OPERATION VIVALDI CHANGED EVERYTHING! Ukrainian Counter-Offensive Destroyed Russian Attack Plans

Artur Rehi

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00:00today my friends we talk about two things operation vivaldi because now we can summarize it and

00:05finally put a dot onto it this operation has concluded and the bigger picture it really

00:12dwarfed russia's ambition to take the four fortress cities which you can see right here

00:18and take the remaining of the donetsk oblast it's not going to happen and secondly ukrainian's very

00:24first in history attack against russian data centers yandex data center i'm so glad to see this

00:32but we begin with the front lines of course you all know operation vivaldi it pushed back the russian

00:38axis on the liman front why is it so important because this russian offensive operation made it

00:45in theory possible to surround the fortress belt of the fortress cities them being kramatorsk

00:53strushkivka and slaviansk well now it's not going to happen russian forces intended to conduct a deep

01:00encirclement of the entire fortress belt from the liman direction in the north and dobropila direction

01:06in the southwest linking up near parvinkove kharkiv oblast this wide encirclement would have largely

01:12completed the seizure of the unoccupied donetsk oblast the ukrainian counter-offensive known as

01:18operation vivaldi in the liman direction has completely disrupted this russian plan by inflicting

01:25an operational defeat on the northern russian pincer this ukrainian success will force the russian

01:31military to reconstitute and likely fundamentally rethink its approach to accomplish its goals

01:37in this area you see putin has given plenty of political orders throughout the years different

01:43dates of why which donetsk oblast has to be under russian army's control this is where these

01:49fortress cities come into play russia's biggest offensive maneuver in the last two years has been

01:55making these pincers liman pincer in the north we saw and it is in the south close to dopropilia

02:02that's the southern pincer they're supposed to link up therefore taking the fortress belt and taking

02:09entirety of the donetsk oblast this has been putin's order to the army leaders to the gerasimov

02:16who has now passed down this order to attack attack attack the czar has ordered we have to deliver

02:22they have failed gerasimov personally asked for putin to again prolong the date of occupying all

02:30of the donetsk oblast so the date was once again postponed like it has been for the last 15 times

02:36i've mentioned many times that operation reviledi has been a localized ukrainian counter-offensive and

02:42this is still true but now when it is fully concluded we can put it in the bigger picture

02:48yes it is localized but it affects the bigger offensive operations of russian army which are now

02:55toward it you see it is very hard to surround three fortress cities when the northern pincer has been

03:02cut off hard to surround when you cannot surround i'm reporting on ukrainian success here but i want

03:08to remain my feet planted on the ground we see a lot of reporting online and i mentioned it recently

03:14which is coming from pro ukrainian bloggers they draw arrows on maps for example this one these two

03:22velika nova silka and baghaitir however you want to call this northern one ukrainians and russians have

03:28different names to it these are about 15 to 20 kilometers to russian held territory and some

03:33bloggers claim now ukrainians are pushing through the front line they broke through this is wishful

03:39thinking unfortunately with these localized counter-offensives done perfectly obsec being

03:44followed and it now being announced to us people you know tend to project this to other areas also

03:50oh they're breaking through everywhere russian front lines collapsed it's not true when you see arrows

03:56written on maps or drawn on maps keep in mind it's really easy to draw arrows on map and say

04:02ukrainians

04:03are broken through somewhere you really want to know what's going on the most conservative

04:07and real estimates come from the institute of the study of war they don't hype they look what's

04:13happening on the ground and they put it very conservatively on the maps institute for the study

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06:23side now this map came out two days ago from russian biggest military blogger rebar and it shows a massive

06:31ukrainian advancement in a certain frontal area it doesn't even matter which area because it is false

06:38yes how can i claim that the biggest russian blogger is false well because we knew that this area all

06:46in

06:46the red and now supposedly being attacked by the ukrainians this wasn't even under russian control in the

06:53first place so people who don't know this look at this map and say ukrainians are breaking through

06:58everywhere maybe the truth is that the russians who are making these maps suddenly realized or got some

07:04sources on the front that actually stated that we don't control this area so they put it down as

07:09ukrainians attacking while in reality the maps were inflated they were reported up officer by officer

