Ukraine war update

[@NothernNate]

The UA are simply amazing heroes! 💛 So much RESPECT.

[@johnbell1859]

Professor, thanks for the update. ✌🏻🇬🇧🇺🇦✌🏻

[@stevejones4275]

he's a firehose of Western propaganda, I don't know how he sleeps at night!

[@v23452]

Dear professor, I should note that you’re one of the few English speakers who pronounce the Ukrainian topography names quite accurately. So take my compliment for that.

[@NothernNate]

💯 Wild, UA are holding the line against 2 Nations now.

[@markwest2936]

Good video.

[@NothernNate]

Ruxx over 800k Losses. Winning? lol 😂

[@American-In-Mykolaiv]

There really is a Santa!!! Thanks for your expert analysis, Professor Wilson! Slava Ukraini!

[@erylevans894]

Ukraine situation is confusing for a reason. Kiev is excellent at keeping operation security so you will NOT hear anything about any progress. The only information you will get is Russian propaganda. I wouldn't be surprised if there has been surprising gains by the Ukraine forces. The problem is that people (journalists) listen and believe Russian news. The big picture is that Russia is slowly crumbling before our eyes.

[@colincampbell4261]

Nonsense - you can't believe the Ukranians anymore - Kursk is an utter disaster - they lost valuable ground in the south and east. Disgraceful High command.

[@dalecrocker3213]

In fact, the Ukrainians have now shut down their own independent mapping service, since it actually recorded the considerable Russian advances currently taking place.

[@lawrenceksyahoocom]

I certainly support Ukraine but there is ample evidence that Russia is slowly advancing in the East. As the saying goes, Russia is losing this war of attrition but Ukraine is losing faster. Future military and financial support from the US is unlikely in 2025 and it is not clear that Europe can replace that support in any meaningful way.

[@colincampbell4261]

​@@dalecrocker3213open again, but watched....!

[@sardo.numspa]

@@dalecrocker3213 A few fields here and there I wouldn't call "considerable gains".

[@NI4NI-y5f]

Been telling people for years pooty is just a saber rattler. About time the experts caught up.😂

[@louisriverin2295]

Sadly, extended families of those NK prisoners will be in deep trouble😮

[@dalecrocker3213]

What NK prisoners? They're Russians from the Mongolian border.

[@JonSmith-wg8mr]

​@@dalecrocker3213 when they are speaking Korean on camera will you apologise my dear friend?

[@dalecrocker3213]

@@JonSmith-wg8mr Certainly. (Mind you, there ARE quite a few Korean refugees living in Russia so....)

[@JonSmith-wg8mr]

@@dalecrocker3213 😂 that's what I like, forward thinking.

[@ChrisSuarez-qn5hc]

Thanks!

[@aerial558]

Excellent update many thanks for sharing today 👍

[@sandpiper2949]

Please, don't use word "liberation" instead "occupation".

[@Dzugoslav]

Big question- did Trump moved the resolution timeline because he sobered up and realized it will not be that simple? Or because his buddy Putin could not reclaim Kursk in previous deadline?

[@angussoutter7824]

The latter

[@tickledhorse]

For a moment I thought I read, ...because he sobered up and realized he was just that f****** simple"? Then I realized this defunct blob of flesh couldn't be self-aware of anything. I read it again and realized my mistake!

[@PaulusN-p3m]

The 🍊 always brags about him doing wonderful things. As usual, he lied.

[@lawrenceksyahoocom]

Both things can be true. Certainly Putin doesn't want to begin negotiations as long as Ukraine holds territory in Kursk.

[@tickledhorse]

I'm going to try this again! Trump sobered up and realized HE is that simple! And so is his buddy Putin. I wonder why Trump thinks he can just lay claim to any country he wants. Do you think his buddy had any influence? They are both dinks!

[@usherloo1928]

Ukraine is winning 🫣🫣🫣🫣😜🤪

[@NothernNate]

Russia is winning? 800k casualties. . .

[@SL1PSTAR]

Isn't there a risk to the families of North Korean soldiers if they are exposed to journalists?

[@dalecrocker3213]

Except they're not NK soldiers, but Russians from one of the Russian oblasts on the Mongolian border. Just look at their faces.

[@madontherun]

Putin isn’t dead btw but I watch your stuff daily and most of it , is interesting

[@danielmcinnes20]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦!!

[@robertbutwell4272]

💙💛Glory to Ukraine 💙💛

[@majorgruber5925]

Because he's so despicable, it's difficult to see that Putin has completely relied on the Oliver Hardy defense "now that's another fine mess, look what you made me do," since the invasion of Crimea. In the theaters all laughed as it was asinine. On the front, it's the smell of carrion and burnt munitions when things aren't frozen in the cold, making it difficult even for dark humor.

