How Ukraine Won the First Phase of the War - Modern Warfare DOCUMENTARY

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👍︎︎ 8 👤︎︎ u/Dr_Quest1 📅︎︎ May 07 2022 🗫︎ replies

I wish people wouldn’t talk about the different “phases” of this war. “Phase” is the word Putin uses. These are not “phases”. This is Russia randomly throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. Is there a word for that? I dunno. But let’s not resort to using Putin’s terminology.

Putin had Plan A, which was to quickly take Kyiv, take out Zelinskyy, and install a puppet Government. And Plan B? There was no Plan B. When Plan A failed catastrophically, Russia was fucked. And they’ve been trying to make it up as they go along.

“Phase” implies an orderly plan, progressing from one step to the next. That’s why Putin talks about “phases” and claimed that they moved on to other phases after successfully completing the initial phase.

👍︎︎ 11 👤︎︎ u/Fit_Albatross_8958 📅︎︎ May 07 2022 🗫︎ replies

He takes Russian claims too seriously

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ May 08 2022 🗫︎ replies

That's a great summation thusfar. While I'm more worldly than what one typically thinks of for a Yank, I'm still pretty ignorant of the Ukraine geography and layout, plus there's been a LOT of data about the war. This video has been hugely helpful for an outsider!

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/El_Fez 📅︎︎ May 10 2022 🗫︎ replies
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We like to be precise with our  content and not cash in on the   ongoing conflicts, so instead of spamming  your timelines with hot takes constantly,   we decided to take our time and summarize  the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine   with monthly videos. This conflict will  enter history as pivotal both historically,   and in terms of military science, so we will  have more to say over the next while. For now,   allow us to present to you our video on the  first phase of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And with a look at the war’s beginning, we can  also recommend a celebration of a war coming to   an end, brought to you by our sponsor MagellanTV.  This documentary streaming service founded by   filmmakers presents Tony Robinon’s VE Day: Minute  by Minute, an in depth look at a single day,   the day the war in the european theater of world  war two came to a close. It brings historians and   veterans together to tell the story of a momentous  twenty-hour period that changed the modern world. There’s much more to see on MagellanTV too: they  have the richest and most varied history content   available anywhere, covering everything  from the ancient to modern eras, wars,   biographies, and the earth itself - plus as  well as history content, they also give you   extensive collections of science, true  crime, travel and other documentaries. They add 15 or more hours of 4K, high  definition content every week for their   subscribers at no extra cost. It is all viewable  anytime, anywhere on televisions, laptops,   mobile devices, and more. Get access to 3500 hours  of ad-free documentaries for only $4.99 a month,   and get a month for free by subscribing to  MagellanTV via our link in the description. In October 2021, the Russian army started  a build-up on the Russia-Ukraine and   Belarus-Ukraine borders. The Kremlin explained it  with planned military exercises, brushing aside   all the concerns and declaring that they had a  right to move their forces wherever they deemed   necessary within their borders. But soon, the  United States started asserting that the massing   of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border was a  build-up for an impending invasion of Ukraine.   The Russian government vehemently denied this,  while some NATO states and Ukraine considered   the US reports exaggerated. Nevertheless, by  December, Russia started making demands: for   NATO to guarantee that Ukraine would never join  the organization; that Alliance would withdraw   its forces from countries that joined the alliance  after 1997; that NATO would stop its expansion;   that NATO would seek agreement with Russia for any  activities in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Caucasus,   and Central Asia. Naturally, the United States and  its allies rejected these proposals. Despite the   Russian assurances and attempts of Western leaders  like French President Emmanuel Macron to find   common ground, the tensions continued growing.  On 17 February, forces of the unrecognized   Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and  Ukraine accused each other of shelling.   