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They don't cover modern topics because the info on those conflicts would be wrong. 10 years from now portions of this video will (most likely) be inaccurate. This is mostly due to the fact that most of the information about the Ukraine war is top secret and is unknown to the general public not to mention the only information we do get is from the government and is also often altered from the truth.
@@raitute4084 I'm going to guess it's based off NATO shipments to Ukraine, Thing is though we've been fighting a proxy war with Russia for a long time now. Against Wagner PMCs in regions such as Africa and Syria.
@@grapefruitsimmons The war between Russia and Ukraine has nothing to do with the US. The Russian government just tried to solve its problems through a small victorious war for three days, and threats to the United States are just a propaganda tool.
We wanted to make sure we covered the war with a delay (only talking about 2022 events) so that we can give at least some time for the information to settle. We also made sure not to mention any specific figures for troop numbers/casualties, as those numbers vary widely and are a huge point of contention. Still, we find it useful to help inform people about what is going on in the real world, and being as objective as we can.
@@metsgiantsfan333 Oh damn, I knew there was something wrong with how I spelled it. I still get confused with certain words and their spellings. ._. Thanks though.
I just recently spent a few days in the Ukraine to do some filming. Kyiv is intact but Kharkiv is definitely damaged. It's amazing that Kharkiv is still under Ukrainian control. Hopefully peace will flourish again here.
Thank you for it, it's really important that someone from outside of this knows what is going on in Kharkiv. I'm from this city and waiting for our victory, crushing russia and Kharkiv to become beautiful again.
Bro, next time ask someone local to show you the damages in Kyiv. It's a big city. Some damaged buildings still are not repaired. Some of them were repaired but they were burned out completely in 2022.
@JuryOnlyAnimations no, it’s not You don’t say ‘the noun’ you just say ‘noun’ United States begins with an adjective, a descriptor Do you say ‘the Germany’? ‘The France’? ‘The Belgium’?
This is probably one of the only channels I immediately watch when I get a notification for a new video. I wait for others, not the Armchair Historian.
It's interesting to me as someone still in school to witness something that, in years to come, will be taught in my history class to other people looking at it from how I look at previous wars myself.
Interesting enough Ukraine gave up its nukes in the 90’s. Only on the condition that both the east and west would guarantee not to interfere with their borders.
Sadly this is so. And Ukraine was attacked by a country that promised to defend Ukraine. And the US did not help Ukraine in 2014. Pity the Ukrainians who exchanged their nuclear shield for the useless promises of politicians and bureaucrats. Moreover, some of our politicians think that we should stop helping Ukraine, hearing their words makes me furious. Instead of increasing the scarce aid to Ukraine, some hypocrites and egoists demand it be stopped and Ukraine be left at the mercy of a dictator. The world is beginning to lose confidence in the pacts and agreements because they are not respected.
So? Ukraine wouldn’t have been able to do anything with them. To begin with, they weren’t Ukraine’s nukes, they were the USSR’s, and in any case they would have never been able to use them bc the codes were always in Moscow. Fun Fact, Russia would have detonated those nukes if they were still in Ukraine. They could have just said that Ukrainians were messing with the missiles and they blew up accidentally.
@@Jnivella ... so? The original comment is relevant because Russia broke their promise. What relevance did your comment have? That the nukes were useless to them anyway? Who cares. Russia still respected Ukraines borders & promised not to mess with them & then proceeded to invade them later on.
For some it may sound stupid, but for me in Ukraine to hear "conflict" is just heart breaking. War is so much more than just a conflict. It's like in 1939 Germany started just a conflict, not a war, that became a world war just a bit later. Every day hear air raid sirens and very often some explosions, when glass in my windows are vibrating. It's not a conflict for me
As someone who’s from Ukraine, it’s crazy to think that my kids one day will learn about this war in their history classes and ask me about it. We are living history people.
Sorry, but if the war ends and both sides are at peace, this would not be taught in any history class except for in Russia or Ukraine. This is simply because Ukraine is a poor country, nothing to offer the world. So it's fall would not do much to Europe or the world. That is unless the Ukraine war is the start of a chain reaction. Other than that, it would most likely be forgotten in the future. The only thing interesting in this war would be to see how military operations would be carried out in modern warfare.