07:16inflating some russian gains and it's the game of telephones that in the end rebar marked

07:22for a few months all of these areas controlled by russia and now we got other information in reality

07:28they never controlled about half of this area so you can see don't trust arrows on the map they never

07:35did control this area so now the claim that ukrainians are counter-offending here in such

07:40a vast area i wish it to be true unfortunately it is not it is just like the stock market

07:47makes

07:47corrections which are viewed as you know drops in prices bubbles bursting this is a correction on the

07:55map the russians were never there connected to this though i want to go to the front lines for a

07:59moment

07:59and show you a video of a russian soldier they were issued sleeping bags except they weren't i don't know

08:05what's up with the music in this video so i'm gonna put it down it's horrible music just let's read

08:09the

08:10subtitles you know quite easy for the officers who get the money allocated to buy sleeping bags they just

08:16take the money they don't buy the sleeping bags but they gotta get get the check the birdie that they

08:22have given sleeping bags to the soldiers so this is one way around it today is an ordinary depressing

08:27day but today they decided to cheer us up and issue us new sleeping bags the command issued russian

08:34soldiers body bags instead of sleeping bags these are the bags they put the bodies in it's just a strong

08:42plastic bag a black one so the officers are pretty much like yeah it's a bag and you can sleep

08:48in it

08:49therefore it's a sleeping bag and if you get killed by a ukrainian drone you're already in a body bag

08:54so

08:54that's two flies in a single hit we don't gotta clean you up later ukrainians don't gotta clean you up

09:01later some but it just takes the bag yeah horrible i now have to report a russian war crime which

09:07happened two days ago which was the attack against the kramatorsk civilian bus kramatorsk being one of

09:14those fortress belt cities that russia bombards almost daily with glide bombs i don't report on

09:19these crimes usually but i have to now since this is so massive why is russia doing this well for

09:26the

09:26reasons i just mentioned they're not doing that great on the front even before operation v vildi russians

09:32were advancing quite many fronts but very slowly very slowly and with very high casualties so the

09:38way to vent themselves or show any kind of progress or effect that what they're doing to ukrainians is

09:45to attack the civilians first of all it creates a lot of pain and suffering connecting them to hitler

09:50who tried to bomb britain with the blitz into submission it didn't work it doesn't work and second

09:57of all every western headline will be filled with these titles that russia bombard civilians so many

10:02dead and the photos and this star something that weapons cannot really buy with their own worth it

10:08produces fear a psychological effect which is a lot cheaper to produce than with weapons itself for

10:17example unfortunate we know the cost of this specific bomb that the kramatorsk bus that killed 30

10:23civilians two days ago cost about 20 000 the bomb itself was made in the soviet union it was a

10:29plane

10:29bomb very robust it's not technology it's just an explosive falling out of the sky what they do is

10:35they make guidance kits which are quite modern and precise and russia can very well mass produce them

10:42thousands per month and they attach it to the bomb and they release it onto civilians very deadly very big

10:49explosion and the cost is quite cheap plus then the western media outlets will follow this story put it

10:55in the headlines and the western people are afraid therefore affecting the political cycle in the west

11:00afraid people do different political decisions so this is their first multiplier 20 000 bomb is enhanced

11:09in the psychology of fear in the west this is why they're doing it because they get attention in the

11:15west

11:16for it clement molin has made a little bit statistics for us for the civilians killed in ukraine 1st of

11:22october 6 second 1 3rd of october 8 4th of october 5 these are civilians all across ukraine killed not

11:31wounded

11:315th of october 10 6th of october 13 7th of october 30 8th of october 43 33 people were killed

11:42on the

11:43two buses in kramatorsk the weapon was a glide bomb a soviet era bomb decades old with a guidance kit

11:50bolted on the kit is put at around 20 000 ukraine says russia used nearly 9 000 of them in

11:58august alone

11:59which gives you an idea of how many guidance kits they can produce making these dirt cheap storage bombs

12:07that they have made in the soviet union into precision weapons terror weapons so why not just

12:13shoot them down because there is no great missile answer they are released 35 to 50 clicks back

12:19beyond the reach of most short-range air defenses which means russian bombers release them way before

