Military analyst breaks down where Ukraine has crossed into Russia and the strategic value there

CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports from a “completely undefended” area of the border between Russia and Ukraine. Then, retired Air Force colonel and military analyst Cedric Leighton breaks down where and how Ukraine is making its incursion into Russia. #CNN #news

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  1. This war has exposed Putin and his wack army they are not serious at all imagine this was NATO very catastrophe for putin

  5. Dang people. Simply query "Ukraine War Map". They are getting their asses kicked and running around in fields and small villages in Kursk Oblasts while any front line Oblasts in Ukraine that isn't split by the Dnipro River is losing as much ground as they are marching around in daily. Pathetic we don't know what a Coward in Chief we have and the multiple times this war could have been avoided with simple direct confrontation of leaders. From Biden's loss of Crimea during 2014 Euromaidan Revolution to Biden's cowering for the last three years from dicktator Putin while millions get to lose their lives and we get to pay for it.
    Query "Crimean Canal", "Black Sea Fleet", "Sevastopol, Crimea", "Budapest Memorandum". Ask yourself, March 2014 when Ukraine dammed Crimean Canal and 86% of fresh water to 2.2 million men, women and children, mostly poor farmers, in Crimea why was "fire that prosecutor" more important to Obama and Biden than 2.2 million former Ukraine citizens being starved to death? Why did Russia remove the Crimean Canal dam in first two days of 2022 invasion and why do they now control Dnipro River to the Sea to keep it from happening again? Who really tried to empty the reservoir feeding the Canal in 2023 by blowing up the reservoir dam? We are being played like sheep by the biggest Coward in Chief to ever be a President.

  6. I don't mean any disrespect to Ukraine because they are fighting valiantly, but I must point out the area that they captured so far looks quite small. Feels like our western media is overblowing the significance of this particular push into Russia

  7. Pretty simple really. The Russians are not good at maneuver warfare and left their flank wide open. The Russians are good at slow methodical battle which requires large amounts of artillery and human wave style WW1 tactics.

  8. "they can service food and humanetarian aids to turn propaganda" what a gibrish , this is making me remember putin saying they will negociate with the military if they turn down the ukranian president lol

  9. They are going to hit Moscow with Himars and artillery . Russia has lost everything and now very weak. Putin days are numbered. NATO needs to step in and help.

  10. Goofballs (Military talking heads) are rejoicing over this not knowing that Ukraine has NO WAY of sustaining this. They will lose in the end. I hope they don't, but they do not have the manpower or resupply to sustain this. They need to negotiate for peace, even if that means giving up part of their country. NATO is not putting boots on the ground. This will not end will for them. This only energizes the Russian Population all the more to win this.

  13. Why is Col Cedric Layton standing so wide legged with a creepy smile on his face? This is a war. People are dying. This is SERIOUS BUSINESS!

  15. NATO is going to need another five hundred billion and millions plus more troops to keep up invasion into Russia to take Putin out at all cost, According to the Harris administration.

  16. They're so underestimating the Ukrainian Army that Russia became the Second Best Army inside Russia, also they didn't have any defense in and around Russian-Ukrainian Borders.

  18. “We have no idea what Ukraines goals are. But here is a long list of benefits they are getting from their actions…. Maybe their goal was to get these benefits?”

  20. Cutting the rail makes sense. The gas line already goes through Ukraine so there was no need to invade to cut that gas. The analyst is totally wrong on that issue.

  21. Fake new so far Ukraine send at list 12,000 to 20,000 from military to mercenary people and I see different news and Ukraine is loosing at list half of there people. Is sad but true Ukraine is loosing people so bad. Russia is winning territory

  23. Looks like Russian those “ soldiers “ are not real soldiers, just guys forced to be in a war they want no part of and likely very little training.

  24. I compare Ukrainian soldiers to Israels' irresponsible actions by IDF, and my comment gets deleted? WOW if the shoe fits!

  25. August 17th 2024 Ukraina takes Russia.
    The Battle of Tsushima was a naval battle fought in the Sea of ​​Japan on May 27-28, 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War, between the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet and the Second and Third Pacific Fleets of the Imperial Russian Navy, which had been deployed to the Far East. The main fighting took place in the waters off the east coast of Tsushima. Outside Japan, the battle is known as the Battle of Tsushima.

  26. the argument of the gas pipeline is nonsense.. the pipeline starts there and then goes all the way thru Ukraine.. they don't need to invade Russia to cut it, they can just cut it in Ukraine at any moment..

  27. Dead men walking. Lot of media noise, only to elevate the stakes and the costs of this useless wasteful war to themselves and the world only to entertain world elites, the arrogant, hypocrite and coward politicians to give them time to steal from citizens and next generations. The war prize will be the lands and the governments of these lands, annexed, regained or able to be saved from destruction or radiation. The Ukrainians are fighting on life support every new day, they are not winning anything, just short-term theater with lot of fake media fanfares to sell the war winning narrative. The Russians always adapt and pay back with interests. If the media and governments are honest, maybe more lives will be saved, instead jumping off the cliff like lemmings

  28. 9:13 Your military analyst is very smart, that gas pipeline passes through Ukraine, they don't need any military actions to cut it

  29. Very very smart and bold move on the part of Ukraine. This is all geared to ending the war and Ukraine getting back some of it's territory.
    I hope it works.

  30. Oh no! Not good…

    Kursk attack creates problems for Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Eastern Front – WSJ

    Because of the attack on the Kursk region, the Ukrainian command sent people and weapons to these territories. Forces withdrew from already weakened areas, which leads to a complete dispersal of troops, The WSJ notes.

    "The Ukrainian Armed Forces have decided to attack the Kursk region at their own risk. This could lead to a deterioration in the army's position in the eastern direction," the article says.

    The foray into Kursk Oblast did not force the Russian Armed Forces to ease pressure in the SMO zone, the authors admit. But for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the situation is only getting worse.

  32. This action militarily speaking it s a nonsense!
    And it s prove of the Ukrainian weakness and incapability of reconquering the Donbass..what they are doing it s real and quite miserable propaganda.
    Hey Mister the pipeline is already passing through Ukraine they could cut it off there without going into Russia!

  33. 8:00 WTF is that build the wall reference doing in this discussion? No, it's not at all like the domestic "build the wall" refrain some Americans have.

  35. I imagine the majority of the Russian POW's did not want to fight to begin with, please treat them with kindness so after this terrible war is over, everyone can live in peace and harmony again. we 🇺🇸 ❤ pray for all the innocent civilians and soldiers in this terrible conflict ❤Russia ❤❤️Ukraine ❤️🙏☮️

  42. Always have to say Western supplied… Why don't you people just shut the f up? What is your point? Russia has been genociding these people bombing cities and killing stealing babies and torturing people and your your continuing to use these kind of words unnecessarily? Again, what's your point.? Who do you work for CNN? You seem to be infected by anti-democracy forces these days

  44. Everyone now knows that the Russian is not the Super Military Power it claimed to be. Putin has lost this War.

  50. Russia🇷🇺 has many friends… China🇨🇳 India🇮🇳 Bangladesh🇧🇩 Pakistan🇵🇰 like the Saudi’s Russia should let the Indians Bangladeshi fight for them. The India subcontinent provided the “man-power” for British Empire for almost 200years!! First thing the Americans dismantled after WW2 ??? Coincidence ????? I don’t think 🤔so……

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