Battle of Sievierodonetsk - Animated Analysis

[@HRM.H]

Your videos are unmatched! Always top notch.

[@Nordy941]

It’s crazy how much the tactics have changed since 2022. At this time I didn’t see any FPV drones or gps guided bomb now it’s multiple videos a day of each.

[@troysweeney8432]

You don't see much use of any gps guided bombs because it's jammed by the Russians... the Russians however use laser guided bombs

[@Slavic_Goblin]

Necessity is the mother of invention, they say...

[@TactfulWaggle]

the good ol time of bayraktar drones

[@TacticalLawnGnome]

The video is great but some of the info is incorrect. 79th did not return to the rear to replenish. They sat in exposed trenches on a hillside outside Grigorivka eating artillery and sustaing heavy casualties through the end of July before moving to the rear. They didn't move to the rear in June as the video states. How do I know? I was there with the 1st International Company Ivan Bohun Brigade and we supported them and stopped the Russian advance on Grigorivka and lost several men July 18th and it was 79th brigade that we spoke to and helped.

[@TheWarArchive]

Thank you for the valuable correction! There is much more information about the battle itself than about the aftermath, so some of my assumptions indeed might be incorrect. I also did not mean to say that 79th was withdrawn completely in June, but rather sometime after the battle. That's why the icon stays on the map around 29:18. But still, I appreciate such details and we will try to avoid such ambiguities in the future.

[@Vatniks_are_clowns]

So only use pro russian talking points? Weird ​@@bhaashatepe5234

[@Giganigga365]

from there we can see this is a western propaganda and you haven't upload a single video about fall of avdiivka

[@J74556]

This is so great I wish they showed all this level of detail in real time. Don't get me wrong, there are sites with interactive maps and up-to-date information, I'd just like provided analysis by video developers than having to read it. It just hits differently.

[@TacticalLawnGnome]

@J74556 Yeh it'd be nice. I watched the boys from 79th sit in an exposed trench and eat arty day in and day out. We did as well. The estimated daily arty average was 500 shells per day over the course of July to Hrihorivka

[@kylebenjamin6082]

Can you battle for Chernihiv or Vuhledar? Both of them should be some of the biggest tank battles of the war.

[@TheWarArchive]

Can't say for sure when we will get to these, but they are on the list.

[@johnclay2716]

" tank battle " is a misnomer

[@dv2045]

Vuhledar = graveyard of russian marines

[@nicolasgingras9277]

​@whats is krinky then ?dv2045

[@sikorsky5815]

​@nicolasgingras9277 A graveyard for Russian conscripts lmao Ukraine has an advantage in fires over the river and casualties on the Russian side have been horrendous

[@LunaticTheCat]

This channel is such an incredible resource. Thank you for the work you do analyzing these historic modern-day battles. Your channels is one of the channels covering the war that I am personally archiving, so that your work and analysis will live om if KZbin/When takes them down (since who knows what KZbin will look like 30, 40, 50 years from now).

[@troysweeney8432]

Just nato propaganda, maybe he will do a video on the complete failure of the nato sponsored Ukrainian summer offensive 😂

[@bohdan_raiskyi]

@@troysweeney8432 4 місяці тому зняв, ти шукати не вмієш?

[@griechland]

@@troysweeney8432 Have you been drafted to the Russian army yet, "Troy"?

[@Vatniks_are_clowns]

Thanks for the work you put into these videos. I didnt start following the war until October 2022 so i definitely missed alot of events

[@tK-fg1nr]

Can you please make a video on the battle of Avdiivka? I'd love to see an indepth analysis on the battle in your video style. Your content is awesome! ❤

[@Slavic_Goblin]

I kind of doubt the enough info is out for an in-depth look at it.

[@5.45x39_]

@@Slavic_Goblin yeah considering battle for Avdiivka was going on since 2015 and much is lost to time and wasnt recorded

[@gabrielcarvalho1674]

With the benefit of hindsight, it becomes clear that the decision to defend Sievierodonetsk was mostly motivated by politics rather than military sense. If they had given the defense of the city on the wrong side of the river, maybe the could hold the front on the Siversky Donets and manage to defend Popasna, at least for more time.

[@pedrorequio5515]

The fact is, they did regain initiative, Russia losses were enourmous and the coming Offensive gained territory Russians are still fighting for till this day.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Fog of war is thick. When enemies are advancing everywhere holding key political posisions is a sound strategy as if you lose all of them your country doesnt exist anymore. Endless retreats will demoralize your troops.