12:26the front lines and then turn back short-range ukrainian air defense cannot reach them mid and long-range

12:32will not be close enough to the front to do that because they will be hit and destroyed so there

12:38is

12:38literally no way to shoot down the plane in the air and it is literally impossible to shoot down the

12:45glide

12:45bombs you could do it with a patriot but you will not put a patriot close enough to it so

12:51the answer is

12:52destroy the planes on the tarmac on the airfields something which ukraine is doing actively they call it

12:59shoot the ranger not the arrow shoot the bow not the arrow shoot the archer not the arrow that's the

13:05one now we get to the other topic i mentioned and you saw it in the thumbnail also yandex data

13:11center

13:11the very first one ukrainians hit i've been waiting for this moment for so long because for months i have

13:18seen russians hitting ukrainian data centers and ukrainians haven't responded so i felt even weird i felt

13:24i'm itching i wanted this happen i wanted this to happen and it finally did this happened yesterday 8th of

13:31october ukrainian long-range drones struck the machine building plant sasta in sasova reasan region

13:39yeah it was a factory but it was also factory slash a data center sasta specializes in the production of

13:47cnc metalworking machines including five axis machine centers turning and milling complexes and heavy-duty machines

13:54the facility also houses a data center operated by yandex internet user in russia report of internet

14:01issues which are confirmed by netblocks and you can see it on the chart ukraine hits a data center

14:07internet goes down they hit one only and it made such a dent to the connectivity there are actually

14:13some videos from inside the data center before it's not like a super secret location uh it looks pretty

14:19much like this like any western data center only not the most modern ones but it doesn't have to be

14:25even some western data centers are not the most modern ones the point is here that these are nvidia

14:30chips these are not russian made these are western made this data center was built well before the

14:36sanctions so yeah it's all nvidia and western companies chips which are in here which russia cannot buy

14:44anymore so they could rebuild that data center or build other ones but they have to import from

14:49china china makes good chips but they're using the best ones of them not exporting them to russia so

14:57it's one of the more modern data centers that russia has because everything after sanctions they haven't

15:04been able to build anything like it it's like the oil refineries most oil refining units that are

15:10any way measurable the big ones the most important ones the western made you can import from china

15:17but again mentioned it many times before it takes a long time so this is the video of the burning

15:22data

15:22center somebody filmed it early in the morning and i show you without a sound because i want to mention

15:27the sound later it's not really much to watch here if you don't know what's inside of this you wouldn't

15:32really care but if it's a data center it's really painful for the russians now i put the sound on

15:38it's just a regular drive by showing it and let's see what he listens to on the radio

15:46the same song plays in estonian radios it's just the united states pop song the new religion you know

15:51i listen to it when i go to work i put on the radio that plays it's so weird it's

15:56bizarre even

15:56the russians are being attacked by ukrainians and the radios are playing western pop music they love

16:02hollywood music i'm not going to get into that topic but the truth is russians love western culture

16:08that's how it is it's a topic for another video but it's the truth let's also look some satellite

16:13imagery so now we know exactly where the fires are so this is from google maps you can see it

16:18this is

16:19where the zavod which is factory is uh this is the entrance building but this big area here is the

16:25data center and this is nasa firm's map showing that the data center is hit the on this map the

16:31eastern

16:31side of it and by the way we have official reports this time usually russian officials deny any kind

16:37of damage but when the internet is down and people see it you cannot really deny it so dice official

16:43russian outlet reports that the yandex data center is completely offline and some services may be

16:50unavailable to users yandex cloud is experiencing power outages and specialists are working to resolve

16:56the issue according to the message on the service telegram channel i love to see it and hear it only

17:02one day later we already see russians confirming that this hurt these data centers let's simplify it

17:09run the internet they run the cloud services so ukraine being part of the western internet russia being the

17:15cheburnet they have isolated russian internet almost fully from the west not quite but almost and yandex is

17:22a big part of it roscomansor is another big part of it who blocks everything that they don't want

17:27people to see a lot of the western pages well the internet story in russia and ukraine is like the

17:33military startups in ukraine there are hundreds and hundreds of startups all over ukraine they're

17:39decentralized and they innovate decentralized in russia like there is one massive nuclear factory for

