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Update. 05/19/24. You can add at least one more, if not two in past day. Second is not yet confirmed. We'll see in the coming days. Russian army is so backward it would be embarrassing for the third world country and they were bragging to be the second world power. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Keep quiet!!! Russia is winning against the collective West. 50+ Countries VS 1 Country.

Regarding your comments at 9:19, what you're describing is the "broad front" strategy and it can make sense if you have an overwhelming numerical advantage and the logistics to pull it off. Its not necessarily a bad plan... but I don't think Russia can pull it off.

Empire strikes back !

As a Yank I’m concerned that republicans won’t support foreign aid to Ukraine or won’t support foreign aid to oppose Russia. I’m not sure which it. No matter the why behind it , I’m very concerned that Europe may have to support this on their own in less than a year and I don’t have much faith in that either.

Regarding competing generals. Do we know how many generals Russia has left out of those they had before the invasion?

Bouncing back and forth... Donbas is lost... Goodbye

Putin has such a hold on Trump, he was absolutely confident that the USA would never send Ukraine more help. But Mike Johnson finally caved in to the pressure from sane people, visited Trump and informed him that the aid package was going to happen, and then made it happen. So Putin had been lining up troops to take Kharkiv later on in the summer, under the assumption that the Ukrainians would have no weapons and be easy to defeat. It would not take a huge force, under those conditions. Suddenly that was no longer the future, so the Russians moved more quickly to take whatever they could get before the weapons arrived. So there evolved a "Plan B" but "Plan B" was about 1% of what "Plan A" had been.

The reason for the assaults could just be the senseless and incompetent thrashing about of a Russian staff who don’t really have clue how to progress in this war…

Dont underestimate the russians, putin cant afford to loose this war.

New General making a name for himself, if he doesn't succeed its window or tea!

Anyone heard from Gen.Serovikin? Is he working his way back up the ladder?

Remember, we're still very early into this fresh offensive so it might not look like a buffer zone right now but it might in coming months, or not who knows. But I think it's a mix of point 2 and 3, the intent is to create a buffer zone over time and pulling ukrainian reserves and units from the eastern front. Also on this point 6:44 These troops Russia has in Kharkiv has not been pulled from the active front, these are fresh units with "fresh" hardware that were pretty much just sitting in those russians oblasts waiting and training. So Russia didn't pull any troops from the active front, which Ukraine did, even parts of their elite battalions. Regardless, only time will tell what the true intent was and if it was successful or not. It's impossible to draw any conclusions this early on.

THIS MAN IS A PUPPET OF THE WEST THIS NEW FRONT IS HORRIBLE FOR UKRAINE THEY CAN BARELY HOLD THE LINE NOW ANOTHER FRONT AND RUSSIA CAN OPEN 5 MORE FRONTS ODDESA AND MORE.

amazing video Anders!

Well I haven’t heard Putin say anything other than if Russia’s sovereignty is threatened there will be no nuclear strikes. So if you listen to him we should know how the end of our civilization happens. I am Swedish have been growing up being afraid of the Soviet. But Putin seems to be much more trustworthy than any of the western nations. You who are an analyst on you tube should know that..... I can only see two things happen Russia will win, Ukraine will be a puppet state. Or NATO will join the war. Then it will be very hot war likely nuclear.

Tak for en rigtig god gennemgang og fremlæggelse

Very helpful

Putin has been explicit about when he would use nuclear weapons. When the French and the Poles started getting serious about sending troops to Ukraine, he told them that he would consider that a declaration of war. And he said that he would not just strike at the troops on the ground, he would strike their home countries also. I think that he must use tactical nukes if the West commits acts of war that are visible as such to the rest of the world. Putin has shown remarkable restraint. It is the West that has been reckless in pushing us toward WW3.

Hopefully the Russians are like the guy who squirted warm water up his bottom - but it all went horribly wrong. He was his own worst enema. (Groan.) Seriously, though, thanks for such well presented and thoughtful analysis. Cheers

"Misunderstandings of what tactical means"... yeah. When Ukraine has the rare win you call it tactically great and superior to Russian forces. When the Russians take over 200km2, you cope with "well, it depends on what you mean by tactical"... from the meat-waves bullshit this guy regurgitates (and which HistoryLegends pretty much destroyed) to pretty much a 90% failed analysis (based on the actual events and how they contradict what he says), why people still listen to this idiot is weird

Crimea is difficult in terms of distance and can no longer be used fully for Ru's military purposes. Then it makes sense to open a new front, straight on the north east border. #no #surprise

Former soldier and you are the best od them all!

Its strange that instead to be objective and neutral, military analyst try hes best to find only bad things in Russian army and to discredit any advancement or gains, and meanwhile be very silent on Ukrainians strategy and now for very long time been in defense, with very little prospect to start some offensive operations.

Russia define succes like this: We only lost 90 out of 100 tanks…. Succes comrades

Hey, Ander, it's operational < strategical < tactical, you got wrong the most important part :) Or does it differ from country to country? I don't think so, but I may be wrong.

