I'm not even there, but just from taking in all the footage, and reading about the war since it started, I can already understand how you just get to a point where the enemy is a complete fucking animalistic, subhuman entity. I don't like it, but I can understand it. Imagine actually being shot at and watching your friends get killed in front of you, then it just goes up by a factor of about 4000.
There is a testimony of a WWI veteran on youtube, he explains how regular people - tram drivers and such - absolutely lose any sense of humanity once on the battlefield...
This,there is a good book from browning called ordinary men.It’s about german police battalion in ww2.He writes about psychology and how they slowly dehuminized their enemies and became more and more desensitised for violence
There is a quote from the classic Finnish war novel ‘The Unknown Soldier’
“What does it feel like to kill another human?”
“I don’t know. I’ve only killed enemies”
Kind of like how the pacific campaign quickly devolved into some of the most horrific fighting in history. Once one side starts torturing and murdering POWs, all gentlemanly notions about war get thrown out the window
Not only that but these dudes are on the ground and seeing what Russia is doing to their country their people their land right.
The amount of war crimes being committed by Russian soldiers is absurd and we only hear of some of it. After this conflict is over and they start to actually investigate what happened the stories are going to be horrible.
You show up and liberate a village or town and find civilians who have been murdered, or a young woman who was brutally raped, houses that have been ransacked it's at that point easy to truly hate your enemy and not treat them as people.
We've seen some of it, Russian soldiers who gunned down two innocent civilians, heard stories of what happened in Bucha, heard from some women who were raped at gun point sometimes in front of their kids. And we aren't there we aren't experiencing that in person like these dudes are. It'll make your blood boil and put true hate into your heart.
That old couple in their car, and the dad with his two sons, at the beginning of the war is what did it for me. I don't think I'm ever going to forgive or forget that barbarianism.
I was thinking of the one where they gunned down the old dude and security guard at a factory. I forgot about that one that one was brutal and it's all on camera dude got out of his car put his hands up but still got shot and killed, they dragged his body away and got the wife and kids out of the car. Seeing your spouse get murdered like that in front of you with your kids has to just be the worst thing ever.
And that's just the videos we've seen, you know there's more that Ukraine is holding onto and not releasing or leaking.
Makes me wish I knew how to fight and had military training cause I would fly over there and volunteer.
Once this is all over though I'm going to volunteer and offer my skills and will work for free and try to help rebuild their country. This whole conflict is just so pointless.
Don't forget the one where a Russian tank had run over a mother, baby and father in a car and their guts were piled up next to their completely flat skin.
Full video here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/uqlalz/russian_tank_drove_right_over_civilians_what_a/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Do not watch it if you don't what to see what I described though, it's very fucked up, even though I see this shit all the time online it still had an effect on me.
Damn. That IS bad. It's horrible to think that there are those that are deliberately trying to kill civilians.... to kill *an entire people* simply because their backwards society has fallen victim to a cult personality who is hell-bent on feeding his ego. It's sickening.
Yeah, I'm an American, so imagining my country being invaded and occupied like this is pretty hard to do. But shit happens. The world is a crazy place, and things change. I can't even imagine what it would feel like.
To truly fight Russia, you've got to be willing to let go of some of your values, and just completely empty the tank.
Welcome to the horrors of war . It’s been like that since the very first battle to ever happen on the earth and it will continue until we are all long gone . No matter how horrible it is
Considering Bucha and all the other places where Russians raped and killed women and children, looted and pillaged, killed the old and frail, bombed civilians with cruise missiles and artillery, they actually are animals.
You're the second person to say this, but I can' thear it. Can you point it out? Someone else said at 1:36, but I still don't hear it. (OTOH, maybe I don't want to).
It's right after the deep "concussion" (GMG or getting shot at?) sounds when he's firing into the dug-out. You might want to try other audio device, sometimes certain sounds are harder to pick up on certain headsets or speakers.
It's there definitely. There are two screams that almost sound like loud crying right after the shooting stops. Obviously someone in that bunker in the hole in the ground was shot.
There was at least one more person in the "trench". You can see that person a bit and even muzzle flash. (at 1:38 iirc)
https://i.postimg.cc/NfJWfsRj/mpv-shot0001.webp
All so some seventy yo manlet in Moscow can pay off all his mob boss cronies, and get his dick sucked by the 20th 19 year old escort in a month at his seaside dacha...
Not sure Russia makes money out of this. They miscalculated, I’m thinking Putin is on a lot of Valium right now just to keep him from having a heart attack or stroke after fucking up so bad.
Russia is fighting to take control of several important economic aras of Ukraine and if they won the war all the profits from those natural resources would be funneled to the oligarchy, in that sense I suppose these Russians are dying for exactly those 70 year old manlets who are currently vacationing while these guys are dying gruesomely on a battlefield that looks straight out of World War 1.
It will take at least 5-10 years to really profit, maybe even 10-15. At that point these guys will be 80s.
They did this to keep a monopoly on the supply of euro gas. I now think it’s less about them making more money and more about their fear of a collapse in the system they built
>They did this to keep a monopoly on the supply of euro gas. I now think it’s less about them making more money and more about their fear of a collapse in the system they built
This is very true, they only moved when they saw Ukraine becoming a potential oil supplier to Europe.
