Putin loses territory after Ukraine deploy US Howitzers

“It is newer and more modern and fire Nato calibre shells. It is much more accurate and has a larger range.”
Ukraine soldiers are resisting Russian forces with US donated M777 Howitzer as Russia’s push around Vovchans'k and Lyptsi continues to falter, says Tom Mutch on the ground in Ukraine.
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[@Hoophey]

Well, Putin isn't losing territory. It was never his to begin with!

[@alucardelrojo8675]

True, it belongs to the russian federation and it´s people, not Putin.

[@that_flnger]

​@@alucardelrojo8675 what belongs to the russian federation? According to what law? Who recognized the territories as a part of ruzia?

[@rtqii]

@@alucardelrojo8675 You are not rational.

[@strrgaze]

@@alucardelrojo8675 NO it belongs to the Ukrainian people and trying to take that will cost Russia everything.

[@Apollonos]

@@alucardelrojo8675 Xa-xa. Putin gives NOTHING to the Russian people except poverty and sorrow. He doesn't care about them. The only thing Putin cares about is himself.

[@bsastarfire250]

Very human story . Stay safe everyone.

[@des_smith7658]

er okay thanks

[@stephenfarish2148]

Russia will win slava tussia

[@ozymandias9234]

Stay safe from what?

[@redcossack245]

Wow what an opportunity. Very thorough report. Thank you for making.

[@616CC]

Insignificant therefore misleading, almost delusional

[@616CC]

Complete opposite of thorough, howitzers? Towed artillery are obsolete

[@cechzc2e]

​@616CC the Times are expert in drivel. The loyal morons soak it up like sponges.

[@deniscunningham3059]

Cracking good reporting here, young man!

[@markhepworth]

“Cracking good” is not a phrase.

[@dpelpal]

@@markhepworth It is when you're Rushin' and getting smashed by H I M A R S

[@RogueGneral]

Slava Ukraini! 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇲🇦🇺🇨🇦🇳🇿

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

that is what we in the military would call in military terminiology a big gun

[@lzot]

We always called them 'drop-shorts'...

[@zipperpillow]

That's what she said...after gagging.

[@pokey5736]

Slava Ukraine!!!💙💛

[@dmitryxxx26]

Слава Нигерии 😂

[@DarkCriimes]

@@dmitryxxx26Heroyam slava ! 🇺🇦🫡

[@He-de-hi-js2yu]

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[@ExiSTEIN]

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[@vivavoom]

@@dmitryxxx26russia is full of chickens

[@johnjames4681]

From wiki. ( The M777 is manufactured by BAE Systems' Global Combat Systems division. Prime contract management is based in Barrow-in-Furness, UK as well as manufacture and assembly of the titanium structures and associated recoil components. Final integration and testing of the weapon is undertaken at BAE's facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US.)

[@RelationalDatabase-us7fr]

Correct. There is work in the USA because they ordered a huge number years ago. I think Australia and Canada have them and India ordered them too.

[@sjl197]

Can the entire thing be built within the UK? If not, why not?

[@johnjames4681]

@@sjl197 UK in order to get around US importation rules built a factory in USA and built the A777 under licence. .

[@RelationalDatabase-us7fr]

@@johnjames4681 More likely when a country orders alot of military kit, it wants some form of offset. So the USA got 2/3rd of the manufacturing process.

[@penny_farthing2309]

Slava Ukraine 🇬🇧

[@paddington1670]

Heroyam Slava!

[@stefanatovich3527]

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[@albertwolanski7688]

@@stefanatovich3527 You said it!

[@P-L-t1d]

💩💩💩💩💩💩Ukrajina

[@jennylovepr]

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[@PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr]

⭐️

[@nbach2202]

There's nothing to preaze about okraina. It can't stay on its own feet because those feet weren't built by okraina. Okraina is a sad case of collection of the maniacal sociopaths .

[@hektoram]

Heroyam slava💛💙💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇩🇰

[@QueenetBowie]

Solid reporting, but the headline doesn’t exactly match the video. Props to the journalist.

[@o3tg2w35t]

You have no concept of reality.

[@keith8609]

Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧 ♥️ 🇺🇦

[@ValterUngerson]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧

[@mirandahotspring4019]

Good reporting. Slava Ukraini!

[@paddington1670]

Heroyam Slava!

[@feodosiyaonline1555]

It's a shame it's a lie😁

[@mirandahotspring4019]

@@feodosiyaonline1555 Ukraine isn't raiding their museums for 60 year old tanks to use in battle! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@feodosiyaonline1555]

@@mirandahotspring4019 Ukraine does not have its own weapons, a poor country with an outstretched hand

[@mirandahotspring4019]

@@feodosiyaonline1555 That's crippling Russia!

