Putin 'doesn't have mass enough' to turn Kharkiv attacks into strategic success | Robert Fox

Putin doesn't have the manpower to capitalise on attacks around Kharkiv but mass mobilisation could result in 'widespread instability' says Robert Fox Defence Editor at The Evening Standard
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[@Vader19k8]

Times radio living on parallel universe

[@noordinarylives7951]

Delusional wishful thinking as usual.

[@asfahakahsai5578]

0:44

[@Bill-ed1hr]

But haven't you said all this before? That Russia is running out of missiles and fighting with shovels and all that stuff?

[@jonlee2217]

If they were doing well they wouldn't be begging North Korea for ammo or importing mercenaries from Africa and Asia.

[@petefrys545]

Think it was people like you who said Russians were fighting with shovels

[@Bill-ed1hr]

@@petefrys545 I didn't say that. Sky military analyst "Shawn" kept saying it

[@Kavala76]

How many times do these "experts" have to be proven wrong before people treat their pronouncements with the amused skepticism they deserve?

[@alexanderlazarev3570]

Same many Times as long as this Trash Radio does exist.

[@sibutterworth6542]

"Who are you going to believe. Me, or your own eyes". 😂😂😂

[@BusinessBoys725]

What a load of toffee apples

[@kimkim-dd4qg]

And after some time karkive fall then they talk about next

[@comictv7730]

You better stop lies and deal with facts

[@Crouchy232323]

Students of journalism should investigate how an echo chamber can promote delusional analysis and it's impact on UK foreign policy. Which is disastrous.

[@noahway13]

The US also. People willingly watch only one "news" source, no better than Russia.

[@thinkerly1]

Like Russian media, where you can only parrot the government or get arrested.

[@DoubtingTom]

You should change your medication

[@JustSomeGuy8492]

@@noahway13See, there you’re wrong. The Russians seem to have the west dialled in incredibly well.

[@noahway13]

@@JustSomeGuy8492 Russia must have invested in running the news networks

[@chuckylamb4398]

Lies

[@alexeykkk9557]

It’s so good to hear reassurance from the same experts who have been saying all along that Russia has run out of weapons, missiles, ammunition and men. I sure they will come up with even more interesting stories very soon.

[@Dark_Bandon]

Nobody ever said that but the Russian propagandists did say it about Ukraine.

[@Dark_Bandon]

4 comments in 12 years and all of them recently posted. Classic example of a newly purchased troll farm account

[@hansb7020]

The same way when Russia said it will take 3 days to conquer Ukraine

[@guitaristteacobouy]

MYSTIC SHOVELS

[@ishmaelharris3948]

@@hansb7020 you are defo fully vaxxed

[@abbottshaull9831]

Considering the last update to the Map of where this new Russia Offensive is taking place at, were areas that if the Ukrainian Army had established defense line, would of been under attack by Russia Artillery daily. So really the Ukrainians lack of Defenses in the area, was due to save the lives of their own Military Personnel.

[@SteveJones-gz4vd]

Yea that'll be why Zelensky Sacked the commander in charge of building said deffenses. Nice thought but pure fantasy fella

[@christheodorou3646]

The amount of delusion and cope never ceases to amaze. Sure buddy, Ukraine is not in retreat they are just advancing in a different direction 😅

[@artyarts-sake4420]

@@SteveJones-gz4vd He is right. The only reasons why there are no hardened defences in the border area is because they are subject to frequent artillery and drone attack. It makes so much more sense to defend deeper. A simple check of google maps and you can actually see defence lines further to the south.

[@SteveJones-gz4vd]

@@christheodorou3646 🤣🤣🤣

[@foryourlugsonly]

Lol even though he just has 😂. Youve all been in denial about what russia is doing for 2 years now.

[@Dave-bf2lc]

How much land has Russia captured in the past two years?

[@alqaas1948]

​@@Dave-bf2lc In the past two years, Russia has captured 10% of Ukraine, amounting to 60,362 km², an area comparable to the size of Latvia. This is in addition to the approximately 8% (48,290 km²) of Ukraine already occupied, which is comparable to the size of Slovakia and includes Crimea and parts of donetsk oblast. Russia main goal in this conflict is not about capturing the totality of Ukraine since they're already the largest nation on earth with abundant resources.

