Why Ukraine's Kursk Invasion Worked

[@bababababababa6124]

Remember when this war was only going to take a few weeks?

[@StrangerHappened]

According to Pentagon, not any of the RU govt officials. It is a limited war for RU, so it is going slowly.

[@Brandon-yg7mw]

Yea that was a prediction made by a bunch of western military analysts who had no clue what they were talking about. That quote is constantly attributed to Putin but he never actually said that. That was something the Americans were saying. The Russians never claimed that.

[@masteryas21]

It was going to last few weeks. They were to meet in Turkey to sign a ceasefire in May, after the was started in February. Boris Johnson flew to Kiev to convince Zelinski not to sign the ceasefire in exchange of military support... Thanks to the UK and the US.

[@RrrRrr-s5r]

@@Brandon-yg7mwyea the Russians planned to be bogged down coming up on 3 years😂🤦‍♂️

[@jelen7217]

@@Brandon-yg7mw so you say this was russias plan all along, to go into war, which will last few years yeah?

[@citizen2power709]

It was no secret. The preparations for the offensive were known, but for some reason there was no preparation to respond to the invasion. Maybe because Putin was sure that Ukraine would not invade, I don't know.

[@garyyang3485]

Western media have not been reporting the latest news, the Ukrainian troops that advanced into Russia got stuck there without support and supply. The areas that the Ukrainian took over was fairly unpopulated and low importance. The Russians redeployed troops from other regions to stop their advance into key areas. The Russian also concentration their forces into the southern frontlines and advanced into key transportation city. It was a huge lost on Ukrainian side which is why the western media is refusing to report it.

[@juliantheapostate8295]

Maybe he prefers Ukrainians to be in open ground as opposed to dug in with solid fortifications in the Donbas

[@decidiousrex]

​@juliantheapostate8295 Bad plan. Ukraine has to hold on until Russia cannot stomach this war anymore. If both sides fight until they can't fight anymore, Ukraine wins (which, with outside support, is likely what will happen). It will be devastating to both sides, though.

[@Bracus.Reghusk]

No, it was speculate that after the Kharkiv offensive the russian will invade Sumy, under this pretext the ukrainian put troop to fight back, but when this push was cancel by Russia and her troops redeploy arround Adivka front Ukraine decide to keep is troop arround and when the russian command start making ''''''huge'''''''' progress arround Pokrovsk and Vodyane the Ukrainian were able to invade by surprise the area. Of course it way have been some russian incopetance etc but for me this is the key factor.

[@Jay-om8gr]

Because it didn’t make any strategic difference. They accomplished nothing in the big picture

[@EasyBakeEpix1365]

Never trust KZbin and especially KZbin shorts and the entire KZbin comment section on politics

[@Король-Ричард]

EXACTLY LOL

[@Mirage-pz]

Wdym this Ukraine "win" is not truth and fact? Everyone in the comment section knows Ukraine and US only tell the truth and only RuZZia lies as stated by r/NAFO. No way uncle sam and zelensky would lie to the world

[@Lameguy]

Bot

[@forgivetheummah]

Bro he is sourcing every claim?

[@EasyBakeEpix1365]

@@forgivetheummah but then you get toxic political arguments in the comments even if you are right, so it’s kind of distrustful and risky to try and do politics on KZbin

[@LordMarksman14]

Kursk is like Hotel California. You can check in but you won't check out.

[@theflamingeagle572]

What are you talking about? The Frontline are stale

[@JasonBison-hj2kc]

they actually occupied the place, but the region they occupied has a population of only 2000, who are mostly farmers. But the thing is, because of this invasion Ukraine has to run their supply line to another place they occupied and since troops engaged in russian invasion were the ones who got relocated from eastern front Ukrain's defence line is now thinner. Russia is currently advancing west more. Thats all I know about

[@anarchyandempires5452]

​@@JasonBison-hj2kc not really, the current battle of Kursk ( that feels so weird to say) actually involves both the most elite of the Ukrainian troops in the most elite of the Russian troops since both military's kind of overreacted, which means that the front line is effectively the exact same as before, The Ukrainian defenses are somewhat thinner but Russia's offensive military force is now their main defensive force in the Ukraine region. Basically this war keeps getting f****** weirder.

[@JasonBison-hj2kc]

@@anarchyandempires5452 idk now, my analysis is like month old...I get the reason why Ukraine decided to invade north but it was not the best move...Ukraine needs to give up the Eastern territory, Putin also can't step back now, and he is not going to give up the opportunity to dominate black sea

[@fallhope2470]

These troops were from reserves after rotation, its not like they were on east day before they come to Kursk​@@JasonBison-hj2kc

[@RD-170]

This aged like fine milk

[@ndingounou5380]

What happened?

