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0:00 - Russian Advances Slow in Donbas
1:56 - Fortified Ukrainian Defenses
3:35 - Ukrainian Tactical Shifts and Advances
5:25 - OPSEC and Secret Operations Revealed
8:50 - Ukrainian Offensive Successes Explained
10:47 - Consequences of the New Strategies
13:10 - Russian Civilian Targeting and Ukrainian Response
16:47 - The Need for Air Defenses in Ukraine
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0:00 - Russian Advances Slow in Donbas
1:56 - Fortified Ukrainian Defenses
3:35 - Ukrainian Tactical Shifts and Advances
5:25 - OPSEC and Secret Operations Revealed
8:50 - Ukrainian Offensive Successes Explained
10:47 - Consequences of the New Strategies
13:10 - Russian Civilian Targeting and Ukrainian Response
16:47 - The Need for Air Defenses in Ukraine
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00:00Hello and welcome to this video where we're going to smile again thanks to the good news
00:04coming from the front in Ukraine, the best news in almost two years when it comes to holding ground.
00:10So you know that the Russians are advancing more and more slowly in the Donbass, I keep repeating
00:14it to you on the channel, but now their advance is slowing down even more and there are secret
00:18operations that have just been revealed with the recapture of several hundred square kilometers
00:22in the Donbass. First in May the Russians advanced only 18 square kilometers, in June 28 square
00:28kilometers in July, 22 square kilometers in August, 46 square kilometers. That means that in total
00:34they have only advanced 114 square kilometers over four months. Now there are areas where they are
00:39advancing a little faster like the Donetsk area for example in the east. On the other hand the Dnipro
00:44region is completely freed from Russian control. In the Zaporizhia region they have also retreated.
00:49So the numbers I'm giving you are those provided by analysts like Poulet Volant on the internet,
00:53but if you look at for example the ISW which also counts Russia's retreats in the gray zones,
00:58that is areas that are not officially controlled, the retreat is much more significant. For example
01:02you can see that in April and May the Russians had actually retreated by 400 square kilometers mainly
01:09in the south. But in any case when you compare with the previous year you can see that there was
01:12progress
01:13of 500 square kilometers each month and now it's either retreats or really just a minimal change.
01:18When it's just a few dozen square kilometers it really doesn't mean anything one way or the other.
01:23And if you look at the map of the Russians yearly progress in the east of the country,
01:27well you can see that they're moving more and more slowly each year.
01:31And the 5209 square kilometers that are free in Donetsk represent what the Russians have gained in
01:38the last two years combined. Except they've never been as slow as they are right now. And at the pace
01:42of the last four months it would take them more than 13 years just to finish conquering the Donbas.
01:47And they're facing a belt of fortresses, cities that have been the most fortified since the beginning.
01:52And these are defenses that the Ukrainians have been building for two years along an axis running
01:58from Lyman through Sloviansk to Kramatorsk with defenses that are infinitely stronger than what
02:03they had built in the past because they've had time to build them by gradually falling back behind
02:07these areas. They bought time to fall back there. And so that means that systematically you have anti-tank
02:13barriers stretching for dozens of kilometers with areas that are mined with barbed wire to prevent
02:18infantry advances or even assaults by motorcycle like we saw for a while. There's a whole series
02:23of bunkers that are underground with armored doors. So here for example these are images I
02:28personally filmed in July when I went to this part of the front. And really these bunkers are designed
02:33to be able to withstand the impact of a 500 kg Russian glide bomb if it were to fall straight
02:38down.
02:39And then you have all the logistics that will be fully automated and will carry out more than 1 000
02:43missions per Dalton with robots and heavy aerial drones. This makes it possible to reduce true
02:48protections and therefore the risk of these positions being identified. And facing that we
02:52have the Russians who keep trying to advance using the same methods. The Ukrainians stay in their
02:57trenches, wait and are protected. Here I am for the 25th time in Ukraine. And once again I notice the
03:03growing gap between how the situation is portrayed in the media and what we can actually see here.
03:07You know I often appear in the media, I'm interviewed by journalists and sometimes,
03:12well, I also see that they themselves ask leading questions because they've been influenced by this
03:17Russian propaganda that we often see. And in general newspapers and media, even those that present
03:22themselves as neutral, often have an agenda. A political agenda. It could be right-wing or left-wing
03:27or something that will be imposed on them by their owners who sometimes have ties to industry and will
03:32therefore steer the entire debate according to their needs. The Ukrainians stay in their trenches, wait,
03:37are protected and only launch kamikaze drones when necessary. They have dominance in drones and the
03:42ability to strike farther, deeper. They are lucky to have Starlink, which the Russians can't use,
03:48and so overall the Russians continue with their method of constant pressure, sending men and more men.
