Meet the UK’s private 'arms dealer' keeping Ukraine fighting 

Ukraine is done, eveyone is pulling out.

Didn’t you hear what he said he make them for film movies war movies

No context Britain

@@wgbhg It's just getting started. Germany and Japan, whose armies devasted the free world seven decades ago are quietly building their militaries. Russia and China form the new Axis and the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and the most other Asian countries make up the New Allied Forces. I don't think North Korea will invade anyone because as soon as their troops leave North Korea...they will defect. It will literally be China-Russia against the World.

So ordinary Ukrainians raise money to buy used refurbished tanks whilst Ukrainian president Zelensky is accused of stealing $400m of foreign aid WTH 🤦‍♂️

Mom and pop arms dealers!

There's money in war!

If he were bad and dishonest he would be a Prigozhin

The dream job

Gotta support local businesses

u are damn right 🤣🤣🤣

I've met Mick. A genuinely nice guy👍😊

You've seen many, eh?

its 2 faced hypocrisy. Anyone else to do it is branded evil and profits off war. Crazy world we live in.

welcome to Ukraine😊

that's probably the future. neo-feudalism, with private armies.

they already have, just look at most major powers armies

It's was a entirely based on fundraises. If you look up the Prytula foundation for more info. The donation from regulars plays a huge part in this war.

That dude is very popular in Ukraine, he has one of the most popular Ukrainian charities

War profiteering never felt so good I'm sure the soon to be dead occupants Will appreciate the gesture

'honest'?????????????????????? Hmmmmmmmm 🤨

Wow,, awesome that, i can work the same

@@eros7872 then do. If you can offer the Prytula charity or the Come Back Alive charity some APCs - they will gladly buy them. We win a war and you make some money along the way, we won't even judge you for profiteering because we want to keep being alive.

its a battle taxi, mostly armoured only against shrapnel and small arms.

Ukraine is done, eveyone is pulling out.

@@wgbhg Everyone is pulling out? Who is everyone? All I see is the West become ever more deeply invested, now granting fighter planes and tanks.

When you consider alot of these guys are driving around in pick up trucks and other non armoured cars, Spartans to them, would be well armoured and reality is most soft skin vehicles could be taken out by a multitude of weapons, Least small arms is one they can cross of that list.

​@@lambertlum1087 Are you shortsighted enough not to see the famously announced spring counteroffensive, expected in a week's time. Or, at least, Russian winter offensive. Nothing will surprise you, I think. Assad must go, Ukraine will win.

Lol

🥳🥳🥳🥳 (CNN) Germany is preparing another massive military package (2.7 billion Euro) for Ukraine. It will contain: - 4x IRIS-T SLM firing units - 12x IRIS-T SLS launchers - 30x Leopard 1 A5 - 20x Marder IFVs - 18x RCH 155 Haubitze - Hundreds of SLM and SLS missiles - Artillery ammunition - 200x surveillance drones - 100x MRAPS - 100x logistic support vehicles

@@dpelpal Latest months, Germany, at last, started active military support of Ukraine's armed forces and, as a result, protecting Ukrainian civilians that didn't flee! Special THANK YOU to Germany people for donating an air defence systems - IRIS-T and Gepard - they are VERY effective against Ruzzian non-balistic missiles and Shahed kamikaze drones!

@@gnatkoloradov5349 Sounds like they're effectrive against russian aircraft too, becuase this morning 2 KA52 Helicopters and 2 Su24 bombers were downed by Ukraine!🥳🥳🥳

I wish Ukraine had some 50 Gepards and appropriate ammunition on February 24th 2022, covering Northern part of Kyiv region... We could then counter massive Ruzzian invation by helicopters and could have saved thousands of lives in Hostomel, Borodianka and Butcha.

not really he watches his countrymen die by their thousands while he visits other countries. Many people engage in this charity work to avoid conscription and allow them to live away from Ukraine

​@@charliederrick1583 Every Tank/APC he brings home he save 100s of lives.

@@charliederrick1583 He already lived in the UK before the start of the war. He is certainly able to contribute more to Ukraine’s defence by sourcing dozens of armoured vehicles for their military instead of being on the frontlines himself.

You can't even take care of the Aborigines 😂

Ukraine is done, eveyone is pulling out.

It isn't that hard with the right paperwork in the US. What is hard is weapons and munitions, especially explosives. In the US thousands of people own private arsenals of military hardware.

vehicles are just vehicles... working guns & ammunition is another story tho!