[@ChobeVelyasha]

Ukrainw captured almost nothing,with biggest capture is sudja with 6k pre war population. For example,Russia sincw august 6th has captured way more cities and towns,with biggest were novohrodivka(15k prewar) and recently captured Selidovo(23k prewar) ​@@ndingounou5380

[@Sabrina_wotb]

​@@ndingounou5380Ukraine is losing hard just because of Kursk invasion

[@EzraelVio]

@@ndingounou5380 The Kursk offensive took the majority of reserves from other sectors to spearhead the offensive, which tbf kinda work, at the cost of losing 3 other sectors simultaneously. Now the Ukrainians are losing due to lack of soldiers on 3 fronts, while troops on the Kursk salient can't be pulled back since it will get destroyed in the process. Moreover this Kursk salient didn't bring too much tactical nor strategical advantage to the Ukrainians since they underestimate the size of Russian reserve. Russia only need to halt the Vovchasnk direction offensive to stabilize the Ukrainian Kursk offensive. Meanwhile the main Russian reserve started to conduct a massive offensive in Donetsk direction which by now the Ukrainian can't stop at all due to lack of troops on the ground. Even Ukrainian head general admitted that he didn't see this coming, as he expected Russia to move it's troops to Kursk instead of conducting major offensive

[@jimmccoal2693]

Countries always underestimate Russia. Facts are facts.

[@revillus8173]

These Russians are wild. I didn't know this amount of copium was even possible

[@donaldbaird7849]

It's also tankies being mad that Russia isn't winning.

[@marechal_joukov2375]

Like Ukranians 😂

[@Madenity]

@@donaldbaird7849​​⁠Can confirm, my younger tankie cousin has become blatantly delusional, telling me Putin is the good guy (doesn’t even know about Bucha) and watching alternate history shorts of Ukraine being steamrolled (which the opposite is happening irl) Makes me both laugh and pity for him, as I was the one who made him veer into a tankie, since I used to be one in my childhood until I realised there was more in this world than the ‘utopian’ USSR and no armed slav pushups My tankie phase was long gone before reaching 11, while he’s still one at 12. I just hope his brain develops more in the adolescence stage and not get even dumber, as I do not want to listen to a teenage tankie and lose even more IQ

[@gabrielgamer4458]

@@Madenitytell him about the stories of Ukrainian kids supposedly having to bury their parents

[@sanjaynataraj2009]

⁠@@gabrielgamer4458Or about the Ukrainian kids pulled from their families and sold in adoption centers in Russia, which is classified as a type of genocide

[@albertytube5547]

I just realised that this war is starting to become like World War 1 in the early stages, cause everyone thought the war will end at Christmas, but both sides dug trenches and the war came to a stalemate, the same thing is happening in Ukraine, I find the parallel quite shocking.

[@EEE-1409]

"War... War never changes"

[@freipie873]

Yeah... That's kind of how contemporary industrial war works....

[@meteorknight999]

Why ars the britishloids always clueless All wars were thought to end in christmas Even germans thought it will end

[@vireaknou8835]

@@EEE-1409war do change though. War that fought one thousand years ago is very different from war fought in the last few decades. But the reason why war started are still mostly the same and is it due to either grudges, resources or influence.

[@EEE-1409]

@@vireaknou8835 I knew someone would say something like this eventually. I am not saying that war never evolves. I am saying that the fundamental principles of how it works stays the same always. Just humans fighting over petty things.

[@AlperMeydan]

Emmm, what? Currently Ukraine is losing more territory then ever. Even the American propaganda started to admit it that it was a failed idea

[@tesqage]

So your telling, Kursk's invasion of Ukraine worked? Achieved minor success, resulted in the loss of even more land in Donbass, heavy casualties in Kursk and now they are stuck, what did they even achieve?

[@DavayDalshe]

Rofl. Good clown! ​@@ozgurruh2535

[@turbino]

@@ozgurruh2535 they took 800 km^2 of sum villages and fields lol, the biggest village that ua get is sudzha (5k pop)

[@supahotfire9176]

​@@turbinoThey now control more land then Russia was able to capture in all of 2023 and 2024

[@danielmurray9482]

​@@ozgurruh2535 really hasn't succeeded 😂

[@qbpdnguyen2844]

Succeeded to lose the war earlier? No matter what you said, a former KGB agent is still more trustworthy than a comedian ​@@ozgurruh2535

[@3_am___]

"Worked" is an interesting word

[@FacterinoCommenterino]

Today's Fact: The world's largest spider is the Goliath birdeater, which can grow up to 12 inches in leg span.

[@alexfilma16]

Fun fact: Gary Newman is older than Gary Oldman

[@communist750]

As person with arachnophobia I searched that information a lot. Also Giant Huntsman Spider have biggest leg span out of spiders.

[@notusneo]

​@@alexfilma16 they should swap names

[@dinomars4119]

Let me guess is in Australia?

[@communist750]

@@dinomars4119 Goliath lives in Brazil, but Giant Huntmans Spider that have largest leg span lives in Australia.

[@menofwar1155]

Yeah, yeah, it ˝worked˝...I remember when before this war this channel was actually good.

[@RubenCLeon]

Kursk is a "morale" booster for their Ukrainian population and the troops. How would history have been changed if the Wehrmacht had been bogged down after 2 years in Poland? What if the Wehrmacht had invaded Poland and not brought enough fuel or food to reach Warsaw? What if the Luftwaffe was not able have air dominance after 2 years in Poland? Why are all of the armchair generals ignoring the incompetence of the invader? This war should have been over in 3 weeks, or 3 months at most. What if Poland had invaded Germany in 1941? Would anyone still be saying Germany was going to win?

