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country of security forces and it has a gigantic

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army, a million people do not count

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350,000 Russian Guardsmen, but after a year

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of war we see that at the front there are

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convicts mobilized by it, there are Volunteers,

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but where are the million military men, hundreds of thousands of

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Russian Guardsmen? Where did this huge

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army go? Why was recruitment required?

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mobilization in the colonies and most importantly, should we

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expect a second wave of partial

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mobilization Hello, this is Dima Treshchanin with

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you section. I mean, before we

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get to the point, I kindly ask you

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to like and subscribe to the channel. In

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addition, you can send to the media zone

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Donat link will be in the video description

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[music] I’ll

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start with a disclaimer; everything that I will

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say further from myself is based on

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our joint project of calculating the loss of

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Russian forces, we have been conducting it since the beginning of

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the war, together with volunteers and the Russian

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service of the BBC, we know what we know. And

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this, of course, is far from complete data But

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this is the best data that can be

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had, taking into account the so-called

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fog of war, where I cannot

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understand I am not a military expert I will

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refer to and quote public

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speeches by the director of the

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Russian studies program at the Center for

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Naval Analytics, Michael Coffman,

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in my opinion the best expert in this

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conflict To explain how we

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ended up where we ended up and the war itself

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must be chronologically divided into several

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stages. And here again I will not do it

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myself, but will use the expertise of Michael

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Coffman, let’s start with the first stage of the war,

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special military adventures

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4 days before the invasion, the Conflict

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intelligence Team ended its

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observation with a conclusion Russian troops are

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already ready to implement various

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scenarios of aggression from operations in

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the Donbass to a large-scale invasion of

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Ukraine and attempts to seize cities

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again, this quote is from the text on February 20

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last year, when the withdrawal of

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troops and provocations were discussed, I

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recalled this period in detail in a separate video

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Michael Kofman believes that in general terms the

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plan for a special military operation was as

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follows: Russian troops

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invade the territory of Ukraine in columns but do not

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enter the cities but take control of

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key intersections and communications;

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the main role was assigned to the FSB. They were

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responsible for the change of power in Kiev and the

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seizure of other large cities

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in a change of power and the main bet was made

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Zelensky was killed or the new

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head was captured It doesn’t matter who signs it,

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whatever Putin wants, the transfer of Crimea to Donbass,

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capitulation whatever That is why

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Putin most likely did not lie when he said that

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the occupation was not planned, he really was

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not included in the plans at that time and

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Precisely therefore, it was not the army that entered the cities,

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but a column of the National Guard with plastic

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batons and shields, they were counting on

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civil protests and not on armed

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resistance, that is, something in the style of the

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storming of the Mina Palace in Kabul in 1979, or

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rather even the invasion of Czechoslovakia in

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1968, or as Kofman adds the invasion

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The United States went to Iraq in 2003, from which they took the

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worst, under Defense Minister

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Anatoly Serdyukov,

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they wanted to build the Russian army around the concept of

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elite formations. However, this is the place for

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most armies of the world, major wars have

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not happened for a long time and have not been foreseen, and for

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local conflicts it is much better to have

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super prepared from

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super trained excellent

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equipped small forces than a large but

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bloated and untrained army, in case of a

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large-scale conflict with NATO there will be enough

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time for mobilization. That is why

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Russia retained the call to

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quickly build up the army in the event of a big war, but

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the problem is that the super elite cool

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Mega Special Forces are very expensive and they are not

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can be numerous by

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definition, the exact number of such

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troops is understandable, classified as elite

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troops, of course, you can immediately include

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units of special operations forces, military

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units subordinate to the Gru. That is,

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now

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Google correctly, the main directorate of the General Staff sounds

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stupid, so everyone uses

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such a good brand, of course, the Elite is the

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Airborne Forces training of the Paratroopers strongly more expensive

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and more complex than ordinary motorized rifles

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Marine Corps, perhaps some

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tank units, for example, this is how the

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first presented itself Tank Army and

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several more specialized units

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Arctic mountain and so on how many

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soldiers it is is unknown, I have seen estimates

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that all airborne forces are 45 thousand people

