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Do they really expect that people who are literally kidnapped from the streets, beaten and peppersprayed before being thrown in the "mobilization" bus to be motivated? :)))

So Ukraine is basicaly out of guys in their twenties? How with such small losses of 31.K ? Those infinite-military-cemeteries Zele has forbiden filming of, might give you an answer.

I see Deepstate is still using maps from a week ago.

10:20 Russian motorcyclists “Sons of Anarchy” - Military Summary Channel :)

It's not "meteorologists" it's metallurgists my good Sir Willy. Metal, not weather xD

Vuhledar is surrounded by 5k Russian soldiers right now. inb4 "it's not strategic"

Nato Liberates Kosovo from Serbia Russia Occupies Donbas from Ukraine 😅

😂😂😂 Ukraine army our conscripts kidnapped from bus stops shops etc aren't motivated to Go die for some American billionaires 😂😂😂 well shocked to hear that lol

A rich mans war always costs the poor man everything.

Imagine FAB-3000 land beside you and you had just 4 weeks of training

Your frontline map is about 1 week behind.

Deepstate and their coping lol. I bet it physically hurts them to update maps properly. Pride is a funny thing eh.

Kursk has already seen 16k Ukrainian casualties, and for what exactly?

New draftees “run away at the first shell explosion,” a commander told the British newspaper: The Ukrainian military has been so depleted by attrition that new infantry troops are often unfit for combat and flee at the first sign of fighting, the Financial Times reported on Friday. In some units, around two thirds of soldiers are reportedly killed or wounded within days of arriving at the front. Manpower shortages have plagued the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) for well over a year, according to reports in Ukrainian and Western media outlets. After multiple rounds of conscription, the average age of a Ukrainian soldier is now 45, and many of those sent to the front are unfit for combat, multiple commanders and soldiers told the British newspaper. “When the new guys get to the position, a lot of them run away at the first shell explosion,” a deputy commander fighting near Ugledar in Donetsk Region said. Another commander whose unit is attempting to hold the nearby town of Khurakove said that “some guys freeze [because] they are too afraid to shoot the enemy, and then they are the ones who leave in body bags or severely wounded.” The commanders estimated that 50-70% of new infantry troops are killed or wounded within days of starting their first rotation. Experienced soldiers “are being killed off too quickly” and replaced by older and less fit men, another commander told the Financial Times. “As infantry, you need to run, you need to be strong, you need to carry heavy equipment,” he said, adding: “It’s hard to do that if you aren’t young.” As of May, the Ukrainian military has been drafting 30,000 soldiers per month. However, AFU Commander-in-Chief General Aleksandr Syrsky admitted earlier this month that these new recruits are often sent to fight with as little as six weeks’ training. The commanders who spoke to the Financial Times said that they consider this training worthless, as many of the AFU’s instructors haven’t seen combat themselves. “Some of them don’t even know how to hold their rifles,” one officer said. “They peel more potatoes than they shoot bullets,” he complained, explaining that he had bought paintball guns in order to teach his new men how to shoot without wasting ammunition. Those who survive often go AWOL after their first rotation, while others are so shell-shocked and exhausted that they are checked into psychiatric wards, the newspaper reported. With the AFU under no legal obligation to demobilize troops, joining the army or getting conscripted is viewed by recruits as “a one-way ticket,” a ten-year veteran told the Financial Times.

The economist article say 50% to 70% losses on new recruits in days after mobilisation. With 30000 draftees a month, it gives a low estimates of 150000 losses in this category of ukrainian fighters since january. The russian claims of hundreds of thousands of ukrainian losses seems is probably not so far. This is crazy. Sacrificing its people to keep coal bassins...

Yes, the F16 are coming. Und now? Yes, the Abrams are coming. And now? All of them makes no difference.

Up to $350 million worth of US warplanes redued to smouldering piles bauxite dust in Ukraine last week alone. Truly the stuff of "Legends", Willie.