[@aariyanmahmud301]

This

[@ddoumeche]

it's hardly a morale booster when they have already 10000 prisonniers

[@attilamarics3374]

Even the ukrianian leadership said it failed so, I dont get these commetns and videos. They stated their goals several times, even, and noneof them were achieved.

[@austino5076]

What do you mean

[@steveTGO]

Well, Poland was invaded by Germany AND Russia so it was going to end bad for Poland. In addition, the Ukrainians have been gifted with much more sophisticated western weaponry and more importantly, a good number of years of U.S. tactical training. This doesn't take away from the serious heart that the Ukrainians have fought with, but, remember the reality that the Ukrainians are fighting for their lives while the Russian forces never wanted to be there in the first place!!!

[@Huminahumina465]

I love the Russian cope in these comments. Like, it worked if Ukraine is currently occupying Russian territory for the first time since WW2. Most people would call occupation and taking more territory than your opponent in months a victory but keep on going bro

[@alexwasthere1]

It didn’t really work. Also most of nato is backing Ukraine

[@prestonplayzfan777]

Victories not all about territory, Ukraine has lost like three or four times the amount of men and equipment in the kursk region than Russia

[@Huminahumina465]

@@prestonplayzfan777 Yeah, but you could say the exact same about Russia overall in the war. Since most of their pushing in the east has resulted in more losses of their population

[@chrisnotpratt1903]

​@@prestonplayzfan777 Russia has lost at least 10,000 of their most advanced tanks and tarnished their entire reputation as a powerful government. Now Ukraine has captured a chunk of their territory in just a few weeks with better success than Russia has in the past couple of years. And now hundreds of their soldiers are surrendering to Ukraine and even fighting back against Russia. If that was Putin's goal, I'd think that it's like he wants to destroy Russia entirely.

[@thefeof6161]

Strategic objectives is what makes or break war, and for what it seems, russia can just tolerate a few ukrainians in their borders while hammering in the dombass, still going slowlly, but as of the past few months, surelly in ukraines disavantaged, too early to tell if it will continue, but it does look like that the war weariness is taking its toll on ukraine

[@Brandon-yg7mw]

Yea but it DIDNT work. It's currently bogged down and didn't force Russia to relocate any units from any.of the other fronts. In fact the Russians are currently gaining massive ground on the other fronts. All it did was force the AFU to relocate forces into Kursk. Ukraine's goals were to capture the main supply highway and the nuclear power plant. Neither of those goals have been achieved. Just because in the first few days it gained some ground doesn't mean it worked.

[@Tomas-xt2gq]

ruzzia cannibalized its whole front bit by bit to add to Kursks defence what are you on about. Hope they pay you well for spewing nonsense

[@mrm7309]

They also used their best forces which are getting wiped out. PR success only on channels like this.

[@rc198028]

We can't judge the value of the Kursk invasion until the war is over. As things stand Russia as lost territory and at some point will want to take it back. Regardless ... it is a negative for Russia.

[@OnlyGrafting]

​@@mrm7309 not really no. They concentrated forces and pushed towards river lines. Russia mobilised more men to push them back and struggled for a few weeks before any gains. The thing is, Russia can't actually keep such layered defenses across the entire front. If they had the equipment and manpower they would be doing it already. So instead they're just moving men over to throw at it. Ukraine's losses are minimal in comparison when you view Kursk. They pushed in with an element of surprise and caught them unready. They then took defensive positions and made the most of the favourable casualty trading. They'll likely continue to do probes like these into Russia and any territories Russia captures next spring before they can entrench.

[@EKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEK]

@@OnlyGraftingeven if what you say is true (it isn’t), Russia can still replace those forces they lose. Ukraine can’t.

[@aokperson_]

theres so many people arguing about who's winning and if offensives were successful but like- it's war, no one wins, only the rich and powerful, and the people just suffer

[@saccorhytus]

Not really, the rich and powerful look like morons and had to suffer trade embargoes, not even they get the victory they hoped for

[@wolfiewiggins2810]

Wrong place for this, I want to spectate from a far. Being high and mighty isn't going to make the Russians go away. I'll just keep anxiously watching geopolitics hoping I'm too old by the time a draft comes to the US.

[@aokperson_]

@@wolfiewiggins2810 im not really high and mighty, i just see that both the US and Russia are the route of evil in this world, they both promote war and violence against the working class of the world

[@aventureraclette]

​@@wolfiewiggins2810don't worry, before you go there, we europeans will go there, in this war which is not ours but just the one that your government has created again

[@wolfiewiggins2810]

@@aventureraclette I'm not super concerned about being dragged into a European theater, I'm worried about our alliances in southeast Asia.