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and it is not very clear counting

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conscripts or not I think that this is generally a

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total of Marine Corps five brigades and one

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regiment estimates from 12 to 35 thousand and Apparently the

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lower figure is more likely to be correct

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But this is all the regular number in fact the

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army always did not have enough people

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Russia coped very poorly with the

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contract model of the army and were best

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staffed and the best people were

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staffed, again, by the elite units,

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but they also had a shortage of even more

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contract soldiers, we must also put them in quotation marks,

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these are the same conscripts who were simply

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offered to serve longer, but in better

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conditions, after Serdyukov, Shoigu came and

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started the army not to reduce, but on the contrary

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to expand, new formations appeared. And

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after 2014, they began to be placed along the

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border with Ukraine of the new unit, new

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problems, because the number of contract soldiers did

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not grow as quickly as we would like,

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so the increase occurred largely on

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paper. Michael Coffman believes that the

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Russian army is solving the problem of a

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lack of numbers in first of all, I

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began to save on infantry, there was someone to

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shoot from howitzers, there was someone to control

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tanks and other equipment, but there were very, very few of those who

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directly had to reach enemy positions with their own feet,

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so when the

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first shots of columns of burnt equipment appeared,

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everyone thought, damn, many

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thousands must have died there in fact, all these

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armored personnel carriers were at best half empty. And

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that for a demonstration of force it would be quite

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suitable for a parade and you can’t see who is

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inside except the driver. As a result, the

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invasion forces in Ukraine, according to various estimates,

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ranged from 120 to 200 thousand people. A

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slightly later estimate 90 thousand army

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30 Russian Guard another 20 troops of the republics,

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in order to show the authorities the strength of

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some units, they were sent to the front

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entirely, for example, with regimental

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bands. And here I am not exaggerating: in our

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list of the dead there are people from regimental

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bands, and these units advanced

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as far as they could and entered the battle differently

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to suffer heavy losses, everyone knows about

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the battle for Gostomel airport where, as

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one patriotic blogger wrote, the

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airborne troops covered themselves with

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unfading Glory, but for participation in the

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project of counting losses, it began in earnest

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with this video from the memorial service of the 247th

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Airborne Regiment from Stavropol, I almost already talked about it

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already a year ago Then I

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knew that by April 60 people had died in this unit.

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Now I know thanks to this

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post that the regiment lost 76 people

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dead and 140 wounded on the second day of

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the war, this happened in the south where the actions of the

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Russian army were relatively

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successful, here is the mayor of Nikolaev Vitaly Kim

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shows broken equipment, clearly airborne,

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possibly traces of that very battle 76

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people killed 140 wounded This is a lot

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for the regiment Yes, a lot from each regiment

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two Battalions of tactical groups were formed,

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here is a combat note captured on the battlefield

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about a combat tactical

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group from another airborne regiment from Anapa

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in total 538 people By State A actually had

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2403 and this was before the invasion. That is, if the

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Stavropol Paratroopers have approximately the

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same picture in terms of personnel, then they

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could have lost up to a quarter of the fighters and This is

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only in the first two days of the war and

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comparable losses were suffered by almost all

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elite

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special forces units thrown into battle as light infantry

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To capture cities Well, that is, to take

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Grozny again with the forces of one

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parachute regiment, where

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the Ukrainians could organize

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resistance, it ended in massacre; the

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Airborne Forces or special forces do not have heavy, well-

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armored equipment, much less

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artillery, tanks, we still don’t know the

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full numbers. What are those days there were

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real losses, obituaries still appear

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with the text he died at the beginning of his and

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then we find the date February March 22 and

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mostly these are special forces of the Airborne Forces or the

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Russian Guard, we know from approximately in the

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thousands of deaths before the retreat from

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Kiev and quite reasonably

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assume that on in fact, the losses are

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twice as high because from our practice

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we know that we see approximately every

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second Death at the front. But for the

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invasion forces this was already a lot,

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considering that there were at least

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three more wounded, that is, from 12 to 24 thousand

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in the first weeks alone, this is very a lot

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for a group of 150 thousand, I note that

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not all elite units suffered