Unrecognized governments of Donetsk and Luhansk  ordered the evacuation of their populations.   On 21 February 2022, the Russian president  Vladimir Putin made a threatening speech,   questioning Ukrainian statehood and  calling it a Bolshevik-created entity.   On the same day, Russia became the first country  to recognize the so-called Donetsk People’s   Republic and Luhansk People’s republic, justifying  this step by claiming that a genocide had been   committed by the Ukrainian government and neo-nazi  groups against Russian-speaking people in Donbas.   In the early morning of 24 February, Putin  announced the start of the special military   operation to denazify and demilitarize  Ukraine. A military conflict in Ukraine,   which started in 2014, turned into a  full-scale war with the invasion of Russia.  According to different estimates, Russia deployed  150k to 200k troops out of total active personnel   of approximately 900k, along with up to 40  thousand separatists from Donetsk and Luhansk,   later joined by a few thousand troops from Syria  and separatist republics of Abkhazia and Ossetia.   It is safe to assume that most of the best Russian  troops were deployed to Ukraine. At the same time,   the rest of the active personnel are mostly  conscripts stationed throughout vast Russia.   The Russian army divides into Battalion Tactical  Groups (BTG), which are autonomous military units   consisting of infantry, armored and unarmored  military vehicles, artillery, field hospitals,   and so on. According to the latest pre-invasion  figures provided by the official US sources,   Russia amassed approximately 120 BTGs on the  border with Ukraine. BTGs usually have 600-1000   infantrymen, are supposed to have 10 tanks,  and between 40 and 70 other armored vehicles.   This allows us to estimate that 1200 tanks  and 4800 to 8400 other armored vehicles   are being used in the Russian expeditionary force  if all BTGs are equipped by the book, which is   rarely the case, especially in an army known for  vast corruption and poor administration. According   to the IISS Military Balance, Russia possesses  1391 military aircraft and 544 attack helicopters,   but it is impossible to know how many of them  Russia is exactly using in the war in Ukraine.   The same source shows that Ukraine has  active personnel of approximately 200k   troops, more than 3k armored vehicles,  132 military aircraft, and 55 helicopters.   Since Ukraine has declared general mobilization  and armed volunteer Territorial Defense,   we could assume the actual number of people  resisting the invasion is way higher.   Moreover, thousands of volunteers joined Ukraine’s  international brigade. While talking about the   comparison of forces, it is necessary to note that  the Ukrainian army has come a long way since 2014.   The army has been significantly modernized.  Its military arsenal is much better, as the   United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, and others  have provided Ukraine with anti-tank weapons like   NLAW and Javelin, anti-aircraft missile systems  such as Stinger, along with TB2 Bayraktar drones.  The Russian offensive started with a massive  shelling and airstrike campaign throughout Ukraine   with more than 100 missile strikes to destroy  the Ukrainian military infrastructure, bases,   anti-aircraft missile systems, arms depots.  The later events demonstrated that Russia   failed to achieve its goal, as the Ukrainian  military infrastructure, albeit heavily damaged,   managed to mostly stay intact. This was followed  by a ground offensive in four general directions.   The Northern Offensive by the Russian troops  deployed in Belarus towards the capital Kyiv.   The Eastern Offensive from Belgorod towards  Kharkiv. The Donbas (Southeastern) Offensive   from the territories controlled by  pro-Russian separatists and Voronezh   towards the Ukrainian-controlled territories of  the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. The Southern   Offensive from Crimea towards Kherson, Mykolaiv,  and ultimately Odesa. It looks like the Russian   strategy was to rapidly advance towards major  urban centers, taking large cities like Kyiv,   Kharkiv, Odesa as soon as possible to break  the morale and resolve of the Ukrainians   and force the government to capitulate, along  with ensuring the land connection between the   separatist-ruled part of Donbas and Crimea, and  securing the whole Black Sea shore of Ukraine.   These 4 offensive axes were supposed to merge  after securing advances along the frontline   to make pincer and envelopment movement more  possible. The exact political endgame of the   Russian offensive still puzzles analysts with  claims ranging from installing a pro-Russian   puppet government to dividing Eastern  Ukraine into several pro-Russian states.   