Military Summary 2023.12.5"
I watched the entire video, it's obviously pro-Russian and so emphasizes, if not exaggerating, Russian successes and Ukrainian failures.
But I didn't have a problem with it, it is what it is.
I never felt an uncontrollable urge to lash out at the narrator with vicious personal attacks, or to concoct mocking fantasies about his personal life.
WTF? He's just a guy doing his job, and reasonably well, I think.
Among other things, I learned from this video:
- Russians claim to have recovered about 85% of the territories taken by Ukrainians during their "summer offensive".
- Russian estimates of Ukrainian losses roughly correspond to Ukrainian claims that Ukraine loses about one third the numbers Russians lose in Russian "meat wave" assaults.
For example, on a day when Ukraine claims Russians lost ~900 in "Meat Wave" assaults, Russians report Ukraine's losses as circa 250. - Our narrator said nothing about any alleged Russian "meat wave" assaults, suggesting that even some pro-Russians understand that's an insane way to fight a war.
- The narrator sounded very optimistic about future Russian offensives, which I thought more or less mirror the optimism about Ukraine which we often see from YouTubers like Denys Davydov.