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such serious losses; some managed to

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avoid heavy fighting and they later

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played a significant role in this war. And

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many units After the first months of the war,

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casualty reports simply disappeared; apparently their

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remnants were taken to the rear, having lost the elite

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The Ministry of Defense sent literally

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everyone it could to Ukraine Coastal defense units

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from Kaliningrad are protecting us from the landing of

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NATO troops Don’t care about NATO on the front

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200 The Arctic Brigade is guarding our

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Arctic from the Norwegian American

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landing No matter what, we’ll take

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bears to the front The seventh military base

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in unrecognized South Ossetia protects from the

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encroachment of hostile Georgians, it’s

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okay to the front 102 military base in

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Gyumri where, in fact, the active conflict for

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Karabakh, the Armenians will go to the front and my

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favorite example is the 18th machine gun on the

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Artillery division, it’s thanks to it that it’s

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militaristic Japan still hasn’t

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taken our Kuril Islands What do you think where

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is it right now in Ukraine at the front,

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everything that could be snatched from the

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ground forces has been there for a long time, but

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still, where is the Russian Million Army?

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Why does the count still amount to tens, well,

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hundreds of thousands? The fact is that Russia has a

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bunch of units that are not for zone and

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cannot be involved in this war

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in the first place This is the Strategic Missile Forces

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strategic missile forces nuclear shield

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they are unlikely to be trained to take

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fortified areas sailors Including a

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giant submarine fleet The Black Sea

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Fleet somehow participated in the war but all

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its activity was reduced to the launch of

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missiles after death of the cruiser Moscow

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ground air services We have about

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fifty dead from these units,

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the Ukrainians are actively shelling temporary

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airfields in the occupied territories,

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remember the same Chernobaevka but

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not everyone is participating in the invasion, besides, the army

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is a gigantic bureaucratic apparatus

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I was once quite amused by this

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military news 434 Generals received experience in Syria,

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that is, in the Russian army there are

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at least

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434 generals,

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this is an entire Battalion tactical group of

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just generals, a military school, training

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grounds, military registration and enlistment offices, in the end, they

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are all military personnel And most of them

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stay far from the front at the first

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stage of the war There is another one that is much less

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studied chapter including we did

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n’t particularly study in the ldnr mobilization was announced

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5 days before the war and it was

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not at all partial rowing and they are still rowing

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all the men without any preparation they were

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immediately thrown into storming the ukrainian

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fortifications with many geographical

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names up to still in the reports Avdeevka

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Krasnogorovka Toretsk New York then

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Russia first tried the tactics of meat

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assaults And so For prepared positions

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with recruits without combat experience,

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this term was fixed much later,

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I highly recommend reading an article about this by

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my colleagues from BC But now spring

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has crossed the middle of the Russian troops

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withdrawn from near Kiev and the war moved into a

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new stage Michael Kofman calls it the

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first battle for Donbass and

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new material for meat

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assaults appeared in it; the volunteer was most

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likely the first to massively use

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Volunteers Ramzan Kadyrov while everyone

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laughed at his tick tock troops; he was

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back in early April last year he did an

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amazingly smart thing, he thought about

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how to reduce the losses of ethnic

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Chechens but at the same time not lose his

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place as the main apologist for this war

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as an important supplier of people to the front,

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here is a list that was published by

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Ukrainian intelligence with two and a half thousand

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names, we consider it confirmed

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people those who are indicated died

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actually died, but I will draw your

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attention to another column category, it has

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exactly two variations: just a volunteer

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and a volunteer Nokhchi nails This is

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the self-name of the Chechens, if you turn on the

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filter, the list breaks almost in half

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1200 Chechens the rest of the people from all over

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Russia, that is, the propaga tells us

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about the exploits of Kadyrov’s men, but in fact,

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half there, if not most of them, are

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taxi drivers from Norilsk and

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security guards from Ulan-Ude, important stories

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were spoken with these volunteers, they were

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immediately promised very good money and the

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requirements were much lower than at that

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moment the Ministry of Defense has a criminal record for

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health conditions everything didn’t matter, they took almost everyone,

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they reached the mayor’s office of Grozny, which means it’s good, the

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governors of other regions also

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quickly figured out sending

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people to war. This is a great way

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to show loyalty. And maybe you can get

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some goodies at court in Putin’s eyes.

