Battle for Kyiv, Part II - Animated Analysis

[@TheWarArchive]

IMPORTANT UPDATE! There is a mistake at 23:52. Bold numbers in square brackets are actually Ukraine's demands. Italics numbers in round brackets are Russia's demands. Thanks to all commenters who pointed that out. As well, the battle for Moschun involved battles for Horenka, a town 5km to the south which is mistakenly labeled as Moschun at 7:20. Sorry for that, I will try to be more careful next time. Hope you still enjoyed the video, though!

[@Sovereign_UK]

Pin your comment so it shows at the top for new viewers. 😁

[@Fryslanpr0]

Any hints on what you got cooking for the next one? Love the videos man, keep up the great work!

[@TheWarArchive]

​@@Fryslanpr0 The next video will be a lesson on why uncontrolled PMCs could be detrimental to health.

[@Overonator]

The brigade/division/unit emblems are confusing I can't tell if they are Ukrainians or Russian.

[@Fryslanpr0]

@@TheWarArchive hahah love the way you phrase that :D Looking forward to it!

[@Develpup]

I participated in the battle for Makariv, Southeast. Thanks for shedding light on this front. Must only talk about Hostomel, Irpin, and Bucha area.

[@jadenwhen]

thank you for your service!

[@audriusa5368]

I believe it was so hard. Ukrainian heroes, you will be remember forever. I wish you swift victory against russian invaders. Greetings from UK

[@diegotavel5872]

All of you are heroes. Greetings from Bolivia and Slava Ukraini !!!

[@andreidarie4076]

Get some brother

[@dv2045]

send the orcs back to their Mordor homeland

[@anaxis]

For all it's faults, KZbin has truely become the modern Library of Alexandria. Until the books are written, these videos are vital snapshots of history being made; they will help write those books & educate people for as long as the internet exists (as we know it). Good work!

[@informitas0117]

If the Library of Alexandria had ads everywhere and people slapping the book out of your hands and shove a flyer in your hand.

[@anaxis]

@@informitas0117Oddly, I never have that problem. TNSTAAFL.

[@AADP]

What a terrible comparison

[@AADP]

​@@informitas0117"THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST READ AND BELIEVE, IF YOU DONT YOU ARE A BARBARIAN REEEEEEH " Xp

[@andregaming9869]

hey I wanted to tell you that there were also the national guards in moshun my brother was one of them .... unfortunately he left on March 16, 2022 after an ambush i miss him so much he was a very good person

[@GammaFrost1]

Here’s to your brother resting easy 🍻

[@Wockytoky]

Your brother is a hero

[@javilo2797]

Slava ukranie and big bro !​@@Wockytoky

[@greybirdo]

Heroyim slava! In my country our monuments have the words ‘Their Name Liveth For Ever More’. A man only truly dies the last time his name is ever spoken. May your brother’s name, too, live for ever more.

[@ironclad1056]

Greatest joke of the 21st Century "A Gesture of Good Will"

[@herptek]

I can imagine the Russians only ever speak about good will with a sarcastic grin on their faces.

[@cameronfoley7859]

The small scale armor engagements like at 11:50 are my favorite parts of these video. Unsung heroes that you do not often hear of. I'm glad you give them the recognition they deserve!

[@dagnytaggart2027]

Agree

[@LegioPatriaNostra182]

I fought to defend Kiev in 2022. Similarly, my Polish ancestors fought against the Bolshevik-Russian invasion near Warsaw in 1920. I know that no one in the West believed that Ukrainians would defend Kiev. However, the Ukrainians defended Kiev against the Russian onslaught.

[@rtqii]

Unlike American Republicans and Trump supporters who attack their own capitol.

[@Xuren17]

Im amazed by the quality of your videos and the effort you put into them. I also appreciate the addition of names and photos of the heroes that lost their lives in service.

[@Juuul89]

Bro your videos are absolutely insane. I remember so much footage you showed from the start of the war but never knew the context. The fact you pieced together footage, names of downed crew, russian aircraft callsigns etc is crazy and I understand the insane amount of research this must must have taken. Respect!

