How Ukraine was able to survive

[@Eastory]

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[@junescott7290]

i did

[@wow-roblox8370]

Are you going to pin this comment?

[@junescott7290]

@@wow-roblox8370 he shud

[@Kristof1]

oi pin this comment mate

[@takasmaka820]

RuSSia is like Nazi Germany in 1945

[@Christian-rj2yc]

It feels strange to transition from watching your WW2 stuff to something ongoing. Thanks for this comprehensive account for the events up to now.

[@DaveSCameron]

Except I've not seen him lie regarding WW2 like he does about this!

[@kommy-]

@@DaveSCameron What is he lying about?

[@Christian-rj2yc]

@@DaveSCameron Example?

[@DaveSCameron]

@@kommy- The intended operation by Russia, thats all!

[@johnsmith1474]

It's the opposite of comprehensive, it's pure bullshit.

[@dmytrohnatchenko8541]

Hello everyone, I'm from Kharkiv. I remember well the morning when the war started. The roar of multiple launch rocket systems, civil defense sirens, people in huge lines, someone just grabs children and puts them in cars, forgetting things right next to them. I sealed the windows with tape and turned on the TV. By evening, the city seemed to have died out, garbage that was not taken out was rolling around in the wind, only ambulances and military equipment on the avenues, Russian planes bomb factories multiple time, miss. My high-rise building was cowardly like cardboard. The whole next week there were heavy street battles, machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars, a couple of "Urals" drove into the very center of the city (as if then a computer game where you need to capture the point)

[@Krusesensei]

U are still in the city? Good luck to you!

[@DaveSCameron]

And surprise surprise you're still a part of the Ukraine, c'mon people invading and overtaking Ukraine was NEVER the intention if only you shared the truth?

[@johnsmith1474]

Gee your memory works all the way back to February, you are quite the guy!

[@odeboy6659]

@@DaveSCameron You do know the Russians are planning to hold referendums on joining Russia in the occupied southern regions? They are already making the ballots for it and they got propaganda posters up proclaiming that Ukrainians and Russians are one people.

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

Just asking. Do you still live there or have you evacuated? If you have decided to stay I hope you are doing your part in defending your nation (if not on the frontlines then on the homefront which is important as well)

[@BringTheRains]

I look forward to you taking a look at this war in the future with divisional symbols like you did in your other map based analysis.

[@MultiWhatever007]

Gonna be a long while since so much is classified, and also because of Ukraine using some militia formations mixed in with regular army brigades, while Russia uses god knows what between the actual army units, donbass militias, PMCs, Rosgvardiya units, Kadyrov's personal retinue, etc.

[@blenderslawblender689]

@@MultiWhatever007 Almost same thing happened in II WW

[@gavindodd133]

Ooh I can’t wait for that, it’ll take a while though.

[@just1it1moko]

same. a lot of it is gonna be speculation until the war is over and both sides can give their give their perspective. despite it being a horrible conflict and my thoughts go out to everyone that got affected it is interesting to see warfare on this scale. makes you wonder what people back home heard during WW2 especially since information was way harder to share and verify.

[@abdiabdi3225]

@@blenderslawblender689 yes but it has been 7 decades and so much is public knowledge at this point making it a lot easier to say this and this happened while this war will not be so easy.

[@Beefykahn]

Great videos! Thank you.

[@PARIZHANIN13]

As Ukrainian, I can find a lot of small nitpicks, but then video would be longer to explain everything, much much longer. As a simplified version of events this video is good. Broadly explains events of the war from strategic point of view, good enough for its length.

[@alabin3471]

Would really want to see you make a video where you point them out.

[@Cortesevasive]

How does being Ukrainian makes you an expert ? , I would rather trust russian.

[@alexanderflemming6788]

@@Cortesevasive ah yes. COMRAD I AM GLAD YOU ASKED LET ME TELL YOU. THAT 1. WE HAVE DESRTROYED THE HIMARS THE AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS GAVE TO UKRAINE. As you can tell by very bad footage that you can't even tell if it was a HIMAR and then an explosion which missed what they were aiming for. Or the other time where you can't make out what it was again but this time there was an explosion that was only record behind a hill so we can't see what it was. Or the reason POW incident where Russia said it was done by HIMARs except from there was to little damage for any type of missile that was fired from a HIMAR but instead rounds from a motor or other artillery. As well as the fact that the day light proves it was done from Russia as the daylight that can be seen is pointing towards Russia through a destroyed wall. Or the fact that "MIGHTY RUSSIA HAS DESTROYED ENTIRE UKRAINIAN AIR FORCE" multiple times other when in reality they haven't and Ukraine still has planes and helicopters in the sky. As well as many many more so Russia shouldn't be believed mostly when they are only allowed to consume Pro-Russian forces obviously Ukraine is still biased but they can at least read Pro-russian and pro-ukrainian sources without persecution and make up their mind about things. As well as Russians do believe these things as they aren't allowed to read non-Russian sources and that it was pro-russian sources say.

[@somerandomboibackup6086]

@@Cortesevasive Because Ukrainians witness more of the war than Russians genius

[@Cortesevasive]

@@alexanderflemming6788 Thats speculative and subjective mate. It could be either way. What makes you an expert on Himar damage on buildings or the angle they hit or the damage they do? . What ? some conveniently intercepted call xD between russians once again admiting to war crimes.. ? Cmon Ukrainians have no real aircraft left there, its the country size of two Poland sure they gonna have something left in a garage or some spares or some soviet stockpile but mostly Polish old stock which comes through border, but its still irrelevant amounts Also arent russian channels and prorussian parties banned in Ukraine? what sort of liberty are you talking about mate? If they had any liberty in them they would let Donbas have referendum these regions are like 80percent russian, who do you think they would side with?.

[@V0lkanic]

Thank you for the informative videos

[@HarshPandey-is2ei]

So I think it can be summed up in the following points - 1. Ukraine choose better tactics of defending from cities rather than dispersing their forces to hold at the border. 2. Russia opened war on 4 fronts with insufficient number of troops. 3. No element of surprise from the Russians. They just tried Rushing for the Ukrainian capital with insufficient number of troops which was rather predictable. 4. Russians didn't mobilize. It can clearly be seen from the video that they are so short on troops that they can't launch offensives from both the directions to secure and encircle salients, which leads to over extension of the spearheads and simplification of problems for the Ukrainians.

[@thiccchungo1041]

Also a lack of air superiority and minimal damage to Ukrainian communications, Russia charged in and never carried out any extensive SEAD operations like the US did in Desert Storm, so they had to contend with little to no air support, even worse Ukraine was able to use Turkish Bayraktar drones to devastating effect on Russian convoys near Kyiv, making the urban combat even more painful for Russia. Russia also failed to do any damage to Ukrainian communications, months in and Ukraine was still able to communicate and organize across a massive front almost better than Russia in some sectors

[@dachicagoan8185]

The Russians had the same false idea as the Germans did in Operation Barbarossa. They thought just showing up would cause the whole government to collapse.

[@littlefinger4509]

They can't really mobilize, with the amount of deaths they are taking using civilians would most likely lead to a collapse of the country.

[@VRichardsn]

_Ukraine choose better tactics of defending from cities rather than dispersing their forces to hold at the border_ They clearly took great in avoiding what happened to Poland in 1939, when it overstretched itself trying to defend everything.