[@BruceJ999]

​@@alqaas1948How dare you tell facts to a brainwashed individual 😂😂

[@alqaas1948]

@@BruceJ999 😂it will be funny to see how he changes the subject and somehow tries to argue that Russia "wants to get all of Ukraine and move onto Europe then." The same bs argument made by Biden, Sunak, Macron and other Nato warmongers.

[@JoelLessing]

Except that the West's supply of material is infinite, endless, and eternal. Russia's is not.

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

It’s Mr Potato head again

[@delmanpronto9374]

the shovels don't have enough mass i guess.

[@user-jv9sq4bb5p]

This should be a wakeup call for America and Europe. It would be nice if instead of focusing on $60B support, we could talk about where the money is going, what the money is buying, what Ukraine is actually getting, and the benefits that the dollars spent brings from every aspect from the modernization of militaries and the disposal of old junk that would cost billions to dispose of. The public needs a little truth to get them to start thinking about stepping up to stopping Russia.

[@Bird_McBride]

The mistake was assuming it was a stalemate.

[@keithpalmer4547]

lol hilarious thank you russian bot clown! russia is weak and pathetic it is true. Thank you for pointing this out.

[@rogerwilco2]

It was never a stalemate.

[@Talinthis]

true, russia has basically no hope to take kharkiv. If it took them that many resources to take bakhmut and avdiivka when its population is ~60,000/30,000 then they will never accomplish anything in a city of 1.5 million.

[@abuzainah1]

​@@Talinthis you don't know what you talking about do you remember muripul how it looked after the battle every building destroyed now go have a look at it it's like there was never a battle there

[@Talinthis]

@@abuzainah1 lol.. it is clear that you dont know what you are talking about. are you joking? they have a small section of the city rebuilt.. like a block or two poorly restored a row or two of houses, i seen the inside of it. Will probably fall apart in a few years and will have to be knocked down and rebuilt if Ukraine takes it back

[@boatfaceslim9005]

Times Radio - always good for a laugh.

[@andrehunter1295]

They are following western mainstream political correctness 🤣

[@neilfletcher4951]

Yes he really does....

[@jackperson3626]

Thanks!

[@stevemarshall4822]

Times Radio. Such a reliable purveyor of Truth. Sarcasm, btw.

[@thinkerly1]

So what, Ivan. You are losers. Russia is a country of losers.

[@margaridacosta270]

And zelensky have even less men....

[@robbiekop7]

They've spotted a Patriot Missile system in a Chinese Military Convoy so it must have been Ukraine that sold it to them 😫

[@niburu1508]

marg. - all running in a backwards direction.

[@selwinpandinadan7540]

I bet otherwise, any takers.

[@operator9858]

and russia and china has economic plans for the future. what are our plans in the west again?

[@niburu1508]

@operator9858 -=;plans to steal Russian assets and Africa/ Middle East GOLD that they are supposed to be ‘ looking after’. ,It took Germany 4 years to get back half the gold they had Stored in US. There has NOT been an inventory of Gold Reserves in US for many moons. Have they stole it all over the years of squandering. The Africans/ Middle Easterners want theirs BACK NOW.

[@davidmiller6765]

What plans ? What economic? Why don't you ask chinese an Russian people how life inside their own country first ?😂

[@niburu1508]

@@davidmiller6765 BRICS - wakey wakey

[@operator9858]

@@davidmiller6765 they raise a million people out of poverty every year while we seem to put a million people into poverty every year and if you dont like it? they send bots like you to throw shade. sry but if you are real you dont know anything about the world today. in fact id go as far as to say you will always be trapped in the 1900's.

[@tonysherwood9619]

Shows you the incompetence of our elite - 'know your enemy' turns out to be the elephant in the room!

[@niburu1508]

The Russians are reading the US/NATO like a book.

[@grahamcrawford4203]

Putin has not said he wants to take Kiev. Why do you constantly talk nonsense

[@alexanderlazarev3570]

This is simple to answer, it's the Trash Radio.

