Deadly Strikes - Breaking Down What We Know & Complications - Ukraine Map Analysis & News Update

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[@journeyintococo6996]

According to Podoliak, the civilians on the beach were "occupiers", and "there cannot be any peaceful life in Crimea". The strike was intentional.

[@SteveJones-gz4vd]

And hence a war crime

[@verypleasantguy]

Since this is Willy's channel, I gotta say a big *_"HI!"_* to ol' Willie ! Benjamin Zelensky is the Best Hero In The Universe ! Ukraine is the bestest place in the whole world !

[@jebes909090]

Thw reason russia invaded im the first place was because ukraine was bombing civilians

[@Kofferr]

Russia has been killing the civilians of Ukraine by the tens of thousands, it's understandable why they would feel less sympathy for the civilians on the other side. It's not really a reasonable response, but an emotional one. Alas, to insinuate that this is proof for the strike being intentional is a blatant fallacy.

[@alek8672]

@@Kofferr Ukrainian air defense killed more civilians than Russians

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

So Ukraine basically strike area with no military value in this case Sevastopol beach with cluster munitions. Cluster munitions are good anti infantry but no effect against buildings, fortifications, bunker and other defensive structures btw.

[@larrymac8538]

VRANYO katsap - type better LIES or your supervisor will mobilize your der'mo ass tomorrow to Donbass !

[@KanelTheBullar]

Cluster munition is effective against vehicles. For example they might attempt to strike airfields, radar vehicles, aa, etc

[@leogetz-rf1kf]

lol russian mod even reported it was knocked off coarse with partial hit by russian air defence lol.

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

@@KanelTheBullar cluster munitions only damage vehicles especially type military vehicles. Ukraine have higher chance on destroying it with HE (High Explosives).

[@mp-hk6ln]

It doesn't matter how affective they are they should not be used in dense civilian areas that's a war crime

[@user-fh9bt7gx8e]

An indicator that the cluster rocket was flying to the beach is that there was an exit of clusters. Charges of this type are designed so that they do not release clusters when damaged. All technologies are not perfect, the rocket may be damaged and not fly far from the launcher. In this case, the release of clusters will kill the soldiers of the army that launched the rocket. Some reason for the operation of a cluster missile over the beach may be electronic warfare. The missile could have been "deceived" that it was already over the target. But what kind of coincidence should it be that the rocket was deceived over the beach? The purpose is the use of an expensive missile over the Crimean beach. One of the declared goals of the West was to create unrest against Putin in Russia. Attacks on military installations do not have much public resonance. Military facilities are closed, and what is happening there is not obvious to the population. The impact on the beach will be noticed. It's pretty dumb. And the intimidation strategy has the opposite effect. But the goal here is not to achieve a quick effect. The goal is to gradually accustom society to the fact that bombing Russian cities and civilians is a fairly common thing. The goal is dehumanization and further escalation. About war crimes, attacks on power plants, and the Kerch Bridge. Long before the start of the SVO, the Ukrainian authorities blocked the flow of fresh water to Crimea. How would you characterize this action? About the provocation with the International Court of Justice. There are many internationally accepted diplomatic norms. Including the conditions for the outbreak of war. One of these conditions is the capture of the ruler of another state, or important persons of that state. I do not know how, the International Court of Justice has placed itself above international norms. But a country that tried to arrest Putin would automatically find itself at war with Russia. By the way, even if it were a NATO country, the collective security treaty would not enter into force. Since this treaty comes into force if a NATO member is subjected to aggression, and not if he himself is the aggressor. The United States often threatens exactly what it does not intend to do. I am more than sure that the United States would have sent much more aid to Ukraine if their interests had allowed such sacrifices. But the further the conflict develops, the less the US is in the mood to invest in it. The promised rapid defeat of Russia has not come, further investment in the bankrupt project may lead to losses for the United States itself.

[@peterwilliams2152]

It's the International Criminal Court, not the International Court of Justice, they're two different organisations.

[@Ponde78]

US thinktanks reflect too much their own society when planning operations. Arrogance to see their model of hedonism and invidualism as superior, considering that is default for other nations aswell. This was supposed to be over in few months at 2022 with sanctions causing citizens raise up against Putin.

[@sujac664]

@user-fh9bt7gx8e hey, I hope willy reads your comment, you've effectively summarised many of the key take aways from his lectures on, how to create an alternate truth for this conflict.👍🏽 he'll be so happy, well done my friend👍🏽

[@Stahlhandske]

If the warhead is damaged, say by an intercept from AD, it's highly likely the bomblets will be "dispensed". The bomblets will arm themselves after reaching a high enough spin and work as intended. M74 bomblets are pretty low tech (mechanical fusing) the bomblets do not "care" if they are dispensed by accident as long as they reach correct rpm. "designed not to release" unintentionally does not mean it can't release bomblets accidentally if intercepted. Its actually the most likely outcome of an interception. So dont base your conclusions on the fact they were released. I have a little bit of knowledge on munitions and not just speaking out of my ass.

[@user-fh9bt7gx8e]

@@peterwilliams2152 The word "UN" was added by an auto-translator. He does what he wants...

[@agustinsalvans4847]

The kind of ammunition used was against people.

[@leogetz-rf1kf]

russian mod even posted it was the result of partially hitting the atacms making it go off course. end of the day that beach should have been closed being in between the airfield and the naval headquarters which has seen alot of missile and drone attacks for like 3 months.

[@cdeford2]

Perhaps that's all they had.

