Comments by "Trevor Sutherland" (@trevorsutherland5263) on "Military Summary" channel.

  1. So, Putin was right all the time about the POW plane. TBH, at this point Russian MoD has more credibility than Ukrainian MoD----a lot more.
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  2. I've seen parallels to the last days of the Wehrmacht for months now. In early 1945, many Wehrmacht units fired at the Americans only until their ammo ran out. Once it did they surrendered as they felt they'd done their duty. Freshly mobilized AFU conscripts willing to defend only but not attack is no surprise to me.
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  3. FAB-3000 strike: "....nothing special just regular military activity...." A 6600 lb. guided bomb obliterates some number of AFU and its hardly worth making a note of it.... THAT is the measure of how far RU has come in the past year..."
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  4. I am just one step from flat out calling AFU leadership, Zelensky and his nationalists, idiots. No Military Academy teaches officers to allow themselves to be encircled and AFU just sits there for months as the pincers close around them, then rushes in fresh troops (who get shredded) and they lost the city anyway. In 1871, France lost the Franco-Prussian war and gave up Alsace-Lorraine (which was a HUGE blow to them---same as losing Crimea is to Ukraine). They gave it up; they didn't throw a million men away when it was clear they'd lost. Guess what? 40 years later they had the opportunity to get it back (and many of the men who would have been lost needlessly in 1871 were there to help take it back). Someone convince me AFU are not led by morons....
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  5. Whenever you show the updates for a week or month the entire war picture becomes clear. Almost every blue icon in Russian territory is an FPV drone icon, with a small number of artillery shell icons. One the other side of the front line, there are three times as many red icons, and the vast majority are "mushroom" clouds, missile, or artillery shell icons; so many that the FPV drone strikes are almost completely obscured. Russia's firepower dominance is unmistakable.
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  6. Yeah, I'm with most on here; if those dots are NK troops because Zelensky says so, that mean nothing to me. ANY other evidence to back it up? I mean, I WANT to believe it, because we all been waiting two months to see what NK troops can do, but if the only source is Ukraine that is no source at all.
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  7. I'm really amazed the T-62 is still a useful weapon of war after all these years. It and the T-64, covered in ERA, with a cope cage, is still a potent weapon that no army can ignore.
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  8. China be like: "what you mean? We ship all this fiber optic cable to Russia for their strong, and growing mobile data and Internet capacity needs." 🙂
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  9. FAB-3000 6600 lbs is huge; like dropping a Chevy Suburban from 80km away and it lands within 100m of where you wanted it to. The UMPK kit for a bomb that large must have fairly substantial wings and fin control surfaces; I'm sure RU engineers figured the optimal size/range mix before deployment. With a blast radius that big, maybe it doesn't even need to be as accurate as a FAB-500?
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  10. Russia playing with their food just like they did in 1943: Allow the enemy to dash itself to pieces against hardened fortifications backed by massive artillery, while the factories in Siberia pumped out a tsunami of weapons. Then, in 1944 the steamroller starts and doesn't stop until Berlin.
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  11. Look at those shockwaves from those FAB-500 hits. Everyone has their eardrums blown out and lungs collapsed out to 700 meters. Su-34 lobs them from 40 MILES away and they land on the exact treeline the drone targeted. How dafuk can you survive that?
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  12. You are seeing the tank a week after the fight that caused it to be abandoned. It looks peaceful now, the day it was damaged was anything but peaceful and no one remembers to shut the dam door when the house and whole neighborhood is on fire
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  13. This is exactly how the "Russian Steamroller" works, just as it did in 1943-1944. I said this back in July, of course i didn't know when it would start (I thought next Spring), but it was 100% going to be exactly like this.
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  14. There have been fewer and fewer Iskander strikes noted in the daily summaries the past few weeks. The last memorable one was the "quintiple-tap" of five Iskanders hitting the same spot. Since then, very few. Is there anything to read into this tactically, or just a coincidence?
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  15. Just looking at the map yesterday show a salient of yellow surrounded by a sea of red. The deeper you push the more your flanks are exposed. Even if they crushed everything in front of them, they'd still eventually be annihilated.