[@niburu1508]

That’s what they get paid for - propaganda

[@ibojkovic]

😂😂😂. Lord have mercy on these okd farts

[@greeneray]

Time for an unhealthy dose of lies and copium, my family is honest so it’s nice to come here once a week to hear grown people tell lies just to remember the world is also laden with dishonest people

[@robertkarake9791]

You really do come up with nonsense timrs radio.😂😂😂😂😂

[@petefrys545]

Stop listening then

[@tmafungo84]

Those cowardly Russians relentlessly retreating forward to Kharkiv 😅😂

[@niburu1508]

And the foe running backwards

[@noahbrooks8939]

odesa is in the south. just sayin

[@robbiethepict2783]

The Ukrainian army fled Kharkiv. You're not selling this very well.

[@petefrys545]

No it didn't

[@elkanaajowi9093]

The correct statement would: Putin has not allocated enough men to take over Kharkiv. The clever play with words is just a form of dangerous cheerleading.

[@mobifinsolutions1956]

That's the problem with Western analysts. They are worried about occupation not leveling down of the city which Russia is good at. Those FAB bombs are doing damage.

[@CoffeeAndPaul]

The conventional logic behind occupation is to take the land but allow the people there to keep working, living, raising kids & paying taxes, taxes which will go to the occupying powers. If the people flee, though, Russia is consolidating nothing. For now there's no farming & there's almost zero business going on. There's almost zero benefits to invasion when what you're invading is devoid of people.

[@knightman7617]

In other words, war crimes are a matter of declared Russian policy. Thanks, we already know that.

[@ishmaelharris3948]

FAB shovels 😂😂

[@AnthonyCarroll-ue3uv]

Only a part of Mariupol was destroyed, that drone image everyone remembers of the apartment blocks. Mariupol is one tenth the size of kharkiv. You would be mad to try knock it all down 😅

[@frpgplayer]

How can there be war crimes when some countries don't recognize that court?

[@dnagd]

But zou will keep on pushing tales about Russia attacking western Europe

[@ArevEugilas]

let's see times radio

[@niburu1508]

TimesRadio - Doom and gloom mongers. They might get it almost right once over a 100 year period.

[@kderules]

Can we call it Keiv again?

[@TREVORALLMAN]

Another comedy classic from "Times Radio" !!

[@thinkerly1]

Another Russian agent comedian. You are all a joke.

[@alexanderlazarev3570]

Would call it Trash Radio.

[@DoubtingTom]

You should change your medication

[@MadderMel]

Perhaps the same ' experts ' who told us that Ukraine would win in a few days ??

[@niburu1508]

@@DoubtingTom how about you changing your 🥱🥱🥱tune

[@tomokaramolko8560]

Italy has a higher GNP than RUZZia🇲🇳. Italy !!!

[@zeffy._440]

Except they don't. Russia is the 5th biggest economy. China is the 1st biggest economy and the US is the second biggest economy.

[@artyarts-sake4420]

@@zeffy._440 Oh and incidentally, Russia has a GDP of 2,062 (USD Billion) which is less than Italy at 2,332 (USD Billion)

[@suburbia2050]

And doing mostly F all to help Ukraine

[@foilhat1138]

@@zeffy._440 Do you live in an alternate reality?

[@captlazer5509]

​@foilhat1138 that's what his fearless leader told him, so definitely an alternate reality

[@andyb2282]

The Ukrainian army is suffering systemic collapse over much of the contact line. In some places the collapse is happening so fast that the Russian army is struggling to keep up with their own success.

[@jonlee2217]

Sure thing Ivan, cope harder.

[@niburu1508]

😂😂😂😂😂They don’t know whether they have prisoners of war or injured.

[@maggotman2024]

Churchill and Roosevelt should never have helped Stalin at all during WWII.

[@Djamonja]

He was the lesser of two evils at the time.

[@stormywindmill]

What! and let the stinking Nazis succeed in their evil plan to conquer the whole world.

[@gerryhouska2859]

@@Djamonja That is debatable.

[@Djamonja]

@@gerryhouska2859 Possibly, but at the time I think western Europe was much more worried about the fascist powers.