[@markojuric8604]

​​@@leogetz-rf1kf May happened that missile went off the course due to Russian air defense so the same could be applied to the Kiev. All apartments and squares should be empty because if missile flying to the target 20 or 50 km away it may fall to the town.

[@cdeford2]

@@leogetz-rf1kf Yes, most likely, though they seem to have since changed their story, and are calling it deliberate, surely to put pressure on the Americans.

[@leogetz-rf1kf]

@@markojuric8604 difference is russia hits civilian targets every 2-3 days in their missile barrages. russian mod already said it was the result of their air defence partially hitting the atacms making it go off coarse.

[@deima999]

Long storry short you dont use cluster munition to hit targets inside heavy populated area. Ukraine knew what they were up to and what could happen. And yet still done it.

[@oggaBugga]

Why any same, thinking person would support ukraine baffles me.

[@harryflashman4542]

i did a lot of research at the beginning of this conflict and was soon astounded at the level of corruption, criminality, exploitation and brutality of the Ukraine state. I have always been very anti-communist, anti-soviet, anti-fascist. My research gave me the opinion that Ukraine has always been a failed artificial state. Russia has a moral right to defend and protect the people of Russian heritage within the borders of Ukraine. I could go on and on but I think anyone who has done the research likely has the same conclusions I have made. This conflict is largely a civil war within Ukraine, with regions of Russian heritage freeing themselves from oppression from regions of central european heritage.

[@oggaBugga]

@@harryflashman4542 Agree 100%

[@larrymac8538]

@@oggaBugga hey PERFECT - now 2 RU bots starting a reasonable chat - we see your simplistic ПРОПАГАНДА

[@sujac664]

@oggabuygga Willy doesn't, so you've come to the right place👍🏽

[@sujac664]

@@harryflashman4542 This is a pretty precise summary of many of the talking points Willy has consistently been preaching from the start of the war.

[@doctoribanez]

Icc needs to issue warrents for Obama, bush, for Iraq, syria,Afghanistan,lybia and a whole llist.

[@larrymac8538]

and IDI AMIN; POL POT and JOSEF STALIN and also do not forget HITLER and JULIUS CEASAR too !

[@p0t4toePotato]

add nsa and cia people to the list

Add Boris Johnson, Ritchi Suna, David Patreus, Ben Hodges, David Cameron to the list.

[@krc306]

And Blinken, Nuland, Zelensky. Oh look, they're all jooish

[@cdeford2]

The ICC has not issued warrants against Netanyahu and I doubt they ever will. The US has told them they can't issue warrants against America's friends, only their enemies. And I think the ICC has caved in and is now showing themselves to be fully a US-controlled organisation.

[@Noel-lt3ty]

This was a deliberate terrorist attack they did not care about civilian casualty. If they did they would have launched these missiles at night.

[@larrymac8538]

Blyat - RU civilians go home to Mother Russia each night you say hey brat ? Stay GLUPYY bro 👍

[@kcdstest]

Cluster munitions are anti-personel and so it depends when military personal is more active and clustered. Which can be during the day, for example with training facilities. Both Russian and Ukrain have never signed the CCM (Convention on Cluster Munitions) being producers of such weapons. Both know the risks of using them with civilians in range. One example at the other side was in Odessa on April 29 at 6:30 pm near a beach as well. If this is terrorism, we have two terrorist nation duking it out, it seems.

[@miriamweller812]

@@kcdstest Wouldn't they be more 'clustered' at night, when they sleep in the barracks or alike? Overall unlikely that Russia is training soldiers there.

[@kcdstest]

@@miriamweller812 Well, a lot of training you need to do together and on the surface, exposed. Sleeping less so. Constant training and rotations are the bulk of all militairy activity. Also there.

[@liljasere]

@@kcdstestthey also use cluster munitions for soft targets like aircraft which would all be back at the airfield overnight so this doesn’t hold up

[@doctoribanez]

Biden making Assange plead guilty takes away any credit. Imo

[@sujac664]

Yeah willy was saying that a while back too.

[@fabienherry6690]

I mean they can't have somebody like that go free that would set a "bad" exemple

[@mnk9073]

Because the Ukies don't have a long history of shelling civilian areas for the lulz since 2014 even in a shell shortage... The frontlines were complaining about having just 6 shells per day but the Azovites squirreled away enough shells for such high value targets as Donezk City's market places, Kindergardens and highstreets. Kiev is as bad as Tel Aviv in this, they deliberately use terror tactics by targeting civilians and it's time we call it exactly that.

[@FrankGardner-ep9ih]

I agree. People aren't wasting missiles. The issue is ultimately, is how would thr United States feel, if Beach goers died on the beach, from a missile Cuba launched, that they got from Russia?

[@ronniemontgomery9072]

False equivalence

[@universalflamethrower6342]

​@@ronniemontgomery9072 right equivalance

[@TheGreatAmphibian]

@@ronniemontgomery9072 Because..?

[@BillyBoB_508]

​@ronniemontgomery9072 mate how's it different?

[@xIcyStarzz-yz7my]

​@@ronniemontgomery9072how is it different? You okay?

[@GauisHelenaMohaim]

There was no targeting error. It happened on a very well known holiday when people have the habit to flock to the beaches. And sorry, your rhetoric about them not deliberately attacking civilian targets is preposterous, go and ask people in the Donbass for the last 9 years. And yes, the targeting and programming was done by US personal as explained perfectly by Scott Rittter. So yes, this is a act of war of Nato against Russia and yes, there will be retaliation from the Russian side. I don't doubt it for a second.