[@_Saracen_]

Can anyone link any sources with more detail on the Popasna front? I remember it happening so fast at the time, that bulge just kept getting bigger and bigger. I'd love to learn more on what exactly happened. When Popasna fell, it really felt like the beginning of the end for Sievierodonetsk at the time.

[@SD78]

The decision to continually reinforce Sievierodonetsk was very foolish and dictated by political considerations rather than logic. Any sustained Russian advance within the city would result in the defending forces abandoning most of their heavy weapons and vehicles, then withdrawing under pressure across a river with no bridges. What actually happened was even worse, as both Sievierodonetsk AND Lysychansk were threatened with encirclement from the south and had to be evacuated in a haphazard withdrawal along dirt backroads. At any time, they could have pulled back across the river to anchor the eastern flank and redeployed these battalions south to keep the lines of communication open. But chose not to.

[@constantinekuchenko1936]

Severodonetsk

[@BravoCheesecake]

The way Russia conducted its initial invasion of Northern Ukraine had to be some of the worst strategic planning I'd ever seen.

[@legallyblind393]

Overconfidence, Corruption, Inexperience and failure to have a plan B screwed Russia from the get go

[@spao9411]

Nothing like several kilometer long convoys that are standing still lol.

[@matija4256]

Thats good

[@EtgGhoST]

Didn’t expect the war to go the way it’s going at all, thought they was gonna roll through with tanks and stop at local stations for refueling and food. When that didn’t happened and the Ukrainians fought back, that shit turned into a quagmire real quick, in the north at least. But the Russia today is not the Russia that started this war.

[@InsertHandleHereYo]

You should see the Mykolaiv campaign too. The Russian be drawing random line on the map.

[@РоманГуевский]

wonderful video. however, the north of the Lugansk region is not Donbass. he belongs to the Slobozhanshchina. Unfortunately, few people know this even here in Ukraine

[@jessekearsley5519]

The visuals are jsut amazing. Its perfect for my visual learning and creative mind. Your going to be a big youtuber I guarantee it.

[@Wildgamer2205]

Thanks for making this video you did a great job!

[@Jerry-ih7dk]

South of Sievierodonetsk were deployed element of 121 Territorial Defense Brigade, which hold their position from late May till general ukrainian retreat from area. 115 Territorial Defense Brigade were deployed east of Sieviedonetsk, near Voronovo-Sirotino line

[@dozer158]

Very good videos bro. The Detail and time put into explanation is fantastic.

[@rhoddryice5412]

I like your videos. I found your channel only a few days ago and I’ve already watched all but the hour long one about the naval war.

[@AnthonyGTrees]

May great journalism always prevail. Thanks for your work and effort.

[@zyrokuu]

Love your vids. Quality is really improving with each video, especially when knowing just how unpopular some battles are...

[@kotofyt]

MOM, WAR ARCHIVE POSTED NEW VIDEO, CANCEL THE DOCTOR

[@someboi4535]

I like this detailed way of analysis. Unfortunately, however, some bias is clear which makes me take every piece of information mentioned here with a pinch of salt

[@nathanlafferty1309]

id agree, definitely some nuance needed towards the “friekorps volunteers”. dodgy guys, with parasitic views

[@someboi4535]

@nathanlafferty1309 yeah like I understand people have political opinions and all but you are giving information here try to be objective

[@LunaticTheCat]

Can you give an example of this bias harming his analysis?

[@someboi4535]

@@LunaticTheCat a lot of "Russians killing civilians and only advancing after taking heavy casualties" type of nonsense

[@LunaticTheCat]

@@someboi4535 Timestamp please

[@carris9054]

No había visto este canal con anterioridad .Un fantástico trabajo.

[@Grevmoror]

Insight into this horrific war that you provide is enlightening. Thanks!

[@TheSupriest]

Thank you so much! It's great to have such in-depth battle analyses.

[@MitchellN2002nl]

I love these videos so much, they are so good. Really informative

[@Scabe-wf5xn]

very informative, unconfirmed shelling of civilians by Russia, it is not clear where the plan to capture Donbass came from in 2 months, the non-recognition of the capture of prisoners in Zolotoe, although the fact that Russia has more Ukrainian prisoners is undeniable, and organized waste is constant, yes, he also had everything organized near Ilovaisk, then that after that, they started talking about mobilization in Ukraine.