[@АндрейПопов-с4с]

1. Yep. It's called using human shields. They are staging guns and personnel in civilian areas and prevent civilians from leaving which leads to excess number of civilian deaths. Even Amnesty International had to admit this. 2. True. Russians have much fewer troops on the ground than Ukraine that had like 7 waves of mobilization. The breakaway republics of Donbass have mobilized though. But they number less than 50 000 troops in total 3. Looks like the Russians tried for a repeat of Crimea 2014. It was a political decision vs a military one. This tactic worked in the south though and let them take Kherson and Melitipol without fighting. 4. Yes. Because it's not a war but a Special Military Operation. They won't even let you join if you lack combat experience. Lots of people who wanted to enlist and go fight in Ukraine were turned down by the Russian Army because of this. 5. Ukrainians are suffering extreme casualties due to the Russian artillery. Mobs lack weapons, ammunition and get wiped out by long-range guns before they can do anything. It's a slaughter for the defending side. Low morale and frequent desertions. Ukraine keeps plugging gaps with cannon fodder. It really is a proxy war till the last Ukrainian. 6. Russians also don't have the initiative to rush. Time works for them. Europeans experience more and more economic hardships, and the Ukrainian economy is on the verge of collapsing. International support for Ukraine is decreasing. They are suffering horrible casualties. They have lost their industrial and energy-production base in the South-East. Military-related production and repair facilities and most of the pre-war hardware was destroyed by the Russian missiles. No way Ukraine can win the war if NATO doesn't get involved directly, but then it's WW3 and nuclear winter.

[@nicholasconder4703]

9:20 I disagree with your comment about the Russians "not realizing they could cross the river". It really understates what happened. They tried, several times, and were bloodily repulsed on each occasion. It wasn't until at least 2 BTGs were pretty much gutted that they stopped trying.

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

Which is essentially what he said They realized that they couldn't cross the river

[@noobmansuperstarboy]

So eastory was right? Are you smoking crack?

[@ОммнриГрошшо]

Not 3 btg but yes like 55-70 cars

[@Dragonite43]

I think he should've rephrased it to say, "Russians attempted to cross the river, but meant heavy resistances from the Ukrainians." With the way he currently phase it, it sounds like they couldn't cross because of lack of bridges or logistical reasons.

[@nicholasconder4703]

@@Dragonite43 To me it sounded more like they took one look at the river and decided to not even try crossing it.

[@underworldguardian704]

Another major reason why Ukraine survived the initial assault was because their C&C (command and Control) was largely intact. They lost some command posts, but it wasn’t enough to cripple them!

[@CERBEREX63]

To destroy the significant command posts of the Ukrainian army, Russia would have to bomb the Pentagon. All adults are well aware that Ukraine is an absolute proxy for the United States.

[@DaveSCameron]

Of course it's in tact because it hasn't been attacked at all, where do you read this bollox and has anyone on this channel tried viewing alternative sources? #smh

[@ranndino]

@@DaveSCameron Alternative sources? You mean like Putin's propaganda on RT, etc.? Talk about bullocks.

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

David Scameron making vague accusations with zero substance. And ya'all can't tell its a troll?

[@Ionizap]

@@DaveSCameron Let us know what those alternate sources are please.

[@trifarianboi3043]

Safe to say that we've all been waiting for this video. Thanks Eastory!

[@johnsmith1474]

It's empty, it's piffle.

[@NC-21-17]

And then in early September, the Ukrainians conducted a successful counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region and showed that the second army of the world is not so second.

[@Amal_Russia]

Russia used at least 8% of the army before mobilization. 150,000 were able to resist 700,000 APU (Zelensky announced this number on May 21). That's what the 2nd Army of the World means🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@РемиБоняшки]

The second army finished Ukraine in April. Ukraine was able to survive only because of NATO and the enormous casualties they took by throwing troops into the Russian artillery fire, just in order to slow the Russians down. 😉

[@liviu09hjoe]

Stop using ukraine this is all NATO and ukrainians are only cannon fodder

[@Amal_Russia]

@@РемиБоняшки Ну да, только благодаря НАТО. Они её растили уже с 2014 года, Украина была готова.

[@БегунДяйСэндяй]

kherson bro

[@Daniel-nf1gq]

Important parts of the struggle that you did not include are terrain and weather. Northern Ukraine is full of forests and hills, making it hard to maneuver with heavy equipment there and easier to defend. While southeast is basically one huge steppe, offensive there was so successful in big part due to place being just a half empty fields with few key points and no natural borders, Donetsk frontline could catch up on some defensible positions, so it stands, in Luhansk there was nowhere to stand the ground for the most part, so russians were able to quickly push for huge chunk of land until they were stalled at the first defence line. War is also turned from the ambush slaughterfest to the classic frontlines struggle because seasons changed. In the early spring all ground was essentially just a mud, you couldn't traverse whenever you want, you'll get bogged, so russians were forced to move almost exclusively by the roads. So combined with foresty terrain in the north this resulted in the astonishing casualties for russian forces there due to guerilla warfare.

[@nvelsen1975]

Plus judging by what happened, Russia never did proper recon. It used to be one of my jobs, satrecon. Not a specialist mind you. Still, stunned at how dumb Russia was, I did the work. It took me about two hours to scout by satelite one of the routes from Belarus to Kiyv, identify boggy or difficult terrain for scouts to mark and maps to show, to identify some points of ambush and whip up a rough road capacity estimate with the locations of chokepoints. Implying that somehow, Russia that prepared this war for years, didn't do that.... It's really hard to explain how we know from them building bases that they prepared for years, but yet something you STILL can do even if you tell your analysts only 1 day in advance, Russia did not do.

[@romualdcaffeserre6230]

@@nvelsen1975 Hmmmm, I think the explanation is actually pretty simple. Recon was made, the higher ups just didnt gave a shit about the result of that recon. Think about it, the higher ups (a.k.a putin and his crew) had already decided to invade ukraine, and were sniffing their own propaganda about how strong and powerfull the russian army is and how swift victory would be. In those circumstances, any reports that claimed the task ahead would be difficult for the russian army was ignored or ridiculed. After all, we know at this point Putin seriously thought the ukrainian resistance would be symbolical at best, and launched an attack on Kyiv in hope of capturing the capital immediatly. Why bother read some reports about the danger of a strat when you think the ennemy is going to instantly surrender?

[@trevorsomers8344]

I just think the Russian military is shit

[@nvelsen1975]

@@romualdcaffeserre6230 That's true, but on a level of stupid where common sense would say "Naah, nobody's that dumb, dig deeper". That's why it puzzled me: All possible explanations are so stupid they shouldn't be true.

[@VCE4]

Yeah, pretty important parts that was missed in the video

[@In_Our_Timeline]

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.” ― Aberjhani,

[@mabussubam512]

Man seeks peace, yet at the same time yearning for war… Those are the two realms belonging solely to man. Thinking of peace whilst spilling blood is something that only humans could do. They’re two sides of the same coin… to protect something… another must be sacrificed.

[@explicavit9470]

Everywhere I go, I see your face. Which isn't a bad thing.

[@aaryanbhatia4939]

@@explicavit9470 Omg same! It's like this guy is omnipresent

[@jamsum7215]

This was very helpful in understanding what has happened these past few months, thank you!

[@johnsmith1474]

It's pretty much garbage so have fun being misled.

[@Finkaisar]

@@johnsmith1474 Ok genius, how did it really go?

[@markom4794]

@@johnsmith1474 Lol I've seen you posting russian propaganda everywhere. Cope harder, Russia is losing the war.

