with ukraine, maybe even give them Donbass. But they thought that is because we are weak and West is support them...well. wrong choise.

С другой стороны блицкрига у Вовы путина тоже не удалось

@@user-uc7yr7ql3e это неудивительно. 30 -летняя промывка русофобской пропагандой украинских мозгов дала дружные всходы, и это стало главной причиной их ожесточённого сопротивления. Вам, как я вижу, российские оппозиционеры, которых принято называть либералами, тоже промыли мозги, раз Вы так уничижительно называете нашего президента.

America made a war in Ukraine!😡

А теперь включим логику. А почему вы до них не добрались?

@@denisgolovachev6606 там были кусты🤷‍♂

@@jimdigriz6210 ага. И грязь.

​@@jimdigriz6210ахаххахахахахахахахахах

I don't think you want to mess with those armchair generals and their massive assumptions.

No armchair general ever lost a war. Checkmate

None of them would grab a AKM and head east lol

@@nczioox1116 No armchair general has ever been in war. Checkmate.

@@MarxStevens its a technicality joke

For real, this has been a disaster. Entire armored columns pulverized by artillery, mines and KA-52s. It's a crime to send these men on these suicide charges without proper air force coverage.

😂😂😂👍👍👍

Lol

This isn't a movie. Of course it takes time. Also they were just probing across 700KM for weeks.

​@@silentblackholeit is lot easy to defend as compared to advance and attack...now take that defense part with so many obstacles for the advance forces to slow down and also get killed by mines and firepower coming from russians behind those defensive lines...it is surely a suicide mission considering the fact that russians have rights to attack anywhere in ukraine but it is not the same case for ukranians...russia got air support...ukraines dont...russia funds its own war...ukraine is literally on ventilator...tomorrow if west stops the military and financial aid...very next second ukraine will surrender...u can not win a war on an AID..period

And what response of NATO you have expected? Something like "So, why do you need tanks?"

​@@mareksykora779exactly. You didn't change into clean clothes if you are going to play on mud.

Why the West keeps on sending arms and ammunition but not diplomats to help Ukraine end the war is just outrageous.

Bravo

@@warnpassion Ukraine has plenty of food and energy resources. In fact, the West is now investing in Ukraine in order to seize all the resources in exchange for a loan after the surrender. And also because the loan debt is already obscenely large and without reparations Ukraine simply cannot pay it off

Если эксперты скажут о силе России и слабости позиций американского фашизма на Украине, то этих экспертов мгновенно лишат доходов. На Украине сомневающихся в силе России и вовсе убивают.

They never resign, they just fail upward and get promoted to senior level

Никогда не воюйте с Россией. Отто фон Бисмарк

Тут клуб юных клоунов я вижу. Ладно малыши,веселитесь

Merci à vous, Monsieur!

​@@sergeygas6080 ну как там психологические приемы от Зеленского? Беременных небось мобилизуют? Ну ты жди, и до тебя доберутся военкомы

@@sergeygas6080 лучше быть клоуном в интернете чем служащим в ВСУ в мокром окопе

It appears our western media the only effective thing they did it was lying 🤥 🤡

9 months is funnier. UK defence ministers have come and gone and only get more desperate and Monty python ish

Me . sadly many of " us " continue to watch the same "experts"

🇷🇺 👏👏👏

Putin fanboy 😂

@@tomaccinoyou sent 5 the same comments… are you a human, at least?

​@@aeniechkait's a bot account.

@@incrediblyintelligentman2895 oh 😅

Western experts were wrong - i just can't believe it 😂😂😂

They have done so since Feb 2022

Anyone speaking sense or stressing reality was criticised as a Putin Bot as in modern times people actually believe that positive thinking and flags on social media can change reality

😂

Так эти эксперты вынуждены говорить то, что хотят слышать те, кто проводят политику американского фашизма на Украине. Если эксперты скажут иное, то их лишат работы, доходов, есть риск того, что их убьют. Вот и вынуждены они, эти эксперты, говорить то, что хотят слышать реакционные, шовинистические круги финансового капитала США, проводящие политику открытой террористической диктатуры на Украине.

Experts never fight never involve themeselve in War, they only read the books of heroes which was written by coward hands

You must not have seen the video's of quad drones dropping grenades into orc trenches. Oh what am I saying. You are very clearly a war expert! All those war movies you have watched its a wonder both sides dont come to you for tactics! Always seems to be the putin supporters who suffer this kind of brain rot. Must be a coincidence surely. LOL

This reminds me of operation citadel in 1943...the Russians were waiting for them too.

Well have you been wrong

A hundred dollar aluminum bridge goes across the ditch . Here come the tanks.

