That kind of thinking means a LOT of Ukrainians will die for an IDEA, and the longer the war lasts, the LESS interest the West will show. Nice thought, but TOTALLY unrealistic.
i have worked some hard labor jobs where im washing shipping containers, and let me tell you, it doesnt matter if you wear waterproof clothing or not, either you get soaked from the rain and water, or you get soaked from your own sweat that cant escape, i feel for these men who have to fight in these conditions
Artur the ridge or small mound that a railway runs along is called an embankment - if the railway has to go through a hill the trench is called a cutting.
@@chrissmith2114 Why do you see that comment as a criticism? Sheesh........did no-one ever teach you anything? Did you come back with snarky comments when they did? They guy was trying to help. When was that ever a crime?
Artur, thank you for explaining about troop morale, lack of rotation, dangers of med-evacs, and the dread gliding bombs and lancet drones. I know you tend to be an upbeat guy, but you are also realistic and truthful. You give your audience immense insight into the horrors pf this war.
Well, Ukrainians are rotated and actually get medevacs. Russians don’t get rotated and rarely medevacs. There may be some areas where Ukrainians don’t get rotated for a few months. For Russians it’s been a year+ on the front line and not getting rotated to the rear. It’s still awful for both sides. Just much worse for Russia. Ukraine still has good morale, but they’re getting tired and frustrated.
Can't wait for your 500th video tomorrow Artur! What a milestone that's gonna be :) Thank you so much for your work, cutting through all the noise on twitter can be really exhausting, so having your coverage of the war at consistently high factuality is invaluable. Stay strong and stay cool my guy :)
Keep going, dear Artur. Your energy, sense of humour, joy and your very person are much needed to support Ukrainians and all those who pray for them. They bear the whole burden and do the job for a Free World to exist. Guys like you are essential parts. Hold on, Artur !
Artur. It has been a while since I have commented. Big lurker but kinda shy when it come to interaction. I just want to take an opportunity to thank you for keep us (me) updated on what is going on in Ukraine. The fight has pretty much disappeared in the coverage here in the USA. We usually only hear when something horrible has gone wrong and that is it. None of the successes seem to make it on the 6 o'clock news. I NEVER miss one of you vlogs (the caps were not "yelling" they were emphasizing the fact that the second I get a notice of one of your updates, I stop what I am doing to learn what is going on today). Sorry I am rambling in my old age. I just wanted to say from one old US Marine to a young Estonian soldier (Once, always), you are looking well and I (we) are loving your baby here. As long as you are able to cope with what is is obviously a traumatic subject, please keep them coming. However... If it ever gets to be to much, back off. I've been there, I know. Not this war, but I've been in the suck back when this shit began for the US in 1983 (23 October '83. We will never forget. Semper Fi). It can become too much on the psyche at times. So as long as you are good, I'd rather get my updates from you. I am sure I speak for many when I say We love you brother. SFMFS
Hi Artur, Great Reporting as always. I always check out your Videos to get the latest, most Accurate Information. I hope you and yours are all doing Great. Big Salute from Texas to the Ukrainian Soldiers. Glory to Ukraine and Glory to the Heroes.👍👍❤️
🇺🇸 I’ve been living here all my life, and I have no faith in our politicians. They need to be told that we understand that they either support Ukraine to defeat Russia, or they support Russia. No other position exists. Start calling them MARALAGO: Make America Russia Always Loving Aggression, Greed, and Oppression.
Those Ukrainian medics are going to need an arm around them and a hug. My father was an army field medic and on the occasions where his old army buddies visited when I was a lad, by now, most were senior/hospital Consultants, they'd sit around drinking very heavily and talking about the old days. Let me tell you, those guys remember their patients - the living and those who they could not save. They remember all of them and their men who didn't return. Nice to see the 47th Brigade name checked - I've recently started donating a few £££ to a foundation that supplies them with equipment, particularly medical items. Now is not the time to let Ukraine drift from our attention and support.