[@juantamayo5295]

@@Finkaisar "Russia is crushing Ukraine, the war is lasting this long because who knows"

[@Mikhail_Zaitsev]

@@juantamayo5295 Россия выдыхается, не достигая поставленных целей, которые уже несколько раз менялись, Украина набирает силы для успешного наступления и деоккупации своих территорий. Подробно тему освещает советник офиса президента Украины Алексей Арестович, а вот канал с переводом на английский: kzbin.info

[@HamiltonStandard]

Just a thanks for tackling this story and making some physical sense of it in more or less real time. This would not have been possible 80 years ago. But still you had to do some very heavy lifting to produce this. So again, I probably speak for everyone. Thank you!

[@bjorntorlarsson]

There is a YT channel called "military summary" where a Belarusian makes daily updates. He has a good understanding of the terrain and Russian speaking sources.

[@HamiltonStandard]

tack så mycket, Björn. Jag ska kolla upp det.

[@sitting_nut]

this video is an example of willful ignorance and total disregarding of verifiable facts. given this channels is a nn fanboi that is no surprise. russians were not intending to capture kiev. they were tying down kiev regime military so that they can destroy the air force, navy, and air defenses, and shape the battlefield. and since then they are using minimal forces with minimal own casualties to achieve their stated goals (and some unstated ones) . and they are achieving them all successfully, and a heading for a comprehensive victory. western weapons have failed to stop that, and kiev regime is suffering by their own admission 500+ casualties a day ( confirmed by media with 100s of dead ukraine soldiers daily) .

[@f.s.1429]

You don't speak for everyone!

[@_drammy_]

it’s kind of hard for me to realize that I was in cities that are now occupied, I remember eating pizza in Melitopol, my sister was in Mariupol a year ago, I remember how I went to Chernivtsi by train and Lisichansk, I remember how I went to rest on the sea in a town near Melitopol. we have friends who are now under occupation. I remember how I was sitting in the bunker and found friends there and made board games with them and played, I remember how I sat at the computers in the evening and I see how outside the window and I see how the sky turns white and after about 2 seconds the sound comes because I know all sorts of cool things I knew the speed of sound and shielded and it turned out + - 1350 meters from me and I was terribly horrified when I saw when the next day my friend and he writes to me that a house was blown up 200 meters from him, I was especially touched by the moment when we were driving along a green corridor from the environment and the girl told her mother "I want to go home" and my mother could not say anything else like "we are going, daughter, we are going" (i'm from Sumy)

[@ВадимПискун-ш2о]

А помните, как в 2014 г. детей Донбасса убивали? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqKnZKSOhMiKeas

[@Andrew-oh6kg]

@@ВадимПискун-ш2о да, убивали русские солдаты. Привести ссылку на пропагандаТВ - как цинично! Смени методичку ибо "дамбили бамбасс" уже обсосано 1000 раз

[@ВадимПискун-ш2о]

Если мы их детей убивали, то почему тогда ДНР и ЛНР вместе с нами сейчас воюют?

[@ВадимПискун-ш2о]

А можете ещё назвать точную дату ввода российских войск на Украину в 2014 г.?

[@limoncello3438]

@@ВадимПискун-ш2о 20 февраля 2014 года - начало оккупации Крыма И правильно: в Украину)

[@tiborhelienek]

Really great summary. Great video!

[@anthonym9977]

Patreon?

[@tiborhelienek]

yes, patreon so early acces to new video

[@sitting_nut]

this video is an example of willful ignorance and total disregarding of verifiable facts. given this channels is a nn fanboi that is no surprise. russians were not intending to capture kiev. they were tying down kiev regime military so that they can destroy the air force, navy, and air defenses, and shape the battlefield. and since then they are using minimal forces with minimal own casualties to achieve their stated goals (and some unstated ones) . and they are achieving them all successfully, and a heading for a comprehensive victory. western weapons have failed to stop that, and kiev regime is suffering by their own admission 500+ casualties a day ( confirmed by media with 100s of dead ukraine soldiers daily) .

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 wrong

[@erti4531]

1.1991-1995 Yogoslavian civil war 2.1994-2000 Chechen wars 3.1997 Albania civil war 4.1998-1999 Kosovo war 5.2001 North part of Macedonia incident 6.2008 Georgian war 7.Ukrainian war 2014-still going So you see how many conflicts happened in east Europe these decades.

[@maerto]

Yugoslavian were wars of independence

[@kallekulmala1876]

This is the first major war in Europe since ww2. Civil wars are very much different. And the rest are either agaisn't very small nations or weak nations.

[@davidiashvili1800]

You forgot 1991-1992 abkhazia war

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

And this is the biggest one since WW2.

[@РусСул-я1ь]

You forgot the war in Transnistria

[@vladyudashkin1471]

It was interesting to watch this video as Ukrainian that lived through this events. Your pronounciation of cities is perfect, thank you for high-quality content

[@vlad1m1rk0rnev]

The weird Russian moves on the very start are solely reasoned by a very bad understanding of situation in Ukraine. The main Putin's adviser on the matters of Ukraine at that time (with is kinda just a half a year ago, but nevertheless) was Vladislav Yurievich Surkov (now he is fired and put under home arrest due to incompetence). Who was vastly exaggerating support of Russia inside of Ukraine. Those fast and deep launches of troops into Ukrainian territory were because Putin was sure the population of Ukraine would support Russians and Ukrainian army will just give up and surrender as it was in Crimea in 2014.

[@armengraham6925]

Russia amassed 170+ thousand troops at the border with Ukraine, that is almost *the whole* regular Army of Ukraine (220 thousands). Russia had an overwhelming advantage in the quantity and quality of missiles, air planes and artillery systems (the later was almost 10 to 1). Not to mention Russian fleet in the Black Sea, while Ukraine has barely any fleet... It is insane that under these circumstances Ukraine was able to hold with what crappy equipment they had.

[@vlad1m1rk0rnev]

@@armengraham6925 well, as I said, the reason of such overwhelming success was that Russia completely missed the motivation of Ukrainian army.

[@armengraham6925]

@@vlad1m1rk0rnev So for Russia to defeat an already much weaker opponent, this opponent also had to be unmotivated? That's quite a slap in the face of Russian military capabilities.

[@vlad1m1rk0rnev]

@@armengraham6925 you misunderstand a bit the Russian side here. For Russia it was not the question of defeating the opponent, but acquiring control over the territory, infrastructure and integrating people into Russian citizenship. Basically Russian was going to do with the whole Ukraine what it did to Crimea - make it a part of Russia. Obviously in this situation there is a goal to keep as much infrastructure intact and as much people alive and healthy as possible. Russia's plan was to just come, remove the government and that's it. No war at all. To be honest the same mistake of not understanding of how low the support of pro-Russian course in Ukraine Russia kept making for at least 1-2 months of this operation - still hoping Ukrainian army would just surrender. In simple words - it's like a father trying to just slap on the butt his little son for being naughty and the kid gets the baseball bat and tries to kill his parent - obviously a grown man would easily overpower a little kid, it's just father's goal is not to kill his son.

[@ИльяПавлов-я1ж]

@@armengraham6925 let me correct: to defeat quickly, as first planned

[@hamzamahmood9565]

It's incredible that we are live tracking a modern battle. What a time to be alive

[@johnsmith1474]

Are you ten?

[@Jummeli]

Yeah, Ukrainians must feel so good right now too. What a time indeed...

[@hamzamahmood9565]

@@Jummeli Who says they are?

[@seneca983]

The Yemeni and Ethiopian civil wars were already ongoing when this war started.

[@Konstantin3208]

@@seneca983 who cares about those who are not white))

[@Prh_r]

3:43 here is an error. I am from Ukraine, or rather from the city of Konotop. My city was not taken under control, but was only surrounded but not taken.