[@Ezasur]

Extremely well made as usual! Slava Ukraini!

[@14k46]

slava russia

[@YAH2121]

Production value is good, but the creator just cannot set aside the bias in an otherwise decently narrated presentation. The pro-ukrainian bias is slightly toned down from the Mariupol vid, but still ever-present and distracting, even. A noticeably pessimistic tone when discussing Russian advances and the state of the attackers, while being needlessly optimistic about the Ukrainians while they still lose territory and cities, and emphasizing Ukrainian heroism. Its ok to have a bias, but at least admit it immediately so it does not have to be inferred.

[@Internoobs]

Russians being incompetent isn't a bias, it's the reality we live in. Their utter stupidity and downright cartoonish fuckups are happening and have been happening whether you are for or against Ukraine and pointing it out doesn't make the creator biased in his reporting of the material, as he is showing both POV's. You try and not have a pessemistic tone while explaining the worst military river crossing in modern history. Try to sit there and make it sound 'neutral' as you explain the levels of sheer idiocy, arrogance and incompetence necessary for something as the crossing of the Siversky Donets to happen.

[@ym6294]

Shhh russian bot

[@YAH2121]

@@ym6294 Ok Yuri let me know when you take back Ugledar

[@florys1210]

good work, thank you for it

[@iorek4149]

Absolutely fantastic video.

[@knoiddiaz5812]

Awesome video. Thanks and keep it up.

[@aleatoriodecartagenadeindias]

Amazing video as always!

[@OWNYOMAMA]

This is incredible quality.

[@SweatyFeetGirl]

yea for propagandists

[@dragosbajan3979]

I love your videos. Very good, keep going

[@EuroFighter59]

Fantastic video. Keep going!!

[@sandman6045]

I'm a simple man. I see a war archive upload I click.

[@supremeleaderwazzy9364]

great vid mate

[@who167]

Thank you for the excellent video.

[@kacperslaczka6290]

It's great material, you've had to put a lot of work into it. Not sure if it's done by 1 person, but quality suggests it took whole team to prepare such great video. Great job

[@chill2512]

WarArchive just dropped another epic video🔥🔥 Edit: I hope my favorite war KZbinr would do the battle of Bakhmut next❤

[@kispankum]

This was such a hell even to only follow its development from the news. RIP to everyone involved

[@JOE-qt5mw]

Great Work!

[@PershingOfficial]

Well made video! Love the clear and simple animation. Easy to follow along.

[@iTomBass]

Pershing! Damn didn't expect to see you here.

[@Rain-Man]

Awesome work

[@INFAMOUSOMEGA]

This video is awesome thanks man god work

[@AJ-et3vf]

Great video. Thank you

[@Henrik20]

Once again an amazingly detailed, informative and factual analysis by you! Looking forward for more of your content!🇫🇮❤️🇺🇦

[@caboosej8749]

@@jeromeleroy4986 aww so cute 🤣🤣

[@tmmht]

High quality as always

[@gracegoce5295]

Bravo for the videos !!

[@AirplanePhoto350]

Video is made great! Thank you author that you help us to understand what the hell on the Earth was going there

[@Anvilarm07]

Excellent video. Thank you. Would you consider including a scale of kilometres and actual troop strength - if known - in future videos.

[@iTomBass]

I remember seeing that failed river crossing with all the obliterated Russian vehicles at the time. It's really awesome to see it all put into context like this. That's what I love about your videos, they are super informative and are really well made.

[@sebastienhardinger4149]

Elite stuff, thank you

[@chipotleeater]

Liking and commenting to support excellent content

[@J74556]

I'm loving this right here if you can fix your playlist so it shows all events chronologically thanks

[@HOME-9667]

I like your voice it good for listen while falling sleep

[@aqep]

Your lip and mouth are delicious

[@aqep]

😘

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

Very nice video

[@StevenAL.]

waiting for you to do the analysis of the battle for bakhmut

[@Belerez]

Thank you

[@xdscorpoinz6394]

Love the videos but would love a little more focus on audio quality

[@nolanpeters5462]

The mix between nato and hoi4 symbology made me do a spit take. Out fucking standing.

[@Ditere3368]

I love ur analysis videos. Can't wait for more 🍷🗿

[@sandesh666]

I finally Got War archive's timing Every 1 months - 1 video

[@space00010]

Great video. Do you have the sources for the footages shown in the video?

