Russia is said to have built some of the most extensive lines of defence Europe has seen since WWII, to hold onto parts of Ukraine. Now Ukraine’s counteroffensive has begun, Al Jazeera’s Defence Editor Alex Gatopoulos takes a look at where the fighting
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The aptly named Leopard tanks are giving a whole new meaning to the phrase: “Paper Tigers” in the NADO vs Russia War fought in Ukraine, blown to smitherings and left burning shells in the battleground.
@45641560456405640563ты глупый человек лючше молчи в пряпочку
@Peoples Republic of Ninjжареная омерика
@Bad Bad Bad Cat Dribbling stupidity isn’t a great use of your time.
@Семён Бридов <---------can somebody put this back in it's cage. How many times....
I know they can’t even fly like the T72’s! 😂
The much touted leopards are a sad site in battle in the NADO vs Russia war fought in Ukraine. All were destroyed within 20 minutes of encountering battle. The Bradleys are a no show. NADO is really taking a beating. What will they send now?
@A PB they are gaining a few rubble villages 🤣
@James green they are doing well. Russia said that would get to kyiv in 2 weeks. After almost 2 years russia is losing territories
@A PB show everyone were russia ever said that? 🤣 the usa said they’d destroy the taliban yet after 20 years they ran like fkn cowards 🤣
@James green you are not rational. Russia was supposed to take kiyv in 2 weeks. They ran away after 3 days.
@nano wally No pics. No videos. You’re lying.
I wish the Ukrainians best of luck 🤞 it’s just and right to defend your homeland ❤
@JamieNo ruzzia is a peacefull country we only invade our neighbour
Ivan trollbotovsky
@JamieIvan trollbotowsky
@God Killer there his resources now. Go fix your dollar
@Bad Bad Bad CatUkrainians are taking back their land. Ruzzian orcs can die or go home.
Пендос ебло стени
Keep going Ukraine, russia is losing
@Bad Bad Bad Cat risus abundat in ore stultorum
@A PB losing rubble 🤣 Ukraine have lost a fifth of their country and over 14 million refugees 🤣
@James green the wind has changed. Keep laughing.
risus abundat in ore stultorum
@A PB It’s not about land. It’s about grinding the Ukraine army down to nothing. Question: When the last Ukrainian dies, who fights this stupid conflict? Poland?
@Homeless Jesse you are not rational. Ukraine has 40 million people. Russia has a lot of internal fighting. Many russian companies are building private armies because they know that the cetral government will collapse and there will be chaos
Go Ukraine 🇮🇱♥️🇺🇦
Shhhhh….
😅
go my Ukraine go….
go, Ukraine, go to the deepest grave and rot there.
These uninhabited villages are in a so-called “grey zone”. They are under Russian fire control, but Ukrainian commanders again and again send soldiers into these traps to plant flags as a publicity stunt. It always ends up badly as expected. Ukrainians often don’t even manage to evacuate their injured and they have to leave them on the spot. This offensive proved to be another Zelenskyy disaster. Zelenskyy managed to waste dozens of tanks (including cutting-edge German Leopard 2A6s) and hundreds of armored vehicles (including Bradley) along with thousands of hapless Ukrainian conscripts on the mine fields, hit by Russian artillery or anti-tank missiles without even getting to the first main line of Russian defense. Ukrainian army has always been poorly led and marred by political interference and pervasive corruption, but now when it lost almost all experienced soldiers every Zelenskyy operation turns into a wholesale slaughter of Ukrainian conscripts like in Bakhmut. Bakhmut was a slaughter which was entirely Zelenskyy folly as Stalingrad was entirely Hitler’s folly . Zelenskyy just for media hype wasted on average 500 troops daily (total tally was at least 51 000 KIA) in Bakhmut meat grinder even when all escape routes came under Russian fire control and this debacle turned into a sheer slaughter of Ukrainian troops.
Ukraine should just be partitioned between Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Romania.
Better still, Russia should be broken up and partitioned between Finland, Belarus, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and Japan.
Lots of winners, and nobody that anyone cares about would be a loser.
@CountScarlioni So China is just going to ignore Taiwan? You NAFO clowns are dumb as dirt.
@CountScarlioniне подавись чудо природы.
@вадим вагнер That’s what you use as a pick up line? Dear lord!
That’s what’s gonna happen anyways.
Al Jazeera giving advice to Ukraine show the clear bias of this channel.