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  16. I'd love to know the truth of how many Russian soldiers have been casualties in the past week in Robotyne sector. In all the past week's videos, I do not see any Ukrainian vehicle firing its gun right before it is hit by a Lancet, shell, or mine. To me, they are being hit before they even acquire a target, meaning it is very unlikely they even know where the Russians are. Yesterday the two CV-90s that were destroyed by RPG7s WERE firing their guns when hit, but the hits came from the side, not ahead where their gun barrel was aimed----they did not see the Russians who killed them. Also, the only Russian equipment I see being hit are from FPV drones, not from any tank or IFV in these assaults. There is no way Ukraine is inflicting serious losses on Russia in these attacks; the casualty ratio has to be 10:1 in Russia's favor.
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  17. An Iskander delivery to an AFU bbq.... That's cold.
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  18. What were those RU armored vehicles?? BMP-3?? Several artillery shells landed very close and they seemed totally unaffected; on the way back one of them fired at AFU so they seem to have a heavy caliber gun. Those drivers must have balls of titanium.
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  19. I tend to agree; since the Fall of Bakhmut Russia has had the initiative and terrorist attacks in Belgorod just proved to me Ukraine's core combat power is weakening so they have to do guerilla warfare. If Russia sends two 25K man army groups into Ukraine in two different areas one will be checked while the other will blitz all the way to Kyiv.
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  20. 100% agree! My favorite was when he was talking about the AFU left in the Avdiivka pocket when the big wigs first began to leave in December. He said "...these soldiers have been deleted from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet by an officer back at HQ...." I was like dam...Dima is cold... 🙂
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  21. "what kind of information you can provide for 7 minutes? Just understand how you're doing, what did you eat today..." AHAHAHAHAHAHH! 😀
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  22. That is kind of insane to have that many vehicles in the open during daylight that close to the front. Even just one or two would have indicated the facility is a repair shop and made it a target. Of course, CNN will report that AFU says they were all "decoys"..."
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  23. You called it 12 hours before it actually happened. The US threw Zelensky under the bus. Thats why he got mad and stormed away in a rage. Keep that analysis and "reading between the lines" up; anyone can read posts... it's your analysis why I watch. Well done
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  24. Yeah, but Dima's imperfect command of English is actually a plus when it comes to such a depressing subject. That and his occasional sense of humor; I crack up when he calls Russian motorcycle troops the "Sons of Anarchy" 🤣
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  25. Having your unit banner captured usually means you were overrun. Like a Roman Legion allowing its eagle to be captured....."
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  26. Man, the summary about Syrsky visiting Chasiv Yar and his Generals not wanting to gather there due to memory of what happened to the Polish General had me cracking up.
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  27. Things happening so fast now hard to keep up. STILL no North Koreans?? I'm starting to believe their presence was a Russian Psy Op using "asian looking" Russian citizens, and in reality not a single actual North Korean is within 500 km of Kursk.
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  28. At Okinawa, the US actually took more overall casualties than Japan did; IJN had almost no wounded---all were KIA while US had (obviously) a mix of KIA and wounded that exceeded the size of the Japanese force. That's about as "bad" as a battle can go for a victorious attacker and the US Marines didn't ever waver. It had to be taken to end the war, so taken it was. Same here for Russian Army; just do what must be done.
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  29. RU don't really seem to be concerned with pushing whatever AFU are still in Kursk out? Kursk never was a military risk; is it now no longer even a political one?
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  30. When was the last time Russia lost a fixed wing aircraft? I can't even recall----yet 100+ FAB-500s falling every day. Ukraine has no theater air defense anywhere along any front. However the Ka-52s have to be careful to stay at max range now, some new Swedish MANPAD has 8km range. Nasty, though the Su-34s are running wild.
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  31. With no starlink for FPV drone control, AFU going on the offensive with no drones is suicide. 🙂
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  32. The only metric that matters is casualties. Ukraine can put its last 10 soldiers into Tokmak and say "we've reached Tokmak" , then they die and Russia wins. Relative losses is the only way to accurately guage the battle and none of us know what these numbers are so we are all just enjoying ourselves arguing like drunks at a football match.