[@TheWarArchive]

Unfortunately, there is no single source; most of the footage was found in various Telegram channels and a few clips on Twitter.

[@MrSedrack]

The only LEGION in Severodonetsk was the International legion of GUR. There's numerous videos of the DIU Legion fighting in Severodonetsk, that's where Chubashev (Recruit) died.

[@djsturm685]

Amazing video!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@arc1419]

11:20 Bruh, that line is way to similar to the one from epic history tv on the battle of eylau

[@zironcat5265]

I love these analysis, but it would be good to review russian victories like avdiivka and bakhmut, i dont like the ukrainian bias and i believe any victory from any side is worth investigating to learn from it

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Russia won Bakhmut so hard the victors rebelled against Moscow.

[@14k46]

dont trust this yt channel

[@aqep]

​@@ChucksSEADnDEADAnd went back to work

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

@@aqep Yeah I guess going back to Africa is a vacation compared to what they went through. Those who had to join Storm-Z didn't get better working conditions.

[@PhantomFly_Br2]

at 2:25 did they arrest him ?

[@TheWarArchive]

No, from the very start of the battles for the city, he was with russian troops and assisted them.

[@jacksonstory4773]

Very fascinating, I have several items in my collection lost by Russians in this area.

[@KlausWittmann]

best series

[@vendigo228]

thank you for video about my city

[@TheWarArchive]

We are truly sorry about what happened to your city

[@Theo-ni8bx]

Love your videos! Could you make a video about the battle of vuhledar?

[@matrixcraft8614]

You should make video about Siege of Chernihiv.

[@looinrims]

Worth mentioning Russians during this phase of the war were firing 15-20 artillery rounds per 1 round they were getting in return to compensate for their extended front

[@hunterwestmeyer7916]

Great video

[@derwidder1400]

Incredible video

[@ssgtstroh2742]

New video wooo!!

[@theedthedark]

Thx

[@owenhurley5820]

Everyone wake up, War Archive posted

[@bluebandites]

i see what happened in karkive the Russians took lots of causalities trying to cross the Sievierodonetsk river and over time it added up and Ukraine was able to counter attack after they exhausted / inflicted lots of causalities on Russian forces and Ukraine was anble to take back the Lyman/ karkive sector

[@PoliticsinShorts91]

To win a battle into a city, you need at least 5/1 advantage. The russians somehow are doing the job successfully, with or without big losses. But my question is: is Ukraine able to get such an advantage to win those territories back? So far, the couter offensives are a big fail.

[@ThangTran-bj4we]

No doubt the loses on Russian side were bloody but they don't care.

[@sababugs1125]

@DrLsuBoyMatt citation needed

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

​@DrLsuBoyMatt Advantages are nothing when tossed away. There's pictures of empty fields completely cratered because Russian artillery bombarded nothing for hours. A 10:1 artillery advantage spent on turning the fields into Moon's surface.

[@thatsmeman780]

I think the only chance for a ukranian victory, is to make the war last so long and cost so much, that Russian high command decides its not worth it. Wether that will happen or not is difficult to know for sure. Its worth keeping in mind, that because Russia is essentially an empire built around the Putin regime the decision to pull out is not necesarily made based on wether or not its tactically the sound move, but wether or not the regime can survive the blowback.

[@user-rj4gu5oh3k]

@@ChucksSEADnDEADYes but in Urban battles like these the artillery always hits a building.

[@gatonegro1813]

Este canal es un gran descubrimiento. Un agran calidad de información no veo nada asi de bien desarrollado en español. Un saludo

[@crzx6411]

Your Videos Are The Best 💙💛

[@avataratari]

I am from Russia, from the city of St. Petersburg, but I am wholeheartedly on the side of Ukrainians defending their homeland from Putin's aggression. Thank you for the interesting and informative reviews, I'm watching with interest!

[@RustyBear]

🫡

[@Hollo0w]

Id suggest you to be carefull with statements like this, leaving Russia is not as easy as it was

[@avataratari]

@@Hollo0w Believe me, I have lived in Russia all my life, and for more than two years since the beginning of the war I have been declaring my views. Now the main thing is not to go out with this, and not to express it in outside chats where there are a lot of people. Although I even did that. The Russian authorities are carrying out targeted repressions, and in order to get under them, you need either to express your views on the square, or for someone to write a denunciation against you. As long as God had mercy on me. But on the Russian social network, I blocked the viewing of my page, and deleted from friends all those who do not have the same views as me.