@@wgbhg source: putins hairline

@@rickjames18 It's exceptionally hard to purchase armoured vehicles in the US. They are very rarely sold to the public from the US government when surplused. There is a big trade in ex-UK armoured vehicles going to the US to collectors.

This world certainly is fucked up right now isn’t it👍🏼😂

And he wants a mind bogglingly huge price before he'll sell them, and yet the Belgian government is still in their 25 year deliberation phase before saying "We have seized your vehicles. Here's the price you bought it for plus 30%, now be glad we don't throw you off the nearest tall building."

@@nvelsen1975 wth are you talking about dude xD our government is very reasonable.

@@noidontthinksolol I'm talking about Belgium being a failed state and a meme at the same time, where it takes on average 30 years to make a decison, and what they decide, well for each party the decision affects, there is a special excemption. ...And then another 4 years to decide what language the decision will be published in. More seriously, Belgium is the country where people have died because a guy of the railways decided that speaking Dutch was beneath his French self, so he ignored a warning on the telephone of two trains speeding towards eachother on the same track. That's the level of sectarianism.

@@nvelsen1975 LOOOOOOOOOOL wtf are you talking about dude 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂 we are doing pretty damn good for a failed state 🤣

Hope someone told that to Putin before he started his unprovoked and genocidal invasion against the people of Ukraine.

Thank you for your understanding. My family have known Nick and his family for donkey's years. I can honestly say that he is one of the kindest, nicest, most decent people out there. He's an "accidental arms dealer", doing this purely because he has the contacts and the know-how, and he genuinely wants to help Ukraine. The problem is that, before the war, he was not used to dealing with snakes - and he's genuinely been appalled to be a part of some of the profiteering initiated by others. It was never what he wanted - he just wanted to help and earn a fair wage. He's tried to make the best of a bad situation, learn from it, and only sell to those who have prove themselves trustworthy - so he shouldn't be blamed for their greed. People have to remember that, in a cost of living crisis (caused by the pandemic, Brexit, Truss tanking the economy, and the war), his original leisure business has suffered because people don't have as much money for fun days out. So this has kept him, his family, his business (& business associates) afloat. The man's got to pay his bills. He is also trying to do the right thing. His heart is in the right place and pretty much everyone who knows him would vouch for that 👍

​@@Wherethereisnodarkness 'accidental' in the sense he owns tanks for fun days out. Bc of the war he's had money shoved under his nose.

Guess it's OK being a criminal. Spineless cowards

@@Wherethereisnodarkness he’s owned them for years with no intention of selling them for use in war and now he’s selling them to Ukrainians because he wants them to be able to use them.

@@Wherethereisnodarkness I love to ride around in 'death machines'!

Just saw one on fire! Do you know who Stepan Bandera is and why they celebrate his birthday every January?

@@theclotshotdidit3115 1) One UA vehicle on fire and Five-Six russian vehicles on fire, seems ok. 2) A fighter for independence and a concentration camp prisoner? Yep we do know. Were his methods terroristic sometimes? Yes. Was he a nazi? No. He was a nationalist. When your nation is constantly being occupied by russians (who was ok, from time to time - to slaughter your elites (Executed Renaissance), ban your culture, steal your history, starve to death millions of civillians (Holodomor) etc..), Poles, Austrians or Hungarians, so yes it can, should and will - give birth to people like Bandera. But you're free to spit some $hit here, even Third rei*h had its propagandists and supporters, so you're not alone

Never heard of him.. is he a lap dancer?

@@theclotshotdidit3115 Was he the actor in El Mariachi ?

@@abrahamlevi3556 What specs make one better than the other?

being*

Ukraine is done, eveyone is pulling out.

@@wgbhg are you deluded ? Get some help.

It's over. Ukraine have lost, it's time to stop calling for more death and destruction.

​@@wgbhg the russians are pulling out there retreating very quickly

Remember manpower, equipment means nothing without people to use it.

@@jordanfires9777 oh so THAT'S what they've got parked outside Wellington Barracks, I ride past it almost every day and have always wondered what that weird tiny car tank thing is. Never heard of a Ferret, had to look it up.

in some ways it does in his entertainment business, and as to costs , have you seen the tank etc resto channels with the sheer hard work to repair non battle damaged tanks,

Proud of being a merchant of death in NATO's proxy war against Russia? Okay.

@@mukadoyouseph8614 While you could argue US is using the situation in Ukraine to deplete Russian military strength, all Russia has to do is turn round and go home, its not difficult.

@@mukadoyouseph8614 : Why do all you peaceniks spout propaganda for Putin? It’s entirely up to him to go home. When you say peace, you mean Ukraine’s surrender. Forget it, kid.