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According to the calculations of the new newspaper, 33

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regions announced their volunteer battalions. many governors

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said that they would do two or three

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battalions with different names, I’ll say right away that

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many battalions did not reach the front and

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suffered losses, or they remained

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on paper altogether, we can seriously say

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that about a tiger from the Primorsky Territory and Alga and

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from Tatarstan Well, maybe more about several

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got involved As a result, it was the barons

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all over the country that advertised the

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contract service appeared, announced

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short-term contracts, then I will explain

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why these quotes are not accidental and are very

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significant, increased payments in parallel,

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revived the Bars program, the

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country's combat army reserve before the war, this

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was such a structure where one could

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sign up to receive monthly

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small money and sometimes participate in

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some kind of training of the Ministry of Defense,

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mainly there were people well over

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40, even closer to 60,

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private military companies were also recruiting, including

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Wagner PMCs, it is separately known about them that

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Prigozhin’s troops radically lowered

00:17:36

the requirements,

00:17:37

they opened their blacklists then there is, too,

00:17:40

they began to take almost everyone in a row, we shouldn’t

00:17:42

forget about the people’s militia of the LPR, they

00:17:46

always brought Volunteers on board, but in the

00:17:49

new conditions the efforts were reduced, plus a

00:17:52

dozen more military formations with

00:17:55

their recruitment algorithm, Cossacks,

00:17:57

neo-Nazis from Rusich Well, and so on,

00:18:00

such a motley picture and each

00:18:02

such unit has its own

00:18:04

conditions for money, some offer

00:18:07

more, some offer less, somewhere full

00:18:09

equipment at the expense of the customer, somewhere

00:18:12

the recruit buys everything himself and here

00:18:14

comes the most interesting thing. The fact is

00:18:17

that those who want to go to war even on

00:18:20

such conditions when they offer simply

00:18:22

gigantic money for non-capital

00:18:25

regions, it turned out to be not so much, I

00:18:28

can’t say how little exactly We

00:18:31

see only those who died, and even then not

00:18:34

all of them Volunteers signed up, most likely

00:18:37

tens of thousands, but maybe up to 50 thousand,

00:18:40

clearly no more And people who knows a little about

00:18:42

economics Already understands what is the failure of

00:18:45

this approach, that we have

00:18:48

several suffering buyers, each

00:18:51

with their own approach and their own shortcomings,

00:18:53

there is an extremely limited resource, these are

00:18:56

market relations and this is the highest

00:19:00

competition. Well, that is, you understand there

00:19:02

on the battlefield all these Barca PMC units

00:19:06

maybe it is fighting more or less in one direction,

00:19:08

but in the rear they are pulling apart and fighting for those

00:19:12

few who were tempted by money

00:19:14

dishes or succumbed to Propaganda. How to

00:19:17

Recruit a battalion in your small

00:19:18

region if everyone who wants to has already bought a

00:19:21

ticket to Grozny or to Goryachiy Klyuch

00:19:24

is the crows in this market in the obvious

00:19:27

outsiders, as the structure is the least

00:19:29

flexible, it doesn’t suit them because of a criminal record, then they don’t