Recruiting is up ???? Why they snatching people off the street .... I think Will confuse recruitment with conscription.

There's a excelent report about the minerals and other materials in the Donbass Oblasts, look for it, Willy!!! Even warmonger L. Graham said him self, 14 trillions of minerals for Blackrock&Company 🤣

It is not permission that he is looking at. What he wants is the NATO personnel who would be firing those missiles that he needs..

A local could well have put up a Russian flag. The Donbas is very pro Russian.

In high school Geo class on the '90s, I was told 1/2 of Ukraine is Russian speaking Slavs. Is that not talked about any more?

You said the same stuff a few months ago Will. Feel like you’re just repeating stuff.

Willie talks about the same thing so many times. That I'm coming to the conclusion that he's not capable of understanding anything. Why can't Ukraine create a line of defense now? There are two reasons why this is not possible. Firstly, there are not enough people. If the elderly and sick are at the front, where can Ukraine find enough builders to erect the necessary fortifications? This issue could be solved with the availability of a large number of construction equipment. But the available construction equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is being sent to combat areas to provide urgent assistance. And there this construction equipment is destroyed. The second is the distance. It is impossible to build a large fortification covering tens of kilometers of plain with few resources. Ukraine can build several powerful fortifications. But this construction will not be a secret for the Russian army. These fortifications will simply be bypassed. It is for this reason that all the fortifications built turn out to be erected "in the wrong place". With the loss of the old line of defense, Ukraine has no chance of creating a serious line of defense. Ukraine has neither the time, nor the people, nor the resources to do this. Every army, like any serious business, has several basic ideas underlying these organizations. Today's Armed Forces were not created by specialists in the field of military tactics and strategy. The APU was created by people close to politics, propaganda and ideology. An army created by a propagandist is an army of people whose training consists mainly in indoctrination. They are trying to convince these people that they are omnipotent, that they represent an irresistible force. Their mere appearance will put the enemy to flight. Such motivation does not allow these people to cross paths with those who know about the real state of things. A propagandist is not capable of turning yesterday's farmer into a career soldier in a few months. No one is capable of such a thing. It takes years to become a career soldier. A propagandist can create a fanatic. It is for this reason that Zelensky could not allow the mixing of warring units and trained ones. That is why the Kursk direction was necessary for the newly mobilized.

If they demobilize, it would instantly show casualties.

Ukraine sent the best of it's forces to a hopeless PR exercise in Kursk, none will return.

Main Ukraine's export atm, are young widows for muricans to re-marry.

So Ukraine is the destination for a young widowed Wife 😂😂😂

Meterology? Pokrovsk produces Ukraines rain forecasters? Can any truely compete with Jane Bunn though 🤔

Is this a re-upload? Looks like the map is a month old....

Have you heard that in a Russian strike with 4 Khinzals that 4 F16's were destroyed on the gound as well as a SU 24 upgraded to fire storm shadows + 12 storm shadow missiles and 11 pilots killed

US Liberated Iraq from Iraqis US Liberated 1/3 if Syria from Syrians US stopped liberation of Afghanistan, because it needed to focus on helping Ukraine to help with liberation of Russian from all those resources potentially helping Chinese Economy

It is simply good policy for command to sit back and demand surrender when no hope is left. It sends a message to your own forces their lives are valued, plus it can take a little while for mutiny to begin amongst surrounded troops. Once stared as a trickle it can rapidly spread and lead to complete surrender. A few days delay is nothing. Standard tactics to always deliberately leave a visible but extremely risky escape route. They are being methodical and sensible at Vuhledar.

NATO has a vast technical experience, when last was NATO in such kind of war where air superiority is non existence and they get hit with missiles and glide bombs they can not intercept?

The Black Knight's "victory plan", 🤣🤣🤣. Zelensky remains a comedian. Who, are you kidding? Vuhledar is totally encircled already. There is no route of escape left.

