Ukraine War BREAKING NEWS (20240510): Russian Starting Kharkiv Offensive!! ( Zelenskyy Announces) 

Never interrupt ur enemy when he's making a mistake.

Wow, didn’t think it would happen, but here we are.

Thx JP! Dang! 🙏🇺🇦👏💪

There are 2 types of crazy: crazy like a fox, and crazy like this.

Good morning, JP! It looks like Russian desperation in Kharkiv, there are troubled waters in the Orc military structure. Slava Ukraini!

Take care team!

Looks like Greg was right. I thought he would know since Greg has been spending so much time in Ukraine.

I doubt this will give many results for Russia, it cost them tens of thousands of lives to take the small cities of Bakhmut and Adiivka, they will lose their entire army before they capture Kharkiv

Thanks

Thanks for the update JP. Much appreciated.

If this a real attack, something tells me the number of Russian equipment destroyed is going to go in an upward trajectory.

Thanks JP 👍😊

This has been mentioned in military summery channel for weeks .

Totemic is a better word, IMO.

Crikey... hopefully they won't get far.... so what does Putin know we don't? Escalation? I hope really everyone gets out sharpish if thats what is needed. Thats really worrying. 🇺🇦

I hope Ukraine saw it coming and were prepared. I wonder if Russia is well prepared regarding minesweeping, they have been using tanks with rollers, I wonder how many they have.

The word is Titanic and we all know how that historically swam.

as western allies prohibided the use of weapon on russian territory it's easier for russian to accumulate equipment in some industrial places and to reach a huge quantity of it before launching an assault .... one more issue of the western rules !

Hardly aiming to take kharkiv.

arm chair generaling here, but this sounds like something dramatic and attention grabbing specifically designed to draw in all the tasty new gear and ammo being delivered to the front, in an attempt to give russian forces more time to achieve results on the eastern donetsk axis, similar in scope to the rope a dope the Ukrainians pulled in Kherson and Kharkiv 2 years ago.

Putin the mastermind. Wonder what the Russian soldiers were told. Something along the lines of you are defending your motherland. You will all die but your efforts will be remembered. I am sure they were well up for it. Praising Putin and so grateful they will receive a free headstone (not). The Russian people must be so proud to have a leader change his tactics every 3 weeks. If one doesn't work, try something else eh (instead of sticking to one vector and making some progress). I think this is good news but too early to tell. I'm sure the frontlines in the south will be ok with this.

It is a great mistake. This escalative aggression gives ZELENSKY a good opportunity to collect a new army to save Harkiv and ask for additional support from western countries. And very probably he will get it.

08:45 - Could this be something similar to the "Ukrainian" incursions into the Belgorod region last year - a reconnaissance in force meant to harass, take out specific targets and force a relocation of forces and attention by the Ukrainians - while they increase pressure in the South-East to force some kind of breakthrough?

I think the goal is not Kharkiv but to move southeast to take the Luhansk region from the rear. Anything else would be hilariously overambitious.

00:10 - The long awaited opening of the third front. While battles are raging in the East, engagements have become more sporadic and localized in the South, with a significant buildup North of the border with massive missile strikes and glide bombs having somewhat shaped the battlefield in and around Kharkiv. But - as was the case with the Surovikin-lines in Zaporizhzhia last year - Ukraine has had time to build fortifications and lay minefields all across the border, and they've prepared as best they can. IMO the Russians will have as hard a time as the Ukrainians had during last year's offensive.

Algo!

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This attack is earlier than expected by most analysts. One should not change horses in the middle of a major offensive. Pure speculation from my side: could the timing be an effort to save Shoigu/Gerassimov? There was a lot of talks about them being replaced.

Its just to drive Ukraine far enough to prevent them from shelling Belgorod

Does anyone remember the battle of the bulge...............the German winter offensive in 1944-45. This is a worse idea.................

Taking the city may not be the plan. Might be to isolate it and go south of it rolling up defenders in Donbas. ?? But their tactic has been aggressive attrition. Maybe that's changing

So far it looks like recon in force, looking for a weak spot.. but again, Ukraine didn't mine and fortify the eastern or south eastern front, hopefully they learned and got it done the last few months

Seriously mined and fortified (and manned, with appropriate cover by fire)? One way to find out! Quick thought - how serious anti-radiation equipment is carried by those Russian attackers?

