Incredible video shows Ukraine War

Shot in the cinematic golden hour, when the attenuated sun shines horizontally, Prigozhin’s face glows like a Christmas ham. ‘If before we were fighting the professional Ukrainian army,’ he says, ‘today we see ever more old men and children.’ The camera pans left. Alongside Prigozhin and his bodyguard stand three men identified as Ukrainian prisoners, arrayed from shortest to tallest, shivering with cold or terror or both. One is old, with a bare head and a full white beard, looking in this light like a peasant from an Ilya Repin painting.

The Battle of Bakhmut is an ongoing series of military engagements in and near the city of Bakhmut during the larger battle for Donbas. Bakhmut was home to 70,000 people before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Wagner Group leader and Russian mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his forces have captured more settlements around Bakhmut. It has been the scene of multiple fierce battles between the Ukrainian army and the Russian military. "The Ukrainian defender was firing at the enemy and he returned fire in response. The camera recorded how one of the bullets flew over the marine's helmet.

Their efforts not only give a powerful visual representation of facts on the ground, but also painstakingly examine the veracity of reported incidents. What unites​ all forms of message news is that the senders want to show they matter. Even when the videos are superficially impersonal, they are not objective; those who record and upload the videos find ways to insist on their identity and on their framing of what is being shown. In the intervening years, Sontag spent time in Sarajevo during the siege by Serbian forces.

What there is no doubt, however, is that the world is entering a worrying new phase of the 2020s, one in which achieving strategic goals through threat of overt military force – for Russia in Ukraine, China with Taiwan – is becoming the order of the day. That’s a lie, and the British military might wish to wonder just how prepared it is for that dynamic. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have also been given permission by the US State Department to transfer US-made anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry direct Ukraine.
Once I’ve finished this piece I hope not to watch another drone grenade video. It’s easier to support a cause when nothing is done in its name that you find too sickening to watch. Smartphones and social media have introduced a third strand of video coverage of dramatic events, the message strand. Though its creators might be focused, like Wagner, on particular ends, for viewers, message news is often curated and contextualised by little more than their own prior assumptions and their idiosyncratic, algorithmically influenced collection of messengers. Official and sceptical news still exist, but message news, more intimate and more substantial than mere propaganda, has become a dominant source both for traditional news-gatherers and, directly, for us. The Stinger, which is popular with the US military, is a lightweight air defence system that can be fired from the shoulder by ground troops.

A 2018 study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that, on Twitter, fake news spread six times faster than true stories. So, it will recommend you things that you are likely to click on based on what you engaged with before,” Lopez explains. In the early hours of February 24, 2022, Marta ​​Vasyuta watched with bated breath as the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced the launch of a "special military operation" in Ukraine. The 20-year-old Ukrainian student couldn't tear her eyes away as reports rolled in that missiles were hitting Kyiv, Ukraine's capital city. Seen footage of other ambushes where they expertly hit the front and rear and then take out the vehicles stuck in the middle at leisure. Pity the enemy escaped this time, though I’d read on Twitter in this engagement UKR artillery then caused some damage.
The Wagner squad can be seen moving up into position through the devasted town close to a row of bombed-out houses where Ukrainian troops are hold-up. Ukraine says it poses no threat to Russia and that the deaths of thousands of civilians and destruction of cities and towns show that Russia is waging a war of aggression. The invasion has failed to overwhelm Ukraine's leadership, with President Volodymyr Zelensky firmly in power and fighting back. I was in my mid-twenties at the time and doing a PhD on the intellectual history of British criminology, an arcane and pedestrian subject that had nothing to do with political atrocity.

After a moment he pulls the cover back over his face and lies still and the drone flies on. To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breath-taking provincialism. It suggests, perversely, unseriously, that there is no real suffering in the world.

Seemingly deaf to any moderating force (the Israeli PM appears to have got nowhere), an ever-more-angry Putin could lash out with vicious effect. They could cut the electricity, gas and water supplies into Zelensky’s cities, slowly starving them into submission. Innocent civilians in their tens of thousands will become the target of Russian victory at any cost. There are signs that Russian civilians are already paying the price, with unrest in the cities, interest rates hiked to 20%, empty ATMs, and credit cards that no longer work. These tactics remain in play – this month with the deployment of what Western officials say are Wagner Group mercenaries to Mali, and the cyber attacks and threats to Ukraine outlined above. I was intrigued by a song that kept being used as the backing to Ukrainian military videos last year, an English language track with a bloodthirsty, over-hearty Viking theme, filled with fjords and ravens and references to Norse deities.
The others are barely out of their teens, with pinched faces and hunched shoulders, their thin green beanies pulled down over their ears. They mutter an appeal – presumably forced – to Zelensky to let them go home, but their words are lost in the wind, obliging the Wagner social media team to add subtitles. There were many reports about donations that had been collected to purchase drones to support Ukrainian forces. Similarly, many groups were formed to develop drones and supply the Ukrainian army with them, as well as a group that called itself Nebesna Kara, which was a group of drone hobbyists in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. According to some reports, this group has produced more than 40 drones for the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the war. At present Ukraine controls the broadcast and social media narrative, hence Russia targeting Kyiv’s TV tower.