[@ДмитроСавранський-г7ц]

-"Это Конотоп, здесь каждая вторая женщина это ведьма. У тебя завтра хуй стоять уже не будет" :)

[@loran4169]

So you didn't evacuate from your city instead you stay there?

[@KravchenkoIgor]

@@loran4169 it was dangerous to go from surrounded city because russians shoot civil vehicles.

[@Prh_r]

@@loran4169 I will say more. Most stayed in the city.

[@Prh_r]

@@loran4169 I have nowhere to evacuate, I defended the city from the freaks who came to my native Ukrainian land

[@yager354]

thank you for continuing to draw people's attention to the war in my country 🇺🇦🤝🇪🇪

[@Favoki]

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[@Кто-то-г5м]

@@Favoki Zalupa

[@denethweerasinghe4523]

It seems Russia didn't mobilise enough troops to perform encirclements, maintain supply lines and destroy Ukrainian units. Sounds like Russia expected Ukraine to lose morale immediately. Maybe they thought Russian-speaking Ukrainian soldiers would surrender immediately (like in 2014) or even switch sides and that Zelensky would run away like the Afghan president. Kyiv in 3 days was based on these assumptions. They also didn't expect the West to support Ukraine this strongly. Russia basically underestimated Ukraine.

[@andreksjour]

The 3 days narrative never came out of Rus. I argue it's the west that underestimated Ukr, but mostly, they over estimated how much force Rus would use. With all the options they have, it seems Rus went with the most economical. Enough forces to overpower defenses, with no time restrictions. And Zelensky did get out. After Rus retreaded from the north he returned, at the time that everyone from EU was visiting him, he pretty much came back with them. I have no evidence. But its logical.

[@oleglozinskiy5216]

Hi, I am from russia. The opinion that our command assumed a loss of morale is quite popular with us. That's why we decided to retreat from Kiev. Because the original plan didn't work. And there was no mobilization at all. We have a contract army and a draft army. All men are conscripted. But they go to the contract voluntarily. And just those who serve under contract, they carry out the work of the conscription army. Which of course does not participate in any conflicts. This means that not even all contractors are involved in the war in Ukraine. I hope I'm writing clearly. Ask if something is interesting

[@MDP1702]

@@andreksjour There is nothing indicating Zelensky fled. In fact he was offered sanctuary by several bordering nations, but he refused and stayed in Kiev for so far we know.

[@exohome1]

Если бы Россия действовала как Америка - применяла ковровые бомбардировки, то завоевала бы эту страну за неделю. Но борьба идет не с мирым населением, а с вооруженными солдатами и нацистами. Поэтому зачистка идёт медленно, но уверенно. Вооруженные формирования Украины это понимают, и поэтому прячутся в городах, а точнее в административных зданиях - школах, детских садах, клубах, домах культуры, торговых центрах, кинотеатрах и прочих. Также вооруженные формирования Украины не выпускают мирное население из деревень и посёлков, где они базируются.

[@romchyk_ukr]

@@exohome1 Бред не неси, боже мой. И о каких нациках идёт речь когда сами стёрли Мариуполь в порох и устроили резню в Буче? Прежде чем нести бред, подумай, а не транслируй росс. пропаганду. И ой, как американцы. А то что ваши Грозный уничтожили бомбардировками и арт-обстрелами ничего не значит? Ах точно, у вас же это пытаются скрывать, не удивительно.

[@YuraL88]

Please, make a video about the Kharkiv counteroffensive!

[@YuraL88]

@@АлександрМаклаков-е6с потому что альтернатива - полное окружение. Ситуация зеркальная с Лисичанском, оставили чтобы избежать окружения. А вот оставление приграничных сел уже действительно было "жестом доброй воли" так как удерживать их после падения Изюма и Купянска смысла никакого не оставалось.

[@zhanboyko8310]

@@АлександрМаклаков-е6с не из-за одного города, а из-за Балаклеи, Шевченково, Волохов Яра, Купянска, выходу к мостам и переправам через оскол и подходу к городу Изюм с тыла в течении 3 дней. Действительно, зачем из-за угрозы быть полностью уничтоженными в котле полностью оставлять всю область, бросая почти всю тяжелую технику и военные склады?

[@cryaboutit6670]

@@АлександрМаклаков-е6с Cope

[@dembenter572]

@@АлександрМаклаков-е6с ихихихих и оставили 300 ед техники и тысячи снарядов? спасибо за ленд-лиз :)

[@LahtariFIN]

Good video. One thing that you could have mentioned is the help Ukraine got in the defense of Kyiv from the Belarusian opposition. Although Ukrainians themselves successfully ambushed and destroyed many Russian supply columns, I remember reading a statement by the Belarusian opposition leader in exile. The Belarusian opposition reported halting, damaging or stealing something like 82 train carriages of supplies (food, fuel ammunition etc.) that was being sent from Russia through Belarus for the attack on Kyiv. It is hard to say how much this contributed to the Ukrainian overall victory in the defense of Kyiv, but I think that the Belarusian partizans deserve at least an honorable mention, especially now that some of the brave men and women that stopped those trains may be executed if caught.

[@NebulousOdious]

Sounds like a bunch of BS, honestly. I mean, stealing or sabotaging a train?

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

@@NebulousOdious that pretty easy, the Czechoslovakia foreign legion did it just fine with the tran-siberian railway

[@NebulousOdious]

@@G.A.C_Preserve But in your case that would be, aside from time difference, a combat unit. While Belorussian opposition(i'd speculate) is mostly students and such, not an armed force capable of such maneuvers.

[@norwegianboyee]

@@NebulousOdious It was the Belarusian railroad workers themselves that were suspected to play a part in it.

[@cyberwarrior8382]

@@NebulousOdious man, read about protests in Belarus... most people of Belarus wants freedom for their country. And its not only students.

[@nikitosik__blitz-sokolov3646]

I'm from the DPR Russia really has problems with planning this war and apparently the calculation was that the Ukrainians would surrender from the fact of the attack + in the DPR itself, no one was preparing for this battle

[@command_unit7792]

We dont know the Russian MOD plans so we dont know what they planned for.

[@johnsmith1474]

So you think. But you are just a kid so ....

[@raichiovasily2156]

don't say that , Russia is not in Ukraine to make them surrender , it is to free them from Jewish Zelensky, and a western proxy gouvernement, Russia want ukrainians to join them, many Joined Russia, this why Russia easily entered Kherson , but the media don't tell people the truth, Russia has a huge reserve of ammo , they can easily bomb cities with no mercy, but actually Ukraine is sacred to Russia, you will understand when you read history

[@MrIluvbutts]

@@johnsmith1474 okay Igor

[@Mikhail_Zaitsev]

@@command_unit7792 Не нужно быть академиком, чтобы понять, что планировали они совсем не то, что получилось, и что планы менялись несколько раз. путина спасает только рабская покорность и тупость россиян. Но интересно будет посмотреть на процессы в российском обществе после деоккупации украинских территорий этой осенью!

[@fpvillegas9488]

Excellent video. Very comprehensive and well animated. Probably the best that i have watched so far about the Ukraine War. Thanks 👍

[@BasedBlackPrism]

When an Eastory video comes out it makes me really happy. Keep up the great work!

[@redborschtredemption]

Love to see when russian veterans of this war who got injury like leg loss, get as a gift from government a new pair of SHOES. They really mean that.

[@AlejandroNievas1]

well if u are lucky russian father, and ur boy get killed , u get enough to buy a rusty lada.