[@timber750]

Willy is so biased towards Ukraine that even his attempts to be "fair" lean that way.

[@greenspiraldragon]

@@timber750 I dunno he seems pretty fair to me. Most of the other channels that lean to Ukraine are probably gloating at the victory of killing Russians on the beach. At least he isn't like that.

[@greenspiraldragon]

Ukraine has been clearing out the areas that were full of ethnic Russians for cannon fodder and hiding behind their civilian structures throughout the war. They care little for the life of Russians. I don't doubt it was intentional.

[@KommandantGSR]

@@greenspiraldragon true that, willy is not loosening his jaw on alot of things but it's obvious enough that there's something wrong when he updates on something, alot of people gets pissed over it which i don't understand, mans literally pointing at the hint yet people makes a big deal out of it

[@pashapasovski5860]

Clusters are against soft targets, not buildings, Ocam Razor, Qui Bono😅

[@leogetz-rf1kf]

nah russian mod said it was result of partially hitting the atacms making it go off coarse.

[@spetsru2906]

@@leogetz-rf1kf Correct, so if they were going to hit a "hard target" like a military target, they would NOT use clusters.

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

Don't know why Ukraine use cluster munitions on area that has no strategic value like Sevastopol beach, desperations ?

[@leogetz-rf1kf]

@@spetsru2906 there is an airfield and air defence around that civilian area. those are not hard targets. air fields have jets. the naval base has ships. so you are suggesting they were not targeting a bunker yes. it was the s300 and s400 systems likely ukraine has been destroying at a pace of 1 a day

[@leogetz-rf1kf]

@@spetsru2906 the more air defence systems ukraine destroys, the more holes in russian air defence. have you not been keeping up with the s300 and s400 being destroyed each day in crimea and belgorod for the past 2-3 weeks?

[@dgo4490]

"I try to be reasonable" - keep trying mate, you have a long way to reason. I don't recall Ukr air defense blowing up Ukr civilian buildings ever being "their fault". It doesn't matter if Ru AD shot it or not, Ukr opted to shoot cluster munition at densely populated civilian areas, YET AGAIN.

[@larrymac8538]

VRANYO katsap ! Try better RU lies next time

[@evo2girl]

I had the same feeling listening him pretty much blaming civilians for vacationing/living so close to possible military targets. Wow, of course. I appreciate him trying to be fair, but his pro-ukraine position beats all his logic/wisdom.

[@evo2girl]

​@@larrymac8538Brain freeze? Did you drink your cool aid too fast? You got to be careful dude, you'll have no brain left.

[@larrymac8538]

@@evo2girl hey Gopnik, how is mobilization for you there in the computer center? Much better than being a mobik in the trenches ??

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

Not the first time Ukraine targeting are with no strategic value. Ukraine already lost "battle of hearts and mid" in Crimea. Those Crimeans will fight harder if Ukraine army attack.

[@edhargquest8710]

People forget that in Vietnam war US military doctrine when pronounce one zone to be war zone, then everybody are enemy combatant, armed or unarmed, women children older people. Also Ukraine announce that people in Crimea are civilian occupiers ,these mean that Russian nationality who was former citizens of Ukraine, can expect to be deported and all property confiscated when Ukraine liberated Crimea.

[@KretaBull]

Nazi's always be nazi's

[@poki580]

deported? yeah if they're lucky, hopefuly its not possible to happen

[@mirandela777]

In Vietnam, US did some atrocious war crimes, some animals in the ranks of US military attacked villages with only children, elders and women, and killed / tortured them - something will make look SS like innocent children...

[@edhargquest8710]

@@poki580 how do you mean not possible to happen? If Ukraine says that these its not anymore Ukrainian citizens of Russian ethnicity, but civilian occupiers , what else can happen when Ukraine liberated Crimea, what you suppose will happen with these citizens then?

[@poki580]

@@edhargquest8710 its impossible for ukraine to retake crimea

[@shawnduddridge]

Very flawed logic chain for a military man with so many 'contacts'. This would be my line of questioning: 1. What would be the 'legitimate' target of CLUSTER munitions (not 'a missile') - in that area, that would warrant the use of such an expensive weapon as you say. 2. Can cluster munitions create that 'area of spread' - absolutely 100% without question. There is zero credibility to speculate that this is unlikely. They can be programmed to eject at any altitude, and the comparison used in this video was very similar in area, ironically. 3. Can cluster munitions disperse perfectly and detonate like this - if the rocket was intercepted / destroyed mid flight?? I doubt it, but maybe.. 4. Is there any evidence of a mid air explosion / interception of the munition by Russia - yet to be seen. 5. Could this attack have come from a rogue element in Ukraine?? Also judging by the detonation pattern in the water and beach id say its very likely the munition was at the very least, in the final / terminal phase of descent or correct altitude for bomblet deployment, otherwise you would see a FAR wider dispersal of bomblets.

[@jsblekitna]

At the beginning of 2022, Russian columns passing through Bucha, Borodianka, Irpin and Okhtyrka came under massive fire from Ukrainian artillery. Including mortars!!! As a soldier, you can imagine what these towns looked like and how many civilians suffered. The fact that (apart from Okhtyrka) these areas were inhabited by native Ukrainians did not stop the Ukrainian commanders. These victims, of course, went to account for Russian actions. So what can we expect from the treatment of the people in the east, most of whom support Russia?