Funny enough, those million dollar tanks couldn't even reach the anti-tank ditch

Ukie TV says 1.2m lost Inc wounded out the SMO and they are probably under reporting. Analysts have counted over 500k fresh graves

Да, только украина оставила там более 50К людей.

А у меня с Сергеем Владимировичем Суровикиным общее фото есть.Куча охраны,а Человек настолько простой!!!

@@user-gk7un3pe3v а я с Путиным за руку здоровался и ещё с Герхардом Шрëдером ;)

@@user-hm8eh6be8c Ну хоть за руку,а не за кое что другое.)))

Rumors around that the first wave were just cannon fodder to test russian defences

@@shayaldwarka7907 - when it was tested, it was found that there were no more people or tanks for a real counter-attack :-) what a pity for those lives, most of them didn't even want to fight for the Kiev regime :-(

I wish the Ukr people can read this. 😅😅😅😅

See XD Surovikin line RiP

@@KillerInstinct-ch5ojhe knows enough to know Ukrainians are dying in massively. You need to pay attention.

Indeed.

Now, Russian troops are attacking. Zelensky's counteroffensive now lives in his heart.

Yeah !!! They are really SWIFT !!!😂😂😂👍👍👍

Still not near

I am from the future, the first line was pierced, and russian are sending what they have left to stop it before it's too late😊

@@mariocoronel8445 I'm from 2024 and Ukraine has sent everything they had and lost Avdivka 😂

@@mariocoronel8445 i am from the future of the future.. RIP mighty abrahams🐸

I agree with you we in the west are not just stupid but arrogantly ignorant

Caught that too

Is oligarch made razor wire. Is not sharp. All money for razor went to buy house in London.

I seen that too.

it took 15 men to film that (14 of them have no arms now). But if you think it is impressive and you are at least a little afraid of them - they think they succeeded

billions of dollars, no gloves, money being laundered

No gloating

бензин ще не подорожчав?

@@velonuclid , в бессильной злобе надумаете себе перемоги и сами в них свято верите.

Filled with cannon fodder

"Unbelievable" jesus man, that isnt even that long...

@@eliasziad7864 A frontline of a 625 miles...not that long... okay

@@cCiIcCo Compared to other countries, like Yemen or Syria or Libya...

@@eliasziad7864 All countries are smaller than the Ukraine and I can't remember if in any of the three the frontline was as long as in the Ukraine.

Effective? You must not watch much of the war footage. Seems every day there is a new video of Russians getting blown up by drones dropping grenades into their trenches.

Этого срочно на фронт!

​@@user-gp2lr7od1pна чью сторону?

@@samuraiace454 Так сразу и не скажешь. ТАкой ценный кадр нужен везде!)))

@@DedHobbit давай на сторону UA ARMY 🇺🇦? Я из Украины просто. Такие мамкины стратеги нам пригодятся.

@@samuraiace454 Блин...Нам в Россию тоже не помешал бы. Может по пол года будет арендовать его?

Nah...thats Putin's propaganda. Ukrainians says that conr offensive is philosophical operation to scare Russians. Looks true enough for me

Это точно!

330,000 dead Russians. 1,000,000+ wounded Russians. Ukraine's offense is creating "meat grinders" like Bakhmut and Avdiivka to eliminate large numbers of the enemy. The Russians charge forward for political reasons and are slaughtered 20:1. Ukraine attacks where they can acheive their objective or reducing the Russian army without losing their own men. If the Russian army is nice enough to walk into the traps, Ukraine is happy to kill them while on defense and taking few losses of their own. It's like WW1. The side with the better defense strategy and new technology wins. That's Ukraine. Russia will send more conscripts. Who will train them? What armor will support their attacks? Russia has lost. Untrained conscripts are only capable of making "meat wave" attacks into the robotic machine guns of the Ukrainians. If they send more conscripts, their losses will only increase.

Весь ужас в том, что страны НАТО изначально знали, что украина проиграет. Просто задумайтесь над этим - сотни тысяч жизней.

И Наполеона и Нацистов Рейха победили в основном Украинцы, именно у них были наибольшие потери в этих войнах, пока русские сидели в тылах

As expected they burn just as well as the russian tanks.. Tanks used to be the best strat, but that time is long gone.

TBF Ukrainian fortifications outside of Donetsk and Lugansk are the reason the Russians haven't made much progress there.

