Ukraine Liberates MASSIVE Amount Of Territory From Russia in UNBELIEVABLE Victory

Russian generals are panicking right now because the last six months they've been telling Putin that Russia is making gains inside Ukraine, specifically in the Zapparizhia region. Well, two days ago, Ukraine debunked that lie in the most humiliating way possible. You see, for the last six months, there was a Ukrainian counteroffensive going on, a secret one. Ukrainian soldiers were under strict instructions not to leak a single piece of information, no video, no tweet, no anything. And because of that operational security, Ukraine recaptured a massive amount of land without Russia even realizing it was happening, an area size of a major American city. So how do you hide an entire counteroffensive operation for six months against the country you're fighting? The answer comes down to a flaw deep inside the Russian army that Putin himself created. And as if this wasn't bad enough, last night, Ukraine destroyed the one facility that Russia was counting on to fix its biggest weakness. That story involves Yuri Gargen, the first man in space. It will all make sense in just a second, I promise. So let's get into all of this, including the big counteroffensive. But before we get into that, I do want to show you guys this short clip from the front lines, because it tells us something about the Russian psyche that Ukraine took advantage of. So take a listen. Okay, so here's a clip, and in this clip you can see two Ukrainian soldiers capturing two Russian soldiers who have already surrendered. So I'm guessing that taking them back to a safe house or somewhere where they can get processed. So here they sit down, I'm guessing they're tired, and I want you guys to hear this conversation, because it tells us exactly who's fighting for Russia and why they're fighting. Some of them are as young as 18 years old. How old are you? 18. Fuck bro, why the fuck did you come here? Keep the cigarettes, keep the lighter for yourself. It's fine, don't be afraid, nothing will happen to you. Keep it, keep all of this. Do you have any documents on you? No, nothing. What is your rank? Private? Regular private. Well, that's obvious. Have you been on a contract for long? About half a year. Damn, for the money? Money, freedom. I signed up from prison. Now, once they are done with their conversation and their break, they are walking again towards a Ukrainian position, I'm guessing, and you can hear very soon a drone approaching. It's not a Ukrainian drone, it's a Russian drone, purposefully going after Russian soldiers who are surrendering, just insane. Fortunately, from what I can see, the drone was taken out from that one shot. Unfortunately, though, it did end up injuring one of the Russian soldiers, the 50-year-old man who came from prison. And on top of that, now that the position is exposed, these people cannot stick around in the same area because likely more Russian drones are coming in. So, they had to leave behind the guy who was injured, who likely passed away because of his injuries. Because it's doubtful that Russians who are trying to kill him are going to come help them, considering that they now know that he was surrendering to the Ukrainian side. And this tells us something unique about the Russian mindset and how the military is fighting this war. They do not want any negative information getting out. They don't want Russian soldiers surrendering. And they don't want their commanders knowing that they're losing ground. And that's important because that explains to us why this Ukrainian counteroffensive was possible. So, let's get into that. Ukraine just took back more than 700 square kilometers of its southeast. And nobody saw it coming. Now, just to put that in perspective, that's roughly half the size of Houston. And actually, it's almost exactly the size of New York City, just for better comparison. And Ukraine quietly took it back without Russians actually realizing what was going on. As if that wasn't bad enough, this happened over six months. So, over the last six months, Ukrainian forces were advancing and we had no clue. You can assume Russians had no clue either. They recaptured 26 settlements and all of them have been confirmed. With geo-located footage that the Ukrainian government just released two days ago. And on top of that, because of this counteroffensive, because of all the territory that Ukraine has recaptured, it means that Russia is basically zeroed in. So, they haven't made any progress this year in terms of how much territory they captured. Putin lost so many soldiers to casualties and, of course, fatalities. And for that, he now has nothing to show for it. Now, we actually have some details. This counteroffensive operation started January 29th. So, at the start of the year, and just three days after that, Starlink actually made it possible. So, Ukrainians could use the terminal. They could connect to the satellites. But the Russians could not do it. And we have covered this before. Elon Musk