[@timothywells8589]

I was in Kyiv during this time and this is the best summery of events I have seen. I hope you get a lot of views because everyone needs to know the bravery of the defenders who gave their lives to save Ukraine in these eaily stages.

[@giodima4024]

от чего спасти? что бы одного вора в президентской кресле сменил другой вор? сколько бы людей сейчас было бы живы если бы бы русские захватили Киев, ты об этом не думаешь?

[@WilliamLopez-ek7gl]

​@@giodima4024Если бы Киев был захвачен, русские развернули бы военные преступления, невиданные со времен Второй мировой войны... Слава богу, они проиграли

[@giodima4024]

@@WilliamLopez-ek7gl парень, ты совсем не понимаешь сути конфликта между Украиной и Россией. Не было бы никаких массовых репрессий. сейчас довольно много гражданских живёт на оккупированных территориях. а некоторые живут на ЛБС. и никто их не трогает. Большенство убитых в Буче и Ирпене погибли из за арт обстрелов и украинской стороны и с русской. поверь, у меня достаточно информации от людей которые там были, в составе ВС РФ.

[@WilliamLopez-ek7gl]

@@giodima4024 Их никто не трогает, потому что большая часть из них бежала... И Ирпень/Буча были настоящими примерами российских военных преступлений на Украине, потому что обстрелы происходили на окраинах, и вскрытие показывает, что жертвы не погибли от обстрелов, иначе мы повсюду находили бы шрапнель...

[@giodima4024]

@@WilliamLopez-ek7gl ты там был? ты видел результаты вскрытия трупов?

[@Hypernefelos]

Fantastic presentation! If I could offer one suggestion, sometimes it's hard to make out which units are Ukrainian and which are Russian on the map, because you're only using unit patches and not flags or separate colours for them. It would be helpful if you added some extra visual element to them to make their affiliation stand out better.

[@jessehachey2732]

In the first 15 seconds, all units were listed, and each unit badge has a little circle with either a Ukrainian flag, or the Russian one…

[@Pyrrhic.]

@@jessehachey2732 you want to use unit symbols; then you’ll need to draw out battle lines to show Ukraine and Russia controls what space (like eastory). If you want to just use national flags to represent units, you can do that (like Kings and General). So yeah while what you say it true, it is hard to spot sometimes when there are a lot of markers on the map and some of us watch this on a smartphone that isn’t a large screen phone.

[@casperxvi1904]

Maybe give the unit patches a yellow border for ukraine and red for russia?

[@PrintScreen.]

a small flag on one border of the unit patch could also work

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

You'll notice when he first introduces a unit onto the screen, he shows the patch in bottom right with country Flag below it.

[@niilohyvonen]

Lets not ever forget the bloodfed of citizens of bucha and many other towns and cities

[@liquid_author]

3:46 The attack of Ukrainian Mi - 8 was in Kalynivka village. I am resident of this village, and i saw that attack on my own eyes, that was incredible! The place from this video, is near by Scania Dealer Showroom (A piece of the car showroom itself can be seen in the video).

[@MuscovitesNightmare]

most accurate and detailed report on the early months of russia`s full scale invaision available for general public yet. can`t be overappreciated.

[@kamikaziking]

full scale invasion with 150k troops on a country of 44 million? wtf are you guys smoking?

[@TilW]

I find the battles around Kyiv extremely interesting. At least for me personally, there initially was just too much confusion around things to understand what was happening. I especially like how you combine the animations with actual footage: Unit movement on the map is great, but the videos help get you a much better impression of the situation. So does explaining the "micro" side of some battles occasionaly.

[@tougheddie7297]

Amazing videos, only found your channel last week. Keep up the good work. Go Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@darth_elsa6681]

Unlike your previous videos I actually saw a lot of the photos and video you used here.....thank you for adding much needed context about what happened. Keep up the good work.