Somehow I think Ukraine are unlikely to need advice from Al Jazeera. Just a hunch.
Al Jazeera is not giving any advice of value and if you weren’t a putin eunuch, you wouldn’t think staying neutral is normal while he commits all his atrocious crimes but you are you so you like those crimes
Ukraine barely even takes advice from their masters at the other side of the Atlantic.
Expectations about the offensive 2 months ago: “It would be a military parade all the way down to the sea of Azov. The Ruzzians will run for their lives.”
Expectations about the offensive today: “it will be a lot of hard fighting”
@Marinca Gheorghe or dementia joe should realise that russia will never be defeated.
They will
@James green they only need to be kept under an iron wall. What they deserve.
More like: Expectation about the war from the beginning: We will take Kyiv in 3 days in a special operation.
Expectation about the war today: We are winning if we can keep the Ukrainians from overrunning us.
@John R lol thank you
game over Ukraine 😢😢
oh really, and you read that in Mein Kampf, igor?
@schloops Ukraine destroyed countless russian columns like flies. Russia destroys one, none stop celebration.
Game over Ruzzia
@1Guy1Donut yup :D.
Going the way America expects, win an acre, lose an acre just running the number of Ukrainian Troops down, while Russia takes a few losses too.
Fighting for where the line across Ukraine will be drawn on Map.
As Biden said, the American support for the American War in Ukraine has to end before the American Primaries begin so will NATO (Europe) be left holding the baby??
NATO (Europe) has been left to do any fighting IF the American War escalates, Biden said several times American Troops and Jets were never on the table, America only giving Logistical help.
I truly hope you people are reporting the truth this time around
Врут
16 months and $60 BILLION AID later….that is what they capture ? 4 small hamlets !!! 3 cheers to all the Western Leaders
Not forgetting all the recaptured territory around Kyiv and Kharkiv are you? One more thing in a week of probing attacks, the UAF have recaptured 9 km square of land. When was the last time russia were able to mount an offensive to capture any territory?
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Un anno e passa di guerra e sono ancora ancora lì, non parliamo dei morti e delle perdite, secondo te quanti miliardi è costato? Diciamo che tutti si aspettavano una passeggiata, invece non mi sembra: è un disastro per l’ Ucraina ed anche per la Russia, ma uno si difende e uno si diverte a distruggere abitazioni civili e dighe e questi si chiamano criminali.
Seems to be useless.
*WEST WORLD IS USING UKRAINE AGAINST RUSSIA. CITIES/ INFRASTRUCTURE OF UKRAINE DESTROYED. CIVILIANS AND ARMIES OF UKRAINE KILLED.* 😱😱😱
Heroes of Europe…
Glory to Ukraine ✊✊✊
Slava Money Laundering!
@Siberian Cossackthat’s what Ruzzian oligarchs do while other peoples’ sons die for them in Ukraine.
@Adi Adi and mine too! 👍👍
😂😂😂 сало уронили укроповпшисты
@Tim Dyerты то спец в этом 😂. Плати налоги они идут зеле в карман чмо
Someone who said that Germany Tanks are game changer need to be questioned
@Vinoj Sagar I have contacts in ukraine. Keep laughing you cannot stand that small ukraine is beating big russia.
@A PB Ukraine with nato support.. anyhow usa was beaten by Afghanistan.. so Ukraine can also beat Russia
@Vinoj Sagar afghanistan was no friemd of the usa different language and religion. Ukraine and russia were similar so russia is very weak. Not even able to conquer its own people
@A PB you sound like a kid? , What kind of argument is this? And Ukraine has not won yet. And also Russia is not winning either.. it will be long war.. just like USA war in Afghanistan, Iraq
Or Vietnam
@schloops They haven’t even reached the first line of fortifications. They’ve merely taken SOME forward scouting positions of the Russians, where they place their forward observers and some two-man ATGM teams to ambush the Ukropards. Yet the Russians even keep taking them back. Talk about humiliation.
I don’t think anyone think this will be a cake walk, but the Russians will for sure be given their own cake to eat.
they will lack teeth to eat
Hope you won’t forget your words
@ssekajjadickson3817 hopefully Putin remember his special military operation drive to Kyviv. How did that go?
@Ssekajja Dickson He will eat them soon enough.