00:19:32

take it due to their health, can you imagine about a

00:19:34

year ago the medical board still could not, then the

00:19:38

equipment was purchased by Rodny himself, and so

00:19:40

on, the best fighters are collected by PMCs, what can I

00:19:44

say, the market has decided And this resource

00:19:47

turned out to be not only small but we will quickly

00:19:50

exhaust it. You can at least 24/7 run

00:19:54

propaganda through your brain. But those who wanted to

00:19:56

go to war have already signed up, and there are

00:20:00

significant numbers of new ones. They simply have nowhere to come

00:20:03

from; at the same time, the first battle for

00:20:05

Donbass took place rather in favor of Russia; the

00:20:08

graph shows that losses in this

00:20:11

period decreased significantly

00:20:13

PMC volunteers successfully, although not

00:20:16

too quickly, took cities in the Luhansk

00:20:19

region

00:20:20

Rubezhnoe popasnaya Severodonetsk Lisichansk

00:20:23

ended The siege of Mariupol in the Donetsk

00:20:25

region Russia during this period simply had

00:20:28

total superiority in artillery

00:20:30

then at the beginning of summer Zelensky says

00:20:33

Ukraine is losing up to 100 people every day

00:20:37

and five thousand wounded, but the practice of meat

00:20:41

assaults inevitably affected the morale of the

00:20:44

Volunteers, someone returned home,

00:20:47

someone told their friends that it was not worth going,

00:20:50

the flow of possible fighters became

00:20:53

thinner and thinner, it was during this period of

00:20:56

relative calm for the army and

00:20:58

success for the Volunteers that Russian

00:21:01

troops faced a problem the

00:21:03

500s had refused before, but

00:21:07

now it has become a mass phenomenon. Then

00:21:09

last summer, the authorities literally did

00:21:12

not know what to do with them. There was no

00:21:17

way to formally punish them or force them to return to the front. In the

00:21:20

end, they came up with the idea of throwing refuseniks into pits and

00:21:24

putting them in the basement of the DPR, but this did not

00:21:27

stop the refuseniks. how many of them there were, we

00:21:29

don’t know and can’t know, but I wouldn’t

00:21:32

be surprised if the 500 army lost more

00:21:35

people than in battle

00:21:37

in these same months, in our reports there were

00:21:39

significantly fewer Russian Guards,

00:21:41

I’ll assume that they performed

00:21:44

exceptionally poorly as combat units

00:21:47

Even by the standards of this entire war however,

00:21:50

what to expect from people whose main skill is to

00:21:52

hit women in the stomach during

00:21:55

rallies, someone was sent to

00:21:57

control order in the occupied

00:21:58

territories, the

00:22:00

headquarters of some units

00:22:02

became targets for the highmars, and that’s how we

00:22:05

learned from the losses that they were there at all

00:22:07

anyway it turned

00:22:10

out that not so much was

00:22:12

planned for the occupied territories, so the Russian Guard

00:22:15

needed very little. But who appeared

00:22:18

much more in the reports were people at the

00:22:21

age of professionally connected with the

00:22:23

army, not contract soldiers, yesterday’s

00:22:26

conscripts, not freshly graduated lieutenants

00:22:29

from 30-45 year old sergeants, warrant officers, sergeants

00:22:33

majors, honestly, I used to think what a

00:22:36

rank was only Arkady Babchenko has, that

00:22:39

is, at the front there were people who were the basis of the

00:22:42

army of those whose losses were perhaps most

00:22:45

sensitive in the second half of spring and

00:22:48

summer, Russian forces lost, according to our

00:22:51

reports, four and a half thousand

00:22:53

people, or 9,000 if we assume that we

00:22:57

see every second death, the calm, as we

00:23:00

know, is over in September, a Ukrainian

00:23:03

counter-offensive near Kharkov and

00:23:05

Kherson. On

00:23:13

September 6, Ukrainian troops went on

00:23:16

the offensive near Kharkov and in a matter of

00:23:19

days the front literally collapsed. Why did

00:23:22

this happen? The invasion forces

00:23:25

were initially not large enough to occupy the

00:23:28

entire country. You remember that a

00:23:31

quick and brilliant special military

00:23:34

operation was planned; the losses suffered plus

00:23:36

refuseniks

00:23:38

have thinned these forces to the limit. In addition,

00:23:41

most of the most combat-ready

00:23:43

formations, including the remaining

00:23:45

elite units, were kept in the Donbass and

00:23:49

many were transferred to Kherson, where

00:23:51

the Ukrainians loudly and persistently

00:23:53

announced a future counterattack from

