Sedan: I have importance in two wars between France and Germany. Kharkiv: I have major importance in both WW2 and the Russo-Ukrainian War, also I have huge strategic value for defense and there were 6 battles fought for me Isonzo: Amateurs

@TankswillRule

Жыл бұрын

Imma look that up, thanks for the idea

@doteleven5890

Жыл бұрын

Pavlov’s House: ALL OF YOU, PUNKS (The house was defended more than the Entirety of France in WW2)

@Kriegter

Жыл бұрын

@@doteleven5890 thats a myth, Pavlov house is overglorified by soviet propaganda. Also, more people died taking it than capturing Paris. That's true. But in 1940 Paris was taken without a fight.

@robertjarman3703

Жыл бұрын

Conrad Von Hötzendorf vs Luigi Cardorna, the best general of the Entente vs the best general of the Central Powers respectively.

@doteleven5890

Жыл бұрын

@@Kriegter Well, Dunkirk exists soo yeah But still, Stalingrad was a beloved city and they defended it HARD

Very informative, I will use it in my future conquests.

@fiveninenowNOW

Жыл бұрын

Hol' up wait a minute, something ain't right

@Pumpkin_08_09

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm

@thinkingagain5966

Жыл бұрын

O/

@ichbinhans76

Жыл бұрын

Me too Viktor

@badcholesterol

Жыл бұрын

Serbia stronk

BABYYY EASTORY UPLOADED YOU ARE NOT MY MAIN PRIORITY

@MrSharky334

Жыл бұрын

Job: resigned Wife: divorced Kids: disowned Yep, it’s Eastory time😎

@PerryKobalt

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSharky334 It's Fatherless time

@fallaciousfirm2524

Жыл бұрын

@@PerryKobalt definitely for kids, but nor for me!

@Heisenpaper1

Жыл бұрын

Frfr

@michelemezzatesta9863

Жыл бұрын

E allora..

Very informative, I truly never knew why Kharkiv was so important... another great one Eastory!

@abedmarachli7345

Жыл бұрын

The author of the report deliberately photographed Kharkiv from the Ukrainian borders only, but it is surrounded on two sides by Russian territory, which Russia can easily encircle from the north and east. Now in the winter stage we have entered the stage of logistics. Snow in Ukraine is cumulative, meaning it falls on top of each other, and therefore only public roads are suitable, and this is a big problem for pedestrians on both sides.

I think video is quite informative beyond its niche. Most people know being the attacker in an Urban setting sucks, but few (including I) have never considered urban conglomerations and how you move your forces in or around said city zones. There’s certainly no shortage of major cities a stones toss away from multiple mid sized cities.

@Ranger1812

Жыл бұрын

Most don't know that. They've given it no thought.

@Zogerpogger

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I found the video to be interesting. I think the talk of Urban-conglomerations applies to many hypothetical situations. For instance there are many individuals, or at least there used to be, who argued that just taking Moscow would have been the coup-de-grace to the USSR in 1941. The whole question of whether taking Moscow would have won the war for Germany is one thing (I don't think it would have), but the issue in that statement implied by this video is with the "taking Moscow" bit. Those who argue for this see that a German unit was within 18km, or something like that, and think "If things had been a little different and the main force had been able to advance a few dozen more km, they could have won". This I think is especially prevalent in documentaries and such which try to make it seem very dramatic and as if everything hung on a thread, when in reality taking the city of Moscow would have been a huge undertaking in-and-of-itself even if they had reached it. Looks like I went on another comment section ramble again when I have work to do...I just thought this example was an interesting illustration of how people sometimes don't consider urban geography and infrastructure when considering hypotheticals. *que massive argument about unrelated topic in the replies*

@Ranger1812

Жыл бұрын

@@Zogerpogger "cue", and it's not unrelated.

@Zogerpogger

Жыл бұрын

@@Ranger1812 Correct, thank you.

We have to admit he never disappoints us with his contents

@FlourishPorridge

Жыл бұрын

Aww, what a nice comment, have some engagement :)

@jaymylotto8134

Жыл бұрын

Very speculative but every word is pronounced with over the top confidence (and a nasty unpleasant accent).

@Kriegter

Жыл бұрын

@@jaymylotto8134 odd thing to complain about.

@ohcestbontarreteteriesmtn42

Жыл бұрын

an original comment !

@randomguy2023

Жыл бұрын

I really hope he covers the Invasion of Italy in one of these videos.