[@sasm7519]

Stalin was a fascist power

[@peterlangan1181]

All the experts have difficulty coping with Russia winning. Russia is not currently doing big arrow offensives, it does well enough With small scale offensives at different locations forcing Ukraine backwards everywhere. Shoigu has been promoted. He is still in charge of defence production and will directly advise Putin. The replacement is an economic expert who will get the industry streamlined. This is just sensible appointments, not people being removed. As I look at Ukraine it is starting to collapse. Worry about them rather!

[@bigmofarah9084]

Yes, this three day invasion is going rather well for Russia. Taking a few metres of land a day should see Ukraine under full control by the year 2589. And then there will be no resistance from the Ukrainians thereafter.

[@jeffhedrich3551]

what? Your predictions didn't even last 4 days?

[@crimeajewel]

❤❤❤❤❤🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 ❤❤❤❤

[@NzTings]

Love doesn't help on the battlefield

[@tomokaramolko8560]

@@NzTings and behind the Keyboard, RuzziaNazi 🇲🇳🤡?

[@artyarts-sake4420]

@@NzTings All you need is love....and HIMARS....and F16's :)

[@NzTings]

@@artyarts-sake4420 and that will still not help

[@artyarts-sake4420]

@@NzTings Well, let's see

[@carlbonnachetti4740]

The stories are always the same...Russian can't do this or can't do that....their losing. They just took another 200 square km....with an army of people who signed up....not rounded up off the streets as in ukrain. Report real news not nonsense.

[@jorenvanderark3567]

Russia is on year 3 of their 3 day operation. There, real news delivered.

[@Josh-ew1le]

So Russia tell me - what is it like to lose so badly?

[@imperatorvespasian3125]

they wouldn't know, they arnt Ukraine

[@niburu1508]

Ask TimesRadio

[@imperatorvespasian3125]

they have drawn troops from other fronts, its already a strategic success

[@00REEEEE]

This is going to age very badly.

[@ticnatz]

Hmm, interesting take....

[@tomokaramolko8560]

From „Kyiv in 3 days“ to „Bilopillia in 2 years and 3 months“….Muscovites🇲🇳

[@alqaas1948]

No army in the world is capable of taking over Kyiv city with its nearly 3 million population in 3 days.

[@foilhat1138]

@@alqaas1948 They foolishly expected they would be greeted with a parade.

[@imperatorvespasian3125]

@@alqaas1948 this has happened quite a lot

[@alqaas1948]

@@imperatorvespasian3125 care to give an example?

[@aliwalil4160]

@@alqaas1948 Wrong. Only the clown army of youtube and reddit is capable of doing it.

[@EBSELPROAUDIO]

All because they didn't want the other kid to play in their sandpit!

[@NzTings]

Watch TimesRadio eat their words

[@henkbielderman4243]

When two idiots have a conversation, rest assured that nothing intelligent is spoken of.

[@aliwalil4160]

This could be one of the top clown shows on youtube

[@niburu1508]

TimesRadio?

[@operator9858]

he actually does have a point for once. the russians dont seem like they have the numbers they would want to do something like this in the area but ukraine has to divert a lot of people in case they do make a move and in doing so thins the line to concerning levels while russia is only continuing to bring forward more units.

[@livingtribunal4110]

_"let's talk to one of our leading strategic & technical experts"_ 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇲 🤡🥳

[@realitycheck1883]

Robert Fox - another deluded hack

[@davidbrown5411]

If you want to understand the strategic situation on the ground, simply listen to Times radio "experts" and take the opposite position. In the two years of this conflict I don't think a single one of them has been right. Frankly, it's becoming an embarrassment.

[@niburu1508]

@davidbrown - but one can’t help looking - not at click bait - but just for the laughs andvreason you describe.

[@davidbrown5411]

@@niburu1508 Yes, they are a wonderful study in disinformation and propaganda. I used to lecture on Russian influence ops. Fair play to Moscow, at least they are good it it.

[@davidjones-wt2qq]

Comedy show

[@goenzoy712]

200 kilometers more frontline is bad enough plus 80% of Kharkiv infrastructure is destroyed already .That might not be important in May or summer. But if you have kids and winter is approaching you have a decision to make

[@spiritualvirus6964]

God save Russia and help Russia understand what is going on. This is not the Russian war.