Medevac teams need night vision to drive without lights and, of course, vehicles. Brandon Mitchell, Suchomimus, and others have collected for those things. Thanks for your insight and generosity! I know for a fact that the wounded remember who patched them up.
Quem pensaria que em um dia da história contemporânea os ucranianos seriam guerreiros com tantas variadas experiências com essa específica invasão Russa em Ucrânia!
Excellent job. By the way, your diction is so good that you can be clearly understood at any playback speed! The best of any Ukraine reporter I have heard.
These are conscripts who don't want to fight for their corrupt leaders. These are young boys and men, and now even older men, who have been dragged out of their homes, ripped out from their cars at gun point, as their mothers and sisters plead and cry in tears to please not to take them because their father had already died. Families who are left in poverty while corrupt oligarchs and installed officials siphon millions of dollars, steal and resell millions of dollars worth of military equipment, and buy up multi million dollar properties, land and mansions, and flee the country with suitcases filled with cash. Don't you remember when it the draft was announced millions of Ukrainians tried to leave, but were forced to stay abs sent to the front? Why do you think that was? It's because they know about the state of the country. They know about the American & western political families who were installed in their companies making millions of dollars. They knew of the freakn peace deal that both Ukraine and Russia were agreeing to, that the U.K. had stopped. Why? Why would they want to stop a peace deal that both countries had agreed to? Follow the money. People make alot of money during war, so war is good for their bottom line and record profits. All those lives lost are on people like you. Time and time again, people keep seem be falling for the same thing.
Attrition describes Ukraine tactics. They figure that in a war of attrition the Russians are going to lose far more as a proportion. So far given the traditional Russian tactic of throwing bodies onto bayonets (so to speak) the Ukrainians might have got it right. Do you have any idea how inflexible Soviet military tactics were. Current Russian doctrine don't seem much more sophisticated. I can still hear him from the grave. SHOIGU! GERASIMOV! What a mess.
@@banta-pd8zj nah, ukrainian Headquarters really thought that is possible to wear down russians but Zhaluzny admitted that this is grave miscalculation.
Jurgi, sveiks. No doubt it's important to take notice of high ranking officials when they speak their mind. Or are they. Wars are fought on many fronts. It's awkward no?
once upon a time. affordable Winter boots came in two versions. Warm boots that you could wear in snow and ice and Water tight boots that you could wear in wet conditions. If you needed both you either did without or used plastic bread sacks in your boots . Expensive boots that covered both cold and wet were expensive but you didnt want to wear them in the slop.
@@BornRandy62 Ah, I see. In winter it gets rainy a lot, so I put Ziploc bags over my socks in my shoes. Not only keeps my feet dry, but quite warm as well.
Ukraine is reinventing armoured warfare... I can't imagine the IFVs and APCs we'll have once production is established in Ukraine... So much real battle experience is priceless.
So many continually underestimate women. Not necessarily about sending them to serve front lines, but during WW1 Great Britain and then in WW2 GB & United States had the women turn their talents to war production, becoming a force multiplier and massively enhancing the front line capabilities. So continue to dismiss the abilities of women at your peril. 🇺🇦СиламУкраїни🇺🇦
Glide bombs can be countered with fighter jets with high end radar and long range air to air missile to keep the Russian planes to far away to be able launch these bombs. Like these jets should have been supplied to Ukraine from the start of the Russian invasion in 2014. That Ukraine still can not get these jets and weapons is insane.
@@stephengrinkley9889Ukrainian women now living in several EU countries have saying: NO money..........NO honey!! Same must be valuable for Rest-Ukraine!?
Woulda, coulda, shoulda. It's becoming clear that another frozen front is Washington's goal. They believe they can kick the can down the road when it comes to Putin. He will simply rebuild and attack again.
This update is stressful...Russia is as dumb as the Orcs they send, but if you have enough orcs you win. The situation at Stepovna is concerning. But at the same time, if they're losing basically 900 every 24hrs, like...they can't keep that up forever w/o a general mobilization that they are unwilling to do.