Bots: LeOpAeafesft Tonk Destrouid¡ Nado goes wronged
Anyone with any idea how military actually works: 🤭🤭🤭
Lol your comment reeks of pain and disappointment in Ukraine’s performance. Take a break from the internet 😹😹😹
@Bad Bad Bad Cat How’d Russia’s counter offensive go? 😅😅🤡
Someone hasn’t looked at the Russian fortifications map. Don’t feel bad. Apparently, the Ukrops didn’t do so either. No wonder they’ve been shoving their troops into the meat grinder expecting to reach the Azov Sea before going extinct in the process.
@kos kok Okay looser. The Russian fortification map can kiss my @$$. Anyone with half a brain knows that major fortifications are pretty much useless in modern warfare anyway. Of course, a Russian rat wouldn’t know that because Russia thinks a war is fought by sitting in trenches and marching into cities and dying en masse. Ukraine has not started attacking yet. When they do, Russian fortifications will be surrounded and eliminated, and the rats inside burned out. One rat at a time, until they are all gone.
Al Jazeera,
Please send more reporters to the front line and post more.
You are the only one who is neutral in this conflict.
Haha there isn’t footage of Ukraine’s side, there literally the bad guy here
being neutral is nothing to be proud of when one side is putin’s Nazis committing atrocious crimes
@Jamie Only Russians think Ukraine are the bad guys. Even countries with neutral stances still see Ukraine as victims. They’re just not motivated to do anything to help.
Its would be so funny if Russian took it for 1 yr to invade ukraine and now leberated only for days by ukrainian
Or even funnier than the usa and their puppet countries said they were going yo defeat the taliban yet ran like cowards leaving behind 85 billions worth of weapons and at the airport they had people hanging off planes and 13 of their invaders were turned into mince meat at the airport 🤣
It is a waste of tax money to give military aid to Ukraine with the tax money that the people of America and Europe pay to their governments. Giving military aid to Ukraine out of taxes paid by the people of America and Europe is as stupid as hiding sugar at the bottom of the deep sea😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
That video of the ukrainians doing the shush thing with their fingers is gae af ngl.
Areas to watch out for Ukraine’s suicide missions after publicising their hyped up counter offensive!! Who does that? Loooook we coming 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Russian MoD just published some footage of Russian soldiers taking over some German Leppards and gringo Bradleys in the Zaporozhie Region. This Western military “Equipment” is just useless TRASH.
Anyone following this isn’t on Ukraine’s side anymore lol.
Anyone following this coubteroffensive knows your just walking out to your death. Stop. Get rid of your right wing naziessque nationalistic movement and should be OK. He only wants what’s his.
Fake
For the first time, it is clear that the NATO experiment has failed. It will no longer be possible to rake in the heat with the wrong hands and at the same time make money on it. The United States will have to solve its problems at its own expense, and at the expense of fools in the European Union 😗
1. How many western tanks destroyed? Ans: Shh…
2. How many armoured vehicles destroyed? Ans: Shh…
3. How many UAVs destroyed? Ans: Shh…
4. How many Ukrainian soldiers died? Ans: Shh…
5. How many cities retaken? Ans: Shh…
That’s the “CounterOffenShhive” operated by the comedian leadership in participation with their western allies.
How many anuses does Russia have? Just one, named Younus.
Aljazera, you hardley show Russias progress or advances, not sure if you report neutral, but you always show support statement for Ukraine, I’m concerned, we are running out of True partial journalist
there are no russian advances. Maybe if you read Mein Kampf a couple more times, they may happen by magic!!
@schloopsyes day 473 bahkmut holds 😂
@San Diego Ukrainians still in control of Bakhmut as they hold all the strategic positions.
fun fact: at 00:10 his surname literally means “son of the cat” (or catson?) 😂😂
Reality: the war is as simple as russia wanting a conquest to keep putin in power for his popularity decline, just as he did in grozni and georgia for the very same reason.
Random arab to a european: no, its because nato and america and aleins and attack on titan…
Russian expectations about the “special murdering operation” in the beginning:
3 days to take Kiev, 1 week to take Ukraine, restaurants and hotels reservations in Odessa for the summer…
Now: Please, Iran, China, African, heeeelp 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Somebody heeelp🙏🏻🙏🏻
We have cheap oil, gas, beautiful women…give us a hand pleeeeease🙏🏻🙏🏻
What a ridiculous country 😂😂
Russians getting destroyed in Ukraine… the story of a year of destroying tanks and other weapons the USSR and Russia took 80 years to accumulate. Luckily, putin’s eunuch are so stupid, they are clueless to what’s happening.
ukronazi main focus in this stage is to destruct the landbridge between mainland Russia and Crimea. Its a comedy theatre so far with a lot of clowns falling to our european fellows Russia.