[@Spicy_Italian_Sausage]

Just an hour ago I was wondering when part 2 would come out. Timing couldn't be better xd

[@SuperPakalja]

checked the channel yesterday myself

[@Nathan-nr5lg]

Same haha

[@leighbakeruk]

This is amazing historical work. Thank you for the huge amount of detail to capture this story

[@brokenpotato438]

Excellent videos, I can see the inspiration you got from The Operations Room. Keep up the good work, we appreciate the research that must go into these videos especially since propaganda and misinformation (from both sides) tends to make accurate analysis more difficult. Edit: I also appreciate you naming and showing pictures of all the Ukranian pilots that were killed throughout these phases of the war. It shows a lot of respect and class for the topic, putting faces on those who got killed fighting overwhelming odds to protect their country.

[@edwardkennedy6443]

During the battle for Makariv in mid-march, I remember the moment when russians began to retreat in large groups, but one bmp3 rushed at us while a russian lieutenant (as we later found out) was waving flag of the USSR on top of it. We damaged the armor with the help of Corsar, and guys from Kord shot this lieutenant in his balls, after which he fell and bmp crushed him trying to turn back. We laughed so hard that the last russians who were about a hundred meters away from us abandoned their positions and fled. It's scary to think how war depersonalizes people and forces them to kill without regret, but there is simply no time for reflection when your life is in danger. I wish all this didn't happen and we could all be better people. But unfortunately, ordinary russians did not realize anything from the events around Kyiv, and instead of abandoning the fantasies of their fuhrer, they decided to avenge their losses, not thinking about how and why they died.

[@skywillfindyou]

ah, another fantasy

[@edwardkennedy6443]

@@skywillfindyou yeah man, it's fantasy. In reality vatniki took Kyiv, destroyed our army (in three days), and NATO retreated to the 1991 border. Do not fact check this or you will have depression.

[@rambonatorrrr6694]

​@@skywillfindyouyou might want to watch some videos if you find this hard to believe.

[@martinhuaman1772]

La vuelta q da la vida ahora ustedes están atacando y sufriendo las perdidas y quejas de occidente

[@fearlesspotato3429]

​@@martinhuaman1772go back to your jungle monke

[@Brendissimo1]

Great series summarizing this decisive battle (perhaps the most decisive battle of this war). I've said it on other videos but I will once again say I really like the way you blend real footage in with the map overview. A lot of us who follow this war have seen a lot of the footage, but not everyone has taken the time to visualize where each incident occurred and put it in context. The big picture really starts to come together thanks to your videos.

[@MrTotalAhole]

Thank you for covering the air aspect of these battles. Ive seen lots of coverage of how the ground battles have played out so far, but almost no coverage on how ground attack aircraft played apparently an important role. * Never seen this video of a soldier shooting a Javelin from a cell tower 18:53 such bravery

[@sebastienhardinger4149]

Keep them coming! Would be great to see content from 2014 and 2015 battles which are severely undercovered

[@andrewbarron7690]

Thank you for your two videos about the failed attack on Kiyiv. From the comments I see I am not alone in appreciating the respect you pay to the Ukrainian Aircrew killed in action. Also as others have said you did a great job putting much of the notable video from the attack into context. My greatest respect to all of Ukraine for the resistance you show in countless forms.

[@trash4evr]

Thank you so much for putting time and effort in these videos! A good visual representation combined with animations and footage is top tier.

[@Artur_M.]

Tremendous work! I'm particularly glad that the participation of Belarusian volunteers was mentioned at 20:10. I hope that one day they'll see their homeland liberated. Also, it's interesting to note (as shown at 22:02) that Chechen units fought in both sides of this battle.

[@terrysparrow2180]

It's awesome seeing such high quality content that gives a detailed breakdown of these events! I admit even though I was following the news closely at the time I have already forgotten the details of some of these engagements.

[@artemperebyinis2926]

Respect and glory to Ukrainian Heroes, defenders of Kyiv!