​​@@highpath4776 Tell the same to Israel Nato and the West are benefiting from this. Ukraine will end up in a toxic debt that it can never repay back. There was peace until Ukraine got excited by wanting to joining NATO.

give us back our money

I don’t support your racist ideology 😂

Do you mean thanks for going cold and hungry if you can’t afford the rise in prices? Are you ok Jack.?

Beats a rain mack but only just.

I know what my next commute is gonna be after my mazda conks out.

Of course some Chinese, Syrian....N. Korea, etc "dudes" are selling arms to Russia. Wake up and take a shot of Vodka !!

Ukraine is done, eveyone is pulling out.

@@wgbhg in your wet dream

​@@wgbhg 😂😂😂

@@wgbhg not until Russia leave

@@ammalessingtaweesak4316 Z

Shivers made timbers Peter

You couldn’t fight sleep 😂

@@rikkivet3407 How would you know? You fake crippled vet.

I would be charging a daily storage rate of sufficient value to negate the increase of cost vs demand, the money gained could be used to offset the cost on other equipment as it looks like Nick has plenty of space to store equipment so it would be essentially free money for him so he could give back without being out of pocket and also deter people from doing this.

@@slacko1971 exactly!

Not profiteer, opportunist is the right word

@@thereptiofgod7888 right opportunity to help ukraine.

@@dohj4959 Or the right opportunity to save a lot of money for his grandkids (or for himself), but I don't really care to be honest, if he wants to make some profits why not, whatever if he support Ukraine or not, but believing that it will help Ukraine is very naive from my point of view, a lot of people died and will die from both sides, Ukrainians and Russians soldiers, including civilians casualties, but the west countries don't care about that, they want to see Russia suffer from economic sanctions, but I'm used to hypocrisy, I'm French yknow, it's pretty common, one day we see Ukraine as a precious ally (coming from nowhere) and some month later we are bored and no one bothers about it, hypocrisy is a common syndrome to Europe, especially when America is concerned directly or indirectly, I could give you some examples but what's the point, if you really cared about Ukraine you wouldn't want the war to continue, but you do, because I assume you're not Ukrainian, and there's not shot fire and explosions near your house killing your neighbors (and if you are Ukrainians, you have the rights to defend your country, but don't expect everyone to support you especially when you try to drag the entire Europe in your war)

We’ll that depends on the margin

Our ancestors will be turning in their graves knowing we are arming the Ukrainian Nazis

Great work? Do you realise how many Ukrainians are dying? But the media want you cheering it on! It's not a football match!

​@@theclotshotdidit3115russonazis There, fixed it for you

​@@theclotshotdidit3115 - Why are you saving ??? Are you poor ???

No , Zelenskyy should start using his money instead hiding them , like the rest of rich people in Ukraine not use the money to west stuff just except use our tax money and demands moneys what our stupid government rise money for them

Thats not how it works. UK Gov has had to purchase armoured vehicles off that has been surplused before (FV432 for conversion to Bulldog for Iraq). It cost them 10 times the amount it was sold for to get it back...

@@theclotshotdidit3115 looking at all of your RU-vid posting history, it’s obvious you are English, but also a fascist. I’d be careful holding your views in that country.

What, making a profit from selling junk at inflated prices. If he really wanted to help Ukraine he’d give them away for free. But this is all about helping himself not Ukraine

where ? not here.

I get you, but the way they’re doing it currently has its benefits as It actually moves faster through these private channels as it avoids all the bureaucracy 🤷🏼‍♂️

Paperwork, rubber stamping approvals, authorisations checking said approvals and authorisations for yet more rubber stamps, etc.... 9 months later it makes it out the door for transport.

🤡

fight against this Nazism you do relise its the Ukrainians that are labeled Nazis. not the Russians. Stepan Bandera Ukrainian Nazis

Not sure about that mate. This way nobody can point at the government about the amount of money that's being sent to Ukraine as these are all freely given donations.

😂🤣😂 🥴🤦🏽‍♂️🤡

According to leaked documents, Zelensky skimmed over US$400 million of US taxpayer's money meant for oil purchases. A legend indeed

@@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko Money well spent to defeat Russia.

@@ChosenOne6666 And that is why US banks are failing and its national debt is over $30 trillions.

@@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko lol, funny how leaked doc citates ilya kiva, alcoholic idiot who bought his phd and is literally a meme in Ukraine’s politics its so easy to feed you with bs lol

@@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko Good i will donate more to UNITED24 for drones against russia

what conflicts aren't? stop acting like this is anything new

@@gg-ps1vz did I say this is new?