Its going to be a Ukranian slaughter uou mean realy
Pity the native people of Ukraine because of the president of the Jewish comedy
Disinformation warfare 👌
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Absolutely no one is expecting a “rapid all for one attack”, and hearing people saying this is misleading. Only completely ignorant people who do not actually follow and care about the lives lost in the war think that.
Russia is a matryoshka doll – they about to lose a lot of land in the east and south.
Ukraine will fight and March all the way to Crimea then use the bridge and head to Moscow to topple Putin… 😂
There is no news because the counteroffensive yielded no progress! Simple! After this Ukrainian war, 95% of western media shall become known as propagandist outlets for dishing out fake news in the past 1 year
A Ukraine photo-op over a few villages captured but at a cost of over 10k lives and hundreds of hardware destroyed…. seriously????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡 And they are still nowhere near the first line of defense.
Russia is losing territories. Even russia admitted it
The hard fight is what ukrainian troops have prooved they have. They are freedom fighters with the morale and skill needed to keep pushing until the orc stink is no more in ukraine.
Damage control has started
Be honest…
There is maybe no result at all.
All will die for nothing gain
This war is not about ukraine,is about US and Western dominance….poor ukrainians and russians killing each other in order for us to bring “democratic values” all over the world…and tax payers from europe footing the bill…well done ever1
0:11 lol.. So Al Jazeera has a DEFENSE editor? What is his job? Defending against the truth?
Slava Ukrainians! Tale your whole country back.
Russia has already retaken
False
Both sides must strongly believe they r doing something right, but come on! Stop killing each other as humans!
Operation: Blitzkrieg….kill all the Russians and set traps for the reinforcements!!!
The way of the wicked is crooked (Zelensky), the deeds of the innocent man are straight. (Putin)
If these are just “probing” attacks, why they waste the most modern equipment they possess ?
When the Russian army breaks it will happen over night, and their army will shatter in all directions
Zelenskey is Idiot. Sacrifice young men.
Ukrainian troops surrendering!!!!
What happens to the bodies of these poor Ukrainian soldiers killed in tanks, who collects them??
Probing attacks ? We will f in the a wherever you try, you bunch of Nazis
Moroons all Morons, the ucranians dont have the minimum change to win this war. and you journalists have shame on you, and release all the footage of the Ucranians leopards II burning in the fields.
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You are lying thrue your theets. They didnt reached the first line yet. Still losing . Were the honesty dissapear? Everybody forget that are still people wich are looking for reality. Yes,they took small vilages,but still they have like 10 km until the first line. We have so much moore places to look to and we still get played by the propaganda.
The excuses are coming in fast and quick!!!
истребят всех солдат украины у них мало человеческого ресурса а оружия массового уничтожения нету
Oh yeh 😂😂😂We have seen great controffencive conducted so praised leopards, who actually good for nothing 🤣🤣🤣 Which was expected..So far ,where is a great achievement??? Oh well..If anybody wants to challenge Russians, you are wellcome..You haven’t seen anything yet. 😂😂😂
The difficulties the Ukrainians are encountering in the probing phase are exactly as foretold by western media. It makes Russian propaganda look like an even bigger joke than it already was.
Videos out there of Russia shooting its own troops for retreating.
If Ukrainian soldiers continue to fight by standing in the open, without any cover, and shooting at an empty trench, it is likely that by the end of the offensive, there will be no soldiers remaining. The Russian forces will be able to take over the rest of Ukraine without encountering any resistance.
Seriously?!
I’m sure Putin appreciates your heads up on what areas to look out for, Al Jezeera.
Fk, you journalists really pi$$ me off!
Soldiers die when you publish this information, you clowns.
wait for Wagner group, they are on 1 month vacation.
Flag in buildings damaged dessert areas after heavy fighting for wild animals for survival …
“Federation” soldiers living in the dirt, for horrible pay (sadly still better than what they can make in their own hometown under Moscow rule) while risking their lives for Pootin’s wealth, greed, and delusions of grandeur.
Alex Gatopoulos is the most delusional man I have read.