[@bubblesxd]

We will need an updated version soon now that Ukraine is doing counteroffensive

[@verner2695]

Im from Mariupol. Peace to you guys🙏🙏

[@ёжикчихнул-г3р]

🇺🇦

[@IllD.]

Was expecting a deeper analysis but this was still satisfactory. Good work bro.

[@sullyman9594]

you know its a good day when Eastory uploads

[@SAarumDoK]

Great content, happy to see you didn't "took" any sides in your analysis and stayed true to your channel legacy. Love from France. :)

[@qwerty70231]

where are our leclercs?))) russians want to go home

[@ДмитроСавранський-г7ц]

@@qwerty70231 they surely won't give MBTs it's just useless, they won't even give a couple more Caesars (Ah maan but we reeeeally need artillery)

[@ДанилевськийДмитро]

Very precise. Thanks 👍 And hello from Ukraine ☺️

[@MXB2001]

Very insightful. Especially making it clear how the northern invasion suffered from extremely long flanks thus massively diluting its strength. Also the info about the (mis)deployment of the forces facing Crimea was actually new to me. Of course it was tempting to try and use the chokepoint/bottleneck there to shorten the line so perhaps there was no better choice. Defense in depth and fall back lines at the Dnieper/Melitopol would be possible but that's a much longer line to hold.

[@УЕ-з21]

I'll explain why it happened. Head of regional department of СБУ,ukrainian intelligence was a russian agent,so,he demined this chokepoint and that led to troops disorganization.

[@DaveSCameron]

Oh the Northern flanks have suffered sure but not because they were planning on taking Kiev, I must have been watching a different conflict so far as I swear I see Russian forces making steady and safe progress through the Eastern Russian areas and down to Crimea but hey I'm just another person with eyes and ears and WiFi...

[@bjorntorlarsson]

​@@DaveSCameron Oh, I'm sure they tried to reach the government buildings with their spetsnaz troops, or try to scare the government to negotiations. But a secondary goal was to tie down forces.

[@bjorntorlarsson]

Some General had a bad day there. It is a scandal that the Russians could cross the Dniepr so easily. I wonder how much the advance was airborne and amphibious?

[@DaveSCameron]

@@bjorntorlarsson Maybe..

[@stephencarroll9935]

Ah nice another in depth analysis looking forward to the next one whenever it will be

[@colombadellapace2509]

Hope you'll do another update, many things happened since then.

[@Ickie71]

Learnt about this channel through TIK who is a legend already on YT

[@Lapkonium]

nice no bullshit vid. trust a history buff to understand current affairs

[@J.Mahbub]

Our Eastory is back. BTW Can you make videos about ww1?

[@ferem55]

Yeah! We want it!

[@seneca983]

He does have a video titled "Germany's plans to win WWI".

[@J.Mahbub]

@@seneca983 But we need an animated video of the fronts.

[@NothernNate]

Russia is clearly losing this war of attrition. Still, it could be years before there bear gets tired of bleeding and looks for easier prey.

[@maksiksq]

I am a Ukrainian, and you did your research, in general everything is mostly accurate and huge thanks for making videos which support us!

[@user-il7yh6dc7w]

Ты это тот балабол который выехал со страны как и тысячи людей с западной Украины и здаешь жилье в три раза дороже ?

[@streamjpeg]

@@user-il7yh6dc7w харош

[@jg973nm]

I would like to add the challenge of artillery shell usage where for several moths Ukrainians were firing 10 times less of 152mm shell then Russia. Mostly because Ukraine does not have 155 howitzers. It will help to understand why Russia concentrate all forces where railroad can provide 20 000 shells daily. First months they were not able to use railroad from Crimea and after sinking in Berdyansk the only approach was from Donbass where they used human waves tactics with rolling artillery strikes.

[@konstantinriumin2657]

Human wave tactics? Citation needed

[@Usmodlover]

@@konstantinriumin2657 sounds like what the separatists have been doing. I think maybe it was Igor Girkin who mentioned that new conscripts weren’t even being trained properly, just sent to the front to die or figure it out

[@konstantinriumin2657]

@@Usmodlover But it's not the same as human wave attacks.

[@impaugjuldivmax]

today even with 777 shells, Ukraine has 4-5 less rounds per day than Russia

[@simondesmond3574]

@@konstantinriumin2657 The citation is the Russian casualties

[@zacharytell775]

One nitpick, Konotop was never occupied as far as I’m aware there were negotiation to surrender the town but the Ukrainians refused and the Russians mostly bypassed it, otherwise great video

[@p00bix]

Konotop was indeed occupied, but only weakly. Its mayor refused to surrender, and there were significant anti-Russian protests. Because a violent resistance would jeopardize their already fragile (and ultimately failed) attempt to attack Kyiv, the Russian troops negotiated a deal with the city government under which the government could continue operating, but Ukrainian forces had to retreat from the city. In return for this high level of autonomy, the residents would agree not to attack Russian forces, and Russian troops would still be allowed to use the city's main highway for transportation-with the implicit threat that the city would lose all its autonomy if they did. When Russia started to retreat forces from Northern Ukraine, the people did indeed rise up, and Russia abandoned the already limited control it had.

[@thecommunistdoggo1008]

@@p00bix Cutting deals with the occupiers should be considered treason. I hope the mayor is fairly tried in the eyes of the law for his collaboration

[@sergeyl1089]

​@@thecommunistdoggo1008 So the mayor should have done like the mayor of Mariupol or the governor of Lugansk area and run away, leaving his citizens unevacuated in a warzone, at the mercy of Ukrainian human shield appreciators and Russian loss tolerance? In that moment, after all of his previous nationalist displays, he made a much smarter move than what you're offering and saved what he was sworn in to protect. Moreover, your comment suggests that you support Ukraine, while your online identity is associated with communism. Does that mean you're suicidal if you consider yourself a communist yet support rabid anti-communists that not just openly threaten those they don't like with murders and other kinds of persecution but make good on their threats when they have an opportunity? 🤔 Seek suicide prevention hotline right away, brah.

[@lightnessrudy1420]

Ви в курсі що Конотоп це місце де живуть українські відьми??? Є відео де люди не пускають окупантів до міста а жінки обіцяють проклясти їх на чоловічу слабкість😅😅😅

[@cf3714]

@@thecommunistdoggo1008 Just because they weren't attacking Russian troops and convoys, doesn't mean they were helping the Russians. Just taking pictures of Russian vehicles, recording dates and numbers, etc, is massively helpful to Ukrainian forces. No need to throw your life away on something for little gain, when you can help in other ways. Passive resistance is still resistance.

[@raeaugustus586]

Thank you for this. Was looking all around for a summarized (yet as detailed as possible) war in Ukraine for a long time.

[@Mikhail_Zaitsev]

kzbin.info - ещё более детально почти каждый день!

[@PeakPeakPeakPeakPeak]

@@Mikhail_Zaitsev 🐷🇷🇺 bot moment

[@olegbobrovskiy3244]

Excellent pronunciations I must say. Props

[@keremdzukljan1296]

I think you making a video about the Bosnian or Yugoslav wars would be interesting

[@Caesim9]

And now, Ukraine has managed to recapture vital regions through it's counteroffensive around Charkiv and also managed to retake Cherson.

[@SilencedP2P]

Those are both spelled with K's instead of C's.

[@darth_nihilus_]

@@SilencedP2P The Ukrainian versions is different.

[@oleksii1010]

This video is so interesting even for ukrainians! Thank you and Slava Ukraїne!