Putin doesn't care how many soldiers he loses, how long it takes, or how much he has to spend, as long as he wins. He knows he can't win strategically, so he intends to bleed Ukraine dry with attritional warfare. He knows that the longer it drags out the greater likelihood of NATO and the EU and USA governments wanting to "cut their losses". The question is will the west support Ukraine for as long as it takes to dry up Russia's manpower and stockpiles? That could take years. Suppose Ukraine starts needing troops? Will the governments of the west be willing to continue to take on debt? Mobilize a protracted war? Putin's gambling on dragging the war out as long as possible, and since he's acquiring weapons from other rouge states like Iran and North Korea, he might be able to do so. In the end, it will be a matter of political will.
Hi Artur, I have been following your videos for a long time and find your commitment and support for Ukraine inspiring and the only right thing to do. I am a 50 year old bulgarian who remembers the communism and the Russian occupation very well. unfortunately most bulgarians have forgotten it and don't care about Ukraine, and want to do business as usual with the russians. I am ashamed to say, that most of the bulgarians are against any involvement of our country in to the conflict. They just don't understand that if Ukraine folls to the rushists, we will be the next! But hey, people are mostly ignorant and self centered egotists. PS. I want to donate money to the Ukrainian armed forces. You seem to be honest guy, etleьst I hope so. Please direct me to some account where I can donate money. Best for me would be Paypla. Thank,s in advance. Keep doing your Videos, the world needs to know about the rushist terror in Ukraine. Sincerely yours, Dimitre Marinkev
The English word you are looking for Artur, is "embankment." The railway runs along the top of the "embankment". {It can also refer to the built up bank of a river)
- but it makes NO sense to encircle ANYTHING at this point of Russia's failure to achieve any further military success in the conflict - except in Putin's mind. And just WHY is he SO hell-bent on his military having success AT ALL? So his beloved people will vote for him, when he's the only candidate, ffs?
@@liammullan2197 Remind me how the USSR managed to win in Afghanistan again? Or how Russia only brought Chechnya under control by buying them off because your army couldn't beat them on the battlefield.
Wtf, is that a Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle from WWII I just saw @14:51? They are still using bolt action rifles from several decades ago? Madness...
I bought one of those a few years ago. The Russians had millions of them in storage and I bought one for $100 and it was packed in grease. Took a day to clean it up great rifle came with bayonet and everything.
@@toddventura7191 they have been seen on the frontlines in Ukraine since 2014. They are not a bad sniper rifle on the cheap n the ammo 4 them is abundant. I just asked because its been joked about for 9 years now specifically in the illegal invasion of Ukraine by the fascists of moscovia... You been sleeping? Coma? First time online? Its all good bro, I am a smartass. 🤷♂️
@@abrakadavra3193 Why is Russia more than 600 days into its 3-day war again? Why haven't you got a decisive victory by now and instead you're trying to grind out tiny advances at the cost of dozens of men per metre gained?
If Ukraine put the max level back up there will be many men who want to fight thar are being sent home because of age. I sent 17 english guys we fitted out with gear and 6 were sent home due to age being reduced from 60 to 45 And that deprived Ukraine of top medics. Drop or dont set a higher age limit, So Ukraine can get the specialist's they need.
They have a manpower shortage but they're pulling guys age 45 to 60? Put the 45-60 year olds into the less physically demanding positions to free up the young ones! Or am I missing something obvious here?
Really?! That sucks! Medics are sooo important! That's an awesome thing you did though- massive respect to you all, & good luck & best wishes to your guys over there saving lives.
Still cant believe Russia fall for Avdiivka like they did for Bakhmut ... loosing the equivalent of one brigade every week is not sustainable and we are lucky Russia did not use all of these troops to defend their gains and hold it until next spring. Everyone saying that Russia has enough people to waste them like they do right now needs to remember that all of this guys, mostly from poor families and rural areas will be missed during the winter in their home towns, factories aso
Putin thinks that willingness to send people to their death makes him strong. Only weaklings hesitate. He also thinks Russians are willing to all kinds of bad things which only adds to their strength.