did it using a whitelist system where Ukrainian terminals were pre-approved and Russians were not. And because of that, Russian drones could not fly properly. Troops could not navigate. And Ukrainian tanks took complete advantage of that to just keep moving forward. These are the largest Ukrainian gains since 2023. And it was quiet on purpose. Here on the screen, you can see exactly how much area we are talking about. And where exactly there area is. The grey zone is the grey zone. Meaning no one controls it. Both sides are fighting for it. The red area is controlled by Russia. And the blue area is the area that Ukraine just liberated. Now, another shocking part of this whole thing is that the map that we are using. This is deep state maps. And this is something Ukrainian people use a lot to just get a sense of how the front lines are. And even the mappers were not releasing information. Maybe they did not have the information. And even if they did have some rumors, they did not want to basically blow the cover on what the government and the military was trying to do. So even the mappers were basically holding the information. So no one found out what was exactly going on. Now, just to compare this to a Russian map. So you can see exactly how much the difference is. Here, take a look. Now, we can actually compare Russian map next to a Ukrainian map to see exactly how much of a difference. Both maps show exactly how much area Russia controls in its mind and in reality. On your screen, you can see both the maps. They are roughly of the same area. But on the Russian map, you can see how much closer Russian forces are to the city of Harvika. And in the Ukrainian map, which is, of course, something that has been geo-located already confirmed by other sources too now, that the Russians are still pretty far away and actually getting pushed back. So the Russian progress is technically negative. So they are progressing just in the negative direction. Now, officially speaking, Russia is not acknowledging any of this. But there are Russian war bloggers who are getting very, very pissed off at their own command. And they're getting pissed off because they believe that the Russian military command is lying to the president, lying all the way up the chain and down the chain. And on top of that, it's lying to the public. In fact, take a listen to this next clip. We actually have Russian bloggers, war bloggers. So kind of like Russian version of war reporters. We're now openly talking about Putin living in an information bubble, where he actually has no clue what the reality is. He's just living in this lala land. Take a listen. And when the president is briefed and he then voices it, you know, to us the citizens that verbatim, every single day. So he's got a new favorite phrase, yeah. I mean, forgive me, Comrades and Comrade Major as well, yeah. But it's basically become some kind of mantra now, this whole thing. Every single day, our troops are advancing. There isn't a single sector where Vladimir Vladimirovich, what do you mean there isn't? They're advancing near Huliipole. They're advancing in the Stepno-Hirsk direction and making progress. The fact that they aren't trumpeting about it, it shows that they are acting more intelligently, and they do have successes, including as a matter of fact, thanks to those very drone assault units, right. I mean, well, I believe we've even discussed this. You could assume that this is being said by the president included too, so to speak, reassure the public. But I'm afraid, look, I'm afraid too, that they have started believing it themselves. That's exactly the point. Because when you churn out propaganda for a long, at some stage, the propaganda simply starts affecting you yourself. Yes, you're very own. You believe your own propaganda. Yes, yes. And if you add it up, yes. And does this carry risks? I'd like you to explain. What risks does it carry? Well, well, what risks does it carry? Here's a brief historical analogy, yeah, if I may. And precisely to develop the thought again, yeah. It carries the risk that the top military leadership becomes completely detached from reality on the ground. As a characteristic historical example, we have Nicholas II, who even while at military headquarters. So you'd think not in St. Petersburg, but at headquarters, but at headquarters. He didn't understand what was happening with the army, even while at headquarters. And this is exactly where his presence at headquarters was more of a negative. He didn't understand what was happening in St. Petersburg. And when Alex. Alexander Fyodorovna was reassuring him that, you know, it was just wicked people spreading rumors and otherwise everything was fine, ultimately, rock bottom arrived suddenly. And what's more to hell, Lord forgive me with them, but it arrived for the country. Now important context on that clip, by the way, Alexander II, that the guy was referring to, that was the Russian czar in the late 1800s, and he was assassinated by his own people because he was