Russia Is Still Advancing, But Slowly. Here's Why. 

I think that's a good analysis

I agree

@@andrewryanwasright Russia so far has played a very patient long game after the opening moves. they knew this would be a long war and have not been in a rush to escalate it despite what western MSM wants people to think. sure they COULD send a tone of soldiers armed to the teeth into Ukraine in a massive offensive but that might scare NATO enough to do something stupid. instead they let western interest slowly fade while slowly griding away at Ukraine morale and making them realize that unless they gave up SOMETHING willingly this will never end and countless generations of Ukrainians will never know peace.

based on footage from the war, and the amount of manpower losses russia suffers with its disastrious long sieges on deeply held defensive positions, i'd argue that it doesnt preserve manpower. in fact, if the amount of footage of russian troops without sufficient vehicle support is anything to go by, as well as the frequent clown-car tactics using apcs and tanks (where they regularly have more than twice the amount of passengers on them), russia's slow advance can be partially chalked up to a lack of sufficient vehicles.

@@andrewryanwasrightIt’s a horrible analysis. They are taking massive losses at 4 dead per 1 ukranian dead.

you must be a fighter.

Heard this in basketball all the time. But the way the game has evolved, idk if it still rings true 😂

there is also a sports saying that "offense is the best defense."

Shut up, you all laugh when Russia is on defensive last year, lol.

@@VodkaPandas putin isn't going to sleep with you

Heroes in a half shell turtle power

You people keep using the same dumb jokes over and over again. It won't change the fact that tens of thousands of Russian boys are fertilizer in Ukraine with nothing to show for it

Reading this comment with no context is fantastic

Wait till you see russia's new combat fridge-killing burger on the battlefield. Video: _'Killer burger' robot created by Russian engineers developing hobby_

@@larsrons7937- Gosh! What about toasters?! Toasters chips matter! LOL 😂 😂

and also: the longer the 'war' lasts, the more depleted western military capability/arsenals will become. they keep sending their haha equipment only for it to be destroyed in ukieland ('elite' stuff like the M-1 Abrams, the 'elite' Challenger 2, the laughable Leopard 2, and numerous french baguette equipment). as Sun Tzu said: don't interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of weakening himself

Western equipment is good but just like the Russian stuff built for a different war. Also how many times has each sides stuff been hit before its destruction? This is new warfare and the Russians are making changes fast and technical. The Russian forces 2 years in are a good fighting force and adapted to the new reality of this

The u.s had total air dominance over Vietnam and a 10 to 1 kill ratio.. still lost. If you think Russia Iran and north Korea can materially and financially out produce nato, Japan, south Korea and others you are on vatnik crack.

This is actually a quite good analysis in my opinion. I would like to add, with the US elections in mind. A slow conflict seems a better option to not really awake Nato. In many nato countries ukraine barely reaches the news and fast flashy wins would put more pressure on nato to help ukraine. In a slow and painful death russia seems to get an edge while nato keeps being distracted.

@@JK-dv3qe Russia has lost 3k tanks and you are getting excited about nato losing 100..much wow..such lol. Meanwhile Russia is using ural's and t55 in frontal attacks.

better yet the phrase "little f*cker" is "P" "U" "T" "I" "N" "H" "O" in my native language

It doesn’t work

@@JaKingScomez I think it was easy to put in Putin somewhere.

​@@Yuusou. Well, the video is about the situation _on_ the ground... Can't wait for the _in_ the ground vid, where Vladimir can be Put in.

@@Yuusou. do you talk or just comment on the internet?

Yes, the fog of war is pretty much gone now. And when neither side have air superiority then its going to be a very slow grind. Winning by destroying everything in its path seems to be the Russian tactic, it takes a lot of time and a lot of ammo.

My theory is that Russia is also using their strategy of destroying everything in its path as an opportunity to depopulate Ukrainian cities and resettle them with Russians. Kind of like what the Nazis wanted to do in Ukraine after WW2.

Exactly the narrator of this vid never mentioned this key factor. Drones and precision guided weapons have done to the battle field what the machine gun did 100+ years ago.

The manpower miss match is staggering. Ukraine has been depopulated.

@@Mosern1977 air superiority won't help much drones can hit enemy helicopters, AA systems can knock em out of the sky.

Have you reached day 2000 yet

Two caveats: 1) If you actrashly, you can end up making things worse 2) "Amatures think stategy, experts think logistics" -Napoleon

No one mentions the fact that the troop numbers are so low. Millions of men were used in ww2 thats why the gains were rapid. If russia drafted three to four million men, Ukraine would be gone in a year

@@memazov6601 ._. do you think this is the time to ask /j

@MayankTrivedi2 But it's not, I have seen countless hours of footage, and about 99% of them are younger than 40. Ukraine isn't in a manpower shortage, that's Russian propaganda. Because it just does not make sense, historically, or demographically.