00:23:56

captured documents. It turned out that the

00:23:58

units in the Kharkov region were

00:24:00

barely equipped a third and

00:24:03

held the defense there just Volunteers

00:24:06

from Bars some remnants of the Russian Guard and

00:24:09

parts of the so-called LPR the front

00:24:11

was falling apart so quickly that the Ukrainian

00:24:13

troops did not have time to raise forces to

00:24:16

continue their attacks. All that was

00:24:19

then possible for the Russian forces to avoid a

00:24:22

very large encirclement in Izyum or Mana

00:24:25

At the same time, the Russian group was under attack

00:24:28

on the right bank of the

00:24:30

Dnieper in Kherson, where the Ukrainian

00:24:34

offensive did not develop as

00:24:36

rapidly as I already said, the defense

00:24:38

there was held by elite units, they were grandfathers from

00:24:41

Bars. But they managed to disable

00:24:44

the bridges across the Dnieper, which doomed the

00:24:46

forces located there either to

00:24:49

retreat or to inevitable defeat

00:24:52

and against this background the Ministry of Defense apparently managed to

00:24:55

push through decisions that were previously

00:24:58

politically impossible in Russia they announced

00:25:02

partial mobilization with the same decision the

00:25:05

army closed the issue of 500 now an attempt

00:25:09

to get out of the war became a crime

00:25:11

by the way Remember I I say that

00:25:13

short-term contracts should be put in

00:25:16

quotes so here we go with mobilization, all

00:25:18

contracts turned into open-ended and

00:25:21

three-month ones, too, in short, don’t gamble with

00:25:24

the state, after

00:25:26

two weeks it became known about the first

00:25:28

deaths of mobilized recruits with

00:25:31

virtually no training, they were sent

00:25:34

just in the north of the Lugansk region to plug

00:25:37

the breakthrough with their bodies, and I must say they

00:25:40

managed gradually at the front

00:25:42

stabilized and has hardly moved since then, the

00:25:44

hastily brought in

00:25:46

mobilized allowed for a

00:25:49

successful evacuation. This is not my assessment of

00:25:52

Michael Coffman from the western bank of the

00:25:55

Dnieper. Coffman believes that the decision to

00:25:58

withdraw from Kherson was pushed through by

00:26:03

General Sergei Surikin, who was then appointed commander of the entire invasion group, and

00:26:07

politically this was also the case not just against the

00:26:10

backdrop of statements that Russia is here As

00:26:13

Kokhman Surikin says, apparently he decided

00:26:15

to adhere to a radically different

00:26:18

strategy after the withdrawal from the right bank of the

00:26:21

Dnieper, the front was reduced, the troops

00:26:23

had to go on the defensive for the winter and accumulate

00:26:27

forces while strategic aviation and

00:26:30

missile troops strike at

00:26:32

Ukrainian power plants and

00:26:34

transformers senseless assaults

00:26:37

actually stopped except for the assault on

00:26:40

Pavlovka and the attack on Bakhmud, the active

00:26:43

siege of this city began in October And

00:26:46

at the time of recording this video, the city of

00:26:48

Ukraine is still holding, or rather holding

00:26:51

what is left of it, this period, according to the

00:26:54

coffee classification, ended with the

00:26:56

resignation of Surikin in early September and

00:26:59

mid-January Russia

00:27:02

According to our reports, we lost more than 6 thousand

00:27:05

people killed, or 12 thousand if we remember about

00:27:09

our coefficient of known losses,

00:27:12

including two mass deaths on

00:27:14

October 24. Recruits from Volgograd and on

00:27:18

New Year's Eve Samara and in mid-

00:27:20

January the Second Battle of Donbass began

00:27:26

[music]

00:27:29

I specially I say almost nothing about the

00:27:32

assault on Bakhmut. Yes, of course, we take into account the

00:27:34

losses of prisoners. In general reports, these

00:27:37

losses are growing at some

00:27:38

catastrophic pace at the time of

00:27:41

recording this video. We have 2200 of them. And

00:27:44

now they have overtaken everyone in terms of deaths, both

00:27:47

airborne forces and motorized riflemen. I examined in more detail the

00:27:50

participation of prisoners in this war in the last

00:27:52

video If you haven’t watched it,

00:27:55

there will be a link on the right to understand it. I

00:27:58

wrote it down at the 1200 mark and

00:28:00

said the number. With a reserve of 1500, here I

00:28:04

basically don’t make a reserve, but I think that once

00:28:06

we finish the installation we will publish it will be closer to

00:28:09

3 in mid-January.