[@Officia1PTG]

@@avataratari God Bless you brother & may one day we together share a pint as one 🍺 🇺🇸 🇷🇺

[@bluebandites]

i respect u for fighting the russian opressions but i hope u will be carful and be able to live ur life and not be in prison i hope one day Russia will be free

[@iggvec5769]

i was just watching Butusov's Call Of Duty video from Severodoneck today again, thank you... your work is impressive❤

[@pacificocean2887]

About 79 brigade information incorrect, correct only Yampil fight

[@wehrabooslayer419]

Why did they need to build a pontoon bridge first to cross the river, when the Donets is only 2,5 meters deep on average? Is there a reason why the russians not just established a bridge head by crossing the river in BTRs, MT-LBs, BMPs, and drive tanks on the riverbed with snorkels before building a bridge for supplies to cross?

[@topsecretintel4606]

When do we get an animated bakhmut?

[@KUSHxKiNG]

17:55 war thunder needs to take notes😂😂 the SU-25 doesn’t just eat air to air missiles likes it’s .22 bullets 😂😂😂

[@Archer89201]

It has survived hits by missiles on several occasions

[@dominuslogik484]

@@Archer89201 it has survived hits from A missile on a few occasions, more often than not a stinger missile knocks it out of the sky when it strikes. warthunder makes it take 3+ missiles on average to down one.

[@Archer89201]

​@@dominuslogik484it's a russian game so some bias is obvious, in French made Wargame Red Dragon A-10 survives direct hit by Buk that has a 70kg warhead unlike the puny warhead of Manpads like stingers and Iglas

[@Archer89201]

Also people think of Ukrainian air defense as only Stingers, they actually inherited a huge chunk of the Soviet IADS 2nd only to Russia, pro Ukraine Oryx puts confirmed over 150 SAM systems lost by them including dozens of S-300s and Buks along with Strela-10s and OSAs, eastern Europe NATO members also sent all their Soviet era SAMs along with tanks and artillery to Ukraine and even that proved insufficient hence the transfer of latest NATO SAMs like Patriot, IRIS-T SLS/SLM, SAMP-T etc.

[@dominuslogik484]

@@Archer89201 it feels like Oryx really fell off on its reporting for the war, they update loss numbers but have since completely stopped reporting details on aid provided and equipment promised.

[@CupGuyDude12]

holy shit incredible

[@C.Paterson]

This war has been an absolute tragedy but it gives me some satisfaction to imagine these overconfident, incompetent, corrupt Russian officers having to report to Putin why everything they attempted in 2022 was either a failure or fell significantly short of expectations.

[@janisberzins8810]

Good content

[@Sunday_fits]

Love from those in California who stand with you

[@aqep]

How do you know everyone in california supports ukraine

[@Syndr1]

Hi Show. This is becoming After School Cartoons for us adults. Just wish it was Fiction.

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

I had army buddies that were in Seiveriedonetsk. They would hold choke points with machine guns n 2 mortar crews. When the narrator says ruZZians advanced it leaves out how. They would send wave after wave at the same time n same place over n over until it was pulverized. Just dying. They would march right into presighted kill zones day after day until it was just destroyed and mixed with the meat of the previous waves. My friends had never seen anything like this. We served in the gulf war. They told me that they had to have been drugged. They marched forward like zombies. They killed so many and they just kept sending more. No change of tactics. So the loss of sievierodonotsk was incremental and brutal. The amount of meat that moscovites waste to take a small town and the level of destruction they cause to do so is breathtakingly evil in the coldest way possible.

[@olegbobrovskiy3244]

Small correction: a Ukrainian soldier told me that two more TdF brigades were in Popasna alongside the 24th, unfortunately I do not remember which brigades they were

[@ThangTran-bj4we]

Could Ukraine defend the city at that time in 2022? I remember there was a shortage of everything, western artillery and tanks and SAM were promised but not delivered. Russian artillery was devastating especially Burratino salvos. There is no way you can withstand the barrage of artillery day in day out.

[@sSqh_TheReal]

Where do you get your maps from?

[@marcorivera6878]

Bakhmuth is the next?

[@siulapwa]

What’s the name of the soundtrack also used by that other channel..

[@ahmedx8792]

Do battle of bakhmut next

[@jys76]

So according to you, the Russian High command planned to take Kiev with 30.000 troops only ? Really ? Wasn't it more of a pressure point to provoke a fall of the regime instead ?