My opinion as russian: it is grinding, slow and steady. Land gains is unimportant at all. RUAF has higher hand in artillery and aviation, especially with new gliding fab1500, and can afford demolishing of fortifications.

@@NikolayBychkovRus snd what about losses

@@Aurxa09 uaf loses? Yep, based on UA news in legislation, they are in trouble.

@@NikolayBychkovRus Careful now, you're discrediting the Russian armed forces by ignoring the progress of prisoner battalions

@@Aurxa09 losses on the russian side dramatically decreased since the start of the war through better tactics ukraine on the other hand is quite the opposite

The current Russian loses from the front lint don't look like a savings strategy.

Edit: AI-generated TLDR: (sorry for absurdly long comment) - Nuclear war deters large-scale conflict between Russia and the West (EU+allies). - Even without nukes, a full-scale war wouldn't benefit either side due to the vast differences in manpower and resources. - Russia's justifications for the war are weak (e.g., Ukraine joining NATO). - Ukraine's best hope is to hold on long enough to make the war too costly for Russia, which may happen. - Russia can't give up completely, because of all the investment it has already committed. WW3 is not possible, because it would inevitably lead to a nuclear exchange. It simply doesn't calculate. It's completely different for russia to try to take on Ukraine which is way smaller in all metrics, and take on the collective "West", or even the EU alone which are multiple times bigger in most metrics but landmass and current military industry output (which could change in the future, if EU countries think conflict is imminent). If that war were to happen, saving manpower wouldn't matter one bit. On top of that, the EU collectively has 1.4 million professional military personnel and another 2.3 million in reserves. Russia has 1.3m conscripts (part of it is professional, granted, but not the majority) with 2m in reserve. Population-wise, the EU has 4x the population. I think you see where I'm going with this, right? It just doesn't calculate for either side even with 0 nukes involved, especially, for russia. Besides, the EU or its countries are not interested in a conflict - aside from some bullying smaller countries in Africa and the Middle East for multiple insanely complicated reasons. And those are rather hugely unpopular amongst the population. I remember at the beginning of this offensive/war putin said that he was worried NATO and the EU were getting too close to russian borders. Dude forgot about Kaliningrad/Konisberg/Krolewiec (pick your favorite name lol) and Belarus, and Finland + Norway... Not to mention he mentioned Ukraine would join NATO and attack russia - which would mean nothing, because NATO cannot help in such an event, and on top of that, try convincing the EU citizens to die in a war started by some dude in Ukraine. Wouldn't happen in our, or any alternative universe, absolute 0% chance. I bet some Europeans didn't know where Ukraine was on the map before the war lol. Like asking the average American where their own state of Vermont is lol. When it comes to the first part of your comment - russia does have positive GDP growth, however, that comes from military production boosted by the state. That's not sustainable long term. And they know this will swing the other way regardless of where the war ends and they chill with the production, or will have to increase taxes, and that can go sideways real quick in russia. I guess for now it's a positive outcome politically, strategically, maybe economically (though I doubt it since the land they are gaining is virtually useless, and will be for years to come). My point is, that there is a chance Ukraine may be able to hold for long enough for russia to quite literally lose any economic and political gain from all of this. A successful Ukrainian offensive of course would tip the scale way quicker, but that didn't happen, so the best Ukraine can do is to try to hold the line, inflict as much damage - especially inside russia - as they can and hope the profitability is enough for russia to give up advancing. The question then is, if Ukraine can give up the territory because 100% russia is not getting out of there empty-handed, that would just absolutely collapse the entire nation thanks to all the war propaganda and their historical character. Not to mention all that investment, loss of lives, isolation from the West, Chinese influence... All would be for nothing.

Cope, you all laugh when Russia build their defense, lol.

​@@VodkaPandasshut up bot

@@VodkaPandas Of course we laugh when the agressor in a war of conquest is forced to build defenses against a country that is 28 times smaller.

@@2MeterLP Who said it was a war of conquest? 200k troops was not enough to occupy all of Ukraine, Russia achieved it's victory when Ukraine promise to negotiate in Istanbul if Russia pull their troops out of Kyiv, when Russia do that Ukraine betrayed them and continue fighting with the western countries support, at the beginning of the war Russia comes with 200k troops while Ukraine had 900k active duty and 1.2 mil reserve, now Russia have more troops in the front than Ukraine, what Ukraine gonna do about it?

@@VodkaPandas Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea say its a war of conquest.

Probes typically have smaller force offensive and much less manpower and material losses. Calling these attacks probes is the same thing Ukraine did by calling their offensives probes

bingo, that tactic is a favorite for russia, down to the combat, one of their strategies is to probe defensive lines and then make a spearhead to breacb and encircle the enemy forces

Not really No. Unless you'd want to Esculate War and get them even more Furious of & By NATO. Even I can Agree with The Pycckian President on this. *Why?* - Because less than 4 in The World (by Politican Leaders) in the EU. Are Against AI development.