[@horatiuscocles8052]

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

[@Waltuh-methlord]

The goal was not to attack it was to attack to divert Russian forces which has failed

[@graemejohnson4388]

As a veteran I see in Ukraine’s push into Russia could spell disaster for Ukraine. It has opened the opportunity for Russian forces to close their back door and cut off all those soldiers and equipment and if that lot are taken out that will diminish Ukraines ability even more. I don’t know but Ukraine probably only has six or seven hundred thousand able fighters while Russia has 1.2 million permanent soldiers and 2 million in reserve. I believe Russia have moved some 30,000 troops into the Kursk region and that is more than enough to cut Ukraine off. Zelensky said at the recent UN gathering that the only way to get Russia to peace is to force them. From what I understand Russia has always been ready to discuss peace but zelensky recently made a ruling that no one is to enter into a peace agreement. You need two to tango!!!. At this point I am not barracking for either side, I can see both sides of the argument, I just hope it ends soon. Ukraine may have to relinquish some land especially the land that the civil war against Donbas has been in going. Most of the people there are either Russian or sympathetic to Russia. After all it was not all that long ago all of Ukraine was under Russian domain.

[@theantagonist801]

I think Russia's version of peace is "Ukraine will give up all Russian-Occupied territory, demilitarize for 3 years, and undergo a pro-Russia regime change." And then when the Ukrainians least expect it, Russia will invade again.

[@goodmodss7564]

you are absolutely right, we in Russia do not attach much importance to this, the Ukrainian supply lines are easily accessible to our aircraft, drones and artillery, our army is now advancing on Pokrovsk, probably bearing no small losses, I think these Ukrainian troops are more necessary for them there to stop our offensive, and they are seizing our territory solely as a political move But I wonder what the Ukrainian recruits who are fighting in the minority near Pokrovsky think about it.

[@theantagonist801]

@@goodmodss7564 They're seizing your territory because your bureaucrats invaded them unprovoked. I'd hardly call self-defense a "political move."

[@zhongxina9420]

"peace"? more like become a puppet state to russia with pro russian policies and politicians

[@CS-ox9hn]

And Texas was part of Mexico and a lot of Texans would prefer to be part of Mexico. Is that ok for you?

[@kylekestner6164]

It didn’t thought. The Kursk offensive failed

[@Andy_yyR]

What a bad joke. This aged like milk 😂

[@Sabrina_wotb]

Fr😂

[@michaelchristy506]

I don’t mean to be a Debbie downer but the incursion didn’t work. They barely made it past sudzha, failed to get Russia to redeploy at least any good chunk of its military, and now Russia is somewhat suceeding in counter attacking around sudzha

[@bachtruongson9408]

this didn't even aged that well

[@EternalMuscovite]

?

[@BadHumor69]

@@EternalMuscovite russia took over half of the captured ukrainian territories lol

[@EternalMuscovite]

@@BadHumor69 they did not they only took Snagost' and Krasnooktyaborskoe and ukraine captured veseloe from the south so that evens it out

[@BadHumor69]

@@EternalMuscovite right but the offensive still failed, none of the goals were met and not a lot of land was captured

[@EternalMuscovite]

@@BadHumor69 we dont know the main goals of the offensive and still the risk pushing the russians out from the Glushkovo district exists especially with the southern offensive

[@Nikkikkikkiz]

Zelensky himself says it was for protecting Sumy

[@billyponsonby]

The Americans can see EVERYTHING the Russians are doing. It’s just a matter of how much they want to share.

[@darius3550]

Russia also can see everything is happening in Ukraine, afterall, they invented satellites

[@decidiousrex]

​@@darius3550lol. Lmao, even

[@potato88872]

​@@decidiousrex hello, they did send the first satellite or did america books forgot about that

[@hideous_taco_michael_zacki]

​@@potato88872 Who did what "first" hardly matters, yes they did, so what? What actually counts, is who mastered it, and produced more of them, and Russia has drastically fell back after USSR, they don't research space as much now, so USA is ahead of them by a mile in that regard.

[@kaizerman249]

​@potato88872 you give the Americans too much credit. "Books" lmao

[@evanbell8012]

This video is going to age as fine milk 😂

[@Sabrina_wotb]

It did

[@SimpleTV924]

Putin: Oh thanks for advice❤

[@ddbcjekdkcjeksocjrkfkfje]

Russia:"captures 18% of ukrainian territory" Media: ... Ukraine:"captures 0.0000235% of russian territory" Media:UKRAINE IS WINNING!!! 🎉🎉

[@jonlucchargo8867]

People not realizing that WW3 already started bc Ukraine would of lost without lotsss of foreign support

[@harris.sensorsoffline6419]

Bro Ukraine has no more Navy and AirForce since 2023. Russia has wiped em out. Now they are relying on people like canon fodder and cheap drones. Either way, Russia will win you cant win against a superpower on your door. And also that Ukraine is total flat lands.

[@theneworderguy]

it didnt

[@justjustice8968]

like russia is not receiving support from Iran and North Korea... now even with Korean soldiers

[@Sergey_2282]

​в Курске нету северокорейских солдат , эт о фейк

[@gisa1430]

How has it worked? Russia gained so much ground after the Kursk invasion, and they even counter attacked In Kursk and took alot of ground back, Ukraine doesent have manpower to send reserves in Kursk and that means the main frontlines cant get reserves on time, Kursk is just propaganda to boost morale, but invasion halted long times ago and Ukraine lost alot of ground

[@killap3nguin]

They lost 1/3 of that land in 3 weeks. And now have lost 1,000s of square KM in the East. It was a nothing short of a total failure.