03:53For example, in this video that was published at the beginning of September by the Rubich Brigade,
03:58there are more than a hundred Russian corpses over just a few dozen meters because they all try to go
04:03through the only passage without barbed wire. They try to get through on foot, obviously,
04:08but they are expected and simply because the Russians can no longer use armored vehicles
04:12since they are immediately detected and stopped. And here too it's a video that was published by the
04:17same Rubich unit in which there are 11 tanks, one after another, that explode one after another
04:21because they are attacked by FPVs or because they drive over mines. And all of this is happening just
04:26north of Pokrovsk. And in the same way, the Russians have been stuck for more than two years at the
04:31city of Kassiv. Yar, which was supposed to fall in the summer of 2024 and that it was going to
04:35be
04:36a disaster for Kramatorsk. Well now, obviously, not only is this city still holding on. And behind it,
04:41there's this line of defense that is infinitely stronger, more difficult. Stronger than what the
04:46Russians have faced up until now. And then you have the battles behind, which were over cities that
04:50were less fortified. But Pokrovsk, which I've already talked about, it already took 700 days to take
04:55the city of Pokrovsk, which is today. A pile of ruins that I had visited several times back then.
05:00But what's interesting today, what's really the big difference, is that the Ukrainians are no longer
05:05just defending themselves and resisting with heavy losses on the Russian side, and they have a little
05:10less because they're entrenched, is that they've actually managed to take back some ground. And so
05:15there were well-known cases like the capture of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. The Russians had needed a
05:21year and a half to conquer the city, between August 2024 and November 2025. But in just four days,
05:27between December 12 and 17, the Ukrainians managed to cut the city off from its rear, and thus encircle
05:33at least 200 Russian soldiers. But right now, we have another operation, and that's what we call
05:37OPSEC. If you look at this Poulet de Volant map, which actually gives this monthly report, you have
05:43several areas that are marked as OPSEC. That means things are happening inside, we are aware, we have
05:48information, but officially we shouldn't talk about it, and there is a real secret being kept, meaning
05:52that no information is being shared. The soldiers don't send selfies when they arrive at the village
05:56they've just liberated, so that's something that's really respected right now. And after months and
06:01months of radio silence, we're finally starting to get information about what was happening north of
06:06Lyman. So first, you have to understand, I told you about this axis, about the fortress cities that are
06:11being prepared. Well, the Russians aren't able to make progress, so they wanted to go around from behind.
06:16If they had managed to get past Lyman, they could have taken them from the rear. Obviously,
06:19the defenses would have been useless, so there was a desire to move forward, to make progress.
06:24And you have this bridgehead that was established, with efforts that were made starting from September
06:282024, to be able to advance almost up to the area north of Lyman, to be able to continue the
06:33advance
06:33afterward. And as you know, I have contacts on the ground, I've been to this region several times.
06:38For example, I went to the medical post of the 3rd Assault Brigade. On this front, I even went to
06:43the
06:43village of Jampil with the 1st Presidential Brigade. Bolvi, who at the time showed us the T-64 tank,
06:49and of course, several times I traveled with Krubish. For example, I was with them in Siversk,
06:54to follow the operations of the heavy drones. And so, starting from the month of May,
06:58I have fighters who are starting to give me information about operations happening on the
07:02ground, which they can't talk to me about, but they tell me that things are going well.
07:05But there's very, very little material to illustrate what I'm telling you. On the other hand,
07:09the information I received directly is, first of all, that there are new electronic warfare
07:14systems. Ukrainians are clearly managing to undermine the Russians' ability to see what's
07:18happening in front of them, meaning their DJI observation drones are no longer present to spot
07:23the Ukrainians approaching. And at the same time, they have really carried out an intense hunt for
07:28Russian drones to blind them, meaning all those high-altitude observation drones were being destroyed
07:32very regularly. Because they had deployed troops who were especially dedicated to this type of mission,
07:37with drones that were capable of flying at higher altitudes to carry out these aerial collisions,
07:42as we can see here. At the same time, there was specific targeting of Russian communication systems,
07:47because as I told you, the Russians cannot use Starlink. And they rely only on ground-based radio relays,
07:54which are therefore easier to detect and destroy, because they transmit using radio,
07:57and so that emits a signal that will eventually be detected. And once that was done, and contrary to what
08:03has been said since the beginning of 2025, well, the Ukrainians were able to deploy armored vehicles
08:09to engage directly. And there, they all report the same thing. The Russians were not expecting them,
08:14they were cut off from their rear lines. And when finally a few drones were sent at them,
08:18the Ukrainians had this new generation of jammers that prevented the Russian kamikaze drones from
08:22hitting their target. And so, unless the Russian drones were fiber optic, and therefore not sensitive to
08:28jamming, it still reduced the firepower the Russians could deploy by a factor of 10. So, for this operation
08:34to be a success, it was necessary to combine blinding the Russians, making them unable to communicate,
08:40staying silent about the situation, and clearing the skies. And once there is air superiority,
08:45and all these operations are successful, then things can start to move forward. And what's also interesting
08:51is that the Ukrainians told me the Russians had barely mined the area, meaning they hadn't prepared
08:56for the Ukrainian offensive, they weren't expecting it. And that's the lesson learned from what we saw
09:00in the summer of 2023, when Zelensky gave the order to liberate the south. Everyone knew they were going
09:05to attack in the south, it was obvious because he had announced it. And so, the Russians had prepared
09:10a defensive line. And that caused the counter-offensive attempt in the summer of 2023 to collapse.