I don't see Russia winning the war of attrition. I keep seeing massed Russian attacks getting hammered by mines , artillery and drones , for negligible loss to Ukraine. I also see Ukraine hitting oil refineries and now Russia is importing fuel. When it comes to an economic war of attrition , Russia can only lose against the West so time is not on their side.

winning what? nato havent even mobilize

@@ProcaviaCapensis-ts8ub Then why military officers are so eager head-hunting for new recruits in Ukraine? You said 'negligible loss to Ukraine'.

@@ilyal5712 Russia has been actively recruiting mercenaries , including from neighbouring countries and countries as far away as Cuba as well as prisoners. Ukraine needs to match this so obviously Ukraine needs more manpower.

@@ProcaviaCapensis-ts8ub Same as Ukraine's international legion with Polish, French, Colombians, Georgians, etc.? In the latest law, Ukraine will utilize prisoners as soldiers too.

The war will end when the Ukrainians run out (this will happen faster than a direct seizure of territory). I don't understand why Russia feels sorry for the civilian population and tries to wage war "carefully" if, as a result, sooner or later the front-line cities turn into a burnt-out desert anyway No one needs the population of these territories anyway. Most of the Russian population already lives in the part of the territory that was liberated earlier in 2022

Nobody seems to be confident about what the hell the goals of this war are for Putin. Whatever goals, they seem either unattainable, or the war has actually made things even worse. Like if Putin wanted less of a potential NATO border, he just doubled it with Finland and Sweden ACTUALLY having joined NATO. If he wanted a more Russia friendly regime in Ukraine ("denazification") - well obviously Putin has on the contrary managed to absolutely galvanize the Ukranian people as sternly anti-russian. Probably for generations to come.

Nazies...Hitler would love Putin.

Listen to putin. For them ukraine is just a seperatis russian state that needs to be "reunited" with the "motherland"

​​​@@LLachs283 Not all of it definitely. Ukraine is devided inside itself. Western regions with too much population opposed to Russia would be too much of a problem. In the East a lot of peope are actually proRussian

Let's imagine your assumption is true. Realistically it is impossible to hide a mobilization even in small numbers every month. Especially with the claims of Ukr MOD. But We don't hear any reports about new mobilized people since 2022. Even gossips. I know several people who volunteered to sign a contract with Russian MOD. My friend who were a part of an annual conscription claim that although they were heavily encouraged to sign a contract but nobody forced them to to that. And my friend decided not to. And now they just returned to their civilian lifes.

Shadow mobilization for PR reasons. Mobilize covertly without announcing it publicly. Fairly typical of fascists states like Russia.

Why?

Urine lines would not be as strong as Surovikin line

I think a better analogy would be the cost for a legal battle. Like, if you steal a brick from one guy and he sue you in court the cost is going to be much more manageable than if you stole from 50 persons and they all sue separatly. Or it's going to be easier if you earn 50000 $/month than if you earn 5000 $/month because you'll be able to last longer and hire a better team.

talks about gaining/holding (territory), then gives an "analogy" using bricks (costed resources) - wrong by your own definitions. 😝😝😝😝😝😝

Russian advance is based on the shortage of Ukrainian troops on the frontlines, just like Russia during Ukraine counteroffensive on Kharkiv and Kherson, Ukraine need to retreat and retreat again just like Russia last year, now the tide once again turns on Russia's favor.

@@VodkaPandas It's ammo in an artillery war, mate. Not anything else.

@@LewisPulsipher Of course that too, what a shortage Ukraine is not facing? Manpower, ammunitions, money? Everything, that Country is not supposed to last this long.

They're not fighting for land, they're fighting for casualties and ammo as Russia has far more of these to spare. Think WW1, when something cracks, stuff will move fast

They're not fighting for land, they're fighting for casualties and ammo as Russia has far more of these to spare. Think WW1, when something cracks, stuff will move fast

And let me guess, all of those reports are from Russian stooges.

Brute force, a misnomer. Russia attacked Avdivka methodically and v carefully.

Russia attacked the areas around avdivka and threatened to encircle the city. The Ukrainian command decided that the risk of getting all the soldiers in the area trapped was not worth continuing to defend the city and withdrew allowing the Russians to take the fortifications without a fight. The Russians basically did to avdivka what the Germans did the maginot although with more brute force.

@@Mankorra_Gomorrah i love how when given an opportunity people always plump for WWII (it's as if Afghanistan and Vietnam never happened).

​ddraculasneeze6681afghanistan and Vietnam wars were very different in strategy and tactics. That's why people dont compare

@@draculasneeze6681 What SYD_EA said plus the fact that World War is well known in the "World". While most of people Outside of US and USSR might not know the details of Vietnam or Afghanistan campaigns.

I'm animating a spicy one at the end of a video on coups. Should either be the end of next week or the beginning of the following week.