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  33. Zelensky demanded "500 meters a day" four days ago. Has AFU moved 2 km in any direction in that time?
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  34. For a conscript or convict with four weeks training; does it really make any difference if a FAB-1500 lands near you or a FAB-3000????"
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  35. So many times over the past year, what appeared to be an AFU tactical advantage, turned out to be a Russian lure or trap or otherwise precisely what RU wanted them to think/do. It has happened so often that for the past few months I honestly do not believe any initial report of a Ukrainian "success", no matter how small. I never believed the "we shot down five Su-34s", nor do I believe the absence of guided bombs on Kryinky area is simply due to a plane being shot down. RU has earned a fair amount of skepticism regarding any AFU claims against them; until I see more proof, I believe RU simply finds it unnecessary to use guided bombs in that area as the troop concentration is not worth it. Tornado or TOS rockets are a much cheaper option and are now likely more suited for the situation.
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  36. I wish I could donate money to Russia. What NATO is doing in Ukraine is naked opportunism at its purest.
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  37. It would seem so. There is video today of Wagner "musicians" with a T-90M blasting any building that has Ukrainian stragglers in it.
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  38. I try to imagine WW2 or Vietnam fought in the age of social media....and I just cannot. Even Iraq 2003 was not affected to this degree by social media. Social media is not only recording the historic events of this war, it is exerting influence on them as well...
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  39. I thought exactly the same thing, but my guess is a lot of those targets are artillery and/or drone squads. It is the artillery/fpv keeping the RU forces back from wiping out the AFU infantry beachhead. That must be suppressed before RU soldiers can go in there and wipe them out. Artillery gun only 3 to 5 crew, fpv team only 1-3. It could take 40 or 50 bombs to hang 120 KIA/200 wounded on AFU in such a situation. Just a guess....
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  40. BBC interviewed some AFU in Chasiv Yar and the guys building and operating the drones were early 20s, but the guys out in the streets and bunkers were all in their 60s. One looked as if he could be close to 70. The young ones that don't know any better maybe, but I can't for the life of me figure out why a 65 year old Ukrainian would fight to the death so NATO can use his land...."
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  41. Two weeks ago, Zelensky toured all the Fronts and the next day AFU sent the house in all three Fronts. At first, I thought he toured all his commands to inspire his troops; I now realize he was saying goodbye as he knew he'd never see most of them alive again.
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  42. Kursk is becoming a NATO equipment horror show. It appears the NATO army of 2024 has far more IFVs/APCs than their 2023 army. My guess is this reflects the infantry heavy tactics both sides went to in 2023 once the FPV drone became so numerous. RU seems to still prefer tank led assault by using Tsars Grill to diminish the drone threat. If my guess is right, I can see why Syrsky did not send this new army to the Donbass to try to check RU advance because such a mobility heavy force would be ineffective as a defensive force there.
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  43. Ukraine is about to get absolutely slaughtered; and the Biden Admin with its enablers is going to be exposed for the liars they are.
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  44. What a disaster.... How Ukraine military leadership even have any credibility left I'll never know. Even after the "pincers" reached 75% encircled in December, I would have called it quits and saved my army, but OK its "symbolic" so they stay. After the "pipe army" breach two weeks ago, not even symbolism could justify staying in place to be destroyed. AFU HQ sucks. Period.
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  45. Yes, it looks very bad for RU now , but remember Hitler sent THREE MILLION in this direction 80 years ago and lost. NATO has only sent about 25K...."
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  46. Where are the North Koreans??? Military Summary can't confirm these guys are in combat or not??
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  47. Now that Russia knows Zaporizhzhia is the goal, they will add far more defensive infrastructure to the already bristling Tokmak area. By next Spring the whole area around that city will look like the surface of the Second Death Star.
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  48. ? Poland been in the war almost since first day. Wagner was finding headless and handless bodies in captured towns back in January. They found cell phones and other personal items that indicated they were Polish.
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  49. Storm-Z going into the history books along with Hoplites, Immortals, Centurions, Saxons, Mamluks, US Marines, etc.
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  50. The tipping point has been reached; I've said all year when the final stage comes the pace will quicken. We will see some "collapse" in some places very soon
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