[@ExiSTEIN]

SLAVA UKRAINA!!!🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙋‍♂🙋‍♂🙋‍♂🙋‍♂🙋‍♂🙋‍♂

[@MrAvant123]

Not many bot-boys these days - they must know the game is up !

[@JohnDoe-mx1sq]

All been mobilized

[@foilhat1138]

They're busy spamming in the DW comments.

[@Apollonos]

Maybe Putin is running out of money to pay them.

[@schmitz4206]

It's a bit of an echo chamber isn't

[@Apollonos]

Maybe Putin is running out of money and can't afford to pay them. LOL!

[@stephenking27]

Great reporting. Thank you.

[@annettecanada1329]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@AS-np3yq]

Is he from New Zealand? He sounds like the guys from viva la dirt league. :)

[@kestockbridge]

Yep, he’s a kiwi

[@jacklamat6315]

He is britt asf bro😂

[@richay1]

@@jacklamat6315 He's defo not lol

[@jacklamat6315]

@@richay1 yeah they sound like this he not Australien

[@jabthejedi]

@@jacklamat6315 He's not he's from New Zealand,

[@billsmith-hl8rk]

Slava Ukraine!

[@anthonymitchell8893]

billsmith can you string more than 2 f-------g words together youth ?🐏🐏🐑🐑🐏🐏🐑🐑🐏😎

[@PeaLoop]

Excellent video.

[@Soulessdeeds]

Was watching another video of a US 4 star general talking about plans to phase out towed artillery and focus on mobile artillery. Systems like the Caesar wheeled artillery have gotten allot more attention with US military leaders. Tracked artillery has been working fine. But updated systems would be nice. But they said they wanted artillery to shift to fully mobile systems because of their "Shoot and Scoot" ability made them allot more survivable in battle.

[@zedeyejoe]

Makes sense.

[@CoffeeAndPaul]

You are referring to the commander of the US Army Futures Command, General James Rainey (USA). That was a very good presentation. He made a good point to separate wheeled SPG & tracked SPG, too.

[@RidleyHolmes-sr2tw]

Was it that idiot Breedlove?

[@johntait491]

An interesting, informative and well produced report Tom. Thank you. 👍

[@MrMirrororor]

Propaganda

[@user-wc6tf8gb2p]

Slava Ukraine

[@colinskelding8959]

SLAVA UKRAINI ❤❤❤

[@giampaolofasoli1492]

Slava.Ukraine!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eroi.Slava!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hanscholo]

America needs jobs. put Americans to work building munitions for Ukraine. America could make that 10:1 ratio to at least 10:10

[@Ningbouakeo]

@@Sulikowskytotally agree

[@MassimoCLI]

@@peaceluv1548 He who helped Ucraine will get paid back when it's time to reconstruction. Guess how many billion of investment on infrastructures, residential homes, bridges, destroyed

[@teddypicker8799]

@@peaceluv1548 Don't you guys love freedom and spend way too much on your military? Finally a chance to do some good with it

[@teddypicker8799]

​@@peaceluv1548 And no as a percentage of GDP USA (0.32%) is giving nearly half what the next biggest donors give UK (0.55%) and Germany (0.57%). (These figures are the cost of REPLACING the weapons sent btw so most of this money stays in your country)

[@kickotv3844]

@@peaceluv1548lol

[@catherineandpaulfuters2523]

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[@NEUBRAND2000]

Slava Ukraine 💙 💛 ✌️ 💯

[@alucardelrojo8675]

Ukraine is dying, you didn´t get the memo?

[@peggydavison6435]

Slava Ukraini! 💙💛

[@mikmerl1]

Slava Ukraini

[@captainhadd0ck]

Слава Україні! 💙💛

[@Apollonos]

Героям Слава! 🇺🇦

[@andrejmordovin6027]

Говна из шаровар достань, тарас :D

[@josmith9662]

If Russia spent less on sending internet bots here and more on logistical experts, they might have won

[@briancarno8837]

they are winning....dont you ever look at independant news sources?

[@fnmkd3142]

@@briancarno8837 can you still afford Potatoes in russia, ivan?

[@dannydanny2789]

Check the map Einstein

[@wormlandsbanen]

5:33 ​​@@briancarno8837what are independent sources? Not russian, not Chinese, not Indians or Northkorean. And russiansupported newsagent on the internet is surely not independent. Western journalist. Some of them can move around and collect usefull information. Others are only an echo of a few big companys. The true story will perhaps been known in a few years. But as we have seen with Putin. He creates his own version of ww2 and almost everything else!!!

