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On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. One of the principal targets was Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Most outside observers, including U.S. intelligence, believed that the political center of would fall quickly. But as the hours turned to days, and the days turned to weeks, Ukraine proved that Kyiv would not fall so easily.
But the story of how Kyiv survived is complicated. A combination of Russian miscalculations and clever Ukrainian strategy made the difference. The dreaded 64-kilometer Russian Kyiv convoy fell apart, giving Ukraine a fighting chance for the rest of the war. This is the story of the Battle of Kyiv.
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0:00 The Russian Kyiv Convoy Departs
3:55 Russia’s Mobilization
11:52 Russia Tries to Keep a Secret
21:21 Russia’s Ticking Time Bomb
24:04 Ukraine’s Game Plan
24:31 Keeping Zelensky Alive
27:46 Stopping Russian Sky Bridges
29:53 Canceling out the Russian Air Force
32:36 Repelling the Ground Assault
38:25 How Ukraine Destroyed the Convoy
45:47 Epilogue
48:31 Happy Trails, Times New Roman!
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It is time to reorganize the backfield in Russia.
I wait for your videos , they are awesome. Wish you could do more frequently. Good job.
31:00 we call them escorts or fighter escorts and have for the past 80 years. You call them anti aircraft chaperones?
I hate long videos but not in this case, it is really good with content I never knew like the hedgehogs and underground bunker network – thanks
The Ukrainian people are made of legendary stuff. Hopefully they win this war as quickly as possible and go onto join the EUROPEAN Union 🇪🇺
however Ukraine has performed very very well out of all the expectation against a suppsoedly 2nd strongest military power in the world, kicked it in the balls and gave it a bloody nose. Now the Russian military is struggling for months now trying to take a town called Bakhmut int he Donbass and Ukraine has recovered 50 percent of what Russia took in Ukraine.
Zelensky has bigger balls than the former Afghan President who ran away abandoned his people behind
Funny how if Shoigu and Gerasimov actually busted a nut in planning, the battle of Kiev would be a decisive Russian victory.
And yet, "all is going according to plan", per Russia.
Paid propaganda. Ukraine is doomed.
Who knew that the real issue at hand was fonts?
stop making the guy a hero , its war propaganda
The devil 👿 can never win ⁉️✌️ 🇺🇦
You're an excellent storyteller. Appreciate these videos a lot.
Mf sleeping
Russia Federation will win this Fight against the Evil! 🤷🏼♂️🕊🤍🇷🇺🤍🕊
A very good presentation, many thanks.
The Ukrainians actually did know/believe that Russia was going to invade. They didn't want to tell the public however because it would have caused a mass exodus all at once and clogged up the transportation lines, which the Ukrainian government really needed to be clear as long as possible to move their own troops into defensive positions. So yes, the Ukrainian government lied, but it was a necessary falsehood in order ensure their own troop movements prior to the actual invasion.
Haha was that kachuepa soup around the 45 min mark ps love your videos
I think this is referred to as a “blyatskreig”
Armenius used that pinch strategy on the Roman troops of Varus in the battle of Teutoburg forrest. Cool to see that taking a page out of a 2000 year old playbook still works. And Armenius also embarrassed one of the world's major powers of the time using it
I really like the long format video, thank you
I heard an interesting theory from one other youtuber that said the following:
Putin had it destroyed to burn the bridges of the oligarchs who wanted to end the war and return to profit from their gas sales, having the US as the main suspect would just be a fortunate by product for Putin.
@William Spaniel Another great video. I would LOVE to hear a discussion between you and Perun https://www.youtube.com/@PerunAU on this topic. You've both got deep insight and are extremely compelling.
i like calibri, its a simplistic, nice to read and look at font with its round shapes. i use it since several years now.
Great video! Wasn't the Sumy front also aiming for Kyiv? There wasn't any mention of it. Excellent work!
thank for your work
lol what a way to end the video
4:55 I can't be the only person to point out that the US still had the same draft as from 1948. Famously, Elvis was drafted in 1957.
War today denies one the element of surprise.
Thus, war is more like a Chess board where all moves
are observed. If the move is sound it works- if not
it will likely fail. In a world of total surveillance one cannot
count on surprise but only on sound deployment.
After hundreds and hundreds of hours of very very good documentation and analysis there is only one conclusion: Most russians are complete idiots, it is a dying state and the best solution would be the disintegration of the russian federation, demilitarization, denuclearization and permanent UN military presence. Russians! your historical role is over! best of the best…or not….
Ukraine started not in the best way the russian invasion… Zelensky didn t prepare the army for a potencial invadion…he didn t believe in that could happen! But after the invasion and even to this day…Zelensky for me is an Hero of Ukraine!!! He didn t acept a way out of kyev when all was pointing he would be captured and killed in just a few hours or days…he stayed and managed to rally almost all world for peoples suport!! Some people try to minimize what zelensky is doing…but he managed to get for Ukraine defense alot good systems and i really hope tanks arrive soon and atack hellys and fighter jets for a combination of air and land atacks against russian troops for Ukraine retake they re land and freedom!!! Keep strong Ukraine in your fight for your freedom 🇺🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺💚🇺🇲🇬🇧🇪🇺💪🏼
Zelensky is a mad man. The ammunition quote will remain engraved in history far longer than this war.