[@ДенисизМосквы]

Слава России🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@oleksii1010]

@@ДенисизМосквы because of why? Because of killing 400 children?

[@oleksii1010]

@@ДенисизМосквы or killing >30k civilians?

[@ДмитроСавранський-г7ц]

@@ДенисизМосквы вы не заслужили славы, как показывают ваши деяния

[@figu6ka379]

@@ДенисизМосквы Слава посии

[@nothing-hm3js]

Your channel is so great 😍😍😘

[@vladislavsulimenko5276]

Im seeing this being played in school classes in year 2050 as archive material

[@johnsmith1474]

As an example of garbage propaganda,

[@putinpunhere]

@@johnsmith1474 Hasty garbage yes, given we'd definitely have better maps😉 by the end of the decade, let alone 2050.

[@bongomeister9965]

@@johnsmith1474 10 ruble was added to your account

[@vladislavsulimenko5276]

@@johnsmith1474 you think schools use quality material?

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

@@johnsmith1474 I doubt schools would resort to using RT as material for teaching.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Excellent recap. I realize the purpose was to cover the overall “what happened” and not get into details, but it might be mentioned that the initial Russian advance was slowed by self-inflicted logistical issues as well as Ukrainian threats to their supply lines. It might be mentioned that the original plan for the special operation was for a 15-day timetable. There are two places where the video implies something about this, but it’s not entirely clear in the video. Lastly, Russians failure to gain air superiority should have been mentioned. Setting those criticisms aside, this is an excellent and informative video, recapping the conflict up until recent events. You had to pick and choose which details to bring forward, what parts of the conflict to emphasize, and I think you nailed it wrt to the overall strategic picture.

[@Scorch1man]

I seriously can't with the russian bots

[@bobgatewood5277]

​@@bearcatben4762they're so butthurt not every channel regurgitates their echo chambers

[@campfireeverything]

I'm so glad to see you covering this!

[@artemduk9808]

Terrible times for my country ((( I wish no one ever experience that Thanks for the video

[@petersmythe6462]

The map just keeps zooming in. It's gonna be like WW1 in the west with vast numbers dying for meters of territory.

[@seand0112]

It would be cool if you did an explanation of the battle of berlin

[@PTQ4Q4Q4Q4]

This video was incredible, thankyou!

[@ChernyawskyNikolai]

5:30 LDNR not only separatist, many of regular russian army include.

[@МаксимМаксимов-ъ8ь]

The DPR (or LDNR) is part of the russian army, consisting of Ukrainian collaborators. There are russian weapons, russian commanders, but soldiers of Ukrainian origin (Russian speaking)

[@МаксимМаксимов-ъ8ь]

Russia created this puppet state so as not to declare war.

[@igor_pavlovich]

how do you know? were you there?

[@falangemexicana8554]

Ukrainians have been saying this to cope for the last 8 years. If regular Russian army troops were present in 2014, the we would not even be talking a war right now.

[@q3eq3eq65]

@@igor_pavlovich he used 1% of his brain

[@jooksin6244]

A series about the American Civil war year by year would be incredible

[@lostact]

Ukraine war in a nutshell, very informative and useful. good job.

[@perfectpluse3199]

Thanks for this video , I watch 93 time your WW2 serial videos . Nice work . Thanks again .

[@vredacted3125]

Something important to know, for all who are interested in history and/or support Ukraine: Rus’ ought not to be confused with “Russia”, which derives its name from the Rus’ but historically is a completely different state, which almost all its existence was at war with the Rus’. Just like the Holy Roman Empire was actually Germany, Russia is actually Muscovy, despite their best attempts to convince everybody otherwise. Its name “Russia" received only in 1721, when Peter I passed a decree to change Tsardom of Muscovy’s name into the “Russian” Empire (“Russia” originates from Rosia, name used by the Greek Orthodox Clergy in regards to Kyivan Rus') Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves “Russian”. Lands that “Russia” claims were part of the original Rus’, but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus’. They can be considered parts of extended Rus’, although their culture was distinct from main Rus’. In 1493 Moscow prince Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus’. No other kings acknowledged that. From that point on Muscovy started to make false claims on Rus’ ownership. “Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round, despite what Soviet and “Russian” historians have been trying to say for years. Kiev was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village. Germany used to call itself the Holy Roman Empire, that didn’t mean they became the Romans, and all of a sudden had a right to claim whole of Italy and its history, but yet, that’s exactly what “Russia” did in regards to Rus’-Ukraine, which is a horrible injustice!

[@dylyk]

Раз так, то мы уходим из украины, мы оказывается не русские

[@UserRobot215]

"Just another swamp village" 🤣

[@tominmtnvw]

How Ukraine is able to defend itself, is the correct heading here.😊

[@Eastory]

Good one

[@золотаявата]

@@Eastory the forces did not exceed, only 200k Russian contract soldiers went to Ukraine. They were opposed by 300k Ukrainians. Ukrainian troops were sitting in cities and hiding behind civilians. And then they complained that Russia was bombing their cities.

[@Armmag]

@@золотаявата hey buddy, russian army just sucks, chill.

[@ep5019]

Russia hasn't conquered Ukraine because it used to few men thinking this would be more of a glorified coup. when this turned out not to be the case it became embarrassing for the Russians to send in more men. with likely 250 men in Ukraine it will be hard for Russia to do much more atm. I'll put more cards on the table I'm a Russophile and I'm sympathetic to Russia's position so I'll say this much Russia using a numerically inferior force has gained and held onto territory, they've done well considering this. But although Ukraine will never join nato now (you can't join NATO of your at war and I think Ukraine is screwed) this situation has left Russia in the position where Finland and Sweden are no longer neutral and a powder keg may have been lit especially in China.

[@gtPacheko]

So you support a fascist regime that is killing civilians, and you believe they aren't trying... FOX News or RT? Fascist.

[@wilsonball7171]

Finland and Sweden have always been in the Western bloc even without NATO, so nothing has changed

[@Bayard1503]

@@wilsonball7171 Not really, in case of a conflict between NATO and Russia do you think Finnish troops would have gotten involved??? No way. Now they have to... Murmansk was a fully secure city before, not anymore.

[@wilsonball7171]

@@Bayard1503 I have big doubts that even Turkey will fight against Russia in the event of a conflict, not to mention Finland. In any case, the doctrine of the war against NATO in Russia is the total destruction of these countries with nuclear weapons. For Murmansk, nothing has changed in this regard, as it was the target for US missiles, it remained

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

@@wilsonball7171 Finland is going to be in nato

[@yuriynovokreshchenov]

Great analysis. Thank you for your job!

[@шибутной]

is it more correct to say that they did not invade, but are conducting a special operation to stop the war that has been going on there for 8 years since 2014, or have you not heard about it?

[@oceanlancer]

If they want to protect Donbass then why they are capturing and bombarding cities all over Ukraine ?

[@шибутной]

@@oceanlancer not to protect but to stop the war by cutting off the lizard's tail how do you think it will die?