@@Gametheory101 Ooh! I look forward to seeing it

Nice👌

I hate my jokes }:(

Ukraine is exporting more grain now than in the grain deal, and now Russia has fled the Black Sea

@@risaradocz5440This comment made your joke better! 😂

@@risaradocz5440 It's ok.😊

good rhyme wake up...don't giggle....

Classic war attrition Ukraine never had a chance!

Kuil, That's a new and true evaluation.

Well, Ukraine has more to loose in this war for sure.

its basically never tell your enemy your location danish frogman qoute in a youtube video

And the only reason the main fortification fell was the single orc who had a sudden rush of intellect to the brain, discovering and utilizing the drainpipe to get past the main fortification.

@@MarvinWestmaas Sounds alot like you're crying

@@MarvinWestmaas Funny that Russia knew about the existence of the drainpipe and Ukraine did not 😂

I smell $ubhum4n$, they reek 🤣🤣😂😂

@@mhhmsmfshsmhfh A Swede supporting orcs.... you must be a natsi 😂😂🤣🤣

"take land because we have no idea how else to make Ukraine stop fighting." .... and "the Ukrainian strategy is "keep hurting Russia until they give up." Do you know what a strategy is? - these are not strategies at all.

@@draculasneeze6681 well hmm, in war college I think I was taught that strategy, as opposed to tactics, was "how do you make the other guy decide to ask for peace instead of keep fighting." But hey, what does the US military know about war? We are renowned worldwide for refising to attack anyone or join any military alliance, right? So I guess what I was taught in the US military as an officer was probably wrong.

spot on but u miss how russia methodically destroys ukraine. They destroy infrastructure, they (slowly) reduce their manpower, they destroy ADs etc. This war is way heavier on ukraines economy and population. Its very unlikely for ukraine to keep up the fight for another 5 years. In russia, besides the poor who get drafted, the war is almost not existent in the day to day life. Infrastructur works, economy is still normal and most of the population has no risk whatsoever to get mobilized. Ukraine hangs on western support, which may stop one day or reduce. The economy will maybe collapse at some point etc.

Russia decided to take ukraine right after its independence. This is not even their first war.

@@meatrealwishes Russia did not bother Ukraine at all upon the USSR's dissolution. It was us (the US) who chose not only to continue with NATO after the Warsaw Pact was gone but to break our promise and continue expanding NATO East. The closer we moved the Alliance to Russia's border, the more insecure they got. When they got wind that they'd soon face up NATO's warships in the post of Sevastopol, they took action. We simply did not consider Russia's security interests valid and acted like they did not matter.

UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE A FAILURE ?? Ukrainian Offensive began on May 8 th 2023 until September . In 5 Months TOTAL Ukrainian Gains .......................................321 Square Kilometers Russian Offensive Began on October 9 th , 2023 until Now In 6 Months TOTAL Russian Gains ..........................................106 Square Kilometers If the Ukrainian Offensive was a Failure what are You Russians Calling the Russian Offensive with Only 1/3 of the Ukrainian Gains ??? How Embarrassing as even Rusian Trolls cannot Spin this ......Massive Failure The Entire World is Laughing at the Russian LOSERS as Russia Collapses 😀

Are you winning, son?

Their heat signature is insignificant making them extremely hard to detect and track. And those are basically "stupid" bombs so electronic warfare doesn't work against them.

Well, "Dr." Spaniel confuses kilometres with miles, he said 40 kilometers, but the glide bombs are dropped from a distance of *70-80km* (cca. 40 miles). There is not much you can do against a glide bomb dropped from 70-80km away, plus those glide bombs are inexpensive, and Russia has huge supplies of them, and developing more, in fact there is now FAB-3000 too.

@@MartinBohun That does mean there's several minutes between when they cross the horizon and when they reach their target, and if anything happens to their delicate control surfaces during that time they will miss, most likely very badly. That seems like a lot of potential for foiling plans.

Radar signature is far more relevant here, the bombs are no different from a cruise missile I that respect. Most likely the issue is lack of radar SAM systems in range. For example, a Buk system has an engagement range of about 40 km, so it would have to be perilously close to the front line to engage the bombs. The Ukrainians have to keep their theatre air defense systems like S-300 and Patriot back to defend against constant Russian missile strikes on their cities, so their longer range is unavailable. Russia has the exact same problem which is why they are lobbing enormous glide bombs from 80 km away rather than using tactical aviation in a more traditional fashion.