I am born in kharkiv, i live in kharkiv, and i love Kharkiv. Это любимый город Харьков это любимый город наш

@polcovnic74

Жыл бұрын

Харків - це топ🥰

@willd4491

Жыл бұрын

Stay strong 💪

@youren8

Жыл бұрын

I was there in September 2021. Before the attack. I got to see how peaceful it was before all this.

@user-gc6vf9co3z

Жыл бұрын

Здорова

@verushkan

Жыл бұрын

Привет из харькова харьковчанину

Kharkiv is my native city, currently living in Poltava. Very informative, thanks!

@oleksiipoltava

Жыл бұрын

Привіт з Полтави!!!

As a citizen of Kharkiv, I can tell that we were afraid russians would occupy the city pretty quickly considering it is near the border, but after the first week, it became clear they can not break in (actually they managed but it was a suicidal mission), so they just started to shell city with artillery. Barbaric tactics to destroy what you can't gain.

@QoDeZeRo

Жыл бұрын

You’ll soon be a citizen of Russia. Just as your ancestors were during the Soviet Union and for centuries during the Russian empire! Glory to Ukraine for being being part of mother Russia!

@ragefirewind1488

Жыл бұрын

@@QoDeZeRo shut up

@CriftPro

Жыл бұрын

@@QoDeZeRo Less writing in youtube, more diyng to himars in cold, shmobik.

@ThePassionFwuit

Жыл бұрын

@@QoDeZeRo cringe

@mickeysimon3789

Жыл бұрын

@@QoDeZeRo oh my sweet soviet child))))

I really appreciate that you make a great effort to follow a clear method and you also acknowledge that your conclusion is not fact but simply your own analysis. You are very humble and I hope that takes you far, thank you for taking us through your logic as always.

one little correction - the SE parts (Mariupol, Kherson and some parts in Luhansk ) were taken at the same time while the Kiev / Kharkov op was ongoing - and NOT after that failed.

@TankswillRule

Жыл бұрын

Kharkiv*

@TheRomankopler

Жыл бұрын

@@TankswillRule whatever

@TankswillRule

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRomankopler no, Kharkov is the russian name putin and many scumbags call it just to justify “Ukraine is actually russian” Do not call it that, we will not allow Putin and his orcs to dominate the conversation in any small way. Give them an inch, they take a mile.

@duckduckov4362

Жыл бұрын

as a russian I could say that was a bs plan of idiot Putin. After 20 years of unlimited power he lives in his own world. Strong and rich Russia. A country that produce just oil lol. He is a murder and war criminal.

@chattw6885

Жыл бұрын

Are you sure about that?

6 Battles of Kharkiv! Same geography, same problems.

@olsiontoska9520

Жыл бұрын

Hey history legends

@LUCA-CASADEI

Жыл бұрын

​@D James no, the russians have an inadequate ground army to complete the task, because it's too small, poorly armed, with few modern tanks that don't have active protection systems, and their air force was unable to establish air supremacy over Ukraine because they have no STEALTH fighters or EW planes! If they had had them, they would have suppressed air defenses and started a strategic bombing campaign over factories and objects to pave the way for ground forces to go in more easily, and do it without using expensive missile systems like Iskander... of which they only have 300 or so. They haven't invested enough in their military, even when they knew since 2014 there would have been a war with NATO, and by not upgrading the army they are now in a difficult situation! Even now they are just spending only 4-5% of their GDP for the military, when Ukraine spends 30,000,000,000$ + 20,000,000,000$ worth of foreign military aid yearly, so about 40% of their GDP goes to the military... 50 billions spent by Ukraine vs 80 billions spent by Russia, and that's not enough to win an attrition war.

@LUCA-CASADEI

Жыл бұрын

@D James they also lack the size and the organization to complete the task. When Ukraine is able to supply 500,000 troops and Russia only 300,000, they can't advance. They best they can hope for is that the enemies run out of ammunition or run out of men, but that's not going to happen soon! And they can be supplied with ammo by NATO countries that are setting up a powerful war industry to supply Ukraine.

@misterpinkandyellow74

2 күн бұрын

You are delusional 😂😂😂​@@LUCA-CASADEI

@misterpinkandyellow74

2 күн бұрын

​@@LUCA-CASADEIyour comment didn't age well

Given this is a current event, it’s kinda funny to hear him give direct military advice. Very good video Eastory. Love your videos!

Great video, the historical context really highlights the importance of this city in the current war.

Really liking the future-proofing on this video, with treating the current war as something of the past rather than the present. Also, you got such a great style with the way the lines fluidly move about the map.

That was really insightful! Keep up the good work I can’t wait for more!

Very good higher level analysis. Thank you.