@@eliasziad7864 That's a very bold claim. Just because some Americans are ignorant doesn't mean historians wont recognize the importance of this war. At the very least it will be remembered for showing that Russia is not nearly as powerful as anyone once thought
@@eliasziad7864 This war has irreparably shattered relations between Russia and Europe, damaged Russian prestige, relegitimized the once dying NATO, amd is being studied by China right now. And it isnt even over yet. Wgat do you mean this war isnt important?
@@eliasziad7864 ye no cap bro. All of this news is all around the world. It they peace out. This war will forever be remembered by the world,Ukraine and Russia as the humiliation of Russia.
@@lordofthegame5268 lol historians don't control the school curriculum, the board of education does. not to mention the curriculum will probably never talk ahout the events of the war on terror nor war on drugs, why would this war be any different?
I appreciate that you guys waited to do a recap overviewing the year in a whole, as well as planning to do the same thing next year. I know a lot of RU-vidrs who push out content on the war to capitalize on it and their information is so new that its often outdated or just wrong.
Only complaint I have is that they cut out the massive counter offensive in Kharkiv that happened during the Kherson counter offensive. Prob wants the video to only be 15min.
Nah. Recency bias is too strong. A history channel shouldn't be making videos about such conflicts, as not a lot is known about the true motives or events, due to propaganda on both sides.
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 Because Ukraine wants the world on their side, and Russia wants the world on their side. Thus, they each put out false info in an attempt to make themselves look better. Until the war has ended, and some years passed, we won't really know the facts of the case. The same is true of other modern wars.
Tbh, I think they should diverge to content about other conflicts, which seems to be what they've been doing recently. I know their reason for not covering recent conflict before was RU-vid demonization.
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Many Americans seem not to understand how important for Poland and whole NATO is Ukraine's survival as indepemdent state. If they fail, we will have Russians in several places at our borders (Kaliningrad Oblast, Belarus and Ukraine). This is also important to NATO, and in turn to USA's imperial status. If USA looses all it's allies, then you guys will have to change your politics to isolation, which will bring you even higher prices of your life. Ukraine's survival is Poland's safety. Poland and Europe's safety is American well-being. Not to mention how Poles have enough of wars with our neighboors. Poland, Ukraine and whole Western & Central Europw deserves peace.
@Chris Porter you mean that stray missile that was meant to intercept Russian drones? what is your suggestion? just stand down and let the russians bomb apartments, schools and hospitals?
Nah. Recency bias is too strong. A history channel shouldn't be making videos about such conflicts, as not a lot is known about the true motives or events, due to propaganda on both sides.
I remember how scary it was watching a livestream of the conflict near the power plant. I was preparing to watch a complete catastrophe right in front of my eyes. How the internet and social media was used during the war will place the conflict in textbooks for study for years to come.
@@WoofyMcDoodle Ukraine is taking volunteers/ cannon fodder if you'd like to see if firsthand. Seeing combat in real life is much different than watching it on t.v.
Feels so surreal and heartbreaking watching this, I remember all these major cities, major offensives, major international events etc from when I followed them in real time just last year. We are truly witnessing history with our own eyes, just not sure if it’s a blessing or not.
zelenskey is making his people suffer under his arrogance. he could easily surrender and save a lot civilians from dying. this is why you don't let jews run your country
It's no blessing when you see it this way: This Ukraine War is a war taking place in Europe - a War in Europe. One of the parties in this war loudly and proudly claims "the world is against us, but we'll always prevail!" They also claimed this war would end in months, "Home By Christmas." Meanwhile, everyone in the media keeps saying "This war is not our problem!" Sound familiar?
Bro, chill out. it ain’t going to hurt you lol and nobody felt this way about the gulf war or the war in Afghanistan or the whatever amount of civil wars in Africa. but no apparently the only war that actively bothers people is the war in Ukraine
@@colemorrison8957 The war in Ukraine is a war that threatens Europe itself. Of course Westerners will care more about that than a war in Africa or the ME. In the same way an Arab would be far more concerned with Operation Desert Storm than Operation Just Cause.