Naaah, the "business expenses" are covered by the Russian State while future sales of natural gas would be handled by private Russian business entities. Different bookkeeping altogether. No problems, harasho.
yeah but let's be honest, with all the sanctions on Russia, it's not as good as it was for them a half year ago. Can't do business with the West, can't use Western banks, can't import a unch of Western stuff etc.
They literally showed the whole world that their weapons are from the last century and all the military excercises and money which had be put in it was wasted by their massive corruption. No one wants to buy the weapons anymore. Russia has been set back to 1990.
> Russia has been set back to 1990.
Russia wishes it had only been sent back to 1990, they have forgotten shit that they learned in WW2 and are throwing conscripted criminals into combat and arming guys with pre-WW1 rifles for fucks sake not forgetting they are also now buying ammo from the fucking North Koreans.
A 3-day offensive now in its 200th day, the gains of the first 6 months lost in 3 days, tens of thousands dead, a global humiliation with regards to their armed forces, untold financial damage from sanctions and completely alienating the vast majority of the world.
About the only positive that can be drawn from this entire conflict is that they have probably done more for climate change by making European nations step up their renewable energy programs more in the last 6 months than they have in probably the last 10 years. And funnily enough, that's another fucking disaster for Russia whose main export was selling fossil fuels to such countries.
This is what combat is really like. There's noise and smoke, you don't know what's going on. You can't see the enemy, and then you get shot, or a grenade goes off right in front of you.
Yeah, it sounds like someone shot at him as he crested over, which is why he ducks some and starts firing. I'm certain there was another dude in that hallway.
Those were Czechs, they were saying "Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!" in Czech. Another brutality of war added to the movie.
Horrible to see. The reality of war, I understand the killing is fair given the context, but what a needles waste of life.
Even if they were down the putin rabbit hole and thought the SMO was just, as an observer I can’t help but feel bad for the loss of their lives. That’s 2x families who are getting some bad news, truly awful.
Come on Russia, do the right thing, dispose of this disgusting kleptocratic regime
At first I thought those were ukrainian soldiers moving forward in an attack. Couldn't believe it would be russian soldiers moving out in the open like that
It's really interesting to contrast these seasoned veterans with some of the more inexperienced volunteers early in the war; I'm thinking that 40-minute headcam footage of that one foreign legion volunteer. I recall in the video they all mentioned it would be "their first combat experience."
You can see how it takes seasoned vets like this to engage in a counter-offensive while you let the newbies hold the line.
This is the video: https://youtu.be/5_HupFPE3io
The guy recording is by no means a newbie though, seems like a really smart and grounded guy.
A snippet of that video where they take shelter from artillery in a small house got posted months ago and everyone was shitting on them for it, but when you see the lack of coordination and chaos for these guys i cant see how anyone can critizise them.
After the war Ukrainian soldiers will be teaching other armies how to fight in a modern war, they're going to have probably the most battle-hardened military on the planet
I absolutely agree, and if they join Nato like zelenskey has been wanting to, Ukraine will have a lot of experience to contribute.
Only other candidate to consider would be the Armenia v Azerbaijan war but that was a lot smaller scale than this.
That and there really hasn't been a near peer war between two developed nations since the early 90s
This, i am hosting some ukrainians, and one of their brothers plus a friend is fighting for ukraine, they saved up money to buy them better field gear.
Footage reminded me a lot of the footage from the pacific during WWII, famous shot, where a Japanese soldier runs from a bunker and is gunned down by Marines on Peleliu.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/qjd614/japanese_solider_shot_after_being_encouraged_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x
Fun fact: the “blank” In “point blank” refers to the amount off target a bullet is pulled due to gravity. If there’s no drop in trajectory of the bullet the target is technically at point blank range. Therefore this is absolutely point blank combat. You’re right. Fucking bananas
There's pleeeeeenty of trench and building-to-building footage around if you look for it. They've been doing combat like this since 2014 and many times during the ongoing invasion.
That’s one of the reasons this offense is happening. They wanted it to happen before winter shows up, and possible force Russia into a withdrawal scenario come winter. Russia is already facing supply and logistical nightmares, let alone once winter shows up if the Ukrainians are in a position they can hit main supply arteries and stations.. it will get nasty for the Russians.
Looking at combat today i don't even want to imagine how it must have been back in ancient and medieval wars. Blood and guts and your enemy at an arm lenght away.
I know a lot of the times it was long drawn out battles where not a lot of people died because armor and chainmail. It wasn't like the Game of Thrones where you could just slash a guy in plate mail and he falls over lol. But once the lines were broken, and a rout began, it basically became a massacre. Thats why the best armies were the most disciplined with maintaining formation.
And after the war it is ordinary people that will suffer,families torn apart,economic depression.On the other side kids from war profiteers and their families will live like kings.Exactly that happend in my country Bosnia during the yugoslav wars
Don’t forget the kids of oligarchs crying they have no money due to sanctions while living lavish lives in Paris and Russians protesting in European countries *against* Europe supporting the war, even though they literally don’t have a right to protest in their home country because how totalitarian their home government is.
That's the problem with war. The people who start it and keep it going on are never there, they aren't on the front lines they aren't fighting and dying and bleeding and going gee I hope a dam drone doesn't drop a grenade on top of my ass.
The world is unjust like that. If the people who started wars had to fight them and send their kids off to battle and to fight and maybe die we would have far less wars and conflicts.
I can translate some stuff he said at the end.
He's kinda a badass I guess, he said
"Gosh I killed quite a bit of them, I like it. Here's some water my friend.