completely detached from reality. That is who Russian propagandists are now comparing Putin to. Kind of telling, you know, kind of telling. And of course, then we have other propagandists who are indirectly admitting exactly what has happened on the front lines. Take a look at this statement. Emergency. Our troops have temporarily withdrawn from Deneepro-Pertrox region. Who used to blame? We answer the incompetent command of our general staff and directly the GV East, so the regional command. The reasons are that all available reserves were transferred to the liberation of DPR. There are no other reserves. The general staff is to blame for its inability to accumulate and transfer reserves to the east and front due to the declining recruitment of new contract soldiers. And the fault of the VG is their inability to go on the defensive due to a lack of reserves. Now later in the video, I will break down exactly how Ukraine carried out this counteroffensive and why Russian higher command did not send the reinforcement because there was a lot of nerdy mind game that was going on between the Ukrainian command and Russian command. But again, it's a bit nerdy, so I'll keep it there for later in the video. Now, did you guys notice that first comment in this statement where he says, "Our troops have temporarily withdrawn from Deneepro-Pertrox region?" This is the classic Russian cope, whenever Russia is pushed back, it's always strategic withdrawal. We're just regrouping, and whenever Russia moves forward, it's like, "Oh, the greatest army in the world." Now this has actually led to one of the funniest memes of this entire war, and you guys know the rules with memes. If you enjoy it, you have to hit the subscribe button down below. And let me tell you, you're gonna enjoy this one because it's my favorite one. So be sure to hit the subscribe button, if you already subscribed, just hit the like button. So here's the meme, and you can see, every time Ukraine liberates the area, Russians claim it, tactical regrouping, or strategic retreat, or just bad weather, and every time they make a small gain, it's a major defeat for the global NATO Empire and global American Empire. That's the Russian meme, and it's probably the funniest thing to come out of this war. Outside of the three-day special military operation, but nonetheless, let's continue with our coverage. Now, every time Russia struggles on the front lines, they do the same thing. They reach for the same old move, and that's threatening and attacking Ukrainian civilians. It's the same story we covered before, and it's the same thing Russia is doing once again. This is what the Russian Ministry of Defense posted on their official Telegram channel. The caption reads, "In winter, you will be freezing." And of course, you guys can see the image. We have multiples of head drones on the image, and the Russian caption on the image reads, "Like snow on your head." Basically, a very not-so-hidden message that they're gonna start hitting Ukrainian energy infrastructure to force the Ukrainian population into a dark, cold winter, openly threatening war crimes against civilians, from an official government channel, by the way. This is a move that's just so sad and disgusting that even Russians are starting to question why the Russian government did it. Here we have a Russian propagandist named Zorazov, I think that's how you say his name, publicly asking you on a Russian channel that, why are they doing this? Why are they hurting Ukrainian civilians? Take a listen, and this is happening in Russia, by the way. This is what people are questioning, so take a listen carefully. I don't understand how anyone can be happy about Kiev being without electricity. When you see the lights out in Kiev, who do you think about? Zelensky? Sitting without electricity? It's not Zelensky sitting without electricity. It's a mother of two living on the 17th floor of an 18-story building who has to walk down 17 floors to get water. But people are also observing Ukrainians celebrating strikes on bridges and on wildberries. And in the end, that's what this is all about. We've become the very people we went to war against. Now, the Ukrainian defense ministry did respond to this Russian threat, and their response was actually really good, so let me show you it. The Ukrainian quote basically says, "Let's warm up by the fire of Russian refineries." And in the background, you can see a Russian refinery burning. Now, I do want to point out the contrast between two messages. Russia is talking about hitting Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Ukraine is talking about hitting the refineries that are funding Putin's war. Just one side targets people and the other side is targeting the money that pays for targeting people. And guess what? Ukraine is kind of already delivering on that promise, which of course you know if you've been watching other videos, but just recently, Ukraine hit something that Russia was not expecting. Ukraine used its flamingo missiles to destroy