[@fistful0fst33l]

Willy doing damage control for his previous video. It was a terrorist attack clearly targeting civilians in an attempt to provoke Russia to do the same to Ukraine.

[@krc306]

I think he is going schizophrenic

[@stephenromey6348]

@@krc306 Willy is western propaganda. I will admit that he is quite sophisticated, he knows the art of mixing some truth with propaganda to create a credible persona. He hides behind a veneer of being a 'veteran', but in fact, does not deal with the most basic of facts as to why the war was started in the first place. For example, has Willy ever addressed why Ukrainian forces shelled civilians in the Donbas for 8 years before the SMO began in February 2022? Has Willy ever addressed why the criminal US continued to supply arms and training to Ukraine during these 8 years of shelling, and chose to look the other way? - btw, this would include Donald Trump and his administration. See this channel for what it is!

[@krc306]

@@stephenromey6348 I agree. I think he does it by only putting weight and coverage on certain points. For example, Russia will take 12 towns in a few days and his content is maybe one sentence. Then he'll spend 15mins on whether Ukraine (the USA) hit a fishing boat. He also promptly interjects before something, as if it was the unlikely other way around. For example, "we see attacks on civilians from both sides", then show how Ukraine attacked a beach full of civilians. It would insulting to our intelligence, but I just laugh at him now. It is unfortunate though.

[@treym.milton5120]

It's almost impossible to get news from the Russian perspective, everything is just our own propaganda trying to convince ourselves that Ukraine is somehow wining. Sadly where I'm at ,people like willy are the only way we get any hint of truth.

[@springbloom5940]

Watching the video, it looks like civilians weren't targeted, but that it may have still been a terror attack. The strike was out in the water but a couple stray subs hit the beach. It would be pretty unheard of for one to miss that badly on its own. So, either they did this to terrorize civilians with a fireworks show, or what I suspect is it was spoofed off target. Russia isnt actually jamming these GPS weapons, they're spoofing them. Jamming knocks out the GPS link, but they still have high accuracy inertial guidance. Spoofing deceives them into thinking they're in a different location and the GPS corrects the inertial unit. Jamming only makes them a little less precise, spoofing is what makes them miss. Of course theres some venning of the possibilities, like that the beach was targeted but was jammed; thats the level of error youd expect to see from midcourse jamming. Either way, the first thing that happened after the US lifted target restrictions, was Ukraine clusterbombed civilians on a beach. If I give someone a gun for self-defense and they shoot a bunch of bystanders, thats still on me.

[@laurie9159]

The route of the missile was interesting! Did Ukraine think that the missiles profile wouldn't be intercepted by the Russians due to the civilians on the beach? Most strikes on airfields and shipyards are at night, why in the daylight and a special day on the Russian when most people would be at family gatherings. I think they played a hunch, but it has clearly backfired bigtime !

[@harleyquinn8202]

These are not Ukrainians. American specialists disguised as mercenaries. They do not allow Ukrainians near these systems. The United States is using Ukraine's territory to wage war against Russia.

[@WewasAtamans]

When speaking about what happens to Crimeans when Uke liberates the peninsula Willy perhaps doesnt know what happened to civilians in Kherson and other liberated cities.

[@p0t4toePotato]

they find mass graves made by the russians?

[@sujac664]

@wewasatamans Oh don't worry, willy knows, exactly what went down there, but that's not the point he's required to make, he does a good job of bringing to our attention, that he's not bringing up actions the Ukrainians may or may not have perpetrated, that are just as bad as russia.... in short, a confusing mish mash of information that brings the real victims in line/as bad as the actual attackers - it's pretty dirty stuff he pushes here, from his free country and life. .

[@mbompenza7082]

What r u talking about??? And when Ukraine is gonna liberate the peninsula?

[@tertiusduplessis2581]

Flowers everywhere in Crimea!

[@user-ch4qc8ps2o]

You may say that ukraine didnt target civilains with ATACMS, but it used fking cluster munitions in a densely populated area, five rockets, not even one. It is a warcrime in itself. Not to mention their use of MLRS to strike other cities. You may say whatever about russia, but at least they use drones or cruise missiles with HE warheads. And BTW what even did they want to strike with cluster munitions to begin with? Ships? Docks? It would been ineffective against those, but it would be very effective against people.

[@KommandantGSR]

the idea was to possibly disguise it as attacking ships, and the airfield wasn't even that far away, but since its a Laser guided system it was directly intentional on the beach which is sad

[@DavidHartwig]

Thanks so much for staying on this and keeping up the regular in depth coverage of daily movements and potential implications. +++

[@massriver]

Chest pounding armed forces of nato federation continues inflicting damage on enemy concentrations of beach goers.

[@larrymac8538]

VRANYO katsap

[@p0t4toePotato]

chestpunding armed forces of russia are still invading and killing for dreams of grandeur, dying for their dictator

[@robkit6681]

@@larrymac8538

[@OleDiaBole]

Willy should get pulicer for one thing... Aldough pro-ukrainian, he does not delete pro-Russian comments, like Paul, Denys, or warthog. That alows to gauge average global opinion about this-war. Reason for why-yt-conviniently removed option for dislikes at the start of this misfortune

[@dadistos4538]

using a comment section to gauge global opinion on anything isn't really good, as you already have to be in an extreme minority (and likely politically motivated) to leave a comment on anything relating to this conflict.

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

Global attitudes already changing, the wind of support for Ukraine is alread dwindling especially when economy crisis are looming.