Russian's are not sitting on the flanks,their actually moving north to the next city while sieging uglerdar at the same time,they don't need to stop they have other cities to liberate fr the kiev regime.

At least Willy isn't pretending to be a neutral commentator. He used "Why we need it" referring to the long-range weapon Ukrainians hope to achieve a "victory plan". Willy, I need an end to the war, so you are confusing us, neutrals and pro-Rus, with you and Ukr. And if long-range weapons are so detrimental to achieving victory, why haven't the Rus achieved it by now with 10 times the long-range capabilities that the Ukr will ever have.

Brit in Australia talks about RUS occ__upation of former Russia.

Victory by PR never happens.

Has anyone noticed that Ukraine now has zero Soviet legacy weapons. Not even food, uniforms and boots on Ukrainian feet are theirs. Fortunately, all those losses of soviet equipement were arributed to Russia by redit brigade and Oryx.

Zero reason for Russia to want anymore coal mine regions, however it will be the ethnic russians in Donetsk oblast who would value it as incumbent industry and livelihoods. Russia already has far more coal than they need for consumption plus export. Overall the coal mines are not that important.

Russia has taken maybe 20% of Ukraine, but that article about coal says almost the entire coal industry has been shut down because of it. I'm wondering, is that also the case with other industries? People claim Russia has only taken a small part of the country, but it sounds like it's having a HUGE effect. Winter is coming fast!

Metallurgy, not Meteorology. 18:24 You mean in 2014 it became the main one after it came under Ukrainian occupation.

The Iron in Ukraine is 3.8 billion yrs old.Itnwas formed when there were little oxygen on earth.That with a near by coal mines make it a steel machine all local.

If we had to do that in Australia, we haven’t got enough guns to do it anyway and a shitload of defective weapons

Willy, you can invite Dennys to your channel...the info given will be no different....

lyndsey graham says you need to sacrifice more of your citizens so he can cash in more from his backers

Also, you pronounce 'metallurgical' like 'meteorological', it's hilarious.

Let us clean this space by 👎 on the ladies advertising their services in this channel by pretending to like the Willie content. How come YT delete so many comments but not them?

After digging little more in to Russian/Ukrainian conflict, I stand 100% with Russia, anyone with a knowledge of pretext of that conflict would be on a Russian side!!!!

33:50 The boy who cried "Javelins are coming!" "Leopards are coming!" "F16s are coming!"...

What makes you assume that NKorean sappers would be poorly trained a priori though, if not your obvious bias and pavlovian conditioning?

Are you suggesting that the countries that give F16s should send contractors to prepare defensive works instead?

There is little recruitment in the Ukr, mostly conscription..Recruitment- the act of enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc. Conscription - compulsory military service.

Regarding Ukraine mobilisation problem - send Boris Johnson.

Elensky and Victory or Plan should never be writen together in the same sentence😂

Bro I was in the ADF too as a combat engineer. Discharged 2017 and I can absolutely agree with what you’re saying. If there was conscription here for us then we are in trouble brother. As I was leaving the army it was already becoming way too political correct and all that rubbish. The younger generation below us identify as f$&king cats and shit. We’re in trouble!

Unsustainable. The word i have seen all over youtube and yet the war goes on.

Ugledar ALSO means the same, silly Willy. It was only transposed in Ukrainian style of writing and pronouncing, it wasn't a renaming.

There is no such thing as "Russian occupation"! There is only Russian Liberation! 💪🏻🇷🇺

WAIT you said Ukraine met its recruiting goals now you say manpower shortage? Make up your mind.

A joke: A mouse is hunted by a cat, reaches a caw and asks for help. The caw places a turd on it. The cat passes by, sees mouse's tail protuding from the pile, extracts the mouse and ... The morale is triple: Not all who shit on you want you ill, not all who takes you out of it want you good, and if you go into shit, at list go in completely. Ukraine was willing to make peace with Russia but west pesuaded them not to as they'd provide suitable help to win the war. What one would expect them to do now re west's help?