Russia's rocket and satellite internet facility. This is the plan that builds rockets that puts the satellite internet into the sky. Now this is something Russia has been investing heavily into since the start of the year because they lost access to Starlink, and Russia's plan was basically to rebuild their own Starlink so they can continue this war. And this actually kind of connects back to the counteroffensive that we were talking about at the start of the video. I'm sure some of you guys are wondering, how is it possible for Ukraine to keep advancing for six months without Russia actually realizing? Well, answer does come down to multiple factors, but the biggest one being Russia's incompetence and the line that goes on within the Russian chain of command. So let's look in detail exactly what this means. You see the map on your screen? Well that map marks exactly what Russia controls and where Russian propaganda videos came out of. So all those signs you see coming out of the map, well those are geolocated locations of basically where Russian soldiers are posting videos from flying their tricolor flag. Basically claiming that hey, this area is under Russian control. When in reality, it's not really under Russian control. Just because you have two soldiers flying a Russian flag doesn't mean it's Russian. And guess what? This kind of stuff actually has a very negative impact in terms of Russian strategy. Because guess what? When that video is recorded, that video is quickly sent up the chain of command and everyone above this region's head, so all the generals and commanders who are running this war deciding where the resources are needed and deciding where the resources are accommodated. Those generals start making decisions, assuming that Russia already controls that area. When the reality is just two guys who are flying a flag and as soon as they get that video, they're going to go hide in a basement. They don't really control anything. So when Ukrainians actually do come in and they do clean out those two guys, guess what happens? The regional head of that area doesn't actually report those two Russian soldiers dying or getting captured to people above his head. And that means he's not getting reserves and reinforcement he needs to stop the Ukrainian events. Because in his mind, there's no incentive to report the bad news. Why would you do that? Bad news just gets you punished. This is a story that has been running the Russian military as back as Stalin. You know, people would not tell Stalin bad news because you were not really rewarded. You were actually punished for doing that. And this is something Russian war blockers are actually pointing out themselves. When Russia gets pushed back for six months and the reports weren't going up, reserves weren't coming in, that was because everyone was assuming that, hey, it's not really happening. And if it was happening, someone would tell me, you know, that's what the guy who's managing a war or the guy who's managing his region from Moscow or somewhere back from the front lines. That's what he's assuming that, hey, I'll get the information when something does happen. But something was not coming up, the chain of command. And best of all, Ukrainians were not really putting out any information on their own, right? If they capture a settlement, they're not making a video and publishing it because Ukraine quickly realized the fault in Russia's system, Russia's strategy, how the Russian military works. So, they would clean out a settlement and they'll make sure that no one is posting anything. They make sure that, hey, no information gets out, doesn't matter like how much we capture. The reason for that is that if Ukraine publicly announces a capture of a settlement, then let's say two days later or two weeks later, they announce a capture of another one or we capture another one, then another one, Russia will start seeing patterns. And even though Russia is not getting information to their sources, they'll see what Ukrainians are posting and they'll start operating or start reallocating resources and soldiers based on that. So, when Stalin went down, Ukraine saw its opportunity and they started executing the police counter-offensive with forces, with tanks, wave after wave, gaining ground every single week while keeping it a secret. Now, this is where I want to share an interesting story because there were some people who did figure out what was happening and this was despite the fact that no official information was coming out. And the one guy I did find who figured out what was happening was this 20-year-old analyst, so he's just 20-year-old, he's from France, he's been following this war very closely. And his name is Clemens Molling and here's how he figured it out. And this is truly insane. When Russia is firing artillery shells, those are creating impact craters, right? And apparently you can track these impact craters from images, satellites, or maybe there's some other resource online where you could do this. And if you