[@aov6563]

use the premium or Vanced version, you will see the numbers "dislike".

[@spacetimeman]

Congrats ​@@dadistos4538 you have made one of the greatest and most insightful comments in political KZbin history. It will unfortunately be hidden by waves of propaganda.

[@sujac664]

Oh, don't worry, he's not in the least bit pro Ukraine, so go ahead and nominate him if you feel that's a legitimate honour to bestow on this brand of vlogger👍🏽

[@tenborck]

Willy is just unstoppable! Wow! A true information machine

[@oggaBugga]

The dispersion of the cluster sub munitions is *NOT* actually different. It is just the angle / height of each video that makes it look different. ( birds eye / first person )

[@D64nz]

I was thinking that too. That photo on the beach looks like it's right in the middle of the drop zone. 😮

[@olafhandrick8156]

Hi Willy A lot of people with an Ukrainian passport still live on the Crimea. They leave the peninsula via Tbilisi. The reason for that is to avoid draft.

[@laydownlays]

The Russian army has at least 100,000 "Ukranian" fighting on their side..from the liberated sections

[@sujac664]

@@laydownlays yes, I've seen the interviews of some of those poor men, including the friends and family in Ukraine who are powerless to help them... it's a pretty sick twist to add to the loss already inflicted by the kramlin on Ukrainians, but well in keeping with their historical MO.

[@HotakaPeter]

I disagree about Ukranians targetting civilians with expensive munitions. They have been doing that since 2014 so the history shows they think it worthwhile.

[@krc306]

Can't target a power plant. It's civilian. but also; Can target a civilian bridge, civilian beach, civilian towns. Not a war crime. ok! Come on Willy, this is stupid

[@GeneralThargor]

The cluster weapon clearly targeted the beach, in one clip you can hear the supersonic impacts of the individual munitions. That only happens if the weapon operates as intended, not via a shoot down as you yourself said in the video.

[@SteveJones-gz4vd]

The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) is an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of cluster munitions, a type of explosive weapon which scatters submunitions ("bomblets") over an area. Additionally, the convention establishes a framework to support victim assistance, clearance of contaminated sites, risk reduction education, and stockpile destruction

[@KommandantGSR]

yeah but Ukraine, Russia and the U.S never signed on the ban cluster and improvising cluster munitions, this isn't a excuse to use on civilians but like

[@rreptile9252]

Yo happy Wednesday Willy!! Lookin sharp of course brotha thanks for all the constant content!

[@TheDanteVergil]

You are a journalistic hero Willy!! Keep repeating the truth. Thats the reason you are my favourite reporter of the ukraine war.

[@Ghredle]

Why you call him a hero? Because he tells you what you want to hear? I agree this segment is rather balanced especially with the underlying comparison with Israel killing civilians in Ghaza

[@youtubebane7036]

@@Ghredle telling people what they want to hear huh? Glad he tell the truth mostly.

[@youtubebane7036]

He does tell the truth most of the time although when he went to Israel he started lying and spreading the lies about babies being decapitated and all that other s*** that's been proven to be false. But I think the idea was forcing the media to report false things like that. Otherwise they were being arrested and treated as if there are Palestinian sympathizers, which is actually what everyone should be. Israel is f****** evil

[@user-ly9vt9es6y]

@@Ghredledo you condemn hamas

[@KondorDCS]

@@user-ly9vt9es6y do you condemn zionist terrorists and genociders?

[@yianpap6093]

Discussing this attack is ridiculous. Clusters are for maximizing harm to people, not installations.

[@sujac664]

How to bring attention to the conclusion I want you to reach, whilst telling you that's not what I'm doing. How to underline the side I need you to see, whilst telling you I'll probably be a victim of some sort of hate. How to spread a narrative consistently to bring the victims in line with the aggressors and confuse the actual situation that results in so much loss of life. How to claim humanitarian motivation whilst promoting the exact opposite. How to tell you my edge is edgier than 'the others' because I promote truth with unique integrity and am therefore better than the rest. What's the formula you guys learn? ... was it 85% plsbledeniability, 10% self effacing humility and 5% message imprinting?.... I do recall seeing a chat about it somewhere... was it with Uncle Joe...🤔 Either way, it's not altruistic, to manipulate good people for whatever short term gain it brings, especially when piggy backing real human suffering.

[@s.d.h.3t981]

The icc are under US payroll

[@b8s_art]

Bud really scared me with that Wednesday shit for a sec. Still 11 here. 🎉😂

[@paulywally562]

Thanks Willy

[@jman6109]

I appreciate the honesty 🙏

[@dragonsclaw2nd]

Thanks for the update

[@Kris-ym2zr]

Great balanced approach. Love your point about betting companies putting their money where their mouth is.

[@aleksandarpejovic8713]

Good on you brother. Keep it real.

[@lukemorin52]

Double willy in the weekday

[@cudjoemann]

Good when you see a neutral source think about things logically Ive always questioned why would any military use arms on civs when they could attack the opponents

[@isaiahmountford5815]

you are one of the only ones willing to cover things without much bias. alot of the other channels are hard to watch as they spout tons of propaganda

[@liongordel9088]

This is a western propagandist. The only guy reporting on the war without bias is Dima of Military Summary. Dima is Ukrainian but his reporting is top notch and without bias. This guy subtly paints his reportage with exaggeration and bias.