Don't forget Kharkiv is second largest city in Ukraine and that means it is an important transport node

@samulikarjalainen6107

Жыл бұрын

Basically a must in order for any force to keep the Don. That is why it is surprising how small the fight was in 1941.

Hey Eastory! Love the videos! I think you should highlight your appearance on the Operations Room's "Battle of the Bulge" miniseries. Not only will it strengthen your relationship with them, but establishing a presence between you two can boost viewers!

Wow thanks for an excellent video. Now the progress of the 2022 war makes such sense. The lessons for the future really do lie in the past.

This channel is amazing, ever since its creation❤️ greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

awesome awesome content!!! Thank you! and the way you connected WWII with 2022 invasion was great!

Wow, its crazy how clearly you put things into perspective. that gives those cities so much meaning as to why they get mentioned so often during the war.

Thank you for the content about my city. Highly appreciated.

I love the style of your videos man

Love your content! You can make your background music blend a bit better through the remix function of Adobe Audition. So you don’t hear the cuts you made in it.

@Eastory

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

Subscribed. Good presentation on why Kharkiv has been militarily important.

Now this is content 👍

Hello from Kharkiv🇺🇦, I love your video very much, and watched every youtuber who reacted to that. Wish you good luck!

@fred7522

Жыл бұрын

Bro... Beware

Excellent video as always, thanks Eastory!

Thank you for this video. Really appreciate content about my city. Hello from Kharkiv ❤

This was great! 👍🏻

I love how derpy your MS paint renditions of German/Russian officers look.

Thanks for the upload. Cheers

Great tactical understanding, thank you

The video was wonderful. 😊

I was born in Kharkiv, and saw march battle for Kharkiv, but unfortunately, I left my city in April because of war

you always make it easy to understand how it all happened thanks..

Thanks for advice

Very cool strategic lessons

Tbh, I have doubts on naming the Russo-Ukrainian clash over the Kharkov/Kharkiv as 2 separate battles. I suppose that we could label it as a single battle with 3 different phases, just like it was in the WW2; the first phase is attack of the one side, the second is a stalemate and the third is an opponents' counterattack.

@jett6906

Жыл бұрын

The logic here is at the beginning of the War Ukraine fought a defensive action within the city limits of Kharkiv. In September they fought to completely liberate the entirety of Kharkiv Oblast. I believe they should both carry the name "Kharkiv" in relation to the Battle of Kharkiv, and as the Kharkiv Counter-Offensive.

@airsmellnice4133

Жыл бұрын

That's too linier

@JohnSmith-pm3ew

Жыл бұрын

I mean, that doesn't really reflect the sequence of events. Days 1-4: Russia attempts to storm Kharkiv city, but is pushed back to outskirts and suburbs in the north. May: Russia is pushed back further to the border with a defensive depth of

@SuurTeoll

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-pm3ew Well, indeed, it does suits well.

@MinorLife10

Жыл бұрын

Nah. In spring the goal was to take over the city. But in summer, russians tried to outflank Kramatorsk from Izium

God damn I love you videos from day 1 bro

once again great video i love your content, it's among the very best on youtube keep it up

Great video, as always! Anyways, could you please do a North-African Campaign video? I'd love to see Rommel in action!

You are pronouncing Kharkiv very nice 👍🕊️❤️

Great Explaination!

Awesome work. Thank you

Part of me thinks it should the “battle of izyum” which was as important rail hub today as it was in WW2. But it’s in the Kharkiv oblast so it makes sense.

@Latsevol

Жыл бұрын

Izium was a part for the Battle of Kharkiv. Or do you think Ukraine lost the Battle for Kharkiv when it lost Izium?

Do you intend to make a video about the entire war so far (or after its conclusion) in the style of your ww2 videos, with divisions and frontlines and everything?

Thank you! Nice infographic!

Excellent analysis!!

Well... what can I say. In Universal Century year 0079, Operation Odessa was a major Earth Federation Forces counteroffensive aimed at the Principality of Zeon forces occupying the north coast of the Black Sea...

@autokrator_

Жыл бұрын

LoGH fans watch Eastory? What a shocker.

Kharkiv was also the first capital of the Ukrainian SSR in contrast to Kiev, wich was held by the Ukraine's People's Republic, independent from Moscow. It's currently also Ukraine's 2nd largest city. If Russia were to capture the city, they would most likely proclaim it to be the capital of their "Novorossija" project.

@user-jn1kr1xo4l

Жыл бұрын

Такого проекта не существует

@Maximmuss_

Жыл бұрын

@@user-jn1kr1xo4l Noworossija was present many times in Russian propaganda, they may not use the name itself, but the concept is the same.