[@leonardibimantara98]

Just watch the part one and battle of Kharkiv couple hours earlier then suddenly the part 2 battle of kiev came out.u did Great work.👏

[@WoddyWodka]

I think that your videos have a great added value. Just how you prepare them with localization of the videos on the map and the small animations, great!.

[@Learster_]

Underrated gem on youtube, keep it up

[@thelatestlancerdownload5869]

Great Job. Next, I recommend the battle of Mykolaiv. Although the Russian offensive was most successful in the south, even they failed their primary objective- Odesa. After capturing Kherson, they moved further north to Mykolaiv, where Ukrainian defense finally stabilized and held them off for a month and eventually drove them back right around the same time they retreated from Kyiv.

[@thechancellor3715]

Excellent continuation presenting a cohesive picture of the early days....a reference work for military historians. Respect.

[@SnafuWT]

excellent video! i follow the war 24/7 on reddit but this is on another level of researching and info gathering! subbed!

[@SC-mt9ph]

It's so good to be able to place these bits of footage (some which I have seen) on a map... and on a timeline. Give such a good overall picture.nice work, Very professional. I subscribed!...

[@lightweight9815]

Most underrated analysis content maker on yt!!

[@samthompson2980]

Thank you 😊 very informative and love animation with mix in of video 👍 good job 😁

[@TucciGP]

Great video once again. Your reconstruction is amazing

[@ninal9953]

Your coverage of these historical events is brilliant!

[@nicolasadriansmithvaldes4942]

This is top tier content. This Channel is Such a great gem

[@vd89198]

I checked so many times if part 2 was out, awesome! thank you and have a nice day!

[@skivvy3565]

Excellent work as always, appreciate you and your content more than I can share

[@sandman6045]

Had been waiting for this thank you 😊

[@n1ck3m]

The specifc data and details in your videos are extremely impressive. Amazing work tracking and researching all this. Truly oustanding!

[@johnchapman9044]

Good video my friend 👍 I was very in the battle of Irpin Legion spec ops

[@alph_jvne]

Thank you for the effort. Really quality documentary.

[@PikeBishop14]

Another amazing video. Great work!!!

[@jello5508]

Fantastic stuff as usual, the fog of war during these events makes it so difficult to get an accurate representation of what actually happened. Your animations although simple help a ton when following along. Great stuff have yet to dissapoint.

[@llywrch7116]

You do a wonderful job here. I watched the news reports as they came out, the videos on Twitter, & commentary from experts, but they came across in a very chaotic fashion. (And not helped by clickbait sites, trumpeting major developments only to fail to share any details of a "major development".) Your videos all help put these scattered bits into an understandable narrative. I look forward to your future releases!

[@christof_7]

This is an excellent historical summary of events. Showing verifiable video footage and addressing Russian propaganda for posterity and history. Fantastic work. One recommendation would be to get a professional microphone and sound dampening, your narration was sometimes hard to understand because of the audio quality and slight echo. Please continue to make these videos as they are extremely important to address 'revisionist history' and for the honoring of the men and women fighters who truly are all Heroes of Ukraine!

[@MB-of8jx]

Awesome analisys! Few more things to mention - sometimes you confuse west & east in the story. For example, on 2:11 you calll it "the east of the Capital", but Zhytomyr Highway is west of the Capital (as all mentioned towns in area) 13:24 - it's definately not the west but east of Kyiv (Brovary directoion). Thank you for your effort, hope, you re doing well.

[@vlotex]

Just rewatching pt.1 and then this pops up, thank you!

[@roberto_8162]

Great detailed presentation, thank you

[@od4566]

great atalitics! thanks for creating and sharing !

[@ShipwreckedMonki]

Another brilliant reporting of events, particularly interesting re viewing combat footage within the wider context of the invasion. Look forward to your next video.

[@JakeWilcox-yh8xl]

These are the best well made videos on the Ukranian war, Bravo 🇺🇦

[@SteelLegionnaire]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 thanks for those great videos!!!

[@Czar_B]

You really deserve more subs, this is great!