When you literally beat people on the street and drag them off to be conscripted by force, what kind of soldiers can you expect them to be? All they are going to do is run or surrender the first chance they get, because they did not want to fight this war in the first place.

Once again UA holds rubble to late and will cost many more Ukrainian soldiers lives. What is up with these top brass leaders.

G'day willy ya legend

It does not only matter which capabilities the west supplies but also the scale of the supply. The latter was also a problem and unfortunately will likely continue to be a problem ad the west does little to increase production of military equipment.

with long range on Russia - Russia will use very long range back - *are you all deaf* ? ? ? - there is no *if or but* of any kind

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You conveniently overlook the fact that don bass was an open revolt against your side

Willy, you take a 2024 article written by a partisan about a currently ongoing war, and you call its contents "doctrine." It is not that good an article and it is NOT attritional war doctrine just because it has attritional war in the title. The Russians are busy maneuvering and taking land. Of course they have a great advantage in deep battle. Of course they are winning the attritional aspect of the war. However, every time you insist on the term "attritional doctrine," you make it sound as though pouring more materiel into this thing is a key. You fall into an argumentational, propagandistic trap that allows people to mentally avoid addressing the fact that what should be Ukrainian strategy-making elements are missing. Zelensky's objective is unreasonable, the means are not available, the methods have failed, the measuring of comparative strength has been corrupt and deceitful, the strategic grammar has been childishly sloppy, physical distance has been ignored in favor of hope and psyops. Our army used to have the correct word for how Zelensky's doctrine should be described. You might use it instead of "attritional." It begins with "Bullsh" and ends in "it." Constantly harping about attrition can become, has become the elevation of a single aspect of almost every war while what reducing to the status of interesting detail all that matters. Still, great that you're talking about the coal mines. I wish I could see a map of interlocking mine passageways. Very interesting detail that.

These failing Ukrainian tactiare actually NATO tactics.

Nobody cares about your Gambling 😂

Sorry about the footy my mate across the ditch :) As the conflict in Ukraine is winding down I'm fascinated by the shift from the US by hitting on China - the rhetoric around supply of military hardware etc is ramping up. They're already looking toward the next conflict. "Lost against Russia, let's have a go at China".

Freezing the war along the existing front line or along the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is not the most likely scenario. There's a lot of talk about it but nobody really wants it, the US didn't start this war to stop it, Europe and Ukraine are not asked what they want. The Ukrainian power is maintained solely by the war, and Europe can and would like to finish but the suzerain will not allow it. And in fact, the most important thing is that Russia does not need a freeze on the war, Russia understands very well that any freeze will mean deception and big problems in the future. This has already happened with the Minsk agreements. No tanks, planes or long-range missiles can save Ukraine and a direct NATO intervention (if it were to happen) would not displace the war from Ukrainian territory either. It's not a Russian-Ukrainian war, it's a war of the Global South against the Global West, it's unknown which of them will win in the end but for Ukraine it will be bad anyway.

And lastly, there are no great defensive works because the Russians have overcome the great defensive works. Do you expect the whole country to have defensive works every 10 Km across its whole extent ? Who does that ? Who can even contemplate doing that ? Eventually Russia will break through to where there are no more significant defensive works.

4:40 there were negotiations in Vughledar for last 3 days-to surrender. Some took Volga many not. They let them one way out so they can shovel them with shovels from 3 side. This is Azovstal V2.0 siege. They cannot get supps nor backup.

did yall see patrick lancasters newest video? he is imbedded with a "special forces" group of the akhmat (they dont even have any nvgs or thermal between the 10 of them) and they go on an "attack" with the uks 300-400 meters away, he talks for 10 mins during the whole "attack" and not a single gun shot can be heard and then the operators come back from their trench raid with all thier gear and looking no worse then they left. if you 300-400 meteres from a gun battle youll hear that shit. absolute propaganda. of course he deleted all my comments pointing out the fake attack.