@chaosXP3RT

Жыл бұрын

@@user-jn1kr1xo4l Novorossiya was a confederation of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) in Eastern Ukraine, both of which are under the control of pro-Russian separatists. Новороссия была конфедерацией самопровозглашенных Донецкой Народной Республики (ДНР) и Луганской Народной Республики (ЛНР) на востоке Украины, обе из которых находятся под контролем пророссийских сепаратистов.

@user-jn1kr1xo4l

Жыл бұрын

@@Maximmuss_ ни разу не слышал об этом, да и звучит довольно бредово. Да и сейчас нет разговоров о создании Новороссии, территории, подконтрольные России, просто присоеднили в качестве обычных областей

@user-jn1kr1xo4l

Жыл бұрын

@@chaosXP3RT но сейчас ДНР и ЛНР не существуют(с точки зрения России), они стали российскими областями

Was cool to see your featuring in the ops room channel !

Nice ... thank you bro!

I remember seeing documentaries from Vice about the Donbass in 2016. I did not realize the gravity then

It's amazing how each side forgets happened the last time every time fighting around Kharkiv, over and over again.

@Grizabeebles

Жыл бұрын

Considering that the two wars took place about 60 years apart, it's not that surprising. There were no jet fighters, combat helicopters, satellite imagery, or computers and radio communication was completely brand new. Plus, there's always the chance in war that your opponent is dumber than his grandfather was. That said, it's kinda scary how Donbas and Kharkiv have the same strategic relationship as a "fortress and ravelin".

Glad to see you again!!

Ok, video watched. Immediately subscribed.

You could say that controling Kharkiv is the key to control Ukraine, it's the gate for the eastern bank of the Dniper.

@JV-yd4qg

Жыл бұрын

The reason why UA didn't give up the Kharkiv Oblast. It was the bigger fortress covering the Kyiv Oblast.

Thank you for video from Kharkiv!🇺🇦

@liamvarin6209

Жыл бұрын

Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇲 ❤🇺🇦

@I_BB

Жыл бұрын

For diversity purposes, I'm going to say Slava Russia !

@user-zx6fg9lv4d

Жыл бұрын

lol, Kharkov*

@Franfran2424

Жыл бұрын

@Dmytro Lisovskyi Ughh. Kharkov residents call it Kharkov, accept it.

@Franfran2424

Жыл бұрын

@Dmytro Lisovskyi ukrainian speaker?

Your content is so good.

This is excellent. History rhymes. I’m instantly interested in your channel.

“This is Ukraine” *includes crimea* This is why I’m subbed.

@NeuroDriveLP

Жыл бұрын

You should ask what people who live there think ;)

@RK-cj4oc

Жыл бұрын

@@NeuroDriveLP Kinda hard to do because its currently under russia occupation

@TankswillRule

Жыл бұрын

@@NeuroDriveLP russia is kinda famous for rigging poles and poisoning the opposition… It will be very hard to know for sure. For what we know, people could be feeling like Slovakia/Poland in WW2

@TheCredfield

Жыл бұрын

based

@airsmellnice4133

Жыл бұрын

@@RK-cj4oc i am pretty sure most the people there are in favor of Russia same goes for donesk and luhansk maybe not so much kershon or zaportzia

My hometown. The way it was defended in 2022 is heroic history page of modern Ukrainian army! 👊⚔️🇺🇦

@bloodrave9578

Жыл бұрын

I have a ship on Star Trek Online called USS Kharkiv, I usually name my cruisers after famous battles and sieges.

@PrstBs1

Жыл бұрын

Героически отстаиваете право на геноцид русских, молодцы!

6:35 Thank you for this hint! I'll consider that in 30 years

Very informative, thanks for the video.

This is the most inclusive, concise and unbias video I have watched amongst hundreds of Russian-Ukraine war video for the past 6 months!! Cheers and Thanks to all of you

We need a tutorial on how you make these videos.

@zach1841

Жыл бұрын

use after effects

@user27745

Жыл бұрын

@@zach1841 I have no idea what that is

@seneca983

Жыл бұрын

@@user27745 I'm guessing he means Adobe After Effects, a video editing software.

@user27745

Жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 Eastory himself answered on another comment I made from another video and he said he uses blender

This is very useful for my future plans, thank you.

Another great video!

Este canal piensa igual que yo sobre las batallas de Jarkov , algún voluntario que traduzca este magistral video?

@TankswillRule

Жыл бұрын

Kharkiv*

@Franfran2424

Жыл бұрын

@@TankswillRule Jarkov* Locals spell it Kharkov, not Kharkiv.

@Franfran2424

Жыл бұрын

No me apetece

This remains important so long as the Donbass is an industrial/urban defensible zone.