[@rhodimusrime6737]

The map says that Russia might make it to the dnieper in 2109 lol

[@chelloandra]

Fascinating details - they are doing all the learning

[@Steelninja77]

They are actually made by Bae systems in northern ireland Uk for the US. Part of the US subsidary of bae systems maybe.But mostly made in the UK it's says online. BAE Systems BAE Systems will work with its supply chain in the UK and the US to produce the major M777 titanium structures, which form the basis of the gun. The first major structures are due to be delivered in 2025. BAE Systems has seen an increase in interest from across Europe, Asia, and the Americas in the M777 gun system.4 Jan 2024 I am suprised we don't use them but we generally use self propelled howitsers and MLRS. Both of which we are getting upgraded and brand new versions of.

[@jtf2dan]

if these guns were donated by america...it doesnt matter where they are made. (and the video description text under the video says " US donated M777 Howitzer) Canada was the first country in the world to donate M777 guns to Ukraine!

[@johnjames4681]

@@jtf2dan It matters to me. I like to see UK technology competing.

[@briancarno8837]

@@johnjames4681 what like the challengers are competing..?In a shed miles from the front?

[@Metoo3232-pu2wc]

​@@briancarno8837Russia has lost thousands of tanks. The T90 can stop a couple snowballs but even a hit from a rock would launch it's crew into space. They should call Russian tank crews cosmonauts

[@briancarno8837]

@@Metoo3232-pu2wc and the challenger tanks how did they do on the front..?

[@mediapartners9950]

Excellent interview. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@susanyantha4074]

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[@luminyam6145]

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[@Gnilron_game]

Slava ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🔱🔱🔱💛💙

[@leecasey3022]

Nice war propaganda / cope.

[@Rottweilerdsq]

Slava Ukraini!

[@LucyPrice-z7u]

YEA UKRAINE !

[@zapfanzapfan]

Well, that is a serious weakness of Excalibur.

[@applemos6714]

I’m surprised that a lot of weapons are so dependent on an undisturbed GPS signal without any kind of backup system.

[@tristinjudd2595]

​@@applemos6714Because it was designed with a NATO style of warfare. NATO would've cleared the air by now and these systems would be just as effective

[@zapfanzapfan]

@@applemos6714 I get that it is a useful feature if you are hitting a position very close to your own troops so you at all cost want to avoid hitting your own but that feature should be able to be disabled when there is no risk of hitting your own or causing collateral damage.

[@rockbutcher]

@@zapfanzapfan It was designed for a deeper reason than that. Standard artillery fires shells on a simple ballistic arc, as you know. Those incoming rounds can be detected by radar, and computers can calculate the point they were fired from which improves counter-battery fire. Excalibur was designed to be shot 'off bearing' to the target, up to 30 degrees I believe, and then adjust it's own trajectory in flight to hit the GPS point programmed into it. This confuses the enemy radar and doesn't allow them to pinpoint the firing point. GPS jamming seriously degrades the accuracy of those rounds.

[@Dcscockpit]

@@applemos6714that’s why we have wire guided munitions here in the USA…

[@user-ft2bt9kw7x]

The front is 1300 kms long . And they pick only one area where Ukraine is holding its own . How is the rest of the front going ? Very badly for Ukraine

[@martinmart481]

Truth is what is pleasant to hear . Enjoy your truth. )

[@starkmad5351]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇿🇦

[@albertwolanski7688]

Remember Wolyn masacre.

[@wastelandnomad43298]

You guys been way off with what’s actually going on.

[@kcw0809]

Enlighten Us.

[@wastelandnomad43298]

@@kcw0809 do your own research. You will just dismiss anything I say anyways. But I’ll say one thing. It is clear to anyone who is paying attention to the facts on the ground that Ukraine has lost a sizeable piece of its territory and has no hopes of getting it back. They don’t have enough manpower and the west is unable to supply or produce enough artillery shells to keep up to the Russians. Figure the rest out from there.

[@TheSIeepyhouse]

Don't believe anything TImes Radio publishes.

[@bearmama8187]

The bots are in the house

[@briancarno8837]

your a bot..? is that what your saying..?

