What’s next after Ukraine’s offensive inside Russia? | The Take

Ukraine is conducting its largest incursion into Russian territory since Russia first invaded Ukraine. At the same time, the Ukrainian military is outnumbered and under-equipped. Could this switch in strategy change the direction of the war?

In this episode:

-Alex Gatopoulos,  Defence Editor for Al Jazeera English

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan, and Chloe K. Li, with Amy Walters, Duha Mosaad, Manahil Naveed, and our host, Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

[garykkleow]

Call it a Ukraine special military operations?

[kurtilein]

There are some facts missing. Ukraine is sending elite troops, mechanized units into the incursion that are well trained and well equipped. It is followed up with artillery. What they will do, if they are forced to, is a fighting retreat that will come with heavy losses to the attacker - They practised this for years now. Otherwise they will dig in, maybe take more here and there, and use it as a base to attack russian supply lines to other parts of the front. The units involved here usually do armed recoinessance. We see russia already withdrawing troops and equipment from other parts of the front, that is underway. Russia can and will push this back behind the border, but the price will be so high that its still a win for Ukraine, or maybe they even fail at that.

[davedeputyZX]

"Unfortunately in war it's always the civilians who suffer the most"
Actually, in this war 10, 000 civilians have been killed but 100, 000+ soldiers. It's actually the soldiers who suffer the most.

[Seaz]

Ukraine has the right to defend itself.

[onestar]

Ukraine's special military operation inside russia 😂😂😂

[klausberfelde-jeye]

The 3 Day Special Military Operation are running as expected.😇🤣🤣🤣

[kumarj]

One needs to see the long picture. Ukraine can't win against Russia in this war. Political negotiations is the only path to peace. Yet Zelensky shuns that path and chooses military solutions where there are none to be had.

[tonybrackettnh]

Am I the only one disgusted by the snide comments, the side mouth giggles talking about HUMAN LIVES! No side taken, appreciated, but stop acting like children playing a board game! Everyone should simply speak from a tone of disdain of unnecessary death of the fellow man.
Which farmer wants to hurt a fellow famer because of a rich man speaking on the television, radio, or internet. Not ONE!

[sunshinesue]

🗽🇺🇸 🦅Stand proud, strong and ✝️Keep the faith 💙💛🌻🕊️🇺🇸🇺🇦🕊️ 🫂with much Love from Indiana, USA🙏

[ResolverResolver]

The cause and foundation of the problem is italy and France Paris, Rome, Napolitano, Napoli, America, Rome, Taranto, Torino, Sardinia

[smackattack]

Question: if a nuclear power plant is deliberately targeted and results in a Chernobyl type radioactive catastrophe, is that considered a nuclear strike?

[MoonBerryShrimp]

WIth Youtube banned in Russia, I'm curious if their bots will take a break from astroturfing this channel 🤔

[europeanhouse]

Ukraine has rights to protect own territory by attack inside Russia

[lepetitroquet]

Not sure what the guy is meaning with the western powers not having "bottomless pockets".
The collective powers of NATO have so much old material in stock that, aggregated, it rivaled the old soviet stocks (8000 Abrams tanks for example). Those old soviet stocks are slowly running out, the western reserves have barely been touched (31 Abrams out of 8000, so 99.6% remaining). Ammo is a different story, but the ammo production in the western powers has increased drastically. The last numbers I could find are 2.4 million 155mm shells per year by the end of 2024 (plus a few hundred thousands 152mm shells per year on top) vs 1.3 million 152 mm shells per year for Russia. Of course there are also other calibers (122mm, rockets, etc...), but it shows very clearly that if anything, the western production should be in a good position to actually provide more firepower to Ukraine than the russian one.
And financially speaking, it's not even close. 0.5% of GDP for the western powers vs 8-10% of GDP for Russia (which will have to increase a lot to keep up production before the soviet legacy stocks are all but gone).

It's pretty easy to see who has the means to last the longest.
Except when it comes to moral, where the western powers do indeed look extremely weak and Putin's dictatorship shows its strength (aka willingness to sacrifice his population "well-being" to achieve its objectives).

[orlandofabrique]

When russia occupy ukraine territory, theirs no provocation. But when ukraine occupied russian territory, putin said its provocation!

[AR-pxty]

Ukraine will again innovate. Just when Putin announced the special military operation will just be finished in a week, then Ukraine surprised the World. This time the World is again surprised. Ukraine combat strategies are beginning to get better and better. And now, Ukrane is a master and the best in drone warfare.

[abdusalamolamide]

What the commentator failed to admit or mention is "Ukraine will get tired before Russia"

[rahmatali]

To Al jajeera majmeant pl. Start Hindi or urdu varsan.we are very helfful.

[stillworkin]

seems shocking that russia was attacked

[geraldmantel]

Ukraine snatched defeat from the jaws of victory ...