Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Russian invasion of Ukraine [12 Nov 2022]" video.

The Russians left Kherson because the Ukrainians had destroyed all the bridges across the Dnieper with the help of American precision weapons, and the Russian troops did not have normal supplies and reinforcements. Moreover, the Russians left this region in an organized manner, without a fight. Russian troops were not defeated on the battlefield near Kherson. As for the successes of Ukraine, it is important to understand that Russia, until the end of September, did not fight against Ukraine at full strength. Russia fought for 7 months without mobilization and without conscripts, using only volunteers. Ukraine, on the contrary, has been mobilizing since the first day of the war. It is clear that the Ukrainians have accumulated a numerical superiority, and were able to achieve success. However, after the Ukrainian successes, Russia announced mobilization - Putin did not want to announce mobilization for a long time because of the risks of revolution and unrest in the country. But when the Ukrainian army has a numerical superiority of one and a half to two times, they defeat us. Therefore, it is necessary to equalize the number of armies. Mobilized Russian troops are now arriving at the front, which means that the Ukrainian army will soon be unable to achieve any success at all. Because the population of Russia is 3.5 times larger. Russia can pull so many troops to the front that the Ukrainians will not achieve anything. This is where the war will end.
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@dhjijejd6980 You are talking nonsense. Russia is one of the main suppliers of weapons throughout the world. 25% of the world market. For comparison, the US holds 30%. Russia has a huge military industry and huge stockpiles of equipment.
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@dhjijejd6980 In Ukraine, with the supply and military industry, things are much worse than in Russia. A typical Ukrainian soldier is worse equipped than a Russian, the Ukrainian army has terrible supplies. Ukraine has no military industry at all - the Ukrainian army is cannon fodder, which fights with Soviet equipment from the era of dinosaurs. We Russians, although we modernized Soviet tanks, changed engines there, changed armor, improved everything to meet modern standards. And the Ukrainians are fighting on what was produced at the Soviet plant in the 70s. Well, they get some Western weapons, although we have analogues. In addition, we are totally superior to Ukraine in missile weapons and aviation.
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@dhjijejd6980 Russia really lost a lot of professional and trained contract troops that were at the beginning of the war. And these professionals are now being replaced by untrained recruits mobilized in haste. However, for some reason you forget that Ukraine has also lost a significant share of its professional contract army. At the beginning of the war, Ukraine had 70,000 contract soldiers and 150,000 conscripts. Russia started the war with about 120,000 contract soldiers, as well as about 80,000 conscripts from the DPR and LPR. The losses of Ukraine are higher, because in modern warfare, 95% of the losses are caused by artillery, and Russia is totally superior to Ukraine in artillery and aviation. In addition, Russian professional contract troops are superior to Ukrainian 18-year-old conscripts in terms of training and combat capability. There is no doubt that until Ukraine began to receive American precision weapons, Ukrainian losses were much higher. Thus, Ukraine has lost at least as much of its original contract professional army as Russia.
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@dhjijejd6980 Regarding the loss of territories, I already wrote to you - Ukraine has been mobilizing from the first day of the war, while Russia has been fighting against Ukraine for 7 months not at full strength, using a limited contingent of volunteers from among contract soldiers. It is clear that after 7 months of the war, thanks to mobilization, the Ukrainians simply accumulated a numerical superiority and launched a successful offensive near Kharkov. However, they achieved success only due to their numerical superiority. Now that Russia has also mobilized, there will be no more successful Ukrainian offensives.