There's very few channels that can provide information and discussion of a modern war, let alone an ongoing on, in such a clear, non bias, and informative way. Far too many capitalize on the conflict and provide info that is either wrong, heavily biased, or with so little info on. This is why you're the best history channel on this site, I will eagerly wait until next year for your follow-up vid on this conflict.
This is already extremely biased right from the get go. It did not "start" with annexation of Crimea, CIA/Obama administration supported the coup de tat` during Maidan Protests and started arming/funding far right-wing neo nazi militias in Ukraine such as Azov Battalion and Right Sektor. They did not want the pro-russian Yanukovich to win the elections because he was very popular. The west did was it always does and interfered and sewn conflict and that eventually led to the Odessa Federal Building Massacre in which ukrainian militias and civilians firebombed a building full of russian-speaking ukrainians, killing women (some of which were pregnant) and men, any survivors were shot or strangled or were forced to leap to their deaths from the windows. This is all documented, recorded by video and photos by the way. After the massacre pro-russian militias started popping up everywhere and a resistance formed against the neo-nazi militias, in which Russia supported, THEN Crimea WILLINGLY joined Russia without firing a shot, they were welcomed with open arms, Crimea did not want to be part of the western puppet nazi country of Ukraine. And now we are where we are..
I was honestly not expecting you guys to cover THIS war any time soon. Thank you ! Hopefully we'll see you cover some of the previous historical battles that occured in Ukraine.
In 20 years a kid will be watching this video to research a school project on this war. It's both sad and amazing that we get to live through such a big historical event
Maybe for europeans an americans its both sad and amazing but for ukrainians its tragedy becouse every day russian rockets kill innocent people and every day people lose their relatives. Аnd recently the russians created an environmental disaster in the Kherson region by blowing up the Kakhovskaya HPP. Thousands of people lost their homes, and elderly people who could not swim drowned, and the russians do not give permission for evacuation. There is even a video of a Ukrainian drone giving a bottle of water to people who are forced to sit on roofs due to a flood. And the most disgusting thing in my opinion in this situation is that the UN celebrated the day of the Russian language on the day when it all happened. Why then was the UN created if not to protect the environment and human rights? It is very unfortunate that I (and many other children and teenagers) lose childhood in constant fear while the russians rejoice at every death of Ukrainians
@@CaptainFritz28 Putin made his motives abundantly clear well before the war. I recommend watching speeches his over the years about Ukraine, this war shouldn't surprise anyone.
I half agree. While this war does showcase a lot modern tech, it also shows a war between 2 near-peer enemies forced to resort to mostly-static attritional warfare. In Western military doctrine wars should be as swift as possible using their massive superiority of force, and I feel that should taken into account.
Sorry guys, I know this is supposed to be a recap, but you skipped a huge amount of stuff and really only focused on the beginning and missed the entire summer period, just skipping from May to September. I feel this is a dishonest portrayal. You should not be afraid to talk about Ukrainian defeats.
If they start talking about the defeats, they probably get demonetized. Other people i have seen cover the war more clearly have been stuck with limited or no ads.
@@Irken98798998 I recognized that last line lol. But I would generally disagree. I watch plenty of channels who do daily coverage and do not hide Ukrainian defeats. And this from all the sides of the war. Remember the algorithm doesn't care about anyone, no matter what side your on
After a minute of viewing, it becomes clear a about the bias of the author, who is on the side of Ukraine. He does not state Russia's version of why it launched the special operation, he does not say that Ukraine outnumbered Russia, he does not say that only military facilities were hit, he does not talk about the version refuting the massacre in Buchinsky, that millions of people left because of mobilization in Ukraine.
@@vanfloke Russia was only using contactors and PMC Wagner, while Ukraine had a full mobilization, mercs and NATO "volunteers" legion. Russian partial mobilization was a precaution measure. The Ukrainian infrastructure was targeted much later into the conflict. Before that, it was only military targets.