track these craters week after week, you could have seen Russian craters actually getting pushed back and you kind of have to assume that this is happening because Russian soldiers are getting pushed back and that means Ukraine is making gains. And he figured it out and he's been tweeting about this for a while, like for a couple of months now, even before we got any official information. So that's truly something insane, truly interesting that I want to share with everyone. If you don't follow him on Twitter, if you're on Twitter, definitely go give him a follow. He's just 20, isn't that insane. So all in all, the silence did work, Russia fell for its own system. And now Russian bloggers are lashing out at their own military command for lying to Putin, for lying to the public, and maybe even lying to themselves. Because you know how sometimes you just lie so much that you start to believe it? I truly think that's happening with Russian commanders. Take a listen to this clip. Therefore, comrade commander, stop talking, should stop. This is the price of our great life. Life is the most precious thing on earth. And these ones, three days in course region, three days, and we'll fly to Kiev and smash it. Medvedchuk bullshit dead. Stole the money, pocketed it. That's how it is, guys. It's all bullshit. Without respecting the enemy, there's no faking way to go into battle. Shoigu, what the fuck? He was telling the president about the army on May 9th. Where are we now? Where is Shoigu? Everything has been stolen. Everything has been sold. And these bastards simply stole billions on UAVs. On these drones. They want us all to die. What was the most important facility in Russia's entire space industry? A primary and historic facility operating for over six decades, having even produced the rockets that carried Yuri Gagarin into space. That was the first man in outer space. This complex has remained at the center of Russian rocket production. Now manufacturing the Soyuz family of launch vehicles. Ukraine's interest in this location is aimed at killing Moscow's nearly-released Raswat, low-earth orbit satellites, Putin's answer to Starlink, which relies completely on Soyuz launches produced in this facility. Now, of course, even with this, Russia wasn't going to be able to replace Starlink. I don't know if any company would be able to Starlink has around 10,000 satellites in orbit already, which is just insane. Russia's plan was to maybe get 50 or 100 satellites in space and focus them on Ukraine, so they can get information just about the front lines and they can operate their new internet on the front lines. Now, I'm not really sure if technically that was possible or not, but I'm sure Russian scientists know what they're doing. I actually don't know too much about this thing, but now it seems whatever plan Putin did have, it's not going to work out, because they don't have the rockets that can send the satellite into space. And I doubt Elon Musk is looking to help Russia. Despite everything we see him like denying Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia, using Starlink and all that, I don't think according to sanctions, he can carry a Russian satellite on an American rocket. And luckily for us, SpaceX is an American company. You know, the most shocking part of this story is that Ukraine just carried out its biggest counteroffensive since 2023. It wiped out basically all the gains that Russia has made this year, while losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. But no mainstream media outlet is actually reporting on this. It doesn't matter what side you look at. The New York Times is not reporting on this news, at least not yet. The Wall Street Journal is not reporting on it either. And then of course we have the other side. We have Russian propaganda machine that's spending billions of dollars every single year to spread the lies that Putin wants everyone to believe. This is exactly why we do what we do to cover the truth about Ukrainian bravery and fight back against Russian propaganda. Now I will admit, we don't have billions of dollars like Vladimir Putin, but we do have you guys. Recently we launched SpaceX Insider. It's a way for you to support us and get bonus coverage in return. You can become a member right now by clicking the join button down below or by going to basicsinsider.com. 