[@hagopakasparian7732]

Would like to add something further, as it is well known economics in war plays an important role how to inflict damage to the others at a lower cost, our foes have recycled 1950s tanks and very probably also ammunition and have seen on videos collecting destroyed tanks recycling and putting back them to use, on the other hand we are using expensive relatively modern equipment that requires costly maintenance funds, this translates our less efficient using of funds. Even our fors using NK soldiers cost less than Western volunteers.

[@candyhotlips1338]

Ukraine is also repairing tanks and reusing them. Sorry you missed that.

[@tomsa-m3m]

war is stupid. I do not like to use. ťhe word stupid but what is a better word. financial loss is in the billions 😮human loss is indescribably

[@NothernNate]

same. I wish Ruxx would go home! no war!

[@angussoutter7824]

Tell Putin we don’t need to hear this

[@NothernNate]

Yes we agree. PuXin needs to go home

[@lawrenceksyahoocom]

Yeah, war is stupid but what can you do if a more powerful country invades your territory?

[@NothernNate]

Yes, Ruxxia should go home. No war!

[@jamielilwall9522]

Who are you trying to convince?

[@candyhotlips1338]

Me 😂😂😂😂😂.

[@dalecrocker3213]

KZbin has stopped me replying to further comments on my original thread is this section. Just so you know.

[@aerial558]

There's a way around stopping this just search and you will find the answers. It’s the keywords and the tone of your comments.

[@dalecrocker3213]

@@aerial558 Not in this instance. I copypasted an originally accepted comment in the thread and reposted it again. I typed in utterly innocuous comments and test comments. All were rejected. I am far from being an expert in these matters, but I am told it might be because the silly old KZbin bot suspects me of "spamming." (Whatever that is!)

[@aerial558]

@ Copy and paste isn't accepted in KZbin rules?

[@dalecrocker3213]

@@aerial558 I think it must be. I do it myself sometimes. I sometimes get my bot to rewrite my stuff in bot language to get it past the KZbin bot and then copy and paste it. Funny old world, ain't it?

[@globalwanderer360]

I think the situation will be clarified sometime after the 20th of January, the date that Trump takes office

[@stevepi1]

"One image showed a Russian army ID card issued to a 26-year-old man from Russia's Tyva region bordering Mongolia." From the BBC story about 2 NK POW. At the rates of casualties claimed there should be hundreds of POWs by now.The whole narrative isn't believable.

[@Commentariat-t1f]

The NKs are there, but the casualties are exaggerated. I don't think Ukraine should be trying to beat Russia at lying. They are undisputed champions.

[@bilic8094]

Those two guys are from the tuva region.

[@Commentariat-t1f]

@@bilic8094 Perhaps, but that was not my point.

[@IanCarson-v8i]

Elon could solve the problem by buying every family in Russia a gold toilet like gumps. He could be their next president.

[@denesydenham1627]

ORESHNIK

[@inuwooddog3027]

I am not optimistic. It would be relatively better for Russia to keep the war going in Ukraine. The unofficial war between Russia and the West didn't start in Ukraine, and we all know the war won't end in Ukraine.

[@dmitryk2058]

relatively better ... ??? you must be high on drugs.... EVERY single day that russia is waging war in Ukraine it digs it own grave deeper. Make no mistake about it....after that "special 3 day military operation" is over....russia ( if its still "russia" after ) will be remembering it for at least half a century

[@No_research]

Thank you for giving us a wider more holistic view, it’s hard to keep up going from headline to headline.

[@kppmullan]

Times radio is the new pravda

[@StrangeTapes]

Not really.

[@jeffreybresnahan]

Always good, for a really long laugh?

[@gregorysurovoi3968]

No news in the truth, no truth in the news. (Pravda = the truth = old Soviet newspaper, Izvestia = the news, old Soviet newspaper.)

[@AnthonyClegg-d2v]

I don't know what to believe,too much propaganda.❤

[@pb8649]

There are plenty of Koreans already living in Russia and it seems there is some dispute about these two soldiers. But of course we will take Ukraines word for it. You let your emotions rule your thoughts. In time of war I would take what both sides say with a pinch of salt.

[@ashokagarwal78]

EU confirmed today that they contributed 134 billions of euros for Ukraine. USA confirmed that they contributed 177 billions of dollars to Ukraine. Plus 50 billions of dollars loan plus IMF many more. Result. Ukraine is devastated ruined no electricity no water supply population down economy down industries out put down totally dependent on donations from west. Cities towns villages ports power plants airports destroyed beyond repair. Millions have left Ukraine to live as refugees in other nations plus millions of internally displaced citizens of Ukraine

[@davidty2006]

They seem to have more industry than britain thats for sure.