[@niburu1508]

This is a US/ NATO proxy war started in 2014 with US coup and slaughter Russian speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas region etc. who did not want to be part of Ukraine.

[@paultwinn4407]

If these are the best experts the Times can , it is no wonder NATO is falling apart.

[@niburu1508]

Their ‘experts’ get their intel from NATO

[@ishmaelharris3948]

I predict this will not age well 😂

[@Cabronosidad]

I was just about to say the same. These experts are a joke.

[@Psyclonknight]

guarantee you've predicted a full collapse every month since the start of the war

[@Bill-ed1hr]

@@Cabronosidad Really. What are these people smoking?

[@user-zv3rk6wk1l]

Lies, lies and more lies.

[@MrCaleb.]

Hello Kremlin bot

[@jimohara]

@@MrCaleb.You swallow this BS?

[@MrCaleb.]

@@jimohara why’s it bs

[@jimohara]

@@MrCaleb. They never explored the option that this latest Russian operation is only to take the ground north of Kharkiv. It’s obviously not to storm the city directly. The Russians will want to push Northwest from Donetsk city before they lay siege to Kharkiv.

[@MrCaleb.]

@@jimohara I actually agree with you not sure how possible it would be for them but that’s my worry. I thought you meant I swallow this bs as in Russia wouldn’t be able to take Kharkiv from the North.

[@eliphasphiri4090]

Prophecy, yep, Putin is a gonna 😊

[@user-zv3rk6wk1l]

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[@rmdomainer9042]

The bots will have a hard time with this one. It is fact though. The new front has access to 50K untrained Tuvans and 1000 old IFVs. Now what?

[@keithpalmer4547]

Yep this video is already loaded with russian bots spam.

[@alqaas1948]

Tuva Republic has a population of around 330,000 , how can 50k of them be in Ukraine fighting 😂?

[@Dark_Bandon]

@@keithpalmer4547 Is it a pure coincidence that the day after Shoigu got canned a lot of recently purchased NPC Russian bot farm accounts turn up in Western media comment sections? Because these are not the same bots that have been haunting the TR comment section for the past 18 months. Maybe the FSB purged their troll factories and mobilized the saps.

[@RichardTaylor1630]

@@alqaas1948 rmdomainer was generalizing. The 50,000 no doubt include a number of recruits from other ignominious provinces far from Moscow as well, to say nothing gullible mercenaries brought in from Africa and Asia, but what do those men care about Ukraine?

[@user-kj5bf9rm9d]

bot spam?Russia doesn't even need bot spam, how bigheaded can you get? 😂😂😂​@@keithpalmer4547

[@strawman80]

Jackanory....

[@jmow-t5023]

Hey Europe, get your house in order. Putins coming.

[@YBM2007]

yawn

[@jimohara]

I doubt it

[@robm509]

Is he coming to The Hague? Excellent!

[@ColaSpandex]

Putin already bit off more than he can chew. How much Russian blood is he willing to pour down the drain?

[@wildside56]

Times Radio...you are the laughing stock of the internet. Get real or get out

[@Jmpr12]

Few outlets are as strategically wrong as Times Radio.

[@Josh-ew1le]

Tell us more Mr. "Expert" sir. ? .

[@Dark_Bandon]

Oh look another recently purchased bot farm account.

[@Dark_Bandon]

@@Josh-ew1le He's just parroting his FSB propaganda script He's got to earn his potato 🥔 juice.

[@Jmpr12]

@@Dark_Bandon I’m a retired State Trooper who now lives in Aspen Colorado. But, OK. Oh, and the Head of Ukraine’s intelligence service just said the war can’t be won on the ground and negotiations would eventually have to take place.

[@Josh-ew1le]

​@@Dark_BandonHe's such a silly bot

[@pjl8119]

How do these old men know anything about Russia or Ukraine? Everything they know is second or third hand. Just regurgitating what they read on the internet. Just talking heads.

[@flesz_]

Yep Like 99% of the internet.