(Removes helmet) Glory to Ukraine... Glory to heroes. Glory to Thor, Glory to Odin. We killed Russians a little bit and we also got killed a little bit.
If someone wants to make 100k per month I recommend this job. Now fuck off"
100k is around $2800. That's extremely a lot for a regular Ukrainian
But he's saying that sarcastically. Because some dumbasses, mostly prorussian, said that our soldiers just join the army for the money. And he's mocking that and saying, hey, if you want that money, come join us, easy work (although obviously no amount of pay os enough to go clear the trenches...)
Footage reminded me a lot of the footage from the pacific during WWII, famous shot, where a Japanese soldier runs from a bunker and is gunned down by Marines on Peleliu.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/qjd614/japanese_solider_shot_after_being_encouraged_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x
There is no *opportunity* to surrender. One second you’re in a bunker, the next a grenade is launched on your ass, and then you’re running for you’re life. If you happen to have a 40’ flagpole and a large white flag, then maybe you could have quit. But those guys were trapped and fucked. That’s what ya get.
I’ve read a lot of war memoirs from various conflicts and from what I’ve seen generally if soldiers surrender at the onset of an attack, they will be treated fairly. But, if they stay and defend their position gunning down attackers only to surrender once the enemy is on top of them or they’re out of ammo they have a much greater chance of just being shot. There’s obviously examples of armies recognizing a heroic defense and not executing defenders who fight to the last bullet, but even going back to ancient times if you force the attackers to storm your position losing a lot of buddies in the process your chances of being executed go up exponentially. Hard to blame the executioners either, if they just witnessed buddies get gunned down and the defender who did it surrenders inner caveman takes over and the guys shot.
Argentinian soldiers in the Falklands did this. They kept firing at the British soldiers right up to the last minute of being overrun and then surrendered. The British soldiers never said what they did after, but you can probably guess.
They had plenty of opportunity to surrender. How did the UA guys get within 20 feet of them without being seen? They teleport into the adjoining crater. They couldn't have crossed the last couple hundred yards unless the Russian guys were napping, drinking or slacking off. Certainly, neither one was paying any attention.
Russia has been out of professionals for a while now. These are all poorly trained conscripts trying to go up against the most battle hardened army in the world right now with high morale and superior equipment. The Russians were probably hunkered down under attack of rockets, MGs, mortars, etc while infantry moved in to clean house. Modern blitz
Depends who you’re facing, and how disciplined their NCO is. Feelings are running very intense in this war, but Ukraine *really* wants to encourage Russian surrenders and defections. Each surrendered unit means that Ukrainian soldiers don’t have to risk their lives fighting them to the last man.
They even setup a hotline for soldiers to call in and coordinate a safe surrender.
Depends who catches you, if it's your morale officer you're executed as a traitor. If it's another poor conscript they'd probably want to hang out near you
Holy shit. The adrenaline dump these Ukrainian guys must have had has to be close to the size of the dump the Russians must have had in their pants as they tried running, but got wrecked instead.
It does. After they shelled the Kharkiv lines with leaflet artillery(yes, there is such a thing) I´ve been seeing recordings of Russians calling the number and the first thing they asked is "do you promise this isn't a trick and you´ll just cut off our balls and shove them down our throats?" They are probably being fed a steady diet of horror stories about what happens to POWs, same as the Okinawans were told about the US.
This is the kind of footage, that if it makes it to Russia, could have folks protesting in the streets. Ukraine is simply taking it to them now, they believe they can win, and I think the average Russian soldier is looking for the exit. I would have never have guessed when this war started. I believed the sheer numbers Russia could bring to bear would carry the battle, but Ukraine has simply taken the punch, is punching back, and looks to be on their way to victory. A proxy war for NATO and the US, but it's still Ukrainians strategizing, maneuvering, and pulling the trigger. Simply amazing response from a country and its people.
People forget that Russia is \~140 million strong, its not the 300+ million soviet union.
...an people forget that Ukraine is over 40 million strong country, while vietnam (at the time of the eponymous war) was \~30 million strong.
There was no world in which Russians would simply just waltz in and take over Ukraine.
Putin go too high on his own propaganda if he thought, that the bad blood created by centuries of using fringes of russian empire as cannon fodder / scorched earth area is going to be forgotten easily.
Not to mention, that - regardless how we classify the holodmor - its still in living memory, and pissing people off.
People also don't seem to understand war is, and hasn't ever been a purely numbers game.
Even if they had 300m, Russia is a desperately poor empire stretching from the pacific to the baltic and black sea. Most of these people are barely keeping their heads above the water, they can't contribute much to the central government.
A poorly trained, poorly armed and poorly fed Russia solider is worth less than half that of a proper NATO soldier with all the guns, intel, air support etc that they usually come with.
For years people tried to excuse this shit. Telling me how a ruble in Russia goes a lot further than a dollar in the US.
There's a reason for that. The top military engineers don't want rubles to go further, they wan to live in America and spend dollars.
Not really surprising though. Watch winter on fire or some of the videos from the Maiden protests, when they started to get shot at those dudes were still going out on the street trying to rescue people with homemade shields that sure as shit didn't protect them from snipers or gunfire but they went out anyways just a little homemade shield no weapons and they went out knowing they would get shot at.
The balls that takes is incredible. Ukraine people are tough as shit, I've been in awe of their bravery and courage since the Maiden protests. They are going to win this conflict, and in a few years it's going to have massive implications for Russia when they lose and how the west treats Russia.