[@ashokagarwal78]

@davidty2006 I presume that you are joking. The industries minister of Ukraine herself confirmed that industries out put down 96 %

[@mr.coolmug3181]

Unfortunately you're wrong. Ukraine is suffering from monumental desertion rates. Russia has been slow but persistent in making small gains. Ukraine is cooked.

[@_alienblood]

Kiev in 3 days Ukraine in 2 weeks

[@graham6774]

Prof. Tim, i can recommend an Australian KZbin journalist called 'willy OAM'. He is ex military and has served in Afghanistan.

[@blagoyyanchev8083]

“internationally isolated Russia “ Hello Professor, are you sure

[@johnsmith8410]

His friends in Turkey seem happy with Russia, don't really hear too much about then when he talks about Turkey and India can't get enough of Russia.

[@ConradAinger]

You simply accept any claim made by Ukraine as being true. Laughable credulity. In any war, each side will be lying. But the losing side, which in this case is Ukraine and NATO, will be lying the most.

[@PaulusN-p3m]

Nice try ivan. Get your potato and shut up.

[@kirstenberg4869]

Every time someone is on the Russian side, everything is reversed. I wonder if it's the Russians who have soon shrunk in every way in their society, that they have nothing left but words and everyone knows that everything they say over there is a notorious lie from A to Z.

[@Reajjy]

There is a good chance that something Ukraine say is the truth, while anything coming from Russia will only be the truth if it happens to make them look good.

[@ConradAinger]

Objectively, neither is more or less honest than the other. Why would they be? The purpose of all propaganda is to make one side look good and the other bad.

[@Smokeslikeachimney]

How come Ukraniums look Russian?

[@robertbutwell4272]

Unable to comment! Thanks YT.

[@JonathanBowring-s4g]

Ukipto Fascist anyone?

[@johnsmith8410]

I don't really understand why Ukraine would divert troops into Russia that could be used for defending its own territory, any resources used on that Russian ground won't come from forces deployed in Ukraine and to be honest that territory will probably be last on the Kremlins list being seen as a clear up operation towards the end of any conflict and certainly not territory that Ukraine will hang on to or be used as a bargaining chip, its simply territory Russia will regain by default and at best causes Russia a little embarrassment.

[@pb8649]

It was just a way of keeping things going until Biden is out of office. Then they can blame Trump when Ukraine falls apart.

[@David-f8e2v]

It's a lot of embarrassment, and he has to get it back

[@Nick_Jarrett]

It affected Russia more by suddenly having a non nuclear state, fir the first time in history, taking land of a nuclear power. It's an embarrassment for putin, he has to divert resources to kursk from other regions to defend his own territory. The fact that they haven't been removed in half a year is another propaganda stunt against Russia, if they can't defend their own territory, what are they doing attacking Ukraine? The whole idea is to make Russia pay heavily for what they take, wherever that's in Russia or Ukraine and since kursk wasn't really defended, it was much easier to make gains in kursk and have russia bomb their own country than it is to slowly retreat in Ukraine and have more and more towns and villages raised to the ground

[@Nick_Jarrett]

And now putin can't hold a ceasefire. His territory is being held by a foreign power, he can't leave it invaded. It's an embarrassment, everyone is watching. At the worst case he can keep on losing 5-8 to 1 troops to try and get Ukraine out and he's having to rely on north Korea with their ww2 up to the cold war stockpiles of equipment that only a country would be desperate to rely on.

[@angussoutter7824]

Because you don’t understand fluid warfare, the west still slow walks support, they do not have either Naval or air superiority over Russia and less of a population 3 years of war and Russia has lost part of it’s region, by carrying out these embarrassing attacks on Putin, he is forced to move troops from the east to the Kursk region, in Prokrost the attacks are stagnating

[@franhearty5552]

You live in a dreamland my dear man ....British propaganda...Nato finished...glory to Russia..love from Ireland....International law ..you say ..dont get me started...do a video on ...juan guaido ..the so called president of Venezuela 😅

[@_alienblood]

Your another deluded Russian proganda goon just like claire daily

[@nigellacey559]

90% of that's false. Far too much to comment upon.

[@LynnVanEtten-wz3rm]

Putin not dead and Maga not dead but All is Lost mebbe

[@peterreid2888]

Mi6 blogger 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Robert-xy4xi]

All straight from the Zelenskiy propaganda office 😂

[@ZoZo-st2ts]

OMG, you should be smart person but all you said is total nonsense, rubbish!