[@Delatta1961]

Great production. It’s important to have this kind of accuracy in documentation of the battles so enemy actors from within and outside Ukraine don’t try to change the facts of this illegal invasion. I hope the Russian leadership will one day pay the price for the atrocities committed by the regime

[@nei1mchugh]

your videos are great. Connecting the narrative with documented videos and pictures makes your videos very captivating. I hope your channel grows more so you can make some more videos. I'd be especially interested in what happened in Kerson in the opening days of the invasion.

[@robrot404]

One of the best channels on KZbin, absolutely underrated. Keep up the good videos! remember me when you reach a million subs

[@noBap_B_TAHKE]

Please share this video with everyone you know. This should be seen by as many people as possible in order to understand what is really happening, to know the truth. Thank you very much to the author for your work. Man thank you very much.

[@adasiowaty2135]

Dziekuje. swietna praca !!

[@temoo91]

Thank you for your great work, I hope the war will be over soon and Ukraine will be rebuilt and be a great country, god bless you Ukrainians. Glory to Ukraine and Georgia ! 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇬🇪🇺🇦🇬🇪🇺🇦🇬🇪🇺🇦

[@MegaDanielSJ]

Best chanel about the war so far, love your videos, keep up the good work!

[@jordanhicken7812]

Thank you for making these videos!

[@antonyapostolov8252]

brilliant videos. Thank you for your work. This was super informative!

[@Ariccio123]

20:31 "a gesture of good will" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@zeitgeistx5239]

Do a video on the heroes of Chernihiv and how they tied up the Eastern arm of the Russian advance that desperately tried to bypass them to Kyiv.

[@reganmahoney8264]

Great video! Thanks for breaking this down.

[@Chris-se5jr]

I deeply appreciate the captions on the images and videos. I just finished watching another history video from another channel and I was constantly wondering “is this imagery from the incident they are talking about? Is it the same units and people but at different times? In different places? Stock footage?” Thank you for the clarity!

[@mrouncervideos2905]

Great work! Very well done documentary 👏

[@JohnDoe-zc3fg]

Great video! One thing I'd like to correct. In the visualisation you refer to Horenka and Pushcha-Vodytsya as Moshchun. Moshchun is a smaller settlement above the two that you focus on in the visualisation

[@susanwestern6434]

Excellent video with the defence of Kyiv very well explained.

[@maxkennedy8075]

Just as I get on lunch break, fantastic

[@Kody-xy3jj]

Well done ! Excellent documentary.

[@MadMax55777]

Thanks for another great video! For those who wonder where else 72nd Brigade "Black Zaporozhians" appeared - it also major contributor to another 'FAFO' moment for russians in defense of Vuhledar, if there ever will be video about it from this channel.

[@TheWarArchive]

I will certainly cover this battle but can't really say when I will get to it with all the ongoing projects.

[@MadMax55777]

@@TheWarArchive no worries, thanks for providing such documental material for future generations!

[@gleitshrimp7676]

Very impressive work!! Respect! 👍

[@hko2006]

Very good summary, I recall many of the go pro video, now I know where they are from

[@Experimental-Hub1]

Just watched the first part and wondered when the second part is coming, 2min nice

[@tiitsaul9036]

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

[@michaozon4171]

Thank you for the video!

[@mbanasevych]

Very accurate and amazing analysis. Thank you for it!

[@wildman8125]

This deserves hundreds of thousands of views.

[@fade_gaminghd]

Great video as always , I can’t wait for next one 👌

[@shaler950]

Thank you, Well presented.

[@mikep584]

Great job bro! Keep it up!

[@lordcirrhosisofliver]

I am glad you touched on the "muh agreement!" argument. It was the main vatnik cope after this fiasco.