[@bertram-raven]

I hope you include yourself in this demographic. We all should.

[@suburbia2050]

It's an analysis on geopolitics and war, usually knowledgeable old men are good at that, although look at the mess Putin got himself in, maybe he should have done more chat shows with open dialogue

[@mikepost8965]

Yeah, journalists and academics collect facts and discuss what they might mean. That's the actual point.

[@mahlomolamokhoanatse2147]

"Instability in Russia"? Really?? Keep on dreaming 😂😂😂

[@ernestoguevara8930]

Reminds me of Hitler's attack of the Ardennes, last desperate actions of a spent regime!

[@neilbarlow-if7nx]

😂 delusional

[@thegreatawakening8314]

🤡 wake up

[@J123Tilley]

​@@neilbarlow-if7nxTimes radio is totally delusional, I only clicked the video, to see what the daily lie would be. Good one today.

[@idomalion6167]

Please tell Mr you're trolling 🤡

[@TREVORALLMAN]

@@idomalion6167 I can only imagine the comment is tongue-in-cheek, given it is so ludicrous.

[@wakawakachuchu9353]

Ukraine has nothing to loose and thats what makes them so dangerous, russia pushed them against the wall and Putin regrets his decision but is too stubborn to admit it and leave, he needs to save face. What a clown

[@hannahmaelim8953]

You the clown too much western medias isn't it😂😂

[@myvoiceafrica254]

The west has always had an enslaving mindset. They have always though of conquering & subverting nations & territories for their resources. That's why vocabularies like DOMINATE, SANCTION, DETHRONE will always feature in their discussions. So they think about Russia from the same perspective. The west never does anything in good faith & in the interest of their citizens, that's why they can trust that any leader outside their sphere can do things without ulterior motives. Ukraine is being depopulated by Zelenky. They have a problem with mobilization & have resorted to forced mobilization. Every dime spent by the US & EU goes into a sink hole. Russia lost 20million citizens in WW2. If it can minimize casualties the better. Russia is already too big to govern, Putin is not interested on extra territory. Donbass voted to be independent.

[@niburu1508]

🎹🤡😂🎹🤡😂🎹🤡😂

[@chirpywiggins5796]

This is more absolute nonsense 😂

[@user-ze7vb5cx3y]

?

[@MrCaleb.]

Ok comrade

[@TheTruth-vi1nf]

This guy is no expert and obviously does not know what he is talking about. I would write a long review refitting his points, but I am finding my well done reviews are getting deleted very soon after I post them. Funny how that is.

[@andrehunter1295]

Follow up with political correctness as they are doing, nothing going to be deleted 😢 Think the opposite, been like this over two years. Just unbelievable..

[@niburu1508]

Bias site,

[@regularfolks8285]

Eep a deep, ah eep a deep a deep, ah That’s all folks !

[@ph6560]

One of the best commentators I've listened to on Times Radio for a while. Definitely hope to find him here soon again.

[@Patendyck76]

You’re a dreamer & someone lacking in foresight.

[@PeterFraser-hp3rs]

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦💙💛🖖

[@samhart4663]

🇷🇺

[@slaphaddalztick]

Off you go then, help free Ukraine, or are you just another Western hypocrite willing to see young Ukrainians do the fighting and dying while you waive your Ukrainian flags from afar.

[@arthurarthur6083]

Slava Ukraine!

[@andrealorinser3504]

Slava Russia!

[@boink800]

​@@andrealorinser3504Russia without Putin

[@andrealorinser3504]

@@boink800 The west without globalist and woke liberals.....

[@lessummers5738]

Go Russia the woke globalist are losing

[@niburu1508]

@@boink800 don’t be silly

[@wren2900]

Within 3 days Russians took 260 km2 and 12 villages. They are advancing on the frontline 60 km wide. What is this clown talking about?

[@alqaas1948]

These individuals believe the Russians will make foolish decisions despite the lessons they've learned from this war. They lack critical thinking skills. They don't understand that the 50,000 soldiers are intended to create a buffer (not occupy the entirety of Kharkiv oblast) and divert forces from the Donbas, which would cause the eastern defensive lines to fall more quickly.