The word that you studiously avoid is motivation. The new Ukraine conscripts do not want to be there. And, please do not claim that you have any experience of being under a Russian bombardment. You clearly have not. You may have been in the military but you never got anywhere near this level of war. You are a babe in arms compared to what is happening here and I think you should admit it.

🐸lol..full scale.. reminds me of safe and effective..say it enough maybe someone will believe you cute 🐸

Keep it up Willy love how your not picking sides probably one of the only honest opinions on yt bout the war 💯 keep it up

Sun Tzu said 'When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard'

Thanks, Willy OAM.

Sun Tzu say not to completely encircle the enemy because they will fight like animals because their life depends on it. Better to leave them an escape route and let them argue and flee.

@willyOAM Please learn the definitions of "tactical" and "strategic". They are not interchangeable, and using them the way girls use "cute" and "adorable" to describe an outfit does not enhance your credibility. Quick rule of thumb: tactics are how you achieve the result, while strategies are the reason you're trying to achieve it.

Україна, описана як жертва усіх і всюди. І я би до певної міри з вами згодився. Україна є жертвою, - але її власних еліт, якщо їх так можна назвати. Еліт дріб'язкових, недалеконлядних, які за ніщо мають звичайний народ. Ця еліта, якими барвами і гаслами (як ганчіркою) не маскувалась би, поводиться як підліток і себе і людей тримає в ілюзіях. А ці ілюзії і привели до війни А народ також сам хоче жити в ілюзіях, ніби в глибокому сні і таким же давав досі владу...

In history every country that attacks or fight Russia makes Russia stronger. Mongolia Japan China France Germany Britain Finland and the rest, and they mostly fights without allies.

Ukraine is winning!

🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

Imagine having a manpower shortage in a war of attrition. 😊

G'day

I support Ukraine but I'm not willing to sacrifice my kids or family for Ukraine I know people will be mad and talk shit but let me ask you a question are YOU not someone else YOU willing to sacrifice Your kids for Ukraine YOU nobody else YOU willing to fight on the front line YOU

One of the most successful conscriptions was Aussie-Vietnam it worked wonderfully but god knows many were causalties. I haven't heard that word for maybe fifty yrs...."NACHO"

Thanks for the interesting topics that you are covering. Fortifications, mobilzation and training...amazing how the Ukrainian civil + military leadership fails to execute these properly.

Willy, I appreciate the thoughtful analysis and rigorous research that go into your presentations, thank you for your hard work. There's a bit of a Bug in the Rug mentality creeping into the videos. There's such deep focus on territorial positioning, you'd have thought that if territorial control was a measure of success we'd have Russians speaking German and a united Korea.

Sorry to go on a tangent, but do you know of anyone who is tracking the various gray-zone activities in the South China Sea and East China Sea on a regular, and ideally daily, basis? Maybe there is not enough available info to present. Maybe there is already too much to focus on with Ukraine and now Lebanon. Maybe there are other reasons why analysts are steering clear. Anyway, I really enjoy your content, but if you knew of any such sources, I'd love to know. Thx

Russia has always had conscription. So they have about 2 million men with a years service. Their military is 5 times the size, so has a massive veteran reserve available. Ukraine has never had conscription until march 2024. In 2014 its army was 30k in size.

By the name , Donbas is a short for Donetskyi bassein , which means Donetsk basin - its a coal basin . The main coal reserves lay in there . If Ukraine looses this area , it surely will be out of coal . But a lot of european countries don't have coal , I am sure the post war Ukraine will be able to purchase the coal from Donbass . The war will be over one day , and the trade relationships will start again .

The mines, are needed by Ukraine. They’re a bonus for Russia. These abandoned mines, are environmental disasters. Contaminated water soil air Potentially releasing radiation Changing the landscape Making the area inhospitable

Willy, It’s METALlurgy - what you were saying is the study of weather! Love you brother, appreciate you lol

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