Russia Pushes to Paraskovievka, Tightening Bakhmut; Ukraine Exhausting Reserves, US Chases Balloons

A remark on the value of high ground from a military historian. In modern war one of the key advantages the high ground offers is actually not of visual, but of actual cover from direct dire. Who controls the high ground can place stuff (reserves, supplies, artillery, HQs etc) on the reverse slope of the hill and the decensive positions just below the ridge, also on the opposite side if the hill. Then the enemy who wishes to advance is unable to fire directly into those positions from anywhere except on top of the ridge, where, as you can imagine, the attacker is extremely exposed and isolated from friendly fire support. That makes hills excellent defensive positions. The lower topography, however, offers no such cover and the enemy is able to fire at an angle into trenches, dugouts etc and also the near rear of the front is extremely vulnerable to fire from the hill. Imagine a tank, for example, appearing from the back slope for merely a few seconds, taking a shot and then disappearing back behind the hilltop only to reappear a few minutes later at a different location. The defensive advantage high groind gives is enormous and depressions are killing groinds where its extremely tough if not impossible to find cover.

Why do you wear the same green shirt?? Love your channel. Such historical knowledge you have.

THEY ARE SENDING THEIR OWN GEAR IN ORDER TO USE THEM LATER ON THEMSELVES, BY PULLING IN ALL THE NATO TROOPS SURROUNDING ALL OF UKRAINE ALMOST, YES THE US AND UK ARE TRYING TO START A WW3, AND THE PLAN IS PROBABLY TO INVADE UKRAINE AND TRY TO DO A KNOCK OUT BLOW TO RUSSIAN FORCES, AND IOT MAY INVOLVE THE NEW GRAVITY BOMB THEY SHOWED THE WORLD FOR A WHILE THERE. AGAIN, THE TANKS ARE NOT MAINLY FOR THE uKRO TROOPS, IT'S FOR THE NATO TROOPS THAT ARE ALREADY THERE. IT WILL HAPPEN DURING THEIR NEXT PHASE. OR THE EXAKT SAME BOMB THAT WERE USED IN BEIRUT SOME YEARS AGO, YES THEY LIED TO YOU, IT WASN'T A FIREWORK ROCKET OR SOME NITRATES GOING OFF, THAT WAS THE COVER STORY, THE TRUE STORY IS: IT WAS A MESSAGE TO RUSSIA AND IRAN AND CHINE WHAT IS AWAITING THEM PROBABLY, AS THERE WASN'T ANY RADIATION TO SPEAK OFF IN BEIRUT, THAT WAS THE SOLE REASON WHY THEY USED IT THERE AND AS A WARNING/MESSAGE WHAT IS BEING PLANNED. THIS IS ME THEORY.

Putin has himself in a bad place as he can’t pull back and lose faith and the Ukrainians will never surrender because of war crimes committed by Russians so with the help of western weapons both countries will be totally decimated

ive seen these channels, these guys are just capitalising on the popularity of the videos not trying to appropriate the content….. and they dont have your name on the channels, but you get the odd clueless person in the comments praising you though XD

Ive also seen the spambot scambot pretending to be you on your own comments section….. im assuming everyone is intelligent enough to avoid or to know and differentiate the real mercouris etc

I wish the Ukrainians would concede and agree to peace talks! They are not gonna win. This is terrible for all regular peoples all races

there cant be many ukrainians left surely! the ones that are fighting are knackered or dead, the ones that dont have sought asylum or also dead….. and or being ratted out by uk government

you are a victim of Shadow Government , that owns YT , you dont scream more war more war , and as such you are under attack . Just like with coronademic

The Norwegian Intelligence Service (E-service), which is Norway's foreign intelligence service, writes in its recent security assessment that the Russian military has gotten stuck in Ukraine.

The e-service further writes that the war will continue to weaken Russia's military capability through 2023, and points out that poor management, inadequate equipment and heavy losses on the battlefield contribute to weakened morale among the forces and weakened conventional capability.

The e-service writes in the intelligence report that weakened Russian conventional capability increases the importance of nuclear weapons: "With weakened conventional capability, the importance of nuclear weapons for Russia has increased significantly. The Russian strategic and regional deterrent forces have thus become increasingly important for the Russian military power," reads the intelligence report.

The Barricade – nice

You have over 100k Subscribers, why don't you get your channel verified you get an authentication badge and have the ability to file copyright claims.

Bakhmut….it might cause Mercouris to have a major stroke.

Life in Fascist Russia. And before you sad sheep think this is "propaganda" because it's a BBC report, it happens to be factual:
University student Olesya Krivtsova has been missing a lot of classes. That's because 20-year-old Olesya is under house arrest. She has an electronic tag on her leg. Police can monitor her every move. Her alleged crime? Olesya was arrested for anti-war posts on social media. One of them concerned last October's explosion on the bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea. "I posted an Instagram story about the bridge," Olesya tells the BBC, "reflecting on how Ukrainians were happy with what had happened." She had also shared a friend's post about the war.

Then the drama began. "I was talking on the phone to my mother," Olesya recalls, "when I heard the front door opening. Lots of police came in. They took away my phone and shouted at me to lie on the floor." Olesya was charged with justifying terrorism and discrediting the Russian armed forces. She faces up to 10 years in prison. Olesya is only allowed to leave home to attend court

"I never imagined anyone could get such a long prison sentence for posting something on the internet," Olesya says. "I'd seen reports of crazy verdicts in Russia, but I hadn't paid much attention and continued to speak out." A student of the Northern Federal University in Arkhangelsk, Olesya has now been added to Russia's official list of terrorists and extremists. "When I realised I'd been put on the same list as school shooters and the Islamic State group I thought it was crazy," recalls Olesya. Under the rules of her house arrest she's banned from talking on the phone and going online. Olesya has a striking image tattooed on her right leg – Russian President Vladimir Putin depicted as a spider, with an Orwellian inscription: "Big Brother is watching you." It appears that in Olesya's case, it wasn't Big Brother watching her, but her fellow students. "A friend showed me a post about me in a chat," Olesya says, "about how I was against the 'special military operation'. Most of the people in this chat were history students. They were discussing whether to denounce me to the authorities." The BBC has seen extracts from the group chat. In one comment, Olesya is accused of writing "provocative posts of a defeatist and extremist character. This is out of place for war-time. It must be nipped in the bud". "First let's try to discredit her. If she doesn't get it, let the security services deal with it." "Denunciation is the duty of a patriot," someone else writes.

Later, when the list of prosecution witnesses was read out in court, Olesya recognised the names from the student chat.

It's one year since the Kremlin launched its "special military operation" in Ukraine – the term it uses for Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Within weeks of the assault, President Putin was calling on the Russian public to separate "true patriots from scum and traitors". Since then, across Russia there have been reports of Soviet-style denunciations against critics of the war. They include students informing on teachers and workers denouncing colleagues.

Ukraine has had all the major victories, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson and Izium, glory to the heroes!

The fools are firmly in control of the White House and its primary fool occupant.

It does not seem that Russian goal is Ukraine. The way the Russia conduct this operation seems that It is after something else. Something bigger!? That "something Bigger" is slowly but surely going to bite the fish hook the Russia is casting and keeps doing so steady and without any hesitation.

First, Russia wanted Donbass…then Ukraine, …now, seems whet they want is beyond boundaries of Ukraine?!

If you give people false hope in voting for politicians or anybody again, then…i don't know what to say to you