[@alastairbrewster4274]

Provide proof please ?

[@ZoZo-st2ts]

@@alastairbrewster4274 I really do not know where to start. Almost in every sentence there was lot of misinformation, bias of wishful thinking.

[@alastairbrewster4274]

@@ZoZo-st2ts well pls start , at the moment you’re talking in generalisations without detail or specifics.

[@ZoZo-st2ts]

@@alastairbrewster4274 where is my answer, I can not see it, strange.

[@alastairbrewster4274]

@@chrislambert9435 I think you have some valid questions but I also thibk you underestimate the generational damage and reputation that is being suffered by Russia. There is also a monumental fifer eve in arming and training Afghans to fight for their own country than asking a third nation whivh has zero , utterly zero claim on Ukrainian territory to be involved, it looks very weak especially as the NKs look so inept. Their strategies regarding drone warfare is at the moment ludicrous even suicidal. Secondly wars and the victor’s are measured by a variety of metrics. If the war was to cease now , Putin would claim victory definitely, he has claimed more land. However the west would also claim victory , Ukraine is still an independent sovereign nation and probably on a fast track to join nato. Russia’s military has also been exposed , exposed as weak , vulnerable and tactically regressive. This I say due to several reasons which can be explained.

[@dalecrocker3213]

One can only admire Ukraine's resilience, as misguided as it may be. Ukraine is losing and cannot possibly win this war. It is, furthermore, a war undertaken not on behalf of the Ukrainian people in any real sense, but on behalf of greedy Western agencies who wish to lay hands on the vast mineral resources of Eastern Ukraine, traditionally and actually in the possession of Russian companies, and worked by Russian people. The Kursk incursion has achieved next to nothing. It has had no significant impact on Russia's gradual advance on the southern front, since no significant troops were diverted from there. The ground itself is virtually worthless and will not even have much value as a bargaining chip in hopefully imminent peace negotiations - even if Ukraine still manages to hold any of it by then, which is becoming increasingly unlikely.

[@udsmall7306]

That's a lot of word salad for one potato. 🤡

[@sblumenstein6688]

Little pink?

[@colincampbell4261]

Ruzzia Invaded Ukraine for the same reasons, resources in Donbass and Black Sea. Alright Ivan! But Yeah Ukraine is losing. Kursk was the last roll of the dice.

[@andrewfrancis3591]

Whether companies are owned by Russia Ukraine or western counties, should surely be for the Ukrainians to decide. Oryx and satellite surveillance show Russia's losses and reserves. They have made the same fatal error that Russia made in Afghanistan and that was when they had more kit and conscription. The exact same error as the west made in Afghanistan and Iraq. If you are not welcome, that's 1 troop for 40 civilians for 5-20 years. Classical military theory. 1,000,000 troops plus rotations. They have not got that QED goodby.

[@dalecrocker3213]

@@andrewfrancis3591 Russia is winning, despite losses. This is an unavoidable fact. As to the ownership of of the resources of Eastern Ukraine, these have been invested in , owned and worked almost exclusively by Russians for decades, if not centuries. It is totally unfair that they should be handed over to US or European companies simply because the area was mistakenly included in the new country of Ukraine when it was created just over 30 years ago.

[@gordonlinton3555]

"according to Ukrainian sources" That's your problem right there 😂, meanwhile in the real world , the Russian advances continue. Incidentally, Trump confirms theat Russia was provoked. The whole propaganda web is collapsing... "Russia executes it's wounded" 😂😂😂😂 Where did you get that from MI6😂😂

[@alastairbrewster4274]

Why do ppl use multiple emoticons like you ? Is it because your vocabulary is so limited?

[@ProcaviaCapensis-ts8ub]

Russia advanced into 0.3% of Ukraine last year.

[@alastairbrewster4274]

@ 0.3 % ? Seriously that’s your proof? And how many casualties ? How much land did the USA take in Vietnam or even Afghanistan ? Who won? You can’t win , you’ll keep losing people , land can be recovered , a generation of men can’t

[@markhenderson4001]

russian kommissars traditionaly stand behind their infantry's advance, so as to shoot any scardy-cats trying to hide and run away, or retreat. this war is no different. the commanders need no permission to shoot their own wounded, torture the recalcitrant or those reluctant to fight. again, this war is no different except that all the above has been witnessed and taped. where did you get your license?

[@gordonlinton3555]

@@alastairbrewster4274 Is that what concerns you 🤣🤣🤣

[@justaplainspokengirl]

Well, that was basically a news report. Think I could have done that myself.