@@mitchyoung93 I partially disagree... If indeed there were some fortifications that helped, main reasons why Russia didn't progress are the ratio attacker/defender, the overall quantity of soldiers mobilized compared to the front"s length and the relative "restraint" of Russia. For information. In Iraq, US led coalition was more than 1M men with blatant superiority in every sector & a full control of the sky And if Russia is shelling quite a lot indeed... it's not doing it NATO style... meaning carpet bombing from high altitude. Do you know a country attacked by NATO that 6 months after the beginning still had internet, electricity, water? In Ukraine... in Odessa, Kiev, and many many other town.... they are partying in clubs outside.

@@tiamatsmirnov938 We I mainly agree...I just watched a video of the Korean-American dude in Ukraine taking a train to Odessa* and was astonished that Kiev's central train station hasn't been touched or even the trunk lines heading into the station.

@@tiamatsmirnov938 Russia struck a lot of electric lines and power-lines. Power is low.

😧!? 🎉😂

It's a suicide mission for the Ukrainians

They used their shovels, axes and trenches extremely well in the face of Operation Barbarossa and Operation Typhoon to defend their cities from The Germans. Old habits die hard I guess.

​@@The_Indo_Aryanthey use trench digger.

Short time ? Lol you’re funny.

​@@WolfGangFXkid ☕

There is no Russian counter-offensive this summer.

@@timbow614 I was talking about the Ukrainian counter-offensive.

you really think that they were supposed to say something truthful lol. ukraine is winning even now. no doubts. they gonna stick to it even if Russians take Kyiv.

@@sticksjke as cityzen of Russia I confirm even begining of this so called "special military operation" was blunder and inevitable strategic defeat. So in short term Ukraine is not winner too in any further developments. But long-term as part of West they will do better then inevitably degrading and decaying Russia. So WSJ will be not so far from truth.

Slava cocaine! XD

Aged like milk

Aged like vodka.

Agree

Show us how it's done. And please tidy up your living quarters before your departure.

Humans will never change. We have gone from wooden clubs to cruise missiles but at heart will are still just stupid monkeys that learned to use tools.

@@dixonpinfold2582 I'm met with excuse after excuse when I tell Uketards to grab a rifle and head east. Why?

@@MarxStevens Shouldn't you be in dim light inspecting elderly ammunition and rifle barrels for fitness yourself?

@@dixonpinfold2582 didn't think so 😂

Ukraine is in it's way to Moscow

Update: Ukraine is at the gates Of Moscow in winter

@@T-19-Enemy at the Gates 2?

The funniest thing was the experts all summer actually saying this 😂😂😂😂

😂

Wagner отвлек противника в Бахмуте.

They havnt even reached the defense line

@@Nikita-qx8os exactly 😂

@@communist754 HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAHAHAHA

Why the West keeps on sending arms and ammunition but not diplomats to help Ukraine end the war is just outrageous.

@@warnpassion the West does not care about Ukraine. In this war, they saw a good opportunity to oust Putin. which is their long-held dream. as you can see, it didn't work. and their interest in Ukraine is falling

Русские военные это не аборигены в тапках! ☝️

Yeah, and made relations with Russia about 10 million times worse than they've been in decades. NATO couldn't be more wrong if they think Russia is going to just forget about the billions of dollars that got put up against them.

Ukraine was never America's business. Now look at the situation - an obscene amount of money wasted, an even more upset Russia, and a lot of dead volunteers, many of them veterans of America. Way to go Joe!

Funny thing is the audio is 'skeptical blah blah blah' but the video looks very impressive.

Indeed. Why move forward when the enemy comes to you and blows up while you watch....

Вауу! ты так хорошо объеснил.😊

Ukrainian men and western economic will break down on these fortifications. Time is with Russia I think.

Very true

@@petermuller7681still waiting for them to get to the Azov sea

I think if they do get F16s things may speed up but the Ukranians have made some gains, mostly in the eastern part of the southern front.

@@mango2005 твои f16 могут только против бородатых в тапочках, против эшелонированной системы ПВО и современных су35 это 0

Where did you see mountains of corpses? Did you mean on the russian side?

You are proud of terrorists? may be you are also proud of hitler ?

​@@neznabohI have a brother-in-law who lives in Lviv. His friend from the high school days got drafted about a month ago. The guy was 45 yo, never served in the army. He had received two weeks of rudimentary training before being sent to the frontlines in Zaporozh'ie. The first day there, their position got shelled, and the entire squad was wiped out without even encountering a single Russian soldier. The funeral took place two weeks ago. He left behind a wife and daughter.

They don't even defend in towns and villages

Not yet passed the anti-tank trenches I saw on video as M 113 and Stryker at full speed were trapped in one of these anti-tank trenches ended up abandoned armored.

Yes the old authority Argument. I dont need to be a Veteran or expert to point certain things out...

There are online bets on what people think is going to happen.