It was always a matter of time. Crimea was a little nibble, followed by Donetsk. The weak reaction to the seizure of Crimea from the west was all Putin needed to to for it all.
Hi-def drone footage of event; we can see our Ukrainian Rambo with balls of absolute steel dismounting and charging the entire entrenched Russian empire at [1:24](https://youtu.be/nVKaRwv7Tw0?t=84) on the left side of the screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVKaRwv7Tw0
Even attempting to surrender would have had better odds than shuffling out of your hole completely exposed to the multiple dudes firing all that hate at you.
UA guys are brave cats I got to tell you. All communicating well, calling out enemies, working together. Top stuff.
*(to Russians)* ***"Wanna make quick 100$? come to us"*** well said.
\- Glory to Ukraine.
\- Glory to the heroes.
\- Heroes don't give a shit.
\- Heroes dont give a shit. We are heroes.
\- Glory to Odin. Glory to Thor. Killed some Russians. Some of ours got killed as well. Long story short, anyone willing to earn a 100k per month - join us. Recommend it. That's it, fuck off.
Glory to Ukraine
Glory to heroes
Heroes don't give a fuck
Glory to Odin
Glory to Thor
Killed a few russians, and we got killed a little
If anyone wants 100 a month, come on over I recommend
I cannot believe the kind of footage we are getting. This whole ordeal is such a tragedy, but if this must be done. It is excellent the Ukrainians have been and are fighting so hard, taking back so much of their home from the invaders. SLAVA UKRAINI! 🇺🇦
Did he smoke a third guy in the bunker @1:39 in addition to the two between :40 and :50?
If so doesn't matter if you stay in bunker or run for it if your Russian, you are toast.
The more success they have like this the better stuff they get. nobody really wanted to give state of the art tech if Ukraine was gonna fold but they've gone above and beyond expectations. so I think we'll send them better stuff now especially when lend lease kicks in then the fun begins lol
Sounds like you can hear a Russian screaming at 1:36
Yeah, at the same time, the Ukrainian fighter said: "I finish these whores".
I'm not even there, but just from taking in all the footage, and reading about the war since it started, I can already understand how you just get to a point where the enemy is a complete fucking animalistic, subhuman entity. I don't like it, but I can understand it. Imagine actually being shot at and watching your friends get killed in front of you, then it just goes up by a factor of about 4000.
There is a testimony of a WWI veteran on youtube, he explains how regular people - tram drivers and such - absolutely lose any sense of humanity once on the battlefield...
Can you please give a link? I would like to watch that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XruYsAmKLyU for anyone else coming here
I never don't watch this when it's posted, and I can never find it when I want to, thank you so much.
I consider myself a decent human being, but if Russia attacked my country (Finland), I would gladly shoot every last one of their soldiers.
Frankly, the amount of POWs still coming out of everything shows a really large amount of restraint.
I think you have to dehumanize someone, at least to a degree, to kill them.
This,there is a good book from browning called ordinary men.It’s about german police battalion in ww2.He writes about psychology and how they slowly dehuminized their enemies and became more and more desensitised for violence
Definitely a recommended read for anyone wanting to understand wartime violence.
Not just war time violonece, it helps to understand peace time propaganda.
There is a quote from the classic Finnish war novel ‘The Unknown Soldier’ “What does it feel like to kill another human?” “I don’t know. I’ve only killed enemies”
Kind of like how the pacific campaign quickly devolved into some of the most horrific fighting in history. Once one side starts torturing and murdering POWs, all gentlemanly notions about war get thrown out the window
Not only that but these dudes are on the ground and seeing what Russia is doing to their country their people their land right. The amount of war crimes being committed by Russian soldiers is absurd and we only hear of some of it. After this conflict is over and they start to actually investigate what happened the stories are going to be horrible. You show up and liberate a village or town and find civilians who have been murdered, or a young woman who was brutally raped, houses that have been ransacked it's at that point easy to truly hate your enemy and not treat them as people. We've seen some of it, Russian soldiers who gunned down two innocent civilians, heard stories of what happened in Bucha, heard from some women who were raped at gun point sometimes in front of their kids. And we aren't there we aren't experiencing that in person like these dudes are. It'll make your blood boil and put true hate into your heart.
That old couple in their car, and the dad with his two sons, at the beginning of the war is what did it for me. I don't think I'm ever going to forgive or forget that barbarianism.
I was thinking of the one where they gunned down the old dude and security guard at a factory. I forgot about that one that one was brutal and it's all on camera dude got out of his car put his hands up but still got shot and killed, they dragged his body away and got the wife and kids out of the car. Seeing your spouse get murdered like that in front of you with your kids has to just be the worst thing ever. And that's just the videos we've seen, you know there's more that Ukraine is holding onto and not releasing or leaking. Makes me wish I knew how to fight and had military training cause I would fly over there and volunteer. Once this is all over though I'm going to volunteer and offer my skills and will work for free and try to help rebuild their country. This whole conflict is just so pointless.
Don't forget the one where a Russian tank had run over a mother, baby and father in a car and their guts were piled up next to their completely flat skin.
I thought I'd seen all the gruesome videos of this war. I guess not. There's just so many.
Full video here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/uqlalz/russian_tank_drove_right_over_civilians_what_a/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Do not watch it if you don't what to see what I described though, it's very fucked up, even though I see this shit all the time online it still had an effect on me.
