Three Russian servicemen were killed after a Ukrainian drone was shot down by air defenses as it approached a military airfield in Saratov Oblast, Russia. Retired Lt. General Mark Hertling explains what this means for the war.
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0:45: Satellite images of Engels tell all. Those “shot down” drones hit their targets. Engels control tower severely damaged and a hanger with somewhere around 8 aircraft in active service were also severely damaged inside their hangars, killing at least 12 servicemen, who almost certainly were specialist mechanics. We can expect the next satellite images will show remaining aircraft moved to a different airport.
no..noooo…..That huge explosion was caused by a 3Kg piece of drone falling on 3 Russian servicemen who were sleeping together in a single bed.
@Navam Sinna All typical Muscovite propaganda cliches….not worth discussing.
At least Indians now see Russian weapons aren’t worth purchasing and cut down contracts.
A North Korean drone flew to Seoul yesterday. Why didn’t air defense, made in the USA, shoot him down …? ) By the way, South Korea, when trying to shoot down this drone, “lost” a combat aircraft ..
That’s what the politicians/media does, with all their propaganda. Like “It’s the Russians’ fault,” etc. And the same thing happens in the east, like “It’s the fault of the Americans, of the West,” and so on. They make people hate each other! We need to wake up! They did the same with the plan-demic, and they will do the same with any other scheduled crisis, such as the devaluation of money (that paper printed at the behest of some ‘tricksters’) or the food crisis (which while we are made to hate neighbors, food is destroyed around the world).
@Event 42 your watching CNN,you definitely should know propaganda when you see it 😂
A Ukrainian drone is flying 630km undetected at 230km/h deep inside Russian territory, hitting his target hard at the end of his journey, and the Russians are pretending that they shot down the drone “effectively”…🙄
Another lie isn’t it?
similar to how most russian men pretend they don’t get black out drunk on vodka and molest their own daughters
@Marshall Mintz A North Korean drone flew to Seoul yesterday. Why didn’t air defense, made in the USA, shoot him down …? ) By the way, South Korea, when trying to shoot down this drone, “lost” a combat aircraft ..
Repent and believe in Jesus. John 3:16 KJV – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Luke 13:3 KJV – I tell you nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
John 3:3 KJV – “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
@Владимир Михайленко My sisters babysitters dogwalker…..said they lost 62 aircraft chasing the drone. Nice try bot-boi!
It reminds me of the Battle of Britain where the Luftwaffe could not gain air superiority so shift focus from RAF airfields to the city of London by commencing the Blitz. Hitler reasoned he could break British resolve by bombing civilian targets. Putin has taken an almost identical strategy, with similar results: strong Ukrainian civilian support for their leadership and unfaltering support from their US Allies. IDENTICAL.
@Ross Evans Big deal. North Korea and Iran are helping Russia. What matters is what the actual soldiers do on the battlefield, and Russian soldiers can’t compete, so now they are bombing civilian targets.
Repent and believe in Jesus. John 3:16 KJV – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Luke 13:3 KJV – I tell you nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
John 3:3 KJV – “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
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@goeast12 All you say is correct, but maybe you would do well to start reading the ‘replies’ that lead up to those of others.
You don’t know history. The bombing of English cities started as a fluke. In August 1940 Germany’s Luftwaffe undertook a mission to bomb numerous RAF airfields. Their mission, however, went drastically wrong.
They bombed off-target and hit many homes, killing civilians, so Winston Churchill responded immediately with a bombing raid on Berlin the very next night, enraging Hitler. In a war of retaliation, the Nazis then responded with a massive bombing offensive on Britain that lasted for almost ten months. Churchill allowed the bombing of civilian centers to continue as it relieved the pressure on the RAF airfields that were within a few weeks of destruction.
It seems to me, an early Baby-boomer, that allowing Ukraine only strictly defensive armament supplies strikes as very similar behaviour to the US policy during WWII up to Dec 1941. If Britain hadn’t had access to Canadian & other Commonwealth assets, it would have been powerless to hit back at German facilities for the first two years of that War. To allow an ally to be pounded each day and not afford it the capacity to hit back is immoral.
@M M sooo, you’ve lived in an autocracy your whole life. How about Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and has been there ever since. Notice how I use the word invaded… that means Russia intruded on a civil war. Russia is trying to expand and take over a sovereign country and you don’t have a problem with that? All bullsh_t aside if you don’t mind me asking what country do you call home?
@M M The US you fool, it would eat russia alive in Ukraine if set loose. Why do you think russia is so scared of NATO/US direct attack? Because they would slaughter the drunks and corrupt officers (those that are still alive after Ukraine took many of them out) in just days, if not hours.
@M M m&m, you’re smoking some good weed baby. First of all Russia activated about 200 thousand recruits that’ll be ready earliest late spring, not no 700 thousand. Man you can really stretch the truth with your imagination. And second Putin can’t and didn’t and won’t equip the soldiers already dispersed! You’re losing real estate daily. The Ukrainian army is kicking the poorly trained and equipped Russian military buts. Russia’s only wins has been on civilians and infrastructure with missiles. That’s it. There army, air force and navy are all losing or don’t you get that in your local news? So exactly what country do you live in. It’s no secret, I’m not hiding the fact I live in America! Just want to know who I’m talking to.