[@bearmama8187]

Of course not lol ​@@briancarno8837

[@dearmas9068]

​@@briancarno8837 you're*

[@des_smith7658]

Controlled 🇷🇺

[@themcgeachys]

​@@des_smith7658fanny

[@joecool9739]

At 4:47 that guy looks like Mark Wiens 🤣

[@youdaman5069]

Wow the Excalibur is just a lump of steel. The US has to fix that! 🇺🇦

[@TerrenceKane-yj8wd]

Крым всегда будет частью Украины. 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛🌻

[@billsimpson604]

They had a brand new 155 mm ammo plant in southern Mississippi. As soon as the Berlin wall fell, the fools shut it down. How dumb was that.

[@AwesomeboyRowmel]

slava ukraini

[@thebookdetect1ve]

#PUTININPRISON

[@TruRepublican]

For those complaining about the cost, this is mostly older systems that would have been retired, and ammunition stocks we’d be paying to dispose of.

[@klarinuskuipers8999]

Orban visited NATO, then Zelenski, then Putin, then Xi and then Trump. Orban is pretty unambiguous about his position towards Ukraine. He sees in Trump a big ally. It is not what Trump says or doesn't say publically, it is people like Orban that make it abundantly clear what Trump seems to say in private and make it obvious where Trump stands.

[@Cotac_Rastic]

Independent nation acting independent 😱😱

[@daran0815]

@@Cotac_Rastic Independent nation acting in the interest of a minority.

[@Cotac_Rastic]

@@daran0815 Yeah and? What are you gonna do about it exactly?

[@daran0815]

@@Cotac_Rastic Vote. Help others vote. Help everyone register, if they aren't already. Make sure everyone who can vote actually does vote, even if some places deliberately try to make it hard.

[@soutien6703]

😉🇨🇵🇺🇦💪

[@garrydullaghan3207]

Well it sounds like front , but starts with a C

[@markwarner8863]

🙏💪

[@Nunya58294]

USA! USA! USA!

[@erose1544]

Excalibur doesn’t use GPS to explode. It uses gps and inertial guidance system for accuracy. The shell switches to inertial navigation if gps is lost. The shell will still explode regardless if it has gps or inertial navigation as it utilizes a proximity fuse.

[@patricesaint-ouen1359]

Mr le president Poutine il faut vraiment arrêter cette guerre, vous avez un pays merveilleux, ne gâcher votre pouvoir, même si l’ukraine passe du côté de l’otan c’est juste pour éviter des milliers de morts Merci

[@Luisterralusa]

Slava Ukraina

[@mimiv.9344]

Is there anyone who really believes anything that's being said here?

[@jimtalbott9535]

Artillery will NOT be obsolete anytime soon. There’s the issue of context. Let’s say “UNPROTECTED artillery”, mmmmkay?

[@gherkamum]

Russian's had enough...

[@rocketman4123]

What more can they do? I mean seriously, they depleted their stockpiles like crazy

[@MrBobsmith34]

I just going whacked for saying this but here goes. Every piece on the Russo-Ukraine war on Times Radio for the last two years has been about some Russian setback or major issue they face. Yesterday we had "Putin at risk of losing Crimea", we were told over a year ago that Russia was on the verge of bankruptcy and running out of missiles. Russia but not Ukrainian casualties are discussed. It's one thing to support Ukraine its other to have an editorial line that effectively ignores any issues one side in a conflict is facing and presenting a distorted view of the war. Times Radio even stands out from other pro-Ukraine sources like New York Times/Sky etc in terms of relentless positivity. It just does not help, if Russia is the state its been presented through the collection of articles here the US could safely withdraw aid and leave the EU to finish the job. Whatever your normative position you should try and report objectively on balance of problems the two sides face

[@anthonymitchell8893]

Mr bob smith yeah its sad it aint healthy a d stull the pro vaxxers beleive everything they are told truly shocking they are totally indoctrinated 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐑🐏🐏🐏🐑🐏🐏🐏🐑🐏🐏🐑🐏🐏🐃🐃🏦

[@mesel7105]

My impression is that this channel uses a lot of clickbait titles and can often create entire videos, solely based on one person's opinion or comment. It is an odd tactic and it is unclear what purpose it is supposed to serve. In some cases, it even harms the reputation of some of their guests, which again is odd. This is actually one of the most normal videos that I have seen.

[@MrBobsmith34]

@@mesel7105 Fair point. I was not really referring to this video more the general content and yes your right the actual content is often more nuanced than the title.

[@75echo]

My thoughts exactly, i no longer watch all their videos.

[@attilamarics3374]

@@MrBobsmith34 They have a lot of botting here too. I always wonder if they are their employees. I caught one guy commenting with about 5 accounts.

[@rons4778]

Have you checked the fairies at the bottom of your garden

[@schmitz4206]

Game changer? 😂

[@brianholding4357]

🇺🇦🇬🇧

[@MattyJ55046]

Excalibur isn’t just gps it still have a timer or proximity fuse.