Ukrainian manpower shortage comes not from a lack of willing people, there are more than enough people, but from that not all those people can be trained and equipped.
Exactly the same applies to Russia. The only successes they can rely on are concentrating huge numbers and digging in deep. The only soldiers being dismissed after service are many thousands of ex convicts. Amazing.
Cargo e -bikes could perhaps help both in those medical evacuations as well as countering the Russian small unit tactics in that they could carry automatic grenade launchers that could be rapidly redeployed to counter small unit actions. They are small, mobile, and relatively low cost.
On the heavily muddy roads a bicycle wont be of any use and going off road is even less of an option. The batteries would be far better used in providing light, communications etc. to the soldiers living in the trenches.
Determination and proper behavior is needed now. Stay healthy, stay hydrated. Glide bobms are ugly. We will make it.. Believe, behave, push, strive, Stay on point and healthy.
I shouldn't make light of what's happening, but it reminds of futurama where the captain guy said he'd sent wave after wave of wave of his own men against some kill bots until their counters ran out. 🤦♂️
Artur, I know you want to be precise in your commentary, but I served in the US Marine Corps as an infantry officer from 1968 to 1989 with 3 years in combat. There is nothing wrong in describing in general the big picture of combat operations in very general terms, but describing specific locations of Ukrainian forces is only helpful to the Russians and if they were to launch 30 glide bombs into the forest you identified in your video, they would like eliminate most of the Ukrainians in that forest. Perhaps the Russians are not that savvy, but that is not an assumption I would want you or anyone else to broadcast. I was a Marine platoon commander in the Vietnam War from December 1968 to December 1969. It was a hard year and I wouldn't want someone broadcasting my positions for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers to make my life even more difficult. If you have never been in intense combat for a very long time, then you may not appreciate my observations. Give all of the precise information about the Russians but keep Ukraine movements and positions limited to what the government officially provides. Just be careful who you giving useful information.
Thanks for your service. It's all public information freely available online. Things have changed since '68 and '69. LBJ and Nixon aren't around to pull the wool over anybody's eyes about their decision not to win. And nobody believes Henry Kissinger that a "peace with honor" is possible. The U.S. has been told what Ukraine needs and has been slow walking support under Operation Half Fast.
You can get those small motors electric now, no sound! Hope they are using them because an outboard motor can be heard from a long, long way! X military and a fisherman!
In the infantry, we were happy as pigs in shit, until you got wet feet. Then it was game over. Oh the lovely sensation of putting warm grey wool socks and a fresh pair of combat boots, after leaving the said wet boots. It was akin to getting hot chicken noodle soup from Mom when, you had been freezing for a while in the rain. ☺
I live close by the World War 1 northern front (from Belgium to Picardy, about 250km of front), many cities were leveled or heavily damaged here. One of the cruelest enemies of the soldier was water, turning feet within days into sore wounds that took too many lives in the trenches. Of course, it was even worse for the people digging underground. It horrifies me that we see this scenario happen again. I’m actually surprised that with all the horrors the Russians unleashed on Ukraine, poison clouds of gas shells aren’t one of them…
I don’t know if you know what or not, you may have already been told about it through radio communications back-and-forth between Russian units in the southern part of Ukraine that they have held for a long time. They are moving a lot of their artillery and heavy equipment away from the river area and moving it nice and moving it towards Crimea. It is all believe that they are going to 45 the upper crust of Crimea with what they have left. The Russian general that was in the area was sacked a new general has replaced him but that’s what we’ve got so far. Sorry I can’t give you more Slava Ukraine keep up the good work like your program. I had a little trouble with RU-vid they were changing over something I don’t know what was going on. finally back on normal again.
