hey guys Chris here and I'm Ukrainian Canadian today is September 14th 2024 and let's get to the news and map updates happening in Ukraine and Russia shall we so let's talk about ksk because in the last few days there have been very interesting developments happening in this region so first let's talk about one thing I've mentioned briefly in my previous video is that the Russians did indeed start a counter attack operation in KK from the city of kureno so this was a city that was it was kind of a tug of war between Ukraine and Russia and it was never def definitively under Ukraine control and so the Russians mounted a Counterattack from this city and as you can see they were able to take back a little bit of territory around snag so they mounted a push directly towards snag and what you can see is that the Ukraine retreated back into luova now an interesting video appeared to today indicating that the ukrainians were able to repel this huge Russian column consisting of elite forces these are the V Uh Russian forces that were using IVs so most most of them were on bmds and bmps and today the ukrainians shared a video showcasing the destruction of at least five to six Russian IVs and heavy losses for the Russians as well as they Tred to enter lubimova meaning that the ukraini likely retreated back into into more better defended positions the other thing that is very interesting and extremely positive for the ukrainians is that as the Russians were preoccupied with their little Counterattack here towards nag the ukrainians took advantage because likely that the Russians transferred some of their forces that were located in this area in glovo they moved them probably to corono tried preparing for Counterattack so the ukrainians took advantage by attacking here you can see that this ire area here is in Gray now and so deep State confirms that ukrainians control this territory right now it's still clear where exactly the lines are we can see that Ukraine is indeed now trying to cut off this entire glova District in half likely that after theel it's a pretty open road towards glovo which then would cut off the Russians pretty much that are located here in sagos and they would only have a small little road to then Retreat back if that was to happen additionally the Ukrainian Advanced north of ovka this is a new acquired territory right here um they took control of the village of vetrano which is just North of ovka so you can see that even though the Russians are mounting their own Counterattack basically the ukraines are able to answer back and this is great because we've talked about it a few weeks ago this is allow Ukraine is essentially directing their narrative on the battlefield right now uh the Russians have to answer but then Ukraine can react much quicker because they know where the Russians are coming from and they know what the weak spots of the Russian forces in this region are so it's a very fluid game right now there will be some back and forth between Russia and Ukraine but you know the order that Putin gave a few days ago that they have to retake the entirety of K by October 1st ain't going to happen they have two weeks to retake all of this territory do you really think that's going to happen seriously doubted based on also the concentration of Ukraine forces here and what Russia brought here it's not enough uh allegedly Russia moved about 60,000 troops from other front lines in Ukraine to ksk but Ukraine has uh about 20 to 30,000 uh soldiers maybe less maybe 20 to 20 to 15,000 but they're still capable of holding and they're capable of also mounting uh other offensives in Kus as we've seen the last few days so this is really really positive news now let's go to um some other updates I wanted to give you guys and the other thing I wanted to talk about is of course you know the situation poov is still difficult for the ukrainians I wouldn't say that the Ukrainian forces stabilized the situation hardly but they were able to slow down the Russian gains here in the last few days the Russians haven't really been able to take control over like key Villages and cities that were outside of poov like it's like they moved from uh Noka all the way up to I don't know lka in uh in a day or two right you're you're seeing that the Russian gains are definitely slower uh as we're looking back since September 9th in this direction there's very small changes on the map uh albeit the Russians are gaining ground they're probably repairing their Logistics moving troops around to try to plan out the next phase of attack but one positive development that I can mention on this front line is that um Russian telegram channels have started complaining which is where most of the truthful information is coming from uh on the Russian side they've been complaining that Russia in this direction has begun sending specialized Russian soldiers uh to their Infamous meatwave attacks in poov and throughout donbas so drone Pilots artillery men even forces that were part of the nuclear deterrent um forces in Russia were being transferred into infantry to then conduct these uh infantry assaults on Ukrainian positions and so recently there's been a lot of frustration because there's some popular drone Pilots that were told that now your unit is dissolved disbanded and you're now an infantry man and you need to storm poos and one of those drone operators that was in charge of that unit uh made a video saying that if I uploaded this video then I am dead May meaning that a lot of these skilled Russian drone Pilots are dying and meaning that the situation is very dire for the Russians in terms of manow and uh that they're having difficulty replenishing their their small units that they're sending to the salts which is great news for the ukrainians now I must say one thing is that this problem isn't unique just or I should say the situation is not unique just for the Russians there was some backlash a few months ago because Ukraine did the exact same thing around the divka uh there was some frustration because some Ukrainian drone Pilots were being converted into infantry men so they could then assault Russian positions so there was a lot of frustration and then it to create new brigades um and new units that were specialized and were drone pilots and they could never be converted right um and so there was a change eventually within the Ukrainian forces but I seriously thought Russia will do anything for it um and that they just don't value anyone and this is really telling that you know Russia's basically doesn't care if you're Nur man or drone operator some other specialized um person or even a medic as a matter of fact even if you're medic you could be converted into an infantry man they don't care they'll just send you to the meatwave if they have to so this really indicates that there is a serious problem of Manpower right now because likely the Russians had to transfer some of their troops from donbas into kskk so we're seeing again the reward of starting this offensive um and forcing the Russians to then move some pieces around which puts them in the Dilemma because now they are lacking the resources and manpower to continue conducting their very very brutal offensives in donbas not that this will end because they still have a lot of forces you can see just the concentration of forces that they have here is just massive look at the amount of brigades and regiments and um other battalions that they have located here it's it's just massive and one last thing I want to mention before I end this video is that the Ukrainian Special Forces a few days ago between September 10th till 11th conducted a special operation in the Black Sea on a Russian controlled oil rig and the reason why they started this operation was to destroy Russian Communications and also defense platforms that they had installed over these oil rigs that are not too far away from um Crimea and as a result of that basically the ukrainians also managed to shoot down a Russian bomber the s34 smm bomber and it's been confirmed by the Russians today that this happened and also a few days ago surprisingly I'm not sure if it's tied to that but the Russians confirmed a loss of an 230 jet fighter over the Black Sea close to Essa well not too close but not too far away and so I was I'm wondering if that was part of the operation the Ukraine also managed to shoot down an s30 uh but that could be completely irrelevant to that special operation that took that they took part in a few days ago and this is also really important because they destroyed their communication the antennas their lines so the Russians were likely using these uh platforms to then also conduct their uh drone surveillance operations in south of Ukraine right around hon and Odessa we know the Russians continue shelling the cities and launching escandar and other ballistic missiles over the south of Ukraine so it's also really important to jam and Destroy Russian Communications in this sector so this is also really good uh this is good news in in with uh with respect to that so that's the video for today guys please let me know what you guys think about any of the topics covered today the Ukrainian uh offensive in ksk the Russian Counterattack in ksk and the whole situation with the Drone Pilots the Russian drone Pilots being converted into uh basically um you know into the meat waves so huge thank you for for your support Please Subscribe and like my video uh subscribe to my channel like my video and leave me a comment thank you and slav