17:47shahad drones in alabuga the internet also is centralized because kremlin controls as much as

17:54they want to control they threw it through roscomansor and yandex they have these massive data centers and

18:01they cannot allow in that system to be decentralized centralized system makes it easy for political orders

18:07to be followed immediately but it also makes it easy to start to target the nodes the data centers ukraine

18:14has spent years decentralizing its digital infrastructure distributing critical systems

18:19across multiple locations and foreign cloud providers putin has spent those same years moving russia in the

18:25opposite direction concentrating runet behind the state-controlled routing filtering systems national dns

18:32infrastructure and government whitelists which is done by the roscomansor russia can destroy a ukrainian

18:38data center which they have done and are doing but those critical workloads can be moved elsewhere

18:43russia cannot move the russian internet outside russia because they have worked so hard and paid an

18:50insane amount of money to isolate it from the every other internet or the western free internet one

18:56destroyed data center will not bring down the runet but putin's obsession with controlling the internet has

19:02created an extraordinary potential asymmetry the more russia centralizes its digital infrastructure the more

19:09damaging the loss of critical nodes can become russia began targeting ukraine's data centers it may now

19:16discover that the internet putin built to control russians is considerably harder to protect

19:22now i proposed a question to you in the previous video if we want russians to have any way be

19:29connected to the western internet it is good to not take their internet away from them or it is great

19:35to

19:36attack take their internet away from them because it damages the russian economy and the russian war

19:41resolve you gave me many different answers in the comment first of all if russians in the past what

19:46five years being connected to the western internet have not you know liberalized or rose up against

19:53their government and they still love putin which majority of them do then it doesn't really benefit

19:58us at all that they have internet so let's take it away others say that we should keep them connected

20:04in any way to the western internet and attacking internet centers in russia is counterproductive well

20:10many different answers many different strategies and theories i cannot give you the straight answer

20:15what we know is ukraine did strike the very first data center in russia and i'm personally glad about

20:21it but let me know your answer in the comments should we should they do it more should they do

20:26it like

20:26they did wild berries all in all i can give you what zelensky commented on it zelensky on the attack

20:32on

20:32the yandex data center data centers as you all know they have been attacking our data centers and continue

20:39to do so we have responded i cannot disclose all the details but if we look at

20:45this frontline activity and we look at the attack on the dana centers or even logistical warehouses

20:50we might forget that ukraine has never stopped attacking russian oil infrastructure they never

20:56have two days ago 7th of october they attacked one of the most important russian pumping stations

21:01in russia's samara the samara line production and dispatch station a major oil tank farm and part of the

21:08transneft system was reported attacked and this is you know the most massive tank farm i don't mean

21:16tanks as well i mean oil tanks you know oil silos you might see five also 10 15 in some

21:23oil refineries

21:24this one has 71 storage tank it is absolutely massive 1.6 million cubic meters of oil in storage

21:33storage facility is like a battery of oil you pump it out of the ground you cannot stop the

21:38pumping process because it cannot be stopped for the specifics of it so you have to have massive

21:43storage facilities for if people don't buy the oil you can just store it there you don't have to stop

21:49the pumping cycle so this is what russia has in samara 71 of them look at that that's the satellite

21:56imagery same pumping station just the previous attack satellite imagery of the whole area it's just a farm

22:03just a field of oil silos it looks so juicy i want to burn it myself and yeah ukraine has

22:10attacked it

22:11uh two days ago 7th of october since you attack a few oil silos you assess the damage next attack

22:18you

22:19attack the other one so it is a very long process to destroy these they destroy maybe five four at

22:25a

22:25time still would need over 20 attacks almost to completely burn this out so it's gonna be a methodical slow

22:32approach four or five at a time that ukrainians have proved that they're doing and i think we will

22:37see many many many more attacks against the specific samara line production and dispatch station it also

22:44has two pumping station in it so it's oil tank farm plus two separate pumping stations so it's a cluster

22:52of

22:53strategically important oil facilities that ukraine just struck but since the index makes all the

22:58headlines many people forget that ukrainians are still striking russian money-making machine which

23:04is the oil export business this is it for today my friends if you like my style and my videos

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