​@@amymason156 well, here is my rough understanding of the situation, i got from reading/watching number of different Telegram channels that are posting the front-line videos, and some do comment and explain some of the technical details; the chronology is important: 1. First you launch the observation/surveilance drones, such as ZALA Z-16 (endurance 4+ hours / range 75+ km), those are providing the view/info about the battlefield, and among aother things i guess they are used to select targets for those FAB-500/FAB-1000/FAB-1500 glide bombs, and as well pass back coordinates of Ukrainian air defence systems, and other Ukrainian military hardware, vehicles, troops, etc. 2. Do not forget that the front-line is VERY LONG, and Ukraine has only a limited number of air defence systems they can use to protect (some of) their front-line positions. Russia has well over 100+ Su-34s that are used to drop those inexpensive glide bombs. 3. If one of those scarce and expensive Ukrainian air defence systems is detected near the front-line, then it will be targeted with number of different Russian weapon systems (kamikaze drones, artillery, Iskander missiles). You are welcome to "crack the numbers" yourself: the range (and cost) of those Ukrainian HIMARS M31 GMLRS rockets, the range (and cost) of Russian surveilance drones, the distance from which Su-34 can drop those FAB glide bombs, and the number of different Ukrainian front-line "strong-holds" Russia has been targeting with those FAB glide bombs. UMPK aerial bomb glide kit cost is given at around 25k USD, that is apx. 5 to 15 times less than the cost of one single M31 GMLRS rocket. Don't get me wrong i am not trying to say it is a walk in the park for the Russians, but Ukraine simply does not have enough air defence systems so they could protect all of their front-line positions, and protect all of their cities, factories, power plants, bridges, and all the other assets at the same time.

Da da da In mother Russia you don't blame state, state blames you.

Just ignore that document the USA signed to get Ukraine to give up its nukes in exchange for the protection of its sovereignty and territory. And how Ukraine is destroying the threat of Russia to the west and to countries the West is required to defend. And how if the West had provided more aid more useful aid in the past the war could be over by now, but no, tanks from the west had to be delayed, for no good reason, an aircraft pipeline was delayed, for no good reason, and things like ATACMS, HIMARS, cluster munitions and artillery shells, aren't provided in sufficient quantities for progress. And Ukraine is willing to hold on until it can make a counteroffensive, ut its not going to send its men to die so that stupid westerners can feel that its doing enough to deserve more aid

@@SirAntoniousBlock JKF: Do not ask what USA can do for you, ask what you can do for USA.

@@ilyal5712 What has that got to do with Russian trolls?

​@@SirAntoniousBlockgrow a brain nafo

Wow! Do you really think Russia is running out of equipment? They are the 2nd largest producer of weapon systems and other military gear. They have enough weapons to be always at war, on multiple fronts, and in multiple countries just like the USA! Remember when the West was saying Russia was running out of missiles and tanks? The reason why Russia is importing weapons from other countries has nothing to do with the weapons. It has to do with moral support and as a propaganda tool. haha Wake up kid!

They can make more equipment. Russia has a massive population and production base. Look at how many russians died in WW2. They will throw bodies and money into the war for years and years to come. They might end up losing 5x more equipment or manpower than Ukraine but as long at they win that's al that matters

You can only said it was "slow advance" if you're not following this war closely, It was a much faster advance than last year, this year Russia gain 85% more land than the Ukraine ever recapture after Kharkiv and Kherson.

@@VodkaPandas Ukraine propaganda never sites how these mysterious numbers are formulated.

@AmishMarine what annoys me is those that push the narrative that the war is going badly for Russia. Forbes does this a lot with all of their articles on the war and so does thos channel. Russia can afford to lose people and equipment forever if they choose. It's become clear that no one in the russian government or the Russian people are going to stop Putin. He can keep this war going for another decade of he wants and gain absolutely no ground, but if year 11 is when ukraine stops getting funded by us or if they finally decide to throw in the towel, Russia takes the whole plot. I really want Ukraine to succeed but this blind positivity is so foolish. And the twisting of numbers and stats to suit the narrative of "Russia is foolish, Ukraine is much better" is doing Ukraine no favors.

it may be so

If they were minimal they wouldn't have stopped. Unless you believe Zelenskys 31 thousand dead claim.

Because Ukraine was not throwing people at trenches, due to lack of manpower. That's why counteroffensive reached so little, Ukraine had neither machines or people to storm the frontline.

@@sircatangry5864 coping so hard with this one xD

​@user-cu1er2nt7v Typical Orcbot, couldn't make sense even when it benefits them...

The cure are called jammers

Our?

Where's did you live?

@@icemike1 "our" means ukrainians. 'Cause he's ukrainian

@@pogo1140some of the drones are now using ai so that’s starting to not work

And thats why they need 500,000 more men. Makes sense right?

Ammunition shortage, they can’t do meat wave attacks and roll up in golf carts like team Z

"In two years they lost 31k a ridiculously low number" Did they admit 31k dead or 31k losses overall? Because if it's the former then that implies a much larger number of overall casualties (because there'll be at least twice this many MIA / WIA / POW).

@@antred11 he specifically mentioned those were killed. Didn't say anything about wounded soldiers. He did say though that there were 180.000 thousand dead russians and more than 500.000 wounded.

@@IconoclastX why would it make sense when You're alleging that this is so one sided? It would make sense if the Ukrainians were out of Moscow by those estimations. And it wouldn't make sense you force mobilisation when your manpower is basically intact all things considered.