The Ukrainian defense strategy was  to orderly withdraw to urban centers   while fighting advancing Russian forces,  bogging them down in urban warfare,   ambushing and attacking their supply lines.  It would be illogical for the Ukrainian army   to defend all the terrain along the whole of  the massive front, given the Russian advantage   in firepower. The analyst Michael Kofman  calls this tactic trading space for time.  On the first day of the invasion, Russia made the  most significant advance on the Southern Front,   where the 58th Combined Arms Army (CAA) advanced  for about 60 kilometers pushing the Ukrainian 57th   Motorized Brigade back and taking the North  Crimean Canal and reaching the outskirts of   Kherson. On the Northern Front, the 35th CAA  took Chernobyl and the Chernobyl power plant,   while the 36th CAAs pushed towards the capital  Kyiv bypassing Chernihiv. The Ukrainian 1st Tank   Brigade managed to halt the Russian advance,  as it failed to capture the city of Chernihiv.   The 41st CAA’s advance towards Kyiv from Sumy was  also halted in the outskirts of Sumy by the 56th   motorized brigade. The Russian airborne attack  on the Hostomel Airport near Kyiv by the elite   31st Guards Air Assault Brigade of the Russian  VDV (elite Airborne Army) also failed after the   Ukrainian counter-attack. The rapid capture of  Kharkiv did not happen either as the 1st Guards   Tank Army could not break the resistance  of the Ukrainian 92th Mechanized Brigade.   The advance of the Luhansk Militia and the  Russian 20th CAA towards Severodonetsk met   the resistance of the Ukrainian 53rd Brigade with  heavy fighting around the town of Schastya. The   elements of the 8th CAA and the Donetsk Militia  pushed the 54th Mechanized Brigade towards the   Northwest from the Ukrainian-“DNR” line of contact  and the 56 Motorized Brigade towards the East   along the Black Sea shore with heavy fighting  around Mariupol, but failed to reach its   overall goals of taking over the rest of Donetsk  oblast and breaking the Ukrainian resistance.  On 25 February heavy fighting on all fronts  continued. The Russian troops forced their   way into Obolon mere 9 kilometers away  from the Ukrainian Parliament building.   The 95th Air Assault Brigade and the 72nd  Mechanized Brigade were there to protect Kyiv.   At this point, the United States even offered  Ukrainian President, Zelenskyy to leave the   capital, to which he reportedly replied: “The  fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride”.   The threat to the capital was real, as during his  speech to the nation he called the Ukrainians to   brace for an offensive and urged them  to prepare for a hard battle for Kyiv.   Zelenskyy’s refusal to leave and insistence to  fight against the odds turned him into a hero   and the symbol of the Ukrainian resistance,  further mobilizing Ukrainian society and   galvanizing the international community  to adopt crippling sanctions on Russia,   such as disconnecting several major Russian  banks from SWIFT. But the situation continued   to be difficult for the Ukrainians. The American  intelligence predicted that the fall of Kyiv   would happen within 96 hours. Even though the  Russians failed to capture Sumy, they continued   their march towards Kyiv from there, advancing to  Romny. On the Southern Front, Russians developed   their success by capturing Novo Kakhovka and  moving closer to securing Kherson and Melitopol.   Taking Melitopol was essential to continue  the march along the Black Sea shore to merge   with Russian and separatist units trying to  take Mariupol, along with advancing towards   Zhaporizhie, which could have encircled the  Ukrainian units fighting on the Donbas front.   In Kharkiv and Donbas, the situation remained  more or less stable, and there were even reports   of the Ukrainian counter-offensives pushing  back the Russian units to the border in Milove.   February 25 was also the day when the defenders  of the Zmiinyi Island, south of Odesa,   famously responded to the Russian demand of  surrender: “Fuck off, Russian military ship!”.  On February 26, the Russian army mostly used  special forces and airborne troops to fight   the Ukrainian defense in Kyiv. With the 36th  CAA giving up on the rapid capture of Chernihiv   and bypassing it to move towards the capital,  it looked that other Russian units around Kyiv   waited for its arrival to strike Kyiv with massive  force. Similarly unable to take the city of   Kharkiv with a direct assault, the 1st Guards Tank  Army divided into two groups to bypass the city   to possibly envelop the Ukrainian  units in the city or move towards Kyiv.   