It is worth mentioning that on the ground the invasion of Crimea (invasion of Russian military men) had started on February 20th, 2014. Yanukovych fled Ukraine on February 22d. It is the undeniable truth that Yanukovych betrayed Ukraine playing his part in diligently orchestrated "separatism". Putin, later that spring, was honouring his military men involved in Crimea's annexation with the medal created for that occasion that read "for return of Crimea" dated February 20th, 2014.
Its finny think tany starting genocide and ethical cleansing in Ukraine by prowestern Hunta Politicians that took power during the Maydan and became persecuting those who weren't agreed with their unlawful taking power. The events in Odessa's massacre in 2014 - in which Parliament the proRussian peaceful protesters unarmed were burned alive by proNAZI banderas' followers and radicals as bandits and starting ATO (or so-called "counter terroristic operation" killing separatists in Donbass and Lugansk - bombing unarmed civilians and killing women, elders and children who are prorussian speakers by right radicals from neo-Nazi battalions "Azov" and "Aydar"). So the Minsky agreement was the last try to stop such a massacre, with all the territories are returned to the Ukraine (proRussian separatists and Russian forces agreed to stop fire, but the Ukrainian government didn't want to see it and with the support from HQ from London, France and Germany, NATO alliance not to follow these agreements continued firing peaceful citizens there). So the result was the Special Operation - to establish the government in Ukraine that can really provide the safety of proRussian and Ukrainian population there in reality and stop the influence of NATO there which really should go away from there. So the course of President Putin is quite clear for the population and a supportive one: "the denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine"
they absolutely shouldnt, seriously most of the information is straught up war propoganda and all interesting information is classified. also you cannot do that much historical Research in active warzones
If I'm correct, Russia did send an 8 point draft to Ukraine before the war started and the US turned it down, even right now the US is against Ukraine having peace with Russia.
@@commandandconquer6303 So why wassn’t the Budapest Memorandum enforced and Russia actually followed it? Russia can’t say such things to what Ukraine did about “there people” considering they themselves didn’t care about what the Chechnya’s in there nation what they think after they bombed them into oblivion.
@@brandonlyon730 Ukraine used Azov to kill thousands of men women and children, Azov trapped hundreds of civilians in a train station with a false evacuation and you want to compare it to Russia? Ukraine used NAZIS and you want to say "well Russia did this".
You would be shocked at the number of people who don't know about the 1st 2 minutes of this video. Western media doesn't explain it properly on purpose. Another great video.
You're lying. Even the original volunteer battalion was not fully staffed by right-wing radicals. The "Patriot of Ukraine" organization, which was behind the creation of AZOV, has other ideological roots.
@@БогданБеркут just happen to use wolfs hook etc the numerous nazi salutes. Okay, child, go play. Let’s adults talk Edit: western MSM openly labelled them as one until this war started. Now just heroes etc
@@dragonsdynamite6403 This symbol is called the "idea of the nation" symbol was popular among Ukrainian right in the 90s. As for the Wolfsangel, you'll be incredibly surprised that it's not just the Nazis who use it.
Unfortunately, the number of people killed by the Russians in Bucha alone is not dozens, but hundreds of people. And they were deliberate killings. People were shot in the back of the head, Women and girls were raped and corpses were burned, old people were killed .. And unfortunately there are dozens of such cities as Bucha. She just became famous.
Damn, i wouldn’t think that it would be possible to make this kind of video since this conflict is rather new, but I’m impressed, well done to mr. Johnson and his team
It’s mad to think that we legit be telling our kids about these events, and especially countries in Europe like mine that have in many cases taken Ukrainian families into their homes, and seeing Ukrainian flags and blue and yellow ribbons in almost a every town and village it really is a strange time to be alive.