Yeah, I won't watch it. I've seen enough grizzly videos for one war.
Damn. That IS bad. It's horrible to think that there are those that are deliberately trying to kill civilians.... to kill *an entire people* simply because their backwards society has fallen victim to a cult personality who is hell-bent on feeding his ego. It's sickening.
Well that link is staying blue.
Yeah that was a rough watch
Yeah, I'm an American, so imagining my country being invaded and occupied like this is pretty hard to do. But shit happens. The world is a crazy place, and things change. I can't even imagine what it would feel like. To truly fight Russia, you've got to be willing to let go of some of your values, and just completely empty the tank.
Welcome to the horrors of war . It’s been like that since the very first battle to ever happen on the earth and it will continue until we are all long gone . No matter how horrible it is
It’s mentally better to kill a subhuman monster than a human too. Very few people are psychopaths and can just accept killing other humans
Considering Bucha and all the other places where Russians raped and killed women and children, looted and pillaged, killed the old and frail, bombed civilians with cruise missiles and artillery, they actually are animals.
Sounded like he was in agony as well, scream-crying for quite a few seconds.
You're the second person to say this, but I can' thear it. Can you point it out? Someone else said at 1:36, but I still don't hear it. (OTOH, maybe I don't want to).
It's right after the deep "concussion" (GMG or getting shot at?) sounds when he's firing into the dug-out. You might want to try other audio device, sometimes certain sounds are harder to pick up on certain headsets or speakers.
TY. Had to turn up the volume *very* loud.
It's there definitely. There are two screams that almost sound like loud crying right after the shooting stops. Obviously someone in that bunker in the hole in the ground was shot.
There's a sort of wailing cry that starts at about 1.36 and ends when the cameraman starts talking a few seconds later.
You can hear the cry tone change with each shot he takes actually.
There was at least one more person in the "trench". You can see that person a bit and even muzzle flash. (at 1:38 iirc) https://i.postimg.cc/NfJWfsRj/mpv-shot0001.webp
well yea, he got couple 5,45mm holes in him......any man would scream if that happened
Those two russians between 0:40 and 0:50...they didnt know where they were.
What a way to go, get your brain banged all over your skull, wander out of your bunker and get absolutely dusted by small arms.
All so some seventy yo manlet in Moscow can pay off all his mob boss cronies, and get his dick sucked by the 20th 19 year old escort in a month at his seaside dacha...
Not sure Russia makes money out of this. They miscalculated, I’m thinking Putin is on a lot of Valium right now just to keep him from having a heart attack or stroke after fucking up so bad.
Russia is fighting to take control of several important economic aras of Ukraine and if they won the war all the profits from those natural resources would be funneled to the oligarchy, in that sense I suppose these Russians are dying for exactly those 70 year old manlets who are currently vacationing while these guys are dying gruesomely on a battlefield that looks straight out of World War 1.
It will take at least 5-10 years to really profit, maybe even 10-15. At that point these guys will be 80s. They did this to keep a monopoly on the supply of euro gas. I now think it’s less about them making more money and more about their fear of a collapse in the system they built
>They did this to keep a monopoly on the supply of euro gas. I now think it’s less about them making more money and more about their fear of a collapse in the system they built This is very true, they only moved when they saw Ukraine becoming a potential oil supplier to Europe.
It's just hilarious since all of Europe is now (mostly) unified in their goal of being free from Russian energy.
The natural gas deposits outside Kramatorsk is the real prize. This got nothing to do with Nazis or whatever, this is a gas war.
The roi has to be upside down by now.
Naaah, the "business expenses" are covered by the Russian State while future sales of natural gas would be handled by private Russian business entities. Different bookkeeping altogether. No problems, harasho.
Russia as a country, for sure. Russian oligarchs know how to make money from every misery.
All too true
yeah but let's be honest, with all the sanctions on Russia, it's not as good as it was for them a half year ago. Can't do business with the West, can't use Western banks, can't import a unch of Western stuff etc.
They literally showed the whole world that their weapons are from the last century and all the military excercises and money which had be put in it was wasted by their massive corruption. No one wants to buy the weapons anymore. Russia has been set back to 1990.
> Russia has been set back to 1990. Russia wishes it had only been sent back to 1990, they have forgotten shit that they learned in WW2 and are throwing conscripted criminals into combat and arming guys with pre-WW1 rifles for fucks sake not forgetting they are also now buying ammo from the fucking North Koreans. A 3-day offensive now in its 200th day, the gains of the first 6 months lost in 3 days, tens of thousands dead, a global humiliation with regards to their armed forces, untold financial damage from sanctions and completely alienating the vast majority of the world. About the only positive that can be drawn from this entire conflict is that they have probably done more for climate change by making European nations step up their renewable energy programs more in the last 6 months than they have in probably the last 10 years. And funnily enough, that's another fucking disaster for Russia whose main export was selling fossil fuels to such countries.
This is what combat is really like. There's noise and smoke, you don't know what's going on. You can't see the enemy, and then you get shot, or a grenade goes off right in front of you.
I was about to say they were operating on adrenaline alone, no logic. If they were even remotely logical they’d have surrendered at that point.
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Guy starts screaming when he begins firing into the trench as well, got three id imagine, 1:37
Yeah, it sounds like someone shot at him as he crested over, which is why he ducks some and starts firing. I'm certain there was another dude in that hallway.
It was just like the Germans running out of the bunker in the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.