[@peterpretorius7863]

Remeber Pultava year 1709

[@patrickdkingjr]

Russia is not losing ground .

[@clintonjohn5482]

is never his territory

[@user-ig9kn9zq3g]

Did you hear about Abrams tanks in Ukraine? Highly hiped, everybody already forgotten and does not hear about them. Do people really believe that howitzers or F16s will change the outcome?

[@loathgoogel2703]

Several times there is a mention of the problem with Excalibur shells and GPS jamming. At 4.00, it is vaguely hinted that the crew here is now using a non-GPS shell, but that is nowhere made explicit. Scanning down through the comments, but not to the end, I notice that no-one else seems to be bothered by this omission. I can't understand that. For me, an absence of factual precision blocks my ability to take in anything else that is said.

[@joeabadier]

The possibility of a trump return is probably a nightmare to these warriors.

[@diyorigamidrawing5037]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@1cachorito9]

To be blunt, and have you seen the map? Ukraine recently is losing land. Has it help? Yes the armaments are helping slow down the advance

[@joegrizzle9482]

I'm sorry for the United States being the political mess it is. If we did not have this fascism GOP party, we could & would help you guys, much more effectively. Either way Russia will be stopped, even if we have to come over there and help stop them. God bless and stay frosty. 🙏

[@quill444]

_That accent is no disguise, Ryan McBeth!_ 🚬 🥃 - j q t -

[@RickyCigarillo]

Always shocking to see people still falling for the embarassingly flimsy propaganda put out by the times.

[@elchicano187]

Huraaah!

[@rapidrrobert4333]

Good

[@Schminner]

but, according to Putin, he's just about conquered all of Ukraine and the Russian economy has never been better like this before.

[@thishashelembe7019]

Lies Lies Lies Ukraine

[@davidprovance6609]

But we have what we have

[@tormkg9879]

Ammo with DRM, great.

[@carbidegrd1]

When I read the NYT’s they say Putin is advancing???

[@nancygawlowicz2562]

Can they attack drones with spray paint to just mess up the optics and make the drones ineffective, maybe cheaper than attacking with missals or guns?

[@markbrisec3972]

With the Check initiative, massive influx of 155mm shells from USA and the known quantities of the Russian manufacturing capabilities, there's absolutely no chance that the Russians are firing 10 times more shells than Ukrainians.. All sources say that the ratio is 2:1 up to 4:1 in certain parts of the battlefield. I know when you're on the receiving end of those shells, you feel like they're 10 times stronger than you, but we have similar accounts from the Russian soldiers whose phone conversations were taped by the Ukrainian intelligence services, where they claim that Ukraine has a massive edge over them in the number of fired shells.. Also the Excalibur GPS guided rounds don't just fall from the sky like a piece of a metal slug, without exploding if they get jammed..They explode like any other 155mm shell but by jamming it the shell won't hit the desired spot... US weapons developers from Raytheon are working heavily on upgrading the Excalibur as to make it more resistant to the Russian jamming...

[@bikkiikun]

If the satellite connection is the issue, you need to change the device to donate after a certain amount of time, when satellite connection is lost.

[@kestockbridge]

He’s a kiwi, not an Aussie. Different accent Don’t call a kiwi an Aussie, thanks

[@codswallop164]

@kestockbridge Both still whine the same but Aussie are a better breed.

[@Vladimirthetiny]

sux punk fush 🇳🇿😂

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

He’s actually South African.

[@wanderingtravellerAB99]

@@Kodakcompactdisc Nope, Tom Mutch is NZ born.

[@user-py1zv1du3m]

Can you tell the difference between an American and Canadian accent? Most people can't.

[@mocassin92]

How much of Ukraine now belongs to Russian forces

[@nicholasmaude6906]

I don't buy the claims that the Excalibre shells are dependent on GPS to detonate, the shell's fuse (Whether it's an impact or proximity type) doesn't depend on GPS to function.

[@danielt6689]

With Times Radio reporting of Russia's military failure… after failure… after failure… after failure… after failure… you would think Ukarine would be at Moscow's doorstep by now. I love how they give a balanced view of the war front.

[@ll0l0l0lolo0l]

You would think Russia is stuck trying to conquer Ukraine after two years of failure or something. Oh, wait lol.

[@jameslynch7826]

Good old fashioned steam gunnery is in a way the most reliable. The Ukraine will still be able to adjust via drones or other means. All warfare at this intensity will revert to reversionary modes which are idiot proof and not vulnerable to ECM etc.