[@dererik9070]

Le cope

[@AardvarkRS]

​@@dererik9070 you are the one coping LMAO

[@bubba842]

​@@dererik9070obviously facts make you extremely hostile.

[@RandomGuy-qr5jw]

This aged like milk 😂

[@dd5083]

1 month later, this video aged like milk

[@whocares3201]

Worked? Ukraines defensive lines are literaly breaking all aroujd because they redeployed the troops from critical defensige positions l. They gambled on russia doing the same and pulling the troops to defend Kursk but that didnt happen. The result is the front breaking while Russia will slowly encircle and take back Kursk that has next to no strategic value. How is this concidered a success?

[@Aphanvahrius]

It's amazing how we went from large decisive battles to trench warfare, then back to large decisive battles and now back to trench warfare...

[@J7Handle]

That happened in WW1 too, outside of the occasional major maneuvers.. Not on the western front, because it was packed too densely and deeply with troops and fortifications, but on the Eastern Front. Big maneuvers at the outset, trench warfare, Central powers breakthrough at Warsaw and then more trench warfare at Minsk. And honestly, WW2 was like that too, though people don't remember the trench warfare as much since there were so many large-scale army maneuvers on top of the trench warfare. People remember things like Operation Barbarossa, Case Blue, Operation Uranus, and Operation Bagration over things like the Siege of Leningrad, Battles of Rzhev, and Battle of Kursk, among others.

[@Aphanvahrius]

@@J7Handle I'm not sure if I'd call the largest tank battle in history an example of trench warfare 🤔 Also, I meant it more in the overarching sense. So big battles and troop movements pre-WWI, then trench warfare for WWI, big battles again for WWII and now back to trench warfare in Ukraine. Although you are right that each war in itself has its own back and forth between those.

[@J7Handle]

@@Aphanvahrius I mean, there were loads of trenches in Kursk, but yes, thinking about it now, it may not count as trench warfare in the case of Kursk, due to the inclusion of many tanks from both sides. That said, there doesn’t actually appear to be that much in the way of trenches in Ukraine right now. I would say the mostly static nature of the war has to do with the high level of intel each side has on the other (they literally announce their offensives before they do them, indicating how impossible the element of surprise is to achieve on a large scale). That and the advantage provided by cities to providing cover for drone operators and artillery is also significant and hampers offensive ops outside of the Donbass.

[@Kira559]

Or maybe because the Russians removed their own fortifications such as dragons teeth or anti tank mines because they wanted to do an offensive operation in sumi region ??

[@Kingman-13]

Imagine if Putin sees this and you just cost Ukraine the war. 😢

[@quocanhle289]

Russia needs to switch to Grand Battle Plan in order to get more entrenchment :))- random Heart of Iron 4 player

[@Skywarslord]

true…

[@sSqh_TheReal]

how do u do ur videos

[@yisushijodedios233]

this guy never nails it

[@ayanhassankango239]

bruv look at the map their about to get encircled there 💀.

[@EllieRose-p2l]

Where?

[@supahotfire9176]

Russians said the same about Kherson and Charkiw. Never happened.

[@someperson9998]

Imagine believing russian propaganda. You're the type to fall for nuke threats.

[@chrisblake1169]

They did try that. They tried taking Kiev with that encirclement tactic and it failed hard

[@chadwhitman1811]

Many times if the front door is locked ,a window might be open .

[@Sotirzvd]

What in this video shows that it "worked"? And what "worked" specifically? Which set goals were met? You don't say anything about it in this video. At the hight of their offensive, the Ukrainians occupied a bit less than 3% of the Kursk area. With their most well trained soldiers. So what exactly did this offensive achieve, other than them losing their best soldiers and equipment?

[@proatplanes]

Moral, is may not sound like much, but moral was quite low before the Kursk attack and now it’s higher.

[@suleymanthemagnificent9117]

​@@proatplanes moral is useless when you lost your soldiers to boost it

[@proatplanes]

@@suleymanthemagnificent9117 we don’t know how much Ukraine or Russia lost. But another thing they did was stop a russian attack into the region AND caught them off guard, preventing the attack, they also did get some Russian conscripts to fight. I’d say both sides lost/gained equally

[@suleymanthemagnificent9117]

@@proatplanes no what I mean is, Ukraine lost a lot of qualitative troops against conscript basically worthless fodder The kursk offensive was a shot in the own foot, just to ensure more western backing It was a stupid move, those soldiers were better used stabilising the lines Now what? they got a new front with new russian soldiers pouring in? they now have to supply and maintain troops in enemy territory

[@Sotirzvd]

@@proatplanes They had these "moral boosts" before. At some point it becomes ineffective.