@@HOLOD48551 you said this entire conflict is about business as if it's anything different. the war industrial complex is massive and always loves a war, anywhere and throughout history

Glory to the RED ARMY that liberated your ASSES

Are you a Brit? I'm a Yank, the 432 isn't that similar to our American 113? If so breaking down a lot will be a problem. Simple stuff like road wheels and spare track would be common to have to replace. The logistics for the Ukrainians has to border on madness.

@@mikebrase5161 yes bud. The 432 is similar in appearance to the 113 (ironically I nearly got a contract to work on 113s but didn't work out) but the "running gear" track looks very similar to CVRT. So the 432 got a major revamp to upgrade it to Bulldog. Amongst many improvements, this was fitted with a straight six diesel and new gearbox, including various electronic upgrades (previously electric). The 432, the dieselised version (on its inception was petrol), as I recall is notably unreliable. To do any major work (on either) means taking the "powerpack" out. So its one thing to buy an APC, but each APC will need a whole lost of general spares. I don't just mean road wheels and spare track. Each vehicle will probably have its own "battle box" of these items; its where repairs become complex and complicated. The problem I concieve is that if you are running a multi-platform fleet from a variety of nations, then logistics starts to become a major major headache. Additionally, the 432 Bulldog and CVRT have aluminium armour which anything bigger than 7.62 and/or with a larger shell will get through. Bad for the crew and passengers, obviously, but equally bad for the running gear and pack. Its one thing to get a bullet hole in a Ford Taurus block because these are fairly common. Now lets imagine trying to get replacement parts in a logistically demanding environment for an ancient bit of kit. Don't get me wrong. I am not anti-Ukraine or anti-Russia. Nobody wants a war in Europe, nobdoy wants a war at all. We are all brothers and sisters and should make peace and get on with each other.

For a while now, I've been trying to justify aswell as convince the wife that we need a Chieftain in our lives. Naturally the kids wholeheartedly agree 😁, her... not so much. 🤨

problem is if decent technology gets captured by russians. I imagine most of this older stock has the best use as back up on defence lines close to the existing borders rather than immediate front line use

Good point - Export Control is a big deal.

😂😂😂

Ukranians are very ingenuitive. My fav build was a truck that had been armored and on the back they had a 12.7 machine gun with a big gun camera for aiming next to it that was infrared capable and the whole mount was controlled by a wireless Xbox controller and using the dpad to aim the gun. Absolutely brilliant

toyota hilux are the best choice to convert into an light infantry fighting vehicle. Built rugged and easy source spare parts, it performs a perfect job on what it demands for

Or just call the A-team.

Because many British are brainwashed by huge propaganda

There supporting ukraine because there scared of the war spreading across Europe not because they care.

Bull💩

Ukraine is done, eveyone is pulling out.

@@wgbhg the comedy in Kremlin really has no equal. 🤣🤣🤣🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

The 2. one in the background...

And ukraine also use soviet style apc

There's 2 in the video the spartan is in front of the MTLB

The vehicles shown here were sold off by the MoD long before the war started

Ukraine get everything for free there to greedy hiding billions of money just except use the west tax payer money and rise money for there war what there wanted

The British government never has its own people in mind!

these were surplus long before the Ukraine war

@@graveperil2169 not really this chap, more the ones that are getting all the old opp herrick surplus. HX60’s could be bought virtually new for £10k from auction but now prices are 3x that. Same with lots of vehicles. The MOD should halt all auction sales.

I'm sure the Ukrainian people don't see it that way

The west send hundreds of Javelins every month this is worth a lot more they destroy soviet equipment with 1 shot

think you might feel the long arm of the law on your shoulder if you sold one from UK to Russia right now lol

Ha ha ha. Yes. People really believe in this!

arms dealer : outrageous ! he sells death ! arms dealer related to ukraine : so nice of him ,such a fantastic man 🤗

​@@PG-wh5xf the hypocrisy is ridiculous he's literally the merchant of death

@@nigelraporam6917 he sells APCs without weapons on them, they are mainly used for evacuation, it's literally saving lives

Especially when you realise it was Ukraine who shelled civilians in ethnic Russians arreas, reneged on the Minsk treaty and rallied the Nazi rabbles to ethnic cleansing. Wonder how many gypsies et al Zelensky has cleansed today?

good work? 😂😂

Providing arms to a country defending from a fascist invasion is the best work

@@neo92992 not equivalent. Russia is the aggressor

​@@orcho141''Its fine that innocent soldiers are dying because I don't like the government of the country they were born in''

@@tommyoreal They could always leave