[@RichardTaylor1630]

If it is true that the "advance" has been stopped, what are you talking about?

[@artyarts-sake4420]

How long did it take them to advance through Avdiivka. How many km's beyond that are they now after 6 months? and that burnt through about 50,000 Russians. They are trying only to pin and thin Ukrainian forces and capitalize on the advantage they have in resources before the US and NATO aid hits the frontlines in strength. That is all.

[@alqaas1948]

​@@artyarts-sake4420 First of all, Avdiivka was fully captured on February 17, 2024, which was about three months ago. Advances from Avdiivka have reached around 15 km, due to Ukraine's continuous construction of defensive lines since 2014. Beyond these lines, defenses are sparse and mainly around key towns. Secondly, the main goal of the Kharkiv operation is to deplete Ukrainian manpower and resources, easing future battles in the east. However, you haven't mentioned the manpower shortage Ukraine is currently experiencing. Even with billions in aid, without sufficient manpower, these resources are rendered ineffective.

[@captlazer5509]

​@@alqaas1948ATACMS taking out anything and everything at will, leaving supply lines fractured. Recipe for starving troops.

[@AIAudiobooks411]

Russia already lost this war, just doesn't know it yet.

[@emmetray4141]

Theyre not good at the numbers game.

[@JohnDoe-il7dp]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@user-ze7vb5cx3y]

@@JohnDoe-il7dp I guess you're either a Vlad fanboy, or you just don't get it.

[@niburu1508]

AIAdio - Good one 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Bird_McBride]

Another mistake was assuming Russia is weak.

[@keithpalmer4547]

lol thank you for the laugh russian bot clown. russia is PATHETIC and WEAK compared to what everyone actually thought before their latest Ukrainian invasion.

[@anttikangasvieri1361]

How so? It is a failed state.

[@AIAudiobooks411]

it is. Ukraine is just weaker.

[@knightman7617]

Russia is sending untrained conscripts in human wave assaults. Even a victory is a catastrophe for Russia. The long term loss of men means many fewer Russian babies born in a system that was already in terminal collapse. There will not be an independent Russia in 20 years.

[@Chambers36TheEnter]

I think most over estimated Russia as a military power not the other way around. They are invading a country with a much smaller army that has much less equipment and yet, here we are 2.3 years later. Russian losses vs a smaller, weaker, ill-equipped Ukrainian seem significant.

[@Sergey_Bezhentsev]

Another HILARIOUS comedy show from GB...🤦🏼‍♂️😀😃😄😁😆😂🤣

[@dmfitzsim]

Looks like NATO has nothing to fear, so.

[@sunnyboner676]

Great, let’s stop the funding for Ukraine!

[@abbottshaull9831]

NATO has everything to lose. If the Russia do take Ukraine, then it would give them access to attack Central Europe countries with little being in place to stop them. Current State of Military Forces in NATO is just sad compared to before 1989, even when NATO expansion is accounted for. NATO in general has felt comfort in not having large area of it border not existing on Borders of Russia, with exception being Kalingrad enclave.

[@Dark_Bandon]

Putin is a Slavic Baldrick. He's always got a cunning plan that turns into a complete Cluster F.... Next he'll stick pencils in his nose and pants on his head.😂😂😂

[@YBM2007]

​@@abbottshaull9831Russia got a land border to the NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Norway

[@leonolivier4799]

Brilliant analysis! Well done!

[@user-kj5bf9rm9d]

i went to electrical college with a russian in the class, he could figure it all out quickly even when it got abstract

[@nicholaslucas5183]

In China and Russia, college kids do what you're supposed to do in college, learn.

[@kralikkral5560]

Why Russians attacked now and why Charkov ? Putin finally understood that the West will not let him defeat Ukraine - and he found out that Shoigu told him a lot of "stories". So he developed a new plan: He still wants whole Donbass - and now he tries a typical KGB method: he is trying blackmailing. His plan: take a part of Charkov region, and after that go in peace negotiations with the proposal to change this territory against the rest of Donbass etc.