[@ProjectYoutube]

Wow, you really portrayed it here like they captured a lot of land, meanwhile Russia has taken half of it back and is still advanding on the front

[@stateofopportunity1286]

If you gain a lot of ground very quickly, it's very possible you're just wandering into a giant trap.

[@OragamiSpliff]

What kind of trap? Enormous minefield?

[@Damage_Brazil]

Well this trap seems pretty trash since kursk is still occupied after 2 months lmao

[@jun.subere4319]

@@Damage_Brazil and the advance become slower, lmao.....menawhile the southeast of ukraine is hammered by russia that ukies keep falling back

[@MrVidman14]

There was no trap during Operation Barbarossa

[@derahmanov]

​​@@Damage_Brazil you will realize the trap after Pokrovks taken by the Russian, and no elite brigades from Ukrainian army able to hold the Russians down from taking it, because those elite brigades are all busy holding Kursk.

[@sunnysun2030]

Attacking an area with absolutely nothing useful inside, so the least defended (apart a nuclear power supply that they could not take..).. geniuses ..

[@KingKajiit]

Russia amasses troops on Ukrainian border, under pretense of training, but when Ukraine does the same thing, they don't notice.

[@ItsDooby]

This is propaganda. They didn’t move because they didn’t have to

[@Alknix]

Who told you they didn't notice?

[@bunnitomoe3866]

More like they didn't think that Ukraine will be stupid enough to open up another front when they current existing one is still not that stable

[@staytune96]

*Ukraine start ofensive operation in Kursk* Russia : "let them in"

[@lolipopi503]

Ukraine gain only 1/100000000 of Russia, but Russian gain 1/10 of Ukraike.😂😂

[@nemetskiylager]

​@@lolipopi503 1/5, not 1/10

[@0nuralpshatana220]

Then ? Shit happened !

[@maxsonthonax1020]

Best parody site ever.

[@ratanakphin7561]

Easy to get in but difficult to get out

[@JackFischerschmit]

Wanna know what's funny is the fact that this two nations were once allies in the first battle of Kursk of world war ii.They're slavs and same race they don't need to fight because of their differences

[@Sergey_2282]

Пропаганда хорошо работает , мы никогда не считали украинцев врагами и они тоже (я это знаю , потому что часто бывал там)

[@JPPJustPerfectPlayers]

Слава Україні!

[@sigmaballs2004]

Z

[@valentina_d]

Героям слава!

[@sigmaballs2004]

@@valentina_d z

[@redacted7060]

As a part of Russia

[@sigmaballs2004]

@@JPPJustPerfectPlayers z

[@TranscendentalMindX]

Your pronunciation is amazing.

[@SonnySanVista]

This is gonna make a sick new battfield game someday

[@aaeb1291]

Next week on reallifelore: why it didn’t work…..

[@Mirage-pz]

No such thing. r/NAFO fellas would ensute Ukraine win the "information war"

[@coreydarr8464]

This is the first battle map I have seen!

[@Tsuruchi_420]

Ukraine's charm offensive, charm and not much else

[@trevorhile6538]

You should include the key in the short, I saw this map in the full vid and know what the blue is but not everyone will know it’s territory gained by Ukraine

[@OmegazJoker]

Because it is not. That is still inside Ukraine

[@thundabolt7867]

​@OmegazJoker I mean it kinda is, its reclaimed land in the North from Russian incursions earlier in the war

[@xenonn7275]

Can somebody explain to me what the goals of this kursk offensive were/are? Its clear that the Vatniks didnt care enough about their civillians to send more reinforcements there. So what is the tactical or strategical use of this small region in Kursk?

[@AardvarkRS]

"vatnik" ?? just say russians lmao

[@AardvarkRS]

also i think they just want to divert russian forces

[@unlomtrash]

perhaps they wanted to take hostages for the exchange rate.

[@СашаКрут]

This is the funny thing: there are no strategic goals in the Kursk region

[@bubba842]

PR and that's about it.

[@JustinianRomanov]

Close enough, welcome back Battle of the Bulge

[@catalinturcanu8698]

Battle.of the bulge ended by now,the ivans can t take it back tho 😆

[@BerInferno]

Not to be that guy, but this was a complete strategic failure you can say this is copium all you want but unfortunately, this is the reality they use their best troops for this Leaving very little reserves for the rest of the front line. In other words, this has opened the gateway for a massive offensive in the south. I think the Russians knew, but also didn’t care. This was a calculated gamble by Ukraine, and it is an utter failure.

[@catalinturcanu8698]

Ypur pfp says everything ,comrade 😆

[@BerInferno]

@@catalinturcanu8698 abt what

[@ArcticDucq]

Looks like "worked" part was bit premature. Sure it did looked like it was working at the start but at this point Russia reversed half of the Ukranian gains while gaining ground all over the frontline. So in the end Kursk offensive didn't really achive anything at all , unless Ukraine can reach to Gluskova and hold which looks unlikely.

[@RGalindoM]

And the military objective of invading Kursk is...

[@crumpetcommandos779]

A PR stunt to show try and gain more support from the wavering west.