Russian hackers are the best!

Of the 2 armies is asking for 500k more soldiers and scraped the demobilization orders... It isn't Russia

It still looks like Russia is winning the manpower war

You are saying bullshit and i guess you know it.

@@angeurbain6129 My number is far far far closer to whatever kremlin has ever released. What was it after 2 years? 15k kia? I am sure you can call bullshit on that too,mr russian troll.

@@angeurbain6129 what bullshit?

ur delusional

i love a good factual quote, it clears up any confusion.

Details?

LOL. You're totally deluded.

" increasingly bizarre and sometimes desperate choices in vehicles" Wut, are you saying golf carts are no good as infantry fighting vehicles?

You are living in a fantasy land

"increasingly bizarre" by slapping simply steel shack roof tops on a tank in order to completely render FPV drone useless isn't bizarre. It's extremely effective and we can expect some proper advanced covers for frontal assault vehicles coming soon.

1. Its actually the opposite. NATO is only sending equipment if Ukraine can prove its capable. Russia making small gains is actually only because they keep taking losses and barely succeed. There is no other reason. 2. Summer in Ukraine is a terrible time to do an offensive, as the ground is muddy. Sure its better than spring, but to say its smart is not true. It’s been 2 years. This is the 3rd summer Russia has had. 3. Dragging out a war is already a bad enough decision. A modern war this long is unsustainable. In conclusion, Russia isn’t doing this for any good reason or because they’re clever. They’re advancing slowly because they can’t advance any faster. It’s an impossibility for them.

They are in some fields next to the Russian front-lines in Ukraine.

#facts

So is it Bigs Dicks and the v is just to get around the censor? Big vs Dicks vs? Like a royal rumble between Big and Dicks?

@@2639theboss The Romans had no U letter, they used V for both pronouncing it differently depending on the letter's position that could be easily distinguishable to be a vowel or a consonant. And yes, also go around the censor, it no likes me.

@@2639theboss It's fake Latin. 'Biggus Dickus' but classical Latin represented the u with a v.

@@aryanbhuta3382 yes

profile pic checks out

Yes, kiev is also insignificant. We can afford to lose it, just the way we lost Bakhmut and Avdeevka.

What are you talking about? Please educate all of us as to the land lost by the US, France or UK in wars it’s been involved with, because you always lose land in a war.

@@collinsoconnor5843 “We”? The only thing insignificant is your post.

@@collinsoconnor5843 Kyiv and Andiivka. Also, I'm not worried, because this is what happens in wars. The Russians have taken less land that Operation Spring awakening, when the German nation was literally falling apart, the Germans still managed to capture more land than this current Russian offensive has, and did it in one month.

@@paperandmedals8316 Are you talking to me? Example from the top of my head: Every nation against Napoleon Russia in WW1, and pretty much every other nation for that matter Germany after WW1 The entirely of WW2 The Korean war

Hmmm, letting the opponents establishing passive defense structures is actually not a good idea. The Surovikin line was really effective.

@GermanTaffer but they are not are they? Hence the small gains that are constantly forcing them back

@@GermanTaffer - Although that's absolutely correct. The fact remain that Ukro corruption is such. That most serious defenses are not spawning. Due to the overwhelming corruption with many in there pocketing absolutely enormous funds! In the end, as usual, it's the low grade boots on the ground that pay dearly for it. Piling corpses all over the place. While they are not even reported so someone else continue pocketing for their so called "presence". In spite I say "Go Russia". It's honestly disgusting and revolting. Seeing the "small" people without alternatives. Bearing the load of #ZelenskiWarCriminal & Co!

@@GermanTaffer Yeah but UA are corrupted to the max and they lack everything they need to build proper defenses. The longer the war lasts, the more UA innocent soldiers who were abducted from the street to die in a trench all while their officials off shore accounts get thicker and thicker. Such a sad tragedy that is unfolding in front of everyone and yet the average western citizen is completely oblivious to the fact.

@@fv5855 >>"Entire World is Laughing at the Russian LOSERS as Russia Collapses" Congratulations! Not many toddlers can write so well.

And Putin would be in charge of Ukraine in 2 to 3 days .... Just sayin'.

@@stevemawer848 That was also said by the Western media. Invading a country with a size of France using only 200k is still going easy as forces would stress thin as they moved further deeper into the territory comparing German use 3 million troops for the France invasion.

@@no-bodymr6419 Putin was a bit deluded to think the Ukrainians would welcome the "liberators" with open arms. People want out of Russia, not in.

@@stevemawer848 the separatists in Ukraine don’t want part of either Ukraine or Russia, they just want to be independent from Ukraine.

