Analyzing Russia's Massive Failures in War Against Ukraine

Dive deep into the shocking military failures of Russia in the war against Ukraine since 2022! This video catalogues six major shortcomings that had a significant impact on the conflict's outcome. From the failed capture of Hostomel Airport to the iconic standoff on Snake Island and the sinking of the Moskva, each incident reveals the strategic miscalculations that crippled Russia's once-feared invasion force.
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[Idahoguy]

For a warship to defeat an incoming missile requires functioning weapon systems and a trained crew. To survive actual missile strikes requires competent damage control teams and trained crew. The Moskva obviously had neither

[JustMe-gnyf]

One thing worth mentioning is current day Russia doesn't have the population of the Soviet union so these losses are more impactful

[marekbrodowski]

Russians trolls on social media are the strongest part of the Russian army 😂

[REgamesplayer]

The problem with this war and Russia throwing men and material without concern like it did since Napoleonic wars is that Russia is no longer fighting a superpower for survival or dominance of the next century. It is fighting a small, regional conflict. It essentially making same sacrifices that it did during WW2 to win a relatively minor conflict. They are crippling their nation not for the dominance of the next century, but merely to survive from collapsing.

That is most embarrassing is that they had started that fight, unprovoked and completely without justification against Ukraine. A war which had lost them the 21'st century.

[BW]

Few key things for #4 -- Failure to Achieve Air Superiority which weren't directly addressed.
a) Russian pilots only receive a fraction of the training/air-time as western pilots. As such, nearly all trained exclusively on air-to-air combat. Few spent much time on air-to-ground and almost none practiced suppression of enemy air defenses. As such, only a limited number of aircraft could actually engage Ukrainian air-defense systems and most of Ukraines mobile systems survived.
b) Russia did not deploy its advance bombs well at the beginning of the war. Many aircraft started with dumb bombs -- with little success -- and then targeted munitions -- which fewer aircraft could use, many pilots which trained on, and which forced going relatively low to identify and hit targets. Russia fell back to longer ranged GPS guided missiles systems. As such, most of Ukraine's mobile systems again survived.
c) Ukraine was able to keep a small number of its Mig and SU aircraft alive by cycling airfields, decoys, and using AA-missiles against Russian missile systems. As such, Russian aircraft could never go deep with air strikes as they always required too many escorting aircraft just in case Ukraine aircraft were around.
d) Western intelligent was probably overwhelming. You had US satellites, signals/electronic intelligence, plus AWAX, ships, and ground stations operating from Poland, Turkey, Romania, the Black Sea, etc. Large attacks, those from altitude, and those from non-direct routes were easily detected, while Ukraine probably knew where Russian aircraft were housed.

[sbam]

Not sure why people are/were surprised. Russia/USSR's military have been living off the reputation of WWII alone. Closer scrutiny reveals that since the start of the modern era, they've otherwise lost pretty much every major conflict they've been involved in: Crimea; lost, Russo-Japanese; lost, Polish - Soviet; lost, Spanish civil war intervention; lost, Winter War; pyrrhic, Afghanistan; lost. They even contrived to lose WWI despite being in the winning alliance. Compared to countries that have fought a similar amount of wars since Crimea (like the Brits from the River War to the Falklands), Russia's military record is absolutely abysmal.

[MeepChangeling]

Chapters

0:00 Introduction
1:06 Failure to capitalize on the capture of Hostomel Airport.
9:17 Snake Island: Losing the Information War
11:04 The Inability to Prevent the Sinking of the Moskva
14:46 The Failure to Achieve Air Superiority
22:15 Russian Armor Failing in Ukraine
26:50 Failure to Adequately Prepare New Recruits for Combat
34:06 Conclusion

[AgentX]

1. Attacks on the Kerch Strait Bridge
2. Massive losses at Vuhledar
3. Even greater losses at Avdiivka
4. Destruction of the Black Sea Fleet HQ

The only thing they got right was generating the largest minefield ever created anywhere in the history of man in advance of the Ukrainian Summer counteroffensive.

[TheresaMayPM]

Living in denial of combined arms is a big one. They imagined they could steamroll Ukraine by sending tank columns, yet there wasn't artillery and infantry support. This is an incredible failure.

[Jackr]

For Ukraine there were 2 solid benefits from the Russian invasion. It united all of Ukraine, even those previously pro Russian or on the fence Ukrainians. And 2, it allowed Ukraine to purge all or most of the Russian infiltrators in the govt and military.

[OscarOSullivan]

Hostomel was more Operation Market garden than anything else.
Imagine losing heavily to reservists as a paratroop force.

[Shaun_Jones]

If you’re historically inclined, you could have found quite a few major failures of the Russian and Soviet armies pre-2022. Like when almost the entire pacific fleet’s command structure (no less than 16 admirals) were all killed in a plane crash because they decided to overload the plane with stuff they bought in Moscow, and then loaded a pair of unsecured quarter-ton rolls of paper. Or the misadventures of the Second Pacific Squadron, which I can’t even list all the things that happened because there’s a 1500 word count limit for YouTube comments.

[Idahoguy]

IMHO Russia’s biggest military failure is it’s awful logistics. But any list of Russian failure is long

[advancetotabletop]

“Museums on tracks” :D

Besides neglect and obsolescence, there’s also corruption. Much equipment and their parts and budget have been removed and stolen, and this may not be noticeable until the equipment is actually used. In the attack on Kiev, heavy armored vehicles had tired failure and were unable to move, because corrupt supply officers pocketed the money for the tires that could withstand the heavy vehicles, and bought cheap tires Made in China. Slava Ukraine!

[MichaelMilord]

Jesus... I just feel bad now for the untrained civilians thrown into the war without any training or even acceptance of the combat they're fighting in. Its such a waste of human life. They're basically just forced to die to veterans who is trying to devend their homeland while not even wanting to do it in the first place. This conflict needs to stop :(

[bilson]

13:00 It gets worse when you realize the crew didn't just fail to enable these systems. A leaked readiness report indicated only one of these three systems actually worked and, because of electrical issues, the RADAR and comms couldn't be on at the same time... Meaning the captain could either know missiles were incoming OR he could tell people about it, not both. This meant, effectively, the ship was at the mercy of the crew seeing a missile traveling faster than the speed of sound to enable ship defenses.

Whats even worse is several of the emergency systems on the ship were inoperable. Multiple door seals weren't water tight, and others were actually jammed open. Because of rampant theft in the Russian military, fire extinguishers were locked away and required keys to use. Meaning once the missiles hit, the Moskova was done. There was simply no way to contain the inflow of water and it likely took multiple minutes to start fighting fires.

Seriously, in any western country, the state the Moskova deployed in would have resulted in the Captain's court martial and likely dishonorable discharge.

The corruption in Russia should scare everyone. We all should be looking to hold our government officials more accountable.

[jakleo]

You can add the over one million men who fled the country to escape the 'partial mobilization'. The best and brightest fled en masse to save themselves. Not because they were against the killing of Ukrainians, but simply to save themselves.

[saparotrob]

"..Moskva literally failed to surface.." Gold. Slava Ukraine!

[Bob-qkzg]

When a Ukrainian farmer can sell a working T-90 tank he found abandoned in a field to the CIA....

[KellyJK]

A proverb says that those who dig a ditch for trapping, will fall into it...poetic justice