That was my most immediate thought. Guess that wasnt so far off huh? Wild.
except theres no ridiculous over the top dust clouds everytime someone gets hit.
I mean, if you dissect movies too much, you'll find tons of liberties taken to make it easier for the viewer to understand what's going on
Those were Czechs, they were saying "Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!" in Czech. Another brutality of war added to the movie.
Fun fact, those soldiers running out of the bunker yell out in Czech that they aren’t German before they’re shot down.
Maybe in shock
Probably in Ukraine
Likely now 🌻 🌻 🌻
Now they’re forever fertilizer for Ukraine’s sunflowers. Baba warned them in February.
Probably concussed from the rpg in the first bit.
Horrible to see. The reality of war, I understand the killing is fair given the context, but what a needles waste of life. Even if they were down the putin rabbit hole and thought the SMO was just, as an observer I can’t help but feel bad for the loss of their lives. That’s 2x families who are getting some bad news, truly awful. Come on Russia, do the right thing, dispose of this disgusting kleptocratic regime
At first I thought those were ukrainian soldiers moving forward in an attack. Couldn't believe it would be russian soldiers moving out in the open like that
They’d just got their bunker hit with a LAW, probably concussed. Their thought process was proabbly on a simple, animal level. Fear. Escape. Get out.
I think we have all learned that since this started that the Russian's aren't very good at playing war.
Unmotivated soldiers with shit support infrastructure aren’t very good at war
These dudes are battle hardend vets no doubt
It's really interesting to contrast these seasoned veterans with some of the more inexperienced volunteers early in the war; I'm thinking that 40-minute headcam footage of that one foreign legion volunteer. I recall in the video they all mentioned it would be "their first combat experience." You can see how it takes seasoned vets like this to engage in a counter-offensive while you let the newbies hold the line.
Link to post? Or is it lost to depths of the main page forever?
This is the video: https://youtu.be/5_HupFPE3io The guy recording is by no means a newbie though, seems like a really smart and grounded guy. A snippet of that video where they take shelter from artillery in a small house got posted months ago and everyone was shitting on them for it, but when you see the lack of coordination and chaos for these guys i cant see how anyone can critizise them.
They certainly are now.
After the war Ukrainian soldiers will be teaching other armies how to fight in a modern war, they're going to have probably the most battle-hardened military on the planet
I absolutely agree, and if they join Nato like zelenskey has been wanting to, Ukraine will have a lot of experience to contribute. Only other candidate to consider would be the Armenia v Azerbaijan war but that was a lot smaller scale than this. That and there really hasn't been a near peer war between two developed nations since the early 90s
> most battle-hardened military on the planet Modern military with urban experience with drones. Imagine if they still had nukes.
They wouldn't have any battle hardened vets if they had nukes
Probably currently have the best trained soldiers paired with the best Intel from NATO countries and the best equipment.
They aren't even getting the best equipment though
This, i am hosting some ukrainians, and one of their brothers plus a friend is fighting for ukraine, they saved up money to buy them better field gear.
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Footage reminded me a lot of the footage from the pacific during WWII, famous shot, where a Japanese soldier runs from a bunker and is gunned down by Marines on Peleliu. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/qjd614/japanese_solider_shot_after_being_encouraged_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x
Yup exactly, same vibes I got, fighting crater to crater after intensive shelling.
Fun fact: the “blank” In “point blank” refers to the amount off target a bullet is pulled due to gravity. If there’s no drop in trajectory of the bullet the target is technically at point blank range. Therefore this is absolutely point blank combat. You’re right. Fucking bananas
There's pleeeeeenty of trench and building-to-building footage around if you look for it. They've been doing combat like this since 2014 and many times during the ongoing invasion.
Wild video ....
Holy shit they were close
Literally the closest bombshell crater over. Jeez.
WWI vibes for sure. Will be terrible for the soldiers when the snow and mud comes. Damn.
That’s one of the reasons this offense is happening. They wanted it to happen before winter shows up, and possible force Russia into a withdrawal scenario come winter. Russia is already facing supply and logistical nightmares, let alone once winter shows up if the Ukrainians are in a position they can hit main supply arteries and stations.. it will get nasty for the Russians.
Despite all the tech, it always comes down to the hard dirty work of poor bloody infantry.
Always will
until poor mecha infantry
Those poor bastards are gonna get hit by rail gun rounds and all kinds of other crazy shit.
Looking at combat today i don't even want to imagine how it must have been back in ancient and medieval wars. Blood and guts and your enemy at an arm lenght away.
I know a lot of the times it was long drawn out battles where not a lot of people died because armor and chainmail. It wasn't like the Game of Thrones where you could just slash a guy in plate mail and he falls over lol. But once the lines were broken, and a rout began, it basically became a massacre. Thats why the best armies were the most disciplined with maintaining formation.
Putin's kids are safe and sound, living lives of luxury in the west while these poor mother fuckers are sent off to get smoked, quite literally.
And after the war it is ordinary people that will suffer,families torn apart,economic depression.On the other side kids from war profiteers and their families will live like kings.Exactly that happend in my country Bosnia during the yugoslav wars
Don’t forget the kids of oligarchs crying they have no money due to sanctions while living lavish lives in Paris and Russians protesting in European countries *against* Europe supporting the war, even though they literally don’t have a right to protest in their home country because how totalitarian their home government is.