@@dalton6108 where

@@ReptilianAnusWizzard What happens when the police force is run by people with zero field experience? Sweden happens.

@@ymx7947 what happens when you put up a Strawman like this? 🐃💩 happens

How would "we get past that"? If I'm on land you want, how else would you get me off?

Russia has always been stuck 100 years in the past

boots on the ground is the only way to take over territory

Just because there are trenches being dug doesn't mean it's WW1 bro

MatE2010 And what type of warfare would you like to prefer? AI? you do relies elites can focus more on civilians with this type of warfare as soldiers would hide at a safe distance, when wars start be about who population run low first it ain't gonna be pretty

Russia is laughing, NATO is crying, Ukraine is dying.

Well said

Greatest line in human history.

They are busy with crying.

Great! The Russians have gone on the offensive!

@@user-hk1qn9ue2t That was my point. :D And i am really happy

USA has forced Ukraine to return the Abrams as they fear the impact on arms sales of them facing Russia

Их спасение 149 200 Волга , частота по рации для сдачи в плен 🤙🇷🇺

@@user-ik5ob4nq8b так вроде все лагеря для уZZkих рабсиянцев давно переполнены

Ты поляк?

Da tam ne tolko zuby, tam vylomalo absolutno vse chto tolko mojlivo bylo vylomat. Zapadne tanki vsegda byli i budut bespoleznim metalom

you are right.

Украинцы до них даже не дошли.

Failed says state department

There's a bunch of bridges and dead Russian conscripts that would beg to differ.. oh wait they're all dead.

@@The-KP Ukraine set the objectives to conquer back all russian occupied land. they have shown difficulties and no significant progress made in counter offensive makes any future peace agreement that much more difficult. if they wont negotiate peace until Russia leaves the territories... but Russia sees they are incapable of doing this through force why would Russia leave on their own. in the end there is no way to spin this either this war goes on for decades to try to achieve an breakthrough or any realistic peace agreement would include some land.

And would you believe, according to the official Ukrainian numbers they’ve only lost 30,000 troops in the entire war

@@Matt-yg8ub- Yet, now they are constantly resorting to kidnapping young men to send them to the front lines.

Yea, but did you know now the German Wehacht dealt with French fortifications world war 2? They simply when around it.

@@mandarinandthetenrings2201 Yup, it is basic history taught at a very low level

@@John_Smith_86 Vladimir Putin no General this defensives and his war is a total joke.

@@mandarinandthetenrings2201 Your English is quite poor

I imagine they were miserable to be in during rain and mud season.

Уже некому работать, всe yZZкие заработали себе отпуск на тот свет!

​@@Ars_Istec а с кем вы тогда воюете?

​@@user-ho2dh7fo9pэто прибалт

@Broken_Society123 actually i dont care who wins or lose.. i just love to watch real time war movies.. but in this war.. i choose Russia bcos of the bias of "the (western) world".. if the western started it, they r the liberators.. if russian started it, they become the oppressors...take more aid ukraine and prolongs the war..

@Broken_Society123 They just lost some villages in grey zone but kept high ground around these villages. It's a suicide mission by Ukraine to keep these villages for publicity stunt, nothing else.

Only on the first line of contact, without even reaching the first line of defense. Ukrainian Greatest counter-offensive turns the greatest waste of Western money.

​@Broken_Society123 Which land? Land that Russians never went in? lol

@BrokenSociety966 You later forgot that it is Russia that controls 14.3 percent of the territory of Ukraine. There are thousands of settlements under the control of Russia, and you are talking about some 5-6 villages in the gray zone, allegedly "liberated" by Ukraine in 1.5 months of the "counteroffensive".

Украина :сейчас мы будем наступать и уничтожим Русские войска, дайте техники. Так-же Украина :ой, Русские выстроили, самую сильную оборону всех времён. Так не честно 😢

​@@user-cm1uu6zq3kКляти москали опять обманули! Вот если бы не защищались мы бы их... Ухх😂

Она уже сильнейшая сухопутная армия мира. Дальше будет больше.

Величайшим позором она станет

Россия - это 150 млн людей, воюет или обслуживает армию не больше 10 процентов населения. После войны эти 10 процентов будут посажены в тюрьмы, заклеймены позором на многие года. Что ж тебе даёт это величие, заблудший ты человек, сколько людей погибло...

@@user-ps2gg1kh4uне я, ваша пенитенциарная система. Что ж тебя так смешит? Ты думаешь можно безнаказанно убивать не в чем невинных людей?

@@oleksiyeremenko1143 а мы то и не знали , оказывается после войны с Грузией 080808 всех причастных пересажали 🤣🤣🤣