[@loopmantra8314]

​@@liongordel9088 not just him though. - Mercouris, Haiphong, Duran, DPA (defence politics of Asia), Brian Berletic... All great and objective with the least amount of bias

[@retrocool]

@@liongordel9088 pretty sure Dima is Belarussian and it's his GF who is Ukrainian

[@tertiusduplessis2581]

Yep, better than the snot gargled by dima, mercouris and haihpong.

[@tertiusduplessis2581]

The enforcer will also open your eyes.

[@championknife]

The use of cluster munitions is effective either against people or against aircraft or vehicles. neither shipyards nor ships can be hit with such ammunition. Assuming that the target of the "ATACMS" is the airfield.. but all the missiles flew over the airfield and were shot down over the city. There are no such targets for cluster munitions in Sevastopol except civilians.

[@gazpine]

Hey Willy, Id like to know the incidents you where alluding to where Russian forces have targeted Citizens in areas they have occupied....

[@marchingwithmilch701]

I LOVE WILLY! Best Reporter

[@darrencorrigan8505]

Thanks, Willy OAM.

[@royblizzard1165]

500 views in 5 minutes?!, Willy still got it

[@RogerEriksson]

come on willy, its cluster ammo - what kind of damage would that do to a shipyard

[@dokregyri16]

Good video

[@DKyle327]

Firing from Odessa to the military base wit the beach being 5 km south seems strange. Even with a potentially partial intercept. The big question is. How many times does Ukraine carry out attack during the middle of the day? Is it standard practice? Is it rare? Or was this the first time?

[@KommandantGSR]

there's been a variously few times when ukraine used munitions during the middle of the day on random locations, even though the attack where the munitions landed is sort of obviously intended due to the ATACM's being a laser guided system, it's a massive waste on using it on a random beach other than the airfield a single or double km away

[@jessiejb4684]

It is odd that the head of the presidential office of ukrajne seemed to suggest it was intentional or at least the gov is satisfied with the outcome, stating that there can be no ‘safe zones’ or ‘peaceful life’ for ‘civilian occupiers’ (those Ukraine claims are their own people needing to be liberated).

[@workingproleinc.676]

Remember the Narative when Russia hit the Building with Pizzeria beneth,where merch did hide under civilians,and inoccent died..? I remember i wrote "Why are,civilians around,merchs and Military Personal".? The Response was "Why should Ukraine hide,they are free Country" And Here is the narative "Is their fault,,going on the Beach" Funny to observe

[@MarcusTinkersTooMuch]

Great work.

[@milanmatejic2954]

🎉🎉🎉nice one W🎉🎉🎉 good video

[@ipsylon7297]

If they attacked in the night nobody would be on the beach. War crime

[@ropemaster5660]

Willy, you are for me one of the last true Journalists! Keep going 👍

[@willcalvert6897]

I appreciate your opinion and approach. Ignore the haters. Anyone who fights a war with conscripted soldiers fights on the side of evil.

[@calebbearup4282]

The Kerch bridge is a legitimate military target even if it never had any military weapon ever cross it. Something that connects one country to another country against the will of one of the countries is and always will be a legitimate target

[@wookieerror404]

the comments on funker530 makes me worry about future morals

[@BillyBoB_508]

Finally someone agrees lol I've destroyed folks with logic on that site. Also the guy posting about how they don't use willy on funker anymore

[@dadistos4538]

@@BillyBoB_508 okay ben shapiro calm down

[@wookieerror404]

@@BillyBoB_508 what concerns me is seeing how many people are cheering on war crimes like they are in a football match. human life is a human life and i hope those that commit such heinous act's face some justice.

[@folop4511]

people on funker know orcs aren't humans.

[@wookieerror404]

​@@folop4511 mate look inwards get some help, the only orcish thing i am seeing is from keyboard warriors who have played to much ARMA celebrating the loss of someone son or father , when you dehumanize your enemy you dehumanize yourself.

[@dedeshields]

Thanks for the another level-headed video Willy. I really hope most of the garbage takes in the comment section are bots, otherwise people are becoming dangerously over-invested emotionally in this war.

[@dalleravn]

i would give you 2 or more likes for the honesty :)

[@michaelcrawford8511]

Screw the bias, give us 'the good oil', that's why we watch. Keep up the great work.

[@user-mz3in7vo5b]

Problem, is...considering "what happen on the ground", may spawn a much greater conflict to occur elsewhere... Connecting conflicts which are seemingly disconnected, throgh a third part. ( One of the part, in the so called "peace-deal" )

[@elenasivac7352]

ICC is not ICJ. At this stage, the ICC is a pathetic joke!

[@DanielCarmont]

Start doing some shorts during the day mate will help your channel

[@georgekaradov1274]

The mist sister bingo part of the whole accident is the official responsibility of the Ukrainian government. Calling the people of Crimea civilian occupiers who are legit targets is beyond despicable ....

[@leynagh]

Another of Victoria's " Nasty surprises " ? . . Probably got held up in the post .

[@01karmacop]

Free willy

[@rosstisbury1626]

comments worth a read as usual

[@markbowley5780]

This is why most humane countries have banned rhe use of cluster munitions. Though the USA isn't signed up to it. Evenrually these munitions woukd fail.or he used improperly and civilluans will be hit. ..... And you are right about the civilians being just called occupiers. The nornalisatuon of dirty warfare is shocking in this conflict on both sides

[@springbloom5940]

Russia's energy grid attacks are a strategic objective, not tactical. They're not meant to deprive the military or anyone else of power. They're meant to consume Ukrainian materiel and manpower to continuosly repair it and keep it up. Calling that a warcrime is a sick joke. I did RSTA during Noble Anvil and we *rekt* the power grid and every bridge capable of carring anything heavier than a passenger car.