So many things skewed and wrong about this. 1) The Minsk II Agreements were signed between Ukraine and the DPR/LPR, Russia, Germany and France were guarantors. 2) You forgot to mention that the US financed the government coup in 2014 and installed its own neonazi client regime into power. 3) How is it violent to give Crimeans Russian passports if they WANTED to be Russian part of Russia? 4) Why did you skip the violence and murder of civlians by the Ukrainian banderite regime from 2014 to 2022? 5) Before the Russians brought their troops to the Ukrainian border, 60 000 Ukrainian troops were called up to the DPR/LPR borders in November/December 2021, as a direct breach of Minsk II. You also did NOT mention that the Ukraine started massive shelling of Donetsk and Lugansk in mid February 2022, thus prompting the Republics to formally ask Russia for help in defending them, which Russia granted. Russia has tried for 8 years to make Ukraine and the warmongering west implement Minsk, but to no avail. As Merkel and Hollande recently said in interviews, the 8 year pause between Minsk II and the current war was never meant to be implemented by the west but instead was used to pump Ukraine full on NATO weapons, train Ukrainian troops to NATO standards, etc. to make them violently retake Crimea, Donbass and Lugansk. 6) Russia has never attacked the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, that is complete and utter bullcrap. All of these attacks were done by Ukraine. 7) Humanitarian corridors in Mariupol were ONLY opened when the Russians got there. The Azov banderites wouldn't let anyone leave as they were using people as human shields. There is ample eyewitness evidence for this. In fact, the azov banderites EXECUTED a lot of local citizen and actually fired upon residential buildings themselves on many occasions.
1. Surkov's leaks perfectly show that pseudo-republics and Russia are one and the same. Russia is a de facto participant in the Minsk process. 2. There is no evidence for this. There are no nationalists in the Ukrainian parliament for 9 years. 3. People who want Russian passports can go to Russia to get them and live there. 4. He also missed the killings and violence by the separatists. 5. At a time when the entire professional army of Russia is on the Ukrainian borders, Ukraine, very conveniently, decides to return the east by force. 6. Russia fired at Zaporozhye from the territory of the nuclear power plant. 7. Human shield tactics don't work against Russians because they don't care about civilians. AZOV was 1/6 of the defenders of the city, several other formations come from this city, they would have questions if this happened.
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4:02 Do you understand that showing on this map that Crimea is part of the Russian Federation is comparable to showing Hawaii as part of Japan or Cuba as part of the United States? Temboliye, this offends the local indigenous peoples who have more in common with Turkey and Ukraine in terms of history.
Guys do not forget: this is not a tv show. My friends die protecting our home every day. This is not "interesting" for us. A bit painful to read comments that claim video is very interesting :(
@@ОлександрОлександрович-е4о I ain't talking about them like THEM. Meaning this particular crowd I can assure that people who genuinely support us don't talk like that
We could start with Kievan Rus, Mongols, Novgorod Republic and Ivan 3rd that licked the boot of Mongols, and King Danylo of Halicia that stayed on the western part and kept us culturally different
sure thing little fellow, halicia was run by Austrians / Poland. Oh right, there was somewhat of an independency in 1919-1923 and 1991-2022. It's over tho
@@Максим-я6н7ю No empire is good enough, and where are those empires now? British empire was so big, right, максимка? Greed to take over lands leads to demise. The question is time. Recent events showed how rotten your government is yet again. Russia is a myth, a bubble 🫧 to burst.
The ukrainian crisis did not start with the annexation of crimea. It started with viktor janukovitch not signing the EU association agreement despite promising to do so during his election campaign.
Because the Eu gave Ukraine an unfair deal and the Russian deal was much better. So Yankovych did something that any leader with a half-brain would do, choose the Russian deal.
@@eliasziad7864 damn right that's why he kept selling his nation out to the russians, fun fact when he was deposed him and his cronies left ukraine with less then 10k in its treasury.