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That's why building a community of members means we can keep producing independent coverage without depending entirely on an Almighty algorithm. So if you like more in-depth analysis while helping us continue this work, you can become a member by clicking the join button down below or by going to basics insider. We'd love to have you, and best of all, here's a segment from our exclusive video where CheckFar is doing his regular breakdowns. Take a listen. This is the robots machine guns. Oh wow, okay. Yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't, yeah, so much in this for the first time too. Wow, man, what a bummer. I'm already thinking. Okay, they have M250 caliber machine guns which are actually more than 100 years old. The design is more than 100 years old. The United States hasn't changed the thing. They got some new barrel shrouds, but the guts of this gun are the same. 50 caliber means it shoots a bullet that's half an inch across. It'll go for a thousand yards. And I don't know what these guys are going to put on, but if you've got 250 caliber machine guns, you can disassemble a building. So you see all this smoke coming up here. That's from the masonry being torn apart by the bullets, which will probably go through both sides of the house. Okay, again, so this is 50 caliber fire. And you're getting, you know, so you're also getting film from a drone that's hovering outside. And Adam, so so much of the war is now taking place in little out farm buildings like this, because the Russians can no longer conduct you know, larger scale ground maneuver operations. They can't because Ukraine puts 15,000 drones a day into the air. So they send three schmucks into the, you know, crawl through the fields at night, and then they hold up in these buildings during the day. And I call them pedestrians and not soldiers, because the guys in this building here, their training consisted of their mom taking them to the recruiting office. He doesn't get to leave. They put them on a bus. Two weeks later, he's in Ukraine, right? And about 10 days after he arrives in Ukraine, he's in combat where once he gets into contact with Ukraine, this is the New York Times talking, not me. He has a 23-minute life expectancy, 23 minutes. So we're looking at these guys, 23 minutes right here, and they're not even fighting Ukrainians. They're fighting two robots and enough drones to film it. You know, I try to imagine myself fighting in this position, right? In my whole career, I was never attacked from the air once, never. But these guys are getting it, you know. So you can see, look at the, look at the amount of destruction there. That is all masonry dust, that kind of gray, gray smoke and look what's left to the, you know, look what's left to those buildings. So we probably didn't see the Bava Yaga, although they don't operate. And during daylight, very often, but, you know, they do. And that's obviously some, you know, bigger explosive damage that dropped the building. Now believe it or not, those guys may have lived, because most of these places have root sellers, right? So these guys may have actually gotten through all this. But we'll be back. They got a little dust in the soup. Definitely. Okay. This is a unmanned drone. It's taking some civilians to safety. Yeah, there are, there are a lot of places on the battle on the zero line. And a lot of the exposed cities that are, you know, in contact, where people just didn't want to leave. And you know, we can sit here and go, why don't they leave? Okay, there's a Russian drone. And of course, you know, they've highlighted the red cross on this, on this vehicle. But, you know, I'm not sure later we'll see it. Okay, you know, not to put too fine a point on it. Look, Grandma did not want to leave the only home she's ever known, right? What's in it for her? And finally, that position becomes intenable. And believe me, the Russians don't care that she's your grandma, man. She, she's get the bayonet and they're going to take her shit. That's the way it goes. So she's being evacuated here, towed out. You can see the condition of the road. That's obviously a bomb. We're looking at a bridge over a culvert. The Russians try to blow that. But now you've got the vehicle. It's clearly just, just playing the red cross look. I don't care who you are. That's a war crime if you strike it. You who pulled the trigger and the guy who gave you the order. So anyway, I mean they're getting her out. God bless her. But, you know, so many people will just want to stay in their homes, as, you know, again, so there they are attacking the Red Cross again. But remarkably, these people, these people got out. But this happens every day. I mean, I've got dozens of photographs of blown up Ukrainian ambulances in the city of Harrison. They fly drones across the Dupont River. They find a civilian, they try to kill them, and, you know, then they wait for the ambulance to show up, and they hit the ambulance. I hope you drop that guy's shotgun, that's what, that's what you need. Anyway, but they got her out, and, you know, they're good guys and bad guys in this war atom, and the bad guys are the Russians. I mean, watch this, you probably have a lot of insight into this one. It's a team going in and blowing up a position with a bunch of T and T. Yeah, so literally combat demolition, you know, if you're going into an urban, urban battle space or, you know, indoors, which we call CQB close quarters battle, this looks like it's obviously a little earlier, there's the frost. If you want to watch rest of this video, and more video like this, you can go to basics insider, or click the join button down below.