My fellow commenters hardly speak of the Russian perspective and their strategic/operational habits. After two years of following this war, what I see is the Russian army trying to find a weak spot that may be taken advantantage of. Nothing more, nothing less.

Are the Russians advancing on motorbikes? I saw a laughable clip where they're in formation like a cut price display team. The Blyat Devils?

Thank you, J.P.! This is quite concerning. I pray for Ukraine! 🙏🇺🇦🙏

Looks like a diversion though.

Two personal theories: 1) By opening a new area of operations, Russia hopes to take advantage of Ukraine's manpower shortage and find a weak or thin spot in the Ukrainian defense elsewhere on the front. 2) By taking Vovchansk, east of the river, Russia hopes to create a pocket roughly between Dvorchna, Pechenitny, and Vovchansk. If they can take over this area, it will allow them to then approach Kharkiv from the north and the east at the same time. Of course, both of these operational goals may be pursued at the same time.

I am surprised. The Russians just doubled the length of the front.

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really sad news. 😞

If Russia really attacks Karkhiv, it is likely to lose all of its troops.

What starting it with less than 50k troops? That's awkward and sad.

Mr JP, I just wanted to let you know. When I first heard that Russia started their Kharkiv offensive, your channel is the 1st place I went to for info & updates. Not CNN/FOX/etc. Not another YT source. You. That should say a lot. I still disagree & dislike your social politics, but I trust you'll do your best at disseminating the truth as best u can.

Dumb move. If this is a dumb move then why cannot Ukrainians get back those couple of lands? Why are they saying situation is worse than difficult? Because it is a full fledged russian breakthrough not a dumb move.

Big worry tactical nukes. NATO nations need to cover Ukraine skies so this can't happen

Ok this is ridicolus all my comments are getting deleted i am triyng to discuss the situation but you are censoring me. happy that my voice is silenced really

Why would Russia want to negotiate when they are winning on all fronts and the Ukraine military can barely put up a fight?

Why the hell hasnt Nato and the USA supplied thecweapons earlier..They are aware Ukraine need more weapons...to defend themrselves

If rus had been accumulating a massive attack force to get to Kharkiv I would have expected Ukraine to be attacking those concentrations long before they launched the attack. Something funky here. Did Ukraine not get intel of enemy force accumulation? Did russia really do that good a job of hiding the forces?

No problem for Ukraine 🇺🇦 because Ukraine have alot of the money support from the US government over 60,000,000,000 usd!

Bear in mind it took the Russians over 6 months to amass the original attack forces in Feb 2022

Sie greifen Charkov gar nicht an. Erst nach einer Einkesselung . Dann brauchen die Kiever für dieVerteidigung 50 000 Soldaten, die sie dafür nicht übrig habe Erstmal geht es um Kupjansk.

yeah but they may still have a 3 to 1 advantage an with little ammo it could go bad.i hope not but there's already indications they dont have enough units to hold them back for long

Diverting Ukrainian reinforcements. Ukraine now has to send troops north instead of east to reinforce thier thier lines that are already crumbling. I don’t think this is about taking Kharkiv. It’s about the what I said and preventing Ukrainians raids into belogorod and Kursk

Kharkiv: apparently 400 tanks and 900 armoured vehicles. How do we justify the daily Russian loss figures now then?

Whatever the aim of the Russians is, its certainly going to stretch the Ukrainians further

Seems like a feint. Regardless, the Russians would only have to semi encircle Kharkov to take it, which has been done before.

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ukraine is still losing

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Leave the reporting to the serious channels!

Dude you dont understand a bit about war.

king of bull shit thanks for your westen view

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Ukraine will never regain the Donbas or Crimea, that was obvious a very long time ago. They only serve to lose more land, people, and assets the longer they drag this out, until they formally accept Donbas and Crimea as Russian territory. Kharkov is predominantly pro-Russian, albeit still an extremely complicated operation to gain control of it. Bakhmut was entirely different, a pro Ukrainian fortress built up and fortified for nearly a decade before large scale conflict began, and even still Ukraine lost it- Just my thoughts 🤷

why 10min video to say nothing?