@@niqolas mobilization in Russia takes place as in a normal civilized society. In Ukraine, they catch anyone in line at McDonald's, hit him in the face with a boot and send him to die for a comedian teran
I felt like this was rushed and some big details were left out and other details were just skimmed over Spent a lot of time in the beginning about how it started. Spent little time on this year (2023) what happened. Edit: example - didn’t explain why the sinking of Russias ship was so significant. Or the commanders and leadership dead. Didn’t cover chinas involvement. Didn’t explain the sanction impacts. Love your videos bro. Just expected a little more ❤️
The reason why they didn’t put in any events from 2023 was because this video was primarily focused on what happened in 2022, so everything after New Year’s Day in 2023 will likely be explained in their 2023 video- whenever that will be. But yeah, some important events felt skimmed over but I think that’s because of the 15 minute “time limit” instead of their former 20-25 minute videos.
And he still did not start from the start. This started before Crimea, but that would mean actually presenting facts that paint Ukraine in a not-so-innocent light. With the Nazis taking power and murdering civilians.
You guys kinda glossed over the period of April-August marked by the the grinding massed artillery back assaults on Ukrainian positions on the Severodonetsks river and in Popasna and Severodonetsks and Lysychansk. And the initial attacks on Bakhmut, a small city which still stands 9 months later despite Ukraine only holding 10% of the city.
It was reduced to 10% after 9 months. It was completely under Ukrainian control at the start. Bakhmut is part of a fortified line in the Donbass (Ukraine had 8 years to fortify the area) and a large portion of Ukraine's army have been concentrated in and around Bakhmut. Soledar, another fortified town on the same defensive line was taken in January.
Even though its crazy that this is still going on in the present day, Armchair historian never dissapoints. The development of detail and providing learnfull facts is extraordinary. I really hope this conflict ends soon, its just terrible what is happening over there..🙏
Though its an interesting video, its far from being detailed. Quite contrary, it's brief summarization of events (and also almost unjustly impartial), which is very far from "extraordinary"
This video only covers up until the end of 2022 and is purposefully lacking detail since a lot of the details of this war right now are propaganda (fog of war effect)
@@Netrofikator That's the thing, we don't have much in terms of unbiased information. That is also why he so briefly mentioned the several people in Bucha being found murdered after Russian retreat - there is a lot of speculation from both sides of who and how did it, with no real conclusion being drawn yet.
I knew the war would happen when I heard a statistic saying that 70-80% of Russias military was on the border but more specifically, Russia made some wild demands against Ukraine and NATO, making it look like they had given the diplomatic approach a try. When I knew it would ACTUALLY happen (no one seems to remember this?) was when they pulled their embassy a week before the war broke out. I remember hearing the news on a long drive to work with my buddy and I called it then and there, war over there is about to begin
Ukraine just need to sign new deal where they give Donetsk and Luhansk territories and there no war, what are you talking about, for 8 years of war in those cities a lot of pro Russian people why will never ever join Ukraine
@@recycling7581 Ever stopped to think why your opinion isn't popular? Your logic is terrible, I could also say, "If Russia just respected the sovereignty of another nation there would be no war". You're a bot
@@recycling7581 80% of pro russian peoples in this cities was moved from russia to make feeling like in Donezk and Luhansk only russians. And imagine your country got invaded and say thata they must just give 2 good regions. And what you gonna do, what gonna be your feelings in that moment?
@@eliasziad7864 oh? Is that why Wagner's leader said they will soon cease to exist? IS that why Wagner still has not captured Bakhmut? HAHAH Glory to Ukraine.
I'm not sure why you'd want the Mariupol one covered. That battle had a lot of Azov and other Bandera cult people involved and I'm not sure Ukraine wants a spotlight on them.
@@kendricklamargaming8174 Yeah you’re right. 😞 What I mostly mean is that the deluge of Putin bots has not yet arrived and their numbers are limited for now. If you look at older videos you can see the absolute deluge of Russian bots that destroy any meaningful evidence and opinions, while here it’s at least more nuanced between anti and pro russia people.