The situation in the Southeastern Donbas  front remained relatively stable as well.   The Russian troops and separatist militia captured  the port of Berdiansk and the Berdiansk Airport.   DPR separatists also claimed to capture Pavlopol  and Pischevik, while LNR separatists also claimed   to seize Lopeskyne and Markivka. Russia  continued its advance on the Southern front.   The 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division  of the 58th CAA of the Russian army   continued fighting in Kherson, while also  sending units toward the city of Mykolaiv.   Other elements of the 58th CAA were  engaged in fighting to seize Melitopol,   along with advancing towards Enerhodar and  the Zaporizhian power plant in the north.  Oleksiy Arestovych, the advisor to the Ukrainian  president, admitted on February 27 that Ukraine   lost control over the whole of Berdiansk.  Prevailing in Kherson and Melitopol, capturing   Henichesk and Kherson Airport meant that the  Russian offensive on the Southern front developed   its success, increasing the threat on Mykolaiv  and Odesa in the West and Mariupol in the East.   First reports of the Russian army merging its  offensives in the Southern and Southeastern   Front around Mariupol also emerged on that day.  But the continuing assault on Zaporizhzhya,   namely on Enerhodar, Vasylivka and Tokmak meant  that the 58th CAA, the most successful unit of the   Russian war effort so far, had to fight in three  different directions, dividing its resources.   On other fronts the situation remained more or  less stable as Russia made small gains such as   the capture of Kupyansk, the encirclement of  Konotop, but the 41st CAA’s attack on Pryluky   and the 1st Guards Tank Army’s attacks on Kharkiv  and Okhtyrka were repelled. By now, it had become   clear that the strategy of causing collapse of the  Ukrainian defense by rapid mass offensive on major   Ukrainian cities had failed, as the Ukrainian  army not only remained functional in the cities,   but also managed to harass Russian supply lines  and inflict major losses on the Russian manpower   and military vehicles. In response to the  Western sanctions and failure to rapidly   defeat the Ukrainian resistance, Putin ordered  Russia's nuclear forces on high alert. The valiant   defense of Ukraine caught the West by surprise,  as contrary to almost unanimous expectation of the   fall of Ukraine, the Ukrainian army remained  a force capable of defending the country.   As a result, for the first time in history,  the EU announced direct military aid to a   foreign country - Ukraine, while Germany made  a major turn in its foreign policy by sending   weapons to Ukraine and stating its intention  to dramatically increase its military spending.  But Russia still possessed major resources  sufficient to defeat Ukraine. On February 28   satellite images of a 64-kilometers long massive  column of tanks, military vehicles, and artillery   moving from Belarus towards the western part of  Kyiv were shared on social media. Along with that,   in the Kyiv front, elements of the 41st and 36th  CAAs moved to bypass Sumy and Chernihiv to merge   with an aim to make a push toward East Kyiv.  Presumably, the overall goal was to attack Kyiv   from a number of directions, but the maintenance  of a formidable force by Ukraine in Chernihiv and   Sumy oblasts caused a major threat to the  extended supply lines of the Russian army.   Elements of the Ukrainian 1st Tank Army conducted  defensive actions against the 41st and 36th CAAs   stalling the Russian advance in Nizhyn. Along  with maintaining a solid defense around Kyiv,   the Ukrainian forces also engaged in  pointed counter-attacks, such as in Makaryv   and Borodyanka. In Donbas heavy battles around  Volnovakha, Starobilsk and Mariupol continued.   In Kharkiv, Ukraine set a defensive line between  Chuhuiv and Balakliia, preventing Russians from   encircling Kharkiv and moving towards Poltava  and Dnipro. Numerous reports of heavy shelling   of civilian areas in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol  and other cities of Ukraine continued. Also, the   first death of a Russian general in the war was  reported, as the deputy commander of the 41st CAA   Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky was allegedly  killed. On a diplomatic front, as expected the   first round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations  in Belarus did not bring any positive results.  The first day of March brought several  setbacks to the Ukrainian defense.   