Europe has done a lot. We could do more, but based on GDP Europe has done more than the US. Denmark literally wanted to give all our F16 (untill the US wanted to buy Argentina's allegiance with some of them instead), and we did give all our Ceaser systems. There's not much more useful equipment to give away, so the rest will have to be new purchases

Steiner... Yes! YES! STEINER WILL LEAD THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE! IT WILL ALL BE FINE! FINE! (trembling hands removes glasses)" - a line from Mr Zelens'kyj's favourite movie. * "The war has ended, not necessarily to the advantage of Japan" - Emperor of Japan addressing the nation after (un)conditional capitulation in 1945 * Mr Zelens'kyj's swan song. I am standing alone on the stage in front of the drawn curtain. The empty prompter's booth... and box-office. Deafening silence. No limelight. No applause. No flowers. Disappointed audience have left me a long time ago. A cleaner is about to finish his work. The piano lid has slammed shut. Unbearable pain has brought me back to my senses. The show is over. * "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become king. But the palace becomes a circus!" - Turkish proverb * "Put him on stage and remove a ladder" - Chinese proverb referring to bad performers. * "There was once a comedian who killed people with stolen jokes and was hanged by his wits' end." - H.Warner * "How pathetic the jester is, on the king's throne, How stupid the people who allowed it." - Robert Burns 1759-1796 * Пане Зеленський, сподіваюся, ви ще пам'ятаєте старе прислів'я рідною мовою: "Не по Сеньке шапка." Незабаром Україна стане однією великою Малинівкою. Втішає те, що Європа та Америка йдуть тим самим шляхом. До таких політичних проходимців і невдах, як Рютте, Джонсон, місіс Траст i... дo Вас пане Президенте, приєднаються Шольц, Бербок, Трюдо, Сунак і дідусь Джо. Почнуться взаємні звинувачення. Hа зміну обіймам i усмішкам прийдуть удари в спину. * “Ukraine shouldn’t sign anything with them at all - and let’s just fight.” - Boris Johnson, Kyiv on Apr. 9, 2022 * "Росія хотіла припинити війну в обмін на нейтральний статус України, який зобов'язав би Київ ніколи не вступати в НАТО. Водночас «коли ми повернулися зі Стамбула, приїхав Борис Джонсон до Києва і сказав, що ми взагалі нічого не підписуватимемо з ними - і давайте будемо просто воювати." - Давид Арахамія, в інтерв’ю Наталії Мосійчук (25 листопада 2023) * "Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly rejected the claims that he interfered with peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in the spring of 2022." - Kyiv Post, January 11, 2024

@@kirrausanovspeak English bro I don’t understand your language

This is stupidity. This war should end. No matter which side loses. There will be no win for Ukraine if Nato doesnt step in. And if it does ww3 is inevitable. Russia wont bsck down as it can sustain itself if u ignore the western propaganda.

@@bacon9646 Use google translator, bro. (For the record: I am a sheila)

Putin throwing a Hail Mary that Trump will win, and the US will totally give up support.

If you want to have an effective conversation about who is winning the Russo-Ukrainian War, you should first define what possible outcomes of the war would constitute the following: . Russia winning . Russia losing . Ukraine winning . Ukraine losing

​@@KingCreeper-1026 well I'd say there are two big points which I think say it all on a strategic scale - is Crimea a safer harbor for the black sea fleet than 3 years ago? - is NATO getting weaker? The answer is quite clearly no to both, so Russia is definitely getting further and further away from what Putin would've seen as a win.

So Russia is losing, Ukraine is winning right up to the moment it surrenders, which will come in one year time.

​@@KingCreeper-1026 Ukraine winning in the immediate term would be regaining all lands of its internationally recognized borders and all its deported citizens being returned, while deporting russian citizens that immigrated by the Kremlins will. Later, depending on elections and policies, probably joining Nato and the EU, while benefiting from the new found oil reservers off the coast. Ultimately becoming one of europes new eastern hydrocarbon supplier. Russia winning would be gaining all the oblast it declared russia (and potentially more) russifying the population and installing a pro russian puppet in what remains of ukraine, discrediting Nato internationally and giving China an incentive to expand its own sphere into the pacific.

Russia is out producing the entire nato how's it depleted😂

Well, then Ukraine zero advance was because of they're losing then, lol.

@@rextidashi1585 They aren't producing new soldiers..

U.S. general just said russian army is 15% bigger than at the start of the war, lol

​@@KayderimGameplays They just drafted another 147,000...

Good point.

bwahahhaa we've been hearing this for 2 years now, get a new song.

@@draculasneeze6681 No??? I think the only think I heard related to that prior to recently was last summer, where Russians were complaining about lack of artillery due to counter battery. This is a more recent development.

​@@draculasneeze6681 We have not been hearing this for two years, get a new lie.

exactly from what you hear, but what you hear doesnt mean is automaticly correct obviously refurbished newer models get sent to the front why woould you want to waste new kit on some grunts that need to learn how to use it first and will often times destroy it in the process its a very normal thing in war that the good shit gets send to the people that need it too say russia is depleted of gear ammo and vehicles is absurd russia is the successor state to the soviet union and inherited about 80 percent of all its military you honnestly think russia can run out of all they have in 2 years?