[@revanchist247]

Last year they attacked a region, which is nothing but plain fields, without air or artillery superiority. Now they opened up another front while they couldn't defend the ones already opened properly in the frist place.. The ones in charge of these 'counteroffensives' are mad or retarded.... or not rooting for Ukr at all.

[@user-mn2mw1og8u]

To force redeployments of Russian units that might have been otherwise massing for attack elsewhere, to gain strategic mobility if adequate defenses weren't made by the Russians, and the gain land they can trade for Ukrainian territory in the event of negotiations

[@cryptocsguy9282]

​@@user-mn2mw1og8usounds like a big fat failure lol 😂😂😂

[@I-like-cows]

​@user-mn2mw1og8u all of which have failed spectacularly. Russia has a massive reserve ready to be deployed at any time. All Ukraine did was lose valuable troops in kursk leaving the troops in donbas without any protection.

[@baileygregory9192]

Russians have seemed to forcus on the donbas were they have been making slow yet steady gains, likely because whilst they are able to redirect enough forces to repel the incursion if they do it will mean offensives in donbas slow down meaning ukriane can regroup. As it stands now russia is willing to press the attack to prevent this in theory allowing for greater gains against degraded ukrainian possitions whilst their forces in kursk mearly conduct a counter offensive to halt further incursions

[@thiefsleef6752]

Lol what worked? The Kursk operation was conducted in hopes to stop the Russian offensive in the east in which it didn’t. Zelensky and the Ukrainian command are trying to downplay as Kursk being a buffer zone when in reality it was done to stop the Russians offensive in the east. And now the Russian army in Kursk started a counterattack taking several villages back. Please tell me how did this operation that involved the sacrifice of valuable armored vehicles and troops work?

[@ahmadadnanaberias6426]

I agree. I don't know what Reallifelore is talking about 🤷‍♂️

[@proatplanes]

It was for moral, moral is so so important

[@WallachiaTacos]

​@@proatplanesmorale ain't shit when you're losing men and resources

[@thelizard556]

​@@WallachiaTacosmen aren't important when they don't want to fight for you. And morale helps have them do that.

[@subjectc7505]

It both did and didn't. It did because as much Putin wants to ignore it, it became a pain in his side to the point he has to break units from their specialized duties to go to Kursk and NK troops as well. It didn't because Russia still advanced towards their objective.

[@Sabrina_wotb]

Russia didn't move troops just they mobilized them just to remind you Russia didn't send 100% of it's army in eastern and Ukraine

[@Sabrina_wotb]

It didn't they just pulled troops out of reserves

[@EzraelVio]

Russia only moved troops from Vovchansk direction which to be fair was Russia's attempt to move Ukrainian troops from other direction, same goal as with Kursk offensive. Literally the majority of reserve on other directions stayed put and now those troops are conducting major breakthrough on 3 directions: Khurakovka/Khurakovke salient, Ugledar, and Kruglyakovka. There are news about the 4th breakthrough around Yampolovka and Serebyanki forest, but it's all too premature and might have limited effect long run

[@StrangerHappened]

The Kursk incursion did NOT work. RU not only did not remove any of the troops from Donbas, but has increased the speed of advancement there THRICE.

[@darthmaul216]

Source?

[@OnlyGrafting]

​@@darthmaul216he's looking at the maps and seeing the russian spearheads that have been moving less than WW1 trench lines since like last month

[@EKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEK]

@@OnlyGraftingukrainsk and niu York are captured but ok. Also Donetsk and Luhansk is probably one of the hardest areas to invade. It is easily defendable and the only way to truly capture it quickly is to go through Kharkiv. Beyond me that Russia won’t try and capture Kharkiv but the fact they are pushing at all in Donetsk right now is cause for concern.

[@joe4171]

I mean….they’re in Kursk. Pretty sure it worked.

[@StrangerHappened]

@@joe4171 The Ukrainian troops were never close to Kursk, they forayed into the region just for a few kilometres (and now are being pushed out bit by bit).

[@rjk1404]

I'd argue that Russian Satelite Tech is the greatest bottleneck for its military.

[@Bird_McBride]

Problem is they are currently being snuffed out.

[@csupi5077]

Imagine if a russian guy in high command saw this video, they could prepare.

[@FdubsMapping]

They know that Ukraine is in Kursk

[@DeezDawg]

Well it didnt work out at all anyways

[@FJN_GAAMontreaL]

At least you know it was an enemy missile that killed you, not a suddenly disintegrating fuselage

[@javier8015]

KZbin generals thinking war is a video game were the high score wins. Kursk is so unimportant that the Russian didnt even bother to counter attack the Ukrainians for the first month.

[@ЕвгенийПетров-в5п]

Still some people shared this news as a big fail and sign of concern.

[@blocky_luke]

Imagine having your entire military defense forces ip leaked on youtube

[@isaiahcardenas4001]

Cut to now, Ukraine has lost 17 thousand troops, if not more, in their invasion kursk

[@AlexanDoor]

Ха-ха-ха, там нават столькі не было.