00:28:11

special operation was accepted by the head of the General Staff

00:28:13

Valery Gerasimov why what

00:28:16

dictated this decision most likely to

00:28:18

sit on the defensive became politically

00:28:21

unacceptable for Putin and

00:28:23

Surikin’s strategy of bombing and freezing Ukraine

00:28:26

obviously failed by the way small

00:28:29

and the next video I want to record

00:28:32

just on this topic of the failure of the company against

00:28:34

power plants Gerasimov shelling

00:28:37

of Ukrainian did not stop the cities, but

00:28:39

moved troops to attack in

00:28:42

several directions at once. If you follow

00:28:44

the reports, you know these names:

00:28:46

ugledar criminal Avdeevka plus

00:28:49

Bakhmut where Prigozhin’s prisoners received

00:28:52

reinforcements from the Airborne Forces and achieved serious

00:28:55

success by taking the solidary and enveloping the city’s

00:28:58

flanks, but all this came at the cost of

00:29:00

monstrous losses To be honest, we simply

00:29:03

do not have time to process obituaries per

00:29:06

week, we record the death of thousands of

00:29:09

people, approximately at the beginning of February, our

00:29:11

summary began, frankly speaking, to lie to the

00:29:14

lesser extent, we encountered such a

00:29:16

phenomenon as back Lock Well, that is, we

00:29:20

stupidly always have about 500 obituaries that

00:29:22

need clarification and additional

00:29:25

work, but there’s simply no time for this work.

00:29:27

And there’s no time because Good

00:29:30

afternoon, there’s a flood of new messages, so what

00:29:32

’s going on? Judging by the reports, it’s now impossible to

00:29:35

identify who exactly is being sent into meat

00:29:38

assaults. Yes, prisoners of PMCs are dying under bakhmut,

00:29:41

this is more or less Clear, but in the same place there are

00:29:44

Volunteers and military personnel attacks on

00:29:47

Ugledar were carried out by special forces units from

00:29:49

Ussuriysk and marines from Vladivostok and

00:29:52

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, but we see

00:29:54

that mobilized and

00:29:57

Volunteers from the Tatarstan battalion

00:30:00

Alga are dying there, the same situation is under flint, that

00:30:03

is, in the attack he sends all available

00:30:05

forces can to be someone and take care of it

00:30:07

saves As you understand When you

00:30:10

only see the dead, what’s going on with the living is not

00:30:13

very clear And we and other

00:30:15

Observers also record the phenomenon of

00:30:17

cannibalization of the army Remember I said

00:30:20

that most of the Russian army

00:30:23

cannot fight because it has completely

00:30:25

different tasks so now this is not so

00:30:28

on the Fro, for example, sailors of

00:30:31

the Pacific Fleet appeared, a BBC article about

00:30:34

meat assaults concerned another

00:30:38

previously unknown phenomenon, now those

00:30:40

mobilized are allegedly assigned to

00:30:43

units of the so-called DPR, formally there is

00:30:46

nothing like that after the annexation,

00:30:48

there is no separate army of the DPR, this is all

00:30:51

a unit of the Russians troops, that is,

00:30:54

don’t get me wrong, it was always

00:30:56

known that a significant part of the officers of

00:30:59

these people’s militias are in fact

00:31:02

Russian military personnel, but the Russian

00:31:04

mobilized ones were not ready to

00:31:07

share the fate of their colleagues from Donetsk

00:31:10

and Lugansk, who were also mobilized but

00:31:13

even before the start of the war and died long ago in the

00:31:17

same Avdeevka, after more than a

00:31:19

year of war, it turned out that sending

00:31:23

waves of people to death is the only

00:31:26

tactic available not only to Wagner but also to the

00:31:29

Russian army, and the difference between

00:31:33

volunteer prisoners and professional

00:31:35

military

00:31:36

conscripts is completely erased; in

00:31:39

fact, the prisoners who

00:31:42

have to fight only six months before Freedom

00:31:44

have the mobilized and the military simply don’t have at least some finite period of