Reports of capture of Kherson and Melitopol  meant that now the 42nd Motor Rifle Division   was free to move towards Mykolaiv, while other  units of the 58th CAA engaged in Melitopol   could join the attack on Mariupol from the West,  making the encirclement of the city a real threat.   Reports of the Belarusian army joining  the Russian offensive were not confirmed.  On March 2, the Western intelligence sources  reported that Russia was switching its military   tactic from head-on offensive on cities to  attritional war, wearing down the Ukrainian   army by continued assault on its defensive  lines and shelling of Ukrainian cities to break   the morale of the population as the overall  pace of their offensive remained well below   expected. Ukrainians report reclaiming of Horlivka  by the forces of the 96th Air Assault Brigade and   Makariv by defenders of the Kyiv perimeter. During  the next few days both sides claimed taking Irpin,   Bucha and Hostomel, towns in the vicinity of Kyiv,  capture of which was crucial for the success of   the Russian campaign in Kyiv. It indicates that  heavy fighting was going on around this area,   but these reports also stipulated that the  Russian attacks were mostly carried out by   1 or 2 BTGs at the same time, which  was interpreted by military experts   as inability of the Russian army to carry out  coordinated attacks by a large number of units.   Another point of the Russian offensive in the  Kyiv front was Brovary, but the attempts to   push back the Ukrainian army by the 41st and 36th  CAAs were repelled. Within the next several days,   these unsuccessful attacks would continue.  On other fronts Russia took Balakliia,   repelled the Ukrainian counter-attack on  Horlivka and engaged in heavy battle to   take the Mykolaiv airport on March 3. But possibly  the biggest gain of the Russian army on this day   was the capture of Svatova, which is situated  between Kharkiv and Luhansk, by the 6th CAA   and by the Luhansk militia. This allowed the  Russian Eastern and Southeastern axis to link.   The only positive result of the second round  of negotiations was the agreement to open   corridors for civilians stuck in encircled  cities like Sumy, Chernihiv and Mariupol.  On 4-6 March Russia made important  gains on several fronts. In the South,   the 58th CAA took Enerhodar and the power plant  in the vicinity, along with Tokmak and Vasylivka.   There were also reports of successful  Russian advance on the Mykolaiv airport   and heavy fighting in the Mykolaiv oblast, which  was defended by the 57th motorized brigade.   Along with that, the 6th CAA and Luhansk  separatist forces started attacking Izium   and Severodonetsk. The fall of these cities could  have been disastrous for Ukraine, as it could have   possibly allowed the Russian units to encircle  the 56th Motorized Brigade and other Ukrainian   units fighting in Donbas. Heavy fighting was  reported along the Chuhuiv-Balakliia line, which   the Ukrainian defense managed to withstand. They  were not as successful at the Nizhyn-Pryluky line,   as Russians were able to penetrate it pushing  within 20kms of central Kyiv from the Northeast.   The Russians also managed to encircle Okhtyrka. On March 7, Ukraine managed to reclaim the   Mykolaiv airport and Chuhuiv. The massive tank  column in the west of Kyiv still threatened   the city, but no significant fighting or  movement in that direction was reported.   This was also the day when the first international  volunteers joined the defense of Kyiv. In the   South, Russia repeated its tactic of bypassing  the cities, which it failed to take with a head-on   assault, as the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault  Division bypassed Mykolaiv towards Voznesensk.   The aim was to force the Southern Bug river  and advance on strategically crucial Odesa.   On March 8 Russia took steps to  solidify its encirclement of Mariupol,   by capturing the highway between the city and  Volnovakha, while also moving elements of the   41st CAA to the Sumy oblast to strengthen its  extended and constantly attacked supply lines.  On March 9-12, the Ukrainian 1st Tank division  managed to repel the Russian offensive by the 90th   tank division and 55th motorized rifle brigade on  Chernihiv, along with establishing a connection   with the pocket of resistance in Nizhyn. Heavy  battles continued in Izium and Severodonetsk.   