09:16Well this time, since they didn't say anything, the Russians aren't building a defensive line,
09:20they are not laying mines to protect themselves, or very, very few. And the worst part is that the
09:24Russians were settled in the old Ukrainian fortifications, the same trenches, the same
09:29bunkers. It's good because the Ukrainians obviously know exactly where they are, they have the plans,
09:33they knew exactly how it was built inside, and when they arrived in those areas. Well, the Russians
09:38not only couldn't hide, they couldn't set traps, so it was really, I won't say easy, but in any case,
09:43the preparation for this mission and these operations also involved having detailed plans of the different
09:48bunkers they were going to attack, because they knew them. So, gradually starting in May,
09:53the Ukrainians advanced through successive assaults, always maintaining strict control
09:57over the dissemination of information. So, for example, if we look at the map of geolocated footage,
10:02where each small icon is a video that specialists were able to geolocate,
10:06we could observe the eastward movement of the icons between May and September,
10:11even though we can see there are very, very, very few if we compare with other areas. And in addition,
10:17the destruction of artillery pieces, or multiple rocket launchers behind the lines,
10:21as well as targeting logistics, even though this is something we now see across the entire front.
10:26And these are all elements that prove the Russian retreat, since there are also videos with small
10:30drones dropping grenades directly above the Russians, and that's something that only happens a few
10:35kilometers away, while FPV kamikaze drones can operate at more than 10 or 15 kilometers away. And we also
10:41have Ukrainian soldiers who are right in the heart of this area, which has actually been held by the
10:45Russians for over a year. And so, in the same way, Kleyman Mullen mapped out the locations where the
10:51glide bombs dropped by Russia have fallen, and we can see that they're moving back over time,
10:56rather than advancing, which confirms the limited public data. And in the end, we also have this
11:00second map that shows the evolution of control over the territory, which is now confirmed. So here,
11:05I'm showing you two maps that are directly shared by accounts known to be pro-Russian, and that talked
11:09about a real cauldron in the area, even though, as far as I know, most of the Russians managed to
11:13escape, or fall back,
11:14at least those who hadn't been killed. Then, in the second map, also from a pro-Russian account,
11:19it directly confirms the Ukrainian success, and we suspect that the Ukrainians haven't completely
11:23finished their operation yet, because they haven't updated their own map yet, for example, on Deep
11:28State map. And we think they're going to keep pushing them, at least up to the river, if they can,
11:33obviously. But now that the information is official, the Russians will certainly put in more resources
11:37to try to stop them. So, after Kupiansk, where the Ukrainians reversed more than a year and a half of
11:43progress in just four days, well, here you have four or five pushes of two or three days each,
11:48that, over four months, allowed them to retake territory. What took the Russians two years of
11:54effort, intense losses, and constant assaults to take? So we see this imbalance, the Ukrainians commit
12:02their forces when conditions are right, and they commit elite forces. The third assault brigade,
12:09they're the ones who will go on the attack to carry out missions for which they have been prepared,
12:12and trained for years and years. Whereas the regular army will instead take over the positions,
12:17once they have been captured, and they will simply have to hold them, which is easier,
12:21easier in quotation marks, of course. The Russians, on their side, it's the opposite.
12:25The beginners, those who have just been recruited, are sent on missions to try to wear down,
12:30to exhaust the Ukrainian defense, which will get tired, which will use up ammunition. But in the end,
12:36you have these waves of Russians, who are going to throw themselves at the defenses,
12:39and die in large numbers. And that's why you have this casualty ratio that is now increasingly
12:44favorable to the Ukrainians, because the Russians continue to send men in the same way as they did
12:49two or three years ago, against defenses that are increasingly solid, and drones that can go
12:54farther and farther. So here, this is really the key element that marks the difference in strategy in
13:00the use of human resources, which are scarce on the Ukrainian side. And the Russians, on their side,
13:07consider that men are expendable like any other resource. And so, in terms of results, obviously,
13:12it's much more than a local tactical victory. It's the liberation of more than 200 square kilometers,
13:17but it's also reopening access to northern Lyman. It's the supply line in the north of Donbass that is
13:23no longer threatened. And it's an 18-month setback for the Russians, for their attempt to start encircling the
13:28chain of Ukrainian fortress cities. And now, a quick note. Have you heard about this good news,
13:33about the reality on the ground where the Russians are retreating, the Russians are no longer advancing?