00:31:47

stay in this meat grinder. So

00:31:52

will there be a second wave of partial

00:31:55

mobilization? Michael Kofman said this is a

00:31:58

safe bet. Well, that is, it’s close to one hundred

00:32:01

percent a win-win option for an

00:32:03

argument. I won’t argue with an expert here. I’ll

00:32:06

add from the prisoners themselves are not infinite if

00:32:09

Russia is going to seize the Donbass

00:32:11

as Wagner is doing now under

00:32:13

Bakhmut, not a single wave of mobilization will be needed

00:32:15

and Wagner’s actions under

00:32:18

Bakhmut will still be relatively successful if

00:32:21

Russia attacks because

00:32:23

10 times more people will die under coal,

00:32:26

another thought from Michael Kofman

00:32:29

which I remember, you don’t need to look at

00:32:32

the map who controls which territories

00:32:34

or conquers you need to look at what is

00:32:37

happening with the forces that are doing this

00:32:40

mid-autumn at the beginning of spring the front

00:32:44

has moved, well, a maximum of kilometers,

00:32:48

while the level of losses is the same as it was at

00:32:50

the beginning of the invasion, the war is obvious it will not

00:32:53

end tomorrow will never be in the

00:32:56

near future and losses during the strategy of

00:32:59

meat assaults will only increase So

00:33:02

what happened to the Russian army

00:33:03

Why in the end mobilized prisoners and Volunteers are fighting instead of it

00:33:07

Definitely

00:33:10

it was not ready and was not preparing for a

00:33:13

long-term full-scale conflict and

00:33:16

no army has

00:33:18

units for meat assaults Well,

00:33:21

maybe only North Korean where

00:33:24

you will find so many fools even for a

00:33:27

Kamikaze battalion, don’t forget

00:33:29

that the army is just an instrument of politics,

00:33:32

it’s the politicians who set goals for the military and not

00:33:36

the other way around, the army usually doesn’t start a war

00:33:39

on its own and the world is also not in its

00:33:41

competence more in Russia, where the army

00:33:44

from the law enforcement agencies is in

00:33:47

last place in terms of influence, Putin built

00:33:50

just such an army with gigantic

00:33:52

costs on flying Forgive the

00:33:54

wunderwaffle on the Doomsday weapon for the

00:33:58

devil, understand that Although he knew that he

00:34:00

was going to send him to Ukraine,

00:34:01

it was Putin who formulated the tasks of

00:34:04

special military operations which

00:34:07

completely failed and it was Putin who

00:34:11

did not curtail this war after the failure, of

00:34:13

course, the responsibility lies with the military,

00:34:16

primarily with the Chiefs of the General Staff

00:34:19

Valery Gerasimov and the Minister of Defense

00:34:22

Sergei Shoigu Although what a military man he is,

00:34:24

Gerasimov could not help but participate in the

00:34:27

development of plans for the solution and subsequent

00:34:31

emergency adjustments creating plan

00:34:34

B after the failure of the first stage of the company,

00:34:36

plan C after the collapse of the front near

00:34:39

Kharkov and plan D, which he is now

00:34:41

implementing personally, of course he knew that all

00:34:45

this could work, but only by a miracle, in an

00:34:47

amicable way, he would, in accordance with the

00:34:50

honor of a Russian officer, lock himself in

00:34:53

his office and use premium

00:34:55

weapons, but he won’t do it and

00:34:58

will continue to send people into meat

00:35:00

assaults, of course, he’s not an officer at all But an

00:35:04

ordinary courtier, unfortunately I have

00:35:07

no good news again, but

00:35:10

next time I promise to cope,

00:35:11

like, subscribe to the channel,

00:35:15

send donations to the media zone Thank you for

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This feature is available in the UDL Helper extension. Make sure that "Show the video snapshot button" is checked in the settings. A camera icon should appear in the lower right corner of the player to the left of the "Settings" icon. When you click on it, the current frame from the video will be saved to your computer in JPEG format.

What's the price of all this stuff?

It costs nothing. Our services are absolutely free for all users. There are no PRO subscriptions, no restrictions on the number or maximum length of downloaded videos.