They were dug in the Donbas as that had been going on for years. Hence why there was actually little advance in that area. But elsewhere Ukraine had not enough defense. Things have been very different if there were manned trenches along the Crimean border and the land bridge had been failed to be invaded by Russia.

​@@lindsaycole8409Zelensky demined the south, so Russia took Kherson with no problems, also Zelenskyy by being a dumbass or a traitor didn't prepare for this war at all and said that the pentagon tries to destabilize Ukraine with their warnings about the invasion 😐

Russia will repopulate the area!

No problem boy, americans will fix demographics with millions of indians and africans, just like they doing right now in balcans anf gerlnerally in europe

​@@MrSlim325 Learn how to spell and read with understanding, then try to troll : 3

@@arell943 boy

@@MrSlim325 dont blame the yanks for that, thats all on us europeans not controlling our borders, this dogmatic anti americanism is just dumb.

What ab about ukraine manpower issues which seem by there own words more severe

Russia not even moved from their first partial mobilization on 2022, the manpower shortage was a Ukrainian problem right now.

Russia which hasn't even issued mobilization orders is thin on men but not Ukraine?

@@Perspective.z0 Ukrainian will to fight is presumed to be higher. They have also just recently announced a new mobilization of some half a million new conscripts. Ukraine will be hurting in the long term, no doubt severely too, but in the Ukrainian perspective, this is a defensive and potentially existential war. Their willingness to tolerate losses is subsequently relatively quite high. Ethnic Russians have, to some degree, been disconnected from the war. A new general Russian mobilization that would pretty much require significant draft from ethnic Russians would risk a significant loss in the war support among the general populace; Few Russians believe that a loss would mean a significant loss of territory or even complete dissolution for their home country.

As a war vet of 4 wars and a historian of Slavic studies I can tell you that you are clueless !! You don't know a thing about Russia, and even less about this war !! Stick to cooking or something !! The only hypothetical thing here is you and all that you posted !!

I don't think Russia would negotiate about any cease fire before the elections in the USA. Even if Ukraine would als for negotiations. Russia would wait, if Trump wins. If he does, they would continue attacking with new hope to grind down all of Ukraine. If not they can still show some openness for a cease fire at the status quo of the conflict line.

You could very well be right, but the "Korea" outcome is just 50 % likely IMO. The other 50 % possible outcome is that the war keeps on grinding for years on end, with only minimal change in control of land. Until either party is totally depleted and gives up, which I don't see happening anytime soon. The reasons I don't think Russia will overrun Ukraine and force a surrender are: 1) Russia has severely damaged its military in this war. The huge losses of qualified personnel makes it hard for them to coordinate large scale operations effectively, and the huge losses of equipment makes it hard for them to store up enough resources for a substantial assault, since anything freshly produced (or refurbished) needs to get sent to the front right away. 2) Ukraine has proven itself to be very good at one thing at least: wiping out Russian convoys, whether its armored vehicles or just logistics. There is a tremendous loss of equipment before it even reaches the front line. This is due to the ubiquity of drone surveillance, and enough HIMARS and precision artillery to at least take out the most essential targets. 3) The war has expanded to beyond the front lines, for both sides. Russia is targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, which will surely cause some hardship for Ukraine. But Ukraine is returning the favor by disabling Russian oil refineries. They have only had this capability for a very short time, and are already hurting Russia's economy. This will only get worse with time. 4) Russia _needs_ China's full support to win this war, and they aren't going to get it! As you may recall, Putin didn't dare to embark on this adventure until after he had gotten Xi to promise "limitless friendship". As soon as they shook hands on it, Putin acted immediately! But he was deceived... China will surely look after China's interests, not Russia's. And China's interest are actually to see Russia lose the war miserably and collapse, so that China can seize a fair chunk of Russia's Eastern regions. Which China _needs_ for both water and oil. For this reason, I fully expect China to stab Russia in the back at some time during this war, so they can be on the winning side and negotiate for some of the spoils. So my prediction is, the war drags out for a few years, Ukraine and Russia both suffer a lot, but Ukraine is held up under the arms by Western support, whereas Russia is on its own. Russia's "friends" are only interacting with it for their own benefit, like India buying oil from them (and demanding a steep discount! Some friends!). And then in the end, Russia breaks down, and is split in two. The Western part will be rebuilt under Western leadership, and the Eastern part will go to China. (Then history repeats itself, and the Western part prospers while the Eastern does not.) My confidence in this outcome is because I see very strong parallels to WW2, with Russia repeating Germany's role and behavior to a tee. Russia started out allied to Germany in WW2, but ended up on the winning side, and this time around China will do the same flip of alliances. Because China will look after its own best interests, and Russia is the losing horse.