[@ishmaelharris3948]

Cope harder😂😂😂

[@niburu1508]

🗣💩🤡

[@user-hc5ne4gd7h]

Imagine if Putin hopes that his nuclear weapon will give him everything his needs after all this Russia strategy’s

[@JamesBondDZero7Mi6]

Robert is a wise man on this topic. The worrisome point is not knowing where some countries like Turkey and India stand or what side they'll take during an all-out war. I would assume the wrong side because they sure don't take a strong stance on Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. Sounds like Europe is several years behind so it's time to put the weapons & armed forces in overdrive.

[@aerial558]

This second front will cause another headache? Let’s hope military aid gets ASAP.

[@theronster3533]

So Ukraine has been starved of weapons, Russia meanwhile advances, but then US says it will provide more weapons, so expect a retreat soon?

[@boink800]

Russia advances! Are we trying to be funny? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@patrich2882]

@boink800 I would like to see your comment 3 months from now.

[@boink800]

@@patrich2882 Does Russia need another two years to achieve anything? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@boink800]

@@patrich2882 "Superpower" Russia promised to take Kyiv in just three days! Did that happen? No? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@alvarodelagarza5683]

lie lie lie... lie lie lie lie... lie lie lie....

[@Bird_McBride]

What I'm wondering is, have they cut the land bridge yet?

[@keithpalmer4547]

lol russians are hilarious thank you sir!

[@CoffeeAndPaul]

The railroad that the Russians are building has managed to reach Melitopol which people are saying represents about 50% completion. Crimea is on the back burner right now, and I get the sense that so long as Gerasimov is in theatre command, which he is still is, Crimea will remain a non-immediate priority though it's still strategic to both sides. The guest is correct that Russia pushes. Its strategy over the past Year & a half is to push the line forward across the entire front & exploit the breakouts like it has at Ocherotyne, & the guest is also correct here that Russia's abilities to exploit those breakouts also seems to be limited. They are expanding their TOE literally as we're watching this video, but the replacements are found wanting. Be warned, however, that they are stockpiling heavy mechanized armor somewhere in Russia, & it's supposed to be at least 200-300 tanks, most of them refurbs, yes, but still a dangerous supplement if you're training tank crews for them. Still, the Russians' chances are at or near zero for anything that looks like a definitive victory, & their TOE are running up against hard limits. They increased their gasoline imports from Belarus this Year over 2023, & 2023 totalled a greater import total over 2022. That's the refinery attacks at work. Armies all rely on the five essentials: bullets, food, fuel, medicine & water. Cut your enemy's access to any of those 5 essentials & they will be defeated after some time. Chinese coke production spiked in very late 2023, & that's probably because of Russian demand. Russia's overall capacity to manufacture petroleum coke fell with their refining capacity, again likely a result of the refinery attacks, & they absolutely need coke to make steel. No coke means no steel. No steel means no weapons. The Russian economy is shrinking overall. They need consumer spending for tax revenues to feed the War machine, but their consumer spending isn't increasing to meet the increase in the Russian cash outlay to import all their war materials the list for which is growing, not shrinking. Putin invaded Years too early. I don't know why he picked 2022 but it turned out to be the wrong time. They needed Years to prepare for this War, to harden their defenses around the refineries for instance, to train a civilian air patrol to spot & report drones, time to build their domestic cash reserves as it turns out that their foreign reserves would get frozen. They should've waited.

[@Bird_McBride]

@@CoffeeAndPaul the west was building up arms in the Ukraine to take Moscow.

[@CLWABW]

Ukraine will win

[@rouz0]

We knew Russia didn't have enough mass to go for Khakiv unless Kharkiv's defense failed. They have 50K there while occupying a city size of Kharkiv needs above 100K. However, as we see they are successful in occupying many villages close to the city preparing foothold for the main offensive. and unclear if they will send troops when they reach the outskirts of the city or only stay there and try to hold. On the other hand, Ukraine has to send men in that direction for example from Kherson to defend Kharkiv, and it makes Russian advance in other places easier 💁

[@gregorytshimwandi8394]

Lovers will always have to reassure the masses with lies..western hysteria is sickening 😂😂

[@pauldean8638]

Putin has not said kyiv , he wants to leave it alone