Russian offensives on Brovary by the 6th  Guards Tank Regiment, on Hadyach by the 4th   Guards Tank Division, and on Krivyi Rih by 7th  Guards Mountain Air Assault Division were also   successfully repelled. But the Ukrainian situation  around Mariupol continued to deteriorate,   as the Russian forces and Donetsk separatists  moved into portions of eastern part of the city,   along with taking Volnovakha. The  infamous tank column in Northwest of Kyiv   by now had dispersed and redeployed elsewhere. The most important event of 13-16 March was the   ballistic strike at the Yavoriv training center  near Lviv, as the Russian Defense Ministry claimed   that 180 “mercenaries” were killed in this strike  on the base, where training of foreign volunteers   was conducted. By these dates it had become quite  clear that Russia had stalled in all directions   and was unable to conduct any major  offensive operations anywhere, but Donbas.   While the Russians made some gains in Izium and  pushed around Rubizhne, the Ukrainian offensive   towards Kherson pushed the 20th Guards Motor Rifle  Division and reached the town of Posad-Pokrovske.   The Ukrainians also broke  the encirclement of Okhtyrka.  On 19-20 March reports of Russian troops digging  trenches and deploying minefields around Kyiv   indicate that Russians had given up on offensive  operations to take the capital and prepared for   a defensive war. On March 21-24 Ukraine gained  ground around Kyiv by counter-attacking towards   Bucha, Vorzel, Moshchun, Makaryv, and Irpin,  while Russia made progress in Izium and Mariupol.  On 25-29 March, Ukraine capitalized on low  morale and poor supply of the Russian army   and made considerable progress on several fronts.  The Ukrainian army solidified its successes on the   Kyiv front by pushing back the 37th Separate  Motor Rifle Brigade and the 31st Guards Air   Assault Brigade from Irpin and the 90th Tank  Division further away from Brovary and reclaimed   Lukyanivka. In the Sumy-Kharkiv axis, the 93rd  Brigade took back Trostyanets, Boromlia, and Mala   Rohan, and end the encirclement of the city of  Sumy, forcing the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade   to withdraw to Russia for presumed redeployment  in Donbas, where Russia still had a capability   to launch successful offensive operations and  made some gains around Izium, Severodonetsk,   along with capturing more of Mariupol putting  the Ukrainian defense of the city in an even more   desperate situation. On the Southern front, the  Russian offensive had completely stalled as well.  On 30 March, reports of withdrawal of several  Russian units from the Kyiv axis started to   emerge, whether due to heavy losses or as a part  of a campaign to deescalate military operations   around Kyiv. Along with that, redeployment of  Russian units, such as the elements of the 20th   CAA and the 1st Guards Tank Army to Belgorod  for replenishment to presumably later send   them to the Donbas front continued. During the next couple of days,   we witnessed several instances of fighting on the  Northern Front with Ukrainian success and then a   complete withdrawal of Russian units from Kyiv and  Chernihiv oblasts. The 35th, 36th, and 41st CAA   made an orderly withdrawal towards Belarus, while  reports of redeployment of the 90th tank division   and 2nd guards motor rifle division to the Donbas  front emerged. On April 2, the Ukrainian Defense   Ministry stated that Ukraine was now controlling  all of the Kyiv Oblast. On April 4, the governor   of Zhytomyr Oblast also stated that the region  was now completely under Ukrainian control.   By April 5, there were no Russian troops left in  the Chernihiv Oblast either. Ukraine prevailed in   the Northern Front and the Battle of Kyiv against  all odds. But Russian loss came at a very high   price for the Ukrainian military, infrastructure,  and particularly, the civilian population. As the   Ukrainian army reclaimed Bucha, it witnessed  horrific scenes of hundreds of civilians lying   dead on its streets. Satellite images taken on  the days, when the Russian army still controlled   this town, prove beyond reasonable doubt that  this massacre was indeed committed by Russia.  Ukraine also staged counterattacks in  Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts. On 31 March,   they liberated Malynivka, Vesele, Zelenyi Hai  and other towns in the Zaporizhia oblast, along   with several towns and settlements in the Kherson  oblast, including Novovoronstovka on 1-2 April.   But around the same dates, Russia continued  very slow, but steady progress in Donbas,   as they claimed to capture Zolota Nyva in the  Donetsk oblast and Zhytlivka in the Luhansk   oblast. On April 1, Ukraine admitted  that Russia was able to capture Izium   after days of heavy fighting. But arguably,  the most important event of this day   was the Ukrainian strike on a fuel storage  depot in the Russian city of Belgorod,   which was the first incident of spillover of  the war in Ukraine to the Russian territory.   