[@шибутной]

@@oceanlancer kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqS1YqGweptqisU

[@oceanlancer]

@@шибутной its obvious that Russia whant to capture Ukraine, rest is justifying reasons

[@superdogs1]

I wish in the future for the divisions to be included, but I know information on that is hidden. To be fair, I don’t even know how to find such information on division

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

Find the military records

[@antistream]

NIce video! Quite accurate description of these events. I only want to make comment: they actually tried to cross Severodonetsk river few times and lost an entire mechanized brigade during failed pontoon bridge crossing action. Also, at 24th february they was advancing not only by ground forces but also launching aerial attacks and also made deployment of their paratrooper storm brigade by helicopters into Gostomel city air field which is ended up badly and most of them died in same day and the rest held for few days before being completely neutralized. Also they made similar deployment on south in Mikolaiv city in attempt to take control of bridge and also nearby factory. All of them been neutralized in same day. Some of them even died during their flight cause few helicopters been shot down before they reached destination point. Just remembered btw same thing happened when they flew over Dnipro river in Kyiv region in their path to Gostomel air field... Theres a lot of videoproofs in internet about all events i described except pontoon shelling but theres a lot of images of shelling results which can confirm at least 73 mechanized brigade vehicles been destroyed. Our victory day will certaintly become national memodial date and i will every year thank all of you good people in the world who been helping us to hold! A lot of people say ukrainian army is true heroes and for me it really is but they would died heroically without your help. So you are my heroes too, my friends!

[@gunsunited8973]

source - azov propaganda

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

@@gunsunited8973 Yo man how is Karkhiv going

[@gunsunited8973]

@@Testimony_Of_JTF I'm not russian lol

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

@@gunsunited8973 You seem to be supportive of them tho

[@gunsunited8973]

@@Testimony_Of_JTF lmao you assumed I'm a russian soldier in kharkiv

[@MrRinoHunter]

This video is amazingly informative

[@play_boy7543]

Can someone explain me why Russia could not mobilize more troops, according to information from Wikipedia, they mobilized between 170-190 thousand soldiers which is quite a small number, considering that they have about 1.1m active soldiers, I know that they are deployed in various zones of Russia, I also know that they comprise all branches of the army, including the fleet and the air force, but I think that the number of mobilized soldiers on the Russian side is too small for any strategic offensive, regardless of the advantage in weapons, which is now equalized after NATO Land-Lease

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

I was surprised they didn't mobilize 300.000 troops from paramilitaries. Russia has 1.1 million government army soldiers. But also 1.2 million paramilitaries, militias, and mercenaries. I was surprised they didn't utilize 300.000-400.000 of these guys instead of government soldiers. Though they've utilized a couple thousand Chechens and Wagner troops that's not among the 190.000 Russian government army.

[@bokunogentoo4420]

it was assumed that Russian equipment was good enough to where only around 170,000 troops were needed, but due to rampant corruption a lot of that equipment turned out to be very undermaintained

[@play_boy7543]

@@bokunogentoo4420 Regardless of the quality of equipment, a certain amount of soldiers is needed to occupy and control a territory, it is simply theoretically impossible to control a country of 44 million inhabitants with less than 200 thousand soldiers, they would be like clay pigeons.

[@johnsmith1474]

They could and they might, but it's not a Russian war. Russia is the support structure and arms provider and military planner. They use Donbas Ukrainians to liberate Donbas, as they are highly motivated to fight in their own land. There is no need for Russia to increase it's numbers because there is no need to quickly overwhelm Ukraine. "NATO lend lease" has by no means equalized the weapons. Russia wants Ukraine to come to a realization; that neutrality is a good deal. And it needs the West to get sick of paying the bill. Already Ukrainians are resisting the draft. And Americans like myself want and end. In the meantime Russia kills Ukrainian nationalists, creeps forward, minimizing losses and accomplishing it's goals.

[@pax6833]

Huge amount of Russian troops is border defense, railway corps, navy + air force personnel all of which can't be used to fight.

[@vovkasaen6279]

Два месяца прошло войны с " второй армией в мире" и что? Разбиты на всех направлениях, уже не думают русские фашисты о захвате не то чтобы Киева, но даже Николаева и Запорожья. Рыдают о том, что придется оставить единственный захваченный областной центр- Херсон. Как быстро заканчивается дутое величие недостраны- бензоколонки. Слава Украине!

[@di___zz5411]

Хай САЛО, ты ещё не стухло? Скажи ещё что-нибудь на САЛЬЕМ!

[@neofu1285]

Героям слава!

[@di___zz5411]

@@neofu1285 шляпой по губами тебе 👉👌🐒😂😂😂 Гераням Слава!!!

[@ev5033]

The Russian contingent in Ukraine is several times smaller. It's strange that this is not reflected in the video in any way. Usually, forces that outnumber defenders 3-5 times participate in the assault, and in this situation there are fewer Russians (according to various estimates, up to 200 thousand). Theoretically, the offensive should not have advanced at all in this ratio, given that Ukraine has more than 800 thousand fighters there.

[@oceanlancer]

800 thousand is a full Ukrainian army, combat part of it is like 200-300

[@NotRealChandlerBing]

Ukraine now has about 700,000 troops. But by the time of the invasion, there were significantly fewer of them. When attacking Kyiv, there were 20 times more Russians than defending Ukrainians, for example. In addition, do not forget that Ukraine has to distribute its army throughout the entire territory of Ukraine. In the north, it is necessary to pull a large group of troops so that Belarus does not invade, which has long been holding "military exercises" on the border with Ukraine. In the south, near Odesa, you have to keep a large group of troops so that the Russians do not land and capture Odesa. The Russians, on the other hand, concentrate a large amount of force in one or two places.

[@kostyabaranov1702]

What is more powerful: 1000 soldiers with rifles or 150 with tanks, MARS, planes and APC. Just to notice: Soviet Union was preparing to combat with whole world. They have the tons of tons of military shit

[@igory5658]

Yeah, of course. I think ur source of info was one where says that russia did " a preventive strike" because Ukraine was about to invade russia

[@КрысапёсБолотный]

@@igory5658 Россия использует не использует призывные войска, а только контрактные, это не больше 200 тысяч. Плюс ДНР, ЛНР. Зеленский сам заявлял, что у Украины 700 тысяч солдат, чувак это всё официальная информация, что так сложно поискать в интернете ?

[@braddevon1283]

Eastory is knowledgeable amazing and blown me away with his up to date knowledge 😂

[@ВоронцовКирило-х3п]

I'm from Mykolaiv, I remember the first day of the war, the first siren, shelling. I saw with my own eyes the landing of a Russian landing force in the city at the end of February. in March, my family and I left the city to the right bank of the Southern Bug, because there were heavy battles in the east, north and south of the city, even once a Russian column tried to enter the city, but failed. I remember we went to the city to buy groceries, I saw this depressing atmosphere, the weather was cold and gloomy, there were almost no people on the street, only military and anti-tank hedgehogs. there were empty shelves in the stores, because the only supply of products was through Odessa, there was no water either, because the Russians destroyed the pipe that supplied Mykolaiv with water from the Dnipro River, I walked for a dirty month. somewhere in the middle of March, my family and I decided to leave the city and go to the west of the country, because every day the city is shelled, I haven't been to my hometown for six months, I want to return as soon as possible

[@ivansudakov6877]

Смеркалось. Погода была холодной и мрачной. Ромашки уже отцвели... Насчет того, кто там водопровод разбомбил, нет однозначного мнения. Войска РФ, насколько мне известно, находились именно там, где водопровод и был разрушен. Опять сами себя обстреляли?

[@viktoriyaduncan212]

Why did you leave? Why didn't you defend our city? I am from Nikolaev too

[@ВоронцовКирило-х3п]

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[@redcheburek2366]

It it just so bizarre to watch this video after viewing ones about WW2 and WW1, I have never thought that something similar could even happen in my country in 21 century, nevertheless, nice video, appreciated)

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

Remember to make an update when war end From 2014(the beginning)-202?(the end)

[@SGDYT]

7:24 POV: Russia: Can I have this? Ukraine: No. Russia: Can I have this then? Ukraine: No. Russia: Ok. Lmao

[@maksiksq]

As a Ukrainian I'm very grateful for right pronunciations.