[@alanwood3131]

Well, you have definitely swallowed the western narrative pill. Try a 180 disposition.

[@dmitryk2058]

ahhh....i do smell the stink of a Z patriot... the awful stink....yeaaakkkk

[@22448824]

Ukraine still losing. There you go. Oh and Elensky looking for a deal.

[@gregorysurovoi3968]

And what does a Russian victory look like ? More ruined towns in Ukraine like Aleppo in Syria that will never be rebuilt, lots of Russian men hopping about Russian towns with arms and legs missing.

[@user-rv8wb1nl1b]

of course they are loosing , BUT rUSHYA is LOOSING MORE ! no one will be a winner . putler has on won at destroying his OWN country .

[@angussoutter7824]

Who the fk is Elensky 🤷🏻‍♂️ Russia bot, 3 years of war the Black seas fleet now hides in the Caspian sea, and this is from a nation with no navy, Russia gets invaded and loses territory and can’t retake it five months on despite having to beg Korea to send troops, Putin is getting bitch slapped by a real leader Zelenskyy, who didn’t run when Putin’s second best army in Russia invaded, unlike the little girl Putin whom along with his staff ran away when Wagner was driving towards Moscow, trust me if Ukraine could move onto Moscow the elite would flee Moscow as they are only coward’s and bullies

[@craigsmith6512]

Those who say dont know and those who know dont say. RU has an entirely coherent strategy but this guy cannot figure out what is is, or more importantly, why they are doing it.

[@vaevak418]

just say you don’t know.

[@michellelewis3063]

Hang on their Prof, if Korean troops shows desperation in 'requiring outside help', then apply the same principle to Ukraine using outside help. Momentum has been with Russia for well over 6 months of taking ground since the failure of the 'spring offensive'. And Ukraine's outside support is reducing. So any rational or objective observation would conclude a dire situation only due to get worse. Yet you prefer the idea of a desperate Russia?

[@bilic8094]

Ukraine can't win on the battlefield it's losing ground almost everywhere it just lost kurakhove and toresk next is chasiv yar and pokrovsk most likely.

[@ProcaviaCapensis-ts8ub]

Russia gained 0.3% of Ukraine last year.

[@bilic8094]

@@ProcaviaCapensis-ts8ub mariupol soledar marinka bahkmut avdeevka vuhledar toretsk kurahovo and the list goes on.

[@colincampbell4261]

For goodness sake - according to Ukranian sources - you all falling hook line and sinker! Over 30,000 Ukraine deserters, no one mentions that....? Huge shortages in manpower, little will to fight anymore, no one mentions that. Down 80% power production. False hopes I'm afraid, too many lives lost and wasted....! And I'm pro or was Ukraine, nuetral now.

[@pb8649]

You are a realist unlike the Professor.

[@sardo.numspa]

Lives wasted? Were all lives lost fighting the invasions by the Nazis wasted? Gulf War2 saw the British deserter numbers in the thousands also. Happens all the time in every country. 500,000 fled russia during the first call up.

[@dmitryk2058]

ahhh of course one of them weekend arm chair generals here with the invaluable intake on the matter that has been blabbering about Ukraine collapsing for the past 3 years yea....800 000 russian servicemen have been successfully "de-militarized"

[@grahamlittlefair8107]

Stop the funding of Ukraine and let this special operation run its coarse.

[@aerial558]

Another Russia bot 🤡

[@grahamlittlefair8107]

@aerial558 bot doesn't win the discussion it just shows you have nothing to say.

[@aerial558]

@ I have something to say but I am selective about what I say.

[@stevejones4275]

So you're already back to your old tricks, deleting any truth you don't like to know, like a robot.

[@thomasbradley2225]

Kiev deliberately tends to smudge its field casualties. American estimates for Kursk are prohibitively high; so hyperbole laud here Ukrainian arms is easily discounted with salient profit-loss analysis. Chasing good money after bad affect both sides and the Americans under the incoming Trump administration will pull the purse strings tight. Kursk, despite initial phase brilliance, has become a defensive battle of attrition, which offer palliative redress for the Donbass front. Considered from a far more pragmatic take, Vladimir Putin is increasingly isolated and buffeted economic storms which the Trump administration will exploit. Indian purchase of varied grades Russian oil at $80 barrel is high above the Western $60 price cap, offering Washington a military strike in economic terms at New Delhi that will impact Moscow. The Indians realize their untenables of course but played string out stud poker percentages to exploit whatever table stakes time opportunity the war afforded. Still, Zelensky killing his children to achieve and maintain fanciful strategic negotiable terrain is lousy tactics. He should know better. Lavrov does, and probably has already discounted tragic Ukrainian deaths.