@M Mwhat mental gymnastics are you using to claim that we are using Ukraine. Wow are you visiting the local crack house. You’re hitting the pipe awfully hard. Russia invaded a good friend of the United States and we are giving them weapons to fight the invaders with. Just like Russia did to American enemies since Viet nam. The Vietnamese weren’t building migs and ak47’s, same with Korea war. All those weapons provided by communist nations ( China and Russia) against the United States and freedom. You think the United States is the problem? Imagine, all the United States does is help the government’s of the world who want to be free remain free. We’re not pushing into communist or autocratic countries, no the people see how it is in America and they want the same thing. Freedom, independence, a voice, to vote, some money, you know all the stuff that comes along with the West and western ways. Somebody’s been doing your thinking for you for to long. You still haven’t told me what country you call home. Last little tidbit since you clearly don’t know what real freedom is, I’ll give you a quick example of what the best country on the planet deals with every single day, the southern border of America has close to 8000 people a day sneaking in to America to stay forever. That’s a true testament to the United States influence. Now you can piss, moan and groan all you want about how the United States sucks and we’re this, that and the other thing. But at the end of the day no place on earth has people trying to sneak into their country’s border like here in America. Well what do you know about that? Some truth, some knowledge, some facts. Now match those facts to your lying news.
I 100% agree about the morality and the assessment. But I understand the people that don’t want to escalate with nukes on the table.
I also feel like the Russian Army we see on the battlefield today is utterly incapable of doing even a portion of what the Nazi military in 1941 was capable of.
So I can see both sides, but yeah my heart wants to see Ukraine hit back.
The seat belongs to the Soviet Union, not Russia, which had many countries. I don’t think it’s hard to kick them, I think there is not enough political will to do it.
@Mark Valentine
I guess we’re not allowed to disparage the Big 5. 😛
But yeah, cleaning house would definitely be a nice thing for the UN. But (there’s always a “but”) I suspect the big international players would pick up their toys and leave if UN tried to do it. And without those UN becomes a trivial organisation.
As dysfunctional as it is in it’s present form, UN still does some good.
The Veto is granted to the biggest 5 powers with atomic weapons
(also the only ones with atomic weapons at the time of foundation)
@Mark Valentine veto is granted to the first five mebers with atomic weapons
@HMC RedFed
You might want to doublecheck the timeline. What you wrote doesn’t seem to be true.
You are correct about the seat. It was basically passed over to Russia by default when the USSR collapsed. There is a mechanism in place for UKR to challenge for that seat as a former part of the USSR.
Russia was never formally appointed to the UN or made a member of the Security Council. The USSR was. Russia just assumed it.
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Yeah all beautiful, but the fact is that it should have been mentioned at the time Russia was formed and took part in the U.N. again.
Usurped it.
The Russian Federation is the legal successor of the USSR in all international affairs. For example, in 2000, the Russian Federation paid its last debts to the United States for the World War II lend-lease.
Can you tell which country the U.S. forgave its debts?
If Russia, as the deemed successor to the Soviet Union, can’t be kicked off *this* UN Security Council, is there anything to prevent the UN body from creating another UN council that could carry out the substantive functions of the current UNSC? Would welcome any insights to this question.
@Miranda Hotspring Couldn’t the UN General Assembly just vote to create an alternative/new UNSC? Like when the General Assembly voted to censure Russia for the invasion of Ukraine? A UNGA vote wouldn’t have to go through a Russian veto.
@David Koh Russia still has the power to veto, as do any of the five permanent members.
They would need to do what they did in Babylon 5 with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. Its funny how the answers to many situations can be found in tv shows.
@every buddy Absolutely!
@Miranda Hotspring Pretend Russia is a subpoena and just ignore it. /s/
President Kennedy said it best, “You can’t negotiate with the Russians. They enter with the argument; what’s mine is mine, what’s yours is negotiable.” [regarding Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis}
@Wilfried Hölscher So much so that the opposite..)
I see that US citizens do not understand what is happening in Ukraine at all….
Thats not true, they were able to negoiate a deal
@Владимир Михайленко WRONG!!! Khrushchev was Russian, not Ukrainian. His wife was from Ukraine.
@Владимир Михайленко And Stalin was Georgian, so whats your point?
I find it insane that the UN has no way to restructure its councils or other systems, surely there is a way to disband the council and reform it without russia or some back-end workaround
@Mark Valentine I am certainly not anti Russian, simply anti Putin and his cronies.
@Miranda Hotspring Looks like Youtube ate your comment, but I apologise if it seemed like I was implying you were anti-Russian. My intention was simply to bring attention to the plight of ordinary Russians (which I like to do once every few hundred times I see an unqualified negative reference to Russia or Russians, even though I realise most of us take it for granted as referring to the regime and not the people).