[@seagullwearingjordans2970]

Damm that’s crazy I haven’t been keeping up with the war so

[@martinsmolik2449]

I have been checking news obsessively since the war started, and I have to say this is incredibly precise. It glosses over many details, but those aren't necessary for this sort of overview. Overall, incredible video as always.

[@dmitriyfolomeev5020]

Ukraine has no chance now. The Russians have changed tactics and are starting to use newer weapons. Way even their grouping is less than 100k against more than 1M Ukrainian military. Laser anti-missile and anti-drone installations drive around the Donbas. They shoot down drones without sophisticated radars. The Russians began to use barrage ammunition. Every night aviation and cruise missiles fly deep into Ukraine. Flame systems bypass bunkers and cover, turning the air in underground fortifications into liquid fire. The crowning achievement is the capture of power plants and coal deposits. Old coal-fired power plants do not work without coal. And nuclear power plants are taken by Russia. The chances are really low...

[@ssglbc1875]

It’s about 250,000+ Russian troops special forces and Donbas separatist fighting against 700,000 Ukraine

[@ssglbc1875]

If Russia wants to move up the speed there going to need to mobilize more of there army and equipment into Ukraine who knows they might already be doing that but a mobilization would take months and be costly

[@dmitriyfolomeev5020]

@@ssglbc1875 Russia is moving very fast. America and 20 other countries are stuck in Iraq for 8 years. In Ukraine, a third of the population has already received Russian passports.

[@AirAssault7]

Cool video, you do a good job of explaining things, hence I subscribed.

[@WilliamSchofieldFS]

Please talk about the German invasion against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@szariq7338]

And couple of months I realized that I'd be fucked if I was born and lived couple hundreds of kilometers east from my home in Poland. I turned 18 on February 6th and since in Ukraine high school ends eariler because of earlier going to primary school I'd be the perfect candidate for conscription if we don't mention my left-eyed shortsightedness. Because if I want to fight I want to fight as an independent person and not "We've fucked up, but we're above you and you have to listen to us, so we'll send you on a suicidal mission to fix our mistakes."

[@unitedfloridamapper7669]

Crazy how Russia managed to screw up something most people thought would be a poce of cake.

[@Silvergalaxy7383]

ikr

[@Vagab0nd12]

Nobody thought that. Not even top russian generals. Ukraine is probably strongest military in Europe,it has huge amount of soldiers, military experience, modern weapons etc.

[@supernt7852]

@@Vagab0nd12 everybody thought russia would win, at least in the west

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

because ppl didnt see ukraine was actually rotating the soldiers at donbas war for 8 years. no training is better than experiecing real war itself.

[@superspy-xv9sx]

@@Vagab0nd12 ???, Ukraine's army is mostly Soviet era weaponry.

[@Meinejambalaya]

I love the ruzzia you make on your map! it's so tiny :D at 0:01

[@gctzx]

Well done. The best description of what has happened so far that I've seen.

[@crashfaff]

Makes you wonder what the map would look like now, if the Ukraine forces in the south had as good defences against Crimea route as dug in as they had in Luhansk and Donetsk. Would it have been possible Kherson and Mariupol still be in control of Ukraine till now?

[@bjorntorlarsson]

Sure, they could've prepared for that, but obviously didn't. It must be hard to advance from Crimea. And crossing the Dniepr like that should be out of the question. Has the commander of that front been executed yet? One can see from the Moon that Dniepr is the feature that defines war in Ukraine.

[@Bayard1503]

I heard the persons in charge of Kherson's defense including the mayor simply ran during the first day... maybe they were bought in advance.

[@PeakPeakPeakPeakPeak]

Unfortunately that idiot Zelensky made Ukraine more vulnerable when he was elected... Even though he's doing right thing right now, If Petro Poroshenko was elected than Kherson Mariouple and other occupied territory would be under Ukrainian controll, and less Ukrainian people would have died.

[@HarshPandey-is2ei]

Prob the civilian government rushed way too many troops in defending the capital from the Russian Virtual Russian Threat there, leaving little troops defending the southern regions. Also lack of geographically advantageous defensive positions or cities.

[@bjorntorlarsson]

@@HarshPandey-is2ei But in a flat open field, trenches must be great! The prepared defender can define the landscape and the attacker has to rush over open land without any protection or camouflage.

[@speedzero7478]

The Russian failures in North of Ukraine are remarkable and will be studied for many years. This sloppy invasion saved Ukraine.

[@Igor66966]

Радуйся недолго

[@Kub98]

A lot of things happened since august, will be there new video :)?

[@nicolaspl5020]

Hey Eastory, I was wondering how you animate your videos and make your maps. Do you use a software to make maps and units? Do you use map pictures or do you look at google maps and copy it on your own made map? I would love to know how long a 10-20 min video takes to make? Thanks for making connten and keeping us entertaint

[@turbochad69]

Good question lol

[@vixinitydbz]

he uses blender

[@turbochad69]

@@vixinitydbz Epic

[@ambal1]

i remember first hours of this. I was literaly waked up because of gunshots on paratroopers on Kyiv north part and artilery fire

[@samueltrusik3251]

Ukraine´s biggest weakness is lack of artillery, they have much less of it, and are not able to provide larger, covering salvos. That is what they need the most. For a similiar reason, drones and airplanes are also helpful.

[@ДмитроСавранський-г7ц]

It's the main reason ruzzia can win somewhere, we need real lot of barrel and reactive artillery

[@Инфон]

@@ДмитроСавранський-г7ц far from the only one ... russia is stronger in everything, see the statistics

[@loveusomuch2189]

​@@Инфон especially in tactics and soldier's personal qualities

[@Инфон]

@@loveusomuch2189 Russia has more experience from the war in Chechnya, Syria, Kazakhstan, Donbass.

[@MultiNike79]

The main weakness of Ukraine is that it is entirely based on lies and only degenerates and criminals can support it. Therefore, the loss of Zelensky's terrorists is a foregone conclusion - this has already happened more than once in history and it is repeated one to one. Ukrainian terrorists acted together with Hitler, with the Germans in 1918, with the Polish interventionists. After that, the locals killed them for their freedom and well-being.

[@Boxy071]

Well made and well explained video!!👍👍👍💯💯💯

[@azalon2752]

Ukraine abused lend lease beg tactic in hoi4 irl

[@parabalani]

Great pronunciation of Kyiv. I wish though you would make it clearer on your map that Crimea is also a Ukrainian territory.

[@ДенисизМосквы]

😂😂😂

[@iRON90111]

cry

[@ДмитроСавранський-г7ц]

@@iRON90111 ruzzia supporter got offended)

[@Suckmabalzz]

@@ДмитроСавранський-г7ц ukrops got offended ☠️

[@GeliosKH]

And in the beginning of September the Ukrainian army liberated huge territories in north-east and prepares to liberate Kherson in the South.

[@ПавелРвачёв-ч3ъ]

Prepare to Earth(Klitchcko)

[@igory5658]

@ДAУHЫ УКРАИНЫ | DOWNS OF UKRAINE шо там по мобилизации?

[@Mike1-1]

@ДAУHЫ УКРАИНЫ | DOWNS OF UKRAINE Готовся к могилизации

[@Mike1-1]

@ДAУHЫ УКРАИНЫ | DOWNS OF UKRAINE микола это твой отец или мать? Может отчим?