[@CatalystD9]

Well Done looking forward to watching the rest of your series Thank You 🙏 💙💛

[@matthewhoppe3643]

Good work mate

[@HandsomeSquidward-q7g]

When I see how the Battle of Kyiv and the rest of the conflict have played out, I can't help but draw parallels between this conflict and the Chechen wars, particularly the Battle of Grozny, which according to wikipedia proceeded as thus: "The initial assault resulted in considerable Russian casualties and demoralization in the Russian forces. It took another two months of heavy fighting, and a change in tactics, before the Russian Army was able to capture Grozny. The battle caused enormous destruction and casualties amongst the civilian population and saw the heaviest bombing campaign in Europe since the end of World War II." Seem familiar? It seems the Russian military and government always approach their fights with a sense of overconfidence, massively underestimating the resolve of their foe, get slaughtered, and then come back and just bombard the shit out of them until they just grind their enemy down. Let's take stock of what the Russians gained in Chechnya and what they stand to gain from the current war: Chechnya: -An impoverished blotch of land in the Caucasus bordering Georgia with an embittered Muslim population who still remember what was done to them. People forget that that turd Kadyrov's main job when he and his huge band of heavily armed thugs is not aiding in invading Ukraine is to oppress his own people at Moscow's behest. Charming fellow. Ukraine: -They get access to Crimea's port and the large industrial regions mineral deposits in the Donbass region and the other territories they have seized. Not too shabby. Also, they also still have the few hundred thousand Ukrainian children they kidnapped and gave to Russian families to help shore-up their piss-poor demographics that will screw them in the long run. So definitely a bigger win than Chechnya. -Combat experience for their (surviving) troops. Now let's see at the costs have been: Chechnya: -A few thousand troops, a couple of cities razed and tens of thousands of dead Chechen civilians. Also a few hundred Russian civilians from the terror attacks launched by hardline Chechen terrorists. All in a day's work for the Russian government. I suppose we should be grateful it isn't Holodomor levels of genocide. How generous of them. Ukraine: -Massive economic sanctions that have largely cut them off from the world's high-tech sectors and the mass seizure of Russian oligarch's overseas money and assets. These sanctions, while not particularly effective in the short term, will definitely have an effect down the line, especially if they are kept in place for the next few years. -Tens of thousands of dead and wounded soldiers, a huge number of which have been their best and most well-equipped troops, along with their main geostrategic rivals getting masses of intel on the (in)capabilities of the Russian military. -Sweden and Finland joining Nato, massively extending the Russia's shared border with hostile nation states -Massive rearmament of Western Europe with the latest murder toys the American and European military industrial complexes can shit out. -Becoming economically dependent on the People's Republic of China. I'm sure the CCP is a fair and considerate trading partner.

[@LouisSamuel82]

You might want to look up the Ryazin incident regarding the Moscow bombings. It's still not clear who really carried them out. As for what they gained, it has been claimed that Russian leaders are seeking to expand until they reach defensible barriers. The Caucasus mountains are one such barriers.

[@HandsomeSquidward-q7g]

@@LouisSamuel82 Oh, I've heard of THAT particular bombing. That was 100% a false-flag op conducted by the FSB for exactly the reason you mentioned.

[@adamstephenson7518]

Great video, excellent break down

[@mkmp7154]

Brilliant stuff well done

[@maxpastushenko5795]

6:37 This village called Gorenka. Moschun located a little bit norther near the highest 72 bridge sign

[@Cam-nq8br]

This is an awesome channel. Thanks

[@taras_ukr_]

Compliments! A well done video, one of the best on the war in Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!

[@KralikJR]

❤ Great job. Please keep them comming. ❤

[@Dadoimp]

Heavy guns and planes and everithing else is great but the best ukrainian weapon is the fight for the motherland and freedom. That is more powerful than people realise. We did that same thing in 1991 against Serb and Yugoslav Army. My dad and his brother i law, literaly had a hunting rifle. Only one... Guys in Vukovar, neighbors, friends, coworkers, farmers resisted tousands and tousands of professional soldiers with tanks for months giving time to the rest of Croatia to dig in and brace for impact. Just like Mariupol... We have prevailed, Ukraine will prevail. 🇭🇷❤️🇺🇦

[@collinsx62]

Your videos are amazing!

[@srj607able]

Thx the quality is amazing