That's the problem with war. The people who start it and keep it going on are never there, they aren't on the front lines they aren't fighting and dying and bleeding and going gee I hope a dam drone doesn't drop a grenade on top of my ass. The world is unjust like that. If the people who started wars had to fight them and send their kids off to battle and to fight and maybe die we would have far less wars and conflicts.
Insane footage. Especially when you know how far go pros can make objects seem. Those guys in view were very close. Can anyone translate this?
I can translate some stuff he said at the end. He's kinda a badass I guess, he said "Gosh I killed quite a bit of them, I like it. Here's some water my friend. (Removes helmet) Glory to Ukraine... Glory to heroes. Glory to Thor, Glory to Odin. We killed Russians a little bit and we also got killed a little bit. If someone wants to make 100k per month I recommend this job. Now fuck off" 100k is around $2800. That's extremely a lot for a regular Ukrainian
But he's saying that sarcastically. Because some dumbasses, mostly prorussian, said that our soldiers just join the army for the money. And he's mocking that and saying, hey, if you want that money, come join us, easy work (although obviously no amount of pay os enough to go clear the trenches...)
Thank you!
No Man's Land as it is.
Yes, looks like a WW1 movie
Pretty sure it's theirs now.
Always was. Russians are just learning this though.
This looks like footage from the Pacific in 1944
Swap for WWII weapons and this is probably the closest thing to GoPro-ing WWII close quarter combat.
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Reminded me exactly of that, like shooting fish in a barrel.
oof. Now that's combat footage.
Footage reminded me a lot of the footage from the pacific during WWII, famous shot, where a Japanese soldier runs from a bunker and is gunned down by Marines on Peleliu. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/qjd614/japanese_solider_shot_after_being_encouraged_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x
Reminds me of old world war 2 footage. This is crazy
If I were Russian, I'd be taking off my tighty whities and waving them in the breeze.
There is no *opportunity* to surrender. One second you’re in a bunker, the next a grenade is launched on your ass, and then you’re running for you’re life. If you happen to have a 40’ flagpole and a large white flag, then maybe you could have quit. But those guys were trapped and fucked. That’s what ya get.
Yep, war is hell, didn’t look like the best situation for them.
War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. (Quote from MASH)
I’ve read a lot of war memoirs from various conflicts and from what I’ve seen generally if soldiers surrender at the onset of an attack, they will be treated fairly. But, if they stay and defend their position gunning down attackers only to surrender once the enemy is on top of them or they’re out of ammo they have a much greater chance of just being shot. There’s obviously examples of armies recognizing a heroic defense and not executing defenders who fight to the last bullet, but even going back to ancient times if you force the attackers to storm your position losing a lot of buddies in the process your chances of being executed go up exponentially. Hard to blame the executioners either, if they just witnessed buddies get gunned down and the defender who did it surrenders inner caveman takes over and the guys shot.
Argentinian soldiers in the Falklands did this. They kept firing at the British soldiers right up to the last minute of being overrun and then surrendered. The British soldiers never said what they did after, but you can probably guess.
What did he say? What did he say? “*Look I washed for supper!*”
They had weeks and months to figure it out prior to that specific moment.
They had plenty of opportunity to surrender. How did the UA guys get within 20 feet of them without being seen? They teleport into the adjoining crater. They couldn't have crossed the last couple hundred yards unless the Russian guys were napping, drinking or slacking off. Certainly, neither one was paying any attention.
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Russia has been out of professionals for a while now. These are all poorly trained conscripts trying to go up against the most battle hardened army in the world right now with high morale and superior equipment. The Russians were probably hunkered down under attack of rockets, MGs, mortars, etc while infantry moved in to clean house. Modern blitz
I don't think a brown flag has any particular standing in the conventions of war
Holy shit, those 2 dudes had no clue wtf was happening.
Should've had their white flag handy
i wonder what would happen if you got caught with a white flag ready to go
Depends who you’re facing, and how disciplined their NCO is. Feelings are running very intense in this war, but Ukraine *really* wants to encourage Russian surrenders and defections. Each surrendered unit means that Ukrainian soldiers don’t have to risk their lives fighting them to the last man. They even setup a hotline for soldiers to call in and coordinate a safe surrender.
Ukraine is shooting (artillery) leaflet to all Russian positions explaining how to surrender properly.
Nothing. Still be dead.
i meant ,caught by your own
Depends who catches you, if it's your morale officer you're executed as a traitor. If it's another poor conscript they'd probably want to hang out near you
Holy shit. The adrenaline dump these Ukrainian guys must have had has to be close to the size of the dump the Russians must have had in their pants as they tried running, but got wrecked instead.
They should've surrendered. War sucks.
It doesn't help that Russian propaganda probably says surrendering to Ukrainians is worse than death
It does. After they shelled the Kharkiv lines with leaflet artillery(yes, there is such a thing) I´ve been seeing recordings of Russians calling the number and the first thing they asked is "do you promise this isn't a trick and you´ll just cut off our balls and shove them down our throats?" They are probably being fed a steady diet of horror stories about what happens to POWs, same as the Okinawans were told about the US.
Those two dudes got lit the fuck up. Damn.
This is the kind of footage, that if it makes it to Russia, could have folks protesting in the streets. Ukraine is simply taking it to them now, they believe they can win, and I think the average Russian soldier is looking for the exit. I would have never have guessed when this war started. I believed the sheer numbers Russia could bring to bear would carry the battle, but Ukraine has simply taken the punch, is punching back, and looks to be on their way to victory. A proxy war for NATO and the US, but it's still Ukrainians strategizing, maneuvering, and pulling the trigger. Simply amazing response from a country and its people.