This analysis is a bit more refreshing than the reoccurring info on some channels

Great subject and presentation.

You forgot to include Crimea in the map of Ukraine.

You do not wage any kind of serious war in that geographical region without rail. Kharkov has the largest rail yard in Ukraine, and the largest Russian gauge rail road system complete with roilling stock and locomotives outside Russia.

Very interesting and well explained! Thank you!

hi from Kharkiv from a kharkiver

We need more of these Ukraine war videos.

@airsmellnice4133

Жыл бұрын

Less

Great summary of Kharkiv’s historical and strategic significance

Wow, very informative!

Great video, no politics, no bs. Straight facts.

Be interesting to see a similar video on Bakhmut considering how many times the Russian’s have attacked that city in this war trying to gain control over it.

@sjonnieplayfull5859

Жыл бұрын

It's basically Verdun 1916 now, a meatgrinder where the attacker is unable to bring forward his artillery due to ever more craters and the further his troops get, the less support they have left

@sergeontheloose

Жыл бұрын

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 The russians have no tank forces left - so when they attack with infantry it looks like "First World War" ever again. The few remaining tankers of the russians are afraid to engage Ukrainian forces which are saturated with NLAWs and Javelins. Nobody wants to be a "suicide squad".

Very good insight into the core of the issue.

Another amazing video!

Eastory can you please make longer videos on WW2? can you focus on Siege of Leningrad, Battle of Moscow, Operation Bagration, Berlin etc. ?

@Eastory

Жыл бұрын

Noted

Я был в Харькове, замечательный город❤️

Great work!!!!!

Awesome video 👍

Fighting with geography is good but sometimes you just have to brute force your way somewhere.

@TankswillRule

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the Orc way of “sending 7k people to their deaths and still failing to take a single fokin city” is not a good idea

@gunarsmiezis9321

Жыл бұрын

@@TankswillRule It won the french WW1.

@nilloc93

Жыл бұрын

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter." ~Churchill

@gunarsmiezis9321

Жыл бұрын

@@nilloc93 That pathetic exuse of a man has propably never sayed it. And there are times when the concentration of forces is so grate there is no room to manuver. Also there are times when your forces can only win by quickly braking the enemies center and pushing them off the field before you are encirceled or artitioned.

@airsmellnice4133

Жыл бұрын

@@TankswillRule stop dehumanizing

Kharkiv is the strongest Ukrainian city with amazing people 💪

Fascinating!

Absolutely genius

this video just proves that the ukrainian high command really understand the area they are fighting in resulting in the brilliant kharkiv offensive when everyone was looking at the area around kherson

Hello from Kharkiv :) Thanks for interesting viewpoint and it's great to feel... strategically valuable? hehe 1 small remark - according to the rulings of the court in Netherlands on MH17, russia and Ukraine are in a conflict since 2014, so in 4:47 there were no 'pro-ruzzian separatists' there were 'ruzzian proxi-forces'. I know it's a small detail but with this and many other details ruz propaganda pushed the narrative of civil war in Ukraine for decade already, while it was always a military agression by ruz. Thank you!

@tomcluny8423

Жыл бұрын

@@nz2191 Source?

@Shrek_ua

Жыл бұрын

@@tomcluny8423 voices in his head told him

These video’s were very informative

One of the best channels on KZread

I am from Kharkiv. Glory to Ukraine

@Don_joe-z

Жыл бұрын

You are just wasting our money by prolonging that already lost war mate. I bet you are comfortably hidden somewhere in here right? Or in Poland or maybe Czech Republic?

@tomcluny8423

Жыл бұрын

@@Don_joe-z Your shitty analogy is totally flawed. ukriane is closer to winning the war than Russia, so whining that they should loose to end it quicker is hypocrisy

@jjsmthr

Жыл бұрын

@Cultured Anime Waifu [Russian Waifu] a person with a "waifu" in his name. Cringe. Actually, no. Pathetic ruZZian cl🤡wn.

@Don_joe-z

Жыл бұрын

@@tomcluny8423 Who told you that? The globalist propaganda. You know why? Because everyone loves laundering money in Ukraine, because now during war it is the easiest way. World might be sending weapons there, but not manpower. Remember, Russia tactics was always around their tremendous manpower. Winter is here, Ukraine is without electricity and Russians will keep sending there men. Even if those men would be armed with stones, they will trample Ukrainians at some point in the future.

@evilneko03

Жыл бұрын

@Cultured Anime Waifu [Russian Waifu] shut up zetnik

The donbas region is like ardenne Naturally i mean artificially hard to take