@Miranda Hotspring you need to read a history book,Nato was not to expand past a unified German border. That’s some defensive pact? What’s Americans excuse for its foreign wars,who’s encroaching on America’s border?
@Mark Valentine Russia is using war in ITS sphere of influence because politics have failed on ITS border. America wages war all over the world yet has no threats on its border. Nato was not to expand past a unified German border but sits at russias door, imagine if Russia were at the Canadian border. What would America be doing? Think about it and you won’t have to take a pill.
@Jim Gaston Why mention “history books” when even if you’ve read a few yourself, you’ve come away with false facts anyway?
The “seed of truth” around your propaganda may have been the agreement made with the USSR about permitting the territory of the former East Germany to become part of NATO as a part of a unified Germany, but on the proviso that NATO troops were not deployed in that new territory.
That agreement lasted about a year, when the dissolution of the USSR made it irrelevant, and many of the former Soviet states chose to align with NATO; no third country has any right to interfere with that process. Russia is not the USSR (as America is not NATO), and has absolutely no right to dictate what the former Soviet states choose to do with their own sovereign territory.
Despite your apparent paranoia, none of this means that NATO “encroaches” on Russia’s borders. If you don’t like your new neighbours, cope! (Unless they become anti-social towards you, in which case you have grounds for complaint.)
Finally, there’s a world of difference between placing defensive weaponry close to a hostile neighbour’s border versus placing offensive weapons and troops next to that of a peaceful neighbour, and even showing a willingness to invade illegally given an opportunity.
In summary, Russia has nothing to fear from NATO so long as it refrains from hostility itself, whereas former Soviet states are well justified in seeking protection from a belligerent Russian state at their borders, as testified by past events.
I heard an opinion, that after USSR was dissolved, they never went through the procedure to register as RF, so Russia is not lawful member of UN. Baltic states countries and Ukraine did register, Russia did not.
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It is.
The general made a very good point, it was the Soviet Union that was a founder member of the UN and not russia. Now that the Soviet Union does not exist is it right the just one country of the former Soviet Union is on the security council? There are 15 seperate nations that were once part of the Soviet Union including Ukraine. So why is Russia even still there?
Unfortunately Russia is a legal successor.
That’s really just a fog of war talking point. The Soviet Union was formed by and dissolved by three countries – Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
The USSR center of government was Moscow, not Kyi or Minsk.
It gets murky, foggy, and up to interpretation to go further back – but one could say that the historic cultural (and sometimes political) center of the region was indeed Kyiv and not Moscow – so to argue that one country of the former union does not ‘deserve’ the seat you could go further and say that IF ONE DOES, it should be Kyiv.
Of course, it is Moscow’s seat at the UN by law and by right.
@Tomas Pita They should be voted in by UN GA to take the seat, and GA should make amendments to the UN Charter. It never happened.
@Boris True
Victory and strength and protection for Ukraine. Ukrainians are brave and resilient. We the world need to be resilient with them.
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pray for Ukraine protection from putin agression
Ripley is one of the best reporters at CNN. Thank you for the reports and insights. Gen. Hertling is the best commentator on the Ukraine war you can wish for.
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Putin always wants to negotiate when he is losing 😅
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Russia and Putin understand only one thing — STRENGTH.
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@Andrea Maddenlol you waste your life copy pasting! 😂
Seems like they might not have successfully shot it down if it hit target
😂
@Hartmann Do you think defense systems operate themselves? This is an actual war…a real one. It’s not a movie or a video game.
@Sarah Brown oh yeah? Tell me more about it. Living in Kyiv, I’m quite curious about your knowledge on the topic.
@Gahggon Makoque Perhaps not, but those aren’t the only things stored at that air base. 3 casualties is not a successful strike. I don’t mean to sound callous, but it just isn’t. It’s still impressive the drone was able to get as close as it did, and for a second time.
Anything russia says its lies lies and more lies.
AGREED …CNN BUYING RUSSIAN SPIN …NOT ME
“We all know it’s a war, but only I’m allowed to say it”
– Vladimir Putin
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
Like Britain in WW2, the Ukraine has US support. Unlike Britain in WW2, Ukraine also has all the NATO forces support as well. Just like Hitler, if Putin continues down the path of his lanatic ideology, he will eventually go to far. This next big war will end swiftly and Putin will lose.
It’s no longer a war it is just blanket terrorism. Russia are not able to attack military sites they are mostly just attacking civilians.
I love listening to Retired General Hertling speak. He’s knowledgeable, experienced and speaks in layman’s terms.
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@Marie Lucas Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Even you.
He’s as corrupt as they all are! Nothing but BS comments
Regarding the fact that the Soviet Union was a founding member of the UN, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and therefore should have the same right to a permanent seat at the Security Council today.
3:04 they aren’t called Backfire. The TU 160 is Blackjack. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160
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Ya. According to the *Moscow Times, the TU95 is the Backfire. Also known as Bear.
Or something to that effect.
@mary11976 No. Backfire is the NATO reporting name for the Tu-22. Tu-95 is Bear. Tu-160 is Blackjack.