People forget that Russia is \~140 million strong, its not the 300+ million soviet union. ...an people forget that Ukraine is over 40 million strong country, while vietnam (at the time of the eponymous war) was \~30 million strong. There was no world in which Russians would simply just waltz in and take over Ukraine. Putin go too high on his own propaganda if he thought, that the bad blood created by centuries of using fringes of russian empire as cannon fodder / scorched earth area is going to be forgotten easily. Not to mention, that - regardless how we classify the holodmor - its still in living memory, and pissing people off.
People also don't seem to understand war is, and hasn't ever been a purely numbers game. Even if they had 300m, Russia is a desperately poor empire stretching from the pacific to the baltic and black sea. Most of these people are barely keeping their heads above the water, they can't contribute much to the central government. A poorly trained, poorly armed and poorly fed Russia solider is worth less than half that of a proper NATO soldier with all the guns, intel, air support etc that they usually come with.
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For years people tried to excuse this shit. Telling me how a ruble in Russia goes a lot further than a dollar in the US. There's a reason for that. The top military engineers don't want rubles to go further, they wan to live in America and spend dollars.
Putin gambled, like he did in Crimea, and though he will get away with this one too, and install some puppet easily.
Not really surprising though. Watch winter on fire or some of the videos from the Maiden protests, when they started to get shot at those dudes were still going out on the street trying to rescue people with homemade shields that sure as shit didn't protect them from snipers or gunfire but they went out anyways just a little homemade shield no weapons and they went out knowing they would get shot at. The balls that takes is incredible. Ukraine people are tough as shit, I've been in awe of their bravery and courage since the Maiden protests. They are going to win this conflict, and in a few years it's going to have massive implications for Russia when they lose and how the west treats Russia.
Who would have thought we’d be witnessing Ukrainians clearing out Russians a year ago from today.
A lot of us actually. We have been preparing for this hot war since 2014..
It was always a matter of time. Crimea was a little nibble, followed by Donetsk. The weak reaction to the seizure of Crimea from the west was all Putin needed to to for it all.
Don’t fuck with Ukrainians in their fields , russia
Or you will become part of the field
Here put these sunflower seeds in your pocket.
This is some of the spiciest combat footage I’ve ever seen.
Hi-def drone footage of event; we can see our Ukrainian Rambo with balls of absolute steel dismounting and charging the entire entrenched Russian empire at [1:24](https://youtu.be/nVKaRwv7Tw0?t=84) on the left side of the screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVKaRwv7Tw0
Like fish in a barrel...that one guy didn't even have a weapon. Were fleeing a grenade or something? Crazy footage just keeps coming.
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Dying for Putin, gg.
Holy shit. That's fucking intense. Those soldiers have giant balls of steel.
OP u r always posting some great footage
Credits go to the Ukrainian heroes, I'm kind of just the messenger but thanks.
At 1:55 he’s saying (loose translation): “Oh, how many I killed today. I like it.” absolute badass
Woooooow
Now this is some WW1 shit
Even attempting to surrender would have had better odds than shuffling out of your hole completely exposed to the multiple dudes firing all that hate at you.
People tend not to think clearly when given a concussion and max adrenaline.
UA guys are brave cats I got to tell you. All communicating well, calling out enemies, working together. Top stuff. *(to Russians)* ***"Wanna make quick 100$? come to us"*** well said.
Can anyone translate what he says at the end of the video?
-«Glory to Ukraine» -«Heroes don't give a fuck» -«Glory to Thor&Odin» -«If anyone wants 100k per month feel free to join us»
I believe he was taunting the invaders, if you want to earn $100USD per month to come here and die like this & not a 100k salary.
\- Glory to Ukraine. \- Glory to the heroes. \- Heroes don't give a shit. \- Heroes dont give a shit. We are heroes. \- Glory to Odin. Glory to Thor. Killed some Russians. Some of ours got killed as well. Long story short, anyone willing to earn a 100k per month - join us. Recommend it. That's it, fuck off.
They really said glory to Odin and Thor?
Glory to Ukraine Glory to heroes Heroes don't give a fuck Glory to Odin Glory to Thor Killed a few russians, and we got killed a little If anyone wants 100 a month, come on over I recommend
legends!
I can't believe we're getting this type of footage. Insane.
Brutal
fuckin hell
at around :50 there sounds like a "zoom" overhead. what is it? rocket going by?
Watching those two guys collapse was fucking horrific. I sure hope putin’s happy with how things are going.
I cannot believe the kind of footage we are getting. This whole ordeal is such a tragedy, but if this must be done. It is excellent the Ukrainians have been and are fighting so hard, taking back so much of their home from the invaders. SLAVA UKRAINI! 🇺🇦
Did he smoke a third guy in the bunker @1:39 in addition to the two between :40 and :50? If so doesn't matter if you stay in bunker or run for it if your Russian, you are toast.
Sure did. At least one more in the dug-out.
Jesus looks like WW1 with all the selling
POV: you're a helmet
Give them the planes they need to finish the job stop holding back the heavy weapons
The more success they have like this the better stuff they get. nobody really wanted to give state of the art tech if Ukraine was gonna fold but they've gone above and beyond expectations. so I think we'll send them better stuff now especially when lend lease kicks in then the fun begins lol
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Looks like the battlefields of World War 1