[@almightytwee1188]

Willy, you’re a fucking gem dude

[@Tiasung]

The ICC placed no arrest warrant for Ukrainian leaders or officers, and none for Hamas untill they could place one for the Israel goverment. And some of the ICC (European, the UK amongst them) member countries are known hosts for Hamas leaders. They placed no arrests against those. Willy, prior to the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu & co, it was already obvious what the ICC's purpose or value is. No major power is going to listen to them when they are so clearly politically driven, and its such a clear political ''flavor'' at that. In my view the US reaction is nothing more then doublespeak, an attempt to paint themselves (Biden's administration) as not being as anti-Israel or anti-Netanyahu's kabinet as they in actuality are.

[@JD-nf3rd]

It’s interesting not seeing the bot comments come online earlier in the day and massive artificial likes too

[@Robertlynschultz]

Teal, the color is Teal.

[@callmeishmael3031]

The bridge would also be the means of evacuating civilians from Crimea.

[@kirrausanov]

Netanyahu's message to Mr Zelenskyj: All Jews are equal, but some Jews are more equal than others. "Steiner... Yes! YES! STEINER WILL LEAD THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE! IT WILL ALL BE FINE! FINE! (trembling hands removes glasses)" - a line from Mr Zelens'kyj's favourite movie. * "The war has ended, not necessarily to the advantage of Japan" - Emperor of Japan addressing the nation after (un)conditional capitulation in 1945 * Mr Zelens'kyj's swan song. I am standing alone on the stage in front of the drawn curtain... with a useless prop in my hand. The empty prompter's booth... and box-office. Deafening silence. No limelight. No fans. No applause. No flowers. Disappointed audience have left a long time ago. A cleaner is about to finish his work. The piano lid has slammed shut. Unbearable pain has brought me back to my senses. The show is over. *** "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become king. But the palace becomes a circus!" - Turkish proverb *** "Put him on stage and remove a ladder" - Chinese proverb referring to bad performers. *** "There was once a comedian who killed people with stolen jokes and was hanged by his wits' end." - H.Warner *** "How pathetic the jester is, on the king's throne, How stupid the people who allowed it." - Robert Burns 1759-1796 * “Ukraine shouldn’t sign anything with them at all - and let’s just fight.” - Boris Johnson, Kyiv on Apr. 9, 2022 * "Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly rejected the claims that he interfered with peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in the spring of 2022." - Kyiv Post, January 11, 2024

[@Zombie_Apocalypse]

Ukraine reaching Crimea foe a ground operation?!? This needs a whole video of it's own, what it looks like, how it works, how long it lasts, and what it accomplishes...

[@springbloom5940]

What really tells the story, is how fast the US distanced themselves and threw Ukraine on the tracks. That said... Russia has shot down a few of these missiles and several were shot down and or malfunctioned in Iraq (both times). This would be the first recorded incident of an intercept or malfunction resulting in deployment of the submunitions. They are fail-safe. Thats a chronically overused term that has lost meaning to most people. It means that a failure of proper function, renders them safe. *If* the racks were hit and dispersed the submunitions, they would not detonate. This missile definitely deployed the payload. Its entirely possible it was jammed off target, as weve seen a few times now, but the intended target would still have been pretty close to the impact area. Whats most notable though, is no one has denied it happened, only that according to the US 'Ukraine chooses the targets 🤷🏽‍♀️' and according to Ukraine 'civilian occupiers'. Rather it seems everyone is tacitly admitting civilians were targeted. Which seems pretty unthinkable, because some rando missile unit doing that would be totally believable, but these are their best most reliable crews. So, if it was intentional, the order came from far up the chain. Either way, our fault, their fault, nobody's fault, the fact is that after being given permission for unrestricted use, the first thing they did was clusterbomb families on a beach. That *has* to have some accountability.

[@tadeuelieser]

NATO and Israel can do whatever they want, ICC Just dont see anything wrong with their Daily war crimes

[@tjadams8]

I'm sure they will at some point but the ICC hasn't actually issued(just requested) warrants for Israeli or Hamas leadership, yet.

[@sninstall]

They voted to leave Ukraine long ago. These are Russian civilians. The Ukies may not like it but thats the fact. Western ukraine thinks the 1990s borders are official but the eastern side of Ukraine has chosen to join back with Russia. Western Ukrainian's probably need to accept that the New South Western Russian regions are the new reality and accept those parts are Russian again. The ethnic Russian people that were living in Ukraine could move to those new regions and problem is solved. Just Ukraine will now be a bit smaller but will still exist.

[@jsblekitna]

The vast majority of the inhabitants of Crimea identify with Russia, just like the inhabitants of Donetsk or Mariupol. For the Ukrainian Army, they are hostile people and those from Western Ukraine therefore have no scruples in shooting civilian objects. This has been happening in Donetsk since 2014. You yourself were warned in Kharkov about the unfriendly attitude of the inhabitants. And as for not taking into account the costs of missiles? Well, Ukrainians don't pay for them...