On April 4, reports of the advance of the Russian  forces from the Kharkiv axis towards Slovyansk   started emerging. According to various military  experts, capture of Slovyansk created options   to link up with the Russian units fighting in  Rubizhne, or advancing towards Horlivka, both of   which carried a potential risk of encirclement  for the Ukrainian units on the Donbas front.  By 5 April, elements of the 1st Guards Tank Army,  including the elements of the 2nd GMRD, 4th GTD,   47th GTD, the 106th GAD, the 144th MRD and the  3rd MRD were redeployed to Izium and we can expect   most of the Russian offensive operations  to be conducted along the Donets River,   which the Ukrainian 25th Airborne Brigade and  the 81st Air Assault Brigade will try to defend.   The presidential aide Orestovych noted in his  interview that the Ukrainian army faces 8 to 1   numerical disadvantage on this axis. On 6 April it  was confirmed that the Russian army completed its   withdrawal from the Sumy oblast too. These forces  were to be redeployed in Donbas too. Lastly,   the situation of the Ukrainian units in Mariupol  was getting increasingly more desperate. According   to British Intelligence, by April 7 Russia  already controlled 76% of the city. But it is also   reported that the Russian units participating in  the siege of Mariupol are suffering heavy losses   amid fierce resistance by the Azov battalion  and units of the regular Ukrainian army.  In the run-up and on the first few days of the  war, almost everyone expected a quick Russian   victory and the collapse of the Ukrainian  army. It was only a question of when. But   the Ukrainian army has defied the odds by  standing tall and more recently prevailing   in the Battle of Kyiv and reclaiming some  of the lost territories in other regions.   Despite the overwhelming advantage in firepower,  bad planning by the Russian command manifested in   an inability to conduct major offensive operations  in the coordination of a large number of units   and different branches of the military; poor  logistical preparation was demonstrated by images   of incapacitated military vehicles due to lack of  fuel and insufficient food supplies proved by the   Russian looting of civilian stores; low morale,  the clear indicator of which is scores of Russian   servicemen, particularly conscripts surrendering  to Ukrainians, since they don’t really understand   what they are fighting for and are just  completely unprepared to the brutality of war;   inability to ensure air domination despite the  huge numerical advantage in military aircraft   has made the Russian war effort  in Ukraine to go horribly wrong.   Around Kharkiv and South of Ukraine, the  Russians have been pushed back as well.   The only axis, where Russians and  pro-Russian separatists can hope to gain any   considerable success is the Southeastern front. The Russian General Staff has stated in late March   that its main focus is on the so-called  “liberation” of Ukrainian-controlled territories   of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, since it remains  the only front, where Russians can realistically   hope for success. Russia continues to  employ the tactic of shelling cities,   including civilian areas causing the death of 1611  civilians, according to the UN. Mariupol, Kharkiv,   Sumy, and other cities have been heavily damaged.  Millions of Ukrainians have fled their country.   Both sides have suffered heavy losses, but  Ukrainians have inflicted way more damage on   Russians than was expected. By April 7 Oryx  military analysis blog visually confirmed   Russian losses at 448 destroyed or abandoned  tanks; 750 armoured vehicles, 20 fighter jets,   32 helicopters, and three navy ships,  against Ukrainian losses of 95 tanks,   under 200 armoured vehicles, 18 aircraft and  helicopters, and 15 ships. According to the NATO   estimates of 29 March, 7k-15k Russian soldiers  have been killed in Ukraine. The US sources   reported on 9 March that 2k-4k Ukrainian  soldiers were killed during the invasion.  Soon we will summarize the second month of  this conflict, which proved to be not the   Short Victorious War Vladimir Putin hoped for, but  a war of attrition that could change the fate of   the entire region, so make sure you are subscribed  and have pressed the bell button to see it.   Please, consider liking, commenting, and sharing -  it helps immensely. Our videos would be impossible   without our kind patrons and youtube channel  members, whose ranks you can join via the links   in the description to know our schedule, get  early access to our videos, access our discord,   and much more. This is the Kings and Generals  channel, and we will catch you on the next one.
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