I am from Ukraine from Kiev, today again , at night Russian occupation troops shelled residential buildings in Krivoy Rog , 13 dead at this time 13:29 13.06.23. Just 6 days earlier one blew up a dam at Kakhovskaya GES, to this day nobody knows what is going on in the occupied territories, it is still unknown what kind of punishment Ukrainians and Ukrainian defenders are suffering in captivity ... the same and irresponsible international organizations such as UN and Red Cross, please do not be indifferent, help each other, be human! Ukraine has proved what it means to really FIGHT FOR FREEDOM! We still have a lot to do after the victory over the Russian occupation, but right now I just want one thing, close the sky, we need F16s more than ever and no one else, because now we are giving lives, lives of real decent soldiers because of the lack of sky cover, MORE PATRIOTS, MORE ATACAMS AND F16!
Khakovka was blown up by Ukraine in an attempt to flood away Russian mines from the Dnieper banks so that landing craft and soldiers can cross without being decimated by them.
I'm from Ukraine. and I want to say about Russian speakers. Before the full accession of Ukraine to the USSR in 1945, the Ukrainian language was spoken in almost the entire territory, except for Crimea. And in Crimea they spoke Crimean Tatar. But Stalin introduced forced Russification, and all other leaders of the USSR did nothing about it. Thus, at the time of 1991, the majority of the population of Ukraine was Russian-speaking. The Russian language became very familiar, and no one thought that there was anything wrong with it. Moreover, no one oppressed anyone for refusing to speak Ukrainian. Therefore, do not believe Russian propaganda
@@sophiatewari8614 Most of what today is considered eastern Ukraine was then controlled by the Polish-Lithuanian state or the Crimean Khanate. Moscow was able to capture a small piece of the northeastern territory of modern Ukraine.
I would say that this video missed many important events and does not cover all the horrible things that russia as a terrorist state has already done to Ukraine during year 2022. I will try shortly describe some of the biggest misses of the video: - Mass burials of murdered people in Izyum (after liberation of the city more than 400 graves were discovered mostly with executed civilians) - Massive shelling of hospitals, schools, and kindergardens, and civilian houses and lying that this was the military infrastructure - The Dramatic Theater in Mariupol, where more than 600 people were hiding, most of them children, was blown up by a russian air assault And that is the top of the iceberg of the horrifying things that this terrorist state did in 21 century to Ukraine.
Yeah I was pleasantly surprised to see this more objective look. K&G are very obviously bias and pretty arrogant having seen their activity in the comment sections
@@rhysnichols8608 They actively delete comments that go against a pro Ukraine narrative. I've seen it in real time - rational and factual comments - gone -pure unadulterated censorship. They're just another propaganda medium at this point.
They have a bias, yeah, but who doesn’t. And why should you care what they do with their channel, plus I side with them and Ukraine. So it at the very least makes me happy.
@@natebox4550 They are framing their vids as an objective documentary but they only show a 1 sided polarised view of the conflict. Also they use unreliable sources. The leaked US documents show a 7:1 casualty ratio in favour of the Russians. Quite contrary to their bogus stats and politically correct commentary. They are also arseholes in the comment section acting immature and snappy at any genuine criticism.
"successfully completing an orderly withdrawal" There's nothing orderly about abandoning iteral tons of equipment and ammunition, squads getting left behind because they couldn't find transport fast enough, or soldiers trying to swim across the Dnieper and drowning. Make no mistake the Russian "repositioning" was practically a route. Look up any video talking about reclaimed equipment from this offensive alone and you'll start to see they practically ran for the hills to escape encirclement.
@Some Body Even the Kharkiv offensive, the lots of left behind equipment, is about 20 boxes of something and a few vehicles everybody keeps repeating and Using the pictures of. Supposedly the 1st Russian tank army "got destroyed" there, but they just reappeared again a month later. I have doubts about these talkingpoints. You would see plenty of photo evidence about these things if it were true.
@Atilla Marics you bots aren’t even trying anymore. People can literally google it themselves; not only is there video evidence of the Ukrainians capturing tons of equipment, but even the Russians have admitted to loosing more than you claim
The fact they were able to successfully execute a withdrawal under the circumstances at all was amazing. It's up there with Dunkirk and Gallipoli. Russia should do some more.
With all the go pros and modern phones and hand held cameras, the war in Ukraine right now will probably be the most documented war in terms of video ever in history.