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@dhjijejd6980 And what about the reduction of contracts on the arms trade? It is clear that during the war everything goes to their own needs, and not for sale. But the fact is that Russia is one of the largest producers of weapons, and you, the clown, are trying to tell me that we allegedly cannot arm the army. Although Ukraine has a much worse situation with the military industry and supply than we do. In general, they use Soviet rubbish, and we have modified equipment. The same T-72-b3 tank of 2016, which corresponds in terms of performance characteristics to American tanks of the late 2000s and early 2010s
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@dhjijejd6980 you are talking nonsense. At the beginning of the war, Ukraine had 220,000 soldiers. Russia has about 120-150 thousand. Putin launched a so-called special operation, i.e. an undeclared war against Ukraine, provided that 1) conscripts are not used, and conscripts are about half of the Russian army 2) Only volunteers fight among contract soldiers, while they have vacations and the opportunity to terminate the contract. Russia has only 1,013,000 soldiers. However, out of this million there are only 320 thousand infantrymen. If we add the Airborne Forces and the Marines, Russia will not have 400 thousand soldiers. At the same time, half of these 400 thousand are conscripts who do not participate in the special operation. Russia and the L-DPR started the war, having somewhere around 150 thousand soldiers against 220 thousand Ukrainians
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@dhjijejd6980 During the mobilization there were isolated cases of absurdity. However, these are isolated cases. Single. There was an incident when mobilized tankers were given rusty machine guns - this was due to the fact that some conditions were violated during storage, and the machine guns rusted. Those tankers were later replaced with machine guns. For a huge army of 300,000, of course, there will be failures, there will be oversights. But these are isolated cases. Do not forget that there is an information war going on, and Ukrainians love to dress up in Russian military uniforms and shoot false videos about mobilization in Russia. Only in Ukraine things are even worse with mobilization
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@frankthetank5708 What other invaders? We are conducting a peacekeeping operation to protect the independence of the rebels from Ukrainian punishers who have been killing residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics for the past 8 years. Russia is fighting for peace and justice
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@frankthetank5708 When Germany attacked Czechoslovakia in 1939, Germany was right. First, Czechoslovakia in 1938 was the same nationalist state. Secondly, the Czech nationalist was an adviser to American President Woodrow Wilson, and when the First World War ended, the United States demanded that Germany give Czechoslovakia its original German territories. In the Sudetenland, 80-90% of the population were Germans. Czech nationalists oppressed them and violated their rights. Germany liberated its lands in 1938
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@dhjijejd6980 I already wrote to you why Russia is mobilizing - because Ukraine is also mobilizing, and Ukraine has been mobilizing since the first day of the war. Thanks to the mobilization, the Ukrainians achieved a numerical superiority and were able to launch a successful offensive. You are trying to ridicule my truthful words that Russia has a huge military-industrial complex and that Russia is technologically superior to Ukraine, you are trying to ridicule that Russia is mobilizing. What a dumb.
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@akend4426 So I say - when Germany occupied the Sudetenland, Germany liberated its territories. I did not say anything about the invasion of the rest of the territories of Czechoslovakia, which was later
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@dhjijejd6980 Russia is armed with only modernized equipment. T-72b3 tanks, manufactured in 2016, 1,600 in service. T-90 tanks of various modifications, 400 in service. Modernized in the zero and 2010s T-80 tanks. In total, Russia had about 3600 tanks on February 24, which corresponded to the American counterparts of the late 2000s and early 2010s. As for Ukraine, Ukraine is armed with Soviet rubbish. Ukraine is a backward country, which does not even have such a military industry as ours. All armaments of Ukraine are inferior to Russian ones by 20 years. At the same time, Ukraine receives modern Western weapons in small quantities, which are superior to any Russian.
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@akend4426 Over the past 8 years, until February 24, 2022, the losses of the belligerents in the Donbass were indeed not as great as after February 24, 2022. However, it was impossible to leave everything as it was. People in the rebel-controlled territories of eastern Ukraine lived in unrecognized states, under constant Ukrainian shelling, water and electricity cuts, and in poverty. It couldn't be left like that. When this war was supposed to start, and no matter what year, 2014, 2017 or 2022. Because this is an acute issue of self-determination of Donbass. There was no other way to resolve the issue of self-determination of people in these territories. Because it is clear that Ukraine will not allow the separatists to secede.
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@sulaimankhuhro8717 I'm talking about the Russian military industry in comparison with what Ukraine has
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@Χαρης-δ5π I am a military historian, and even before the war I studied the Russian army, trying to compare it with NATO and the United States. Russia has a very small army after Putin's reforms. The number was reduced in order to improve the quality. But the fact is that out of a million military personnel, Russia has less than 400,000 infantrymen, paratroopers and marines. The remaining 600,000 servicemen are the fleet, aviation, nuclear troops, etc. At the same time, Putin started the war using only volunteers from among contract soldiers. Thus, out of 400 thousand soldiers at its disposal, Russia was able to use somewhere between 100-150 thousand against 220 thousand Ukrainians. Ukraine has also been mobilizing since the first day of the war. Russian offensive bogged down in Ukrainian numbers
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@Χαρης-δ5π Well, yes. The defending side has the advantage in losses. At the same time, the defending Ukrainian army also has a numerical superiority. Russian offensive gradually bogged down
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