Hey Anders, maybe you're not quite the Nostradamus after all.. maybe you should consider starting a business with the other failed fortune teller Richard Kemp

For Ukraine, this Kharkiv attack is a wake up call to restructure its materiel. To have non-western resources on the northern border and western materiel on eastern/southern front. Ukraine could the use its northern forces to cross into Russia without fear of US terminating supply as only non US materiel is used.

Russia might have a bad plan but the current state of affairs is proving otherwise. By the way, you have a nice glow to you, mr. agent

The Russian Army does remind me of a horde of wild boars.

Just another western well he’s not even western. He’s from freaking Europe, but all he’s doing is talking about propaganda. That’s not real.

План в том чтобы не обстреливали Белгород.

Anders, Putin is cautious and overly indecisive. Not sure about long game, but I see an "on-the cheap game", he is loathed to mobilize as needed to win decisively. Another 300,000 troops would tip the tide, yet he is loathed to risk it. He is playing it cautiously just like in Donbass in 2014.

This is a buffer zone on the cheap. Putin has been fighting this war on the cheap and is doing the bare minimum. The Russians are on the offensive, yet they lack the skill and numbers to exploit anywhere. Putin wants to win by not mobilizing, as mobilizing will mean losing control of the narrative. The Russian plan is to slowly wear down Ukraine in the long run and by doing, as I said... the bare minimum. The Russians are playing it cautious as Putin rarely makes decisive decisions. Ignore Crimea, it was a one off opportunity and he seized it. However, further into 2014 he could have ended all this by seizing Donbass, yet he vacillated, he is the King of half measures. Furthermore, the forces in Kharkov would have been better used in the Avdiivka sector and on an advance to Pokhrovsk which is a key town, however, the Russians lack the skill it seems to exploit an operational level break through and they may be afraid of a repeat of 2022.

The goal is to take Staryi Saltiw in order to weaken the Kupjnask Front logistically. Therefore to expose the northern sector as well. At least the Ukrainian Command suspects that. We will see if they are able to do that.

it may be a way to leverage upon Russia's temporary manpower superiority? and how much of this manpower superiority is linked to foreign fighters, like people from Cuba, India and Africa enrolling in Russia's army?

It actually hasn’t launched an offensive. The Ukrainian army is retreating from untenable positions due to overwhelming superiority in all facets of operational arts. This is how a military uses its superiority to constrict & suffocate an enemy without suffering high losses. It is how a sophisticated intelligent machine operates. Russian way of war. They have a general staff that uses sophisticated decision trees to accumulate information & defer to these constraints. The intelligence that is assembled is coalesced from even privates & non coms to understand actions & redesign more accurately the correlates required for further effectiveness in the tactical planning process. In other words all this is a training exercise as a managed war is won with the least destructive force possible. The diametric opposite of all western militaries & governments. Most will never understand a thing I have written. But then they are western minds with a sense of entitlement & no real understanding anyway

If you have no idea what the other side's plans are, you are in a lot of trouble. That is the whole point about deception and Russia is running a master class on Ukraine, NATO and the US. Here's a hint, they have multiple objectives: they don't want the Ukes shelling the near border towns. They don't want the ukes cutting any supply lines in the area. They don't want the ukes anywhere near the new airport they will use for deep strikes into Ukraine. I am sure there are more.

As I saw German journalists they were too much overwhelmed by this assault! Strategic thinking is really missing!

I think this might be an operation more for western media than for ground military objectives. Here in Europe we will have important elections and with nationalist parties (usually pro Russia) on the rise, the offensive plus the bad media coverage can give to these parties a talking point for stop supporting Ukraine because "clearly" is useless.

An attempt at an analytical view of things, but Anders your obvious anti Russia bias shines through Couldn't watch past the half way point

I tend to think this is the kind of wishful thinking that lasted throughout most of the Vietnam War.

One explanation I did read about the goal of small-force offensive in Kharkov is to stretch the Ukrainian Army more thinly by opening another front. Perhaps forcing them to move units from other places. But under this theory there should be a follow-up move to exploit whatever place in the front that may weaken.

If Anders were a properly well regarded military analyst from those in positions of power, then his perspective wouldn’t be freely spewed on UA-cam.

Has this guy ever been right about a single goddamn thing regarding the Russia-Ukraine war?

Russia's Strategic Plan is to exhaust the UA Military ability to fight and they are successfully applying that strategy. UA is undermanned and underarmed. Russia's manpower and military equipment stocks are increasing. "We have no Reserves left" -Gnrl Budanov. There are now even seeing protest inside UA against the draft which is a criminal offense. Ukraine is drafting invalids and convicts while Russia's Army is achieving its recruitment targets through volunteers alone. Opening up new fronts will dilute it's defenses and force exhausted fighters who have been on the the front for years to stay in their trenches instead of returning to thier families and jobs. At this rate, the UA army will be too weak to prevent multiple breakthroughs, probably later this year.

Given that a certain man running a country and named after his father has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be a master tactician with zero grasp of strategy, I would have to conclude that our host here is right.

You also must have struck a nerve - everything is full of 'user-xyz Ruzzki - trolls' 😅

"Maybe the russian plan is not very good" 😂😂💯💯

JUST BRILLIANT! You do in 5 minutes what others couldn't in 5 hours. You really teach how to think for yourself. It needs a northern head to keep a cool one. Thank you SO MUCH!