Latest that we know of I’m getting reports that restaurant Tillery some of it is being moved north with the infantry as well. I think they’re going to try to brainwash the areas that they are contending right now. Russia tried to retract what it had said but they kind of put the foot in the mouth and if I get more I will send more information so far that’s what we’ve got
I have noticed Ukraine utilizes rail lines differently than Russians, they let the Russians use the rails as cover while they back off. Rails are straight and not trenched for cover from behind and Ukraine knows the location so it is susceptible to cluster munitions as the trenches are not, and any coming over the rails to advance must expose themselves to gunfire. So rail lines have benefits and drawbacks for both sides IF they know how to use them.
@3:30 ish Well, I'd never thought I would get my news update froma grown man drawing pictures of machine guns going *budabuda* complete with sound effects. . . But here we are. ♥ "What a time to be alive"
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." - Thomas Paine, 12/23/1776
Ukraine has over 700,000 active personnel and over 900,000 reserves. For Ukraine to properly fight the Russian's it will need at least 1 million+ active personnel which Ukraine currently can't equip, train and supply Unless many European nations increase efforts to help Ukraine which they are currently not doing.
Why then are old people and pregnant women taken to war in Ukraine? Why are people being snatched from the streets and sent to the front if (as you claim) they have one million reservists whom they cannot arm?
How is Ukraine facing a manpower shortage? As an American volunteer, I've seen plenty of MAM's (military aged males) throughout Ukraine from Lviv to Kramatorsk.
I guess at 70k killed and 100k+ wounded, that is when you start to hit the limits of an open mobilization (around 15:16). Ukraine should probably start to think about a limited "not so open" mobilization - as bitter as that might sound. After all, if they had to stop troop rotation, then the regular troops will at some point break. Better to get some replacements trained sooner than later so they can rotate their main troops again.
@@steffenrumpel2784 my point exactly! A few wounded Ukrainian friends have voiced their angry whenever they see able bodied males walking the streets who are not serving, including those living abroad. One of my friends brother had twice been wounded, with permanent physical damage, received orders returning to frontline duty. However, a medical officer rescinded those orders by scheduling him additional surgery to place a metal rod in his right leg. I still come across foreign volunteers but they aren't as many as they were before in early 2022.
@@HollywoodMarine0351 Manpower is often limited by equipment, training and logistics. There's no point throwing people into the fight if you haven't been able to train and equip them properly yet or are still in the process of improving your logistics to be able to keep those extra troops supplied. Getting guys off the street, giving them a gun and sending them straight to the front without training is what Russia has been doing and it's a large part of why they've lost so many troops and failed to achieve the results you'd expect based on their manpower numbers alone.
@@trolleriffic - The point isn't to drag people from the streets and to send them to the front lines against their will. The issue is that those who are already at the front line, who cannot be rotated due to lack of personnel, will at some point fail to fight due to exhaustion. Ukraine will have to figure out a way to take some pressure from its main troops so they can be rotated again. And I agree, new people have to be trained ... properly, which takes time, which takes long-term planning.
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Like your 'Headings' section at the beginning but you appear to be self censoring to a higher level than what may be seen on other UTube channels - which is bit of a turn off - I'm afraid. Appreciate your ongoing commentary though. Thanks for your efforts.
As far as I understand this war, it is not so much a problem of getting actual people but getting them trained as at least in theory both countries still have millions of potential recruits they can conscript. Problem is that raw recruits aren't very useful and can be a danger to themselvs and people around them so you really need to train them. But training takes time, equipment and experienced specialists as instructors. Unfortunately such people are sorely needed at the front so you have a catch 22 situation. You need more soldiers but you can't really spare your best guys to train them to the standard you need them to be in the numbers you want. I hope western support gives more help with training to balance the scale to UA side faster. Even better would be to give UA material support that would allow them to avoid manpower attrition via making the enemy suffer more loses instead. The war is not won by dying for your country but by making the other guy die for his.