13:38Well, no, actually. And that's exactly what the Russians are trying to do when they target civilians
13:42today. This position, this reality on the ground, bothers the Kremlin, because it contradicts the
13:48steamroller narrative that says Ukraine, it's better for it to give up right away, and we should
13:52actually stop supplying it with weapons, since that only prolongs the war and the suffering. And Russia,
13:57despite the reality on the ground being proven every day, keeps making announcements. For example,
14:03you have Vladimir Putin himself announcing the capture of certain cities, and then you still
14:08have the leaders of the Ukrainian army going into that city, which is more than 15 kilometers behind
14:13the front line, where the Ukrainians come directly to show the reality on the ground to expose these
14:17lies. And so, since they are unable to win on the military front, the Russians want to bring down
14:22Ukrainian civil society, or if they can't bring it down, make it suffer, to show it on television,
14:29to show that they are destroying Ukraine. And then that gives a victorious conquering narrative,
14:34which goes over very well in the media, up until the elections on September 21, which the Russians want
14:39to win before the mobilization that everyone is talking about. And we know it will happen, because the
14:44Russians no longer have enough men on the ground. This method costs more lives than the Russians can replace
14:49through recruitment. And so, logically, they have to move on to other methods. And today, when they
14:54target civilian infrastructure, when they target supermarkets, when they target food warehouses,
14:58or even UNICEF facilities, when they target civilian passenger trains in rear areas, it's to disrupt the
15:05country. And the attacks against civilians are completely unrestrained, they're openly acknowledged.
15:09And the goal is real terrorism, as you can see here, with these images of kamikaze drones that
15:14carefully choose their targets. Here, this young man was simply riding his bike near Slovyansk,
15:19and the Russians deliberately shared these images. They want to scare people, they want to create fear,
15:23they want to empty Ukraine of its inhabitants, they want to make it unlivable. And so, this unfortunate
15:30reality that I told you about a few weeks ago, that I saw civilians suffering more than the military
15:34right now, well, that's exactly what Putin wants to achieve. But in reality, if you look again at the
15:39strikes deep inside the territory, yes, the Russians are hitting a lot, but the Ukrainians are responding.
15:45The first strike was 3,200 kilometers away from the front line with an FP1 drone, so if it was
15:513,200
15:51kilometers away, it means it flew much farther, zigzagging along the way. It's a drone that flew
15:57for more than a dozen hours to be able to go so far that the Russians couldn't intercept it, and
16:03that
16:03allowed them to directly destroy gas facilities right in Siberia. In the heart of what continues to
16:09finance the Russian war machine. So today, let's realize that the Ukrainians on the front line
16:13have everything they need. Militarily, they are able to resist as long as they have funding
16:19that matches this need. It delays the point at which Russia will be able to rebuild its forces
16:24and become a threat to us. The only question is, are we finally going to provide the Ukrainians with
16:29the means to secure the rear areas and allow the population to stay, to pay their taxes, to continue
16:35living normally so they can hold on? And that, that's really important. For the civilian population
16:41to keep funding the war, they also need air defense systems, the Patriots. The authorization given to
16:47the Ukrainians to produce interception systems locally. Knowing that Ukraine would simply need
16:52about a thousand interceptors to hold out through the winter. That represents only 10% of the stock
16:58just from the United States. And to give you an idea, Saudi Arabia used 2,400 Patriot interceptor missiles
17:05to deal with just 86 ballistic missiles at the beginning of the war against Iran. Obviously,
17:10there's always Operation Sky Shield through which we could go and protect the Ukrainians on the ground.
17:15And in particular, I want to emphasize one point, Rivni, the Rivni nuclear power plant,
17:20which the Russians started hitting in February 2026. We're sure they're going to start hitting it
17:24again this year, just like they crashed the Shahid into the sarcophagus of Chernobyl. And to recreate the
17:30pollution in the area and to scare us, we know they're going to start hitting that nuclear power
17:35plant again with the arrival of winter. And if a nuclear power plant is attacked in Ukraine,
17:39don't think it's going to stop at its borders. So even those who are not in favor of supporting Ukraine
17:44need to understand that, very selfishly, we would have an interest in preventing a nuclear disaster
17:51in Ukraine that Russia could cause today. Once again, Sky Shield, the operation to support and
17:57save the Ukrainian sky. There are some politicians running in the presidential elections who are
18:02expressing support for this measure. But I'm not sure we should wait until May to be able to implement
18:08such an action, which would be fair, consistent, and would lower the tension. We de-escalate by using force.
18:15So maybe when you
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