[@onetwo5155]

Hey Legend, thanks once more for the update. While I'm not very invested in Trump as the next US president(ancient duplicitous mummy vs used car salesman, what a choice!), his base plan for starting peace talks sounds the most reasonable so far. After all the blood spilled for that land, any demand for removal of troops before talks start is a non starter, unless one side is in complete collapse. If any side gained so much land as a result of exploiting any talks breakdown, it would be hell for the other party. According to Preston, who is more on the pro Ukrainian(or counter Russian) side of things but tries to be as honest as he can in his reporting, the munition was probably targeting an airbase only 5km north of the beach where the incident took place and veered off, then exploded or burst above the area, resulting in the peculiar dispersion patterns of the bomblets. About the ICC, I have no idea what they think they are doing, other than pouring oil to fire. Judging international criminals and terrorists is all fine and good, but this is an ongoing war between states; unless the ICC has an arresting army, they are simply out of their league. In the event of a peace treaty, I imagine full amnesty for both sides will be part of it, especially if Russia begins economical interactions with the West again. However, it remains a fact that the ICC has taken a big hit in its validity as an institution with its attempts to procedure people way beyond it's capability to do so.

[@KommandantGSR]

people claiming no civilians on the beaches meanwhile videos coming out of civilians directly under clusters running from the beaches

[@limegreenninjamonkey]

You have stated your Ukrainian bias in previous videos, but it does not prevent you from reporting factual information & calling out responsible parties and giving credit where it's due. Your channel is absolutely awesome b/c you provide impartial information and discussion based on logic & know facts. Keep up the good work!

[@deankoerth9298]

Impartial??😄

[@MetallicReg]

He is slowly but surely getting off the hardcore propaganda that he did for Ukraine 1+ years ago (because the disillusionment finally kicks in), but he is still far away of understanding the local dynamics there and therefore has to resort to the general ukr bias.

[@Fullgrym]

He has never been impartial - not even slightly, and in recent days he's not even factual. If he ever was that is. In this very video he says both sides show disregard to civilians. This is demonstrably false. If Russia showed disregard to civilian casualties, the civilian casualties would not have been about 15k after two and a half years of war. You know, about 3 times lower amount than the civilian casualties in the war in Gaza which is both raging for less than a year and the total civilian population is orders of magnitude lower than in Ukraine. In fact Putin is commonly criticized in Russia for acting with "silk gloves" in Ukraine, and call for the complete annihilation of everything that stands opposite of them.

[@sujac664]

@limegreeninjamonkey he states a lot of things, but his consistency in being anything but biased toward Ukraine, is in the body of his short, self declared journalistic career. He's adept at bringing perpetrators of barbarity in line with it's victims.

[@franktothemax]

Come to Chicago during the election, Willy!

[@user-mz3in7vo5b]

To hit/down anything in the air, don't take much, a single bullit may be enogh.... ... That why anti air missiles air very WEAK, mostly spreading schrapna... - Not specially accurate.. ... The main problem is to >>> FIND

[@diawannoto]

your logic is flawed Willy, Crimea was never Ukrainian

[@Theleftovr1]

hmu when you come to the US man!!

[@xXE4GLEyEXx]

I know altitude can be set for clusters to explode. Perhaps the target was the shipyard but someone sucked at math big time? Still the outcome is no different. Civvies got peppered and done so by US made weaponry... Sucks big time, and the Big Bear of the east wont let it slide... Which yeah, snowball sucks

[@mac2875]

At 6:50 I forget i already subscribed and kept laughing and clicking the subscribe button. Your conflict reporting is as unbiased an objective as one can be especially when it comes to non combatants. Your positions are very understandable given your nationality and background (OAM) much respect. Tho i would have loved to know your stand on DAVID McBRIDE

[@cecilwilliams8586]

Can those missiles be detonated by remote as the Ukraine just may have detonated this missile as to getting it shot down with the rest, better to do some damage than none. ??

[@jerseyshoredroneservices225]

Ukranian officials said that there is no military hardware going across the bridge? Got a link to a reputable source for that? I'm beyond skeptical but if it's true I want to know.

[@willyOAM]

There are many stories and quotes from officials but here is the first I found kyivindependent.com/media-russia-no-longer-using-crimea-bridge-to-supply-front-lines/#:~:text=Russia%20has%20stopped%20using%20the,Molfar%20reported%20on%20May%206.

[@jerseyshoredroneservices225]

@@willyOAM Thank you, however I'm not convinced. I'll continue to research the topic. Heres why I'm still skeptical... The article says "to the front lines". That means the bridge might be supplying the rear as opposed to the front. You know how people can parse words to mislead others. The article also says "An analysis of satellite imagery by Molfar, shared with The Independent, shows that over a three-month period this year, only one military freight train carrying around 55 fuel cars crossed the bridge." So the conclusion is based on a three month period and during that time a military train did use the bridge. I admit, they said it was just one, during the three months. Why just the three months though? I also admit that according to the article Vasyl Maliuk indicates that the Russian military hadn't been using the bridge, at the time of his quoted statement. Maybe it was true and maybe it still is. As you said, maybe they'll go back to using the bridge. Time will tell. In the meantime I'll see what I can find on the issue and see what makes sense to me. Thanks for the article.

[@Paladiesh]

Willy, You knob, that colour is teal! 😂

[@jacobfrederick3614]

Aren’t those that stay, (or wait) viewed as traitors?

[@liljasere]

I’m not saying that this is what the point of the strike was but the jucie in this case would be worth the squeeze in this case for the ukie side because if they did mean to hit that beach it would be to try and insite some kind of internal repercussions which if so is crazy to me because 75% of the people on that beach would be Ukrainian incredibly short sighted and stupid but what do you expect coming from them