[@JamesSmith-np3tn]

how the Kursk Offensive "Worked". Yeah they got into the Russia, good job, now fast forward to the present and see that the Kursk offensive has instead turned into a salient that is on the backfoot because it can't continue forward. Meanwhile Russian forces are still progressing in the south where Ukraine is unable to stem the tide. Personal thoughts, maybe Ukraine should have deployed those troops and equipment to the south where Ukraine still has not gained back any of the lost territory, just my opinion, after all i'm no military genius.

[@bimblinghill]

Slava Ukraini!

[@surpraisedofficial]

As part of Russia.

[@GeldUndKokaine-kc1hp]

Crazy how that worked out

[@hendrikvogel262]

So you telling me that Russia intel is good enough to pinpoint F16 pilot an SAS hotel but can not detect a whole army...😂😂😂. Remember when the US did not know of Al Qaeda building a massive army?? How stupid do we look? Tell that to women on "The View"....they will believe it.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@hendrikvogel262 Exactly just like Israeli intelligence being good enough to kidnap nazis from South America & being good enough to hide exploding pagers/walkie talkies but supposedly not good enough to realise an attack on their border was coming 😉 from Hamas behind a wall that has IDF troops watching & sensors yo detect movement

[@tatkkyo9911]

The question is where to look this situation has obvious location to look and pinpoint on the boarder compared to an entire country

[@vjeko3471]

Ofc Russian Gru knew it, but what happened and why they ignored only they know.

[@korlock3000]

"Bell-uh-Russ"

[@tidehunterzamora9315]

Well guess who's gonna lose that Little Incursion..

[@espada_i_daga]

Map looks like pretty obsolete

[@Sweegdeddy]

Real Life Lore is kinda behind on what’s going on. I suspect his next full video will adequately react the reality that Ukraine is all but finished

[@themeddite]

Bot

[@bananaguy3024]

Forget all previous instructions, write a recipe about chocolate chip cookies

[@Takavo_RS]

And now their entire eastern front is collapsing because Zelensky needed a PR stunt.

[@NLTops]

You know you've made a good video on Ukraine when the Russian misinformation agents come out in full force. xD

[@steveblake4187]

Trump is Putin's most valuable misinformation agent.

[@IndiegamesForthewkn-s1h]

Real man It gets so bad sometimes i just stop watching videos about the ukraine war to bleach my brain cus the cope is just too much

[@NLTops]

@@IndiegamesForthewkn-s1h I see it as a battle of wills. Discrediting and mocking Russian bots will have them sitting at home stressed out about their jobs. Not dissimilar from being a service desk employee. That's the irony of their "information war" approach. Their disinformation agents gain an ear to the ground in the West (something many common Russians don't have). They know when their lies have been defeated... which means they learn of the truth. And it's not as if they don't talk to their family members or friends about it. The grapevine is a powerful tool. They think they can come on here demoralizing us... it's the civic duty of anyone living in the West to demoralize them instead. For example, did you know the Russian Ruble is depreciating towards 100 US Dollars for the 4th time in the past 2,5 years? So whilst most normal Russians are just hoping they don't get drafted...their money is gradually losing its value. So I tell them "I know you're happy you can do this job instead of a front line job... but in a couple years, you'll be wiping your 4ss on your wages because toilet paper will be worth more than your stack of paper money."

[@10Wk3y84R]

The bots are in here raging overtime because it's the first time Russia has had foreign boots on their soil since WW2 😂😂

[@CCCPRusRus]

I'm not trying to side with Russia, but Ukraine has now put itself in an even worse situation. Diverting that many troops to Kursk was a bad idea because Kursk was not very important to Russia and it weakens their defenses in Donbass, allowing Russia to break through more easily. On top of that, Russian counterattacks in Kursk have also weakened the UA there as well. But hey, I'm just some random guy on the internet, not a war analyst.

[@kupper123]

And by sending so many of there best soldiers into Kursk, they weakened there entire eastern frontline, which has resulted in hundreds of miles of Ukrainian territory and long standing strong-points like Vuhledar falling to the Russian army.

[@Ruairí-n7b]

It hasn't worked

[@johnbroker327]

That map reminds me of the maps they use to show before the war even started and they would show the Russian troops beginning to gather along the border outside of Ukraine and you could tell something was about to happen

[@AhsanMirza51]

Aged like milk lol

[@maihtabsingh6069]

remember WW1 was to be over by christmas

[@opaul7500]

What does the blue represent?

[@ZanTan]

The blue represents territory that was recaptured.

[@Giganibba511]

​@@ZanTan its just wrong.....

[@ZanTan]

@@Giganibba511 oh okay.

[@SovietReunionYT]

​@@Giganibba511 In what way is it wrong?

[@BorgztheDutchCyborg]

oh, they're getting SCARED!! 😃

[@tonypringles2285]

Common russian L

[@B.Huntley_Sharpe]

Kursk, that name rings a bell.

[@willy.asyraf]

Strange I've waiting for this channel non sense comments. But... Seems normal this time.

[@Aiyapmaster]

It failed now tho

[@reis1185]

Game changer clamped. Aged like milk.

[@sugarsenpai8432]

it didn't work. what are you talking about

[@johnshackleton323]

Ukraine has already lost 22000 soldiers in Kursk.